Culture and civilization are indeed complex things.
As a senior mercenary who has been on missions in many places such as Whale Song Cliff, the Capital of Knowledge, and the Empire, and finally chose to settle in the Empire for a long time as a "foreigner", Qing Chao is actually quite familiar with these concepts.
If nothing else, eating habits alone can clearly distinguish people from different places.
There is no shortage of salt or seasonings at Whale Song Cliff. On the contrary, there has been a shortage of high-quality sugar since ancient times. In addition, the sea people often go to sea to fight. At critical moments, they need to supplement a large amount of food that can quickly provide physical strength, and fructose is always the most important thing. The most common physical fuel, so it develops the habit of eating sweetness.
The internal climate of Feiyan Land is obviously different, divided into desert and coastal rainforest. However, because it is rich in various spices, a lot of spices are used in any food. The taste is complex and heavy, fragrant and thick, and because of the development of flour products, there are also many specialty breads. With the sesame cake, it is tailra.
The academic capital is the country of the containing sea islands, with a lot of seafood, similar to the whale song cliff, but the preferences are boiled in the white and boiled porridge. Each gathering place has its own unique sauce recipe, and the taste is different and never the same, which is a major feature of the region.
There was a joke that the alchemist of the knowledge capital was more than other places. It was precisely because they had to learn the matching of various sauces from an early age, which laid a good foundation for children to learn alchemy.
Use the wrong sauce ratio, but it will be expelled from his hometown!
Although it sounds interesting, the tide is also very clear. This can be identified at most, and it does not distinguish the true culture and civilization.
For example, the empire.
It is so vast, and the dietary customs in each region are different.
The Northeast Plain of the Empire also likes sugar, and even has very similar dishes, so that the whale song and cliff people call "the other in the world", but in addition, all their other living customs are different from the whale song cliffs. ... They are completely different.
So...what is the real point of civilization?
Is it clothing? Is it tone? Is it a ballad?
Or do you say that some social customs and some of the culprit?
The more you read, the more confused you are.
Therefore, he used this question to ask the "almost omniscient" lord in his heart.
Ask him "what is civilization".
Bai Zhimin, who was much younger than him but extremely knowledgeable, glanced at him, thought for a moment, and then announced that he would convene a meeting.
Ian wants to give them a group of young people who have taken office for the first time, and they are young people who host officials in class.
This is actually normal. Ian often takes out some time to tutor some ideas and knowledge for his core team in the name of the meeting.
"This problem of youth is very interesting."
At the meeting, the youngest Ian, the youngest, pointed at the text on the blackboard: "What is civilization? This is a very complicated concept, but the essence is very simple."
"Civilization is not wearing strange costumes, speaking different tones, naturally not singing different styles of ballads, drinking different types of wines made of different types of grains."
"The blood descendants of the Flying Flame Land are martial and righteous. They will avenge any vengeance and repay kindness. They would rather die than let their enemies benefit. The sea descendants of Whale Song Cliff are impassioned. They care little about life and death, but value commitment. They are willing to work for a while. Swing up the sword, even if you die, you must complete the goal -the customs of the two are similar or even the same. Is their civilization similar? "
"There is absolutely no similarity. The warriors of the Flying Fire Land are silent and decisive, while the sea warriors are hearty and optimistic. You can tell them apart at a glance."
"Yuan An Island and the knowledge are the island nations. They are mainly university valves and govern the country with knowledge and sublimation skills. Does anyone confuse the two by mistake? "
"Of course not. The gloomy, hierarchical temperament of Far Coast Island and the city of knowledge, which is open to chaos and recognizes twenty-seven kinds of self-knowledge, are simply two extremes."
"The Seven City Alliance nationwide faith in Huaiguang, but who is the real Saint Mountain guest, even if you are a trendy, you can divide it?"
——What does it mean that even I can tell the difference? You will know it at a glance!
Hearing this, the swordsman couldn't help talking.
Young tide did not mind the lord's example of himself. After all, he came to ask questions, and he was indeed confused because of these things, but it could be distinguished.
However, the other party's description of the whale song cliff made him very recognize.
I did not expect that their lords had not been to the whale song cliff, but they were very insights on their sea -descent.
"I can, boss."
