The people living underground have no distinction between day and night. In their long life, they can't see the rising and falling of the moon and the cycle of the four seasons, only the immutable darkness.
In this case, all the time can be used for work, and all the time can be used for rest. Is there such a possibility that the actual number of underground peoples is twice the number that the cave can accommodate. When half of the people are working, the other half are standing in the cave and sleeping.
Their day may not be based on 24 hours, but 16 hours or less as a day, or a cycle. Because in a cycle, everyone has a rest and everyone has worked once.
In the entire underground cave, there are people working at all times, and people resting at all times.
Obviously, everyone has thought of such a possibility, and this possibility is also a reasonable conjecture that can explain two doubts at the same time.
Bai Ye tut and said, "They use people as consumables. As long as they have enough rest, they will get up and work immediately."
I nodded: "Aside from human nature, this is actually an extremely efficient form of social organization operation that maximizes the development and utilization of social public resources. In modern society, enterprises that operate on the assembly line also have a shift system. This system Ignore the day and night, and prevent enterprise resources from being idle due to workers' rest, so that a resource unit generates double benefits."
Bai Ye sighed: "That's different, it's just an enterprise. Now the entire nation, when the entire nation adopts this full-staff rotation system, then in fact their total population can double their resource carrying capacity, and their production Efficiency can also be horribly efficient."
Gu Tang shook his head: "It's not such a simple thing. The premise of all this is absolute public ownership, all private property is confiscated for collective use, social space is not authorized, social resources are not authorized, social class is highly flat, everything in society Owned by the collective. To a certain extent, everyone’s body is also used by the collective from birth. When you should rest, you should go to the rest place provided by the collective for rest and maintenance. When you should wake up, you should To work in the collective working space."
Bai Ye said: "If such a terrifying mobilization ability is applied to war, I really dare not imagine it."
Having said that, a few of us suddenly glanced at each other, each of us saw some inexplicable meaning in our eyes. I think we all thought of a country at the same time. Before that country was founded, its ability to defeat strong domestic forces in a weak position and to consolidate its domestic power after several years of foreign wars was inseparable from their high-intensity mobilization system.
And what that country ultimately pursues is an earth and heaven that is absolutely public, absolutely equal, and absolutely collective. Yes, this country is the Soviet Union, and I have no intention of insinuating the authorities.
Meng Qisheng said: "The underground nation's ability to be nearly fully mobilized cannot be applied to war. When a nation begins to pursue victory in a war, they actually already have desires, and the large group has the desire of the large group. The small group has the desire of the small group, and the individual has the desire of the individual.
The day of victory in the war is when this high-efficiency organizational model is gradually disintegrating. At that time, the class is no longer flat, the people who lead everyone to victory will be stripped out, social public resources will be occupied by small groups, and the social division of labor will no longer be efficient. It will turn to inefficiency and disorder. "
Gu Nanshan said: "What about this nation, they have made great achievements. With limited manpower, they have built two above-ground cities and two underground caves."
As soon as I saw Gu Nanshan and spoke, I knew that Gu Tang was about to speak: "Their achievements can be said to be grand, but they cannot be said to be great. In addition to these things managed by collective manpower, you can be in these few relics, Do you see any signs of cultural activities?"
Indeed, the spiritual life of this nation is extremely scarce. Even the Shao people have some abstract murals, but this underground nation has nothing to record its own national history, whether it is murals or writing. Their creation civilization is extremely developed, but their cultural level almost stays in the primitive period.
"Actually, there are still." Meng Qisheng said weakly. "Their rotation system is not for war, not for the collective, not for individuals, but for their gods. Religion is their only spiritual pillar, only religion. Only by supporting a whole nation can it surrender itself to the collective on the day of birth. Only religion can make everyone a saint, not an egoistic animal."
"Could it be that other scientific, materialistic, and modern beliefs are not acceptable?" I asked, "Can't the absolute truth in the universe support a nation to dedicate itself to the collective?"
Meng Qisheng took a deep look at me: "Material is selfish. When a person begins to believe in materialism, he loses his faith. He believes in himself."
"Too absolute, sir." Bai Ye said dissatisfied: "Is everyone in this world so selfish?"
"It is not ruled out that there are saints. The saints can lead everyone in the pursuit of heaven on earth, but after the saints? No one can guarantee that everyone who takes over this huge and efficient terrorist mobilization organization is a saint." Meng Qisheng whispered: " Of course, it does not rule out the possibility of an illusion that the people who lead everyone will always be saints."
I actually saw fear in Meng Qisheng's eyes. He opened his mouth and uttered two words almost silently, "Changsheng."
Everyone looked at each other almost in trepidation and stopped discussing the issue.
As we chatted, we walked down the stone stack slowly, and there was a burst of cool air in the abyss on the left, and a faint wind blowing from below. Everyone walked forward in silence for a while. Every cave along the way was full of people. Bai Ye said, "I don’t know what a huge change, so that these people died here without moving. , The other half escaped, one in half the probability."
"Who knows what's under this abyss?" I said, "This kind of drastic change probably only happened once. If we come every day, then we can't stand it."
"Hey, Xiao Ning, I suddenly thought of a question." Bai Ye stabbed me.
I said: "Talk about it."
Bai Ye doubted: "Since the half of the people who worked have a chance to escape when the catastrophe occurs, it means that this huge change is not an instant fatal, but can give people reaction time. So the half of the people resting in the cave should also There is enough time to escape. Even if you can't escape, you shouldn't move like this without moving, and all die inside neatly, right?" (End of this chapter)