Demon Lord 3

Chapter 1877 Don’t listen to the old man’s words

Zhou Chuyuan took me outside to look for medicinal herbs, but I felt as if this was truly orchestrated, as if it had been planned long ago. I had always believed that no one in this world could fundamentally change the world, but upon closer reflection, I realized that those in power had long noticed the countryside. If they had recognized the strength of the countryside earlier and could have established themselves there, the city wouldn't have become what it is today. But then I thought again, something didn't seem right. In the city, they couldn't possibly employ those rural people; after all, those people wouldn't serve them well, nor would they be willing to work tirelessly like beasts of burden. Many people are highly intelligent, and to exclude the intelligent from the city, there's only one way: discriminate against them, instilling in them from a young age the principle that everyone except the most intelligent person is inferior. In this way, everyone will do what they want. Although those people are serving them, there is still a hierarchy, a first-come, first-served order. But the people in the cities are different. They have nowhere to go, no food to be self-sufficient, no monthly allowance of their own. They can only work themselves to the bone to buy a house and a car to support the next generation. This is already the highest level of their lives. So, for one person to turn their life around, it is the support of generation after generation. And each generation experiences different eras. Every change of era and environment brings different ideas to each generation. We previously studied a question, and let me first talk about the conclusion we came to. That is, as long as you don't listen to your elders, you can make a lot of money and get ahead. When we studied this question, there was actually a proposition, that is, what kind of people are more likely to get ahead? We previously analyzed two points. First, there are families that can provide support, such as those whose parents or elders have left behind a family business, allowing the younger generation to easily manage it. They've likely already planned for decades, perhaps even centuries, how their descendants will live. On the other hand, for those generations without a strong family foundation, achieving wealth and success is extremely difficult. Typically, they will go far from home, free from parental interference. Their parents are likely traumatized by poverty or, to some extent, attached to their homes. In such circumstances, even if their children are more... Wanting to escape to a place close to home for work, their parents would interfere. These parents are almost always very filial, so it's impossible for them to truly argue with them. Only by leaving their hometown and going far away might they have a chance to succeed. Not everyone who leaves their hometown will make a lot of money, but those who don't are destined not to. The reason these people are more likely to make a lot of money and succeed if they don't listen to their elders is actually due to the changing times and shifts in the political climate. First, it should be noted that these people are almost all those whose elders couldn't support them, whose families didn't have much money. Their elders, during the last major shift in the political climate, didn't... They seized the opportunity, but only thought about how the changes would affect their own lives. They believed that the changes in the world drove their own changes, and they gained experience without giving anything in return. They wanted to pass on this experience to their children, but the storms had already passed before they reaped the rewards. In general, this experience cannot be considered their own, nor can it be easily passed on to their children. After all, every era has its own experience, and every change has its own rationale. You can't just use the experience of the previous generation. History is always surprisingly similar, but the river of history is very long, and very few things are exactly the same in recent decades or even centuries. Even if they are exactly the same, you might not be able to tell the difference. It's like taking a certain thing I did on a certain day before and asking me to do it again. I couldn't possibly do it the same way as before, no matter how perfectly I did it before. When I see that thing again, I will still have a headache and will still have to rethink it. I might not even be able to imagine that I was the one who did it perfectly before. There's a saying that people jokingly say, "Don't listen to the elders, or you'll live a few more years." This isn't necessarily wrong. It may be a joke, but every saying has its truth. In fact, no matter what the saying is, you only need to listen to part of it. After all, you are not someone else.