Among all the Thai and Western countries’ missions, the situation on board the French delegation seemed to be the most harmonious.
Because France currently has the most stable situation among the countries in Thailand and Spain.
Coupled with the peace that lasted for more than ten years, most scholars, from ordinary officials to private scholars, did not consider the issue of war.
The topics discussed on the French King's ship tended to be purely academic discussions, travel records and literary creation.
There is a group of French naturalists who are analyzing and verifying the forms and relationships of plants and animals around the world.
In this era of the world, the topic of biological evolution has become very hot.
The main reason is that technology has developed to the level of the twentieth century, and human beings' ability to explore the world has also improved simultaneously.
Humans can already reach almost all places in the world normally.
Corresponding observation and thinking that adapts to the times also appeared earlier than in the original history.
What's more, some of the Holy Sayings of Emperor Guangwu, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, involve issues of species evolution.
Although it does not specifically explain the evolution of species, it does provide a discussion of the directional nature.
One of the most representative sentences is: "Natural selection, survival of the fittest."
Moreover, even in the original history, from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, the concepts of species evolution and change had already been formed.
In his "Philosophy of Plants" published in 1809, Lamarck proposed the hypotheses of "use it or lose it" and "acquired inheritance".
Lamarck in the original history clearly proposed the concept of species evolution at this time.
Although the speculation on the principles of evolution may be wrong, people at that time already had the concept of species changing from simple to complex.
The Lamarck of this world is still alive.
His theories in this life are more mature and complex than those in his previous life, and their influence is also greater.
At present, researchers in this field, as well as nobles and scholars who understand this field, have basically recognized the concept of "species variability".
The main point of debate at present is what exactly is the reason for species change, and the summary of the rules of change.
And whether there are similar patterns of change among different human groups.
Due to the existence of the Ming people, the differences and relationships between the Ming people, Taixi people, Tianzhu people, Dashi people, Yinzhou people, and Mozhou people have become one of the hottest topics in the related fields of Taixi.
Why is the Ming Dynasty so powerful? Is it related to the fact that the people of the Ming Dynasty are naturally better?
The answer to this question does not require in-depth discussion. Most people in the world currently believe that it is related.
The people of Ming Dynasty are better than the people of Taixi, and the people of Taixi are better than the people of Mozhou.
The question is why the people of Ming Dynasty are excellent, and how did they become so excellent?
Can we become equally good after we find the rules?
Of course, what they want to prove most is that the difference between them and the people of Ming Dynasty is smaller, and the gap between them and the people of Mozhou is wider.
Many times, biology and history serve sociology...
In the summary and analysis of these changing laws, Lamarck's "use it or lose it" and "acquired inheritance" are the same.
If a certain ability of a living thing can provide practical assistance to its survival and reproduction, then this ability will continue to increase, otherwise it will decline.
These ever-increasing abilities can be inherited by its offspring, making them stronger and stronger from generation to generation.
The spokesperson is, of course, Lamarck and his followers.
The other school is an analysis derived from the "natural selection, survival of the fittest" theory of Emperor Guangwu, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.
Among the many organisms, only those individuals that can adapt to the environment can survive and reproduce.
Otherwise, individual death or even group extinction will occur.
The King and Queen of France, as well as the King and Queen Mother, were on board the ship.
Although Louis XVI's hobby was machinery, Queen Mary especially liked the excitement. Of course she wanted to participate in the Ming Emperor's coronation ceremony.
Louis XVII Charles also really had feelings for his parents, and he was not really a king who usurped power, so he took his parents out with him.
Louis XVI is sixty-six years old this year. He is not particularly old. There is certainly no problem in traveling on the most stable large passenger ship.
Of course, the discussions among the scholars on the ship reached the ears of the two generations of kings, and then the royal family also started talking.
Charles smiled and said to his parents, wives and children who were sitting drinking tea:
“I feel that using the two perspectives of advance or retreat and survival of the fittest, when put together, there is a sense of contrast between the optimists and the pessimists.
“Optimists believe that as long as they work hard, they will be rewarded, and as long as they work hard to improve, they can change the characteristics of the ethnic group.
“Pessimists think that their efforts are meaningless and the key is to look at the environment, the right time and the right location.
