Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 450: Legend of this world
In a blink of an eye, it has been the 60th year since I came to this world...
Zhang Yuan sat in a comfortable seat, enjoying the wonderful sunshine. The hundreds of elderly people in front were the captain, first officer, second officer, and some sailors of the final voyage.
The guests and friends are full, and they have a good time talking together. The time with old friends is always very happy.
People at the wine table, remembering the difficulties encountered in the final voyage, many sailors suffered depression during such a long voyage; some even wanted to seize control of the ship and return halfway.
But these difficulties were all defeated by the sunny continent that I finally saw...
Now that I miss the time, Zhang Yuan can still recall the high-pitched screams when he discovered the New World.
Man is such a creature!
"Why didn't Dolev come?" Zhang Yuan asked one of the old men.
"That guy, because of his intemperance in life, died on a woman's belly! Being so old is not enough for maintenance."
"It's a pity..."
"Where is Asof?"
"I'm old and dead, after all, I am in my seventies."
Zhang Yuan shook his head, didn't care so much, raised his glass, "Then, old folks, cheers!"
"Cheers!"
Hundreds of people celebrated the final victory of the great voyage loudly. Such a celebration ceremony is held every five years, and the place of the banquet is of course in Zhang Yuan’s Duke’s Mansion.
I looked up at the sky, and the distant sunrise hung on the horizon, never going down.
Yes, in this land, the rising sun hangs in the sky, not the setting sun.
The Sunshine Continent that countless people yearn for is here!
……
This is the continent of Hoffman, a continent named after him!
Since more than 30 years ago, this legendary fleet brought the information of the New World back to the old road, a gold rush has emerged in this sunny land. Countless civilians, wealthy aristocrats took huge risks, traveled across most of the planet, and came to this huge land to open up wasteland.
Due to the imperfect system at the beginning, this area is completely chaotic, full of violence, blood and crime.
The changes of the times are violent, and the course of history is advancing by leaps and bounds. Almost all of Zhang Yuan's energy has been devoted to this new continent.
Thirty years have passed...
The gold rush is still going on. The crime rate in the largest city in the Hoffman Continent, "New Kalundborg", has slowly decreased, and it has become a very livable city.
Most of the veteran crew members have been doing pretty well these years. After all, the New World is full of waste and there are many opportunities, such as plantation, breeding, steel, coal, chemical, electrical, and the newly discovered petroleum industry, as long as It is not self-seeking to fall, and survival is definitely not a problem.
And Zhang Yuan, the famous "duke," will also give these old acquaintances a certain degree of care.
Of course, there are also some people who gain a lot of wealth and honor at once, get lost in it, and can't control their desires.
If virtue is not matched, you will suffer. Such a person will have more knowledge, and Zhang Yuan will not take care of too much.
A group of people talked about the past while drinking, and they always like to remember the past when they are older. Including XX dying on a woman's belly, XX's son taking drugs, gambling, losing all his family property, etc. XX is already a successful businessman.
Time flies quickly, life is impermanent, and most of the old man at the time has passed away. It's really embarrassing! A person's destiny is destined to a certain extent, but a large part of it is in his own hands. Even the guy who can't control his own destiny, what can others do?
After the banquet, a young deacon whispered from behind: "My lord, the queen's fleet is about to reach the port."
"Let's go, let's go!" Zhang Yuan greeted.
A group of elderly people hurriedly boarded a car and drove on the wide road. When all the residents in the city saw the old man in this car, they all cast admiring eyes and cheered loudly.
In the square not far away, there was an obelisk-style building, which was beating "dangdangdang". Because the sun in this area always hangs in the sky, people's concept of time is easy to be confused. This Big Ben is the standard time in the city, which stipulates people's work and rest time, and even the standard time of the entire continent. .
Working of workers and schooling of students are determined by the standard time of Big Ben.
A huge ship with a scale of 10,000 tons, stopped at the port. After three months of voyage, the passengers on the ship were already impatient and even felt a little sick when they saw the sea.
This is the time required after the route has been greatly improved. At the beginning of the wasteland era, there were no lighthouses on each small island, and the water depth of the surrounding seas was not thoroughly investigated. It even took six or even seven months!
