At this moment [Wang Weiguo] suddenly stood up and then saluted respectfully.
Then he asked a question.
He said: "Ancestor Rongzhen, in this case, population is the foundation of everything."
"In other words, the more people there are, the more luck we will have, right?"
"Yes, that's right, that's it." The Holy Land Ancestor looked at him kindly.
It's like looking at your own good grandson.
Especially the good grandson who has castrated himself and does not have to take care of his ignorant son in the future, which makes him even happier...
"If that's the case, then why don't both civil servants and practitioners like us focus on developing technologies that can greatly increase food production and increase population."
"Why not vigorously build water conservancy projects?"
"Why don't we vigorously improve improved seeds and land cultivation, but instead regard it as a lowly industry? At most, it is regarded as very important for the construction of water conservancy projects."
"But they don't think that's that good. On the contrary, high-ranking officials in the Imperial Academy are what they pursue?"
The Holy Land Ancestor smiled and said: "Haha, good disciple, how do you know they didn't do this?"
"They are also building various dam projects every year, and they are also arranging edicts to ensure smooth weather."
"But," [Wang Weiguo] shook his head, "They can obviously do better."
"Now they can have ten points of strength, but they only exert one point."
"That is to say, they will only build some water conservancy projects and engage in water control."
"They develop some agricultural tools and guide agricultural production, but they are not really eager to take the people's affairs as their own."
"This can be seen from the fact that they treat those craftsmen as untouchables."
"They divided the people of the world into scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, and craftsmen were never valued and were only shouted around."
"Every time there is a major construction project, many craftsmen are killed or injured without any care."
"Just like what the apprentice saw in the royal inner court, there are more than a hundred excellent agricultural tools and more than ten excellent varieties, but no one promotes them, or even if they are promoted temporarily, they are only used in small quantities."
"And those craftsmen are being cruelly exploited. They are often asked to repair their own mansions, and they are not given any money, only some food, or even worse, no food is given, and they are just used as labor servants..."
"So much so that the craftsmen fled one after another, even to the barbarian tribes. Instead, the barbarians valued the craftsmen, making them their masters, marrying them, and granting them official positions..."
He was actually talking about the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The failure of the Ming Dynasty was largely due to a complete fester.
Treating craftsmen low and withholding food is the same as making cannons. If you were in the Ming Dynasty, you would have to withhold funds and let you pay for it yourself. But if you escape to the Qing Dynasty, you can become a master and give land and official positions to your slaves.
In the Ming Dynasty, you, a craftsman with no fame, want to be an official?
You have to be cunning enough and have enough money.
It is impossible to become an official relying on technology.
This is why the Ming Dynasty’s firearms should obviously be stronger than those of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, but in actual combat, it was the Manchu and Qing Dynasties that used cannons to destroy the Ming Dynasty’s lineup...
There were few times when the Ming Dynasty's muskets and artillery played a key role.
Hear what [Wang Weiguo] said.
The Holy Land Ancestor was silent.
Then he said: "Actually, I understand what you mean."
"What you mean is that everything must be people-centered, and everything must be aimed at increasing the number of ordinary people. Is that what you mean?"
At this time [Wang Weiguo] said, "Well, that's what I mean, ancestor, ancestor is wise."
"Okay, you don't need to flatter me. In fact, they discussed your issue earlier, and some people also conducted deductions later."
"Then why is it like this and what's going on?" [Wang Weiguo] asked again in confusion.
"Do you know that if we do things according to your method, we will put the people as the center and try to increase the output of the people as much as possible." The ancestor of the Holy Land said slowly,
"What you call using techniques to increase the number of people."
"For example, the skills of farming, and the skills of water control, such as vigorously improving the status of craftsmen, such as increasing the creative enthusiasm of craftsmen..."
"What will happen in the end?"
The Holy Land Patriarch looked at the disciples.
Some of the disciples are confused.
Someone was stunned.
[Wang Weiguo] falls into the category of being half-awakened.
The Holy Land Ancestor smiled slightly and was very pleased.
"There will be a situation where the people don't need and don't rely on us cultivators."
"do you know?"
