Chapter 450

In the twinkling of an eye, it is the 60th year since I came to this world

Zhang Yuan was sitting in a comfortable seat, enjoying the beautiful sunshine. The hundreds of old people in front of him were the captain, first mate, second mate and some sailors of the final voyage.

There were a lot of guests, a lot of toasts and a lot of talk. It's always fun to get together with old friends.

At the wine table, people miss and recall the difficulties encountered in the final voyage. Many sailors got depression during such a long voyage, and some even wanted to seize control of the ship and go back halfway.

But all these difficulties were defeated by the sunshine continent we finally saw

Now miss once, Zhang Yuan is still able to recall the sound of discovery of the new world, high pitched scream.

Man is such a creature!

"Why didn't dolev come?" Zhang Yuan asked one of the old men.

"That guy died in a woman's belly because of his unrestrained life! I'm not old enough for maintenance. "

"What a pity..."

"And asov?"

"I'm old enough to die. After all, I'm in my seventies."

Zhang Yuan shook his head, did not care so much, raised his glass, "well, old guys, cheers!"

"Cheers

Hundreds of people celebrated the final victory of the great voyage. Such a celebration ceremony will be held every five years, and the banquet place, of course, is in the Duke's palace of Zhang Yuan.

Look up at the sky, the distant sun hanging in the sky, will never fall.

Yes, in this piece of land, there is a rising sun in the sky, not a setting sun.

Here is the sunshine continent that countless people yearn for!

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This is Hoffman land, a land named after him!

Since this legendary fleet brought the information of the new world back to the old road more than 30 years ago, a gold rush has emerged in this sunny land. Countless common people, rich families and nobles, at great risk, travel through most of the planet and come to this huge land to open up wasteland.

Due to the imperfection of the system at the beginning, this area is a state of chaos, full of violence, blood and crime.

The changes of the times are surging, and the process of history is advancing by leaps and bounds. Almost all of Zhang Yuan's efforts are devoted to this new continent.

Thirty years have passed

The gold rush is still going on. In the largest city in mainland Hoffman, new kalenberg, the crime rate has gradually decreased and become a very livable city.

Most of the old crew members have been doing well over the years. After all, the new world is full of waste and opportunities. Farming, breeding, iron and steel, coal, chemical industry, electricity, and the newly discovered oil industry, as long as they do not seek to degenerate, survival is absolutely not a problem.

Zhang Yuan, a famous "Duke", will also take care of these old acquaintances to a certain extent.

Of course, there are also some people who have suddenly gained a lot of wealth and honor, lost in it, and can't control their desires.

If virtue doesn't match, he will suffer. If such a person has more knowledge, Zhang Yuan won't take care of him too much.

A group of people are drinking and chatting about the past. When they are old, they always like to recall the past. Including so and so died in a woman's belly, so and so's son took drugs, gambled, lost his family property and so on, so and so has been a successful businessman.

Time is in a hurry, life is changeable, at the beginning of the old man, has passed away most of the time, it is really sad! To a certain extent, one's fate is predestined by heaven, but a large part of it is in one's own hands. If you can't control your own destiny, what can others do?

After the banquet, a young deacon whispered in the rear, "Your Highness, the Queen's fleet is about to reach the port."

"Come on, let's go!" Zhang Yuan said.

A group of old people get on a car in a hurry and drive on the wide road. All the residents in the city, when they saw this car of old people, all cast respectful eyes and cheered loudly.

Not far away on the square, there is a square spire building, "Dangdang" to knock. Because the sun in this area is always hanging in the sky, people's concept of time is easily 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 whole continent.

The standard time of Big Ben determines the working hours of workers and the schooling hours of students.

A huge ship with a capacity of 10000 tons is at the port. After three months of sailing, the passengers on the ship were already impatient. They even felt sick when they saw the sea.

This is also the time required after the route has been greatly improved. At the beginning of the reclamation period, there was no lighthouse on each island, and the water depth of the surrounding sea area was not fully explored. It even took six or seven months!Most of the people who come ashore are young people coming from the old road. A ticket may be their life savings, so they may not return to their hometown for decades.

There are more opportunities to make a living here. When they saw the new world, they swept away their homesickness and couldn't help cheering.

"Here we are, new world, new world!"

Even the babbling children are cheering with the adults. The children follow their parents, and there is no so-called hometown emotion.

Standing in front of the young queen, trying to step on the solid ground, and looked at the sunrise hanging in the sky, suddenly gave birth to an unreal sense of wonder.

“…… I don't know what kind of surprise it was when you met this piece of land in the vast sea

"What a long journey."

In Stonehenge, the sun will never be seen; here, new kalenberg is an eternal day, without gas lamps or any lighting facilities. Further away, there are green crops. There is enough light to support more people and livestock.

Zhang Yuan bent over, stroked her chest with his right hand, saluted the young queen and kissed her hand.

In the face of a living legend, the girl was a little uneasy.

When the queen dies, someone can take the throne, but there is only one such legend in the world. After two failures, two bankruptcies, and to stand up again, to carry out the third more difficult exploration of the man, really alive legend.

One thousand years, ten thousand years later, no one will remember the name of the queen, but surely someone will remember the name of the legend.

If he died, the whole world would mourn for it.

The young queen strolled around the new city, saw many new things, and soon fell in love with the so-called "new world".

She recalled that there were still some old and stubborn people in Jushi city who despised the "upstarts" in the new world and were not willing to cross the sea or open up new territory.

Every age has such stubborn people, they are not willing to change, do not like new things. But every smart person knows that the real opportunity for the future lies in this vast new continent.

Looking at Zhang Yuan's old face, the girl smiles and secretly asks, "Duke Hoffman, how do you want to discover this continent? Your three expeditions are not only the epics of the whole world, but also your personal epics. May I hear your story? "

Recalling the difficulties he had experienced in the past, Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "this is another, very, very long story..."

