251 The necessity of negative energy
These more than 34 million swords are just the beginning. The vast majority of these swords came from the inventory of the Resistance and the Nine Factions.
There were also quite a few swords that were scattered among the small sects of the Ascension Realm, and they did not participate in this war.
In the future, the forbidden sword will become a long-term action, presided over by Yan Xiu, and the new Nine Heavens Gate will be in charge.
According to Wu Xiaoqing's plan, the final goal to be achieved in the entire Ascension Territory was to limit the number of flying swords to no more than one thousand.
This is a number that has been carefully calculated by the search and rescue team and Yevgeny, and the number of 1,000 is not too large, and it can almost be managed by just a few people. It's not small, when something happens temporarily, these thousand flying swords are like a thousand planes, which can easily carry the masters of the Nine Heavens Gate in the future, and quickly maneuver to any corner of the Ascension Realm.
It can be said that this thousand flying swords is the future cultivation of words, and it is also the greatest ruling foundation of the Nine Heavens Gate.
The Ascension Realm is very large, and generally speaking, after removing the flying sword, due to the restrictions of transportation conditions, each sect will soon be confined to its own island, forming a cultural circle isolated from each other. — just like the earth in the agricultural era.
This state of affairs can be regarded as closed and backward for the people of the earth, and this long history of the agricultural era has almost trapped human beings for thousands of years, and now looking back, it is comparable to the cradle era of human civilization.
But Wu Xiaoqing felt that such a state was the most suitable state for the Ascension Realm.
The materialist historical viewpoint is clear to all Chinese - the productive forces determine the relations of production, and the relations of production react on the productive forces.
If you want to calculate it according to the energy utilization efficiency, the productivity of the entire Ascension Realm is definitely not low, and the average charging rate of each person is definitely much higher than the average energy consumed by modern people. It is precisely because of their high energy utilization rate and low loss of transformation that the relationship between the entire Ascension Realm, in the eyes of the search and rescue team, is the evolved version of the modern society on Earth.
In human society, family and social relations have begun to tend to disintegrate because of the high development of information technology and materials. In the Ascension Realm, it can probably be regarded as the appearance after complete disintegration.
If the flying man civilization of the Ascension Realm is the creator of the planet itself, they hollow out the planet by themselves, and then collectively signal to play with self-isolation, in Wu Xiaoqing's opinion, there is no problem at all.
Although it seemed naïve and went wrong, Wu Xiaoqing would never interfere with them after the mission - because it was their own choice.
And a civilization should also have the right to choose its own way of life.
But sadly, these trapezes are not.
The cage of the Ascension Realm was not made for themselves by themselves.
The civilization that created this cage for them may have been well-intentioned, raising a civilization that was still in the period of barbarism and ignorance into a golden wire cage - but it is clear that these flying people are very unaccustomed to the comfortable life in the cage.
They ultimately voted to give up and run away...... But despite all the technology they have abandoned, the legacy of advanced civilization has not disappeared.
They seem to have returned to the era of obscurantism, leaving the habitable space station, returning to the many islands that were originally just scenic areas, and began to live a barbaric life of sectarian fighting...... But unfortunately, the legacy left by advanced civilizations has not disappeared.
If the flyers are seen as a group of wild animals that escaped from the zoo, then the reality is that the forest they fled back to is still greatly influenced by the higher civilizations.
Imagine if all the fruit trees in the forest were like greenhouses during the period of the apes, and they would have grown fruit all year round - would there have been later human civilizations?
This principle is the same when placed in the trapeze civilization. If their social state is not constrained in the slightest, or even the slightest pain, then what is the impetus for this civilization to move forward?
Limited to the mechanism of the entire Ascension Realm itself, cutting off the power supply is definitely not possible.
The Ascension Realm is not a naturally formed planet, and the ecology is completely automated, which is extremely fragile in itself. Not to mention how these people live after the power is cut off, and whether their modified bodies can still get nutrients by ingesting food......
Even if Wu Xiaoqing can do it, with the current state of the Ascension Realm, especially with such a scarce soil, where can they find so much land for these people to grow food to eat, not to mention that Wu Xiaoqing and they still can't plant - can they find a professional agricultural technical team to study space agriculture in a gravity-free environment?
Why did Yevgeny maintain a certain approval of Wu Xiaoqing's plan? Because Wu Xiaoqing solved the problem from another angle.
The biggest problem in the Ascension Realm is that the productive forces are too developed, and this developed foundation is given by others, not earned by themselves.
It's like a person who has a building in the city center, and he naturally doesn't need to work hard, because he only needs to collect rent to live comfortably. A person, a family, may be able to live comfortably for a lifetime by a windfall, but what about a civilization?
It doesn't really matter what the current state of a civilization is, whether it's a terrible war going on, whether everyone is struggling to survive in ignorance and chaos, or whether the whole society is changing with each passing day...... For civilization, these specific social phenomena are like human emotions, which come and go quickly. What determines a person's greatest destiny is a person's perception of himself, and what determines the future fate of a civilization is naturally also the civilization's perception of itself.
If a person feels that he has enough money to spend in his life, or that his ability is like this, how to live comfortably, then he will naturally slack off and choose the most comfortable state at present.
Society is a much larger being than a single person, and it is not difficult for a person to get a sum of money in society that will last a lifetime - as long as he is lucky. But for a civilization, the concept of a lifetime is too long...... It is almost impossible for a civilization to have some kind of savings that would be enough to last a lifetime.
