No. 577 Wen Tian Wu Huan (2)

Since the defeat of the Ocean Alliance, the situation around the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance has rapidly improved.

The Air Force gave early warning of pirate intrusion, nuclear weapons cleared the nest, and the remnants of the defeated soldiers such as Wang Meng and He Wuji who retreated to the island also became the problem of scabies.

That's a good thing, but it's not always a good thing.

If you enter, you will not be able to go home, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will die. After more than 70 years of peaceful development, the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance has gradually become a little bit of a scholar and martial artistic, and the officials and ordinary people are becoming more and more impetuous.

In particular, the group of immortals is expanding rapidly.

In the 21st century in the real world, there are often protagonists or supporting roles in film and television dramas who are distressed about longevity, and they feel that immortality is not as good as a chic life. Although this has a bit of a "golden flat dan of the emperor's family", it also indirectly reflects that many people in the world are not psychologically prepared to welcome the era of immortality.

Even, the major religions do not have mature thinking about the age of immortality.

In the West, human immortality is a curse, synonymous with demons. While fearing eternal life, they envy it and paradoxically proclaim that those who believe in God will have eternal life and will enter heaven after the end judgment. Eternal life in heaven is a good thing, but how to live after eternal life? What is the social structure of heaven and how does it work? Religion perfectly circumvents these key issues, offering subjectively emotionally rich words such as "happiness" and then concentrating the horrific punishments of the world on hell to punish unbelievers.

In one word, it is virtual.

In the East, immortality seems to be a positive word. For example, Taoism integrates the immortal culture derived from Buddhism, or encounters true immortals, or merits and good retribution, or hard cultivation, you will have the opportunity to enjoy immortality. But what about the life after immortality, the world's imagination of them is either to hide in the famous mountains and rivers and idle clouds and wild cranes, or to serve the heavenly court that is a copy of the human court, or to walk the world to promote goodness. What kind of immortality is such longevity? In addition to being an official and a hero, is he hiding in the deep mountains and old forests like a hermit?

In one word, it is floating.

Religion comes from believers, and the ultimate of religion is the ultimate of believers.

Religious delusions cannot solve the practical problems encountered by the immortal nation. Religion cannot construct a perfect and credible kingdom of immortality because the believers are a group of short-lived ghosts. At the same time, whether it is a disaster-free paradise or an ethereal fairy, it is a potential pursuit hidden in the hearts of the world. When their dreams come true, they unconsciously begin to practice exploring yesterday's dreams. The idle clouds and wild cranes are called immortals, and the chivalrous and righteous are called heroes, and the pursuit of immortals is nothing more than that.

Ever since the Immortals realized that they could live forever, negative thoughts of the dregs of Xianxia began to flood.

Celebrities such as Zhou Yu and Lu Meng are no exception.

Speaking of Zhou Yu, after witnessing Sun Ce's death, Zhou Yu's Wang Zuo's mind began to extinguish little by little, and he would rather hide in the south of Dabie Mountain to cultivate and study heirlooms than be loyal to Sun Quan. When Sima Jinguo annexed Sun Wu, Zhou Yu accepted Sima Shi's solicitation, and only did his job in his position. High-ranking officials are like floating clouds to me, which is probably what Zhou Yu thought at that time.

Lu Meng followed Sun Quan to run around for many years, and he was tired of running. After bidding farewell to Sun Quan, Lu Meng also lived a life of idle clouds and wild cranes, watching Sima Jin, Liu Song, Xiao Qi, Xiao Liang and other city heads change the king's banner.

It is his freedom to pursue the idle clouds and wild cranes personally.

But if the entire class pursues idle clouds and wild cranes, who will promote social progress?

What hope is there for the future?

The first batch of immortals, such as Liu Bei, Sun Quan, Sima Yi and other heroes, most of them have ambitions that ordinary people can't reach. Liu Bei will not be empty because of immortality, immortality prolongs his life and also prolongs his ambitions, from the Zhao Kingdom of Qi Hu to the Qiu Chi of Di Yang, and then to the Han Kingdom of Liu Bei, Liu Bei tried his best to catch up with the trend of the times. Sun Quan will not be empty because of immortality, and he will do everything possible to re-establish the state of Wu in the south of Jiaozhi. Another example is Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, Lu Meng and other famous ministers, although they passively chose to follow the trend, they can always complete their work with due diligence.

Because the Mandate of Heaven seed system favors historical places, it indirectly improves the overall quality of immortals.

Unfortunately, not all immortals are dutifully able to move forward forever. Although there are all kinds of shortcomings in the ruling class and the ruled class, we have to admit that many of the ruled class are actively or passively filled with insensitivity and take for granted a life that can be lived. When the scale of the immortals swelled rapidly to 101,000, the average quality of the group of immortals continued to decline, and the overall pursuit became more and more decadent.

In 626, for example, the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance had a total population of 673 million, of which about 7.68 million were immortals. Because the improvement of the medical environment in recent years has induced the rapid growth of the population of non-immortals, the total number of immortals has doubled in the past 20 years, and the proportion is still 1.14%. Considering the Gate as a whole, the Immortals are one percent at the top of the food chain.

Regardless of whether Wei Dongsheng admitted it or not, one percent of the Immortals actually controlled the future direction of the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance.

