Chapter 7: Spells and Currency
The purchasing power of a porcelain coin is not low.
Due to the Great Grandmaster bonus, it is true that this thing cannot be imitated, but the number of things that you make for the Great Grandmaster is naturally not very large.
So there is also an underlying token here.
A laborer has to work all day to earn a porcelain coin.
It's not a lot, but that's not how the accounts are counted.
Common sense question, a worker, 3000 a month's salary, and 100 a day's salary, who has a higher salary.
Isn't it the same as high, no, a person with a monthly salary is high.
A job is charged by the number of days, so you must consider the problem of eating when you don't receive a job.
For example, if you want to get the same standard of living as a person with a monthly salary of 3,000, and a person can only eat every day when he finds a job, if this person can only find a job for 15 days a month, then the bottom line of his daily salary is 200 yuan, and if he only has a job for 10 days a month, then the bottom line of his daily salary is 300 yuan.
That's what you see at those people, one by one, who claim to be on a daily wage.
In fact, it's just that I can't get by, so I'm just trying to figure out a way.
Wang Yiming went to sell fried chicken, what cost did it take?
The cost is almost zero.
As food for his son, those fried chickens are almost inexhaustible.
He went to a few more shops, and soon took it, so in the southern city of the secret capital, that is, where the poor lived, the news came out that the chicken in a certain store was delicious and "not expensive".
Of course, the people in the secret realm live very aggrieved, and it can be said that only a few people can have the means and strength to buy such a fried chicken.
However, the human nature of yearning, curiosity, and pursuit cannot be concealed.
A very interesting way of eating quickly appeared in the south of the city, that is, several people bought a fried chicken together, and divided it according to a certain way, and some wedding banquets also gritted their teeth and took it, anyway, this thing can't be said to be unaffordable, but it can't be eaten every day.
This kind of thing, even if it reaches the ears of some people, will not cause any reaction, because even if it is a nobleman, a job transfer, and an employee who refuses to leave because of his mother, it also happens from time to time, and if this is not acceptable, it is simply the most terrible ruler in the world.
There is a story about the palace maids around Cixi, in normal times, the treatment is simply super generous, not only in terms of life and salary, but also in terms of attitude, they are close to the attitude of goddaughters.
However, once they make a mistake, they will rather kill them than let them go, and they must be driven away.
Because these people can't have a little negative and unsatisfied place in their hearts, otherwise, they will have a hot brain at any time.
People are also vegetarian.
Therefore, no matter how cruel the ruler is, it is impossible to be too bad to the servants who are responsible for your food, of course, once offended, it is often directly ruthless to death.
This is also why, no one is vicious and direct, even if some housekeepers of other families know such a person, the precious recipes that flow out of the Hou Mansion, but it depends on the owner to beat the dog, after all, it is a peaceful "breakup" with the Hou Ye Oh not to resign, in case you go back to work that day, it is better to contact it secretly.
Diet is very important, and no matter how important and powerful people are, they must also eat.
The so-called "birds die for food", the so-called "people are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic", through diet, the body continuously obtains energy and nutrients from food.
In primitive societies and the animal world, the general rule is that "if you are hungry, you will seek food, and if you are full, you will give up the surplus".
"From chaos to order", with the improvement of the level of social development and the evolution of civilization, human beings can obtain a more stable food supply and begin to eat regularly. It is recorded in the "Analects of the Township Party": "I don't get tired of eating, and I don't get tired of being fine." He also noted: "From time to time I will not eat." "It's about eating according to the season, the season, and the time. "Mencius Teng Wengong" pointed out: "The sage and the people plough and eat together, and feed and rule." The "饔" here is the first meal of the day and is called "morning food", and the "飧" here is the second meal and is called "gluttony". Eating on time and eating regularly can well avoid hunger, and will not make the digestive organs in a tense working state for a long time, so that the human body can absorb nutrients more fully.
As a Chinese cuisine with a long history, exquisite technology and rich categories, and because of the influence of factors such as geographical environment, climate and products, cultural traditions and ethnic customs, it has formed a distinctive "eight major cuisines", namely Sichuan cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Suzhou cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Huizhou cuisine. Food reflects the cultural characteristics of a region, nation or even country.
Lu Xun once said: "China is nothing but a huge kitchen." We call strangers "raw people"; people who have good friendships are called "acquaintances"; in interpersonal communication, people who are described as like fish in water are called "eating openly"; and associating with people with status are called "eating well". From the family's "Chinese New Year's Eve dinner" and "reunion dinner", to the "host" and "dinner" of friends and colleagues, to the food live broadcast on social networks, the importance of "eating" is more based on the social attributes of "people".
At the wine table, the desire for power and control that is hidden under the system on weekdays is perfectly expressed through the sadism and self-abuse of the body by wine. "Wine" has become a medium of power, transforming power on paper into real personal control. The more strong the wine, the stronger the pleasure of control, and the more effective the flattery! Many wine table veterans feel that it is not interesting for a person to drink, because the addiction to alcohol is actually an addiction to power. No matter how small this power is, alcohol can amplify it and bring pleasure that it doesn't usually have. The so-called: "If you don't drink, you look down on me" is equivalent to "If you don't abuse yourself, you don't listen to me, and you slander my status." "Over time, Chinese people have both loved and hated wine. Love is utilitarian and face-saving, while hate is emotional and physiological. In a country that truly loves wine emotionally, food wine is indispensable and a part of life. However, China's food culture is so developed, but there is no fully formed food and wine culture, but only "wine table culture" and cooking wine culture. The vast majority of people who can drink alcohol in China do not have a fixed custom of drinking when eating, and the boundary between the wine table and the daily table is very clear. When alcohol is combined with masochistic tendencies, most people are reluctant to bring it into their daily lives.
