Now there is a question that puzzles several people, why did this group of rats commit suicide?

Why?

Wang Yang remembered a case very similar to modern times, the mystery of lemmings committing suicide.

Lemmings also have a strong tradition of suicide, living in the cold regions of the north and breeding in very high numbers in order to survive.

A dozen or twenty babies are not a problem.

It only takes three or four years to reproduce a million of them, which is terrifying.

Why do they grow so fast? Are there no natural predators?

Yes, but the number of predators eaten is far less than the number they reproduce, giving birth to twenty cubs, and letting you eat two is not enough, or eighteen are alive.

These eighteen grew fast, and it didn't take long for them to grow again, and then again, and again.

Eventually, it became a plague of rats, and the lemmings ate everything they could eat, the trees, the grass, and the stones.

It's a mess, and there are no lives in it.

Its natural enemies had no choice, they couldn't survive, and there was no room to live, so they forced a group away.

In this way, their numbers are even more terrifying, and it depends on how many of them can be eaten by those few hovering eagles?

What's more, the eagles also have to change their tastes and eat some other animals to balance their nutrition.

What to do when everything is eaten up? Cannibalism? They haven't been so heavy yet, and probably haven't thought about it.

Because they don't have self-awareness, they don't think about it, I'm going to kill him. I'll have to eat.

They might think it's me, too. I can't eat me, most likely their "me". refers to their population.

This is the problem, what if there is nothing to eat? What should I do if the ecological damage is cleaned up?

Die! There is only one dead end, and there can be no other way.

The question is, how do you die?

There was a documentary filmed before, which said that the lemmings took the initiative to commit suicide and jumped off the cliff to die, for the sake of the population, which was extremely tragic and awe-inspiring. The wind is dashing and the water is cold, and the strong man is gone.

Is this true? Would a group of self-conscious guys kill themselves for the sake of other rats?

Fake! The documentary is fake, and the lemmings did not take the initiative to die, but drove them down for the completion of the documentary, which is why there is a very famous lemmings suicide tragedy.

Later, it was revealed that there was another problem. If they didn't die on their own initiative, why did they die?

There is only one reason, migration.

Wang Yang patted Xiaohong, who was so shocked that she stayed in place, and pulled her to the edge of the cliff. Pointing to the sea below: "Don't get excited, they can swim." ”

Xiaohong looked down, and sure enough. The surface of the water near the sea is full of rats with their heads in the sea. They are just like on land, rapidly expanding towards the sea. Look at that posture, they want to occupy the sea as they occupy the land.

"It wasn't a suicide...... Xiaohong's eyes widened, she thought that these rats couldn't swim and would drown if they jumped, but after they went down, they swam happily instead.

"No, it's suicide, it's just that they're like moths, they don't know it." Wang Yang shook his head.

"They can swim, how can they kill themselves?" The three turned their heads again.

Wang Yang pointed into the distance: "Do you think they can swim to the opposite shore that is not so far away?" ”

Swim less than ...... The three of them shook their heads, how vast is the sea, and they want to swim to the other side? How long does it take?

Two months? Half? Two years? Decade? For such a long time, how to ensure that you don't get soaked in the sea? Won't you run out of energy? Won't get hungry? Animals in the water don't attack?

There is no guarantee that as long as they have the idea that they can swim to the other side, they will die, "suicide".

"Aren't they going to die, then?" Looking at the rats that came and went, Wang Yingying felt a little distressed: "It would be good if we committed suicide in batches, we could catch mice and eat them every once in a while, and we didn't need to raise animals." ”

"......" dares to feel sorry for this.

"But why do they have this idea?" The three of them looked at Wang Yang again, this is a very important question, since it is a migration, why is it such a difficult means of migration, it is impossible to succeed at all.

However, Wang Yang's words are surprising: "Because every time they have a small part of the success." ”

"It's impossible, won't they go into shock after soaking in water for so long? How to solve the food problem? ”

Wang Yang said: "I didn't say that they will definitely swim to the other side, unless the other shore is very close, but some of them will be confused by the waves in the sea, and then they will come up, in fact, their bodies have been beaten back, thinking that this is the opposite shore, so they swam back, and they succeeded." ”

"You mean, they actually swam back? But they don't know and think they've succeeded? ”

Wang Yang nodded: "That's right, those surviving rats thought they had succeeded, and the next time they migrated again, they would lead other rats to jump into the sea, and they have always had this habit." ”

"I see." The three of them suddenly realized.

However, Wang Yang didn't talk about another concept, talking about every life, flooded to a certain extent, there will be suicidal actions, talking about the subconscious of brain control, and talking about genes.

