Chapter 101: The High Priest's Rehearsal (Part I)

"It's not enough to know what we're going to do in the future. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info also know what the world is like as we know it, and what the world of the living is. ”

"Someone once asked me what it would be like when I died, and I didn't answer."

"If the things of life have not been done well, how can we talk about the afterlife while we are alive? The living have things to do for the living, and the dead have things for the dead to do, and they don't belong to each other, and everything after death should not be something we should think about. ”

"As for heaven and earth, it is too vast, even if the ancestors care about it, how can I explain it clearly?"

"So today, when everyone gets together, let's not talk about the ghosts and gods of the dead, not about the gods and monsters of heaven and earth, but only about the world of the living."

Jian Chen looked at these people with some nervousness, these days he had been thinking about the issue of the primordial worldview, which was something he had to face after becoming the high priest, initiating a primordial worldview change that was no less than that of the Jedi Tiantong of the southern race.

To be a high priest is to explain heaven and earth, to explain the world of the living, to explain the workings between heaven and earth. If he had lived long enough and had really completed the unification of the tribes, he would not have been able to say some things nonsense after becoming the high priest, and the impact would have been too great, and many things would have to be repaired on this basis.

And if these people in front of them can understand and believe, even if these theories are full of loopholes, they are enough to support the primitive worldview of this era.

It's not a meaningless triviality, if you don't fool around, something else will occupy it, and once a self-justifying system is formed, it's too difficult to break it again.

After the nervousness calmed down, Jian Chen picked up a charcoal pen and skillfully drew a black and white bear yin-yang fish on the white, lime-painted wall, which was familiar to everyone below.

In fact, his original system was based on this, and if the real thing is not explained, then it can only be chiseled and attached.

He had already tried the flicker once before this time, and the effect of the flicker seemed to be very successful for the time being.

When the group of people from the original agricultural class went to the farm, Chen Jian gave them some pea seeds, because the pea seeds were selected, and the problem arose.

After the harvest last year, Shi Quan and other people from the agricultural class once came to Chen Jian with the peas after the harvest, and Chen Jian was thinking about how to explain the peas for them, and used those people in the agricultural class as their first attempt. Whether it's right or not, it's okay to be able to justify it so that it won't be a thousand miles wrong.

At that time, when those people came to Jian Chen with peas, in view of the fact that Jian Chen had specially instructed them to observe the height for record before they left, the problem was also about the height and shortness.

Among so many peas, all the peas that are short are short when they grow up, and the seeds that grow up are tall and short, and the tall ones are obviously more than the short ones.

Chen Jian was already ready to start fooling at that time, and he also drew a black and white bear yin and yang fish, telling them that everything in the world has two kinds of yin and yang, which are contrasting.

For example, if there is a day, there will be a moon, if it is high, it will be short, and if it is cold, it will be hot.

Tall is to short what yang is to yin. When the sun appears, yin is hidden by yang, so you can't see darkness. And the darkness itself exists, and once it obscures the sun, darkness will appear.

Therefore, the pea itself is also separated from yin and yang, short for yin and high for yang, just like this yin and yang fish. Like people, it takes men and women to have sex to give birth to a baby, if the baby is a black and white bear yin and yang fish like the essence, then it must be half of the parents each.

The peas are the same, the short ones are pure yin, and the parents are pure yin, so the peas that bear after flowering are also pure yin, and they are naturally all short.

The high one, which itself is both yin and yang, is divided into half and combined, which may be pure yin, pure yang, or both. And the pure yin is short, and the yang that has both yin and yang covers the yin, and it is naturally tall, so the tall is always much higher than the shorter.

After such a bullshit explanation, it can also be explained without any loopholes based on the black and white bear.

Those people in Shiquan definitely don't know anything like genes, and it's impossible to talk to them, so they use this kind of general explanation similar to metaphysics.

In about two days, the people in the agricultural class basically understood the problem, and based on this, they came up with a solution: when selecting seeds, they should choose those with large ears of wheat and more grains, because compared with small and small, large and more are yang and vice versa, so the wheat produced by wheat with many ears and barley grains is generally large and plentiful.

As for the issue of men and women, Chen Jian also explained it in a similar way. For people, from the level of soul and body, people are divided into yin and yang, both body and soul. But for the human thing itself, it is another level of yin and yang.

Jian Chen thought about it for a while, and came up with an explanation that was very consistent with the fact that the status of men and women was gradually declining, but they still retained the status left over from the clan era.

He fooled these people and said that if the duality of the body and soul is removed, the body alone is still another kind of yin and yang.

A woman is a pure yin body, so a woman will have a moon, just like the moon, and the moon is naturally yin relative to the sun.

The man's body is yin and yang, so the man has milk, but he cannot nurse the offspring; Men cry but not as often as women; Men have great strength, but they cannot work indefinitely; Men don't have menstruation and so on.

Therefore, the babies born are half male and half female.

