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In the second year of Shenlong, a fleet led by Xuegong doctor Gongsun Lin (also my teacher who passed away) sailed on the endless sea for three months. Due to a storm, the entire fleet finally drifted to an island superior.

In the Supervisory Building of the Academy, Su Feng, Ph.D. of Science, was sitting on the edge of the desk, giving lectures to the students in a chatting manner.

When Dr. Xuegong, the professor, his disciples, and the Yu State crew got off the ship, there was a massacre among the indigenous people on that island.

A group of nine hundred brown-skinned Limos (as they are called in their own language) came across the sea in canoes, carrying spears, bows and arrows, and obsidian knives and axes.

And their opponents are the island's aboriginal Morio people, whose total number is 1,800. In terms of numbers, the Morio people have the upper hand, and four days ago they discovered the Limo people who were gradually landing on the island and camping on the coast, with a belligerent attitude.

If the island's aboriginal Morio people organized effectively in advance, strengthened the town's defenses, and mobilized the villagers, then it was possible for them to repel the invaders.

However, the Morio people have always advocated the peaceful settlement of any disputes. At the meeting, they agreed not to launch a hostile counterattack, but to send envoys to the Limo camp, intending to peacefully share the island's rich natural resources with the other party. .

When the envoy was on his way to the Limo camp, the other party launched a full-scale attack. In a few days, 900 Limo people captured the town, brutally killed hundreds of Morio people, and turned the rest into slaves or stockpiled food.

Su Feng paused, glanced at the students under the stage, and said: The main idea of ​​this story is not all about forgetting the battle and dying.

My teacher Gongsun Lin is a scholar with the spirit of Confucianism. He intervened to mediate the war on the island, or the massacre.

With the force of the monks in the Xunyun Realm, he ordered the invading Limo people to release the Morio people who originally lived on the pirates.

Of course, this kind of thing happens often, as you have heard, almost every few years there will be reports from Lingnan Road that the Xuegong fleet has discovered several new islands and the original inhabitants of the islands.

Some students under the podium laughed amicably. Li Yu's emperors of all dynasties have perfectly inherited the characteristics of their ancestors' great joy. Every year in large-scale celebrations, it is indispensable for foreign countries and vassal states to present rare treasures.

In the past, there was even a certain island king who vomited and diarrhea on the spot because of the unacceptable water and soil during the annual tribute to the Daming Palace, which was passed down as a laughing stock by the Southern Zhou and Xijing.

Of course, the reason why this war is so special is because Dr. Gongsunlin discovered a terrible fact after investigation, the Limo people and the Morio people have a common ancestor.

Their ancestors set off from Poli Island in a canoe five hundred years ago and found an archipelago along the ocean current. There are several settlements on each island.

Later, because of the changing direction of the endless sea wind, the fish schools migrated, and the sea area of ​​the archipelago was occupied by dangerous sea beasts, and mortals could no longer sail. Over time, the connection between the various islands was severed.

The islands allocated to the Limo people are larger in size and have a milder climate. Due to the dangers of the sea, they were forced to use the crops left by their ancestors to grow on the island. As the population increased, nobles, commoners, and slaves evolved—the nobles occupied land, trained guards, and competed for limited farmland.

On the other hand, the islands of the Morio people had a colder climate, so they could not grow the crop seeds left by their ancestors, so they had to return to the life of collecting berries and hunting wild animals.

Therefore, they had no specialized handicraftsmen, no armies, prisons, magistrates, or distinctions between nobles and commoners.

It really is a savage.

Someone under the podium complained in a low voice, Su Feng was not affected, and continued: The lack of a large farmland means that there is a limit on the population.

According to Dr. Gongsunlin's judgment based on the tombs on the island in different periods, the number of Morioans has never exceeded 3,000, and has always fluctuated between 1,000 and 2,000.

Such a small number of people means that it cannot withstand consumption. They were forced to learn to live in harmony, and when they encountered disputes, they always settled them through negotiation.

Even to reduce population and potential conflict, they will not give birth, or kill some babies-just like Dr. Xuegong discovered that the rats with limited resources will do the same.

Since the writing systems of the Morioans and the Limos originated from the same ancestor and have not changed much, Dr. Gongsunlin can deduce what happened based on the text data.

The Morio people are a gathering and hunting tribe, while the Limo people are an agricultural tribe. The latter has stronger leaders, organizations, more advanced technology, richer war experience and stronger desire to plunder.

