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Chapter 59 Talking nonsense

"The first question is, if I travel through ancient times and become a common person, how can I improve my life?"

After reading word for word, Zhou Yuan fell into deep thought.

The people under the canopy became nervous.

They hope Zhou Yuan can come up with an effective plan.

They want to imitate it.

After all, no one wants to live a hard life.

After a long time, Zhou Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know the answer to this question."

"We modern people are not supermen. After immersing ourselves in the ancient environment, I really don't think that poor people can live well."

"I estimate that as soon as I take out a useful artifact, I may be killed by a powerful relative who doesn't know where it came from, and then the other party will inherit my skills and the wealth I finally accumulated."

Zhou Yuan felt that this was the reality.

The ancient people in the real history books were not only unsophisticated, but also more sinister.

This is not nonsense.

In that era when imperial power did not extend to counties, but only to clans, clans were autonomous. Autonomy depended on ethics, and ethics relied on squires. If you were a time traveler and had nothing, anything you produced would probably be taken away from you.

Then you die without knowing how.

Unless you are lucky enough to marry the daughter of a local clan leader and are willing to marry into the family.

Zhou Yuan waved his hands and sighed helplessly: "Everyone, the biggest bug in historical time travel novels is that no one has ever traveled through time, and everything is obscene."

"And the real way to survive in ancient times should be extremely cruel."

"I deeply doubt that if a modern person lived in an ancient village and survived, and then happily took out the method of making salt, he would most likely be killed by the local clan, and then the method of making salt would be Take it away and be claimed by relatives who appear out of nowhere.”

"After all, for most clans, people who don't bleed our blood may betray us at any time."

Zhou Yuan's words made the people under the sky stunned.

Why are these simple people said to be so evil by the sky?

Some imperial nobles and everyone in the world fell into deep thought about Zhou Yuan's words.

Some people who made their living by living off of poverty pouted.

In this age of cannibalism, you can't expect people to be too kind.

Zhou Yuan continued: "Give me a practical example to illustrate."

"My great-great-grandfather has five brothers, one younger sister, and his brother-in-law. My great-great-grandfather's father brought them to this village where my hometown is now."

"But my great-grandfather has been the village chief for thirty years, my grandfather has been the village chief for twenty-two years, and my uncle has been the village chief for twenty-five years. As expected, my uncle will continue to be the village leader soon."

"There were also people with other surnames who wanted to be the candidates, but they were all boycotted."

“In the village, whether land was allocated or something was built, it was always our family who came first, or people who supported our family.”

"And this is the most authentic clan society."

"To be honest, although no one said it, my great-grandfather and my father brought my great-grandfather to this village to seek refuge with relatives, and in the end they became the village chief."

"I don't even doubt that they became desperate."

After a pause, Zhou Yuan said with emotion: "As a beneficiary, I won't say that my great-grandfather did a bad job, but my great-grandfather and the others have indeed proved the local evils of clan society."

"And this is still modern times. If it were placed in ancient times, I think the local clans would be even more brutal than this."

"So, if a time traveler didn't have his soul travel into a certain clan, he really wouldn't have survived in ancient times."

Under the canopy of heaven, the common people of all dynasties have turned into black faces. They didn't think what Zhou Yuan said was wrong.

They know their own situation.

They can fight together for a piece of land or a well, the kind that kills people.

Naturally, you can also send a foreigner who may leave at any time to die for the sake of a quick way to make money.

Besides, it's not a big deal if someone dies.

As long as this person's death can make the clan full of food and drink, then everyone doesn't mind if the people protect each other.

What they hope now is that Zhou Yuan will tell them something about how to improve their lives as soon as possible.

Such as the planting of chestnut trees.

The big bosses of the past dynasties are recalling in their minds what Zhou Yuan said: Imperial power does not extend to counties, but only to clans, and clans are autonomous. Autonomy depends on ethics, and ethics depends on squires.

They wanted Zhou Yuan to tell them how to solve this problem.

But when they heard about the "family history" of Zhou Yuan's family, they felt that this problem was quite unsolvable.

After regaining his composure again, Zhou Yuan realized that he might have gone off topic. He smiled awkwardly and continued: "Sorry, I went off topic."

"Next, let's talk about some methods that ancient people could use to improve their lives themselves."

"Of course, this is not universal."

"Moreover, technology alone without good people cannot improve life."

"So, if people in ancient times wanted to live well, they must first meet a good emperor, good officials, good squires, and good clans."

"Otherwise, without one, you won't be able to live well."

The people of all dynasties nodded collectively.

Yes, none of us can live well without one.

The emperor is licentious and imposes additional taxes, which makes our life difficult.

Officials are greedy, separatist, ignorant, and domineering. They are not doing well.

The country gentry are always greedy and only care about their own families, so they cannot live well.

Not to mention the clan chaos.

Zhou Yuan rubbed the technology that people in ancient times could use, and complained: "So, traveling through ancient times, killing the corrupt clan gentry, and killing the greedy and ignorant local officials is simply the right thing to do."

"At this time, we need to talk about the importance of civil rights and people's power, and we also need to talk about the Han and Tang Dynasties."

"Why were there so few corrupt officials in the Han and Tang dynasties? Corruption mainly came from the emperors above, not middle-level officials."

"In the final analysis, the common people of the two dynasties were too capable of fighting. The military service and training of the Han Dynasty and the imperial soldiers of the Tang Dynasty both created a situation where civilian force was excessive."

"So much so that some armed people actually have weapons in their hands and are murderous, so officials don't dare to push the people too hastily."

After a pause, Zhou Yuan added: "Here I need to talk about the unlucky Sui Dynasty. It was obviously the same system as the early Tang Dynasty, but it failed. In the final analysis, it was a miscalculation of the power of the people."

At the same time, Zhou Yuan stopped searching, looked at the leader, and said extremely seriously: "I personally prefer Tang Dynasty and Han Dynasty, please don't mind."

After saying that, Zhou Yuan continued to rub.

And the people of all dynasties said: "We don't care what you say, we only care if you can quickly develop the technology that we can develop ourselves."

Emperors of all dynasties: "We also want to spray you, but can you hear us?"

Let’s not talk nonsense. If we have this time, it is better to quickly release the technology that can help us.

(End of this chapter)