135, History of Heaven

The content of these ten new heavenly articles is very short, but it constitutes the core of the second half of the Bible, the True Covenant New Book. The length of the True Covenant New Book accounts for three-quarters of the entire Bible, and a large amount of the content is commentary written by later generations. ! At first glance, these ten regulations are not tall at all, and it is difficult to deserve such a sacred title as "Tian Zi".

But here, no one would think so. Every word of it is sacred and solemn. If we look at the history and actual situation of this world, we will find that every provision of it is so wise and necessary. It emerged to solve the most important practical problems in this world.

Children in heaven also need to receive education, and ultimately they have to undergo assessment to assess academic performance, such as the exams in schools outside. Why is the new ten heavenly terms so specified? It is a must-take in the annual exam.

For example, the first article is prohibited from burning red bricks, and only blue bricks can be used in buildings. What is the reason?

The materials used in red bricks are the same as those used in blue bricks. The difference is not only the difference in color, but also the different processing technology and characteristics. When I was a child, there were also brick-fired kilns in my hometown. According to Ding Qi, the process of red bricks is relatively simple, and it is fired in an open kiln and cooled naturally. The iron elements of the clay are fully oxidized to iron trioxide, so the bricks are red and the bricks have a subtle porous structure.

The process of firing blue bricks is more complicated. It uses a capped water-cooled kiln. At the end of the firing, the kiln must be sealed from the air and poured water from the top of the kiln to form water in the kiln to form water in the kiln, which is like steaming the bricks during the cooling process. In this case, the iron element of the clay is not completely oxidized, and the iron trioxide will be reduced to ferrous oxide, and the bricks will be blue-gray.

People here do not know this knowledge, but they know the characteristics of blue bricks. Red bricks are stronger and denser, not only insulated and breathable, but also more resistant to environmental and corrosion by time. Building the same buildings with blue bricks and red bricks is much longer-lasting.

Of course, the kilns that produce blue bricks are complex and difficult to produce on a large scale, but the world is very small and there is no need to carry out large-scale industrial production.

The night limits people's range of activities. If there is no limit to the night, the world is also limited. The clay and fuel required for brick making are precious resources, and they are often at the expense of destroying arable land and available vegetation, so it is of course better to burn blue bricks.

Because of this Heavenly Litter, the indigenous peoples of the Heavenly Kingdom have never seen red bricks. However, the classics record the firing method of red bricks and blue bricks, and explain the differences in their characteristics. Then the same Heavenly Litter stipulates the same principle on the sacrificial pottery. It is also based on the same principle. It is important to know that clay and fuel are used to make pottery and burn pottery. In order to achieve the required high temperature, charcoal is often necessary to process first.

There are specific details in the annotation of the classics. If an adult deliberately damages pottery, he will be whipped, while a child without intentional damages pottery can be exempted, but his parents should be scolded in public in the temple.

The seventh article of the new ten heavenly articles is also very special. It actually emphasized something: "Please protect the blood and fight, frogs can be eaten but not sold."

The so-called Kidou is the larvae of frogs and toads, and now it is also written as tadpoles. On the way to the sedan chair, Ding Qi and others heard the sound of frogs in large numbers, and they also ate frogs when they were eating today. They have seen frogs in places with water, but the sound of frogs is not as dense as that of the plains. There are many frogs in the plains, and when they walk on the road, you can see frogs jumping into the water puddles.

There is no chemical industry outside here, nor does it have common pesticides and fertilizers. Traditional farm fertilizers are important fertilizers. Some trees' leaves can be mashed and fermented or burned into ashes as fertilizers or can be used as insects. However, the fields mainly rely on ecology to control pests, so frogs are very important.

Tadpoles need to be protected and cannot be harmed, while frogs can be eaten. Local residents can occasionally catch two dishes, but they cannot be caught and sold at the market. The notes also have detailed regulations: catching frogs must be eaten immediately, and they must not be marinated into jerky meat or other long-term storage.

