Chapter 23 Curly-haired baboon, the story of the village

Chapter 23 Curly-haired baboon, the story of the village

Most of the onlookers were elderly people and some children who liked to join in the fun. The real breadwinner of the family hardly had time to come here to listen to any lectures.

For them, if they have this free time, they might as well hurry up and work, earn more money, and have a full meal.

But there are always some adults who happen to have nothing to do and come to join in the fun.

Professor Wayne didn't pay too much attention and was very tolerant of some children who liked to cause trouble.

"You feel that you work hard every day but often don't have enough to eat. Is this problem your own responsibility or is it due to other reasons?"

When Professor Wayne opened his mouth, he was the old fire arching master.

"Bah! We work hard and use our own hands to make money to support ourselves. What can we do wrong!"

"If it weren't for those aristocratic men who run factories lying on us to suck our blood, how could we have lived so tiredly!"

"They would rather donate a large amount of money than increase our wages!"

"Our jobs are not secure at all. They can fire us at any time without compensating us even a penny."

Professor Wayne's words successfully ignited the anger in these people's hearts. The discussion became more and more noisy, and the more people came to watch.

Most people use this issue to vent their daily dissatisfaction. They really have too many grievances to express.

Professor Wayne listened quietly and did not stop him. When their emotions were almost vented, he said calmly:

"The reason why you are in this situation is not only because you were bullied by bad people, but also because you are too stupid and ignorant."

These words caused a new wave of anger.

Lecturer Foulun looked slightly sideways and glanced at Professor Wayne in confusion. Aren't he and others here to popularize some legal knowledge?

Why does it sound like you came here looking for a beating?

"We respect you, but that doesn't mean you can insult us at will!"

"You should apologize for your offensive words!"

Several bolder adult men are already inclined to take action.

Professor Wayne's expression remained normal and he said calmly: "Have any of you ever understood the laws of the Kingdom of Loen?"

“We don’t even know every word of it, how can we possibly understand any law!”

"Bah! The law is just a means devised by the powerful to oppress us!"

"Sir, are you kidding me? If we knew the law, the judges sitting in the courtroom trying criminals shouldn't be those mindless curly baboons."

This sentence soon aroused roars of laughter from the onlookers present, and they even added several words enthusiastically.

The general idea is that people in high positions are brainless curly baboons, and a puppet sitting in their position can do better than them.

Professor Wayne was not angry, and used the charcoal in his hand to draw a curly baboon on the blank wooden board, and specially hollowed out its brain.

The onlookers couldn't help laughing, and someone suggested: "Sir, not only do they have no brains, their limbs have also degenerated. Otherwise, why would they always ride in a carriage when traveling?"

Professor Wayne laughed and took this suggestion and let the brainless curly baboon lie on the ground.

This move made Professor Wayne suddenly reach a consensus with the onlookers, and the originally tense atmosphere became much better, and even became a bit intimate.

After the onlookers laughed, Professor Wayne glanced at them and said slowly: "So are you willing to admit that you are ruled and oppressed by such a group of curly-haired baboons with no brains and degenerated limbs?"

The laughter disappeared instantly, and many people's faces became ugly.

Of course they cannot admit that they are inferior to a curly baboon.

But the group of powerful people and big businessmen whom he regarded as curly-haired baboons were indeed above him and could give orders to him at will.

After a while, someone stood up and said angrily: "They just happen to be in that position. If we were sitting in that position, we would definitely do better than them!"

Professor Wayne said calmly: "Then you also turned into a brainless curly baboon?"

"..."

The man blushed, retreated into the crowd, and did not speak casually again.

Then someone else stood up and said, "Sir, this is just because they are too cunning and we are too kind, so we are destined to be bullied by them."

Professor Wayne still maintained a calm tone and replied: "So you are trying to say that a person who is a miracle in all things cannot use his brain as much as a brainless curly baboon?"

"..."

The man also blushed and retreated into the crowd.

Immediately afterwards, several people refused to admit defeat and wanted to come forward to debate with Professor Wayne, but without exception, they were evaluated as inferior to curly baboons.

Lecturer Foulen smiled happily and thought to himself: "If they can win this debate with a law professor, then Backlund University will welcome them to teach."

After there was no opposition around him, Professor Wayne sighed and said: "There may be people in high positions who are not as stupid as curly baboons, but most people in power are very smart and capable, otherwise it would be reckless." The En Kingdom cannot rise quickly, and Backlund cannot become the capital of Mandu."

