MM Racing Chapter 2974 Desert Merchants, Transformation of Knowledge
Chapter 2974 Desert Merchants, Transformation of Knowledge
Chapter 2974 Desert Merchants, Transformation of Knowledge
The oldest of these children is a teenager, and the youngest is only 8 years old.
But neither of them could tolerate those abhorrent feudal rules.
In a secret room.
Sixty people are having a class meeting.
The person in charge chaired the meeting.
"When you see those important people, you must kowtow. You cannot look around or whisper to each other. You must lower your eyes and not look directly at them. Seeing important people is an offense!"
"When you see a master, you must kneel down and greet him. You cannot get up unless the master tells you to!"
"What kind of ridiculous rules are these?!"
"We are human beings, not livestock!"
“Everyone is right,” the person in the superior position said. “We cannot tolerate those bastards riding on our heads. We must pull them down, sit on top ourselves, and become the noble ones!”
As soon as he said that, the other 59 people looked at him with strange eyes.
But soon, this strangeness turned into relief, understanding, and even longing.
Hehe, when Wenren Sheng's gaze fell on him, he couldn't help but shake his head.
Sure enough, even if these people accepted Zhao Qing's modern ideas and the concept of "equality for all,"
However, deep down, they still crave the status of being important people.
Just because they accept modern ideas doesn't mean they have to act according to those ideas.
This doesn't mean they have to suffer or be truly equal to others.
On the contrary, they want to use the knowledge they have acquired to obtain the status they once envied.
This feudal system itself was designed to protect the interests of those in power.
Its various rules and etiquette are all designed to create a threshold, deceive the people, and make them obedient so they won't cause trouble.
These are things that they both deeply hate and yearn for.
Of these 60 people, five or six felt that what the person in charge said was wrong.
Someone stood up and said, "This is not right."
"Now that we have learned what our teachers have taught us, we should all be equal and have the same status as everyone."
"Yes, if we ride it ourselves, wouldn't we be just like those noblemen?"
“What’s wrong with being like those noblemen?” someone else retorted.
"Hmph, does that mean we've learned all this for nothing?"
"Yes, that's how it should be."
Everyone was talking.
……
While the class meeting was in progress, the supporting character was also giving a new lesson.
She's gotten smarter now; her new education system is actually training a new batch of teachers.
Simply put, it's about training teacher trainees.
She addressed the selected group of students, saying:
“You are all above-average students.”
"Not too smart, not too stupid, just right to be a teacher."
"Alright, now let's see how to teach the children."
"First, we need to select the smarter children."
"Let these children learn knowledge quickly, and then let them slowly teach the less intelligent children."
"This will save us a lot of time."
"In this educational process, we must learn to conduct a rigorous selection process."
"The teaching is divided into three stages."
"The first part is to listen to Chinese and math first. If you can't understand it, just give up."
"No need to trouble yourself."
“For children who can understand, take them into the second stage.”
"The second phase will increase the difficulty and be integrated with actual work."
"If you can understand this, move on to the third section. The third section is more difficult. You need to be able to innovate and summarize."
"In this way, after three rounds of selection, we can focus on cultivating the brightest children among them."
Upon hearing that this was a city, the children all nodded.
Whatever the teacher says goes.
……
at the same time.
The class meeting, attended by sixty students, continued.
"The one who rose to power" kept the gazes of those people firmly in his mind.
He couldn't help but smile inwardly.
Because he knew that although these people had learned the teacher's knowledge, their mentality was still that of ordinary people.
In this way, he can continue to control them.
However, they need to make better use of the knowledge they have learned.
Those godlike pieces of knowledge cannot be mastered by one person alone.
He saw it immediately.
It requires cooperation, social interaction, and solidarity.
Therefore he said to everyone:
"Okay, then let's establish a new organization."
"And this organization is called the Equality Society."
"The goal of equality is that we are all equal."
"We are all equal."
"We should unite, keep growing stronger, and finally overthrow the emperor and seize the dynasty."