At this moment, the tide answered and continued to ask: "Why is it? Obviously the two countries are so similar, but the kernel is completely ... different. This feels strange."
"Because these are not the most important characteristics of civilization."
The white -haired lord shook his head: "Civilization is the sum of social ethics and habitual behaviors held by groups. To the bias of local beliefs...these, including all the above, are only part of it."
"But at its core, it's very simple."
"How do "all intelligent life" in this area exist and continue on "this land"."
"Is it farming or nomadic? Is it hunting or fishing? The essence of a civilization is to say how a group of people obtain resources, how to allocate resources, so that the group can continue to survive and continue to develop."
"Different regions have different methods to obtain resources and distribution resources, so they catalyze different customs, evolve different action styles, and then have different cultures, and finally form different civilizations ..."
Said this way, when you see the youth, Ian stared at himself tightly, he was subconsciously nervous, and then the young lord asked: "Young tide, how many civilizations do you think of the Tyra continent?"
"Well......"
Qingchao thought about it, but he really couldn't figure it out, so he hesitated and said: "A dozen? It feels like every country is completely different... But! There are several similar ones around every big country. Small country! "
Thinking of this, the swordsman felt that he had caught the key. He patted his legs and excitedly: "I understand! There are a few big powers, there are a few civilizations!"
"It's like a big sword *** derived more than a dozen small swordsmanship, civilization will spread!"
"So many small countries around Yanjiang are essentially members of the Yanjiang civilization circle! And the same is true for the khanates around the Cangtian Palace. They are all carved from the same mold!"
"There are also many Cavaliers' Principality around the empire, and even the mountain fort is count ... That's it!"
"Oh? Not bad, Qingchao, you can think of this level!"
Qingchao saw an obvious look of surprise on Ian's face, and the other person laughed, looking very harmonious and good-looking, but his final words were cruel: "But the answer is wrong."
"Scott, tell me. How many civilizations are there on the continent of Terra?"
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Scott, who had been listening quietly, was sitting at the table. He put down his note-taking hand very seriously and answered seriously: "There is only one. Terra's sublimated civilization, dominated by sublimators."
"There is only this main civilization on the Tyra continent, and the division with different fifth energy -level sublimation is assigned to a dozen minors. There are slightly different sublimation civilizations in the structure."
Since becoming a sublimator, the deputy of Tie Zhimin has been using the high thinking speed of "Calling Thunder" to read the knowledge and summarize the knowledge.
It can be said that the Thunder is simply meaningless in Scott's hands. The speed of thinking comparable to lightning is the true price of this inheritance.
And his learning results have begun to appear: Scott always keeps with Ian's thinking and understands the meaning of the lord.
Sometimes, Qingchao envies this kind of person who can quickly understand what Ian means.
He is not really stupid, he can understand where he went wrong before with just a little bit of Ian, but someone who can figure it out without saying anything is obviously better.
"Very good. Scott answered very well."
Ian was very satisfied. He signaled Qingchao to take notes, and the swordsman quickly started writing.
His calligraphy is actually very beautiful. Although Qingchao has not learned calligraphy for a long time, as long as he regards calligraphy as swordsmanship, it is easy to write his own style, which is upright and sharp.
Looking at this scene, Ian continued: "As I said before, the main definition of civilization is" what kind of method to use to produce and distribute resources to allow the group to exist and continue "... the main farming of the empire, the main farming of the empire, the main farming of the empire, the main farming, the main farming of the empire, Based on the structure of the emperor and noble knight, the whale song cliff mainly relies on fishing, and the major castle owners and the major alliance owners are distributed as a loose alliance. need."
"The most important thing is that all civilizations need high -energy strong -level people to ensure that their social collectives can stabilize and continue for a long time."
"No high -level sublimation, natural disasters and mutations have long been destroyed -cut."
"So, no matter what the difference is, there is only one sublimator civilization on the entire Tyra, and we are also among them."
"What is the most critical principles and main points in the civilization?" Ian continued to ask questions.
The person who raised his hand this time was Gu Ying. This researcher was also listening carefully to the lecture and immediately answered: "Acquiring resources and allocating resources, as well as their efficiency. In essence, it is to obtain funds and allocate funds, but it is a bit bigger, and the purpose is also from The results of research and development will allow everyone to survive, even live better, and maintain overall stability."