The third article of the new ten heavenly articles stipulates that the annual copper production of heaven should not exceed 100 kilograms and the annual production of tin should not exceed 50 kilograms. It can be seen that this landlord also produces metals, and copper and tin can also be made of various bronze alloys. Why is the output so strictly limited? It should be noted that large-scale metallurgy will consume a lot of manpower, material resources and environmental resources, and it is impossible to last here.

Just fuel, a lot of charcoal is required, and all the trees that can be cut down may be cut down in a short period of time. Moreover, if all the laborers go to mine and metallurgy, thousands of people will probably not be enough to go to the mine. If other production is delayed, it will threaten everyone's survival.

There is no steel here, only two metals, copper and tin. The Taiping Army who came in should have also had craftsmen and found ores. Now copper, tin and bronze products are all produced in Beidaying, which is also the place where Tan Hanchuan arrived. There is a village community that specializes in metallurgy.

Here, all metal objects cannot be discarded at will even be destroyed. They must be returned to the warehouse and sent to Beidaying for resmelting. Now, the annual scale of newly produced copper and tin in Beidaying is only a few dozen kilograms, and a lot of time is spent smelting and recycling of old metals.

Although damaged metal objects can be recycled, there will be corrosion and consumption during use. There are not many new metals produced every year, so bronzes, tins and bronzes are very precious here. The annotations of the Bible have made strict regulations. In addition to recycling, they are also prohibited from being used to make appreciation objects.

The so-called appreciation items are things that are placed there to enjoy, but they are not usually used. The most processed metal objects here are bronze, which are mainly used to cast knives, cookware, various cutting and construction tools, small items, and fishing pendants. What's more interesting is that there is a lot of gold here, and almost every household has a lot of them.

Gold is not produced locally, but has been left since ancient times. According to local historical speculation, when the tens of thousands of Taiping troops retreated here, they should have carried a large number of gold products. The steel products such as knives and guns they brought here tens of thousands of years ago have long since decayed, but their chemical properties are extremely stable, and the immortal gold has been preserved for thousands of years.

Gold is mainly used as circulating currency here, minting it to be about the size of a five-cent coin, but the portion is much heavier than the five-cent steel outside. A gold coin can be bought at the market. The gold coin is also minted by Beidaying, including the decorative goldware used locally.

The specialty of Beidaying is metal objects, and it is also responsible for the metallurgical process of the entire heaven. Because there are metal ores in that area, it can be called the core of the heavy industry of the entire heaven, although the so-called heavy industry here is just handicrafts.

The Xidaying where Xian Hao arrived was specialty of oil and paper, as well as various bamboo and wood crafts, which can be regarded as the light industry of heaven. Because there are few plain fields there, there are a large number of hills and mountains around it, and large bamboo forests grow, so these industries can only be developed according to local conditions.

There are three main types of oils consumed by locals, sunflower seed oil, watermelon seed oil and pumpkin seed oil, with sunflower seed oil the highest yield. In fact, each camp produces oil, but Beidaying is the most common and is often used to trade other supplies with other camps. As for bamboo paper and mulberry paper, only Xidaying is produced, which is the default division of labor in the Kingdom of Heaven.

There is a very important product in Nandaying where Zhu Shanxian arrived, which is salt. Because there was a salt well in that area, I don’t know when and who discovered it. There were wars and struggles in ancient times. In addition to salt, they also produced various seasonings such as pepper, cinnamon, and spicy grass roots, most of which were artificially planted on gentle slopes.

There are no chili here, there are no native species in this world, and no one should have brought seeds in ten thousand years ago. But later generations discovered a kind of grass where leaves can be stir-fried and roots can be used as seasonings to taste, and the taste is spicy. Now it has been artificially planted for thousands of years, and the varieties cultivated are very excellent.

As for the Dongdaying that Ding Qi arrived, it can be called the fish and rice land of the entire heaven. The so-called fish refers to aquatic products, and the area of ​​lakes and ponds in this area is still large in farmland. Rice does not refer to rice, but four other things: lotus root powder, dried lotus seeds, water chestnut rice and chicken head rice.

