Fantasy Starting from the Stone Age - Chapter 132



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Episode 132. A Strong Country, a Weak People, and Endless Evil

Do you know why we have a welfare system?

‘Because it’s the right thing to do as a human being!’ Wrong. The correct answer is because countries with welfare systems are more productive than countries without welfare systems.

Why does universal education, or public education, exist?

‘The country is taking responsibility for teaching them the joy of learning?’ No way. They sent ignorant farmers to the modern military, but their intellectual abilities deteriorated to the level of borderline intellectual disability, where they could not read or even learn training properly, and they could not be used as soldiers at all.

It is a reasonable reason. Why do we have labor laws? Do you think it is for the rights of workers? In fact, companies that follow labor laws well and treat their employees humanely and make them comfortable have high employee loyalty and high work productivity.

Basically, people are stupid, so there are bosses who think, “Oh, if I don’t give them vacations and make them work twice as hard and cut their salaries in half, I’ll make ten times more money.” But the boss himself doesn’t do that. (In a really serious case, the boss works like that and wonders why his employees are lazier than him.)

However, welfare and education cost money. Is it only money? The resources mentioned earlier. ‘Administrative power’ is also consumed in great quantities.

In that sense, the legendary Datang was truly a great nation, providing higher education to all of its 400 million people from the mainstream races and 200 million from other races. Illiteracy rate 0%. Welfare blind spots 0.

When it comes to a person’s level and sophistication, education is more important than innate intelligence. I knew that even before I met Ol Chaun and Datang Oram.

Young Ol Chaun was an ‘ordinary man’ who could identify all the hundreds of creatures in the grasslands at the time, and was a master of maps of the vast grasslands, their climate, geography, and dozens of tool-making methods.

That’s right! The primitive era when there was no civilization. Rather, the level of each individual was higher.

Although All Chaun was an ordinary king for his time, after living as a monarch for nearly 20,000 years, he acquired leadership skills that were almost like those of a political and administrative genius, or even a god.

The three breakouts also helped me a lot, keeping me from mentally deteriorating.

All of the Datang people believed that if they were to provide such advanced education to all of their people, many outstanding people would emerge. So, starting from the Unified Era, they devoted considerable effort to creating a universal and effective education curriculum. In the Legendary Era, this was finally completed, and all of the Datang people were able to fully realize their potential and receive medals accordingly.

Even if they were disabled or had real intellectual problems, all the people of Datang were happy because they were awarded medals simply for consistently contributing to village activities and living honestly.

The virtues of love and charity that were instilled almost like brainwashing in the curriculum – that ‘truly great things are not what you possess, but what you give to the community’ – also helped a lot.

And then, in the age of faith, the system was finally completely broken. Now, all the people could not receive adequate education or welfare. It was a choice that could never be returned to the ideal country of Datang.

You can’t accuse All Chaun of being stupid. It would have been better if all his people had died and his land had been taken away by the demons.

So, I can only say that it is a pity.

Although Dartons live long lives, the generational change is faster than their lifespan because long-lived people usually have no regrets about life itself and dedicate themselves to their families.

And finally, after about 200 years, the war caused a great number of the old and experienced people of the past era to die, whether from their own lives, war, or adventures. Now, the majority are those born in the Age of Faith.

It was finally the time when Datang’s administrative capacity reached its limit.

“All right. There are so few people who are worthy of being called wise men these days.”

Mainiran, Dashun Chaun bows his head. One of the oldest Chauns who possesses the spirit water of the wind ostrich, he is the leader of the Moji (wise men) and Palera (coffin keepers) who are in charge of the press, the press, and the education.

They are the key personnel who directly deliver laws and spread knowledge to various regions under the leadership of All Chaun.

“What do you mean it’s not enough?”

“Literally, the population has grown, but there are too few mothers to impart knowledge to the children. In the past, a village mother and her assistant, the Palera, would have to look after at most 100 children, but now there are well over 250. This is the average, and overall, there are ridiculous places where one mother alone has to look after close to a thousand children.”

“Is it impossible to draw more?”

“The qualifications of a teacher are strict. At least someone who is qualified to teach children should be teaching them. Shouldn’t children be unable to distinguish between plants and insects in their own region?”

“… … .”

Datang is already dangerous enough. Giving up on education here would be sending the children to their deaths.

Mainilun thinks about it and then says.

“From now on, I will divide the Mojido into levels. The order is Moz, Mijit, Mozan, Mojun, and Mojang. Those who are qualified to be Moz will teach very young children, and those who have completed Moz’s education will be given a badge of proof so that they can receive higher level education.”

Mozga is an educational system that corresponds to kindergarten to elementary school, and Mojang to university to graduate school. It was a last resort measure taken when there was a shortage of educators.

However, here, Mainilun makes the mistake of not categorizing the level of educators who teach children as “child education specialists” or “higher education specialists,” but simply categorizing them based on their level of education.

As a result, just as high school teachers cannot be nursery school teachers, and even university professors with a lot of knowledge and wisdom surprisingly talk nonsense, the quality of public education in each region varies greatly. In the past, at least those who were ‘qualified to teach others’ would have become educators…

And there was another thing that happened because of the size of the datang.

“I have been educated by Mijit, do I need to learn more? I already seem to be able to make a living without any problems.”

“They say that to learn more than that, you have to cross two swamps. It’s too far and dangerous to go… … .”

It’s like saying, “What use is calculus in life?” It’s miserable. Those who haven’t learned it don’t know why they should learn it, and those who know the value of learning have already learned enough.

