This section is excerpted from the original book "The Original Intention Tribe, Retrieve Your Lost Home! 》 Part 3: Civilization 3.0--The True God First Appears (Continued the previous section)
Section 3: The Island of Lonely, I and I
On a small island with beautiful scenery, fertile land but lonely, there are dozens of families living in order to avoid the continuous wars on the mainland. No one has disturbed me for a hundred years. Under the hard work of three generations, orchards, rice fields, fish ponds, and cotton fields were cultivated on the island, and their own stone houses were built one after another. The self-sufficient daily necessities can basically meet the needs. The islanders agreed to exchange goods with a rare shell on the beach as coins. The residents on the island live in a quiet life and their families are similar to each other, but they lack medical treatment and medicine, and there is very little tools. So after a hundred years, they finally decided to build a few ships and return to their legendary hometown. Among the residents of the island, the only old Tom family was unwilling to leave this island where he lived since childhood. He felt that everything he had here was his hometown. He wanted to stick to this island where he gave birth to him and raised him with his wife, son and daughter-in-law who had just married.
Other residents could not persuade Old Tom, so they had to say goodbye to his family one by one before leaving. In order not to let all the fields be deserted and to facilitate the old Tom to manage and take care of other people's fields in the future, all the departed families wrote a letter agreement for Old Tom and entrusted the old Tom's family to manage and take care of their own fields and houses, and the proceeds of the crops were handled by Old Tom's family. After that, everyone handed over the remaining , shell coins, to Old Tom for custody. Anyway, it would be useless to bring it back to the mainland. In this way, Old Tom took dozens of agreements and signs and took the family to the beach and reluctantly sent away all the villagers.
After sending the villagers home, his son Tom looked at the shell coins piled up in half of the house and said to his father happily: Dad, our family suddenly became a rich man. Look how rich our family is all of a sudden, and there are thousands of acres of land! Old Tom looked at his young son, smiled bitterly and shook his head without answering. Tom didn't know what his father meant. Several months passed, and Tom finally understood why his father smiled bitterly. The shell coins in half of the room were no longer in circulation, and he had not moved a single one. The thousands of acres of land lost their owners, and my father just chose a few fertile pieces to cultivate. The other fields were not in energy to cultivate and take care of them. All the so-called wealth of our family became a "scenery" that we could only see by ourselves. So even though it was already "a huge family and a thousand acres of fertile land", the living conditions of the old Tom family did not improve at all. Instead, life became extremely inconvenient and lonely because of the disappearance of the residents. However, the old Tom did not regret it and could only continue to persevere and wait.
Just like this, the peaceful year passed, and the grandson Tom was born, and the family added a lot of joy and hope. But within the next five years, the old Tom and his wife passed away one after another, leaving all the island's heritage, , shell coins and previous letter agreements for Tom, who had never participated in the cultivation. Tom and his family buried their parents one by one with tears in their eyes, completely inheriting this beautiful and lonely island, and becoming the lonely owner of the island.
A year later, on a summer night with wind, rain and lightning and thunder, the door of Tom's family that had not been locked for many years was suddenly locked up quickly. Someone shouted outside the door: "Is anyone? Is anyone there?" The Tom's family was frightened and opened the door tremblingly and found out that it was more than a dozen refugee ships who were dying in the storm, drifting with the flow to the shore of the island and stranded. Many ships were damaged due to collisions and water flowing, and more than a hundred people on the boat climbed ashore to survive. Tom's wife hugged Tom, who was only six years old, and was very scared at the strangely dressed, ragged and hungry refugees. After a while of "dance and gesture", I realized that this group of refugees came from an island called "Everyone's Island" that was isolated from the world for tens of thousands of years. They were all members of a primitive tribe on the Everyone's Island.
The young tribal chief "Mammoth" came to knock on the door late at night. A month ago, the volcanoes near the Island of Renren were violently erupted, and earthquakes frequently caused volcanic ash to cover the sky and the sun. The lives of all the tribesmen were deeply threatened. Under the leadership of Mammoth, they urgently took a dozen small boats left in the tribe and fled to their homes, drifting all the way here. What Tom never expected was that these tribesmen from the primitive tribe were very kind. There was no lord, war, plunder, steal, fraud, or betrayal in their language and vocabulary. Everyone was gentle and disciplined, and they all helped and loved each other, so they never thought about looting the Tom family. The Tom's family's hearts were finally relieved.
