Chapter 164: See the ballad again

In order to make the Native Americans fully aware of the importance of technology, Wang Xijia focused on telling the three leaders about the tragic experience of the Native Americans in the previous life:

In the Age of Discovery, Columbus wanted to open a route to Asia and India, and unexpectedly came to the Americas. After that, more Europeans came to the area.

When Europeans first came to the Americas, they had little food and clothing. The Indians taught these Europeans to hunt, fish, and grow corn and pumpkins so that these Europeans could survive. Europeans also set up a Thanksgiving Day for the Indians to thank the Aborigines for their generosity.

But then, other Europeans began to value the land and minerals of the Americas, so they began to brutally colonize the Americas. Over the centuries, Europeans fought long wars with the Americans, eventually defeating the natives with advanced weaponry and the plague virus brought from the Old World and untouched by the Americans.

The colonists brutally slaughtered the Indians, and the founding president of one of the most powerful nations of later generations once said: "Do not listen to any offer of peace until all Indian settlements have been effectively destroyed." The colonists' troops peeled the skins of the Indians to make leather boots, and the generals shared their experience of skinning: "Peel the skin from the hips down, so that you can make tall boots that can be legged together......

After a series of tragic deaths, the indigenous people gradually lost their land and were kept in captivity in "reserves", like animals in zoos, playing small tunes from time to time. The only opportunity to make money was to open casinos, until the era that Wang Xijia traveled, I didn't hear of any outstanding performance of Indians in politics, business and entertainment, it seems that their only role is to play a few inconsequential small roles in Hollywood movies.

In later generations, scientists once counted that at its peak, North America once lived with 30 million to 100 million Indians. At that time, Indians accounted for about 30% of the world's population. But in the era before Wang Xijia's crossing, there were only 800,000 indigenous people in North America, accounting for only one-ten-thousandth of the world's population, and they were genocided.

Wang Xika is eloquent and has high prestige. Both the grey beaver and the blood fang believed what he said. The two of them listened to the blood in their blood, and in an instant transferred their hatred to the Europeans they had never met, and the hatred between them for hundreds of years was dissolved. I can't wait to follow Wang Xijia to Europe by boat to kill all the Europeans, although the Europeans have not yet come to this land.

It's easy to make one person hate another, and one ethnicity hates another, you just have to talk. Maybe you just say a few words, and others will hate it to death.

"What about me? How will we Inuit live in the Hereafter?" asked Saleman, who had been listening for a long time.

"Well, this, you guys were massacred because it was so cold. However, because of the limitations of your living environment, it is the same as it is now.

"That's fine, it's not bad like it is now. Sareman grinned.

Also, people who have not experienced modern life feel that it is good to maintain this primitive state of life.

"No, your presence is less than that of the Indians. It belongs to the backward and marginal people. Wang Xika said.

Indeed, in later generations, there are still many film and television works that have appeared in the image of Indians. But the image of the Inuit is rarely present. In people's impressions, the Inuit have nothing but eating raw meat and living in igloos.

After listening to Wang Xijia's words, Saleman fell into deep thought. No patriarch would want his people to live in such a marginalized life.

"Now we are all your subjects. You don't want your subjects to suffer like this, take us to Europe, and let's take revenge on those Europeans!"

"Yes, let's take revenge!"

"This feud will not dissipate for a thousand years, ten thousand years, let's kill all the Europeans!"

"We're going to colonize Europe before we do, and we're going to peel them off to make leather boots!"

The three aborigines gritted their teeth and petitioned Wang Xika. Wang Xijia understands their mentality very well, this kind of thousand-year-old hatred cannot be resolved by anyone. But he told these people about this "history" that had not yet happened, just to get them to stop their feuds. But he didn't want them to turn their hatred on the Europeans, after all, since he fought Dracula and Carthage, Europe is now part of his territory.

Digging deeper, Wang Xika did not want the Europeans to commit genocide against the Indians, and at the same time, he also did not want the Indians to commit genocide against the Europeans. What he wants is for the whole world to live in peace, and it's understandable to fight a little fight occasionally, but it's not interesting to exterminate the clan at every turn.

"Do you know where Europe is?" Wang Xika asked the three leaders calmly.

The three aborigines, you look at me, I look at you, obviously they don't know.

"You don't even know where Europe is, how can you go to the Europeans for revenge?" Wang Xika asked another question that was difficult for the three to answer.

