When the Pandora era began, the life on earth began to revel, and human civilization declined step by step.
Wireless communications have lost their effectiveness, and traditional cable and telegraph railways have been repeatedly destroyed. In the first few hundred years, cities relied on jeeps to communicate. However, cars require a complete industrial system to maintain them.
When cars lost their industrial maintenance, fifty years later, cities could only rely on "dragon horses", large load-bearing animals with horse and cow genes, to exchange materials and information.
Due to the barriers in production and exchange, every city cannot maintain an overly advanced education.
Over the past hundred years, various cities have regressed from nine years of compulsory education, to three years of literacy education, and finally to one year of literacy, resulting in various cities maintaining a technological style of the black iron and steam age.
In fact, universal education is not absolutely impossible under this productivity. At least before the 1970s and 1980s, universal literacy was forcibly promoted. At that time, the vast rural areas of East Asia were still in a state of cattle farming productivity. It was just the Pandora era.
The defeatism brought about by post-human decline has left mankind with no morale to move forward. Without morale, no one will work hard.
Education for all! This is a strategy of giving from the upper strata of society to the lower strata. If social development is deduced based on selfish interests, this strategy will not be sustainable.
In a socialist society, the annual investment in education cannot be seen by the current leaders. They are just established policies. If there are no policy constraints, for top managers, if they can weigh it,
It is more important to divert this fund "temporarily" and invest it. Well, projects that can see significant results during this term will be implemented sooner or later.
In a capitalist society, the voice in the parliament applying for education funds is obviously weak. Military expenditures, capital market economy, which one has a large number of people running and shouting? And the gentlemen in the parliament are not public
They are cultivated through basic education, and cutting investment in public education funds can further stabilize the class.
At the same time, among the groups that currently enjoy compulsory education rights, young people overestimate their role in society. They will shout for environmental protection, social fairness and freedom, but they will not shout for extra homework for themselves.
As for the nine-year compulsory education at the beginning of the Pandora era, how did it gradually become like this?
When all efforts to prevent the Pandora Field from eroding human civilization failed, the remaining humans became accustomed to lingering like this. The first generation of knowledge teams were more interested in how to maintain the continued existence of their team, rather than listening to some voices nagging.
Inheriting the fire and restoring glory, teaching and educating people were unintentionally ignored in the distribution of social status.
When the era of the first generation of intellectuals came to an end, the second generation was unwilling to obey the assignment to "teach and educate people every day for ten years." The top ruling class, forced by the reality of insufficient manpower, changed it to six years of compulsory education. Even at this time
There will be some "clear-sighted people" who believe that current production does not require such a high level of knowledge, as long as literacy is enough. For example, when buying food on the street, you don't need to understand complex mathematics, physics and chemistry. Is this useless?
But when it comes to education, society has relaxed, but that doesn’t mean everyone will join in the relaxation and engage in healthy competition. Society will never lack people who compete with each other. After the second generation of intellectuals in the Pandora era completed six years of compulsory education,
Society is essentially stratified.
Social management needs to make tables, classify, and quickly find the most lacking resources in statistics to fill them.
In terms of industrial technology, the maintenance of steam engines and the anatomy and connection of biological structures require an understanding of solid geometry. High-tech positions require knowledge infused through systematic education.
When this kind of problem occurs, do human city-states in various regions make amends after discovering it? No, there is no amends. The way of human beings, the damage is not enough to compensate, but everything speeds up the process!
When the class that possesses knowledge and the upper class overlap with each other, then the already aristocratic class will not contribute to grassroots education, which is difficult, has little fame and fortune, and betrays its own class.
Furthermore, eighty years after the Pandora era, almost all city-states resolutely gave up the great education of the old civilization era.
This is how civilization is. Once it gives up progress, it will retreat significantly. Not to mention the city-state economies in the Pandora era, it is the earth in the 21st century. The first-series developed countries at that time also made such mistakes in education. As a result
, made a start, followed by dominoes.
Even in this degenerate process, there are some politicians who have the idea of reversing all this, but their decisions are made with heavy shackles and walls.
Shackles 1: "On the surface: Academic freedom in schools, secretly: The government funds the education sector but is not subject to government supervision."
Shackles 2: "Every teacher is politically correct and does not interfere with students, but the academic faction controls the teachers to make the same voice, thereby achieving group unity among a generation of intellectuals."
Eventually, when education deteriorates, narcotics are found for temporary comfort.
This "narcotic" is for example: "Under open education, students in our own society emerge as innovative geniuses who learn by themselves. Students in other societies who are strictly assessed are nerds and lack the ability to innovate. They all copy our ideas."
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In order to make this self-paralysis more effective, let’s cite Edison as a self-taught person and Gates voluntarily dropped out of college as evidence.
If a social group lacks education, ignorance, pride, and complacency will also evolve in the culture!
