Chapter 5486: Subjective initiative and innovation
Having said this, the ancestor paused and continued in a deep voice: "So human beings have been evolving and have not remained unchanged since ancient times. In other words, those great ancestors and leaders can make the people of the tribe live a better life.
They are getting better and better, and have no worries about food and clothing, so that everyone regards them as gods. This is the reason why these people can become kings and hegemons and hold great power."
Doupeng murmured: "Life is getting better and better, life is getting better and better? Ancestor, do you mean to say that whether it is a tribe or a country, their output is not static.
It can be achieved under the leadership of interested leaders, through effective governance and management, and through various techniques.
The advancement of technology can produce more output and more resources than before, allowing everyone in this tribe and this country to get more things than before, and no longer have to fight for a few survival resources.
People are fighting over each other so much that they become hostile to other people in this country?"
Heipao gritted his teeth and said: "That's what the ancestor meant. Just like the tribe in ancient times, everyone didn't have enough to eat, but with the leader and leader, he could lead everyone to hunt more prey.
, there will even be leftover food.”
The ancestor nodded and said: "Yes, that's what it means. This principle also applies to Liu Yu. You only see the selfish side of human nature, but you don't see the unity and cooperation side. In order to survive, human beings will concentrate
When we come together, we will elect strong leaders to listen to their orders, just to live a better life for ourselves. Your so-called selfish and greedy side is nothing more than the fear of others coming to rob you for other reasons.
Taking away your own things will make your life difficult, but this is based on a premise, that is, the total production capacity of this group, or the total amount of goods, remains unchanged. If you give more to others, you will give less to yourself.
Just like in the ancient times, if you could only hunt one deer every day, then each tribe could only get a few taels of meat to eat. If you give someone else an extra bite, you will get one less bite. Of course, you have to stop others.
Shared.”
Doupeng laughed: "But if the level of hunting improves and you can catch three deer every day, then you only need to eat two deer every day to feed everyone, and you can still have one deer left to raise in the future.
If you continue to eat like this every day, you don’t have to worry about others competing for meat from you. You can even take the initiative to share the meat that you can’t eat with those who don’t have enough to eat, or even people from other tribes.”
The black robe's brows began to frown: "So what the ancestor means is that Liu Yu has the ability and the method to make everyone more motivated to work and produce, so that the entire country's material output will become more and more abundant.
So that everyone, whether they are aristocrats or ordinary people, can receive more benefits than before, so that everyone will support him?"
The ancestor nodded: "Yes, that's what I mean. I just said so much about the development history of human beings from individuals to groups, from tribes to countries since ancient times, just to illustrate this concept, that is, human beings are a very
Miraculous species can exert themselves by gathering together, dividing labor and cooperating.
There are far more products than can be produced by each individual individually. The things and prey produced by one hundred individual people are far inferior to those produced by one hundred people gathered together under the command of a reliable leader.
If you use more things, you will catch more prey, this is the strength of the collective, this is the benefit of unity!"
The black robe gritted his teeth: "So, if the country under Liu Yu's rule were united and united, it would be able to produce much more goods than it does now? Food, grass, ordnance, and cloth will be much more than what it is now under the leadership of the aristocratic family.
The output is much higher?"
The ancestor sighed: "Venerable Black Robe, I know you don't want to admit this, but unfortunately, this is the fact. The production capacity of human beings as a collective depends on two points. One is subjective production enthusiasm, or
The will to produce will bring creativity and higher technology. These technologies are not entirely provided by the gods and ancestors in heaven. In fact, hundreds of thousands of years after they arrived in heaven, new technologies on earth will
Many of their skills are no longer the old knowledge they possess, just like the ancient ancestors who first gave some wooden armor mechanism skills to human beings. Maybe their mastery of mechanism skills is not as good as Lu Xun's now. Just like
The alchemy and poisonous medicines you can research are better than those given by some of the ancient ancestors of the Tiandao Alliance. This is the ability of human beings to develop and create themselves. This ability makes even the gods in heaven afraid!"
At this point, the ancestor paused, looked at the silent black robe, and continued: "Just like the Peach Blossom Spring you wrote, I know that all this is not completely fictitious. What you are talking about is actually your ridicule in Jing Dynasty.
Some tribes in the Chu Dashan and Tongbai Mountains, although they are not so ignorant that they do not know the Han Dynasty, regardless of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they have indeed been in the mountains for hundreds of years and are not very aware of the changes in the world outside."
"It is precisely because of this that the outside government cannot control them, and naturally cannot collect taxes like other people who are registered as households, so these mountain people live in villages and cultivate wasteland in the mountains.
Although the life of the farm girls and weavers is very difficult, without the rule and jurisdiction of the government, they believe that these lands, mountains and forests are their own, and every grain of rice they grow is also theirs, even if they use slash and fire.
Even if there is a lack of water, even if they have to face the threat of tigers, leopards and wolves when farming, they would rather live like this. It’s not that they don’t know that there are fertile fields and plains in the world beyond the mountains, but after going out,
It means that they have to be ruled and governed by the government, have to organize households and people, and collect taxes. This is a life that they would rather live a hard life than accept, because for them, they lose their freedom in this way."
The black robe sighed and nodded: "As you said, ancestor, freedom is the most important thing to them. People who were ruled like cattle and sheep in previous generations are even more eager for this kind of freedom. We
After Xi Ren entered the mountains, he lost all the tools, seeds, and survival conditions that he could easily get outside.
The situation was very bad, but they still survived with difficulty. As long as they had some of the earliest grains they brought into the mountains as seeds, and as long as they had the skills to make fire, they could survive even if they went back to the ancient times when stone tools were polished.
, the ancient ancestors who lived on their hair and drank their blood began to develop again." (End of this chapter)