Chapter 373: A few lines of names in Qing history, countless barren hills in Beimang! !!
Xia Zhibai walked around the house.
Once upon a time.
He has also become the person he once hated the most.
Although this feeling is quite refreshing.
Looking at the words left by charcoal on the wooden board, Xia Zhibai also had mixed feelings in his heart. In the past, he had a very poor understanding of the words in the history books. Even the sentence "The swallows return in spring and nest in the trees" was a beautiful picture. .
It’s just that as I get older, when I read these sentences again, I feel a sense of fear.
There are too many such things in history books.
But they were deceived and killed, leaving 240 of the younger ones to return to Zhao - here, hundreds of thousands of Zhao army lives were omitted.
When prosperity occurs, the people suffer; when it dies, the people suffer.
White bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles.
Locusts rose up in Guandong and flew west to Dunhuang.
In the Yongjia Rebellion, there were no more than a hundred households in Chang'an.
Select the weak men and women to feed the army.
Of course there is the most concise sentence: when the year is hungry, people eat each other!
This short sentence is the displacement of millions of people and the bones of millions of people. Therefore, when Liu Sanwu and others selected "Preface to the Lanting Collection" and other articles about burning harps and boiling cranes, he was Extremely dissatisfied.
A clear spring flows gurglingly, and several scholars and Confucian scholars sit in the pavilion. Some of them play the piano, some make tea, and some sing poems. Then they change cups, drink tea, and compose poems. , this scene is very romantic and comfortable, and it is even more refreshing.
But such days are destined to be rare.
The cruel and bloody reality is the normal state of most people.
Cannibalism is taboo for all historians, and is unanimously considered by historians to be 'anti-human'. However, in the writings of historians, 'cannibalism' is a common sight, "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" , "Old Tang Book" and other historical books have clear records.
The deeper he went into history and the more he immersed himself in it, the more chilling he felt.
I also admire Lu Xun more and more for his sharp point.
Especially the word 'cannibalism' really reveals the cruelest and most realistic side of history. What he has been trying to achieve all these years is to make people eat each other. ', 'Changing children and eating them' will never happen again, at least in the land of China.
But it’s difficult.
Xia Zhibai has been to places and learned about local production conditions, and has also consulted many historical books. In the recent dynasties, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming, their grain output per mu was No more than four hundred pounds.
Although the background of "cannibalism" stems to a large extent from serious land annexation, corruption, war and other problems, as well as natural disasters that were inevitable in the Ming Dynasty, in this case, the efficiency of food production was only It would be greatly reduced and it would be difficult to provide for the people of the country. To be fair, the Ming Dynasty had the most complete and sound disaster relief system in all dynasties. Even so, it was still difficult to provide relief.
The fundamental problem is that production efficiency is too low.
However, production efficiency will be difficult to solve for a while.
He has no way to solve the problem of fertilizers. It is too difficult to open the 'high technology' of fertilizers. It almost covers most of the modern technology points. This is not the shortcomings of the current Ming Dynasty's technology level. can be achieved.
His current efforts are to improve production efficiency.
At the same time, we will solve the problem of food ‘transportation difficulties’.
The disaster relief and control system of the Ming Dynasty is very complete, but the efficiency is not high, because now the government can only rely on mules, horses, ships and other means of transportation. The efficiency of water transportation is high, but it is very difficult, especially After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, sedimentation in the Yellow River increased dramatically, making most waterways inaccessible. In places like Henan, Shandong, Gansu and other places, if they wanted to wait for food, they could only rely on extremely inefficient mules and horses. Not only does it take a long time to wait for the food to arrive, but the transportation costs are also surprisingly high.
One of the reasons for Ming’s demise was ‘inadequate disaster relief’.
There is nothing we can do unless we do our best.
Therefore, Xia Zhibai tried his best to develop technology, create an 'iron horse', and unblock sea transportation, so as to facilitate the world's better transportation of goods. As for improving the level of agriculture, it can only rely on time and effort, and then through development. He set off on a great voyage to the Americas to find sweet potatoes, corn and other high-yielding species. What he wanted to do was to try his best to ensure that there would no longer be widespread starvation in the world.
This is what Xia Zhibai wants to tell Lu Cang and the others.
Their ambition should be to end the long-lasting 'suffering' in the world.
Seeing that Lu Cang and others had finished copying and thought about it for a while, Xia Zhibai followed the usual practice and started to randomly select people.
After a while of dodging, this frightening inquiry finally came to an end.
Xia Zhibai smiled and said: "In fact, your answers are not big questions. The war in the Ming Dynasty has just ended, and most of you have experienced a life of displacement, so you have certain feelings about these words. You answered That's right."
"Swallows normally return to their nests under the eaves, but the swallows at that time were unusual. Instead of returning to the eaves, they built their nests in the trees."
"This seems to be the case. A very elegant sentence, but there is actually a bloody storm behind it."
"The land is thousands of miles away, and the people are displaced."
"This is a tragic situation in troubled times!"
"You have all survived the war. The peace now is hard-won, so you should know how to cherish it and be grateful. Your kindness is not mine, but should be used to allow more people in the world to have peace and peace. More people can afford to eat, and they will no longer starve to death, and they will no longer be displaced and homeless."
"I don't want you to be scholars."
"Scholarship. If you are too high, you only see glory and great ambitions.”
“I want you to keep your eyes on the local situation, and be committed to improving the people’s livelihood in the world, and to make food affordable for more people in the world. , can no longer suffer from the pain of war, and no longer have to be so helpless in the face of natural disasters, so that the world can gain true peace and peace. "
"This is difficult."
"But this is the era you and I live in."
"It is also the fate that you and I cannot escape in our lives."
"This is also my earnest expectation for you."
"The Ming Dynasty was born under natural disasters, and it is destined to be plagued by disasters. As people under the Ming Dynasty, we should have the heart to save the world. I don't ask you to make much contribution in the future, but just let me Please remember.”
“A few lines of names in Qing history, countless barren hills in Beimang!”
"It is rare in the world to have enough food and clothing. I teach you how to read and write, and teach you knowledge and principles. I hope that when you grow up, you can do some real good things for the people of the world, so that having enough food and clothing will no longer become a prosperous age. The pronoun is just a basic norm under the Ming Dynasty."
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After a few words, Xia Zhibai explained this excerpt.
For the content of the excerpt, Lu Cang and others understood it quickly. Except for some words that they could not understand, the specific content was basically understandable because they were too familiar with the scenes described in it. Even.
This is what they have personally experienced in the past.
(End of this chapter)