It is difficult for people in the era of peace to understand what kind of spirit sacrifice is, and even many people deny the existence of such heroes, and it is not surprising that this kind of thinking appears, when human society enters the post-industrial era, a single person can already be economically independent, and small groups such as clans are no longer the basis for human beings to be extremely dependent, otherwise they will not be able to survive, independent ideas will naturally begin to spread.

The process of human conquest of nature was long, and in the earliest slash-and-burn period, in order to hunt and resist the ambitions of wild beasts and other tribes, people had to use various relationships to bind groups together.

The value of the power of the human being was strong throughout the early and middle years of humanity, and even after the formation of the state, the relationship was very strong.

Religion, State, County, Clan...... In fact, all kinds of complex social relations have only one function, to bring more people together to form a joint force to fight against foreign enemies and even the whole of nature.

Not only human beings understand this truth, but also the animals in the natural world understand this truth, when the marching ants cross the river, they will collectively entangle into a sphere, the most important members are protected at the core, and the outside are all worker ants and soldier ants that can be sacrificed, and countless dead ant lives are exchanged for the safe crossing of the whole group.

Even in our junior high school textbooks, there are detailed stories of a group of antelopes sacrificing half of their members of the group in order to survive, I believe many people still remember that text, his name is "Antelope Flight" When the hunter forces a group of antelopes to the edge of the cliff, the old antelope will be the first to jump to the cliff, and the young antelope will follow closely behind to jump out of breath.

The old antelope uses its back as a pedal to allow the young antelope to use its strength to climb the opposite path, and each rescued antelope is at the expense of an old antelope.

The sacrifice of half of the entire antelope herd in exchange for the qualification of the entire herd to continue to live is the cruelty of nature.

We can't confirm the truth of the story, but this spirit of sacrifice has been inherited by human society. Everyone knows that the army is used for war, everyone knows that people will die in war, and no one wants to be forcibly deprived of their lives by others.

But this is the case in a competitive society, where some people sacrifice in exchange for the survival or even better survival of other people of the same race. And a healthy society is also destined to give these victims high respect and better resources for the future generations of the victims.

The old shopkeeper Fan Yao once told the story of the two villages fighting for water during the drought year, and those villagers who voluntarily or semi-voluntarily walked into the gladiatorial arena were the victims, they knew that they would die, but they had to die for the sake of their clan.

Villages with more sacrificial spirits are destined to survive in a year of great drought, and the sacrifice of a small number of people is exchanged for the survival of the entire clan. And those clans that are scattered and fighting on their own, their fate is destined to be unsustainable in the disaster year, starvation is inevitable, and selling land to the victor is also inevitable.

Under the elimination of the other, the two clans are destined to have a gap in strength, and being annexed, oppressed and even eliminated is the inevitable fate of the weak.

In Xiao Letian's previous life, when mankind entered the post-industrial era, the idea of freedom had begun to flood, human rights were shouted loudly, everyone had forgotten the spirit of sacrifice, and self-interest became the mainstream of society.

The core factor in this state of affairs is the great increase in human productivity, because our science and technology have developed to a certain level, because our social distribution mechanism has also changed, when a natural person can completely rely on his own strength without relying on his clan or family, and even eat well.

When people realize that they can be strong enough not to depend on anyone, the spirit of sacrifice will be the first to be abandoned. This is not a matter of right or wrong, it is just a form of social development and evolution.

Xia insects can't talk about ice, and people today can't understand the living conditions of the ancients, and it doesn't take too long to live like a world away thirty years ago. People who are busy trying to lose weight every day will never understand what it is like to be hungry, and people who don't know what to choose from in their wardrobes, or what kind of sin it is to be frozen in a leaky padded jacket in winter.

Extreme poverty forces people to huddle together for warmth, which is not backwardness, on the contrary, it is human wisdom and the inevitable choice of survival.

As an aside, no matter how much self-interest and independence are rampant, the spirit of sacrifice and dedication is actually all around us, but most people ignore it.

When you lament that you were not born in a wealthy family with a golden key, you seem to have forgotten that your hard-working parents continued to help you buy a house, start a family, and start a business with their lives.

When you look at the high-rise buildings in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and sigh why there is no hukou here, have you ever thought that your relatives in your hometown have squeezed everything out so that you can go to school in this city.

