Chapter 55: Cape Storm
Everyone shook their heads for a while, and they all said they didn't know.
"When the wheat was about to ripen, a flock of chickens, ducks and geese flew to eat up the field, and as soon as the potato plants were planted, flocks of wild boars came, and they turned over the ground again; When you walk down the road, be careful, the wild dogs will give you a share of it! A litter of dogs can give birth to **, two litters a year, no one eats them, no one dares to hit them, because of the existence of dog lovers, a litter of pigs can give birth to more than ten, two breeding pigs can become a large group in ten years, chickens, ducks and geese are also cows, sheep are also, the human beings of that country have been reduced to become the lowest existence, because pigs, dogs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese can not be eaten, because there is no love to eat.
But they didn't die on it, they died at the hands of goodness, they were so kind, so good for so long that they forgot how the knife was held, how the cannon was placed, so when an enemy they never thought of appeared, they forgot how to resist, because they never killed, they had forgotten how humans fought out of the beasts, they had forgotten how their ancestors had fought their way out of the mouths of tigers, leopards and jackals, and they did not dare to kill chickens;
So when the enemy comes in, even if the enemy only shows three people, they can take a county town to dig a pit in the field, and then jump down after digging the pit, they will not resist, they will only beg ......"
The fat man's voice was a little low: "Like the Arabs, they don't eat pork, but what will it be like if you are not allowed to eat pork?" You are just sailors at the bottom of society, you are very poor, even if you eat meat, you can only eat meat a few times a month, and you still eat relatively cheap pork, but if you are not allowed to eat pork, you can't afford to eat mutton, so you can only not eat meat;
Without meat, your health will become very poor, you will not be able to bear the wind and waves of the sea, you will not be able to go out to sea, you will not be able to earn money to support your family, what should you do? ”
"Nina, you are very good, I am not saying that it is bad for a person to have love, but to say, everyone loves differently, don't forcibly add your love to others, for example, you just asked Philip not to eat these bird eggs, but have you ever thought about the feelings of those big sea turtles that are about to be eaten?
All right! Actually, Nina, you're not wrong, and we're not wrong, so I want to see what it will look like when you hatch the eggs in your arms, but Nina, you need to persevere. ”
"Okay, since we're talking about love, let me talk about what our human survival instinct is!" The fat man looked around and said, "The instinct of human survival is war!" ”
"The ancestors of our human race, millions of years ago, lived with some ancient monsters, and there were many, many carnivorous beasts.
There were lions and tigers everywhere with huge bodies that were twice as big as they are now, eagles that could easily catch a person or a tiger or a lion in the sky, giant pythons that could easily swallow an elephant, and so on, all of which used humans as food.
And our ancestors waged a long war against the beasts, and they killed one after another man-eating beasts, so they survived.
When the Terrans learned to use weapons, they were invincible in the land;
And so, the Terrans began to multiply and grow, just like the birds on the island, which laid their eggs everywhere, and the Terrans multiplied very quickly, and soon formed large tribes one after another, and then they faced a problem, they did not have enough food;
When the ancient terrans did not know how to farm, they lived by hunting, and when the human race began to multiply to the point where they could meet people wherever they went, they would encounter a problem, there was not enough food;
At that time, the Terrans had two choices, first, to eat the food, and then everyone starved to death together; 2. Kill another tribe, and then occupy a larger hunting ground for your own group. ”
The fat man smiled and asked the sailor in front of him, "What will you choose?" ”
A sailor stood up: "Captain, that must kill other races, you can't starve to death together!" ”
"That's right! This is war, the winner survives, and the loser dies. The fat man said with a smile.
"At that time, some of the Terrans followed the prey, some followed the rivers, some learned to dig wells, and slowly the Terrans spread all over the land, established one country after another, and slowly learned to plant and graze; The Terrans multiplied, and gradually there was no more arable land, so the war began again, and the living remained, and the dead left the land. ”
"In our East, war is that the local area is not enough to cultivate, and if there is a small natural disaster, it will make the people of the world not have enough to eat, what should we do if we don't have enough to eat? It can only be led by some wise and ambitious people to wage war, and the dead will form another country and multiply until the next time the population grows again;
This is the survival instinct of the human race, this is the wisdom that God has given to all things in heaven and earth! ”
Then a sailor stepped forward: "Captain, is there no way not to go to war with your own people?" ”
The fat man smiled: "Yes! Now we're doing this, you see that little island we just discovered, it can live a thousand or more, maybe there's a bigger land on the other side of the sea! Aren't we sailing in the sea just to find a piece of land? That piece of land, maybe we've come from, maybe we've never been. ”
"Captain, what if the continent you find is inhabited in the first place?" Another sailor stood up and asked.
