Chapter Twenty-Six: Tribal Tales
"Old Fei, you are unloading the mill and killing the donkey, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, and being ungrateful!" I said.
"My friend, don't be angry, I mean three bags is obviously too little, I'm going to give you thirty bags as a sign of my respect for you. Frazier said sincerely.
Then the indigenous leader took out a large bag about the size of our travel backpack, I opened it and saw that it was full of sparkling diamonds, I admired Fraser more and more at this time, in a tribe on the edge of Africa, with primitive cold weapons to guard the great wealth, in such a strong cultural export era, the shortcomings of primitive life will be undoubtedly exposed, so the most difficult thing is to educate the tribe people to follow the tribal traditions, avoid modern life, retain the sense of natural simplicity, reduce personal desires, this life is like in the Peach Blossom Spring
"I don't know if there is a Han, no matter Wei and Jin". I have to say that the problem of people's education is a time, space, and world problem, in the face of such wealth, it is difficult for someone not to be moved, my bag of diamonds is not only a matter of living ordinary people for several lifetimes, but to be able to form a powerful modern army at the moment, or to create a business empire, even if you buy land and buy a house at the moment, you will be able to be among the dragons and phoenixes.
Fraser is a shrewd man, and I think he should understand what this bag of diamonds means. Looking at my puzzled expression, Frazier said: "My friend, our Aken tribe has preserved the traditions of our ancestors, for thousands of years, we have passed down some wonderful stories from word of mouth, and whenever the children sleep, the adults will tell them these stories, and decades ago, a group of invaders came to us and tried to kill us to get the diamonds for themselves, but unfortunately, when they found that there were not many in the tribe and needed to rely on us to find them, the people born in the desert brought them into the heart of the desert...... They never returned, and we saw the invaders fighting over a small number of diamonds and finally killing each other, and our old former tribal leader said: 'Look at the corpses on the ground, about to decay, look at these poor people, who have come here with all their trek and so much difficulty, and I am surprised to see the happiness of getting the diamonds on their faces, and the vigilance and anxiety of ecstasy. I'm afraid, the culture of our Akon tribe is the real wealth, so let it return to nature' The old leader doesn't want the clan to introduce the whirlpool of contention, and I think that there is no advantage in exporting us, just like you and Quan Ling, from the far east, have the way of thinking of modern people, have the operation skills of modern people, and if you have money, you can really make ghosts grind. Over the past few decades, a series of problems have emerged one after another, and the transformation of resource advantages into means of subsistence and quality of life is a huge problem, in which we have had tyrants, we have been plundered again by powerful countries, and we have traded the extreme wealth of a few people for the decline in the quality of life of an entire ethnic group...... This is not a transformation of one person, but of a group...... Slowly, lagging behind, when a tribe is full of individuals who have no worries about food and clothing, it will be the retreat of the entire tribe, and the cultural inheritance will fall apart...... Unless the development of the community is overturned...... If we could turn back the clock, we would still have a chance to control the direction of our culture, and it would be our last resort to avoid modern society, and the erosion of modern culture would wipe out tribal culture, you see, the short-sleeved shirt you brought...... It all excites my people. ”