Chapter 2475 Two Enemies
Although the children in Tulan's classroom are generally only seven or eight years old, they are already old enough to do child labor. The current situation is turbulent and precarious, and life is very difficult for everyone.
It's not just humans who think this world is bad, even gods admit that this world is bad. Otherwise, God wouldn't have thrown Tanya here. He just wanted to make her despair, be defeated by reality, and force her to believe in gods.
The orphanage where Tanya is located is already full. There are at least nearly a hundred orphans living there. These orphans are not said to have any congenital diseases. They are all abandoned after their parents died or their parents could not afford to support them.
The empire is on the verge of collapse, so populism is rampant, and calls for foreign war are getting louder and louder than ever.
In this environment, parents send their children to school just in the hope that their children will learn the most basic writing skills, and then they can send their children to factories to work as child labor, reducing the burden on the family.
But some children like to study very much and get good grades, but their parents are determined not to allow them to study anymore, and even go to school to arrest them.
At this moment, Dulan was in front of a group of adults with disheveled faces who were taking their children home, while a boy in the classroom was crying and wanted to study.
"Go away, it's useless to read so many books. It's enough to be able to write a few words. I want to send my son to a factory in the city so that he won't waste food." A seven-year-old child I have to work in a factory, which is outrageous.
Tanya stood in the corner. In fact, she could no longer study because the church was almost out of food and could not afford to feed so many orphans. By then, these orphans will probably have to work in factories as child labor, and their teacher Dulan won't be able to stop them.
"Sir, I don't agree with what you say. Why is it useless to study too much?"
The parent said loudly: "I also studied in a missionary school before. It not only taught literature, mathematics, but also a foreign language. But look at me, I can't even eat. In daily life, there is no mathematics except addition, subtraction, multiplication and division." I have already forgotten all the foreign languages, so what’s the use of learning them? It’s better to start working in the factory as soon as possible.”
"That's what I said, then if I give you one million, it's useless to you. Anyway, you just buy bread to eat, and you won't be able to eat all one million in your life. Is it useless to have so much money?" Dulan said knowledge It's money.
The man was unhappy and said humbly: "Give me money, of course I will be useful. In addition to eating bread, I can also buy other things."
"Look, isn't this the end of it? If you can't use the knowledge you learned, it's not that the knowledge is useless, but that your realm is low and your environment is poor. How can you say that knowledge is useless? Just like money, If you only eat bread, you won't be able to spend a million, but you will definitely not only eat bread, but also buy a house, land, and a car. One million is not enough to spend your own money. If you improve little by little, then your point that money is useful but knowledge is useless is untenable. You can’t use knowledge because your realm is not good enough. Since Pu De likes to learn, let him continue to learn." Lan said.
Puder's father definitely couldn't speak to Duran, but a polite man behind him said: "I am a recruiter in a factory, and you are a very eloquent teacher." "God teaches us that seeking knowledge is the key to success. In the trap of death, the best virtue is to remain reverent and ask fewer questions. What this country needs now is more workers and more soldiers, not more scholars. Scholars cannot help us solve problems, they will only help us solve them. Create problems.”
This is not only the teaching of God, but also the current policy of the empire, which emphasizes industrial and military development, ignores people's livelihood such as education, and conducts populist rule. The main problem is that the economic structure has been completely deformed and a large number of heavy industrial products have been produced that cannot be sold. As a result, the country is out of money. Without money, it can only reduce funding for people's livelihood. Part of the remaining money is to maintain industry and part is to find industrial products. market.
And if you want to sell, the best way is to sell it. In this way, there will be sales and the industrial system will be maintained. The economy of the empire is such a situation, so it does not promote learning, only work, because the innovation of scholars is too costly and must be suppressed. A worker or a soldier creates value immediately, so it must be promoted.
Therefore, the factory's human resources officers confidently promoted anti-intellectual propaganda.
god? Tanya sneered, it was just existence, not a true god at all.
Bang, just when she was despising the gods in her heart, she heard a big ear-scratching sound.
Dulan took action and slapped the other man on the face, making the gentle man's face swollen.
The gentle man was stunned, then covered his face and yelled angrily: "Why did you hit me?"
"Pursuing knowledge is a trap of death. Don't ask me why I beat you. Everyone who understands will understand. I won't say much about what I don't understand. Don't ask. This involves the church of the gods and the movement of fate. It won't be right for you if I tell you. The advantage, the detailed situation is like this, in short, you can understand it." Dulan's series of divine remarks made the other party confused, as if this slap really contained a mysterious and profound destiny, rather than a simple slap. . If I continue to ask questions and it seems that I am ignorant, doesn't it mean that my level is not as good as that of a rural teacher?
Tanya's eyes widened, and she realized for the first time that she had underestimated this Dulan. It seemed that he was more courageous than she thought, and was not just a cynical guy.
But Tanya knew that this was the way of the world, and Duran couldn't change anything. Even if he could keep Pude today, what about later? There were already fewer children in this classroom than at the beginning. The children who disappeared were sent to the factory by their parents. This was the rule, and everyone had to abide by it.
Tanya was such a person before she crossed over. Rules were rules, and she was just a screw to enforce the rules. In this respect, she was indeed very suitable for the army. No matter why, no matter how unreasonable the military order was, she would not refuse, because this was the rule, and she just had to abide by the rule.
So although Duran was eloquent and kind, Tanya knew that he was just doing useless work. Duran, a rural teacher, could not change anything at all.
"Of course I understand, my faith is the most sincere." The beaten gentleman muttered, and he dared not contradict Duran again.
"It seems that you all agree to let Pude stay, so let him continue to teach."
Seeing that Duran was not easy to deal with, the parents nodded, thinking that when their son came home, they would catch him and send him to the factory, and now they would go back first.
After the people left, Tanya knew that Pude would not come to class tomorrow: "Teacher, Pude will not come tomorrow."
Duran looked at this unique little girl and knew that there was a 30-year-old uncle in her body, a guy who only followed the rules.
"Yes, I know that too, but you can't follow their rules. When you play games with others using the other party's rules, then you can't win. So the first thing to do in unfair competition is to break the rules, and then miracles will happen. I have broken the rules now, and the rest depends on God's will." Duran said meaningfully.
Tanya was stunned. She thought of her struggle with God. She seemed to be in God's rules, or she herself put herself into the rules. After all, she likes to use rules to enforce rules. But she forgot that the rules between her and God were unfair. God's rules were naturally in God's favor. In such a set of rules, she could never defeat God.
So from the beginning, Tanya had been in an unbeatable position, and God was in an unbeatable position. With unbeatable against unbeatable, the best result was a draw. If you want to win, you have to break away from the rules of God and establish your own rules. However, for Tanya, a time traveler who obeys the rules, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky. It can be said that existence x is Tanya's external enemy, and following the rules is Tanya's internal enemy.
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