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Answering readers’ questions: Analysis of the correlation between agricultural society and Longhan Heaven, and asking for monthly votes!

Some readers said that Longhan Tianting had developed for millions of years, but its magical powers and Taoism were not as good as those of Yankang, which was only a few hundred years ago. They were very puzzled. Some readers gave explanations, but none of them hit the point.

I would like to share some basic knowledge of sociology and economics here.

Professor Wen Tiejun is an expert in agricultural research and economic analysis. When I was listening to his lectures online, I heard a short story about an isolated rural village in Myanmar. When outsiders walked into this village, they found that the social structure of this village had not changed for hundreds or even thousands of years.

This simple social structure is so stable that without any external forces to disrupt it, it has formed a self-sufficient ecological system.

This society is self-contained. Villagers' production and exchange all take place within the village and they rarely need things from the outside world.

In fact, this is a closed internal circulation system. The internal force is not enough to change the social structure. Without external interference, this social structure will continue.

It will not give birth to technology, will not bring forth new things, and will not invent things like lights, telephones, televisions, mobile phones, and the Internet.

This is actually a problem that combines sociology and economics. Breaking this internal cycle often requires external intervention.

A similar social structure can be found during China's feudal dynasty period. Of course, the feudal dynasty was much more complicated than the village mentioned above.

The feudal dynasty lasted for two thousand years, but its development was actually not as good as that of the technological society in one hundred years.

Rural society lacks the momentum to enter a technological society. There is no demand, no social atmosphere, no scientific concepts, and no motivation.

Zhaizhu designed Longhan Temple based on this rule.

When Longhan Heaven was first formed, it was ruled by ancient gods, forming a stable ruling system of ancient gods, demigods, and mortals.

In this stable system, the ancient gods hold power and have no motivation to develop new systems of magical powers, nor do they have any motivation to improve the living conditions of mortals and demigods.

Therefore, the ancient gods ruled for a long time and seemed very stable, but contradictions were accumulating.

This is an unstable closed form.

To develop supernatural powers and practice them, only mortals or demigods can do so.

When mortals and demigods grow up, they will want to have power and become ancient gods.

When mortals and demigods become rulers, the social structure will take on another closed form. The ruling class that controls resources and capital will form an extremely stable structure that does not allow outsiders to come in and divide the benefits.

When this class controls too many resources, it will become self-enclosed, which is due to the incompleteness of the Longhan Revolution.

Because these mortals and demigods adopted a "gentle" way of seizing power and replaced the ancient gods they originally hated. In fact, they have become the people they once hated.

Have you discovered the wonder of this social structure?

A rules BCDEF, B replaces A and rules CDEFG, C replaces B and rules DEFGH.

This is the pattern of dynasty change.

When B replaces A, he becomes a person similar to the ancient gods. Just like during the period of the ancient gods' rule, he will have no motivation to develop new magical powers, nor will he have any motivation to improve the living conditions of mortals.

B just wants to maintain the current status quo.

This is why the reform will not take off in Longhan Heaven, and why the speed of innovation of magical arts and Taoism is not as fast as that of Yankang.

If you observe the real world, you will find that there are many examples in reality and many countries have similar patterns. These countries are often countries where the land revolution is not thorough.

India's non-violent non-cooperation movement enabled India to gain independence, but the upper castes changed from the British to those who ruled India.

The Mandela Movement in South Africa led to South Africa's independence, and the people who ruled South Africa changed from white people to white people and a few indigenous nobles.

The speed of this kind of social development cannot compare with that of China (Yankang).

Yankang was always in danger, both internally and externally, and more externally. Some reformers constantly made changes through reforms to make society progress and develop.

The existence of external forces causes this social structure to change constantly.

In fact, it is only a small-probability accident that humans enter a technological society. When we enter the interstellar age and travel through the starry sky, we may find that most planets with life are in closed social structures and have not entered the technological age.

I can’t say much more. I don’t want to write a paper that will make everyone sleepy.

Just explain the reason clearly.

In addition, let me solve another problem for readers.

Why didn’t the Taoist master discover the Taiwei Suanjing?

The Taixuan Suanjing and Taiwei Suanjing in The Shepherd's Records draw on two real-world mechanics, Newtonian mechanics and quantum mechanics.

Why didn’t the Taoist master discover the Taiwei Suanjing?

The question should be: Why didn't Newton discover quantum mechanics?

Newton lived to be eighty-five years old, and classical mechanics had been constructed extremely perfectly. Scientists at that time said that the mysteries of the universe had been completely solved by us. Scientists in later generations would be very pessimistic to see that all their efforts were just decoration in the building of classical mechanics.

It was not until the emergence of Einstein, who discovered the special theory of relativity, general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics in his teens and twenties, that scientists realized that the high-rise building was far from being completed. It was just laying the foundation, and even the foundation was crooked.

Therefore, the reason why Newton did not discover quantum mechanics and the reason why Taoist did not discover the Taiwei Suanjing are the same.

Newton established the system of classical mechanics, and it was difficult for him to jump out of this system to discover other broader fields. The same was true for many scientists who practiced classical mechanics after him, who were unable to jump out of this system.

It was not until the emergence of Einstein and Niels Bohr that quantum mechanics was created.

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