"Looks like there are a lot of good seedlings among these recruits!"

After completing the first round of 100-meter target squatting shooting training, the officers at the range quickly counted the shooting results of the 131st platoon, most of which were zero rings.

However, Xia Lin couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw that there were seven people above him who had completed the upper ring in the first round of shooting training, and even three people who had reached more than sixty rings, and then instructed Darius beside him:

"Logistics Officer Darius, you have you make a separate list of the names of these soldiers who have a talent for shooting, maybe we will be of some use in the future!"

"Yes! Deputy Head Xia Lin!"

Darius and Xia Lin worked in the canteen not far from the playground, and in order to supply enough materials for the new army to carry out training, the logistics department had to use the thirty literate and hyphenated personnel transferred by the alliance from various places to carry out overtime material allocation.

And Xia Lin is not here to help, he is just using the space of the canteen to write some articles that he needs for the evening.

In his previous life, as a science student, he had only dabbled in this aspect in a superficial way, and had not actually read many relevant works, so he had to rely on his own accumulation and ideas to perfect this set of theories for the ideological education of the New Army.

First of all, in the article "On God-endowed Human Rights and Innate Human Rights", Xia Lin used a dipping pen to quickly write a paragraph:

"In ancient mythology, the supreme god Anya created the world, and created the first human Yin Ya and his race, giving Yin Ya the power and name of the ruling race, which is the origin of the earliest "king" in recorded mythology......

Next, through the myth of the divine endowment of human rights, Xia Lin extended to the era of the establishment of the Yin Ya Sect and the subsequent disappearance of the gods, which was around 1,200 years ago, in the epic of the earliest human king Yin Ya, it is said that human beings lost the guidance of the gods.

It was at that time that the kingdom of Yin Yajiao began to be divided into six northern states, and it was also in that era that the legend of the Sun King Albis began to be written.

According to the commentary of the scholar Ferran Ide in The Epic of the Sun King, Albis's father was a member of the royal family of the Yin Ya Sect, and he did not think that the loss of the oracle was proof that he had been abandoned by the gods, but that it was the gods who believed that humans could develop and survive on their own, just as children were about to leave the house when they grew up, so they stopped teaching humans.

This argument has been strongly resisted by the Church of the Church, because if this is the case, then isn't their church just "unwanted"? To this end, the Church also established the now notorious Inquisition and brutally persecuted those who held such ideas.

So Albis's father, his men, and the church members who shared his theory of "God-endowed human rights" crossed the ocean and traveled along the Seine River in a large ship called "Endes", where they settled in Hurgana, the capital of the Sassen Empire.

What happened during this period is unknown, but Hurgana, which was originally about the size of an ordinary knight's estate, eventually grew into the kingdom of Sassen, and later into a vast empire thanks to the efforts of successive kings.

However, in the Yin Ya Sect, their beliefs have changed, from the former supreme god Anya to the current Lord of Evil Light, El Noah.

Xia Lin was not particularly interested in the information revealed in the notes of the scholars of Ferran Eddarde, after all, these things were basically unsupported by historical sources, and they seemed to be a far-fetched proof of the legitimacy of the Sassen Empire, forcibly pulling the Akhlica royal family to the status of the former royal family of the Yin Yajiao Kingdom, so as to obtain the legitimate crusade against the six northern kingdoms.

It's just that he didn't find much of a problem with the logic of this, and if that's the case, it can also explain why the Templar Church in the Sassen Empire is so low-key, because they are a sect that upholds the idea of God-endowed human rights, and naturally they don't interfere too much in worldly affairs.

And Xia Lin's article "On God-endowed Human Rights and Innate Human Rights" is naturally further extended from the idea of God-endowed human rights, and obtains that human beings, who are also created by gods, are in God

Ming has come to the conclusion that human beings have equal rights to life, freedom, happiness, and property without her guidance.

Although it is a bit awkward for Xia Lin to tout in this article that he does not know whether a god exists or not, in this world, it is an indispensable theoretical basis.

It is from this conclusion that the next step is to explore why the slum dwellers, who have these natural rights, have fallen into such a miserable situation, which leads to the second article that Xia Lin will write, "The Relationship between the State and the People", which is derived from the "Social Contract Theory".

"The state is a political entity organized by natural human beings who enjoy natural rights to survive and defend themselves against external disasters, and in order to form this entity, natural human beings have renounced some of their natural rights.

Therefore, the state is born with the power to levy taxes, levy soldiers, and partially interfere with the freedom of its citizens, but when this power is exercised, it will inevitably lead to the birth of groups......

「…… In the end, the state loses its natural justice and becomes an instrument of the domination of certain groups.

For example, the people in the slums should have been peasants who owned land, ordinary small citizens engaged in handicrafts and commerce, but with the passage of time, most of the profits generated by their labor were deprived by traditional merchant guilds, usury merchants, landed aristocrats, gray organizations, etc., and were oppressed by these groups, and turned into a lower level of poverty."

Xia Lin first described the process of the formation of slums, and then added a sentence:

"After that, these poor people will slowly drown like animals in the mire, and only a few will be lucky enough to get out of the slum and return to their original places."

As far as Charling knows, the slums of Hurgana come from a complex range of sources, but they are broadly divided into three categories.

The first is the peasants who lost their land in the land annexation of the empire, the second is the small citizens who have changed from the original middle-class families to the poor due to some unexpected disasters, and the third is some outsiders who came to the imperial capital from other cities and villages, but there is no way to put down roots.

All three groups of people have a common trait, that is, they have been greatly oppressed before they come to the slums to find a way to survive.

The free peasants, who originally owned their own land, had no choice but to sell their hard work at a low price due to the joint efforts of various traditional guilds and the persecution of the surrounding noble lords during the harvest year, and even if it was a good harvest, they could not get much income.

In a disaster year, they did not have enough savings after the disaster, and their ability to resist risks was poor, so they had to borrow rations and even seeds for the next year from the surrounding lords.

However, the private loans of the Sassen Empire were completely unregulated by institutions at all levels, and often determined that those who went to usury were conscientious lords, so in the process, the peasants who had the slightest dissatisfaction had to get their own land, and eventually fell from free farmers to tenant farmers.

If they went any further, they could become serfs of their lords, so these peasants would leave their hometowns and come to the prosperous imperial capital in search of a living space.

The small citizens who already live in the city are more resilient to the risks, but they are also unable to pay for some unexpected big things.

For example, if a family member is sick or injured, the workshop goes bankrupt, they need to find a new job, the expenses caused by the marriage of their children, etc., then they have to find acquaintances to borrow money, and if it is not enough, they must find a loan shark.

Once they embark on this road of no return, in the end, they will become a member of the slum that they usually look down on.

And life in the slums is definitely not as good as they think.

The wharf contractors who carry all kinds of heavy goods from morning to night are only paid about 20 copper pess a day, and the female textile workers who spin yarn are only a pitiful few copper pess a day, but it is obvious that the amount of labor they pay is definitely more than this price.

Among them, there is the reason why the merchant group colludes with the gray organization to suppress wages and extract profits from them.

And then if there is any disease or something, a pauper

As a result, ordinary families in the caves will be separated and disintegrated into the slums.

In his article, Charin describes this process in detail in order to make the people of the slums understand that they are not born poor, but have been reduced to this place by various oppressive factors.

The most crucial spearhead was naturally aimed at the traditional manor aristocracy that led to the emergence of the largest group of landless peasants in the slums.