From Chief to Ball

"There is specialization in art, so I won't argue with you. If you say I don't understand, then I definitely don't understand. It's just that there are three thousand roads, and all paths lead to the same goal. The truth is always the same. Otherwise, you wouldn't hesitate for us, yes Bar?"

Lin Xi glanced at Chen Jian, thinking that she was hesitating whether to pack and ship back the published books that were secretly influenced by Chen Jian, such as "Changes and Choices between Wild and Domestic Animals and Plants", "Competition, Reproduction, Control", "From the fact that corn produces [-] seeds every year, why the thousandth power of [-] does not spread all over the world", "Conjectures about the survival of animals and plants", and look at the sun-baked The wheat-colored, healthy girl like a female leopard sighed long.

"Sister Lan Qi, do you know why Chen Jian's husband didn't write for him?"

Lan Qi was startled, but many people in the capital knew about it, she nodded and said, "Yes. Because Mr. Mu is afraid that Chen Jian will be too rational, and he will practice and try people or society as a rational science."

"Then if someone reads my book and uses the mentality of looking at people like ants, trying to find out scientific, reasonable, and correct truths that exterminate some people, what am I?"

"Those who kill with a blade are not soldiers, but people."

"But it's contrary to what you're after."

"How can it be contradictory? We are also pursuing science, so how can science be contrary to what we pursue? Only what we do with science is contrary to us, and no science is contrary to what we pursue. this statement."

Hearing this, Lin Xi no longer refuted, but pointed to the brightly blooming cabbages that had been carefully cared for and said, "Okay. We are leaving soon, and these cabbages are about to set seeds. A lot of seeds, do you know what this small field will look like in a year?"

"I'm not as good as you with this question."

"Well, there are two possibilities. One is that the most vigorous ones robbed the other weak ones of nutrients, and the weak ones gradually died, even if they survived, they would not be able to produce seeds, and the seeds would be shriveled and difficult to germinate. After a few years, only The most suitable cabbage will be left. The second possibility is that everyone is similar, and no one can compete with the other. In the end, the cabbage in the entire garden becomes small, weak, and even swallowed by weeds."

She squatted down, picked up a small wooden stick used to support the cabbage from the side, and drew a few lines on the ground.

"You know, I don't like to study social issues. When I was in the capital, you knew that I didn't like to participate in your rallies, because I think what you say makes sense, so I think those things you think are too complicated , it is difficult to come to a definite result. I like a world that can be easily explained by reason, and a world with a perfect rule of operation, but the conclusion drawn from the rules I found is that many of the things you are pursuing are wrong.”

"If it's just because I deduce that you are wrong, I won't hesitate. But the world I deduce is gray, and I have been in contact with you a lot. After hearing the suffering you said, I feel that the suffering is too dark. What I write only fuels this darkness. When conscience and science are at odds, which side to take? I'm hesitating the question."

"You guys are thinking about human society. I might be thinking about cabbages, but as you said, different routes lead to the same goal. Just because of this same goal, I feel uneasy. One day someone will treat people as cabbages, and I let This time has been shortened."

Lan Qi also knelt down and looked at the cabbages in the garden, seeming to understand something.

Lin Xi looked at Chen Jian who was still smiling standing there, and sighed: "When I was thinking about cabbage, I heard you discussing the taxation of the rich to give relief to the poor. Relief is conscience, but it violates science. It's not a good thing to look at, it's just delaying the death of the damned."

"Assuming that there are 10 people at the bottom, if there is no tax relief for the rich, half of these 10 people will not be able to get married and have children. The remaining half of the people who can marry and have children just guarantee the number of the bottom 10 people, and Assume that 10 is exactly the number of people who can be hired, so as to maintain a balance."

"Now the rich tax relief for them, obviously only half of the people are likely to marry and have children, but they can all become, and live longer. So, 10 people become 20, but only 10 people are needed .What about the extra 10 people? And the extra 10 people will lead to lower prices for hired workers, as long as they have something to eat. What about the remaining 10 people? They can only starve to death."

"In this way, if the rich receive tax relief, they are still dead, and the wages of those who survive will drop, and their lives will be worse than before."

