Chapter 4534 Chapter 4536 [The Nature of the World]
The Second World War was much more violent than the First World War.
On the one hand, weapons have become more advanced. There are jets and hydrogen airships in the sky, tanks, armored vehicles, and automatic artillery on the ground, and submarines and steel ships in the sea...
The soldiers used to have single-shot rifles in their hands, and they had to change bullets every time they fired. Now they have been changed to automatic and semi-automatic rifles, which not only have more ammunition, but are also more powerful.
On the one hand, the war theories of various countries have also been revolutionized. During World War I, many countries did not understand modern warfare well enough, which resulted in serious strategic misjudgments and tactical mistakes.
For example, France did not expect that the war would be so tragic, so it was not well prepared at the beginning. However, countries such as Britain and the United States were fully prepared and deployed all their troops as soon as the war started.
After the French frontline was defeated, they tried to recruit troops at full capacity and produce weapons and ammunition, but they were already far behind, which led to the failure.
It was precisely because of this that when World War II started, all countries used all their strength to fight, and no one dared to spare any effort. Therefore, the battle was extremely brutal.
In the first year, there were already 20 million military casualties, and more than 60 million civilians were affected. It can be said that the intensity is far more intense than a battle.
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No matter how brutal the war was, Xiang Nan and Elizabeth were not affected.
They now live in Los Angeles, USA, leading a prosperous and peaceful life.
Although there is a war outside, their lives are not affected.
Even though the war outside has limited the supply of many commodities, such as sugar, coffee, butter, cheese, pork, beef, dried fruits, jam, gasoline, leather shoes, cars, motorcycles... their family still has endless food. .
Because the Sword of Cortez can satisfy any of their needs, whether they need food, they need clothes, they need cars, they need cars...
"Life is much better now than before. I don't understand why they are still fighting. I remember that in Port Royal before, it was a problem for people to have enough to eat." Elizabeth asked in confusion.
Today's era is much better than three hundred years ago. At that time, people did not have enough to eat, and even if they caught a cold, they would die. Now we can basically eat enough, and our life span has been greatly extended. So she didn't understand why they were still fighting back and forth.
"We don't worry about scarcity, but about inequality." Xiang Nan explained, "In the past, when we were poor, everyone was poor together. Now we eat delicious food and spicy food, while we eat chaffy vegetables on the other side. Although we can still eat well, we are still uncomfortable."
Elizabeth nodded, "Hey, I wonder when we can stop fighting?"
"War is not all bad. War will greatly stimulate human imagination and technological progress." Xiang Nan said with a smile.
Computers, the Internet, atomic energy, missiles, aviation...many high-tech technologies were invented during war, and war is also the best way to release conflicts. Just like a couple, if they quarrel occasionally, their relationship will become better.
However, the war brought a little trouble to the Mermaid Kingdom, because there were more submarines and ships on the seabed, which affected their ecology a little.
For this reason, Xiang Nan specially made a purification device for them, which can filter out waste water, waste gas, and toxic waste in the sea, so that the ecology of the Mermaid Kingdom can be sustainable.
The Second World War lasted for ten years. During these ten years, more than 120 million soldiers died, more than 360 million people were affected, and economic losses exceeded 8 trillion US dollars. And sadly, there are few winners in this war.
Countries such as Britain, the United States, France, Russia, and Italy were both defeated, and their fortunes were almost wiped out. Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other countries were almost reduced to ruins.
London was bombed by more than 400 planes every night, dropping more than 1,000 tons of explosives and more than 3,000 tons of incendiary bombs at one time. As a result, most of London was in ruins, and more than 200,000 people were killed or injured.
Even the United States has been attacked. New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, etc. have all been attacked by submarines, warships, and bombers, and suffered a lot of losses.
On the contrary, taking advantage of the break between wars between European and American powers, some countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America got rid of foreign economic colonization and restored their economic independence. Although they are starting a little late now, becoming financially independent is already the first step.
Under their influence, more and more economic colonies began to seek independence. The old economic powerhouse has almost lost all its wealth due to this war, and no one has taken much advantage.
The backward countries took this opportunity to slowly rise. Although they started late and the pace is very slow, everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as they take the first step, the rest will be easy.
The world situation has undergone new and gratifying changes.
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During the Ten Years' War, Xiang Nan's harvest was also quite large. He collected nearly 100 million souls alone.
This made his spirit more powerful. Not only could his perception cover a radius of five thousand miles, but after his soul left the body, his soul became more condensed and his understanding of the world became clearer.
In his view, the entire world is composed of different elements. These elements are not elements in the chemical sense, but "earth, water, fire and wind" in the philosophical sense.
Ancient Egyptians, ancient Greeks, ancient Indians, ancient Babylonians, and even ancient Chinese people all believed that the world was composed of several basic elements.
Ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient India, and ancient Babylon believed that there were four elements in the world, "earth, air, water, and fire", while the ancient Chinese believed that all things were composed of five elements, "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth"...
Although not exactly the same, the meaning is basically similar.
After Xiang Nan Yuan Shen came out of his body, the world he saw was composed of several basic elements, but he didn't understand these elements well enough to understand their laws.
If Xiang Nan can clearly see the truth of these laws in the future, he will be considered "attained".
"Exploring the origin of the world should be what Taoism calls 'refining the spirit and returning to the void', what Hinduism calls 'enlightenment', and Buddhism's 'clear mind and seeing one's nature'." Xiang Nan then speculated.
It's just that these laws are so complicated and complicated that it's so difficult to sort them out.
Xiang Nan is now like a Pentium computer, but he is responsible for big data calculations. Even if the CPU is dry-burned, he will not be able to calculate it at all. I don’t know how long it will take just to read the data.
Xiang Nan estimates that even if he swallows another billion souls, he may not be qualified to analyze the origin of the world.
"I have to say, it is indeed too difficult." Xiang Nan couldn't help but sigh, "With such a huge amount of calculations, even a hundred brains are not enough for me.
No wonder there is a proverb that when humans think, God laughs. There is really a huge difference in intelligence. If God were a human being, I would be afraid that human beings are just paramecia. "