"Wouldn't it be nice to be inhabited? We can use the boat to transport what we have but the other party doesn't have, and exchange it for what the other party has but we don't have, and do business! The fat man said with a smile.
"But didn't you just say that war is the survival instinct of the human race?" The sailor still didn't understand.
"The instinct I mean is that it is the survival instinct of human beings to go to war if they can't survive, but you have found a new land, and the first thing you have to investigate is whether there is anyone on that land, of course, no one is better, but if there are people, it depends on whether there are many people, whether they can live peacefully, whether they can communicate with each other."
"If you can get what you want without going through war, then why bother shouting and killing, you say?" The fat man asked the sailor with a smile.
The sailor touched his head: "I don't know! ”
The sailors laughed, and the fat man also laughed: "Today is a story, everyone just laughs when they hear it, don't take it too seriously." ”
The sailors dispersed, and Caterina stayed with O'Neill and Arthur, and the fat man said to O'Neill, "When I get to Cape Storm, I'm going to build a city there, and how about you going to be governor?" ”
O'Neill immediately nodded and said okay, he has long dreamed of this day, although he knows that the money and materials needed to build the city are not a small amount, but this is not what he cares about, anyway, the city is fat, and it is not his, of course, it is the fat man who contributed the materials and he contributed.
Caterina waited for O'Neill to go out and asked the fat man, "You're in a bad mood today!" ”
"There's nothing wrong with Nina doing that, because she's a child, and there's nothing wrong with a child having innocence, and I'm using an adult's mind to erase her child's innocence, and that feels bad!" The fat man took the beer that Caterina had handed her.
Caterina herself poured a glass: "I don't think there's anything wrong, I used to hide under my father's wing, thinking that everything was so good, until one day my father went to sea and never came back, and everything in the family was taken away by outsiders, and then I knew the truth of the world." ”
She drained the beer in the cup in one gulp: "And now Nina, the same me when I was a child, is very cute and innocent, but if she grows up one day, she will always find the cruelty of this world, and she will not know until she is hurt, it is better for you to tell her now, after all, now you are her teacher." ”
Caterina returned to the ship, and her fiery figure was always so charming, which made a little fire burn in the fat man's heart.
On the fiftieth day after leaving Catalina, the fleet finally saw the land again, and from a distance, it was a very sudden protruding corner from the mainland, and the sea went straight east from north to south, and there was a mountain range at the top that was as flat as a table.
Feeling familiar, Katerina spread out the non-Indo-Indy coastal map that the fat man had later redrawn for her, and cheered loudly when she confirmed it: "This is Cape Storm!" ”
O'Neill had already arrived at the fat man's ship, and as soon as he saw the fat man, he shouted, "We are at the Cape of the Storm!" ”
Arthur was also excited, and asked people to send flags and ask if they could dock.
The fat man announced: "Anchor at the close point, send a boat, measure the depth of the water, investigate the reef, we are ready to go to land, O'Neill, you take the sailors to preside over the survey, you must choose a place where a large number of ships can be parked and build a port, because this is a supply point that must pass through the west to the east in the future, Arthur, you bring some sailors, bring weapons, bring bows and arrows and arquebuses, arquebuses must be brought, although it does not shoot as far as bows and arrows, but its sound is loud, in case you run into natives, it is good to scare them away, But I don't think there should be many people near the sea, but if you go further inland you will run into some black people, so you just have to be careful. ”
"Katarina, can you sort out the supplies on the ship and see how long we can live? I hope you'll sort it all out before I get back, no problem, right? ”
Katerina blinked: "There's a problem, where are you going?" Why not bring us with you? ”
The fat man took out the treasure map and said, "I'm going to dig for treasure, so do you want to go with you?" It's on that hill that looks like a table. ”