Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1127 Harmony with light
[Oh my, your proposal was rejected. ]

"Hehehe, I have many tricks up my sleeve. Since you won't let me remove the window first, I'll just have to open the ceiling in one go!"

Phaethon's voice came from the channel: "What on earth are you two whispering about? You are decent people, decent people. Don't make yourselves like villains."

"How's it going over there? Is Senior Fu drinking tea with that Shimazu in the tea room?"

"Ah, it was here just now, but now..."

"No! I'm ready, I'm Japanese!" Shimazu struggled and was lifted up by the Jinyiwei, "Didn't we agree on this? I'm Japanese! I really can be Japanese! I'm not Japanese! I really can be Japanese."

"Tsk." Fu Yuanshan shook his head. He didn't plan to say a word to this Japanese.

There was no need to pretend anymore. The friendly look he had just shown was entirely based on Shangluo's opinion. There was no need to implement this plan now, and he didn't intend to waste time building up some empathy with this Japanese.

Shimazu was dragged away by the Jinyiwei while shouting "I can be!"

Fu Yuanshan looked at the empty teacup in front of him, sighed, and poured himself a cup.

"Senior Fu?" Phaethon came over. "Why are you sighing?"

"Did Shangluo ask you to ask? Is he watching?"

Phaethon nodded.

"Sit down." He picked up the cup that Shimazu had drunk from, and casually crushed it into dust, then poured another cup for Phaethon. "I'm not sighing for him, I'm sighing for myself."

Phaethon drank a sip of tea first: "Are you unhappy about anything?"

"I suddenly realized that I could no longer empathize with humans who had nothing to do with me. Our sect's practice emphasizes being in the world, which means being one with the world and not letting your mind leave the world. Only by being one with the world can you avoid being too emotional. So you know, I usually hang out in the Qinhuai River. People often come to me to ask questions, and I often let them treat me to dinner. As the days go by, I feel that I have not actually entered the state of being too emotional. Facts have proved that I was wrong."

He looked at the empty seat next to him where Shimazu had just sat. "I don't feel the slightest bit of emotion about his departure. It was the same before. No matter how earnestly he expressed himself, I didn't care what he was thinking. Do you know why?"

"I want to know, and Shangluo also wants to know."

"Because I know that he will die sooner or later. He and we are no longer of the same species. After we part today, we will never meet again, and we will no longer have any connection - I thought of this." "But there is no 'reproductive isolation' between you and the people in Kinei, right?"

"That's... Hey, hey, hey, little girl, don't learn bad words from Shangluo to deceive me. I'm just lamenting for the future of the old humans for a while. The future of us celestials is still quite bright. Of course, the future of you Cybermen is also very bright. Everyone is doing well."

"You really are... you really have high emotional intelligence. Anyway, I'm not going to be a cyborg anymore. I want to be a heavenly being."

"Well, Miss Tianren, I want to ask you - I'm not asking Shangluo, I'm asking you."

"Ask me? Senior Fu, what do you want to ask?"

"What do you think of the barbarians? You are a Roman, and your opinion should be representative."

"Servants, it's that simple. Barbarians should serve Rome, and the barbarians should obey Rome's dispatch. The barbarians' persons and entire civilization belong to Rome, and they must also be bound by Rome. Correspondingly, according to the ethics of fair circulation, they can gain their own status and future within Rome through service. The door to promotion is open, and in addition to the Senate, they can be promoted to quite high-level military positions. For those crude barbarians, they have already reached the pinnacle that their entire civilization cannot reach."

"I think the danger of my idea lies here - at that moment just now, I didn't even intend to establish any relationship with those outsiders. Compared with my idea, your idea of ​​treating the barbarians as servants seems more tender. Servants are human beings after all. I didn't treat that guy as a human being at all just now. Now I can't even remember his name. I only know that his last name is Shimazu."

"Is that so? No wonder Senior Fu thinks this idea is dangerous. But even if you really don't regard the barbarians as human beings, you still have many of your own people, so it's not a big problem."

"Hmm? Hmm." Fu Yuanshan nodded, "Young people still have new ideas. You persuaded me twice before I understood - yes, if we have enough people of our own, we can remain normal without outsiders. As long as we have enough people of our own, even if all of them are extraordinary people, we can maintain our current daily life. What I am worried about should not happen."

"Worried? What are you worried about?"

"I'm worried that everyone will pack up and go their separate ways. It's clear that as their realms improve, all celestial beings will become increasingly dependent on the Small Zhoutian to maintain their existence. The Big Zhoutian, which relies on daily necessities and the natural world, will switch places with the Small Zhoutian from the moment they embark on the path of cultivation. If one day, all of us can be self-sufficient, will our society, our culture, and our families disintegrate? On that day, everything I know may change drastically. We may break up. I don't know you, and you don't know me."

"Will this happen?"

"Yes, and do you know why I say this? Because the mirage in the Dragon Palace makes me feel this threat intuitively - if the food made from the mirage becomes everyone's daily diet, if the mirage can easily simulate any form of taste and texture, then all restaurants must compete with such a weird spell. If the cost of making the mirage is not expensive, then the streets I often go to will probably become empty immediately."

"But, Senior Fu, you have enough people - I think this is a problem that only the Romans need to consider. If the Romans really faced this choice, I think their culture would really melt away like snowflakes. But you are different, you have a lot of people. The Romans had so few people that they couldn't even fill their own army, but you are completely different. You have so many people that you can fill all the ecological positions in society. No matter what you do, this kind of 'disbanding' is a very distant future for you."

(End of this chapter)