Therefore, this group of brother tribes who were only separated for five hundred years, under the influence of the natural environment, evolved into a tribal form that the other party could not understand at all within five hundred years.

And in terms of combat capabilities, there is such a big gap.

So much so that if it weren't for the dramatic appearance of the school fleet, the Morio people would have been completely slaughtered.

Dr. Su Feng glanced at the thoughtful students under the stage, cleared his throat and said: I was young at the time, after my teacher told me this story, he asked me to write a paper and submit it to him.

I tried to interpret it from many angles.

First of all, it is a counter-evidence to the theory of a small country with few people in the Tao Te Ching. The people are self-sufficient, the people do not communicate with each other until they grow old and die, and there is no war disaster in the world. This is the ideal state of a saint. Only with the power of oneself can others stop wars and the people stop chaos.

The second is the limitations brought about by innate kindness. The Morioans who have never experienced war, until the last moment before their death, hoped that the other party would wake up and live in peace.

In fact, there was this kind of debate in our school before.

Some magi believe that exploration of the Great Sea should cease forever. Surrounded by monsters and beasts in the endless sea, there are many incomprehensible and extremely dangerous alienated objects. Some indigenous tribes on some islands also gave birth to monks whose cultivation system is completely different from that of the Central Plains.

What if at the end of the endless sea, there is an extremely powerful and warlike kingdom of monks?

They also have monks who are equivalent to the Candle Heaven Realm, and there may be even more monks, and their monks are not only from the Candle Heaven Realm.

Maybe they are also exploring the endless sea in reverse,

Maybe when they know our existence, they will send troops to attack at all costs,

Maybe we should close ourselves, withdraw from the endless sea, block the coastline, try not to expose our existence as much as possible, and eliminate everything that will bring disaster.

Su Feng spread his hands and said: There is also the relationship between mortal population and practitioners.

The examples of Hundred Thousand Barren Mountains and Endless Sea Islands have proved that tribes with few people can also produce powerful practitioners.

But only if the number of mortals is large enough, it is possible to have a large number of hardcore monks, who can pass on the knowledge of practice, instead of ups and downs, and one generation is not as good as the next.

Then Dr. Su Feng,

Li Leling raised his hand and asked, What was the content of the thesis you submitted to Dr. Gongsunlin?

This is it.

Su Feng smiled slightly and said, The environment determines everything.

It is the natural environment that restricts the Morio people from farming and is forced to gather and hunt, which in turn limits their population limit.

It is determined that they negotiate and solve problems when they encounter problems, and they do not understand the customs of war.

As a result, they lacked the ability to fight and were almost wiped out by the brother tribes who had been separated for five hundred years.

At the end of that thesis, I also tried to use the theory of environmental determination to explain the change of dynasties in the Central Plains.

Whenever the temperature drops sharply year after year, it will lead to intensive natural disasters and reduced crop production.

The Central Plains dynasty would lack room for fault tolerance, frequent turmoil, and the slightest carelessness would lose everything, collapse completely, and usher in troubled times.

For example, the Han Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Even a monk, in the face of the mighty power of the climate and environment, is extremely insignificant - he can take care of himself, but can't take care of the vast number of people.

But this also shows the importance and greatness of our academy.

The school is to compete with the sky, the earth, and the people. Even changing fate against the sky, transforming nature with technology, so that disasters are no longer so terrifying to the people.

When the bell rang for the end of class, Su Feng clapped his palms and jumped down from the podium. While packing up the class materials, he told the students: Your homework for this class is based on what I told about Morio Stories of people and Limo people, write a paper on the theme of environmental decisions.

optional angle,

It can be why there will always be nomadic barbarian tribes in the northern border of the Central Plains, changing crop after crop.

It could be the correlation between difficult living conditions and the birth rate of monks,

It can even be a reasonable illusion, such as what will happen if a long winter comes and there is a snow that lasts for more than ten years.

At least 5,000 characters are required, and parallel prose cannot be used. You can go to Zangshuge to look up more materials and hand them in at the beginning of next month.

As soon as I heard that I was going to write a long paper again, I couldn't help but howl in the classroom.

Li Wei, who was in the back row of the classroom, fell headfirst on the desk - he really couldn't write a thesis,

In the previous article on national history, because of the use of water essay techniques such as washing inkstone trees at the head of my pond, washing inkstone next to my house, this is the situation, the specific situation depends on the situation\

,"Dr. Wang Wenlun, who is a professor of national history, singled out and criticized him, which almost caused Li Wei's social death.

