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 everyone's life is very difficult.
Not only humans think that this world is bad, but even gods admit that this world is bad. Otherwise, gods would not have thrown Tanya here, just to make her despair, be defeated by reality, and force her to believe in gods.
The orphanage where Tanya is located is already full, with 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 hoping 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 firmly do not allow them to study anymore, and even go to school to arrest them.
At this moment, in front of Dulan, a group of adults with disheveled faces 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
You 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 support so many orphans. By then, these orphans would probably have to work in factories as child labor.
Their teacher Dulan couldn't 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 long forgotten all foreign languages, so what’s the use of learning them? It’s better to go to work in a factory early.”
"That's what I said, then if I give you one million, it will be useless to you. Anyway, you are just buying bread to eat, and you will never be able to eat a million in your life. Is it useless to have so much money?" Dulan expressed his knowledge.
It's money.
The man was unhappy and said in a low voice: "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? 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. You will also buy a house, land, and a car. One million is not enough. The state of your own money is
If you improve little by little, then your claim that money is useful but knowledge is useless is untenable. The reason why you cannot use knowledge is because you are not mature enough. Since Pu De likes to learn, you should let him continue to learn." Du
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 a step forward.
If we fall into 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 only
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, creating a lot of heavy industry that cannot be sold.
Products, resulting in the country running out of money. Without money, it can only reduce investment in people's livelihood. Part of the remaining money will maintain industry and part will find sales for industrial products.
To sell, the best way is to sell it, so that there are sales and the industrial system is maintained. The empire's economy is such a situation, so learning is not promoted, only work is promoted, because the innovation of scholars is too costly.
It must be suppressed. But a worker or a soldier creates value immediately, so it must be promoted.
Therefore, the factory's HR cadres confidently promoted anti-intellectual propaganda.
God? Tanya sneered, it was just existence x, not a real 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 shouted angrily: "Why did you hit me?"
"Pursuing knowledge is a trap of death. Don't ask me why I beat you. Anyone who understands will understand. I won't say much about what I don't understand. Don't ask. This involves the church of gods and the movement of fate. It won't do you any good.
The benefits, the detailed situation is like this, in short, everyone understands it." Dulan's series of divine remarks made the other party confused, as if this slap really contained a mysterious and profound fate, 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 knows that the world is like this. Duran can't change anything. Even if he can keep Pu De today, what will happen next? There are already many fewer children in this classroom than at the beginning, and all the children have disappeared.
I was sent to the factory by my parents. These are the rules and everyone must abide by them.
Tanya was such a person before she traveled through time. Rules are rules. She is just a cog to enforce the rules. In this regard, she is really suitable for the army. No matter why, no matter how unreasonable the military order is, she will not refuse it because it is a rule.
She just needs to follow the rules.
So although Dulan is eloquent and kind-hearted, Tanya knows that he is just doing useless work. Dulan, a rural teacher, cannot change anything at all.
"Of course I understand, my faith is the most sincere." The beaten gentle man muttered, no longer daring to contradict Duran.
"It seems that you all agree to let Pu De stay, so let him continue his class."
Seeing that Du Lan was difficult to deal with, the parents nodded, thinking that when their son came home, they would send him to the factory if they caught him. They would go back now.
After they left, Tanya knew that Pu De would not come to class tomorrow: "Teacher, Pu De will not come tomorrow."
Du Lan looked at this unique little girl and knew that inside her body was a thirty-year-old uncle, a guy who only followed rules.
"Yeah, I know that too, but you can't follow their rules. When you play games with others using the other party's rules, it's impossible for you to win. So the first thing to do in unfair competition is to break the rules.
Then a miracle will happen. I have broken the rules now, and the rest is up to God." Dulan said pointedly.
Tanya was stunned. She thought about her struggle with God. She seemed to be living in God's rules, or she had substituted herself into the rules. After all, she liked to use the rules to enforce them. But she forgot that she and
God's rules are unfair. God's rules are naturally beneficial to God. In such a set of rules, it is impossible for her to defeat God.
So from the beginning, Tanya has been in an invincible position, and God has been in an invincible position. Invincible versus undefeated, the best is a draw. If you want to win, you have to break out of God's rules and build your own
Rules, but for Tanya, a time traveler who obeys the rules, it is difficult to reach the sky. It can be said that existence x is Tanya's external enemy, and following the rules is Tanya's internal enemy.