"Yes. Although the example is a bit problematic, it is true."
Ian nodded and looked at everyone present: "How to allocate limited resources to the most appropriate areas and create the greatest results is what managers, that is, what we need to do."
"For today's Terran countries, if they want to maximize resource utilization, they need to invest resources in sublimators. And the more talented this sublimator is, the better."
"This is the core logic of the Ascended Civilization."
Qingchao could understand what Ian said - rather, this was the underlying logic of the Terra continent.
Basically everyone took this as a matter of course, so they couldn't understand why Ian would say such a thing seriously.
Ian obviously didn't care about the doubts of Qingchao and others. He was just telling his thoughts and purposes: "Ten thousand talers are used for municipal construction. How many streets can be rebuilt? How many houses can be built? If ordinary people are allowed to do it, Even though ten thousand talers is a lot of work, it can’t accomplish much.”
"Just buying the tools that allow ordinary people to rebuild the city will cost more than half."
"But ten thousand talers, in my hands, can create two first-level earth sublimators. And I can drive them to rebuild the entire Xiahui City within three months. "
"Three months, ten thousand talers, without using the Ascendants, there is no way to rebuild the city no matter what."
"This is the highest efficiency resource use."
So that, when you heard youth, Ian worsened: "At the same time, this is the problem."
"Because the technical content behind the sublimator is too high, the resource utilization rate is too high, so that many infrastructure, the popularity of basic knowledge is ignored, and even deliberately suppressed -this is not wrong, because it is not wrong In the contrary, the reduction of national strength will cause the enemy to have the opportunity to take advantage of it, and it will be dangerous to the national civilization. "
"It's just like our Xia Hui leader - if it weren't for the fact that I am a second-level ascender, and it wasn't because we have a third-level Xio and a fourth-level Mountain King behind us, I would be as good as the third-level Ascendant. Is it meaningful to put so much money into the construction of urban and towns and the development of new agriculture? "
"It's meaningless. Others can rob if they want, and destroy if they want. The Kawhi leader can succeed only because I am a genius, and all of you are also very good. This is unacceptable.
Re -engraved. "
"But next, the way we are going to take is not a few days that can be across the past. We need to use all the technologies from beginning to end, and we cannot ignore any seemingly useless basic knowledge."
"What I want to do is to try to create a new civilization that is better than the "Ascended Civilization", so not only we must learn it, but other people in the territory must also learn it, so education and knowledge need to be popularized."
"This is my core plan. Only you know about it, and I need your full cooperation."
"Its name is, the arcane path, or the "Civilization of Practitioners".
"A truly great cause."
"The first step in this undertaking is to equip everyone with the "qualifications to practice"... Artificial souls and Chongling Cult are the top priority, and it is also the most cautious point in our next plan. "
Next, it is not a lecture, but a real core meeting.
At the meeting, Ian talked about many prerequisites and technical requirements for the arcane path. Now Qingchao and others were surprised to know that whether it was an artificial soul or the " Meditation is all part of this path.
What a magnificent plan ...
To be honest, the trend of youth did not fully understand the "great cause" that Ian told.
He just felt a little weird and a little enlightened.
——Let me just say, the questions I raised at the beginning didn’t require a meeting at all... The relationship boss used my questions as an introduction to talk about his plan!
This is much more reasonable!
Qingchao actually knew from the beginning that Ian was a person who wanted to do big things.
how to say? Those knights, in legends and stories, there are always those kind of sages who can change an era...
Most of them are the background of the story, and they have caused huge changes in the world. It can even be said that the world where the protagonist lives in adventure was created by those great sages.
The weapons they created can defeat the devil thousands of years later; the skills they created can still inspire wisdom after a long time; the civilization they created, even if it disappears in endless years, can still make all those who come after you admire and even... Miss you.
Whether it is the logic of life, the background of the story, the order of the entire world or the stage itself, they are all created by sages.
As a child, Qingchao had been thinking about this when he listened to these stories and legends from his father's mouth.
"Compared to these sages, can the protagonist really be considered a protagonist?"
He would ask his father this at that time.
