Liu Muzhi softly said "Oh": "Then according to your opinion, Yuan Ming, the length of life in this world is actually controlled by the gods in heaven, so that when they wake up and start to challenge the gods in heaven,
Should we let them die before and replace them with a new group of people for the gods to enslave and drive?"
Tao Yuanming waved his hand: "These are heavenly secrets, not something that mortals can pry into. What I said are just my personal thoughts after reading many Taoist and Zhuangzi classics before. However, I have always felt that there are things in this world.
The way of heaven is orderly. It is best for mortals not to challenge easily. Just like the noble and the humble, if you act according to this set of rules, then there will not be too many disputes in the world. Everyone can maintain their own duties and comply with the destiny of heaven, so that they can last for a long time.
.Mu Zhi, you should know that it is very dangerous to allow people who are incompetent to have ambitions and desires that they should not have. The so-called result of unruly people's hearts will be chaos in the world, and you will fight for it."
Liu Muzhi shook his head: "Yuanming, you seem to have overlooked one important thing, that is, everything in the world is not static. The crafts and technologies in the world can develop forward, just like in the ancient pre-Qin Dynasty.
, we are still generally using bronze tools. In the earlier Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period, I am afraid everyone was using stone tools. But now, we are using iron tools. We know that there will be no better and sharper tools for our use in the future.
Woolen cloth?"
"It's also like the art of mechanism. It can now drive wooden or even iron-armored mechanism people to walk. Zhuge Kongming can even invent wooden oxen and flowing horses to transport food thousands of miles, and the warships of demon thieves can also accommodate people.
A giant ship with thousands of people, these technologies are beyond the imagination of people hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago?"
Tao Yuanming said coldly: "The mechanism technique is just an ancient technique passed down by Lu Ban during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. There is nothing to develop. It is just a rediscovery of a long-lost technique. You have such ability, but
, these things are more likely to be used for war and killing, rather than for improving people's livelihood. Otherwise, why have these technologies and skills disappeared over the past thousand years?"
Liu Muzhi smiled slightly: "Because the people who possess these technologies, out of selfish considerations, have hidden the technologies that could benefit all people, such as the Four Books and Five Classics, and ancient classics.
Only nobles and nobles can learn it. Ordinary people, who have no books at home or private studies, will never be exposed to knowledge in their lives. And many of these craftsman skills are only passed down by craftsman families. They are afraid of being learned by outsiders, so naturally they will not be able to learn them.
If it spreads all over the world, once the descendants are cut off, these skills will be gone."
Tao Yuanming's brows furrowed slightly. He realized something and said in a deep voice, "What do you think, Mu Zhi, that these technologies should be spread throughout the world like culture, so that all people can learn them?"
Liu Muzhi said seriously: "Yes, if we talk about culture and knowledge, it is because it is impossible to copy books on a large scale and to educate everyone with many books, so it is unique to the nobles, but this technology and craftsmanship are not necessary
With such restrictions, as long as this small-scale communication model passed down from master to apprentice can be relaxed and turned into large-scale learning, everyone in the world will have the opportunity to learn these technologies, and people with lofty ideals can research, develop and improve them.
Then there won’t be this kind of loss of technology, and it will only get stronger and stronger.”
"Once these mechanism techniques can be used, and mechanisms such as wooden cows and flowing horses can replace people in farming and labor, then a large amount of manpower can be released for further technological development and large-scale production concentration, such as in the Wudi
They keep saying that only by being attached to a high-ranking family can they produce more food. Many people believe it, because they are indeed ordinary people with single families. The output of their own fields is not as good as that of the same size of land.
, produced in the family manor.”
Tao Yuanming nodded: "Yes, because the family's manor can centrally irrigate, dig channels, apply fertilizers, and organize centralized pest control and locust control, so the output is more. They can allocate lump sums in production, allowing several
Each household undertakes one aspect of the work to improve production efficiency. However, this requires that the dealers must fully obey the instructions of this contract production. If the people only cultivate the one-third of an acre of their own land, it is
We won’t accept lump-sum management like this.”
Liu Muzhi smiled slightly: "So whether it is the knowledge from books or the skills of craftsmen, these are valuable knowledge, which can make people work more efficiently, and the saved manpower can be concentrated on building large projects, such as
Digging rivers to divert water, digging mountains and building roads, etc. These are things that are of immediate benefit but will last forever, and they require the power of the people. If this people's power only serves the selfish desires of a few aristocratic families, it would be a pity.
For this kind of livelihood project to benefit future generations, isn’t that a more noble and greater cause?”
Tao Yuanming said coldly: "It is better to do less of this kind of thing that wastes people and money. We can hear the sounds of chickens and dogs, and never interact with each other until we die. This is the paradise of kings. Of course, everything should be based on the foundation of each other."
For your own sake, you want to spread knowledge and technology so that ordinary people and grassroots people can learn skills, thinking that this will improve production capacity and allow more people to have food and clothing, but you don’t want to stop them before they have food and clothing.
Mr. Meng will have unreasonable thoughts. If they can have enough food and clothing without having to work, then they will have their wives and children lying on the bed, or they will lie down and stop working, or they will go one step further and think about replacing the superior aristocratic families and noble families.
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Liu Muzhi said calmly: "Since knowledge and technology can be spread, the gentry have no advantage over the common people, so let's compete and make progress together. In ancient times, people cultivated slash-and-burn farming and relied on hunting and gathering wild fruits to survive.
We will not starve to death, and even cannibalize ourselves when we have nothing to eat or drink. Today, at least we don’t have to live like this anymore. If technology further advances in the future, maybe we can have enough food and clothing without having to work ourselves.
At that time, do we still care about the distinction between nobles and common people? Do we still need to enslave and drive others to make a living for ourselves?"
Tao Yuanming gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "These are just beautiful and empty fantasies. I can't see the possibility of them becoming reality, at least in our lifetime. Mu Zhi, I don't want to talk to you.
You talk about Xuan clearly, because we don't have the time. You said you wanted to deal with me privately, but it was just a way to negotiate terms with me. Now, tell me your true request." (End of Chapter)
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