This was the case in Ji'an City, when the explorers dressed in black and gray ran back and reported this "mysterious", "new" and "weird" human genetic community to the superiors.
The decision-makers in Ji'an City made a decision in a hurry without continuing the investigation!
The seven or eight think tanks of Zeng Longmu were scrambling to be the first.
When they hand over the decision-making plan, they may have this mentality: Investigate? After a few days of careful investigation to obtain a large amount of information, it is a mediocre afterthought. Only based on the current small amount of information, can the result be judged (blind).
It seems that we are beyond the intelligence of ordinary people!
In fact, they can't investigate! Investigation requires a lot of manpower, observing from multiple perspectives as much as possible, and then everyone has a tacit understanding and humility to regard their own opinions as part of the entire investigation.
When drawing a common conclusion, you should not have any "personal ability" mentality, and you should not force your own investigation to be the main one, with other people's opinions as a supplement.
All in all, the Ji'an City think tank without civilian education performed at the same level as a certain country's China think tank in the 1920s.
Their inferences and conclusions about the emergence of Wei Keng are as follows.
Inference 1: This is a community born mainly from human genes. The birth of this community may have occurred coincidentally due to the radiation of human genes in many cities, including Ji'an City, or it may have occurred in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the north.
The fusion community branched southward.
Inference 2: The current strength of this community is very weak. There are no large biological beasts that can compete with the beast masters. Most individuals only hold firearms and other equipment.
Inference 3: The community is in a state of confusion, so it has made a request not to have contact with us within six months. It may be in the process of further dispersion.
Conclusion: Ji'an City must dispatch forces as soon as possible to control, or even destroy, and replace its core before it can be further strengthened.
In this way, these small experts in the county have little nutrition left.
It's nothing more than "There are now a large number of beast masters in my city-state, and the newly commissioned mechanical war beasts are powerful. Now we can have a small test to show our strength internally and externally."
In the office in Ji'an City, after listening to the report, Zeng Longmu turned his attention to the two young people. The man was still reading the information, while the woman beside him tugged on the kumquat on the potted plant.
Zeng Longmu asked: "Uncle, when will your oranges be ripe?"
Zeng Longmu: "You, move less and you will mature faster." Then he turned to the man beside him.
Zeng Longmu: "Fang Hong, I want you to carry out this task this time."
Fang Hong nodded.
Zeng Longmu looked at the two of them and said, "When you come back, I will send you this pot of kumquats."
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One month later, which was the seventy-eighth day after Wei Keng came to this plane, someone, well, someone with more than a thousand people counted the days on their hands, thinking that they would have to go back in more than twenty days.
The big iron gate of Ji'an City creaked open amidst the sound of the tower's steam engine starting up.
A convoy of twenty carriages filed out of the city gate, with what appeared to be traditional Chinese characters for "Ji'an" marked on the carriages with metal bumps.
The traction animals are heavily equipped draft horses weighing up to two tons. No, this kind of dragon-horse with mixed genes sprays hot air from its nose, dragging the vehicle with a stainless steel chassis and metal suspension and rubber tires, from the rocks on the lake in front of the city gate.
Driving slowly on the arch bridge.
Since the vitality of various organisms under the influence of life radiation is quite tenacious, resinous liquids such as rubber can still be obtained.
The carriage is surrounded by a steel shell. Of course, it is impossible to provide all-round defense against machine guns like a tank. However, the steel shell near the window is thicker. People can hide in the steel shield near the window and drive a heavy machine gun to shoot around.
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At the rear of this convoy are three war beasts wearing metal armor. These biological and mechanical suture monsters put their front bodies on the cart and move forward semi-relying on the wheeled vehicle. These are the mechanical war beasts of the beast masters.
Already.
These mechanical war beasts, which weigh more than five tons, have eel-like power-generating cells in their bodies, which are used to drive the machinery in the chest and forearms to open during battle. However, this drive is not that long-lasting, and it can only last for twenty minutes in intense combat.
There is a culture tank in a metal box in the carriage, in which microbial replication is emitting life radiation. These life activities are controlled by mechanical war beasts, and the war beasts can extract energy from it. It is like wireless charging.
The convoy made its way westward, making a unique sound of metal. As soon as it all started, it was spotted by an investigation team sent by Wei Keng.
It can be said that Ji'an City acted like this in the last ten days after his time travel, which reminded Wei Keng of the time-limited missions in the game. Something always happens at the end.
Regarding the details of the return, Wei Keng asked about the relevant process of the system.
At the beginning of the return, all self-individuals gather again at the point where they first descended, and the whole process lasts for half a day. In other words, it is impossible to evacuate from here and then move to another place. At present, these uninvited guests must be removed
Just stop it.
Blocking is divided into literary resistance and military resistance.