【Silly boy】
And his father, who had not yet passed away due to old injuries, would ruffle his hair and reply with a smile: [How do you know that those sages are not the protagonists of the past? 】
[They will also have their own adventures and legends, but this book does not tell his story]
[How do you know that the protagonist of this book will not become a sage in the future? 】
These memories were once dim and gray, and Qingchao thought he would never remember them in his lifetime.
It wasn't until he met Ian and witnessed what he did along the way that the dusty memories in Qingchao's mind regained color.
——He is such a sage.
There is no reason, or there are too many reasons, there is no need to find it at all.
Qingchao believes that Ian will become the one who appears in all storybooks, the "sage" who will create the foundation of all future stories, the cornerstone of all legendary adventures, and change the order of the entire world.
And, different from those stories described.
Ian is not a backdrop.
Ian is what is happening, the ongoing tense "now"!
He is the sage who exists in the present and the future!
And he, Qingchao, is the follower of the future sage and a member of his future legend!
Just this made him feel excited.
Even for this point, the trend of youth will work hard, keep up with Ian's pace, not let yourself fall, and try to witness the landscape you will create in the future.
It's not difficult.
By practicing the experimental version of the "Elementary Meditation Method" taught to them by Ian, Qing Chao, who has stabilized the second energy level recently and began to gradually condense his soul, has greatly strengthened his memory.
This also makes his learning efficiency more and more efficient.
Don't look at him often being ridiculed to learn slowly, and his thinking is not agile, but you have to see who his opponent is!
Therefore, the mysterious top alchemist, a genius researcher, and the boss Ian are inherently the top of the Xiahui Leadership IQ.
Old Faer is also an old -fashioned role. He is not afraid of the old and not compare with him.
On the remaining, Roland is a professional high student, and the diploma is crushed. How can he compare with a rural swordsman? This is a problem, not counting!
As for Scott?
A lunatic who can learn high by Ian is inherently incomparable!
All in all, it is not that you can't do it.
The only puzzle of youth is just one thing.
"Why teach us this?"
After the meeting, Qing Chao, who would follow Ian back to Harrison Port as a bodyguard tomorrow, stood beside Ian and followed him back to the laboratory to sort out the equipment.
On the street heading to the laboratory, the swordsman asked with some confusion: "Boss, I don't want to say that teaching us is not good - after you said this, I feel that my views on all the forces in the entire Terra continent have become more... It’s clear and my horizons have broadened a lot.”
「甚至，我还很深刻地理解了苍天王庭和帝国之间矛盾的起因，以及各种地方矛盾本质上是地缘政治的衍生......但这些东西，其他领主都会藏起来，只The children who taught them to yourself will not be informed of us in detail like you, as if you are afraid that we will not learn ... "
Having said this, Qingchao couldn't help but clenched his hand.
In the continent of Terra, knowledge, especially knowledge that can open up ideas and influence the thinking system, is far more precious than simple money.
The knowledge, inheritance, various meditation methods and sublimation techniques that Ian has developed and taught to them in recent times are worth more than hundreds of thousands, or even millions of talers.
It's just so precious.
The things they learned, even if they were just scraps and pieces, would remain secrets if they were given to other sublime people.
"I'm just afraid you won't be able to learn."
Then, the tide heard Ian's peaceful speech: "I can't wait to teach you everything I understand, so that you can have the same way of thinking as me."
"But unfortunately, you can't do it ... well, just good, you can at least inherit some of my thoughts."
"Guying can inherit my research ideas, Scott can understand my governance philosophy, and they can even do better than me in this regard. I believe this."
"And you, Qingchao."
Ian worsened his tone: "Your meditation practice is faster than everyone else. I guess you will be faster than them in the future. You can inherit the" New Practice System "I want to develop. .”
"In addition, Old Faer is really old, but he has a probability that he can cultivate the latecomers who are also longing for the starry sky, and the worst of Roland can understand my engineering design ideas. He will understand a complete set of industries The importance of the system. "
"As for Isengard, which is farther away... I have always shared my alchemy manuscripts and ideas with him. He has my complete set of ideas and plans. If Xiahui Leader fails, then in the future, he may This reform can be restarted elsewhere."
"Although I don’t know if the time is enough ... but it is completely failed
I always believe in hope. "
"fail?!"