After going back to discuss with the tribe, the chief mammoth recognized Tom's status as a "landlord", respected the fields, orchards, fish ponds, etc. that had been reclaimed by his predecessors, and agreed with the commissioned management agreement that Tom mentioned. The tribesmen were willing to rent the existing fields on the island from Tom to continue farming, and rent existing old houses to live in. I am willing to pay agricultural products to Tom as land rent every quarter according to the proportion of the land harvest, plus a fixed usage fee. Of course, the Tom family does not need so many grain and agricultural products at all, so it is agreed that after conversion, you can directly pay the shell coins to Tom for rent, which is convenient for storage and circulation transactions. So Tom lent all his useless shell coins in half of the house to refugees in an agreement, and the borrower had to pay Tom the interest on the loan every year. The tribesmen also agreed to abandon the stone coins they used before and switch to the shell coins given by Tom, so that Tom became the biggest creditor again within one day.
days have stabilized, and the weather is calm, and the refugees are more diligent than the indigenous people. Under Tom's guidance, their faces face to the loess and their backs are facing the sky every day. The island can be seen with a lively labor scene every day. The refugees who leave their homes are also more kind and united, and life in the island is peaceful. Just half a year later, the refugees went from being able to cover their bodies and not filling their stomachs, and could basically control their food and clothing, and occasionally brew some wine to drink. The happiest person is of course the Tom family. Tom secretly glad that his father did not leave the island, otherwise he would not have the glory and glory today.
Three years have passed in a flash. Of course, the most changed is the Tom family. Tom gave birth to two daughters. The house had been renovated long ago and hired a chef and two servants. Tom's house has many shell coins, and the previous small warehouse was already full of shell coins. New shell coins are generated every year by the beach, but the island's products have not increased much, so shell coins are accumulating more and more but are less valuable. In the beginning, one shell coins can be exchanged for one pound of rice, but now it takes five shell coins to be exchanged. Looking at the mountains of shell coins piled up by his home, Tom thought to himself what else to do to spend them in time? So he thought of a measure, asking refugees to build a big house, cultivate gardens, and build roads for him. After the house was big, he invited ten guards and three more chefs and two gardeners to serve him. After working every month, the workers took the coin away and finally recycled to Tom's house, and the coin flowed quickly.
Several elderly tribe members and mammoths saw this situation and understood very well: this is not their own island! The Tom family has reasonably and legally monopolized the core resources of the island in advance and formed historical advantages. If the rules of the game at the bottom remain unchanged, all tribe members will never have the chance to turn around, and only those who are surrounding Tom can live a better life.
Another ten years passed, and little Tom also found a girlfriend to prepare for marriage. The girl refused to listen to her parents' repeated advice and insisted on marrying little Tom. This marriage was destined to be a grand event on Tom's family and the island. In order to build a new wedding house as soon as possible, Tom Little Tom raised the workers' wages and proposed to start raising the standards for various types of rents next month. The island seems so calm on the surface for ten years, but only the Tom family has changed the most. It has changed from a few old houses to a small castle, and it is still expanding. There are more than 20 people who reasonably serve the Tom family, although Tom and his family have not paid anything.Compared with the huge changes in Tom's family, the lives of more than 100 refugees have not improved much compared to more than ten years ago, which means that the problem of food and clothing has been solved, and the number of extra drinks has been given. Workers working in the castle often go in and out of Tom's house and are respectful and flattering to Tom, but when they look at the castle he built brick by brick, they feel mixed feelings and uproar in their hearts.
Although Tom is very arrogant, he is actually extremely lonely inside. Finally, it was the day when little Tom was overjoyed and wanted to have a good time. The small castle had already been decorated with lights. Tom got up early and went to the banquet hall to check, but found something was wrong. There was no one there, and he looked around and even the servants disappeared. The Tom family was very anxious and found a letter with crooked handwriting and all the signatures of refugees left at the gate. The general meaning is as follows:
"Thank you very much for Tom's family renting fields for us to cultivate for thirteen years, and giving us a peaceful home in the stormy waves. All the tribesmen work hard and work hard, dreaming of rebuilding their homes, but thirteen years have passed, and this is still not my island, but my home. This is always just your Tom's island and Tom's home, so we can only set out to find our lost home "Island of Everyone". Because there is a tribe that belongs entirely to us. As for the pastoral country, everyone is the owner of the same world. There is only family sharing, no landlords, only rewards, hard work, laziness, and no gains without effort. Three years ago, we started to repair the damaged boat in the bay. We just repaired it the day before yesterday. Although the journey is long and the road to return is difficult, at least we still have hope of going home. All the fields, tools and houses here are returned to you intact, and all the remaining shell coins are also given to you for free. Enjoy it slowly. I wish you a happy life! The mammoth of the "Caixin Tribe" and all the tribesmen of the tribe are honored!"
After reading the letter, Tom suddenly sat on the threshold and his eyes were dull. The son Tom and his wife looked at the huge castle and the shell coins piled up in mountains, comforting their father, saying, "Dad, don't care about these poor people, just leave, our family is still very rich!"......
The story came to an end, but the major inspiration brought to us has just begun. For example, there are four points:
(1) Can monopolize be allowed for natural resources or resources provided by everyone?
(2) Should the rules be encouraged and supported to get something for nothing? Who should the inheritance belong to?
(3) If I am rich, I lose everyone or lose people's hearts, then what else do I have left? What is the relationship between my wealth and everyone?
(4) If the island is an independent company, do you want to turn it into your lonely island, or an island for everyone, an island that no one can bear to leave.
I think every reader will have his own answer after reading it. I sincerely hope that the island of survival where we are will not continue to evolve into a "lonely island" for a very small number of people, otherwise the "islanders" will leave without saying goodbye to find the rules of the past.
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