"When the common people have their own skills and the ability to survive, they no longer need to rely on us cultivators." The ancestor of the Holy Land repeated it again.
At first [Wang Weiguo] actually didn't fully understand what it meant. After listening carefully, he suddenly understood what this ancestor meant.
It suddenly dawned on me.
The ancestor smiled slightly: "You understand what I mean, right?"
"I understand." [Wang Weiguo] felt very sad.
Just like in modern society, all ordinary people are fat and fat.
Who needs some god to help him eat enough?
Who needs some fairy to help them live their lives?
Do you need any more emperor?
They are not needed.
You only need science, you only need normal business rules, as long as you don’t mess around, you don’t mess around with yourself, and you just need to follow normal education and normal technological development.
For the first time, the people were safe and well fed and clothed without any worries.
When people pray to gods and Buddhas, they mostly pray for peace of mind and for illnesses that they cannot cure.
Then it is to seek eternal life.
But here comes the problem.
Will immortals grant immortality to ordinary people?
It's impossible, they themselves still need luck to cultivate and live forever.
Who would use their luck to seek immortality for ordinary people?
In this case, that is to say, once the agricultural society, the feudal society rapidly advances, the industrial society enters the scientific and technological era, the population can of course increase rapidly.
The increase from a mere 5.6 billion people to over a billion people is actually only a threefold increase.
For example, in the original agricultural society, there were 450 million people, but in the industrial society, there were 1.4 billion people.
That's more than tripled the number.
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No one can stop it.
This is what [Wang Weiguo] saw with his own eyes.
No matter how good the measures are, they are useless.
Because the cost of labor training in the industrial era is too high, mainly time cost.
And no matter how much preferential treatment the forces give ordinary people, they cannot give you the precious resource of time.
For industrial people, time is the most precious.
The population has tripled, and luck has tripled.
But the people's dependence on the gods has dropped to one percent of its original value.
In the old feudal society, it was clearly stated that divine power belonged to one of the three mountains.
But in an industrial society, who else can the divine power suppress?
No one can suppress it.
In fact, everyone just wants to worship God, and more for psychological comfort.
This is different from now.
Nowadays, no ordinary people are allowed to go to temples to burn incense and pray to gods and immortals.
Otherwise, the gods will not remember those who pray every day, but they will remember those who do not pray every day...
There are less of the latter, so it is easier to remember.
It is also easy to punish.
The gods only give occasional rewards to the most pious.
But for those who never worship, there is punishment.
So there is no need for rewards, as long as there are no punishments, the people will have no choice but to worship immortals.
Those pious prayers all existed in the agricultural and feudal eras.
If these practitioners help the people, they will enter the industrial society.
They definitely don’t sincerely worship Buddha and seek immortality.
Human beings are such real lives.
No matter how great the favor is.
As long as you are no longer useful, there is no question of abandoning you.
You won’t abandon it in a few days, but you won’t abandon it in a few years?
If you don't abandon me for a few years, will generations of people still be so respectful to you, a useless person?
Even among the devout believers in modern times, how many actually donate all their wealth to gods?
But at this moment, many people have really given their wealth to the gods.
Then just be a housekeeper.
This has the advantage of avoiding the oppression of feudal imperial power and gentry power.
At least the gods don't care about the land, they care about the incense.
If you can have more children, God will protect you and you can still do it.
This is mutual restraint and mutual checks and balances.
Therefore, if we reach modern society, these fortunes, a large amount of fortunes, will not be easily harvested by this cultivator.
Nor will it be deprived of you in vain.
This is why they don't do their best to help people enter the industrial age and the technological age.
In fact, with the experience and vision of these practitioners, they can definitely find the opportunity.
In fact, it’s just that pass.
Because of insufficient demand, because it is introverted and closed-minded, and because there is not enough outward-looking economy, Daqian has always been a feudal society and cannot leap into an industrial country.
He understood it completely.
【Wang Weiguo】Sigh.
There is a benign and parasitic relationship between practitioners and the people.
In other words, this parasite is a cultivator.
They are very interesting.
Unlike roundworms, they only burrow randomly and don't know that they will die if their host dies.
Practitioners know this.