Young tide couldn't help but shocked. He quickly realized his disappointment, and couldn't help but ask: "But the boss, why do you think we will fail?!"
The white -haired lord glanced at his personal guard, and he couldn't help sighing: "If you don't think of winning, you will lose first. What's more, our future is more dangerous than imagined."
"I might die in the future than you, or you may leave you. Although the probability is very small, I need to be vigilant."
"No matter what my final result is, some things always need to be passed on - views on civilization, culture, views on the world, and expectations for future development. These things all need to be passed on."
"This is fire."
The swordsman saw his lord taking a step forward. He was standing in the middle of the road intersection. The clear moonlight spread over the entire city and covered him with a silver cloak.
Ian did not look back, but his tone became calmer: "Qingchao. If people's intelligence can be divided into levels, you are actually not low. You have at least the potential of the third and fourth levels."
"The stupidest people can only live the life that others want them to live, and the second-class people can live the life that they want to live."
"Those in the third class can imagine the existence of a better world, but they don't know how to create it; while those in the fourth class have a way to create a better world, but they can't implement it and can only leave it to others."
"Finally, the fifth class of people - they can create a better world."
"Use their own hands."
"I think I am fifth, but I also hope that there are more peers."
"The reason why I work so hard to teach you, teach you, and improve you is that I hope you can truly understand me and become my true followers, not just subordinates."
"If one day I leave, I also hope that you can continue my will, continue to advance this path, and teach more people like you and me."
"At the very least, these knowledge and ideas must be passed on."
true understanding
The swordsman was silent.
It is indeed difficult to truly understand a sage.
The next day, Qingchao followed the convoy led by Ian and Xia Hui and embarked on the road to Harrison Port.
Until this moment, he couldn't guarantee that he could truly understand Ian's spirit and understand what he wanted to do.
Create a new civilization so that everyone can practice?
To do such a big thing, there must be a big purpose...
Do Ien want to rule the world? !
No, it's not such ordinary things ...
If you were a youth in the past, you would definitely think that ruling the world is a big deal.
But after so long, as he gradually understood a regime, a country and even a civilized operation logic, he began to feel that even if it was ruled the world, he could not be called a big deal.
Does it still be part of the civilization of the sublimator?
This cannot bring about fundamental changes and create a new era.
It's just a boring and uninteresting repetition.
What Ian wants to do is to create a more lively, energetic, curious and passionate world.
Young tide can't imagine that world -in the final analysis, he is not the material, letting him imagine what kind of method should be used for the future practice system to fight. He may still give some opinions, but what will happen in the future world. ..... How can he have that.
But he will try.
Become a follower of this future sage.
Tyra 774, March 25s, the last trace of cold in winter has faded. Under the clear sky, the golden sunlight shines on the South Ridge land.
A convoy carrying a large amount of alchemy potions and professional equipment is heading south along the wide road.
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Along the way, there are green grass and green trees in both places, showing their vitality.
"Boss can change the world."
Qingchao rides the horse and follows the team. He looked at the new territory and couldn't help remembering that when he first came to Xia Hui's collar half a year ago, he saw the confused look of the mad, " , only the boss can!"
And Ian didn't know that he became more and more powerful in the heart of his subordinates.
If he had known about it, Ian would definitely not be disappointed. Instead, he would try to turn this majestic image into a sample of the internal propaganda of "Chongling Sect" - a future sage? Although it sounds a bit strange, it should be a good one. His reputation is more powerful than the thundering prophet.
It's just that Ian is still sitting on a horse with a serious face on the surface, sitting in the center of the convoy.
But in fact, his mind had already drifted to the distant labyrinth of the South China Sea.
"Shasha said that the dragon egg hatched, but something happened to the dragon egg, but there was nothing wrong with the dragon egg."
Using the "Great Labyrinth Authority" to sense information from afar, Ian frowned and fell into deep thought: "This silly shark talked a lot of nonsense and wandered around for a long time without letting me see what the dragon egg was like - I did see it. The top part of the eggshell is broken, but the whole thing is still intact and still alive, which proves that the little crystal dragon is not dead, and is even alive and well."
"But why doesn't it come out of the eggshell? Is it a dragon?"
"What happened to the ether crystal dragon's egg?"
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