Parents are the most sacrificial type of people, and all the sacrifices they make are just to make their offspring stand a little higher in this cruel world and have a little more resources available.

Yes, that's a blessing! both for the victim and for the devotee.

Sun Chujian had already put his life on the altar of the sacrifice, and he did not have the slightest fear in his heart, on the contrary, there was a martyr's lightness on his face.

"Let's shoot! End this battle! I'm not a saint, and I don't want the prime minister to make me a bullshit hero, I just hope that the prime minister can treat my family well, and I hope that my brothers will do their filial piety for me in front ......of my parents."

In the distance, the Zhiyuan suddenly rose two flames in a row, and the huge explosion exploded in the stern of the Holy One, although it was still far away, but the splash of water in the sky could still make people feel the power of the 210 caliber main gun, and the range of these two guns reached eight kilometers, and there was no accuracy, but the taste of the threat was very clear.

Sun Chujian was relieved, he knew that Xiang Ying and the others had seen themselves, and he also knew that these two cannons were their statements to themselves, sacrifice was always valuable, and this was the promise of his brothers.

Molière couldn't understand how Sun Chujian could laugh when he saw that he had been abandoned by his comrades, and he shouted hysterically: "Are you all crazy Chinese? Are you all inhumane beasts and savages? You can actually shoot at your own people? And you are still laughing? Believe it or not, I will shoot you right now......

Seeing that he did not respond to Molière's howl, Sun turned his head and spoke in German with the Prussian sailors who were tied to the mast and prayed with their eyes closed.

"My brothers, do you know that I'm not a great man, and I have selfish intentions...... After my death, my parents will be cared for for the rest of their lives by the Prime Minister's Mansion, and they will not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of their lives, and my brothers and sisters will receive the best free education, and even university will not have to spend a penny......"

"The families of the martyrs will have the right to see the officials and not to worship them, and even their business will be subsidized by the Prime Minister's Mansion...... Not only that, but my name can be engraved on the pillars of the Temple of the God of War, and I will receive the respect and incense offerings of all the people forever......"

The eyes of those Prussian sailors gradually brightened, and they finally understood why these Chinese were so desperate, not only did they have a dream of a strong country in their hearts, but also the Eastern Prime Minister had developed a system that made people brave to sacrifice and dedicate.

"I envy you!" exclaimed all the Prussian sailors present.

Note: The arguments in this chapter are probably opposed by many young people, and the topic of sacrifice and dedication seems so old and out of place for young people who advocate freedom in modern society that they can only be exchanged for ridicule.

Human nature is selfish, and everyone does not want to be a victim, but because of human nature, selfish people have been enjoying the sacrifices of others, and the simplest example is not more than parents.

Shouting the slogan of freedom in his mouth, but still gnawing at the old age behind his back, and even squeezing the last drop of oil out of his parents and relatives for major events in life, is this real freedom? No, it is just the howl of the selfish.

In fact, many people just want others to sacrifice, and they will always sit back and enjoy the results.

If you want to destroy your country, you must first destroy its history! How can we destroy history? Of course, we must first deny those heroes! If we analyze the dedication of the selfless with the argument of the absolutely selfish, of course everything is false and everything is fabricated.

The world is not peaceful, and the situation on the Korean Peninsula has been very wrong recently, and Xinjing has a very strong premonition that this crisis is not the same as the previous ones, and the taste is very wrong.

It is quite possible that this time there will really be a conflict or even a local war, and not the thunder and rain of the past. Don't ask me why, it's just an indefinite intuition.

I hope this is my delusion, and I hope my guesses are all wrong, because China is really the most golden period in the past 200 years since the First Opium War, and this golden growth period must not be forcibly suspended because of the war!

As long as large-scale civil and foreign wars do not break out in China, time can always smooth out all kinds of internal contradictions, and in the final analysis, there will always be conflicts when a family lives over and over and over and over little, and as long as there is no war, no matter how big the contradictions are, it is possible to adjust.

But the contradiction can't see blood, as long as you see blood, you will have a mortal enemy, and it is really difficult to resolve it without a hundred years!

In this not very peaceful world, all we can do is to calm down and calm down, don't rush to deny everything, maybe what you deny is exactly what you love you the most, and even protect you selflessly.

You can not be that victim, you can't be a hero, but please don't hurt them, sometimes it's a merit to keep your mouth shut!