In terms of power, the group of immortals monopolized the state power and economic, military, and industrial sectors of the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance. What makes Wei Dongsheng most depressed is that most of these monopolies are legal monopolies. The immortals did not take shortcuts, nor did they coerce and induce, they relied purely on their own talents to reach the pinnacle of life.

As an immortal, their wisdom is strengthened by the immortal seed system, and it is very efficient to learn one day better than ten days for non-immortals. Wei Dongsheng once tried to promote the method of mind control among the non-immortals to bridge the gap between the non-immortals and the immortals. As a result, Wei Dongsheng was depressed and found that the immortals seemed to be more comfortable with mind control, and the distance between the immortals and the non-immortals was farther away. The immortals are efficient, and the non-immortals have a long lifespan that the non-immortals do not have, how can the non-immortals win against the immortals?

As long as they are willing to study hard, every immortal is an elite in the true sense of the word.

The reason why the Immortals have succeeded in monopolizing various industries is because their abilities and wisdom are several times better than those of the vast majority of non-Immortals. Take Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang and others as examples, they themselves are very smart, if they have the right attitude and continue to learn after the trend of the times for hundreds of years, they should understand how terrifying this is.

In terms of wealth, the gap between the rich and the poor between the group of immortals and the group of non-immortals is also serious to the point where the real world cannot imagine. For example, the monopoly of power and wealth cannot be attributed to moral problems such as corruption. The Immortal has talent and time, and as long as he is willing to make money with his heart, he can always use hundreds of years to accumulate wealth that is beyond the reach of the Immortal.

A small number of capable elite immortals, combined with a group of elite immortals, are the social structure of the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance's group of immortals.

Anti-corruption will not solve the problem.

The elite immortal relies on his ability to stand in a high position, and as long as he makes reasonable use of the rules, he can legally arrange a way out for his children and grandchildren. For example, the state prohibits officials from engaging in business within three generations, and elite immortal officials can arrange for the fourth or even tenth generation of direct descendants to set up enterprises; If it is so strict that it prohibits the descendants of officials' blood relatives from engaging in business, this policy becomes unenforceable.

Taking Zhou Yu as an example, the Zhou family has been passed down to the fifteenth generation, and its sixteenth grandson has begun to be active in the political and economic field of the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance. For a full fifteen generations, how many clansmen have the Zhou family bred from generation to generation? Zhou Yu personally suppressed the luck of the Zhou clan, and if there were descendants who were extremely smart, he would definitely find a way to find opportunities for them to advance to the immortals. With Zhou Yu as the clan leader and the fifteenth generation of Zhou elites as the skeleton, even if the Zhou family responds to Wei Dongsheng's request to no longer pay attention to clan culture, they are also behemoths that cannot be ignored.

Zhou Yu is by no means an exception, this is a common phenomenon among immortals.

One person attains the Tao, the chicken dog ascends to heaven, and the early immortals always unconsciously cultivate a top-level clan. If the descendants of the blood relatives of officials were strictly forbidden to engage in business, all the early immortals, including Lu Xun, would have to be invited out of the team, and the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance would instantly fall into a situation where no one was available. And if the control of bloodline descendants is relaxed, these super clans can always inadvertently weave a large network of connections.

Let's take Zhou Yu Zhou as an example.

Li Yuan was ordered to Tang State, Li Shimin's heir to the throne, and soon the fifteenth grandson of Zhou Yu married Li Shimin's daughter. The marriage between Zhou Yu's fifteenth grandson and Li Shimin has nothing to do with Zhou Yu at all. Because Li Shimin is not noble at all as a collaborator of the Absolute Holy Gate, whether it is Li Shimin's grandfather Li Hu or Li Hu's self-proclaimed descendants of Li Hui, they are not worthy of the attention of the top families who inherit the fourteenth and fifth generations. Zhou Yu was almost the first batch of immortals in this world, and from the end of the Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was no need for him to curry favor with the nouveau riche Li family.

The marriage between the Zhou family and the Li family was completely the selfish selfishness of Zhou Yu's fourteenth grandson. This is the fourteenth grandson of Zhou Yu, in order to improve his political status within the Zhou clan, he guided his son to marry his wife Li Shimin's daughter in the name of free love. If Wei Dongsheng tabooed them because of the marriage between Zhou Yu's fifteenth grandson and Li Shimin, it would not only be useless for the Holy Gate to solve the clan's chronic diseases, but also make Zhou Yu bear the injustice for his descendants.

Over the past 400 years, the Immortals have been living for more than 400 years, and the Immortals have built an intricate relationship that even the parties cannot explain through blood inheritance and marriage from generation to generation. In the face of the immortal culture derived from the group of immortals, many political means in the present world have become ornaments.

And as the absolute number of immortals grew, the upper echelons of the Absolute Holy Gate Alliance moved towards solidification uncontrollably.

As mentioned earlier, the concept of rich and poor is actually a matter of proportion, and there are poor people who have rich people. Whether it is feudalism, capitalism, or communism, there are always a few leading positions. Unless the country has just been established, these posts are always a turnip and a pit.

In the real world, mortals will die, and no matter how dictatorial he is, he will turn into a piece of loess when the time comes. In the country of immortality, the immortal is immortal, he will not retire if he occupies the post, and the latecomer will never want to climb up. Once an immortal country falls into class solidification, it is ten times more than a hundred times more serious than the country with the most serious class solidification in the real world.