Chapter 217: Courage is Enough

Seeing that everyone looked up, Chen Jincai smiled and said, "Everyone may have thought wrong!"

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It's the pig dragon!

That is, crocodiles! Have you heard of it? ”

Oh! Hearing Chen Jincai say this, everyone also understood that it was not the kind of divine dragon that was originally said, but those evil dragons who were evil to the Yangtze River, lakes and swamps, and some said that it was a pig dragon.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many places where crocodiles lived, and it was not like modern times, and if you wanted to find two crocodiles in China, in addition to the zoo, it was a pet market.

In this time and space, if you want tigers, wolves, bears, gall and dragon skins, please don't get too much! Maybe you can come across it when you leave the village!

Of course, if you live in a remote place!

Although not all of them are well-informed people, of course I have heard of the creature of the pig dragon.

If the little crocodiles of later generations come to this era, they will find that they can only be too small to be small here.

And the crocodile king here can look up to the sky and roar proudly, even if it is a child, he has heard of the legend of his brother!

All right! Now that he has finished talking about the origin of farming civilization and nomads, Chen Jincai has not had time to answer the original question, and Li Shiming is anxious to know the answer.

So he asked, "Sir, you have said so much, but I still don't understand which one is better than the meat-eater or the grain-eater!" ”

"Although I know that the agricultural civilization says that it eats grain, and the nomads say that it eats meat!"

Chen Jincai opened his mouth wide in astonishment: "Didn't I say it?" ”

Li Shiming looked confused: "Did you say it?" ”

In fact, not only him, but many people present were also stunned, did you say anything? Why haven't they heard of it?

They only heard a long story, telling the story that the two emperors of Yan and Huang had to tell and the origin of the Li people, but they didn't say which of the two civilizations was superior!

Only a few people are thoughtful, maybe their hearts are also scolding, and Lao Tzu didn't hear that there was something about this in the story he just said!

But at this time, if you don't come out in time to pretend to have a long face to prove that you still have brains, how long will you have to wait?

So, even if they don't understand anything, they still pretend to be good! Thoughtfully!

However, there are still few thick-skinned ones, and even fewer who don't know how to pretend to understand, so these elementary school students who didn't understand immediately put on a very humble look.

"Please say it again, sir, and be clear, after all, the little ones are all big and coarse, and they don't read many books, don't lie to us!"

Looking at them, they look like Little Red Riding Hood who has been coaxed by the wolf grandmother, and they are so innocent1

Chen Jincai had no choice but to pat his head, these people! The longest person who went to the Valley of Peace was less than half a year, how could he learn to be poor!

"Okay, okay! Then I will put the matter on the positive side, and I will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this farming people and the nomads! ”

"Let's talk about this farming civilization first, in fact, from ancient times to the present, this farming civilization represents stability!

Every time there is a change of dynasty, it can maintain stability for hundreds of years, which is relatively a kind of security guarantee!

In order to live an orderly life, most of you may be those thieves who go up the mountain and fall into the grass, and there may be various reasons.

But I have to say that the Great Song Dynasty, as a representative of agricultural civilization, can make many people live a very stable life, and grow old peacefully, and then die of old age and illness at home, and there will be no flying disasters!

They can pass on their bloodline, and as long as nothing happens to the family, they can live peacefully and happily! ”

"It's a kind of happiness!"

"In a stable environment, the population growth is fast, for example, the Great Song Dynasty, when the founding of the country was only a little more than 10 million people, now only 160 years have passed, and the population has actually increased by 50 or 60 million!

This shows the role of a stable environment in population growth!

A stable environment is of great help to people to summarize the experience of their predecessors, if you settle down without a fixed place and are displaced, then what time do you take to summarize the experience and inheritance of your predecessors!

In this regard, for example, how to make the field produce more, how to make it easier for soldiers to kill the enemy, how to make the world less sick! Let the people have more joy!

The growth of the population will help to fight the damage caused by the war, for example, there are 50 million Han people in the Great Song Dynasty now, even if 40 million die, there are still 10 million blood!

Such is the potential of war!

The most important thing is that a stable environment allows people to create more things that are beneficial to the human race!

So now the Great Song may not be the most powerful soldiers, but the armor is the sharpest!

Unfortunately, the shortcomings of agrarian civilization are also conspicuous.

A stable environment makes people's temperament more cowardly than those in a bad environment!

Correspondingly, the courage of these people will be relatively lower than that of people in harsh environments!

Moreover, there are more people, and there is another disadvantage, that is, from generation to generation, the more people, the less land.

Once the number of people reaches a certain level, and the amount of arable land allocated to each person is reduced to a certain extent, a natural disaster may destroy that dynasty!

Farming civilization is very dependent on the weather, once the climate of the earth changes greatly, that is, if there is a natural disaster, then for the farming civilization, it is a catastrophe! ”

Chen Jincai said softly, now that he has finished talking about farming civilization, he is going to talk about the nomads: "Now let's talk about the nomads, their advantages are very simple."

First, the harsh environment in which they live has created a brave personality and combat effectiveness, and the idea of survival is engraved in their blood from birth!

They must be brave, because those who are not strong have already died in this terrible environment! ”

"Second, they have no fixed place, which means that there is nothing that cannot be given up, so if they encounter an enemy, they will fight if they can fight, and if they can't fight, they will run, which is the most effective way for them to attack the agricultural civilization of the Central Plains!"

"Third, in the event of a natural disaster, they can look to the agricultural civilization in the south, where there is food!

Once you grab it, you can eat your stomach, and if you can't grab it, you can help the tribe consume a mouth that eats food!

This is good! ”

Chen Jincai continued: "However, it is precisely because of the environment that the nomads cannot be too big, and the size of the tribe depends on the size of the grassland.

Some small tribes, maybe a blizzard, can make that tribe disappear in that grassland!

A dispute with another tribe may also cause a tribe to disappear from the land!

There is no fixed residence, and the inheritance of civilization is in a chaotic and primitive state!

They live in the world with nothing but courage! ”

As soon as Chen Jincai's words fell, suddenly a voice came in from outside the field: "If you have courage, it's enough!" ”

(To be continued.) )