The vast majority of people who go ashore are young people who come from the old road. A ferry ticket may be their life savings, so they may not return to their hometowns for decades.
There are more opportunities to earn a living here. When they saw the New World, they swept away their past homesickness and couldn't help cheering.
"Finally here, New World, New World!"
Even the babbling children are cheering with the adults. The children came with their parents, and there is no so-called homeland feeling.
The young queen standing in the forefront tried to step on the ground under her feet, and then looked at the rising sun hanging on the horizon, suddenly feeling unreal and wonderful.
"...I don't know what kind of surprise the Duke, when he suddenly encountered this land in the vast sea!"
"It's really a long journey."
In Boulder City, the sun will never be seen; here, New Calronburg is eternal daytime, without gas lamps or any lighting facilities. Farther away, there are green crops, where there is plenty of sunlight and can afford to raise more people and livestock.
Zhang Yuan bent over, stroked his chest with his right hand, saluted the young queen, and kissed the queen's hand.
Faced with a living legend, the girl was a little bit nervous.
The queen is dead, someone can take over, but such a legend, there will always be only one in the world. The man who has gone through two failures, two bankruptcies, and stood up again for a third more difficult exploration, a truly living legend.
One thousand years, ten thousand years later, no one will remember the queen's name, but someone will certainly remember the name of this legendary figure.
If he dies, the whole world will mourn for him.
The young queen wandered around in this new city, saw many novel things, and soon fell in love with this so-called "New World".
She recalled that in Boulder City, there were still some old stubborn people who despised the "upstarts" in the new world, and were unwilling to cross the oceans or open up new territories.
In every era, there are such stubborn people. They don't want to change and don't like new things. But every smart person knows that the real opportunity in the future lies in this huge new continent.
Looking at Zhang Yuan’s old face, the girl smiled and asked in private: “Duke Hoffman, how did you want to discover this continent? Your three expeditions are not just the whole world. The epic is your personal epic. Can I listen to your story?"
Zhang Yuan recalled the difficulties he experienced in the past and smiled and said: "This is another, very, very long story..."
"A good ending will always make everyone like it, right?"
……
In the second reincarnation, Zhang Yuan not only discovered the New World, but also promoted the technological revolution.
This new city is more orderly than the previous city. At the beginning, the underground drainage system, including wider roads in the city, and various livelihood projects, consumed a lot of money, but in the following life, everyone clearly felt the convenience.
Zhang Yuan is also trying to promote the development of the social system. This new city levies higher taxes on capitalists, but most of the taxes are used for urban infrastructure construction. These infrastructure projects have fed a large number of civilians.
Actually, for the people of this era, it is good to be able to eat, and other things are not required too much.
The first priority of human beings is survival. Only by solving the problem of survival can we have the time to consider other things, including education and entertainment.
On the other hand, he also founded universities, middle schools and elementary schools, trying to implement the city's five-year compulsory elementary education system. Only with more high-quality workers can we better advance the times.
Humans in this era always have certain limitations. They prefer to let their children do child labor rather than waste their time in school. But human nature is always profit-seeking. As long as they can see that children have only studied in school for five years and their ability to make money is far more efficient than illiterate, then the compulsory education system can be implemented more and more smoothly. Go down.
And through education, the implementation of class changes, this concept has gradually been printed in people's hearts, and has become a universal value.
When he passed away, almost everyone in the city lined up to see off spontaneously.
No one is immortal. Being able to live here for seventy or eighty years is considered a longevity.
……
Actually, Zhang Yuan’s wish has not been fully realized. This world is still a capitalist society with a huge gap between rich and poor, and the upper class exploits the lower class severely.
Even he himself must become a big capitalist for the three expeditions.
Compared with a short lifetime, there is too little that can be changed.
However, he himself is very satisfied with the results he made, and is grateful to the world for its kindness to him and mankind.
The total inhabitable area of this new continent is more than four times that of the previous small islands combined! Moreover, there is sunshine here, and plants can be planted, and more people can be fed... even near a certain bay, oil was discovered!
In this way, the world has even greater variables.
