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Seven days earlier, the fleet had been resupplied in Luanda, a small city far from Europe that had been run by the Portuguese for more than a hundred years, and the slave trade was booming with the death of a large number of indigenous people in Portuguese America.

Here the fleet received supplies, and the Portuguese guards did not cause trouble, but were filled with curiosity.

Equally curious were some of the employees of the Nanyang Trading Company who wanted to climb to the top, observing the slave trade with confidence.

The next stop of the fleet was Cape Storm, and the people on board already knew that they could reach the Pacific Ocean by bypassing it.

On a ship, in a woman's cabin.

Lan Qi was frowning and thinking about something, a thick stack of books under the kerosene lamp, her toes tapping unconsciously on the wooden deck.

Near the porthole, in a small clay tray, there were dozens of freshly germinated corn seeds, and next to it was a large pot of bean sprouts buckled under the linen.

The quiet Lin Xi stared thoughtfully at the corn that had just grown germination and bent towards the porthole.

The corn that she had tried to plant had sprouted, and some of the seeds that Jian Chen had planted in her mind years ago had also begun to sprout.

During the four years of studying in the Academy, Lin Xi read a lot of books.

In addition to professional books on naturalism, agriculture, and hybridization, the book that had the most profound impact on her was a book that was published not long ago.

When that book was published, Jian Chen had just come into the world. One of the first professional articles I saw was one by that author, which was extremely anti-human and believed that a group of newborn poor children should be drowned in batches.

What deeply affected Lin Xi was also a long article about the number of people, and the author was also that person. Some of these views are very interesting and deeply influenced by Lin Xi.

She is not in the humanities, just as she was not interested in the activities of the Freedom Society and the Youth House when she was in the capital, and the world she sees is also a world of pure immorality.

When I was in school, I wrote about the similarities and differences between humans and animals. The book sees human mating and reproduction as a continuation of animal nature, and points out that each animal wants to reproduce its own offspring.

It may seem different from animals, but it is actually the same. When people choose their mates, they also follow the criteria of animals, but they change their fangs and claws and strength into whether they have money or wisdom.

The core of this book is that human beings, like animals, want their offspring as much as possible, and it has become a natural instinct. This instinct is the pleasure of detachment and intercourse, and it is completely animalistic.

When I read this book, it was still three years ago, but the cold style and language in it left a deep impression on Lin Xi.

With the gradual emergence of things like mechanical mechanics, Lin Xi's thinking also fell into a kind of chaos.

She became more and more convinced that removing people's humanity, and even a part of it, was only dominated and controlled by something in the body. A person is a delicate machine.

And the whole universe, the whole world, is also a machine with some kind of rule control.

It is like a combination of force and atoms, which is an immutable rule that has arisen since the beginning of the world. Animals and people must also have a kind of rules that they are not aware of, and they are secretly shaping this colorful world.

This kind of thinking accompanied Jian Chen's trip to Europe, passing through the coast of Africa, and seeing many different animals; As she watched the germinating corn bend towards the porthole, where there was sunlight...... This thought went deeper and deeper into her heart.

Coupled with the conversation on the roof of the house that we met for the second time in Mincheng a long, long time ago, this idea began to mature little by little.

Based on the book she had read about people and animals, she believed that the content made sense, and that animals or plants had an instinct to reproduce.

From the library in the capital, she observed Europe and Africa with her eyes all the way, and those strange animals and some of Chen Jian's explanations that seemed normal to Jian Chen made her fall into deep thought.

Some strange animals, the explanation given by Jian Chen is that in order to adapt to the survival here, these animals may die here if they change to other animals.

At first, Lin Xi felt that it made sense and didn't think too much about it.

However, after returning to the ship, Lin Xi suddenly thought of a kind of cattle and sheep that grew meat very quickly in the Netherlands, compared to some wild animals in Africa, and suddenly thought of something.

From the point of view of the commonality between himself and animals, this kind of cattle and sheep, which grow meat quickly, is not the instinctive preference of animals.

If you had to choose, you would have to choose the males with long horns, strong and aggressive, which has been written a lot in that book and given many examples.

The purpose of that book was to prove that people are rich because they are stronger. It is kind to compare the rich to the head wolf of a wolf pack, who should have unlimited mating rights, and that humans should also follow nature to exterminate those poor children.

However, Lin Xi was thinking of something else.

When people choose these cattle and sheep, they are against the rules of nature. These fast-growing cattle and sheep have been passed down from generation to generation because of people's choices.

However, if there were no people, these fast-growing and bloated cattle and sheep would not be qualified to mate at all.