"Take us there!" the grey beaver smiled at Wang Xika as if he had comprehended Wang Xijia's intentions. In his understanding, since Wang Xijia told them so, he must have taken them to take revenge.

"No. That was from the previous life. Everything has changed since I came into this world. Whether it is Asia, Europe, Africa or the Americas, it is already my land. I told you about the last life, but I didn't want you to kill each other. In fact, in my land, I don't allow genocide to happen. Wang Xika bluntly rejected the gray beaver's proposal.

"And what kind of world do you want?" Sareman was the only native of the three who didn't want revenge from the Europeans, so his focus was not on that.

Throughout the ages, how many people have imagined what an "ideal world" would look like? However, judging from Wang Xijia's experience, the ideal of "the world is the same and the world is for the common good" has never been realized.

In the world before Wang Xijia crossed over, mankind basically reached a consensus, that is, "racial discrimination is shameful, and all races should get along equally." "Globalization has also begun." "That world is what Wang Xijia yearns for. However, it is said that in the end, the world was destroyed by nuclear war in 2080.

Perhaps humanity is really a "cursed" member, and it is said that in history mankind once united in building the Tower of Babel, but then it collapsed.

Plato's "ideal state" and Confucius's concept of "great harmony under heaven" have no loopholes in Wang Xijia's view, but they cannot be realized. So, do you have the ability to realize this long-cherished wish that the sages of ancient and modern China and foreign countries cannot fulfill?

He remembered how he had united the three powers of North America – creating a common enemy, the colonizers of Europe. Then, the way to unite the entire world of humanity is probably to create a common enemy of all mankind, such as aliens.

The kind of interstellar wyvern depicted in the manuscript of the underwater ancient city is a good imaginary enemy, and the "three-body man" and "singer" in the science fiction novels I used to read are also very good imaginary enemies. As long as we depict these alien enemies in the same way that we famously depicted European colonizers, then human society can be united. And it can stimulate the desire of human beings to climb the peak of science and technology.

Anyway, there has been a lot of time recently, and it is rare to have a few listeners. Wang Xika decided to talk to everyone and instill a set of his own theories.

First of all, to resolve the resentment of the aborigines against the European colonizers, Wang Xijia started with human evolution. More than 30 million years ago, apes evolved from monkeys, and then divided into Ramacous and Australopithecus. Among them, Rama australopithecus is the ancestor of gorillas, while Australopithecus is the ancestor of us humans.

Australopithecus evolved a variety of early Homo sapiens, such as Neanderthals, Maba Man, Yuanmou Man, and so on. Later, these early Homo sapiens were all wiped out, and then our ancestors divided into four major races: yellow, white, black, and brown. Although these four races are different in appearance, they can intermarry with each other.

"Why do I think you're not right with the High Priest?"

"Yes, I don't think I'm right with our shaman. ”

"It's kind of like it, but it's not quite the same. ”

...... The three aboriginal leaders unanimously refuted Wang Xijia's theory of human evolution, which made Wang Xijia a little baffled: although many scientists are studying the question of human origins, most of them are speculation. Now that it is ancient times, do these aborigines have different memories of the evolution of ancient humans?

This theory was summarized by later scientists, and it is not necessarily correct. What did you priests say?" asked Wang Xika.

Although the three aborigines hated each other, they had a lingua franca that Wang Xika did not understand. A few people chattered for a while, and then told Wang Xijia through Lang Naduo's translation.

This is a ballad that everyone in the Americas sings:

There is an egg in the black air,

There are two monkeys in the egg.

The egg broke, and two monkeys jumped out.

A monkey on the shore,

A monkey in the water.

One day the monkey on the shore fell into the water,

One day a monkey in the water came ashore.

The monkeys on the shore dwelt in the water,

The monkeys in the water lived on the shore.

......”

Wang Xijia was shocked after hearing it! He was familiar with this ballad. It was first sung by Gerahad the Elder on a stele in the lost ancient city of Atlantis, and later on the walls of an Egyptian temple. Today, the indigenous people of North America have the same song.

"Well, we have a saying in Fuso. ”

The tengu on the side also nodded and said.

"Zack, do you have this ballad?" Wang Xika saw that the ethnic groups he had come into contact with in this world, no matter how far apart they were, all had the same ballad. Is this an ancient memory? Why have I lived in the afterlife for so long and never heard of this ballad? I have not seen it in any archaeological document.

"I haven't heard of it. Zach said honestly.

"That's good. Seeing that someone was like herself, Wang Xika was also relieved.