Someone asked Jian Chen, according to this reason, he is actually the most masculine man who can give birth to great strength, no breasts, and no crying. Chen Jian said that it was like this, as long as men and men can have children, one of the four may be a truly masculine and feminine man, but he told these people that it is best not to try, because they can't give birth.

If this theory had been put forward in an era when the inferiority of men and women had been fully formed, it would have been sprayed to death, because once it reached that era, there was still a question involved: Is it because of women or men that boys and girls are born? If he dared to say that giving birth to boys and girls was related to men in an era of stable male power, it is estimated that he would be directly slapped in the face with two big mouths, and then tied up and thrown into the water to drown.

At this time, throwing out this nonsense theory can avoid this situation, as far as these people in the Xia Kingdom are concerned, it is not long since they broke away from the matriarchal era, and the status of women is still not low due to the habit of fertility worship, and there are weaving, midwifery, and future work such as paper fishing and grinding gunpowder, which did not immediately fall to the bottom.

When people with blank sheets of paper walked out of the mountains and forests, and just after they were full and began to think about why, where they came from and where they were going, they were instilled with pseudoscience by Chen Jian, and based on this yin and yang fish black and white bear, they built a set of self-justifying worldview, and it was not difficult to accept this point of view.

The only sequelae is that when those people in the agricultural class are thinking about breeding cattle and stallions, they will occasionally wonder if they can make two strong stallions give birth to a stronger pure yang stallion, but the problem is not too big, and Chen Jian also let them toss, anyway, they can't get it out.

However, he believes that there will be at least one positive guidance for agricultural breeding and seed selection in the future.

After the foundation and attempts of agronomy were laid, Chen Jian has been thinking about using similar methods to fool the whole world.

Of course, this is not a materialistic, objective world, but a subjective world based on imagination and close to real objectivity.

For example, the wound of a person is because some bad souls have turned into small insects that devour the body, thus making people prosperous and yin decaying, causing the festering from the physical substance to the illusory bad soul, and without the support of the body, the soul is meaningless and will inevitably dissipate in the world of the living.

This explanation seems to him to be pure nonsense, but in the eyes of those medical students, it is simply true, such as the fact that spirits can be ignited, and they are naturally the most yang things, which can dissolve those bad souls, so the wounds are often wiped and the spirits are not easy to suppurate and infect.

It takes a long time to prepare, and it takes a long time to expand everything into a dualistic way of thinking, and after merging into the theory of contradiction, it becomes a deformed dualistic world.

Everything from the birth of man, to the union of soul and body, to the learning of the living to grow the soul, and the change of seasons, the birth of the sun and the beginning of the month, are all within this framework.

Some are close to the facts, and some will be pure nonsense, but as long as you can give a self-justifying explanation, leave the most basic things, and let future generations play them, this is progress in this era, at least it is better than the arguments of God, nothing can be achieved overnight, and sometimes you have to take detours.

So at this time, facing the high-level of the entire Xia City, Chen Jian once again began to flicker from the yin and yang fish black and white bear, first talked about the rough prototype of the worldview, and then began to explain that the sun and the moon alternate because of the yin and yang: only the sun is not good, only the moon is not good, and the two fight each other until they compromise, each accounting for half.

Not because it has to be this way, but because only then will we exist, and maybe somewhere in the world is not like this, there is eternal night and eternal day, and there will be no one living there, and even life will be extremely difficult.

Then we talked about compromise and contradictions, and then we talked about how to govern a country and maintain its stability.

"Any city is a fusion of yin and yang. For example, if the slave is yin, then the slave owner is the yang, and the slave owner fights and compromises with each other, so that the city can be stable. If the nobles wanted the slaves to work and not eat, the slaves would definitely resist, and eventually the city would be ruined. ”

"A city that will not be destroyed must be a harmony between yin and yang, mutual compromise and mutual acceptance. Otherwise, the entire city or even the whole country will be destroyed. ”

"I've spoken to some of you here that there has always been a struggle between yin and yang. Some people think that the battle between yin and yang is that those people rebel against the master and kill the master, but this is not the case. ”

"Isn't it a struggle for the nobles to tie ropes, raise armies, tie their hands, and want them to work more?"

"It's just that the nobles always win, and the slaves always lose."

"After a long time, everyone thinks that slave resistance is struggle, and tying ropes, branding and the like are taken for granted, not struggle, and it is wrong to think so."

"If you don't know that this struggle exists, you can't manage the slaves well, and you can't do a better job of exploiting them without them resisting. You must understand that knowing that there is a struggle means that the master can be better exploited. ”

"The fact that the sun exists and you can't see the darkness doesn't mean that the darkness doesn't exist, it's just that the sun overcomes the darkness, that's all, but you can't say that there is no fighting."

"Because you have been winning, you think that the struggle does not exist, and that is dangerous. Of course, there are not many slaves left in our Xia Kingdom, but is the struggle still there? If I want to say yes, it's just that the yin and yang are no longer masters and slaves, and many people's minds are still stuck in the little between slaves and masters in other cities, so that they can't correctly understand what we want to suppress, what we want to oppose, and what we want to exploit in the future, this is dangerous. ”