So from the perspective of nature's internal rules, what determines who should reproduce and who is not qualified to reproduce?

Man is a part of the universe and nature, and it is clear that man cultivates what he wants through the rules he has mastered.

This is against nature, but it does not violate the rules of nature, that is to say, man is governed by the hidden rules of nature, but once he understands these rules, he can use the rules to do something against the will of nature itself.

The will of nature itself, the rules of nature itself, these two are the same thing? Or are they two things?

Or ...... Nature itself has no will, only rules?

Nature doesn't want to shape the world it wants at all, because it has no will and no consciousness, but the hidden rules give people a sense of consciousness and will.

Like the development of mechanical mechanics, the object falls downward, which seems to be the will of nature, but its essence is an attraction.

The essence is only rules, and this kind of rules condenses a kind of virtual will and will of nature.

But what is this rule?

Lin Xi thought of the words he often heard from some of Jian Chen's friends, such as the invisible hand, and suddenly had a bold idea.

Like the cattle and sheep that grow their meat quickly, they survive and reproduce because of a pair of visible hands—human hands.

The human hand chooses the chubby cattle and sheep to continue to reproduce, and those who are not fat will be artificially deprived of the opportunity to reproduce.

So, what kind of choice did the invisible hands of nature make?

If it was just these, Lin Xi would not be so depressed and unable to find a clue, on the contrary, it would be easy to find some clues, and take his own ideas as the goal to collect enough information.

However, the premature hybridization and the existence of pea height, which Chen Jian developed hundreds of years ago and is still the basis of the textbook hypothesis of the recombination of yin and yang, complicates the problem.

Lin Xi thought that if lazy, fat and vigorous and active were the two sides of yin and yang, after countless choices of natural and invisible hands, natural animals should tend to become more and more majestic and active.

But no matter how many years of choice, there will still be lazy, weak and other cubs naturally. Where do these cubs come from?

Supposedly, these things should no longer exist in the world, they have been eliminated by the invisible hand of nature.

However, it still exists, and it still happens.

Why is this happening? Did it come out of nowhere?

Or is it like light and shadow in itself? Every person, every animal, every plant, from the very beginning, is like a universe with all the characteristics of imaginable. These characteristics have always been hidden in the bodies of animals and plants, but it is only the yang side that has been chosen by the invisible hand of nature, and the yin side has not disappeared but is hidden.

It's just that in some specific circumstances, this kind of hidden, not disappearing, but only hidden yin side will sprout.

So something never disappears, and not being seen does not mean that it does not exist, just like those sunshines that are separated by a prism, what people see is not an illusion, but not all.

Compared with the natural hand, Lin Xi's idea was more terrifying, more daring, and even went astray.

Whether it's a visible human hand or an invisible natural hand, she thought...... It's just a matter of choosing whether the yin side or the yang side is revealed.

All that can be done now is to wait until what people think is useful is revealed, and then artificially select this characteristic to perpetuate.

If...... If man could figure out when those hidden features would be revealed, wouldn't he be able to control everything in the world?

In the same way, nature is influenced by the rules of the way of heaven and earth, but the way of heaven and earth has no will, it is just a simple way, there is no good or bad, and it never determines the appearance of the world.

Under this crazy idea, when the fleet crossed the Tropic of Capricorn, Lin Xi took out his notebook and wrote the first sentence of this crazy idea that was influenced by Chen Jian a few years ago and finally began to germinate, full of the characteristics of the times, people conquer all things and even control the world.

"From the Invisible Hand of Nature to the Visible Hand of Human Needs—Beginning with the Choice of Domestic Livestock and Crops—The Tao Is Only the Way, and Has No Will, No Kindness, No Evil, No Virtue and No Mercy"

In the shaking cabin, Lin Xi still didn't know the terrifying power of the words he wrote down and the turmoil he might cause.

Constrained by the myths and legends of the times and traditions, she blames the birth of all things on the mysterious unknowns that opened up the world.

At a certain moment of creation where the unknown yin and yang merge and converge, the rules have been set.

The world is changing, and the rules are constant.

If man could master this rule, he would have the possibility of change in everything except creation, including all things.

When ore can be turned into metal by rules, when force can be driven by rules, when electricity can be created by rules, when water can be divided into gases by rules...... The difference between man and the gods and heavens after the creation of the world is only in those living creatures.

Obviously, Lin Xi wants to deprive him of this right.

It was still a prototype in the mind, but as the fleet continued south, stopping at Cape Storm and setting foot on this pristine and ancient, unaltered land, the idea of a prototype became clearer.