Chapter 014 Chinese Miracle
“After all, before the Great Collapse, there were 7 billion people in the world, and the most widely used language was English.
Even during the Great Collapse, when the world's population dropped sharply to 3 billion, most of them spoke English, but in the end it was Chinese that became the world's mainstream language. This is indeed a miracle that is worth pondering.
The current mainstream view in academia is the spiritual specificity of the Chinese people.
After the Great Collapse, the country was no longer a country. China, like other countries, was split into many small islands, which drifted farther and farther away from each other, thousands of miles apart.
At that time, sociologists believed that under such circumstances, people from all countries would have a weaker sense of national belonging over time, and eventually approach zero, and new forces would be established between nearby islands.
In the more than 100 years since this conjecture was made, the development of the world has roughly converged with this conjecture, but the Chinese are an exception. "
“In the early days of the Great Collapse, although the Chinese were thousands of miles away, these people still considered themselves Chinese and still considered themselves the descendants of Yan and Huang. At the same time, they also insisted on Chinese education for their descendants and popularized ancient history for a long time.
Think about it, among the 3 billion people after the Great Collapse, there may be 400 million Chinese people who survived. Although these people are scattered all over the place, they are closely connected with each other. What does this mean?
This means that no matter where you go from one sky island, there will always be a group of people who will accept you as a compatriot. You don’t even need to integrate into the local society, because the Chinese already have fixed gathering places there.
Then there is the sharing of personal connections, sharing of resources, and the same and stable cultural identity. These factors have led to the fact that most of the sky islands have small areas that are exclusive to Chinese people.
As we all know, the efficiency of resource interaction is one of the important factors in social development. Currency and language are tools used by humans to improve the efficiency of resource interaction.
Under such special conditions , the Chinese undoubtedly became the group with the fastest resource exchange, so China was the country that recovered the fastest at that time, which directly led to everyone else wanting to join this huge resource exchange group.
Then... you know, language is the most basic requirement for joining, and then Chinese became popular.
Now Chinese has become a universal language and can be used all over the world.”
After Xia Xiaoyu finished speaking, she looked back at Su Ming and was stunned to find that he looked very excited.
"You...you seem very excited?"
"Don't you think it's exciting?" Su Ming said.
"Yes, is it?"
"Well, you may not understand, but this will make us believe that we are special." Su Ming replied with a faint smile on his face.
Xia Xiaoyu really didn't understand. To her, this was just a historical event, and the legend of the Chinese people had become a thing of the past. Things were different now, and she didn't think this story was anything great.
Xia Xiaoyu really wanted to tell the other party that the Chinese people today have lost the cohesion they had more than two hundred years ago.
The earliest group of people who called themselves descendants of Yan and Huang left behind only the miracle of Chinese language and nothing else. Their incredible spirit and strong sense of belonging were buried in the dust of history as time passed.
Now everyone, no matter who they are, only serves their own family and alliance.
"Su Ming, things are different now. Everyone works only for their own family and the organization they belong to." Xia Xiaoyu said, "There is no concept of country anymore. Do you understand?
Now everyone introduces themselves by the name of the island, or the name of their family or organization.
You can say that you are from the Osborn family like Flora did, or you can claim to be from Dongyang Island. If you join the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, you can also use this to introduce yourself.
But it’s best not to introduce yourself as Chinese, it will make people feel weird, and no one says that anymore.”
"Is that so? That's such a pity." Su Ming said dejectedly.
"There's nothing to regret. Times are changing and people can only move forward." Xia Xiaoyu said, "Su Ming, your original world seems to be very similar to our world. Did you travel from a parallel world?"
"Yeah." Su Ming nodded. "It is indeed very similar. Maybe it is really a parallel world. But I don't understand one thing, so I have a question - what year is it now?"
"It's been 260 years since the Great Collapse. This year is the 260th anniversary. If calculated according to the original calendar, it should be... um... 2280." Xia Xiaoyu replied.
Su Ming was surprised.
2280, this can indeed explain why China existed 260 years ago.
But after more than two hundred years, why does it seem that technology has not made much progress?
People still take the subway, stay in ordinary hotels, and there are no cars flying in the air. Has the development of science and technology stagnated in the past two hundred years?
"In the past two hundred years, there has been no development in science and technology? Why is the living standard still this high?" Su Ming asked.
"You guessed it right. Although technology is still developing, it is very, very slowly because the emergence of supernatural powers has attracted everyone's attention. Compared with the slow advancement of technology, supernatural powers are much stronger.
Moreover, the continent is divided into various islands, making it difficult to concentrate resources, so no one is willing to bother concentrating resources on technological research and development.
Now monsters are the biggest enemy of mankind, but thermal weapons have no effect on many monsters at all, so even if mankind develops weapons more powerful than nuclear bombs, it will not make the situation of mankind better. Therefore, everyone has no hope in science.
However, biological genetics has always been very popular, and even now, it attracts crazy investments from all parties. "
"Biogenetics? Human body modification like the Hulk?"
"What is the Hulk?" Xia Xiaoyu frowned slightly, looking puzzled.
Su Ming thought again. The Hulk was a movie made over 200 years ago. Even if the quality of movies has not improved over the past 200 years, many new movies must have been released. It is normal that the other party does not know about this old movie.
"Nothing, the Hulk is a movie character, you probably don't know him. What I want to ask is, can the bio-genetic technology you mentioned turn ordinary people into superpowers?"
"You think too much. If this were true, the human situation wouldn't be so bad.
The so-called biological genetic technology is actually more like mating science, which studies how to make the children born to superpower couples stronger.
As we all know, children born between two people with superpowers are likely to also have superpowers. The only difference is the strength of the superpowers.
Moreover, in extremely rare cases, a child may inherit the superpowers of both parents and become a compound superpower person. The value of a compound superpower person is immeasurable, and the inhumane trafficking organizations that deal in compound superpower products have existed for a long time.
In short , if we can master the reproductive laws of people with special abilities, it means that humans may be able to master this extraordinary power. Therefore, for decades, this subject has been very popular... well... especially the aristocracy, who have always been the largest investors in biogenetic science. "
Su Ming nodded thoughtfully. After listening to Xia Xiaoyu's popular science presentation, he felt that he had a lot to learn.
"Okay, let's talk about this today. Do you still want to go to Flora's for dinner?" Xia Xiaoyu asked.
