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3192 Cannibals and slavery

All the Chinese officers and soldiers present pricked their ears, and even the entourages from Germany and France started secret records. Everyone hoped to get some top secrets from Xiang Ying's mouth.

But unfortunately, today they met Xiang Ying, who was as savage as a ghost. All the secrets in his mouth were hidden in the Asian cultural system, and did not involve any current military and national political leaders.

"We have been in China for five thousand years. Since the name of China came into being, the concept of Yiman Rongdi has appeared with it..."

"It's like when there is day, there will be night, and symbiosis like yin and yang!"

"What exactly is China and what is barbarians? When the head of state told me, there was no confusion in a word in ancient books, but it told a very long and interesting story. God knows how those stories came about!"

"Around 5000 BC, you can hear that this is even longer than the Xia Dynasty. According to the Western Age Act, this is nearly six thousand years ago...

"In today's Ningbo area of ​​Zhejiang, there is a civilization called Hemudu civilization... Don't ask me, I asked the master at that time, but the master smiled and didn't tell me how he knew..."

"Just listen! This Hemudu civilization is actually a very primitive tribal civilization. It eats raw meat and drinks blood. It has just learned to grow rice. It can burn some of the roughest pottery and fish..."

"But just this civilization has a bad habit...that is cannibalism!"

"When hunting, people from this tribe will catch other tribes like wild animals. The most popular prey is babies. They will stew babies or children with fish together!"

"Don't vomit... There are still cannibals now. There are many jungles in South America and Southeast Asia. There are still cannibals today. This is how humans lived in the early days..."

Xiang Ying unscrewed the military kettle and took a sip of water, suppressing the disgusting feeling in his heart.

"Let me tell you, at the same time in this civilization, there is a civilization called Banpo civilization by the Yellow River... Don't ask, I can't tell the origin of this name even if I ask..."

"This Banpo civilization is a little better than Hemudu, at least the technology is higher... They can plant millet, chestnuts, and breed some chickens and ducks, and they can also fish and hunt..."

"More importantly, the Banpo people's pottery making technology is far higher than the Hemudu civilization... The most important point is that this tribe has abandoned the bad habit of cannibalism, and they are about to enter a complete farming civilization..."

"Then, the question is... Which of these two tribes of the same period is civilized and which of them is barbaric? If we have to divide a Chinese and a barbarian, how do we divide it?"

"Is this more necessary? Of course, the Banpo people on the edge of the Yellow River are a little more civilized. The cannibalism is naturally barbaric!" A soldier replied loudly.

"Yes, that's the truth. In fact, if we can travel through time and space and return to the distant era of 5,000 BC, then can we imagine a scene like this?"

"It is also a tribal conquest. Civilizations like Hemudu attacked the surrounding tribes. When the attacked weak tribes see that the attackers are cannibals, what will they do?"

"Of course I'm trying my best! No one wants to die, and I don't want to be eaten by others! Then even if these tribes are obviously not strong enough, they will fight to the death with one life!"

"But what if the protagonist of the conquest was replaced by a slightly more civilized Banpo people? They attacked other small tribes not for killing people or cannibalism, but just for the tribe to add more slaves, because their farmland needs more slaves to cultivate them!"

"Of course there will be resistance, but this resistance will never be as intense as the resistance of the cannibals, because they know that the end of failure is just to be slaves, and they can survive with food and drink!"

"Even slaves' lives would be better, because these people have beautiful pottery and more advanced farming techniques...the conditions for food and accommodation are even better than when they were free!"

"How to choose? If we put ourselves in which era we put ourselves, how will we choose? In fact, this choice is the dividing point between civilization and barbarism!"

"The master said that everything that appears in human society is inherited, including the concepts of China and barbarians, and were not created by a certain person!"

"This concept has actually been throughout the history of human civilization, and has even been around for hundreds of thousands of years!"

"This is a relative concept! Because people originally aim to pursue happiness as their ultimate goal, and what is happiness? There will be different standards in different periods, and the standards are also relative and are compared!"

"It's also a tribe by the Yellow River. The grain you produce can support 100 people per year, and I can support 150 people, so I will be happier than you..."

"I was also a conquered person. I was captured by the Banpo people as a slave. You were captured by the Hemudu people and stewed into broth... Then I will be happier than you!"

"And where happiness lies is actually the most developed place of civilization, and the Chinese ancestors of China used two words to describe and summarize!"

"We are the most polite, humane, and happiest place...that is China!"

"And around, those rude, dirty, cannibal, and atrocities of animals... are naturally the Yiman Rongdi!"

"You know that, you guys understand!"

Seeing the sudden enlightenment of everyone, Xiang Ying sighed in her heart, "It's still what the master said before! If I could have half the eloquence of the master, I wouldn't have been so sweaty!"

"China and barbarians are actually the comparison between civilization and barbarism that Westerners call!"

"How to compare, you must compare with the same period rather than the times!"

"In fact, in the eyes of modern people, the cannibals and those ethnic groups that raise slaves are both barbaric and backward, but in that era, these two ethnic groups were a world of difference!"

"Slavery and feudalism are the same. Modern people think they are backward, but in that era of social transformation, these two differences were completely epoch-making, and even a huge gap that could change dynasties!"

"With the further down, will the feudal system and the capitalist system compare with each other? Now is the end of the confrontation between these two systems, and I think everyone can see the gap!"

"Of course, the people in the Qing Dynasty still don't understand this truth like blind people!"
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