Next, how will it evolve, whether there will be a new era of "Marx" to describe the essence of capital, whether there will be "Washington" to overthrow slavery, whether the contradiction between the new world and the old world will deepen, Whether there will be war or not can only be resolved by the native humans themselves.
He can't control so much.
There will always be more thinkers and revolutionaries in the world to promote the development of this world...
However, no matter how many heroes appear, Zhang Yuan's historical position in this world will not change in any way.
"Goodbye!"
The second reincarnation, it's over.
……
Zhang Yuan once again returned to the light blue space.
"It looks like you are very satisfied with this trip?"
He saw the white point of view again, the artificial intelligence "Sita".
"Yes, it should be more satisfying than the last cherry blossom world..." Zhang Yuan said with a smile.
This time there is not much regret.
"Humans always like to be rewarded after giving. Even if it is only a psychological reward. If there is no reward, the motivation for giving will undoubtedly weaken a lot."
"Why did you pay? Expedition in the ocean is very hard. You must know that you are not immortal. You will suffer from disease and will die if you encounter a storm. If you really die, you will also feel pain."
Zhang Yuan said: "I just like to see progress, but don't like to see regression...Stay in place is also uncomfortable."
In this space, all memories will become very clear.
Zhang Yuan wrote a memoir about the world, what he saw and heard, and analyzed his gains and losses, including whether he could do better in some details, and in this world, Possible future deduction......
In the dull world, the distance between the old road and the new world is too far. From the perspective of the foundation, the New World is definitely no better than the old roads. This has also caused the old nobles to faintly despise the newly born nobles, just as the British despised the Americans.
We can still cooperate now because the cake has not been divided up, and the new world still needs the financial support of the old road. But maybe in the future, no one likes to be exploited for a long time. The struggle surrounding this new continent may last for a long, long time...
Zhang Yuan sighed. History is always winding and winding, and it is impossible for it to be smooth sailing.
As for history, there were four views on the earth: regression theory, progress theory, circular theory and spiral upward theory.
Some religions believe that history is regressive. For example, Adam and Eve, the first human ancestors, were driven out of the heavenly Garden of Eden because they ate the fruits of wisdom. The descendants of Adam and Eve bore their original sins, were born to suffer, and continue to commit new crimes. Finally, God once again comes to the world to judge sinners and so on.
These religions believe that the primitive age with saints is the best.
Since Darwin published "The Origin of Species", he proposed the theory of evolution. British Spencer introduced the theory of evolution into the field of social history and put forward the "Social Evolution Theory", which believed that society is constantly advancing. After that, the theory of historical progress gradually became the mainstream.
The third point of view is the theory of cycles. History is a continuous cycle of separation, recombination, and unending process. History rises and falls along the time axis, but it will not keep getting better and better, nor will it keep getting worse and worse, but the good and the bad will continue to reincarnate.
There is also a fourth point of view. History is spiraling upward. From a local short-term point of view, the times are good and sometimes bad, and even worse and worse, from the retreat to the turbulent times; but from the perspective of the big history, it is getting better and better. The ups and downs in a certain period of time are uncertain, and the decline in a certain stage does not stop, and it does not affect its overall rise.
Zhang Yuan sighed. Nothing is absolute. History is always complicated, and it is difficult to truly generalize objectively because of a simple rise or fall.
After that, he started his third cycle.
……
In the third reincarnation, I was reborn in a technologically advanced world. Just like the previous earth civilization, humans have occupied the entire solar system, but there is no power to explore abroad~IndoMTL.com~ has fallen into class solidification.
All reincarnations have a very good birth, and Zhang Yuan was once again born in an upper class.
In this reincarnation, he spent his entire life building a spaceship, flying his body to a distant place, and there can be no aliens in the distance.
In the fourth reincarnation, I was reborn in a world where the red regime collapsed, and human civilization lost its direction...
This time it’s even more difficult. Zhang Yuan deeply feels the maliciousness of Pangu Brain’s artificial intelligence "Sita"...
Fifth reincarnation, a deep-rooted dictatorship ruled the entire world...
There is no light at all, and it is easy to be locked up in concentration camps with a little carelessness...
After five reincarnations, Zhang Yuan was judged by "Sita" to pass the assessment and kicked him out of the virtual world in advance.
……