All the Chinese officers and soldiers present pricked up their ears, and even the German and French entourage began secret recording. Everyone hoped to get some top secrets from Xiang Ying's mouth.
But unfortunately, what they encountered today was the ghost-like Xiang Ying. What he revealed were all secrets within the Asian cultural system, and did not involve any current military and political figures.
"We have been in China for five thousand years. Ever since the name Huaxia was given, the concept of Yiman Rongdi also appeared along with it..."
"It's just like day and night, like yin and yang, they coexist!"
"What exactly is Huaxia and what is Yidi? When the head of state told me, he did not include a single sentence from an ancient book. Instead, he told a very long and interesting story. God knows where those stories came from!"
"Around 5000 BC, which is even longer than the Xia Dynasty. According to the Western AD chronology, this is nearly 6,000 years ago...
"In today's Ningbo area of Zhejiang, there is such a civilization called Hemudu Civilization... Don't ask me, I also asked the master at that time, but the master smiled and refused to tell me how he knew..."
"Just listen to me! This Hemudu civilization is actually a very primitive tribal civilization. It drinks blood from hair and blood, has just learned to grow rice, can burn some of the crudest pottery, and can also fish..."
"But this civilization has a bad habit... that is cannibalism!"
"People from this tribe will capture people from other tribes like wild beasts when hunting. The most popular prey among them is babies. They will stew babies or children with fish and eat them!"
"Don't vomit... Such cannibals still exist. In many jungles in South America and Southeast Asia, there are still cannibals to this day. This is how humans lived in the early days..."
Xiang Ying unscrewed the military kettle and took a sip of water, suppressing the nausea in his heart.
"Let me tell you next, during the same period of this civilization, there was another civilization called Banpo Civilization on the edge of the Yellow River... You better not ask. Even if you ask, I can't explain the origin of this name..."
"This Banpo civilization is a little better than Hemudu, at least the technology is higher... They can plant millet, chestnuts and raise some chickens and ducks, and they can also fish and hunt..."
"More importantly, the Banpo people's pottery-making technology is much higher than that of 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..."
"Well, here comes the question... Which of these two tribes at the same time is civilized and which is barbaric? If we have to distinguish between Huaxia and Yidi, how should we distinguish them?"
"Does this need to be said? Of course, the Banpo people on the Yellow River are more civilized. The cannibals of Hemudu are naturally barbaric to the Yi and Di people!" 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 5000 BC, can we imagine such a scene?"
"It's also a tribal conquest. A civilization like Hemudu attacks the surrounding tribes. When the weak tribes under attack see that the attackers are cannibals, what will they do?"
"Of course we are trying our best! No one wants to die, let alone be eaten! So even if these tribes are obviously weak, they will fight to the death for one life!"
"But what if the protagonists of the expedition are replaced by the slightly more civilized Banpo people? They attack other small tribes not to kill people or cannibals, but just to add more slaves to the tribe, because their farmland needs more More slaves to cultivate!”
"Of course there will be resistance, but this kind of resistance will never be as fierce as the resistance against cannibals, because they know that if they fail, they will just be slaves, and they can survive with food and drink!"
"Even the life of slaves will be better, because these people have beautiful pottery and more advanced farming technology...the conditions for food and housing are even better than when they were free!"
"How to choose? If we put ourselves in the shoes of any era, how would we choose? In fact, this choice is the dividing point between civilization and barbarism!"
"Master said that everything that appears in human society has inheritance, including the two concepts of Huaxia and Yidi, and they were not created by one person!"
"This concept has actually been present throughout the history of human civilization, even hundreds of thousands of years ago!"
"This is a relative concept! Because people originally pursue happiness as their ultimate goal, and what exactly is happiness? There will be different standards in different periods, and standards are also relative and are based on comparison!"
"We are also a tribe on the edge of the Yellow River. Your annual food production can feed a hundred people, and I can feed a hundred and fifty people. Then I am happier than you..."
"We are also conquered. I was captured by the Banpo people and made into a slave. You were captured by the Hemudu people and stewed into broth... Then I will be happier than you!"
"The place where happiness lies is actually the place where civilization is the most developed, and China's ancestors used two words to describe it!"
"We are the most polite, humane and happiest place... that is China!"
"As for the surrounding primitive tribes that are rude, dirty, cannibalistic, and atrocious to animals... they are naturally the barbarians and Rong Di!"
"In this way, you understand!"
Seeing everyone's expressions of sudden realization, Xiang Ying sighed inwardly, "The master explained it thoroughly before! If I could be half as eloquent as the master, I wouldn't be so sweaty!"
"Chinese and Yi Di are actually the contrast between what Westerners call civilization and barbarism!"
"How to compare? You must compare with those of the same period, not those who transcend the times!"
"The cannibals and those who raised slaves are actually barbaric and backward in the eyes of modern people, but at that time, these two groups were completely different!"
"The same goes for slavery and feudalism. Modern people see them as backward, but in that era of social transformation, these two differences were completely epoch-making, and even a huge gap that could change dynasties!"
"Going a step further, how do the feudal system and the capitalist system compare with each other? We are now at the end of the confrontation between these two systems, and I think everyone can see the difference clearly!"
"Of course, people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty are still like blind people who can't understand this truth!"
"All the answers have appeared, and the answers you want are in these ancient historical stories!"
