Chapter 2849: People Vs. Civilization
Development, development, development. The development that no one cared about before has also gained general recognition after the rich harvest. For a time, the underground city made plans to develop its own surface according to its own situation. Various systems that have existed in human beings since ancient times are flourishing and have come on stage.
However, this is just the beginning, because only when enough resources are accumulated can a new journey be started and unity can be achieved from division. With more resources, more brutal wars can be launched. The future may be a replica of the siege war in the Spring and Autumn Period.
The history of human wars began with the Battle of Muye, which was fought in the suburbs. Because everyone had no logistics, they fought close to the city, and the war was basically fought by slaves in front and nobles in the back. Later, slaves did not go to the battlefield, only nobles went to the battlefield, and the war became a sports meeting with many rules, which was fought within a day. After that, there was a siege war, which could be fought for several days. The military rations were made from local materials and eaten wheat outside the enemy city.
After that, there were sieges, and with equipment such as ladders, the battles became more fierce. The nobles were not enough as a source of soldiers, so there were Chinese soldiers. Wei Wuzu was the representative of Chinese soldiers, and this was the time when the Warring States Period came.
Chinese, in simple terms, are city dwellers who master various technologies and have more wealth, so they can arm themselves at their own expense, and the combat effectiveness of Wei Wuzu was unprecedentedly strong. However, the intensity of the war in the Warring States Period became stronger and stronger, and the Chinese soldiers were not enough. At the same time, the expenditure of the Chinese in fighting was much greater than the income, and it became a loss-making business, and the fighting enthusiasm was reduced.
Finally, the Qin State appeared, and the Qin Army, which was mainly composed of the Qin State Qianshou, also appeared. The so-called Qianshou is a general term for city dwellers, suburban residents, and country people. The Qin State used all people in the country as a source of soldiers, granted titles for military merits, and increased the number of soldiers. It was a very clever move to turn Chinese and wild people into Qianshou, which reduced their differences. The Manchus did the same thing two thousand years later, combining the raw Jurchens and the cooked Jurchens into the Manchus, which was also to enhance their strength.
The war also changed from suburban wars that could not be far away from the city, to siege wars, to siege wars, and finally to field wars, that is, fighting in the field far away from the supply line.
The situation of Wandering Earth is that suburban wars and siege wars are mainly considered. The logistics problem is basically to eat the enemy. If you have to deliver logistics yourself, it is better not to fight. As for siege wars, it is difficult because the underground city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is basically impossible to fight. For field battles, both sides need to have logistics, and the current situation is definitely impossible.
So no matter what happens, humans have always been constrained by the objective environment, and they have to think twice before doing a bad thing.
"So development is the hard truth. With development and resources, you can do good or bad things. No development? Without development, even robbery is tiring enough." Duran said that all the underground cities must reach a consensus now, that is, development.
In the next few years, the earth is relatively peaceful. Although there are some robbers, under the motivation of protecting the development results, everyone is determined to fight back, protect the harvest, and prevent the robbers from taking advantage.
The less you can take advantage, the more you want to rob, and the more you rob, the weaker you are. However, after the population decreases, the original resources can survive. When they recover a wave of blood, they will continue to rob. Because the robbers also know one thing, the underground city of farming cannot be united forever. When they fight internally, they can take advantage of the situation. The robber business is also expensive to persist. As long as the enemy has a flaw, it is the robber's opportunity. You don't have to develop yourself, just pick the fruits of others' development.
Will the underground city of farming development be chaotic? It will definitely be chaotic, because it is easy to conquer the world but difficult to rule the world. Reclamation is also conquering the world. You dig food from nature and share as much as you grow. What is shared is the interests of slaves and nature. But there is a limit to reclamation. Population, resources, management, etc. all limit the limit of reclamation. At this time, you have to rule the world. The test of ruling the world is the distribution of existing resources, that is, to share your own interests.
This is the same for robbers. Robbers rob the fruits of victory to conquer the world. If they grab the fruits and share them, everyone will be happy. But if they can't grab them, they need to distribute their own interests, so they need a set of rules. Basically, these rules are religion. Maintain the distribution relationship of lower resources through religion.
The traditional low resource distribution relationship in the Central Plains is heavy punishment in times of chaos. This is the distribution relationship proposed by Xunzi and perfected by the Legalists. Xunzi and his disciples proposed ideas on how to manage the chaotic times in the Warring States Period when resources were low. And Mencius's benevolence and righteousness, in Guanzi's words, is that when the granaries are full, people know etiquette, and when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace. When they are full, they can talk and trust each other. If they are not full, everyone is like the monkeys in Zhuangzi's mouth, who work four in the morning and three in the evening, and can only be managed by the Legalists.
Religion will give people the expectation of heaven, God, and savior to survive when resources are scarce.
Confucianism and Legalism also have a great society, an ideal society where everyone has clothes to wear and everyone has fields to plant, so in times of chaos, everyone will work hard with such a goal to inspire everyone to get out of suffering. Of course, if you don't believe it, there is also the Taoist thought to protect yourself, and you can also be a hermit, because the country is so big that you can't afford to offend but you can afford to hide.
So when the robbers cannot grab the fruits, they will bring up religion, because if the distribution method is decided by a robber, then everyone is a robber and no one will obey. But if the distribution method is decided by God, then everyone will have nothing to say. If God decides, then everyone must obey. If there is no God, then there will only be suspicion among the robbers.
As for the heavy law of the legalists in troubled times, it means that everyone works hard for the great world of harmony, and whoever violates the great world of harmony is the enemy. Since ancient times, whenever there is a change of dynasty, the rebels will put forward this goal, and they all take reducing taxes and reducing corvée as the governing program. No one says that a dynasty can be established by relying on crazy exploitation.
In short, the underground city has undergone a distinct change in a short period of time, and the culture of four hundred years ago has all returned. Xiao Wang also exclaimed after seeing it: "The so-called culture is actually the core of the distribution method that everyone generally agrees on. The previous braking and escape era was simply abnormal, but now is the right track of returning to history?" He had to suspect that the previous four hundred years were humans forced to unite in order to avoid doomsday, and now each civilization has revealed its true face.
In the long wandering, each civilization has its own optimal distribution method, and it is impossible to accept other distribution methods. Because their own distribution method has existed for thousands of years, if they give up and join other distribution methods, won't they have to start all over again? That is definitely not possible, they must maintain their own distribution method and give priority to themselves. If others want to join, they can, but they have to start from the beginning, or they can bring money into the group directly, and they can be given a status.
Religion, caste, and traditional culture all emerged together. Xiao Wang was desperate. How could one person fight against the entire civilization on Earth? Facing the earthlings who were returning to their old ways, Xiao Wang didn't know what to do for a while. He really couldn't lead them.
At this time, Luo Ji of the Three-Body Universe would definitely give a thumbs up, because Xiao Wang's current situation was the same as when Luo Ji handed over his identity as the Sword Bearer. They were all a mess, and they couldn't lead the earthlings. However, Luo Ji understood the earthlings. They just wanted to change their minds. It was because humans simply couldn't formulate a distribution relationship that included everyone and inspired everyone to forge ahead. Human wisdom is limited.
However, Xiao Wang was luckier than Luo Ji, because Xiao Wang didn't have a Trisolaran on his side, and Luo Ji still had a Trisolaran on his side, eyeing them covetously.