Chapter 5603 Farming expansion is better than nostalgia
Black Rou sighed softly and said, "It seems that the disciple is stupid. You said it makes sense. This human being is born with an aggressive nature that Nuwa has created when she created humans since the beginning of the world.
And expansionism, this cannot be changed. In order to survive, humans also need to hunt, collect, or seize resources from other tribes. However, when the land is vast and sparsely populated, as long as they can survive independently, they will be far away from other tribes.
, Can this conflict be avoided?"
Speaking of this, Black Rou swallowed a drool and continued: "Just like the Taoist theory, it says that Tao follows nature, the sound of chickens and dogs is heard, and they will never interact with each other when they die. These should be the ideal state of the righteous immortals.
, Each village or tribe survives independently, or farms, or nomads, rely on the weather to make a living, and you don’t have to conflict with other tribes. As long as you can survive, that’s enough, so as to avoid the same kind of tragedy.
Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to offer sacrifices to their own gods and occupy their own territory?"
Dou Peng said coldly: "I feel that the Black Robe Venerable wants to go to the right path to practice immortality, and does not want to stay in our Heavenly Dao Alliance. Maybe you chose the wrong path at the beginning."
Black Robe curled her lips: "It's time to go, I can't look back, but I have to consider the issue of our God Alliance's future survival. After all, the large-scale reliance on the model of killing and sacrifice will not work in the future. Our organization exposed it
From now on, we have our behind-the-scenes planning in those chaotic times, causing a large number of slaughter. It is unlikely that we will continue to sacrifice the gods. It is hard to say whether we can pass Liu Yu's barrier now. Besides, even if we say it,
What are the benefits for you and me after offering so many lives to the gods and ancestors in heaven? Even the ancestors cannot ascend to the nine heavens, let alone us, Venerable Douban, what we are discussing today
The matter has deviated from many of the initial rules of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, and it has long been enough to punish God. But didn’t the ancestor continue to discuss this with us? This shows that he is also thinking and seeking change.”
Dou Peng sighed and murmured, "What you said makes sense. Our original intention of joining the Heavenly Dao Alliance is just to cultivate immortality and immortality. There is no big difference in how to achieve it. If we don't need to slaughter so many living people, If you can succeed, why not do it? Although cultivating immortals requires abandoning human nature, even if the immortals see us mortals as if they are animals, they will not have to kill them. The reason why the evil gods need human sacrifice is because Human beings themselves have the essence of spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Rather than killing people, they are trying to find a way to obtain the essence. Since the righteous immortals have such a way and can survive well, we may be able to find another one. A road is like to the ancestor. It is worse than us now that we only need his help and concentrate on providing his magic power. First defeat Liu Yu, eliminate the most direct threat in front of us, and then Xu Tu's funeral. Ancestor, what do you think Woolen cloth?"
The ancestor smiled slightly: "You are determined to think about the future of this divine alliance. This is a good thing. I am very happy. The Black Robe Venerable said just now that as long as you are far away and do not contact, there will be no conflicts or conflicts. You are real
Do you agree with this theory?”
The black robe curled her lips and said, "Maybe, in ancient times, there were many nomadic tribes, and they lived by water and grass. They had to migrate everywhere and compete with other tribes for survival resources, but after they were converted to farming, then
You can live and work in peace and contentment. As long as you have water sources and farmland, you can be self-sufficient, you don’t have to rely on attacking others to live. In this case, you should be able to achieve this ideal state.”
The ancestor smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Then please ask the Black Robe Venerable to answer a question. After the Zhou tribe arrived in Zhouyuan, it was said that you had reached your ideal state, and turned back to farming, with hundreds of miles of fertile soil.
The population is only more than 10,000, enough to be self-supported, so why continue to expand? Why did it develop from a mere hundred miles of Zhouyuan to a western power of thousands of miles of local areas during the Jili period? If farming does not require external expansion,
When seizing land, where did these territories come from?”
Heibo was a little panicked, calmed down and said, "That's because the surrounding Rongdi tribes continued to invade Zhou tribes. The Zhou people fought back in self-defense, or called other tribes such as the Ying tribe to join forces to fight back, in order not to
If you leave the troubles, you might as well go further into these hostile Rongdi territory to take revenge. In the end, these hostile nomadic tribes could not stay and could not defeat them, so they had to escape, and these territory would be returned to the Zhou tribe."
Dou Peng also said: "The Zhou tribe also has the task of capturing humans and animals for the Shang Dynasty. This is also very important. I am afraid that the Zhou tribe is not completely self-defense counterattack. Even the more they take the initiative, the more they will attack.
Because the more you fight, you are getting stronger and stronger. You are not all passively beaten like before. In order to increase your tribe's strength and increase your population, you need more and more territory. Thousands of people may be able to support them within a hundred miles.
But if there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, it will take hundreds of miles or thousands of miles."
The ancestor smiled slightly: "Look, isn't this aggression? Is this kind of aggressiveness and expansionism different from nomadic or farming? Nomadic tribes migrate everywhere in order to survive and live by water and grass, because they don't
In another place, the original consumption of aquatic plants could not meet the food of their cattle and sheep, so they could only stay for a few months. If the local aquatic plants could continue to supply their cattle and sheep to eat all year round, who would be willing to migrate everywhere.
Woolen cloth?"
"But the same is true for farming. The grain produced by farming seems stable, but it will also face the result of rapid increase in population. Once the population is too large, the original land carrying capacity will inevitably be insufficient, which requires more land.
The result is to expand outward and occupy more territory. It is not that the Qiang Di does not come to attack the Zhou people, but the Zhou people can stay in the land of the Zhouyuan forever. With a large population, they will still rob the Qiang Di.
The territory, and this territory will not leave after it is occupied, and will even become farmland instead of grassland.”
When the ancestor said this, he looked at the black robe who had obviously accepted this statement and continued: "It is not so easy to turn grasslands into farmland. It is very difficult at the beginning of the land reclamation. First, there must be a water source nearby, and then burn it.
The grass is open, and the ash is used as fertilizer to increase the soil strength. The land must be plowed repeatedly and stones must be removed, or even borrowed cattle and sheep manure to increase fertility. It can only be cultivated as farmland after several years. In addition, the most important thing
It is to divert water and irrigate water. It is necessary to bring the water from the nearby river into the ditches to irrigate the farmland. Without water, there is no need to think about all the farming work. This requires a lot of manpower and requires people who are engaged in agriculture.
The rewards have never been so easy." (End of this chapter)