Dongdaying also has rice fields, which produce rice and a small part of wheat fields, but the grain output cannot keep up with Daying. Daying is the most important grain production area in the Kingdom of Heaven. Its population will exceed one-fifth of the entire Kingdom of Heaven, and its grain output accounts for two-fifths of the entire Kingdom of Heaven.

There are five villages in the Daying, and four villages each of the other four camps. The locals call it "society". There are twenty-one clubs in the entire Kingdom of Heaven. The locations of these camps and clubs are very particular. In each camp, the locations of each club within each camp are all in a place where they can travel back and forth during the day.

If you set out from a village after dawn, you can reach your destination before noon, and then finish the work there, and you can still come back after dark.

There are four villages in Dongdaying, Dongying No. 1, Dongying No. 2 and Dongying No. 3. Each village is not large in size. Dongying Deposit Club has more than 200 people, with a total of 53 families, while the residents of the other three communities are about 180, 90, and no more than 50 families.

With such a small village, why don’t you just live together? Because the scope of activities of local people must be expanded outward to occupy all plain areas suitable for reclamation, cultivate more fields, and collect more resources.

The locations of the five major camps are naturally formed, with mountain barriers between them, making it difficult to connect to traffic. From the east, west, north and south, each major camp is also the village where the temple is located. The time required to arrive at the Daying Warehouse is almost the same as the day. When the journey is fast, don't delay the road. You can almost arrive before dark, but you can't come back that day.

Therefore, the camp is also the transportation, trading and information collection and recreation center of the entire heaven, and the monthly market is there.

The local night is terrible. Not only can you not see your five fingers, but you can also be attacked by night dragons in the wild. If you are unfortunately bitten by night dragons, you may be infected with "abnormal wind" and it is difficult to cure medicine stones. The so-called night dragon is the white-winged dragon that Ding Qi and others encountered in the mountains. It looks like a white sharp-toothed bat the size of a washbasin, and the locals call it the night dragon.

During the day, the most dangerous and fierce thing in the mountains is Shan Biao, and you can occasionally meet them near the mountains. It was indeed Biao. Ding Qi did not admit his mistake at the beginning, or the local ancients thought so.

The "Classic of Heaven" presented by Marshal Dongdaying has nine volumes. The first volume talks about the specialties and main products of each major camp. Reading in accordance with the Bible can help understand the new ten heavenly statutes and the history of the heavenly kingdom.

So who issued these ten new heavenly quotations? This person is called the saint who was born in a thousand years and is also the last heavenly brother here, named Tao Xin. When it comes to Tao Xin, you must understand the history of heaven. The history of heaven has been ten thousand years, but the year and day of major events occurring is very clear, and it began in the Tao Xin era three thousand years ago.

As for the longer periods, although the historical age of some events can be verified, most historical events are difficult to know the exact year and month, and some are even difficult to distinguish the authenticity. The history of the entire kingdom of heaven can be roughly divided into four periods, ancient times, ancient times, ancient times and modern times.

Ancient times were the era of myths and legends. It is said that the ancestors of human beings wandered in dangerous wars and wandering in time and space. It was the Emperor of Heaven who opened up the world and guided human beings to live in peace. There is also a legend that when tens of thousands of people came to this world, when everyone walked out of the mountains and ridges to the resident plains, there were only 10,000 people left. This is called the creation of the world of all people in "History of the Kingdom of Heaven".

The creation of the world is an official statement, and it was confirmed by Brother Tao Xintian of that year. After reading this, Ding Qi could also guess what happened tens of years ago. Tens of thousands of Taiping soldiers and civilians arrived in this outside world and were distributed to different places. They were damaged due to various reasons, such as starving to death in the deep mountains, being injured, being attacked by insects and beasts, and being infected with the plague.

The last ten thousand people left should be elites, at least they are particularly immunity. They arrived at the plains and gathered together, reclaimed fields and built houses and villages, laying the foundation for the survival of future generations. This period of history is very long, and there are few clear records left. About seven thousand years ago, this place entered the ancient times and was also the period of the five camps' battle for hegemony.