Suddenly someone worried, "If we can learn the knowledge the teacher teaches, others can learn it too."
“If they learn it, they will turn against us.”
"Yes, this knowledge is very simple and can be learned in no time."
The person in charge immediately smiled.
He was worried that these people were too selfless.
Looking back now, it seems they had the same mindset as me.
So he said, "Therefore, we must control this knowledge."
"We cannot allow it to spread freely."
"In that case, if it falls into the hands of bad people, it will only bring harm to the people."
"Yes, that's how it should be."
"That's right. Arsenic can save lives in the hands of a doctor, but it can kill in the hands of a murderer."
"That's right, this knowledge is poison..."
Thus, as soon as equality emerged, it immediately and magnificently completed its transformation.
They learned modern knowledge, but at the same time, they began to close themselves off from it.
This proves a point once again.
When this knowledge is possessed by a minority, they will instinctively use it to make a profit and keep the knowledge locked away.
Only when this knowledge is shared with the public, and when it becomes difficult to contain, will they choose to use other methods and cease simply blocking knowledge.
In conclusion, the "ascension" has been initially successful.
He successfully gathered these first golden humans who had tasted the fruits of knowledge.
But he chose to become a dragon.
Just like that old pig, even though his own family starved to death in the Yuan Dynasty, he still said that he was happy to be born in the Yuan Dynasty in order to prevent the people from rebelling. He claimed that his family starved to death because there were too many rebels, so he had no choice but to join the righteous army.
He wasn't going to rebel, but to quell the rebels.
See? From beginning to end, Old Pig never admitted that he was a traitor.
They did not admit that they had obtained the world through rebellion, but rather that they had obtained the Mandate of Heaven by suppressing various bandits.
He did not refer to the Yuan people as bandits, but rather believed that the Mandate of Heaven had automatically transferred from the Yuan to him.
And this "promoted" person is none other than a younger version of Old Pig.
These people began to rapidly use these modern tools to empower themselves.
However, they soon discovered a problem.
To make these modern skills effective, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, mechanics, pulleys, gears, springs, etc., sixty people are far from enough.
It would take at least 6000 people to basically form a modern logistics and industrial system.
So they started recruiting more people.
Just then, the teacher began a large-scale lesson.
He began teaching another group of bright students.
And they managed to win over those students one by one.
However, they also censored the knowledge and technology they had developed.
These guys are really smart.
They categorized and taught those people the techniques.
However, there was only a tiny bit of real skill involved.
Most of the technology is hidden from them. Even with this limited amount of modern knowledge, they still try to divide and control it.
It's absolutely laughable.
Wen Rensheng laughed when he saw this.
This isn't due to his supposed intellectual disability; these people are simply doing this anyway.
Zhao Qing was quite helpless when she saw this.
Why can't you unite?
Why can't everyone work together properly?
Why can't we solve the problem together?
Why must one become a noble person?
After venting her frustrations, she went to find Wenren Sheng and asked him about the bitterness in her heart.
Wen Rensheng used only one sentence to make her feel ashamed and break her defenses.
"When you first traveled through time, didn't you want to be Empress Dowager Cixi or Empress Wu Zetian, the female emperors?"
"This shows that you teach well."
The supporting character was immediately taken aback.
Wenren Sheng shook his head.
That's human nature.
Human nature itself comes from physiological hormones and gene expression.
This is both biological and material.
Matter will eventually defeat consciousness.
Consciousness is too fragile.
Their mental state is too fragile.
Only a few people can withstand it.
Furthermore, a limitation must be added: only a small number of people, and for a limited period of time, can withstand it.
Many people managed to withstand it at first, but when life improved and the environment became more relaxed, they were defeated instead.
Neither education nor morality can withstand the true nature of humanity.
Because true matter is capable of defeating the spirit.
So it's normal for them to have this kind of thought.
They were, after all, born into a feudal society.
The people around them will continuously influence them.
Those officials we usually see, and those ordinary people.
They constantly remind them that people have different social classes.
People are divided into rich and poor.
