Chapter 14: Foothold 2

86_86695As a traverser, Wang Shuhui agrees with the views of other traversers' predecessors. From the point of view of the intelligence of the individual, modern people are not necessarily smarter than ancient people. However, Wang Shuhui feels that from an overall point of view, there is no comparison between modern people living under advanced productive forces and production relations and ancient people living under backward productive forces and production relations and ancient people living under backward productive forces and production relations, and between modern people who generally received primary and secondary education and ancient people who generally did not receive any education.

There is still a comparison between people in primitive society and people in slave society, between people in slave society and people in feudal society, but there is no way to compare people in feudal society and people in modern society. You can imagine what kind of gap there was between the primitive society and the feudal society.

When the Spanish colonists arrived in the Americas on ocean-going sailboats with arquebuses. Those Indians in the stage of primitive society and slave society, in addition to the fate of genocide, were passively accepted by the Spanish bloodline. In 2014, will you still be able to see the true Indians in North and South America? This is the relationship between human beings at different stages of civilization.

When Wang Shuhui faced the ancient people, he emotionally identified them as the same as himself, Chinese compatriots of the same blood. But intellectually, in Wang Shuhui's eyes in the late Ming Dynasty, there is only the difference between the Chinese who want to be destroyed and those who want to be transformed.

Social development and civilization progress have always been a natural and inevitable objective process. In the process of Chinese moving from feudal agricultural civilization to social industrial civilization, in the stage of foreign invasion and internal collision, hundreds of millions of human lives died quietly in the wave of civilization evolution like the autumn wind sweeping away leaves. This has nothing to do with the presence or absence of humanitarianism.

Social development and civilization progress are an objective process, and in this process, it is unscientific to use any kind of ideology to evaluate. Because in the face of objective laws, any subjective consciousness is meaningless. If you are humanitarian, then do you want to be humanitarian to sheep that are eaten by jackals, and do you want to be humanitarian to mammoths that are eaten by primitive people. To put it more cruelly, do you want to be the same human, but in the process of human development, the Neanderthals, who were eaten by modern Homo sapiens, paid attention to humanitarianism.

Even among human beings in the same stage of civilization, different countries, different interest groups, and different classes, no matter how much they cover up, they are in the face of the iron law that the materials needed for survival and development are limited. The relationship between man and man, between the state and the state, between the class and the class, is also a life-and-death struggle.

Science fiction god Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" wrote that in the vast space of the universe, the relationship between different civilizations also follows the law of the jungle. Under this understanding, Wang Shuhui, who is gentle and thoughtful on the outside, contains the flames of hell that destroy the world in his bones. Therefore, the twenty family members who were trained by Wang Shuhui began a kind of painful training that people in an agrarian society could not imagine.

Every morning, Wang Shuhui leads 20 families to go on a five-kilometer cross-country run. Although at first almost all of them could not fulfill this requirement, because it was basically impossible to accomplish in the eyes of the ancients. But under the threat of beating sticks and not being allowed to eat, twenty people also persevered.

After that, have breakfast. These 20 family members were treated differently from the other 200 or so inmates, and the treatment of rice, meat, and cabbage soup was completely different. Enjoy a super treat of eggs, meat buns, milk and fresh vegetables.

After breakfast, the family began to train in formation, and under the guidance of the training method of straw sandals and cloth shoes, the problem of not distinguishing between left and right was quickly solved. Noon, lunch, lunch is the same as normal containment. Every five people have a table, eat four dishes and one soup, three meat and two vegetables, and unlimited rice supply.

In the afternoon, they received cultural education, pinyin and literacy education, and the textbook was selected from Xunzi. Then it's time for dinner. The content of dinner is the same as lunch, and it is still three meat and two vegetables with four dishes and one soup. In the evenings to receive a scientific education. However, the content is simple and easy to understand, and it is all mathematics and nature that modern elementary school students learn.

And just like that, under the incredibly high-intensity training of the ancients. Twenty days later, twenty young men were divided into left and right, wearing cyan aluminum baseball bats at their waists, and lined up on both sides of Zhu Youzi's carriage. Zhu Youzi, who has seen some of the world, actually feels that these family members have a bit of a murderous atmosphere.

Under this solemn atmosphere, accompanied by the housekeeper and the family, Zhu Youzi, who was wearing a vassal royal costume without any ornamentation, went to Zhijiang County to visit the county magistrate of Zhijiang County with a thousand taels of silver dollars and a set of crystal tea sets prepared by Wang Shuhui in modern times. The glass tea set of the so-called crystal tea set is a gift to the prefectural order. A thousand taels of silver was actually a bribe, but it was the cost of buying the palace garden and the surrounding land.

In the recent period, Wang Shuhui has used 20 family members who have undergone basic training to select and reorganize all 142 of the more than 200 refugees, all males over the age of 17 and under the age of 35. One hundred and forty people were organized into ten teams according to a team of fourteen people. In the morning, there will be a queue training, and in the afternoon, house repairs and land leveling will be carried out. To Wang Shuhui's surprise, there were more than 30 craftsmen who could carpenter and blacksmith work among these refugees. Although they are of different ages and their skills are quite poor, they are still hands-on people.

Wang Shuhui also managed the refugees, and those who received the same training as the first 20 family members were called first-class family members. Eat first-class meals, wear first-class clothes, and live in first-class housing after the new house is built. Those who only receive training in the morning and work in the afternoon are called second-class housekeepers, eat rice and meat foam soup, wear clay gray short shirts and trousers, and when the new house is built, they live in a relatively small house.

More than 30 craftsmen are also divided into two types, first-class craftsmen, who have four seasons long shirts, hats and shoes, and work clothes. Food, housing and first-class family members are in the same column. In the future, if you bring an apprentice, you will be given a monthly salary of one silver dollar (one tael of silver) for each apprentice who brings out an apprentice of the second-class craftsman level. The second-class craftsmen's clothing is the same as that of the second-class family, and they are also issued with work clothes, and their food and accommodation are the same as those of the second-class family.

Now only three of the craftsmen are masters. Two old blacksmiths who can craft all kinds of farm tools and swords, and one of them even made a bird gun. An old carpenter repaired a house for the mansion of a feudal king in Shanxi. The other 20 or so craftsmen are exactly the kind of people who can make furniture and repair farm tools in the countryside.

To Wang Shuhui's surprise, when these craftsmen got the modern tools that Wang Shuhui gave them, they quickly mastered the use of these tools, and were amazed by the design and workmanship of the tools. There are many things that Wang Shuhui doesn't understand at all, but what they can say is the Tao.

In this way, the family received queue training in the morning, and in the afternoon, under the leadership of more than 30 craftsmen, they were divided into two parts, one part began to repair the house, and the other part began to build a fence around the palace garden. They are all hollow bricks and cement brought by Wang Shuhui from modern times. The remaining 30 or so children of all ages under the age of 17 were taken to Wang Shuhui and gathered separately so that an uncle, who was a teacher, could read according to the literacy textbooks he provided. Of course, the textbook is not the content of the Four Books and the Five Classics, but all of them are explanatory essays about the trivial knowledge of natural science.

Other men over the age of thirty-five took turns to receive first-class military training according to Wang Shuhui's arrangement, but they did not have to do other work, but were only responsible for guarding the front and back of the back garden. Except for Wang Shuhui, no one is allowed to enter