"A good ending will make everyone like it, won't it?"

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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 old one. At the beginning, the underground drainage system, including the wider roads in the city and various livelihood projects, consumed a lot of money, but in the next life, we obviously feel the convenience.

Zhang Yuan is also trying to promote the development of social system. The new city has higher taxes on capitalists, but most of the taxes are used for urban infrastructure construction. These infrastructure projects support a large number of civilians.

In fact, for the people of this era, it's good to have enough to eat, and they won't ask too much for other things.

The most important thing of human beings is survival. Only when we solve the problem of survival can we have time to consider other things, including education and entertainment.

On the other hand, he also founded universities, middle schools and primary schools, trying to implement the five-year compulsory education system for primary schools in the whole city. Only more high-quality workers can better promote the times.

In this era, human beings always have certain limitations. They would rather let their children do child labor than waste their time to go to school. But human nature is always for profit. As long as they can see that children only study in school for five years, their ability to make money is far more efficient than illiteracy, then the compulsory education system can be carried out more and more smoothly.

Through education and class change, this concept gradually entered people's hearts and became a universal value.

When he passed away, almost all the people in the city lined up and spontaneously went to see him off.

There is no one who can survive here for 70 or 80 years, which can be regarded as longevity.

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In fact, Zhang Yuan's wishes are still not fully realized. The world is still a capitalist society with a huge gap between the rich and the poor, where the upper class exploits the lower class seriously.

Even he himself had to be a big capitalist for three expeditions.

Compared with a person's short life, there are too few things that can be changed.

However, he himself is very satisfied with the results he has made and thanks the world for its kindness to him and mankind.The total living area of this new continent is more than four times that of the previous islands! And there's sunshine here, so we can grow plants and feed more people Even in the vicinity of a bay, oil was found!

In this way, the world has more variables.

Next, how will it evolve, whether there will be a new era of "Marx" to describe the nature of capital, whether there will be "Washington" to overthrow slavery, whether the contradiction between the new world and the old world will deepen, whether war will break out, can only be solved by the local people themselves.

He can't manage so much.

More thinkers and revolutionaries will be born in the world to promote the development of the world

However, no matter how many heroes appear, Zhang Yuan's historical position in the world will not change at all.

"Goodbye!"

Second reincarnation, over.

……

Zhang Yuan once again returned to the light blue space.

"It seems that you are very satisfied with the trip?"

He saw the white point of view again, the "West Tower" of artificial intelligence.

"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.

"Human beings always like to be rewarded after giving. Even if it's just a psychological reward. If there is no return, the motivation to give will undoubtedly weaken a lot. "

"Why do you pay? It's hard to explore in the ocean. You need to know that you are not immortal. You will suffer from disease. Once you encounter a storm, you will die. Even if you don't really die, you feel pain. "

Zhang Yuan said: "I just like to see progress, but I don't like to see retrogression Standing still is just as uncomfortable

In this space, all the memories will become very clear.

Zhang Yuan wrote a memoir about what he saw and heard in this world, analyzing the gains and losses, including whether he could do better in some details, and the possible future deduction in this world

In the dark world, the old roads and the new world are too far away. From the bottom of the story, the new world is certainly not as good as the old road, which also causes the old aristocracy to despise the newly born aristocracy, just as the British despised the Americans at the beginning.

The reason why we are still able to cooperate is that the cake has not been completely 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 around this new continent may last for a long time

Zhang Yuan sighed that history is always winding and can not be plain sailing.

There were four views on History: retrogression, progress, circulation and spiral rise.

Some religions believe that history is regressive. For example, Adam and Eve, the forefathers of mankind, were driven out of the paradise of Eden because they ate the fruit of wisdom. The descendants of Adam and Eve bear the original sin, are born to suffer, and constantly commit new crimes. Finally, God came to the world again to judge the sinners.

These religions believe that the primitive age with Saints is the best.

Since Darwin published the origin of species, he put forward the theory of evolution. British Spencer introduced the theory of evolution into the field of social history and put forward the theory of "social evolution", believing that society is constantly moving forward. After that, the theory of historical progress gradually became the mainstream.

The third point of view is the theory of circulation. History is an endless process of separation and combination. History goes up and down along the time axis, but it doesn't always progress better and better, and it doesn't always regress worse and worse, but the good and the bad are constantly reincarnated.

There is a fourth point of view: history is spiraling. In the short term, it is good and bad, even worse and worse. From the era of Shengping, it is back to the era of chaos. But from the perspective of big history, it is getting better and better. The rise and fall of local period is uncertain, and the decline of a certain stage does not affect the rise of the whole.

Zhang Yuan sighed, there is no absolute, history is complex, simple rise or fall, it is difficult to really objectively summarize.

Then, he opened his third reincarnation.

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The third reincarnation, reincarnated in a world with advanced technology, just like the earth civilization, human beings have occupied the entire solar system, but no longer have the power to explore abroad, falling into class solidification.

All samsara have a very good birth, Zhang Yuan was born again in an upper class.

In this reincarnation, he spent his whole life to build a spaceship and fly his body to a distant place where there can be no aliens.

The fourth reincarnation, reincarnated in a world where the red regime collapsed, human civilization lost its own direction

This time, it's even more difficult. Zhang Yuan deeply feels the malice of Pangu brain's artificial intelligence "West Tower"The fifth reincarnation, the deep-rooted dictatorship, ruled the whole world

There's no light at all. It's easy to be locked up in a concentration camp if you're careless

After five rounds of reincarnation, Zhang Yuan was judged by the "West Tower" to have passed the examination and kicked him out of the virtual world in advance.

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