Similarly, after many wealthy Chinese emigrated, the amount of alcohol they drank dropped sharply. In China, which does not like to drink, the "drinking table culture" is nothing more than an extension of the pathological power hierarchy culture, and the pleasure of power is achieved through self-abuse and other abuse to complete personal control. Personal control is the most characteristic feature of pre-modern power.
The same goes for secret realms.
The fried chicken that Wang Jian sold gradually began to penetrate to the upper echelons, and it was very soon.
After all, it is impossible for each family to really have a relationship with other families, and it is quite normal for a certain family to have some kind of unique recipe and practice, because as the head of the family, he may not care about this thing at all, and will just say, you go and take a look.
The real origin is that a certain housekeeper who wants to please his master, after hearing about the delicious food revealed by the help of the chef from the Fujiang Hou Mansion, he was very interested in it, so he rushed over.
This yearning for good food has been going through the history of mankind.
There is a persistent pursuit of knowledge, and they will not stop learning because they leave school or work, on the contrary, such people can always discover new knowledge and are always attracted by this knowledge. In this case, the thirst for new knowledge cannot be stopped.
Curiosity, receptivity and creativity to a wide range of things. More inquisitive, more independent, less constrained by others.
Our human ancestors had to constantly try to eat food that they hadn't eaten before, try to grow their own edible plants and domesticate animals to solve the problem of food shortages. Invent tools to increase productivity and defend against beasts in constant experimentation. By moving to a new land, we try to live in a new environment to solve the situation that the original land is not suitable for continued survival or that the original land can no longer meet the existing needs. Only through continuous trial and error, it is possible to gain experience through trial and error, and accidentally find solutions that threaten the survival of the ethnic group, so as to improve the survival chances of the ethnic group as a whole. In this way, in primitive societies where food is not abundant and productivity is low, curious groups are more likely to survive in this primitive and harsh environment, while those who lack curiosity are more likely to be eliminated by nature because they are less able to cope with problems such as lack of food, attacks by wild animals, or unsuitable land.
We have curiosity about everything in the world since childhood, we start to be curious about the opposite sex when we are in adolescence, we start to be curious about the society outside the campus when we enter college, we start to be curious about marriage in society, we start to be curious about children after we get married, and we are curious about all kinds of small videos on Douyin after we have children.
We always have a curiosity about the unknown things in this world, and we are not satisfied with the expansion of our knowledge, but extend it to our old age. Just like eating, we have to eat every day, but we still get hungry, and so does curiosity, our curiosity is always satisfied, but new ideas still pop up. If a person's eating is to maintain the existence and expansion of his own material, for example, in the adolescence of a person, the body size grows with the increase of the amount of food, then curiosity is to maintain the existence and expansion of a person's spiritual world, for example, in the process of dealing with the world, we will always encounter difficulties, challenges, extreme beauty and extreme ugliness, these are the sources of our curiosity.
Our curiosity always arises when we encounter things that we cannot understand and explain, and when our doubts are explained reasonably, then curiosity disappears and becomes knowledge. The induction and summarization of many knowledges form a higher level of knowledge, commonly known as the Tao. What is the Tao of a sentence, but the connotation of this sentence can only be truly understood by oneself, which is beyond the reach of words.
In the process of constructing the world, a person is also constantly expanding his cognition and interacting with the physical world and the interpersonal world. At this time, a person will have a lot of curiosity and will put a butterfly in a bottle and observe it for an afternoon to see what the butterfly is like, what it eats, how it flies, and when it braids. Originally, this primitive curiosity was everywhere. However, with the strong penetration of our education, correct answers, and standard explanations, we can gain knowledge about the world without self-exploration, and before we have time to be curious, all kinds of knowledge will appear and be instilled in the brain, and behind what knowledge is entered is to check the exam, there is no interest at all, but there is a lot of negative reinforcement, which adds to the sense of disgust. Lack of experience, the addition of rigid rules, our consciousness is more and more away from life, more abstract imagination, of course, at this level can also stimulate a lot of curiosity, but how much is a little far from life. When we get lost in the ocean of knowledge, the basic questions of who we are, where I came from, and where I'm going are ignored. How can a person who is not clear about himself understand the world? We can only understand the world defensively, and we dare not take a step beyond the thunder pool. So the premise of curiosity is to first find the self, the direction of the self. If you don't know who I am and why I live, and live blindly, you will not have curiosity, but will only estimate your sense of security.
An inner spiritual need of man – a cognitive need. When people are faced with problems or tasks in life, study and work, and feel that they lack the corresponding knowledge, they have a tendency to explore new knowledge or expand and deepen the existing knowledge. People with a strong thirst for knowledge consciously and actively pursue knowledge and enthusiastically explore knowledge in order to satisfy their spiritual needs. It can be seen that although intellectual curiosity and curiosity belong to the same tendency to explore things, they are not the same. General curiosity is manifested as a short-term exploration behavior in pursuit of knowing things, while curiosity is a relatively stable cognitive desire and cognitive need, which is manifested in people's unremitting pursuit of knowledge.
The curiosity of the living individual about the fear of the unknown is essentially the constant association of new experiences that are constantly changing: the sensations that are constantly produced are different from the previous experiences. Leads to the continuous attention and attention of living individuals to sensory changes. The essence of curiosity is to pay attention, to care, to pay attention to the changes in experience. The feedback to experience, the so-called curiosity-driven exploration behavior, is essentially an expression and presentation of experience that the individual pays attention to and cares about. In fact, the essence of the whole process is only two elements: attention and experience. If you look closely, there are actually only a few people who will find that attention itself produces experience, and experience drives attention to be continuous. The cycle repeats itself, forming the cognition of life and the world, the self and the not-self, and everything in the world.