Wang Yang felt that these had not been confirmed, and it could not be regarded as true if he said that he was troubled.

In his opinion, it is still a question of self-awareness, or a question of intelligence, which is the most important thing.

For example, we all know about Chinese history, but there is often one thing that is overlooked in books, something that goes unnoticed.

And this thing is actually another aspect of the truth of history.

Before the pre-Qin period, this part of China produced enough food to feed 10 million people, and one more person would not be enough to eat.

So in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a saying that there was no just war in the Spring and Autumn Period, why? Because there are so many people, there are only those places that can produce food, and there is so much food that can be produced.

Why is there not enough land? Because there isn't enough reclamation? No.

At that time, the planting land was not planted in the ditch as it is now, but planted on the ridge, similar to a small hill, and you could not plant in the ditch, and when it rained, the seeds would be drowned.

Moreover, the land needs to be raised, and if you plant it this year, you can get 100 catties of grain, but next year you can only get 50 catties of grain.

So there are too many people and not enough to eat, what should I do? Suicide by jumping into the sea en masse? No, self-aware human beings, the approach is very simple, kill!

If there are too many people, they will kill them, won't it be enough to eat?

When it came to the Warring States, Bai Qi, the general of the Qin State, why did he kill 400,000 people of the Zhao State? Because of the brutality of the white? No, it's really not okay not to kill.

If I don't kill you all, how will there be enough food to eat? I have occupied your territory, but there is still not enough food, so I can only kill people! It's better to kill people from other countries than to kill your own country, right?

From a humanitarian point of view, it should indeed be criticized, after all, so many people were killed, but the question is, in that environment, what else can you do if you don't kill people?

By the time the Qin State unified the six countries, with iron tools, the production efficiency was a little higher, and 20 million people could be fed, and one more person would starve.

And it should be noted that there was no waste of food at that time, because at that time, human beings could only eat two meals, not three meals a day.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, it was possible to feed 60 million people, and the specific method was very simple, or plant on the ridge, but change the species, this year here is the ridge, next year dig here into a ditch, fill the soil into the ditch, the ditch will become a ridge, it is new land, and it will be changed back next year.

By the end of the Han Dynasty, the population had reached 55 million, and at this time, there was not enough food, so the world was in chaos and began to kill people.

The same was true of the Tang Dynasty, which did not change until the Song Dynasty, which introduced tropical rice with grain that could feed 100 million people.

And from this time on, everyone can eat three meals a day.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, if you don't have enough to eat, then kill it.

The same was true in the Ming Dynasty, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it could only feed 100 million people, and at this time the population was too much, and the Ming Dynasty was in danger.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty introduced sweet potatoes, which are sweet potatoes, which have many nicknames, but unfortunately they have just been introduced, and there are not so many seedlings planted all over the country, so the Ming Dynasty has not had time to slow down, and it was destroyed, which is a pity.

In the Qing Dynasty, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty picked up the big bargain of the Ming Dynasty, there were sweet potatoes, and the population soared to 400 million! It can feed 400 million people!

It's a pity that it didn't work anymore at the end of the Qing Dynasty, only enough for 400 million people to eat.

There are about 1.4 billion in modern China, why? Because of advanced chemical fertilizers and Yuan Longping's research on super rice, the field does not need to rest, and super rice has a high yield.

As soon as these things appeared, China's population exploded, and its GDP was the largest in the world.

Therefore, the ancient feudal rulers, whether their king was a virtuous monarch or not had little to do with the common people.

It doesn't matter if you're centralized, or if you're in a democratic world.

What does it have to do with it? Food production! The people take food as the sky, and they must first be full, who will make trouble when they are full? I can't eat, I'm sorry, I can't live anymore, so you can die with it.

Therefore, human beings, advanced animals with self-awareness, their main thinking is not to say that there is not enough food to eat, but that I will kill myself and sacrifice my life for righteousness.

They will come up with a reason not to commit suicide, and they still want someone else to die, what reason? This regime is not good, the rulers are mediocre, let's revolt!

As soon as there is a war, well, people are dead, social contradictions are gone, everyone is back to square one, no one is richer than anyone, no one is poorer than anyone, don't laugh at me, I can't laugh at you, everyone is the same.

Such a society can develop again.

Speaking of which, it is a belly problem, and because of a strong sense of self, ordinary animals will not want to commit suicide.

Humans will, too, because of self-awareness.

Overall, I still can't escape the law, this thing is quite mysterious, called Tao. (To be continued......)