Due to the natural terrain, people's settlements were naturally divided into five pieces, and five large tribes gradually formed. In order to compete for leadership over the entire heaven and to control all the properties, the tribe leaders began to launch wars. The most unlucky one was the tribe, because everyone in the other four tribes would attack them first and then attack other tribes.

Therefore, the fact that the fifth camps compete for the fourth camps is just because modern people in the Kingdom of Heaven are accustomed to the name of the fifth camp, and are called the Battle of the Yuan in history books. Now the location of the big camp is occupied by different tribes one after another.

The first people who provoked the war were the northern tribes. Because their living environment was very poor and their products were not rich, they also needed to use a large number of specialties to trade grains in the original tribes. The northern tribes discovered minerals and began to smel and make bronze weapons. The mining consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and other products became even scarce, so they armed to plunder.

The northern tribes first occupied the Yuan, then attacked the other three tribes, and were defeated several times and even lost the Yuan, and then fought back... The war lasted for nearly a thousand years. Why was the war so slow? Because the actual situation in the local area limited the scale and intensity of the war.

The local night affects the marching and camping. Therefore, the army usually sets out in the early morning and arrives at the destination before sunset to start fighting. If the village cannot be captured, camping in the dark. Camping at night is very dangerous. Enough fires must be lit, and all nearby trees have been cut down. Later, wood must be transported from further places, which is very unfavorable to the attacking party.

The result of the war caused a sharp decline in population. In the end, the entire world was less than 2,000 people, especially the northern tribes were the worst. The war could hardly continue, and almost all the roads and trees on both sides of the village were cut down. This was a difficult and dark period. Under what circumstances did the Battle of the Yuan Dynasty stop? There was no clear record of historical materials. There were too many things destroyed in that era.

After the war of Yuan ended, it entered an ancient period, known as the dynasty period in history. The leader of the Western tribe claimed that his brother Tian came to earth to possess him and issued an edict to everyone. He agreed to provide salt to each tribe according to the population, and only the materials needed for the exchange were short of materials. He also proposed to establish a large market in Yuan and eventually unify the world and establish the first dynasty.

This dynasty lasted for five hundred years, and the throne was hereditary by the descendants of the Heavenly Brother. The final destruction of the dynasty was because the Heavenly King had no descendants, and the others took advantage of the situation to compete for the throne, and the result was another war. From then on, the dynasty era continued, and after few decades and hundreds of years, a war was fought for the throne.

According to historical records, those who succeed in fighting for the king often descend to earth by brother Tian. Sometimes in the same era, several brothers of man and heaven are possessed, so how should the loser be defined? People naturally gave an explanation, that is, brother Tian was once possessed, but later the Emperor of Heaven was not optimistic about this person's character, and brother Tian left.

Even the winners agreed with this statement, claiming that they were the last person they were optimistic about by the Emperor of Heaven.

The dynasty era lasted for more than two thousand years and nearly three thousand years. It ended in the hands of a Heavenly Brother, whose name was Tao Zhengong. Tao Zhengong was also possessed by the Heavenly Brother, overthrew the Heavenly King at that time, but he did not ascend to the throne of Heavenly King, but issued an edict in the name of Heavenly Brother, announcing that there will be no Heavenly King in the Heavenly Kingdom. This is the will of the Emperor.

The five major camp systems of the Kingdom of Heaven are formulated by Tao Zhengong and have continued to this day. The reason why Tao Zhengong was able to successfully change the Kingdom of Heaven was not only because he was the brother of Heaven and had enough authority, but also because he lived long enough. According to historical records, he lived 172 years old.

In fact, the title of Heaven was also set by Tao Zhengong. He borrowed the saying of ancient myths and of course announced to the public that this was the will of the Emperor of Heaven. Since Tao Zhengong officially founded Heaven, Heaven entered the ancient era, which lasted for a short period of time, only about three hundred years.
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