"After 20 years, the wages of these 10 people have dropped even further, and the number of people who are married and have children is even less, and even half of them are gone. There may be 5 people left, but 10 people are needed. So wages have risen again, These 5 people began to marry and have children again, and it was reincarnation..."

"The more I think about it, the more frightened I am. What's the difference between reincarnation like this and letting those people starve to death without relief? Obviously, I did something out of conscience, but the result didn't change at all. Is there anything worse in this world than this?" Is it something that people despair?"

Lan Qi laughed and said, "Is this the reason you got from looking at the cabbage?"

"Yes, I can remove the cabbage at will, because it is a cabbage, and I will remove No.11 after only ten trees can grow. But after thinking about this problem, I always feel that these cabbages are just heads. The human head..."

Lan Qi deliberately reached out her hand to touch a cabbage plant next to it, then withdrew her hand and sucked her finger, saying, "Really! It bit me!"

After speaking, Lin Xi laughed out loud. Lin Xi felt that the joke was not funny, and kicked Lan Qi's calf angrily, and muttered: "The natural resources you think belong to all the people of the country... that's what I said A large number of cabbages grow so slender that they are all emaciated in the end. Because in that situation, every seed can germinate, and more and more, but your thoughts lead you not to take the initiative to kill people, and you abandon What should I do when the time comes? If you don’t kill that invisible hand of heaven, you won’t let the invisible hand of heaven kill you. Except for the same poverty and thinness, I can’t think of it. other inferences."

Lin Xi thought that Lan Qi would lower her head and think dully, but she didn't want Lan Qi to still smile and ask instead: "What else? I want to see what kind of confusion can make Xiao Lin Xi frown."

Lin Xi gritted his teeth and said, "And the equality you pursue, how is it possible? You have met all kinds of people along the way. You said that those tribes in the ends of the earth are really equal to you? They talk They all stutter, and the whole group stutters, and their behavior is more... more... more like orangutans."

"Just like these cabbages, the final result can only be... only those suitable for growth can block the rest of the sun that is not suitable for production. Even if they can mate with each other like different sheep, they can survive in the end, It is still the seeds of those cabbages that are fit to grow, or the offspring that have inherited their characteristics."

"Ten years from now, there will only be one kind of cabbage here. Indeed, at that time all cabbages are equal, but there is only one kind of cabbage left, and the ancestors of the remaining cabbage are probably one or two kinds of cabbage. , and the rest won't even leave a seed."

"I believe that everyone is equal with my conscience, and I hope that the world without disputes you mentioned will appear. But when these notes of mine are sent back to China, someone will easily find these things from them. Don't you think that Is the slave trade wrong—someone will find a scientific conclusion from these notes of mine that the slave trade is right because people are not equal."

"Yes, science, how do you refute what you most believe then?"

Lin Xi painfully expressed her uneasiness, and she did not forget what she had thought when she was in Tianya Haijiao—leave these doubts that can drive people crazy to Lan Qi, so she doesn't want to touch them.However, the more I evade like this, and when I suddenly start thinking about these problems, the pain that I have been avoiding and avoiding all the time becomes more intense and uncontrollable.

Chapter 3 Cabbage, Black Swan

Occasionally flashing thoughts are always confusing, just like when every young child looks up at the starry sky, he thinks of the greatest people who come from, go to, live and die, heaven and earth. The problem.

The confusion in Lin Xi's heart, she thought that people who were close to the fishermen would always be infected with some fishy smell, so she occasionally thought about society and people, so she was tortured like this.

In fact, this is not the case. His confusion stems from a more essential question after thinking: she has seen the clues to the selection of species and the inheritance of survival, but where do species come from?

Once at the ends of the earth, she told herself not to think about any philosophical issues, but she never thought that there are three thousand roads, and the same goal will be achieved by different routes. "Where did it come from" is the ultimate problem.

This question is too difficult for Lan Qi to answer, but it can answer the doubts about slaves.

"The difference in race does not lead to the conclusion that some people must be slaves."

"First of all, you have to prove that for the common interests of all people, it is the best choice for some people to be slaves. Then you have to prove the differences of those races, which make them suitable for slaves. In the end, you can get such a seemingly suitable but practical The above is a conclusion based on double assumptions."