In addition, don't try to get away with it by asking someone to write it for you, or borrowing from the previous school's papers.

First of all, the schoolwork style of the Academy is completely different from other academies in the world. It is not for the students of the Academy that they can't write such things at all.

Secondly, in the Dongjun Building of the Xuegong, I heard that there is a kind of insect-shaped alienation called Dragon Immortal.

It can permanently remember the text content of the book by swallowing the book, and spit out relevant information again according to the user's needs.

Although I don't know what this [spit out relevant information] is specifically about,

But [Dragon Immortal] is indeed used by Dr. Xuegong as a huge backup library, as well as a browser search tool and a paper plagiarism check tool. Multiple [Dragon Immortals] can be connected in parallel to form a large-scale network called [Weaving Web] to transmit information and communicate with each other.

‘You fairy, weaving nets, you have committed a heinous crime! '

Li Ang knew the resentment in the hearts of his classmates without thinking about it. He himself didn't care about writing papers. There were too many written in the memory of the other world.

Dr. Su Feng.

Li Ang put away the textbooks on the table and caught up with Su Feng who was walking out of the classroom.

Oh, the rising sun.

Su Feng smiled and said, Do you want to borrow books again?

Um.

Li Ang nodded, Xuegong Zangshuge has requirements for the type of books, the age, cultivation, grades, credits, and conduct of the disciples.

Ordinary freshmen can't read many books at all, and they must have a license written by Dr. Xuegong himself to consult a certain book or certain books.

Li Ang and Su Feng have a good relationship, and they often ask him to borrow books for proof.

Which one is this time?

Su Feng took out the form from the package familiarly, filled in his name, and asked casually.

Three books, Southern Zhou Fangyu Shenglan, Tianzhu Geography, and A Detailed Research on the Inheritance of Medieval Zen and Existing Alienated Objects.

Li Ang reported the names of the three books, and Su Feng, who was signing the books, raised his head in surprise, Why do you remember reading the Southern Zhou Dynasty, Tianzhu map and Zen materials?

Watching the debate between monks and Taoists in Chang'an City some time ago, I felt that a great monk was talking nonsense, and I was a little uncomfortable.

Li Ang actually wanted to consult the books to find out the origin and function of the dark lotus.

Immediately, he took out the speech he had prepared a long time ago, and said without changing his face: So I want to see the propagation path of Zen from Tianzhu to Southern Zhou Dynasty, and then to Yu Kingdom.

oh oh.

Su Feng smiled when he heard the words, and signed the name readily. As a doctor of science, he also dislikes those monks who extract money from good men and women.

In fact, Su Feng didn't have any good impressions of monk Taoism, Manichaeism, Nestorianism, etc., and he didn't seem very devout towards Haotian Taoism.

This can be regarded as a tradition handed down from Dr. Gongsun Lin and the earlier line of Neo-Confucianism.

Incidentally, although Dr. Su Feng dislikes all religions, every year in Chang'an City's debates between monks and Taoists, he never fails.

Whenever monks or Taoists, one side of the debate falls into a disadvantage,

He would pretend to be a passing public, blaze in the audience, quote scriptures to attack the dominant side, make the atmosphere of debate or quarrel more intense, and he will never tire of it.

If monks and priests fight on the spot, he can eat a few more mouthfuls for dinner.

It can be said that he is a very stylish person.

Neng, borrow a note.

Su Feng handed the form to Li Ang, and said casually: By the way, Risheng, it's actually not very good for you to read books in Zangshu Pavilion every day after class.

Academy disciples always need to be active. Even if they don't like fighting, they can play Cuju and polo.

Let's talk about it, let's talk about it.

Li Ang laughed and laughed. Cuju in Xuegong is not a simple football. You need to wear protective talismans, and you can use flying swords, mind power, spells, etc. to attack and hinder opponents, and at the same time find ways to score goals.

It is a violent game with wisdom, strategy, operation, and teamwork.

A group of monks slashed their opponents with flying swords on the field, and at the same time used special materials to kick balls that could not be broken. From time to time, some people chanted forbidden spells, released field spells, and summoned thunderstorms and fire rain.

Don't make the scene too chaotic.

Li Ang is not very interested in this kind of violent game, but it is indeed the most popular sport in the school, and you can get credits for participating in the game. Li Wei's recent goal is to join the senior team to make up for his Credits lost on regular courses.