Chapter 82 Language and Change
As an earthling, Zhang Quan should have a sense of superiority towards his own race and civilization. In fact, he came from the earth, carrying the knowledge and materials on the earth, forming a crushing force against the orcs on the wastelands of the Gaia world.
But occasionally, at some unintentional moment, Zhang Quan would encounter some things in this world that shocked him, making him doubt the superiority of race and civilization he maintained.
For example, language.
Before, Zhang Quan had been puzzled by the unity of Gaia's language. This is a very important thing to happen in a world where wars are frequent, geographical environment, historical evolution, body shape and the entire ethnic civilization have completely different huge gaps. It is difficult to explain it with natural inheritance.
This can be compared from the past history on the earth.
For example, on the earth, due to geographical differences and civilization differences, different countries and nations often have their own languages. The difference in language is a sign of the main carrier of the inheritance of a national civilization.
Even though international languages such as English and French began to appear to varying degrees in terms of characteristics of Esperanto, the reason for this situation is largely to facilitate trade exchanges between different countries and use them as auxiliary languages, rather than replacing the existence of native languages of various ethnic groups.
Perhaps in the future, after the earth enters the interstellar era, the differences between various ethnic civilizations will begin to disappear, and then the Esperanto language used by people on earth will appear.
But at least this is absolutely impossible for the earth to happen now, even if the earth has achieved a certain degree of globalization of trade.
Language is the most important feature of racial civilization. The difference in language actually means the difference between race and civilization.
Therefore, under the natural history of smart creatures, it is difficult to have a great difference between racial civilizations, but they insist on using the same language, unless it is the history of this continent, which has some tricks that Zhang Quan does not know.
Zhang Quan became interested in this so-called mainland common word and conducted some research, but the results after the research made him even more shocked and confused.
This common language is an inefficient syllable text like English, but strangely, this Gaia seems to be lengthy, but after careful study, it is revealed that its expression efficiency is far higher than that of English, and is closer to the research results of the most efficient and clearest logical expression on the earth - formal language.
This is an extremely high-level language, which should never be created by a primitive race that is even more backward than the earth. In a linguistic sense, this is definitely a high-level text that has been optimized many times. The advanced meaning contained in it is even difficult to fully understand Zhang Quan's limited linguistic knowledge.
This is something that makes Zhang Quan's self-esteem as an earthlinger difficult to accept.
This matter is definitely not simple. There must be a huge secret hidden here. This secret is like the magical orc civilization in another world, the magical sacrificial war songs, and the magic that he has never seen in person, making it difficult for him to find a reasonable explanation.
Under such confusion, Zhang Quan did not dare to promote the earth's language and writing in his base mountain tribe. Although, in the current base mountain, language barrier has become the most anxious thing that makes Zhang Quan feel the most anxious.
Because of language barriers, it is difficult for Zhang Quan to promote basic education among the orcs on earth. Because of language barriers, it is difficult for Zhang Quan to let his tauren craftsmen directly learn advanced craftsmen's knowledge from the earth. Because of language barriers, Zhang Quan even encounters great trouble when training his soldiers.
Without a certain cultural foundation, the deep-rooted backward customs of the orcs in the tribe are difficult to completely change, and even if there are many more and better policies, it is difficult to implement them in the tribe.
If you are on Earth, even if you face the backward people, as long as you have a language foundation, then using pictures, videos, movies, various image posters, night schools, literacy classes, and various forced indoctrination methods can greatly improve the speed of popularization of cultural knowledge. However, here, due to the differences in language and writing, these methods are temporarily unfeasible.
现在,语言文字的不同,已经是阻挠基地山部落从原始部落向现代文明大踏步迈进的一道巨大的枷锁,即使是张泉尝试着在小范围内扩散简单的地球知识,都需要将这些想办法在脑子里先转化为盖亚语以后才能说出来,这,实在是太累了,太繁琐,白白的降低了学习的效率.
总之,语言问题,是个**烦.
而且,张泉暂时间还没办法解决.
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张泉回到基地山,这一段张泉不在的时间,盖亚世界基地山周围的部落同样也发生了几件大事.老凯特这个留守的家伙上来报告之后,张泉才知道,原来这些事情的发生当然都是和基地山大有关系.
"Actually, it's because our Lord is good!" Old Kate sighed, regardless of the fact that Zhang Quan is in front of him now, he is flattering naked in front of him.