"Your curses and disdain may be just to vent your emotions, but you must remember not to look down on any group that is above you, admit your own shortcomings, and don't be limited by your own understanding, so that you can see further. ”

"I am here today to teach you, just to let you understand some basic laws, broaden your knowledge, and let you understand what your legal rights are."

Professor Wayne's calm and soothing tone made the onlookers calm down. Some people who wanted to learn eagerly sat in front of Professor Wayne so that they could hear more clearly.

Soon, the benches prepared by Professors Hastur and Foran were filled. Some nearby residents brought benches and chairs from their homes to form a circle around Professor Wayne.

"Let me tell you a story first. Maybe after listening to it, you will have some insights into the law."

Professor Wayne considered that the residents in the dock area had not read much. If the complicated legal provisions were explained at the beginning, they would not be able to understand them, and they would even question them one after another.

Why are these legal provisions formulated in this way? It is obviously unreasonable. They must be laws written down by curly-haired baboons when they go to the toilet...

If you want to make them feel the same way, you must start from the world they know.

So, he prepared a village story.

There is a village located in the mountains. They have never contacted the outside world because they believe that there are still mountains outside, and there are wild beasts on the mountains, and the wild beasts can eat people.

At the beginning, there were only a dozen families and about fifty people in the village. The villagers all knew each other well and could clearly know whose child this person was and whose daughter-in-law that person was.

They live a life of working from dawn to dusk every day, and they trade things they don’t need with other people by bartering.

At this time, they might exchange a pound of gold for a pound of potatoes, or sometimes even not.

Because besides looking good and being used as decoration, gold has no other value.

But potatoes can fill a person's stomach, so they are naturally much more precious than gold.

They lived like this for more than a hundred years.

In more than a hundred years, the population of the village has increased several times. The original population of less than fifty people now has two to three hundred people.

The size of the original village was definitely not enough to live in, and the food nearby was definitely not enough. They could only start to expand new territories little by little.

Because there are so many people, it is difficult for everyone to know each other, and conflicts are easy to arise when working and distributing food. The village chief is elected at this time.

The elected village chief was a very wise man and he formulated many rules and regulations that were beneficial to the village.

In terms of work, he asked every household to send strong laborers to open up wasteland to work. When the food was harvested, he would distribute the food equally to each villager based on the population.

This distribution system is welcomed by all villagers. After all, as long as there is food in the village, no one will starve to death.

More than twenty years later, the village population doubled again, from two to three hundred to more than a thousand.

In order to obtain enough food, villagers can only continue to open up wasteland and plant crops.

At this time, some villagers were already old and could not do heavy work. They could only stay in the village to sew clothes, make insoles, wash clothes and other tasks.

They were doing relatively simple work, but in the end they were given the same food as those strong men. At first, because every household had strong men working outside, and there was enough food, no one said anything. What.

Twenty years later, the population of the village increased sharply again, and the team that was opening up wasteland and planting outside also encountered trouble. A large river blocked their way forward, making it impossible to cross.

Food began to run short and everyone was going hungry.

At this time, the old people who were already paralyzed in bed had to distribute the same amount of food as the young and strong men.

Naturally, the young and strong men were not willing to go hungry to help the old people who had no work to do, and their emotions grew stronger.

Seeing that things were getting out of hand, the wise village chief hurriedly promulgated new village rules. Those families without young and strong men would no longer participate in the distribution of food, on the grounds that they had not contributed to the village's harvest.

Those families who are deprived of food are naturally unwilling. They want to make trouble and survive, because they also supported a group of elderly people when they were young!

But they were destined to be no match for that group of young and strong men. They were quickly suppressed and had to fend for themselves.

Another ten years have passed, and the village has not found a new road across the river, and food is becoming increasingly scarce.

The village chief could only announce again that anyone over fifty years old must go to the mountains where the wildest animals are the most and the most dangerous to find a suitable place to open up wasteland.

In fact, they chose to sacrifice these people and let them leave food to the young and strong men.

At this time, the village chief was also very old. According to village rules, he could not participate in the distribution of food. Just because he was the village chief and contributed to the village, no villagers openly opposed him.

But the village chief is wise. He knows that he may be able to die well, but his children may not become the next village chief.

So for the sake of his descendants, he came up with a village rule called hereditary system.

All the family's property, including status, can be passed on to one's descendants.

Villagers without property and status are naturally dissatisfied with this village rule, but the village chief's majesty is still there, and a considerable number of people also side with the village chief.

They can only choose to accept this unfair village rule.

Professor Wayne's story ends here.

"This story has only just begun."

Hastur murmured in his heart, he had already anticipated the next development of the story.