“You have to adapt to the current environment in order to survive, otherwise you won’t be able to survive.”
The contrast between optimists and pessimists is also a typical analysis method of Emperor Shizu Guangwu.
When Queen Mother Marie Antoinette heard what her son said, she couldn't help but smile and expressed her own opinion:
"I think they are all quite optimistic. At least they admit that animals and even people can improve to a level of excellence, rather than being static.
“It’s just that the former is about the fate of an individual, while the latter is about the fate of the entire ethnic group.
"In other words, everyone thinks that the Taixi people have a chance to become Ming people, instead of just maintaining the current gap...
"Especially the French, they are currently the most adaptable to the current environment, right?"
Louis XVI put down his teacup:
"This is a fact. I have read many analyzes in newspapers, which can prove that the characteristics of animals will change.
“There are comparisons of similar animals from around the world, as well as experiments and cultures at the microbial level.
“Even at the most basic level, Ming Dynasty’s grain breeding and livestock selection were all about changing the characteristics of animals and plants.
"Although those with problems will be abandoned, if you stay, you will be improving to a better level..."
When Queen Mary heard her husband's point of view, she casually continued to ask:
“The breeding of animals and plants is indeed very intuitive, but it shouldn’t be compared to human society, right?
“We can breed animals with obviously excellent characteristics to produce as many offspring as possible, and then use their offspring as new breeds.
"Human beings obviously cannot do this. No one can control the union and reproduction of human beings..."
At this time, Liu Muyu, Queen of Louis XVII, took over:
"Mother, I think, actually... to a certain extent, it can achieve similar effects.
"Although we cannot force individuals of the ethnic group to marry with anyone, in fact most French people should want to marry with Ming people, right?
"A long time ago, ordinary Taixi people would hope to marry a Ming Dynasty person as long as they had the opportunity.
"This has become more common since Charles and I got married.
"If in the future, most French people, as well as the descendants of French people and Ming people, will continue to marry pure Ming people.
"Then the French in the future will become more and more like the Ming people, and eventually they will be completely indistinguishable from each other."
Louis XVI nodded slowly after hearing this:
"It seems to make sense..."
Queen Mary's focus is on another level:
"Then after mixing like this for a long time, will the French people no longer have body odor?"
Liu Muyu shook her head and said:
"There will still be, according to what my sister told me... According to His Majesty the current Ming Emperor, body odor is the so-called 'autosomal dominant inheritance'.
"The offspring of a person with body odor will always have a half chance of having body odor."
Queen Mary was a little shocked now:
"What are...autosomes? What is dominant inheritance? Half of us always have body odor?
"What about you and Ciel's descendants? Will they always have body odor?"
Liu Muyu recalled what her sister had explained to her, and explained the logic to her parents-in-law:
“Chromosome… is His Majesty the Ming Emperor’s name for the intrinsic genes that determine the form and characteristics of humans and animals.
"What kind of appearance and characteristics a human will have, and whether he will have innate diseases, are all determined by genes or chromosomes.
“Heredity refers to various physical characteristics that can be directly passed on from parents to children. Of course, it includes various diseases, but it may also have certain advantages.
"I don't know much about the rest. I only know about the genetic pattern of body odor. I asked my sister to consult specifically..."
As Liu Muyu spoke, she asked the servant to bring a pen and paper and began to write and draw on it.
First, I drew two circles side by side, and then wrote two sets of symbols "A" and "AA" in them:
“Part of a person’s genes comes from his father and part from his mother, so each person’s genes are represented by two symbols.
"The so-called dominant inheritance means that as long as the body has this gene, it will directly cause the disease. It is represented by the Latin letter 'A' here.
“People who do not have this gene, which is a completely normal gene, are represented by the Tiangan character ‘A’.
"Most Thais have body odor, and most of their parents have body odor at the same time, so most of their genes are 'AA'.
"Most Ming people don't have body odor, and most of their parents don't have body odor, so most of their genes are 'Jiajia'.
“Now, if a Taixi man and a Ming man marry, the genetic makeup of their children will be a random combination of the two genes they possess.
"In this way, two groups of four genes are combined in pairs, and there will be a total of four possibilities..."