Literary obstruction means negotiating based on reason, and military obstruction means armed control. Wei Keng has never thought about cultural obstruction. But when the other party is armed with military weapons, he still tries to resist culturally, which is as naive as "asking the League of Nations for mediation on September 18."
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However, there is a problem with military resistance. Wei Keng has clearly seen that there are heavy machine guns in the team coming this time, and he cannot solve this problem.
Submachine guns and heavy machine guns are not the same concept. The former has an effective range of only 150 meters and cannot be used as the core of team tactics, while the latter can suppress any action of the opponent's infantry within a range of 500 to 1,000 meters. It can be said that heavy
The machine gun is the core of firepower.
As for the crossbows, the previous one was about bullying monsters in a semi-jungle environment. If it were on a regular battlefield, the mere requirement of standing up to shoot would be fatal.
Relying on organizational strength and willpower to defeat the opponent? Wei Keng: I am a middle-aged man, and my willpower is unreliable.
Moreover, the opponent is a local, and if you want to rely on the perfect terrain to completely annihilate the opponent, you have to reduce the opponent's intelligence to a certain level. If the war plan is preset to be perfect when it comes up, there are lessons from history!
The Navy's Red Deer in the Pacific War set up combat plans and always pursued perfection. It was planned that the Midi ghosts would definitely be deceived by their own strategies, and then they would be tricked. In the end, the imperial army would be victorious.
War is a very serious issue. After a baptism, the Wei Keng cluster will never rely on one or two possible favorable conditions when dealing with war.
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No matter how he thought about it, Wei Keng felt that the current conditions were uncertain and he had to turn to the system for help.
Faced with Wei Keng's proactive dialogue, Bai Linglu responded very smoothly. He first expressed concern about Wei Keng's current crisis. Then he believed that Wei Keng could solve the problem and was willing to help as much as possible, and then analyzed the current threats.
In this case, this threat is only short-term, and as long as it is successfully overcome, different results will be achieved.
Finally, a regulation on system assistance was elaborated: "Relevant arms support can be provided immediately, but corresponding material support needs to extend the time for the shuttle return channel to arrive."
In short: after receiving aid, you must stay in the area for a longer period of time, no, for a longer period of time.
Faced with such an answer, Wei Keng rubbed his teeth and asked, "How long will it be delayed?"
Bai Linglu: The mass of transported materials is calculated by calibrating one-third of your body weight as a unit scalar. You are now 1523 people, and the unit scalar is 45.3344 tons. Completing the transportation of one unit scalar will extend the passage arrival time by one hundred days.
The exchange must be above one scalar and below three scalars.
Wei Keng and the others had a heated discussion to a certain extent. Well, if Wei Keng were a person, this kind of discussion would be his own hesitation.
The key point discussed by Wei Keng and others is whether to be careful in exchanging one scalar, or to leave a little more room to exchange for three scalars.
If Wei Keng had not split into multiple parts and was so hesitant in the face of himself, he would have chosen to toss a coin, or slap himself a few times to see which one would hurt.
But now, I am making a comparison to see which opinion has a higher proportion in my group.
five minutes later.
Wei Keng's communication team gave Bai Linglu a unified plan: "Exchange three scalars." This is the limit of exchange.
Bai Linglu was a little surprised by Wei Keng's sudden boldness.
However, now all members of the Wei Keng cluster have made a generous choice. The logic behind it is: if we are about to face a war, we must go to all lengths. The purchase of military supplies must be guaranteed as much as possible. We will never imitate the Qing Dynasty in purchasing goods before the Sino-Japanese War
The performance of the ship's buckles and ropes.
After determining the total quantity of materials, the next step is to place an order.
Wei Keng Communication 11: "That single-soldier nuclear bomb comes with ten rounds. It is a fifty-ton nuclear rocket launcher from the Cold War. Well, I know how to use it. I dig trenches and put on protective clothing. By the way, bring me the motorcycle.
Two cars, oh, don’t worry about me, no one here has signed up for projection, I’ll do it.”
Regarding this nuclear rocket, there is no shortage of volunteers within Wei Keng. Wei Keng: This kind of tough guy equipment should be used once in life.
However, Bai Linglu quickly rejected Wei Keng's wild thoughts.
Bai Linglu explained sincerely: Heavy element atoms cannot be stable when traveling. Only if you can find enough artificial elements in this plane for calibration can you deliver this kind of equipment.
Bai Linglu said these words in a very polite tone, and Wei Keng, who was short-sighted, always felt that the little lady's tone at the end seemed to be mocking the word "poor".
The weak-minded Wei Keng could not refute, so he could only sigh inwardly.
a few minutes later
Wei Keng began to carefully check the list of teleportation materials that he could accept. These were some common items that, well, he had thought about these days.
Wei Keng Communication 34 said to Bai Linglu: "It seems that you already have a plan."
Bai Linglu: "You encounter difficulties in the development of the plane. As a supervisor, I should share your worries."