They will not let the host die, but will also help the host clean up the three highs. At the same time, they will not let the host be too wise or too powerful.
If it is too powerful, the host will find that it does not gain weight no matter how much it eats, so it will take some insecticides to kill them and the bugs.
Yes, the seemingly superior immortals, gods, and Buddhas are actually insects!
They are real insects and nothing else.
But at this moment, Wen Rensheng's alien species suddenly became turbulent.
I was overjoyed to hear this.
Yes, the chess pieces are useful.
It seems that I have really found an opportunity to enhance the mystery.
Sure enough, we still need to cast a wide net.
And you can’t just go down by yourself.
As soon as you get out, those guys will shrink down and won't reveal the real secret.
[Wang Weiguo] After he understood it, he was ready to sit down.
But suddenly, another classmate with a folding fan and a temperament very similar to Wolong said
"If that's the case, then we can develop more magic and magic..."
"For example, using those cultivation techniques to make precipitation arrangements for the common people."
“Regular precipitation increases yield and prevents drought and flood disasters.”
"Another example is being able to check good and evil, or being able to detect whether someone is saying bad things behind your back?"
"As these immortal arts develop, won't they become more dependent on us," the Wolong classmate said confidently.
[Wang Weiguo] I have nothing to say.
This classmate is not one of those simple cultivators.
He wanted to simply develop the art of miracles.
Therefore, [Wang Weiguo] at this time just nodded and praised this classmate.
The Holy Land Ancestor said happily: "Well, that's right, boy, your idea is very good."
"This is exactly what our Xianju lineage wants to do."
“It’s just that there are too many types of developments.”
"Basically, this is done by some old people who don't see a miraculous future in cultivation."
"And they have also developed a lot of magic before. They are all used to save the world."
Thinking of this, [Wang Weiguo] said again: "In this case, it's just the same sentence, entangled interests."
"Yes, this involves competition with the interests of those civil servants."
"Most of them follow the divine way and luck."
"Cultivation of one's luck will make one become a god and combine it into a divine way."
"It means rebirth after death, and the Yin spirit responds to the incense and worships with inspiration and becomes a god."
"We are following the immortal path, which is to cultivate ourselves during our lifetime."
"They practice after death. One is before life and the other is after death."
[Wang Weiguo] nodded again.
It opened his eyes.
"It turns out that these civil servants are not afraid of death. They insist on seeking fame because they want to be famous after death. If they are famous, they will have incense and become gods."
"And those ordinary people working hard to have babies are exactly what the family needs to reproduce, and it is the ancestor's request."
[Wang Weiguo] was completely stunned.
"Mozhong, so these immortal cultivation technologies we have developed cannot be used."
"On the contrary, we have to use these magical skills to attract people to the lake and just make do with growth."
"Water conservancy is just okay. No major or minor problems will occur."
Everyone was silent.
Everyone has become invisible.
Because this is totally rebellious.
There are some things you can say but not do.
It's just stupid to say that.
The current [Wang Weiguo] is such a fool.
"That's right," the ancestor of the Holy Land praised him instead, "no matter the civil servants or the immortal family, they will find ways to regard these spells as their own, so the two sides compete with each other."
"In this era, the civil servants like to draw the ground as a prison, tightly control the people in their own area, and let the land worship incense for them."
"But the immortals hope that all the people can give me luck and let the luck flow automatically."
"Let us divide it ourselves, and then absorb and practice it."
"So the Yin gods and immortals are always in this kind of internal strife.
[Wang Weiguo] nodded again.
"So, the kind of increase in food production you want to talk about is something we have been doing all along."
"The population of normal people has actually been growing. Do you know how much the population was at the beginning of the Great Qian 5000? The population at the beginning was only 30,000."
"How many people are there now? The current population is about 18 billion."
"If we, the cultivators, and those who are civil servants are cultivating gods, they don't care about it and feel that the techniques are not suitable."
"Without energy being used to increase food production and water conservancy to quell disasters, could the population still increase?"
"The population cannot increase at all. The cultivators had protected Daqian earlier, the ancestor of the Mahayana period." The ancestor of the Holy Land sighed.