"The things you wrote are not contrary to what we are pursuing. We don't need to prove that the races are the same, we just need to prove that it is not the best choice for some people to be slaves for the common interests of all people. .What we mean by equality does not mean that the words printed by the printing press are the same, nor is it based on that.”

Lin Xi sighed sadly and helplessly, shook her head and said, "If I don't think about the issues you are thinking, these things have nothing to do with me. However, I am worried that one day people will think that they know the truth between heaven and earth. It’s like knowing that there are my hands above the garden, thinking that I can control these hands, and thinking that people and cabbages are the same.”

"According to the legend of our ancestors, it was Pan Gu who created the world. From that moment on, the way of heaven has existed. I don't know much about other subjects, but as far as natural history is concerned, we know the inheritance passed down to the next generation, and we are exploring the origin of species. Stay safe."

"There are only two points left, the origin of all things and the root of all changes. If you understand and understand these two points, what is the difference between us and Pan Gu, who created the world?"

"There are always advantages and disadvantages in everything, but the people's hearts now, let me see the future is the cabbages in the vegetable garden and the hands hanging on the heads of the cabbages."

"Just like the 'march of dignity' you discussed, the emergence of machines is a good thing, but are people ready for the era of these machines and the division of labor?"

"Thinking of this, I am afraid. We have traveled too fast these years. We have seen the bumpy mountains and rivers on the moon, the world of dripping water under the microscope, thought of the particles, atoms and molecules that make up everything in the world, and summed up the relationship between everything. The gravitational force, calculated the pressure of the atmosphere, flew into the sky, compounded fertilizers... step by step to tear away the mysterious veil that shrouded the way of heaven and earth. And all this is only ten years, but people are still the same as before. Are we, we animals called humans, really ready to understand the way of heaven and earth, and hold it in our hands to transform the whole world?"

Hearing this, Lan Qi comforted with a rare fatalistic tone: "Perhaps, this is fate, a fate that cannot be avoided. Since it cannot be avoided, why not let this happen earlier? Thinking too much There are so many, we can only go forward. Just like our old stories say, one generation has one generation. What we have to do is those who smelted emerald stones into copper by the Cao River. Those who planted millet by the river, or those who ground gunpowder back then, brought a new life, but also brought more cruel disputes, which is a yin and yang side that cannot be avoided.”

Lin Xi pondered for a long time, did not choose to nod or shake his head, only said that he wanted to go to be quiet for a while, and he did it silently on the stones by the sea in the distance.

This is a knot in the heart, a knot that others cannot untie.

……

In the end, Lin Xi still did not choose to seal the basic note and send it back, but chose to pack it and carry it with him.

Chen Jian didn't say anything. He knew that the persuasion at this time was meaningless. She was an independent girl with her own ideas, not someone who would give up all her doubts for love and other emotions.

After Lin Xi wrapped up those notes, on a moonlit night, she quietly made an oath to the moonlight with a slightly superstitious or shirkable mentality.

"Our ancestors who have always protected us, Pan Gu who created the world and opened the sky... I know that you have set the way of the world since the beginning of the world, and you will never take care of everything in the universe and the universe. But I still want to put this All possible evils are entrusted to you, because it is said that the ancestors will unconditionally protect everyone in the ethnic group. If... If this voyage continues this time, I am not drowned in the sea, nor died of various diseases, and I am alive When I return to my hometown, I will publish all my notes and guesses, and I will never touch any subjects related to people or society in my life.”

I bowed twice to the bright moon, and when I bowed for the third time, I suddenly remembered something, and spat twice on the ground: "Bah, bah, bah...change it, I still want to know where it came from, but I don't want to know where to go."

After thinking for a moment, he changed his words again: "Where did this come from? It refers to people who have broken away from social attributes, natural history concepts, and physical people stripped of the concept of soul."

After confirming again and again that there was nothing wrong with what I said, I bowed for the last time, only to find that the moon pulled a piece of cloud to cover up my snickering.

One and a half months later, three carefully inspected sailboats, filled with grain and fresh water, a batch of cattle and sheep, and three boxes of dung beetles, left the port under the welcome of the residents of Wangbei City. The sound of firecrackers could not block the various accents on the shore. The bon voyage cry.