Despite receiving a modern education, their mindset and the surrounding environment remain feudal.
People still want to make money, get rich, and rise to a higher position.
In Wenrensheng's view, society would naturally react in kind after they had made initial progress in reforming it.
Because the modern knowledge disseminated by the other side will become a force that disrupts the balance.
Of course, that knowledge could very well be completely blocked.
There is no doubt about this.
Until one day, some idealists discovered that knowledge and used it to gain greater industrial strength through the concept of equality, thus defeating them.
Only through equality can industry thrive.
At the very least, there must be equality in terms of human dignity, or even just superficial equality, in order to develop industry.
The reason is simple: industrial development requires scientific methods and systematic approaches.
If there is inequality, then it means that someone can arbitrarily dictate how a factory is built.
That would be a disaster.
The failure of the Self-Strengthening Movement was due to inequality.
Officials, high above and mighty, arbitrarily ordered the construction of factories, disregarding science and established principles.
For example, a high-ranking official demanded to see the chimney every day, which led to the factory being built on a site that was not scientifically sound.
A lot of profits were wasted.
There are many, many more such cases.
And at this time.
The supporting character was speechless and had no choice but to leave Wenren Sheng.
She decided to continue teaching new students, allowing them to form a check and balance.
To this end, she also made efforts to study and recall the university knowledge she had forgotten.
All she remembered was that the speed of light was absolute, and that the earth was actually a distortion of space.
……
Time passes day by day.
Three more years have passed.
The 60 members of the Equality Society, through self-cultivation and recruitment, successfully built a team of 500 people.
It's very easy for one person to lead 10 people.
The key point is that they didn't choose those who were too smart.
On the contrary, they worry that these intelligent people can apply what they've learned to other situations.
Therefore, they only selected ordinary people.
They taught each other various specialized skills.
Mapping, craftsmanship knowledge, numerical tables, quantitative analysis...
By summarizing and applying this knowledge, they significantly improved the blacksmiths' efficiency.
For example, they set up assembly lines for standardized production.
They invented simple lathes, both water-powered and wind-powered.
Many blacksmiths are illiterate, unable to record or write, so they have no way to summarize their techniques.
They simply rely on their ancestors' experience to do things.
Therefore, it is easy to overlook important details.
They lack the motivation to improve technology.
Because craftsmen had a low social status.
It is only high among barbarians.
They also lack the funds and methods for improvement.
They don't know how to improve, nor do they want to improve.
Even after they've made the changes, they still can't sell it for more money.
Because they would all be taken away by the government.
They were just doing things according to old habits and in a routine manner.
They made no progress for a long time.
For them, making improvements is risky and offers no benefit.
But the people in these equality societies are different.
They improved their technology with the goal of rebellion.
The profits were astonishing.
Therefore, they have ample motivation to do so.
Therefore, they made numerous improvements and enhancements to the blacksmiths' production efficiency.
They invented wind and water power forging.
They built small reservoirs and a series of other agricultural irrigation facilities.
After six years, they felt they were ready.
At this time, the mountains could support 50,000 people and provide for 4,000 soldiers.
This is based on the absence of middlemen; they directly use mathematical verification to collect taxes.
And at this time.
Chaos has begun to break out down the mountain.
Even in the prosperous Jiangnan region, several large-scale rebellions broke out.
It is said that a salt merchant surnamed Zhang occupied many cities in the Jiangnan region.
He amassed a powerful force by selling smuggled salt.
The imperial court, meanwhile, remained confined to its capital and failed to quell the rebellion.
Or rather, they did indeed come out to quell the rebellion.
As a result, the troops that were suppressing the rebellion mutinied after only 30 li (approximately 15 kilometers) of marching.
This is what the Beijing Garrison was like; it was ridiculously weak.
They are receiving salaries without working.
These people, who worked for the nobles every day, had long lost their fighting ability.
They were farmers, craftsmen, peddlers, and barbers, but not soldiers.
They were also completely unwilling to serve the imperial court.
(End of this chapter)