Ancient Egypt, Persia, and ancient Greece all had their glory days, but they all fell silent. Instead, a group of wanderers who came out of Egypt and were imprisoned in Babylon wrote the Bible and spread it, causing a stir.
These ancient countries are all in the same circle, and the wanderers have a very vicious vision. They chose the middle point of this area to establish a country and occupy the crossroads. The advantage is that no matter which civilization has to pass through the crossroads, the disadvantage is that when they pass by, they usually
with weapons,
This is the same as the Central Plains. Why compete in the Central Plains? Because the Central Plains is a crossroads. If you occupy the Central Plains, you can go out from the east and west, conquer the south and fight in the north. So since ancient times, whoever conquers the Central Plains will win the world.
The wanderers also chose the crossroads, but they were more unlucky. Instead of going east and west and fighting in the north and south, they were constantly bulldozed, and finally became a wandering people for thousands of years, and wrote the "Bible Old Testament"
.The Old Testament, this thing is to protect a closed circle, curse the outside world, and wait silently for the savior. It is a culture that teaches everyone to wait for the tide.
The God in the Old Testament frequently launches natural disasters and is not merciful at all. But in ancient times, natural disasters were commonplace, and famine, plague, war, and death were already very common things. But with the addition of a mysterious God, it can be
If people obey and believe in God, they will have a promised land flowing with honey and milk; if they do not believe, they will have natural disasters.
With such a foundation and faith in our hearts, we can wait for natural disasters. Once natural disasters come, the tide will come.
The Old Testament teaches people patience and revenge, and this is of universal value, so the outcry arose. Because most people are waiting for the wave, but those who are waiting for the wave also need their own theoretical system.
Why are you waiting, and what are you waiting for? The Old Testament tells everyone that waiting is because of God’s arrangement. What you are waiting for is natural disasters. When natural disasters come, opportunities come.
When Egypt suffered natural disasters, the Exodus was written. When Babylon was destroyed by war, the complete Old Testament system came into being.
Others' disasters are opportunities for believers.
Therefore, many Westerners praise the power of suffering, because only when they encounter suffering can they seek change. It can be said that when you are poor, you want to change.
If you don't encounter suffering, you won't seek change. For example, in ancient Greece, when Athens encountered the threat of Persia, they initiated changes and won the first Persian War. For example, in ancient Rome, when they kept losing wars, they also
It started a revolution and moved towards the civil era.
Times of suffering are times of seeking innovation and change. The new wave comes from it.
Of course, what we really want to praise is not suffering, but the way of breaking through suffering and the state of coping with difficulties.
In the Central Plains, there are also teachings such as "it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge after ten years," but the Central Plains does not wait for war, famine, or plague, but waits for flaws, and even takes the initiative to create flaws for the enemy, divide the enemy, and fight against each other.
The reason is also very simple, because no power in ancient Greece, Persia, or ancient Greece could establish a management system, because they could only develop in oases.
For example, Persia introduced a provincial system very early, but even if it sent a governor to control a new oasis, as long as the Persian king weakened, the governor would immediately rebel.
Because the king also controls the oasis, the power is so great. When the weather is good, the king may be strong. Once there is a natural disaster, the king's oasis will be weak and cannot control other oases at all.
Oasis civilization is fragmented, and no one can really control anyone. As long as you control the energy of one oasis, you can just wait for other oases to weaken.
There is no oasis that can be developed towards the surrounding areas to form absolute dominance. It cannot be developed because it is surrounded by the Gobi Desert. The area that can be developed is only so large and the upper limit is so high.
Therefore, ancient Egypt, Persia, and ancient Greece were unable to increase their upper limit. Once they declined, it would be difficult to revive. The Old Testament summarized the survival laws of oasis civilization and waited for natural disasters. Oasis civilization has been living according to the laws of oasis. Although there are many sufferings, it cannot be revived.
, but always alive.
Many civilizations don't even have the opportunity to record suffering, because they simply disappear when they encounter suffering.
Being able to record suffering again and again shows that he is still alive and has not been defeated by suffering.
The central principle is different. A tribe may be small at the beginning, but there is developable land around it, so the tribe can continue to develop and form an advantage over surrounding tribes.
Other tribes did not have to wait for natural disasters to happen to the big tribes. Instead, they learned from the big tribes and developed the land to improve themselves. In the end, an enclosure was formed, just like Go. The important thing is not to eliminate the opponent, but to see who occupies more land.
Whoever is bigger will gain the advantage first.
Because these lands are developable, they can be controlled by occupying them.
As the land becomes larger and larger, a question arises: how to manage it? So we move towards the idea of unification.
In fact, this is the different thinking of the two civilization circles. The oasis civilization has less land to develop, and everyone’s power has an upper limit. No one can eat anyone else. There is no good way except waiting for the enemy to encounter natural and man-made disasters. This
It is a stock worldview.
There is a lot of land that can be developed in the Central Plains. If nothing is done, the enemy will only become stronger and stronger. Therefore, we must develop it ourselves, and at the same time we must create difficulties for the enemy. We must also find ways to manage the land that has been developed to make our territory more powerful.
Get bigger. This is an incremental worldview.
Different geographical locations lead to different ideas.
Because it is an oasis, the population it can carry is limited. Our people are humans and our enemies are demons. Just kill them all. Because if the enemy drinks more water, your own people will drink less water.
In the desert area, there are old rules such as not keeping prisoners of war, not saving lost people, and killing anyone who comes near the water source. This is because there are too few areas that can be developed, so the enemy can only be killed.
At the same time, the oasis also has a great demand for trade, because trade is an external input and can increase the upper limit of the oasis. By controlling the trade routes, you can gain control.
In short, oasis civilization has the characteristics of oasis. Alabasta is also an oasis civilization country. Most of the country is desert and only a few oases can develop. The king relies on the navy to suppress the oases, but it is difficult to unite the oases.
On Earth, some oases will also use outsiders. For example, the Persians used foreign Turks and Mongols to suppress multiple oases, and even conducted Turkification. But there is still no one oasis that can truly manage the entire region.
Because after external forces took control of the oasis, they turned into princes and became a fragment.
The king relied on the navy to suppress the oasis, but it cannot be suppressed now. The characteristic of oasis civilization is to wait for natural disasters. The king has experienced three years of drought, and now even if it rains, the power is weakened.
This was further weakened by the fact that everyone pretended to be pirates and disrupted the king's transportation.
However, the pirate world is still different from the earth. The pirate world has a world government and a financial system. The king of Alabasta can also borrow money.
Bailey can buy things, and as long as the king can borrow money, he can still support himself. After all, he has been king for eight hundred years, so he still has some collateral.
Therefore, each oases still needs to wait for the next natural disaster. Then the king, princess, priests, and craftsmen will all be captured and made slaves.
The king and princess may not be able to write the Old Testament by then.
Luffy couldn't help them, because his goal was the end of the Grand Line and he couldn't become an external force for the princess. In fact, even if Luffy stayed, it wouldn't change the situation, because when he mastered the control of an oasis, he would naturally
Waiting for other oases to encounter natural disasters.
Just like the Sand Crocodile, once the oasis is mastered, the next step is not to develop it, because it cannot be developed, and there is nothing to develop. The next step is to wait for others to encounter disasters, and then take advantage of people's illness and death to start the next cycle.
This is the survival rule of the desert oasis, be patient and wait. It’s just that the sand crocodile is an outsider after all, so he didn’t hold back in the end.
ps: I wish everyone good luck in the Year of the Dragon and good luck in getting rich.