"In addition to our tribe, there are no other tribes who are willing to help our poor and low-level orcs like this. They also send you all kinds of things, food, clothing, and use. Our life in the base mountain is so good, and everyone is jealous!" he said.
What he said is not unreasonable. In the past year, these tribes with Base Mountain as the core have gradually become rich under the help of Base Mountain. Not only has the increase in food, but the population of the tribes that should have been reduced, but after the arms trade was opened, these "friendly tribes" around this area have also benefited from it, and the tribe's military equipment has been greatly enhanced.
The enhancement of this military equipment is exponential, similar to a sudden jump. Even the most wealthy Taurus Hammer tribe in the wasteland has successfully increased from the original dozens of tons of steel to the level of hundreds of tons, not to mention other tribes. Some tribes' military equipment has even increased dozens or even hundreds of times compared to the original.
Overall, all the friendly tribes around Base Mountain have become stronger. This power is of course obtained by the fact that these tribes have a stronger dependence on Base Mountain, and their closeness is even at the cost of reaching the level of vassal tribes.
But in the end, the prices paid were not in vain. Ten days ago, Gaia's local time, not long after Zhang Quan had just returned to the Earth World, the Pige Alliance, which was originally located in the southwest of Shanxi, suddenly began to move eastward, and migrated two or three hundred miles apart at a time. During the migration eastward, the Pige Alliance of course encountered obstacles, which was a tribe Wolf werewolf tribe, which originally belonged to the local tribe.
"I didn't expect that the brave and fighting werewolf could not stop the Pigeons equipped with the weapons and armor of our base mountain. The weapons and armor of our base mountain are now famous on the grassland." Old Kate sighed very much.
Although the Wolf tribe encountered in this battle of moving east, the Wolf tribe they encountered was not very powerful, but there were several vassal tribes in their hands. The main warrior of the tribe was as many as 2,000. Such a tribe certainly would not give a small character like the Pig Alliance any color. When the two families met, the war broke out before the third party participated in the mediation.
But in the end, the result of this war was surprising. The result of the war was not the victory of the brave and war-going Wolfs. On the front battlefield, the Pigs defeated Wolf. After the war, despite the harassment of Wolf's scattered soldiers, the Pigs actually galloped hundreds of miles to trek into the Wolf's old camp, defeating the Wolfs in one fell swoop.
There is also a highlight in this classic raid battle, that is, a Pig vassal tribe under the Wolfs turned against each other in this battle, and the Pig heavy infantrymen who attacked Wolf's old camp in the Pig Alliance worked inside and outside, and quickly captured the Wolf's old nest.
The final result was that the Wolfs admitted to their defeat. After negotiations, they lost all their territory and vassal tribes, and took the old and weak in the released tribes to go east to surrender to other Wolf tribes. This military adventure of the Pig Alliance was also very successful.
In this battle, the lazy Pigeons showed extraordinary resilience and willpower, and they were able to defeat the Wolfs, who were known for their bravery and good fighting on the battlefield. The biggest reason why Pigeons were able to defeat this battle was undoubtedly that the excellent armor and weapons traded by the Pigeon Alliance and Base Mountain became the protagonist of the battle.
"However, in this battle, the vassals of the Pige clan who were suddenly betrayed by the werewolf tribe, also helped a lot. It was definitely not a coincidence that the Pige clan moved east this time, probably not a hasty risk, but a real long-planned expansion!" Zhang Quan also saw the problem incisively.
Old Kate replied,
"This is probably true, but this is just a small problem. The most important thing is that the Wolf light infantry never imagined that once the fat Pigs have the right armor and weapons, they can actually become heavy infantry second only to the Taurus and Bill. Nearly two thousand such Pig heavy infantry appeared on the battlefield, and even the Wolfs could only avoid their sharpness."
"After this battle, the Pige Alliance's momentum rose sharply and officially rose to an influential tribe in the eastern part of the base Shandong. The number of other vassal tribes has been added to tens of thousands, and I'm afraid that it will no longer listen to the control of our base Mountain. I'm also wondering whether these Pige Alliance had planned it and whether they could no longer endure the strategy of our base Mountain."
"It seems that it was the weapon and armor exit of our base mountain, which led to a sudden change in the strength comparison!" Zhang Quan sighed after hearing this.
Chapter completed!