Now the flying people of the Ascension Realm seem to have such savings, but it turns out that this savings have only eaten them for 1,400 years. When Wu Xiaoqing blew up the power tower, almost all the people in the Ascension Realm were going crazy, why, because once the 1400 years of comfortable life were broken, it would be despair for the people in it.
These cultivators of the Ascension Realm are alive and easy, and they are too nourishing. There is almost no negative energy in their lives, even if they fight with each other, they are the same as the game - the setting of being able to live after death is too unaccountable - the more difficult games also pay attention to the uniqueness of self-built account characters!
Wu Xiaoqing's other most important plan is to let there be a little more negative energy in the future Ascension Realm.
All the people in the Ascension Realm are free and elegant? Well, cancel all flying swords, and from now on, if you want to go out, you have to do it yourself. In the past, people who ascended to the Heavenly Realm could take a flying sword and engage in a global tour at every turn...... Now, just swimming from one island to another takes ten days and half a month.
People who ascend to heaven are not afraid of punishment? Desperate with people at every turn? Very good. Wu Xiaoqing specifically told Yan Xiu about the principle of the Ferrari cage, and announced that from now on, the law would be applied within the scope of the entire Ascension Realm. It's too complicated for them to understand, just one - the murderer is imprisoned.
In the future, if there is any more fighting in the Ascension Realm, regardless of whether the person dies or not, he will be captured after being reborn and put in a metal cage.
On Earth, the death penalty is the most cruel punishment, but in the Ascension Realm, death can be some kind of relief. When it comes to punishment, only when a person is locked up and cannot be recharged, can it have a real deterrent significance. The specific sentencing can be decided according to the number of offenders - Wu Xiaoqing has even planned several islands to be used as prisons.
The biggest problem with the Ascension Realm is that the "ability" of individuals is too strong, everyone does not need to rely on society and can survive independently, and before this independence, the entire Ascension Realm people have not found a way to deal with it.
If this independence cannot be broken, then it will naturally be impossible to form a reliable order, and at most it will only be because of the interests of efficiency, and everyone will form a very loose sectarian organization. - And order itself is a necessary prerequisite for the emergence of a civilization of sufficient strength.
In other words, from Wu Xiaoqing and the others left, the entire Ascension Realm would become an order similar to that of a feudal kingdom.
Yan Xiu will become the "king" of this kingdom, and some of the top masters of the nine major factions, such as Samadhi Zhenren and the like, will become the ruling class around the king, and they will master most of the spirit stones and magic weapons in the Ascension Realm, and the more than 1,000 flying swords will be distributed to the nine major factions, as well as the most important disciples of the Nine Heavens Gate in the future.
Each person assigned to the Flying Sword will receive jurisdiction over a corresponding territory.
In Wu Xiaoqing's view, for the people who ascended to the Heavenly Realm, the kingdom division was the most likely and ideal social system for them to grasp at present.
Unlike the earth, many kingdoms on the earth eventually fell into depravity, strife, and even perished for a variety of reasons...... These reasons are often pursued only on two points: first, that the rulers are too stupid, and second, that the rulers are too greedy.
But at two points, in the Ascension Realm, it is almost non-existent.
It's not that Wu Xiaoqing is very confident in Yan Xiu.
On Earth, the basis of all domination is actually to rely on violence to obtain resources from the bottom, and then use these resources to accumulate advantages over the bottom.
The peasants farmed the land to feed the knights, and the knights saved money to match the swords and horses, but the peasants could not defeat them, so they could only be ruled.
But in the Ascension Realm, in fact, there is almost no such deprivation basis between the upper and lower levels - the greatest resource in the Ascension Realm is electricity, and it is difficult to judge how much electricity there is in a person's body, and it is impossible to snatch it like depriving a peasant of rations. Moreover, all the weapons have been destroyed, and the ruler himself has no problems with security.
In other words, the natural contradiction between the king and the peasants did not exist. The king had no intention of exploiting the peasants, nor was he afraid of the peasants rebelling from below—there was hardly any entanglement of interests between them.
And the ruling relationship that will arise in the future is actually more of a police-style management model - Yan Xiu, the king, says that he is a king, but he does not collect taxes, and he cannot physically destroy people, and his greatest power is only the freedom to imprison people. It is not so much a king as a police chief, a police station with more than a thousand police officers.
Wu Xiaoqing doesn't know what model this police station will evolve into in the future, but his purpose is not to let the Yan Xiu superintendent implement any policies, but only to sow some seeds in this civilization through this model.
When everyone in the Ascension Realm can no longer pass the time through violence, and can no longer waste energy through useless battles or cultivation, in the long years, they will definitely need to come up with some other ways to dispel the huge emptiness and boredom—the real civilization, in Wu Xiaoqing's opinion, is actually born out of this boredom.
For Wu Xiaoqing's first decision on the civilization to be saved, as well as the detailed deduction in it, Shen Changwen and Yevgeny expressed cautious approval.
The search and rescue team did not object.
Only when Xu Yan and Wang Youquan chatted, they muttered a few words about it: "Anyway, 1400 years have come like this, no matter how bad Mr. Wu's method is, it will not be more nonsense than everyone's trick of robbing Xuanniao together, right?" ”