In particular, because the teachers did not simply serve as educators who imparted knowledge, but also taught everything from survival to culture, politics, society, and culture, the number of people who learned only ‘survival’ and nothing about culture, politics, society, and culture began to increase.

Of course, they don’t get any fancy medals, but even if they don’t get any medals, they just have children, eat, live long lives, and call themselves ‘earthworm farmers’.

“Oh, cool. There are too many ignorant people these days. Of course, there are areas that people don’t know about, but it’s too much for the Datang people to not know the relationship between the Gomana Zone and the Donum. It seems like the system needs to be reorganized… … .”

“Reka! You guys know how much of a rascal that damn Enrakisho is right now. I can’t give you another penny of budget.”

“But in the end, those who haven’t learned will unfortunately be eliminated. It’s now impossible to even make a pilgrimage… … .”

“Ha. There’s no way. It’s about selection and focus. At least we need to make sure that the areas near Mainilun and the nearby holy places receive proper education.”

“I will do the same in Daesurim.”

“There is a similar problem in Shujor. Don’t do that.”

So, the main bases of Datang. Mainilun, Mainilrae, and Hochukoi. The ‘capital’ and ‘border’ are determined based on these three places. Since the country is so large, there are three capitals.

Those living in the metropolitan area and its suburbs receive the best education that is legendary.

And the capital of Datang is not the National Cemetery Hochukoi or the World Tree Mainnire, but the Jewel Palace Mainnirun. Naturally, only pureblooded Datons or those close to them live nearby.

And as you go further out, the administrative power becomes less effective, so the treatment of mixed-race people gradually deteriorates.

Although Shuzor and Daesurim are free from this problem, the problem is their size and terrain. Daesurim and Sujor jungle are not good places for people to live.

Ultimately, the best education is given to the pureblood Datons who can live in the Holy Land, the pureblood Patchar who is completely trusted by Liwaduwan, and the Gigad, Quako, and other beastmen.

The other areas of Dator’s borders have been reduced to ‘villages’, so to speak. The swampy areas, that is, villages and cities where logistics are active and there are decent markets, mines, and rice paddies, are somewhat populated, but there are definitely rural villages in Datang where this is not the case.

The chances of the uneducated getting medals are getting smaller and smaller. All Chaun tried to resolve the imbalance in education by sending educated purebloods to Dutan and Moji in the border regions, but instead, a racist class system was born where purebloods ruled over mixed-bloods.

“All right. The two-tans who were sent to our region because we are purebloods despise us! I came here to protest because it is so unfair!”

“Within the same family???”

“Yes! I am a mixed-blood, so even if I die of old age from the magical power of the Holy Land, I must say this! Please punish the two-tan of our region!”

This was an unexpected situation for All Chaun.

The spirit-based nation originally had a class system. The perfect equality system that had been working well until now, a system that was equal even if different, is gradually collapsing.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea for purebloods to mix with mixed bloods.”

“That’s right. Aren’t we the descendants of the All Chauns and Mainirons who rule this Datang?”

“The only ones who are on par with us are Patchar, Lulmo, Nono, and Gigad.”

The problem was that, although All Chaun had the will to solve this, he had no means to solve it.

“If you use smart Datorin as a hat… … .”

“It’s a problem of changing regions. The Datorins are smarter in the Holy Land.”

“… …Fuck.”

I preach hard that racism is bad and that pure-bloods are not superior, but that pure-bloods just happen to benefit more, based on my 20,000 years of political experience, but the prejudice that has already developed does not seem to go away easily.

“All of you are purebloods! Among the Anrai, there are Manum Lapang, Kasul Laurent, Tatunang Marech, Osozin Gulmung, Shujormiya Liwaduwan, Lejohui Medakbo, and Nononono Hakang. Seven of you are purebloods!”

“The other four are half-bloods! Do you really think that I look down on them, who are like my family? You little punk with a 6th-grade medal!”

“That, that’s not it, but they are amazing because they achieved such great things ‘despite being mixed-bloods’, and they are a bit different from other mixed-bloods… … .”

“This is driving me crazy… … !”

Eventually, a culture of ranking by ‘medals’ takes hold. So, even if you are a pureblood, if you have a 5th-grade medal, you are inferior to a 4th-grade mixed-blood.

However, the given environment itself is different. It is said that the greatest influence on a child’s academic ability is the parent’s wealth.

Purebloods have access to the best education, so they have more opportunities to receive medals and develop their potential than mixed-bloods from the frontier.

And they don’t think about the differences in environment. They only know what’s around them. They are just proud of having earned medals because they are ‘superior purebloods’, unlike the ‘incompetent half-bloods’.

The discrimination that Allchaun and Liwaduwan, more than any other Minnirun, are wary of is also growing in Datang. It is a serious problem that is eating away at the country’s potential in the long term.

But Datang was stronger than ever at this point.

Just counting the mainstream races, the population is already close to 800 million. There are hundreds of millions of Datorin that are not even properly counted. The population is definitely over 1 billion, and more than 5% of the total have joined the military for honor (medals). No matter how much the demons run wild, they cannot stand up to this strongest military force on earth.

Well, it sacrificed a lot of the people’s quality of life, but it’s still strong.

So you know what’s going to happen to this powerful Datang?

“Hanjutamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

It’s a regular event now.

However, it seems a little… … different from the spread so far.

“We’ve been more thorough than ever before, but why… … . What? The Space Demons are spreading rumors!”

It has been too long since I saw All Chaun and ran away. Now the demons from space know what the new people on Earth fear and suffer from the most.

A deep malice is covering Datang. In the early days of the Age of Faith, Datang begins its era in the worst possible situation, even if it is not obvious from the outside.