Liu Muyu drew four circles below them, and connected the four symbols in Jia Jia and AA above to the four circles below:
"But the four possible combinations of 'A' and 'AA' are exactly the same. All four children are A, and all contain the Latin letter A.
"As mentioned earlier, body odor is a dominant genetic disease, so their children are 100% affected by body odor...
“You have to wait until the third generation before they have a chance to wash away body odor.
"When a child whose gene is 'A' is combined with a pure Ming person 'Jia' again.
"Among the four possibilities of pairwise combinations of two genes, there will be two 'A's' and two 'A's'.
"'Jia' has no body odor, and 'Jia' has body odor, so the probability of having it and not having it is 50%.
"When the fourth generation comes, if the child of 'Jia Jia' is reunited with the Ming Dynasty 'Jia Jia'.
"After combining the two genes in two, the four possibilities will be 'Jia Jia', so there will be 100% no body odor.
"However, if the remaining two genes of a child with 'A' genes are combined with the Ming people's 'A' genes again, the child will still have a 50% chance of having body odor.
"Finally, if the gene is a child of 'A', it will also be combined with other second-generation hybrids of 'A'.
"When two genes are combined in pairs, there are three 'A's and one 'A' out of the four possibilities, which means there is a 75% probability of having body odor.
"If the child of 'A' is combined with an ordinary Thai of 'AA'.
“Among the possible gene combinations, there are three AA and one A, which means body odor is 100% possible.
"And there is a 75% chance that they will still have the 'AA' Tessie gene, and their future offspring will still have body odor 100% of the time."
Queen Mary and Louis XVI stared at the diagram drawn by Liu Muyu. After thinking for a while, they slowly understood the logic.
Queen Mary is more emotional:
"Why is this A so annoying? As long as it sticks to it, there will definitely be body odor, and it will never get rid of it..."
Louis XVI was a little more rational:
"Even if all the Taixi people are to marry with the Ming people in the future, there will always be some children with body odor."
Charles thought more deeply:
"So, some of the people in the Ming Dynasty are born with body odor because their ancestors have foreign races?"
Liu Muyu also nodded directly and said:
"Yes, this body odor is called Hu odor in some places in the Ming Dynasty. It originally means the odor on the body of Hu people.
"Although most people in the Ming Dynasty are 'Jiajia', even those who have body odor are mostly JiaA, not AA like the Westerners.
"After they combine, most of the children will have only a half chance of getting the disease and a half chance of not getting the disease.
“Looking at specific families, they may have several children without getting sick.
“However, when the population sample is large enough, the probability of disease in the entire group will be infinitely close to 50%.
"So unless outside intervention occurs, the body odor gene will never disappear."
Liu Muyu is also a top student, so of course he can complete this level of logical thinking.
Charles was stunned for a moment and understood the logic:
"Unless we kill all those with body odor or sterilize them all, that is, we will not let them leave offspring, but no one can do such a thing."
Queen Mary here seemed to have another idea after hearing this:
“People are inherently different.
"Even if ordinary Taixi people want to combine with the Ming people, they rarely have the chance.
“Those who really have the opportunity and can really realize it are basically nobles, wealthy businessmen, bureaucrats, and scholars.
"If France continues its reform and gradually implements the same selection and inheritance system as the Ming Dynasty.
“You can choose children without body odor to inherit, and reduce the treatment of children with body odor.
"In this way, France's top nobles will have the opportunity to transform into new French people without body odor in three generations.
"In the future, you can tell whether a person is really from an old noble family by looking at whether there is body odor."
When Liu Muyu heard this, she said worriedly:
"Isn't this a good thing? It will separate the upper class of France from the ordinary people..."
Queen Mary said matter-of-factly:
“It’s inherently divided, the ordinary people and the upper class are two different circles.
"Furthermore, even if Ming Dynasty's theory is to provide some channels for the lower class to rise, they will not be affected by this.
“It just adds a relatively clear standard to this rising channel again.
"That is, whether you can marry someone from the Ming Dynasty, and whether your children will have the opportunity to get rid of body odor in the future."
Liu Muyu wanted to say something else, but Xiaer next to her held her hand:
"In fact, this matter has become a fact, and such a trend is forming in the entire French upper class society.
"What we can do now is to avoid the problems that may arise from this as much as possible..."
(End of chapter)
