Chapter 2397 Ancient Wisdom
Everyone was dumbfounded at this time, and only Ishigami Senku could speak. After all, Duran summoned a silent lightning just a few minutes ago, and the scorch marks on the ground were still new.
They felt that Ishigami Senku was concerned about the wrong question. Now it was not a question of whether Duran would kill people, but how he would kill people. Can normal people summon lightning? That is lightning, although there is no sound. Of course, it could also be lasers or strong radiation.
"Is this the legendary quantum mechanics?" A tough guy spoke in a daze, as if he had just seen God.
Ishigami Senku realized that he was too calm. Everyone behind him was scared. Whether it was primitive people or old humans, they obviously couldn't understand Duran's methods. In fact, he didn't understand it either, but since petrification had happened, it was natural for Duran to use a mysterious killing technology similar to the death ray. Ishigami Senku's tolerance was outstanding, far beyond ordinary people. Of course, he didn't think Duran used any quantum mechanics.
However, for ordinary people, quantum mechanics is just like the feudal superstitious people praying to gods when they are in doubt. In the minds of these tough guys, the most mysterious and popular scientific term they know is quantum mechanics. Anyway, if they don’t understand it, it’s quantum mechanics.
Ishigami Senku has the rigor of a scientist and did not make a conclusion, but he still said: "No matter what he did just now, he must have used the power of technology. Don’t be afraid."
Duran said: "You should be afraid, because the natural disasters and diseases and famines you will encounter in the future will only be more terrible. You must be mentally prepared. If I were you, I would first reclaim enough land, plant the land first, and then find a way to store three years of food. You must know that a long time ago, the ancients summed up the farming law of twelve to fourteen years. In simple terms, even if the weather is good, the fertile land will have a harvest half of the year and a poor harvest half of the year after more than ten years of cultivation. So what you have to do is to find a way to stockpile food to deal with the laws of nature."
In the era without agricultural fertilizers, the Central Plains and ancient Egypt had already discovered this law, but the way it was presented was completely different.
Guanzi, also known as Guan Zhong, was a minister who helped Duke Huan of Qi become the first hegemon in the Spring and Autumn Period. He discovered the twelve-year rule and concluded that there would be three years of good harvest, three years of poor harvest, and six years of poor harvest. Therefore, Guan Zhong believed that food should be purchased at a low price during the good harvest, and when there was a poor harvest and the price of food increased, the state could come forward to stabilize the food price to prevent chaos. Moreover, work-for-relief could be used to ask those citizens who had no dogs at the front door and no pigs at the back door to participate in the construction of palaces and city walls to overcome the predicament of insufficient land fertility.
The story that happened in ancient Egypt is recorded in the Bible. Joseph, the founder of the Jewish success theory, recorded the fourteen-year rule in his story of turning from a slave to the prime minister of ancient Egypt. Of course, in the Bible, the reason why Joseph knew the fourteen-year rule was not because of an objective summary, but because God dreamed that he dreamed of seven years of good harvest and seven years of famine. In the first half of the good harvest years, Joseph did the same thing as Guan Zhong, which was to hoard food in the good years, but the second half was completely different.
Guan Zhong believed that when there was a famine, the country had to stabilize grain prices and solve employment problems with work-for-relief to stabilize the country. However, Joseph helped Pharaoh to make money crazily. After the famine, he took away all the people's money in the first year, exchanged all the people's livestock in the second year, took away all the people's land in the third year, and bought the people's freedom in the fourth year. In four years, Joseph mastered the wealth of the entire ancient Egypt for Pharaoh, got a promotion and salary increase, married a beautiful woman and reached the peak of his life. It can be said that it was Joseph's success that gave the Jews the capital to return to their hometown, unify the promised land, and establish the Solomon Dynasty.
They also summed up the laws of nature. Although Guan Zhong and Joseph both hoarded grain in the harvest year, they were poles apart in their later treatment.
But no matter how they deal with it, the law of soil fertility loss over more than ten years is correct. Among all the people present now, I am afraid that only Duran knows this. When he spoke out these knowledge that had long been discovered, everyone was dumbfounded and felt like they were listening to a heavenly book.
Obviously, with the advent of industrial fertilizers, no one would think about the laws summarized by the ancients thousands of years ago.
Everyone began to come to their senses and worry about their own survival.
Hunger, disease, natural disasters, these crises are more dangerous than the culprit of petrification of humans in Ishigami Senku's mouth. Because the first three can happen at any time, and they are bound to happen. The latter is not so urgent. After all, the primitive people of the tribe have lived for hundreds of years without encountering the attack of petrification light.
Ishigami Senku also found that Duran succeeded. He created fear and forced everyone to face the current problems. Then his huge plan would be stranded unless he solved everyone's panic first.
"There will be a way. We can make fertilizers. Feces and wood ash are fertilizers. And we can reclaim more wasteland. Don't worry about food production reduction. There are always more solutions than problems. Don't worry." Ishigami Senku said: "Okay, now we should go back."
Amber was stunned, but she looked at Duran with lingering fear, and knew that she couldn't fight Duran anymore.
"What about them?" Damu Dashu looked at the two wounded men on the ground. They were both in danger, but they could not be ignored.
"We use vines and trunks to make two simple stretchers and take them." Ishigami is still very humanitarian and will treat the injured enemies.
The battle is over, but there is no joy, but more problems, especially Duran, no one knows what he is going to do. They thought Duran would stop them from leaving, but unexpectedly Duran just watched this discouraged army leave and return to the tribe.
Of course, Ishigami did not forget the cave of nitric acid and left two guards.
Duran watched them disappear, thinking that he had aroused the panic of the tool man, so Ishigami Senku would be a little afraid.
"Do you want to stop him, or don't you want to stop him?" Wu Ding popped up. He was a little confused. He didn't know what Duran wanted from Ishigami Senku: "If you want to stop him, there are many ways. Why do you only talk? If you don't want to stop him, why do you say so much?"
"That's called unfathomable. I don't want to stop him or let him go. I just give him some problems. Of course, these problems already exist. I just take them out in advance to prepare for a rainy day, and then watch them work hard to solve the problems. This is my purpose." Duran said insidiously.
Wu Ding was silent and mourned for Ishigami Senku for three minutes. It feels like Duran is just making things difficult for the young man. Such a powerful person is so willful and playful. It is really a misfortune for mankind.
Fu Hao felt that Duran did nothing wrong. After all, these problems do exist. It's not that they can be avoided by not raising them. Although it's a basin of cold water, it's better to prepare early: "Anything that can't stop them will eventually make them more tenacious. Humans will not let us down."
If Ishigami Senku knew Duran's "good intentions", he would definitely thank Duran's family.