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爱尔兰饥荒， 麻醉医学， 法兰西第二共和国， 共产党宣言， 太平天国， 死亡规模， 熵， 洋务运动， 坐井观天， 无我寂灭， Moby-Dick, 黑船来航， 人世间阴间， 改进炼钢法， 进化论， 圆明园， 汤姆叔叔的小屋， 南北战争， 林肯， 多妻制， 阶级斗争， 慈禧太后， 美军武器， {{{1
Irish Famine, Anesthesia Medicine, French Second Republic, Communist Manifesto, Taiping Rebellion, Scale of Death, Entropy, Self-Strengthening Movement, Looking at the World from a Well, Nirvana Without Self, Moby-Dick, Black Ships Coming for Trade Purposes, Life and Death Realms, Improved Steelmaking Methods, Theory of Evolution, Yongle Garden, Uncle Tom's Cabin, American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Polygamy, Class Struggle, Cixi, U.S. Military Equipment
1845年， 英国的爱尔兰大饥荒， 100万人死亡。 当时的两任总理是皮埃尔和罗素， 维多利亚女王在位， Prime Minister Robert Peel, John Russell, Queen Victoria。
In 1845, there was a great famine in Ireland due to the potato crop failure; one million people died. The two prime ministers at that time were Peel and Russell, with Queen Victoria reigning.
而饥荒的原因， 不知道能不能相信只是土豆坏掉了， 是因为土豆接受真菌或者病毒的亲近而避免了被人类吃掉的命运。 之后， 大量还没有饿死的爱尔兰人离开祖国， 也许有二百万人， 许多去了美国。
The reason for the famine is uncertain, and it's unclear whether it can be believed that the potatoes simply rotted, or that they avoided being eaten by humans due to their acceptance of fungal or viral proximity. Afterwards, a large number of Irish people who did not die of hunger left their homeland, perhaps two million people in total, many of whom went to America.
在爱尔兰饥荒之前接近两百年时间里， 当地天主教徒失去土地， 大约7成土地落入信奉新教的移民手里。同时人口飞快上涨， 饥荒前爱尔兰岛上的人口达到800万。岛上的历史充满叛 乱和不甘心， 爱尔兰人有一次几乎成功， 可是法国援军因为 天气变化没能登陆， 然后， 几乎被吓傻的英军疯狂报复。
In the nearly two centuries preceding the Irish Famine, local Catholics lost land, with about 70% of it falling into the hands of Protestant immigrants. Meanwhile, the population surged rapidly, reaching eight million on the island before the famine. The island's history was marked by rebellions and resentment. The Irish once came close to success, but French reinforcements failed to land due to weather changes, and then, nearly driven mad with fear, the British army unleashed a brutal retaliation.
爱尔兰天主教徒饱受压迫， 当时有一大堆惩罚法律， Penal Laws， 是许多法案的总称。规定了爱尔 兰天主教徒不许接近城市5-7英里， 不许接受教育， 不许担任公职， 不许拥有武器， 不许做礼拜， 不许购买土地， 不许租赁耕地...
Catholics in Ireland were oppressed by a series of laws called Penal Laws, which prohibited Catholics from living within five to seven miles of cities, receiving education, holding public office, possessing weapons, attending church services, purchasing land, or renting farmland...
奇怪的是：没有不许喘气儿。
Strange as it is: there's no prohibition against catching one's breath.
饥荒中， 王室和议会也许是想到了当时最新的经济学思想： 政府不干涉自由市场。 或者让上帝的手去拯救饥民。 同样的思想让之后英属印度发生饥荒时每次都死掉数百万。 人们请女王为爱尔兰饥民捐点英镑， 女王好像又捐了一千英镑， 委员会的工作人员巧妙的暗示她， 这有点少了， 女王第二天又捐一千英镑。
In the famine, the royal family and parliament perhaps thought of the latest economic ideas at the time: the government should not interfere with free markets. Or let God's hand save the starving. The same thinking led to millions dying every time there was a famine in British India afterward. People asked the queen to donate some pounds for the famine victims in Ireland, and the queen seemed to donate one thousand pounds. The staff of the committee tactfully suggested that this might be too little, so the queen donated another one thousand pounds the next day.
从四千年前国家出现的时候起， 我们就一直在骂这种畜生， 我希望读者明白这才是语言应该具备的功能。
From the time states appeared four thousand years ago, we have been cursing such beasts, I hope readers understand that this is what language should be capable of.
当时英国成为了海权大国， 冲在工业化浪潮最前方， 家里发 生了大饥荒， 爱尔兰人难以原谅这个国家， 埋了亲人漂洋 过海前往新大陆。人们没有注意到， 中国也在饥荒， 1810/11, 1846/49年连续的饥荒据说 超过4千万人凋零， 原因据说是农业欠收， 详细记录不多。
At the time, Britain had become a maritime power, leading the industrial wave forward. During a major famine in the country, the Irish found it hard to forgive this nation and buried their loved ones before crossing the ocean to the New World. People did not notice that China was also suffering from famine; around 1810/11 and 1846/49, it is said that over 40 million people perished due to consecutive harvest failures, though detailed records are scarce.
但是在中国，死亡从来统计不清楚。 也已经有很多人无法认清「杀人」的罪恶。 杀人就是杀人，时间地点人物，或者人数。 然而中国文化中有不同的说法：为了祖国要杀人， 为了祖宗传统可以杀人，为了忠孝仁义可以杀人。
But in China, deaths are never counted clearly. Many people have also failed to recognize the evil of 'murder'. Murder is murder; time, place,人物, or number doesn't matter. However, there are different sayings in Chinese culture: killing for one's country, killing for ancestral traditions, and killing for loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness.
这真是推广「道非道」得到的道德，杀人不再是杀人， 而且杀人者为自己建立了正义感。这就是死亡无法统计的原因之一。
This is the virtue promoted by 'Dao that does not dao'. Killing is no longer considered killing, and the killer establishes a sense of justice for themselves. This is one of the reasons why deaths are uncountable.
1846年美国医生莫顿演示乙醚麻醉外科手术， 47年苏格兰医生 辛普森演示氯仿麻醉技术。之后美欧迅速推广麻醉技术， 手术室渐渐的不同于地狱刑房了。
In 1846, American doctor Morton demonstrated ether anesthesia for surgical operations, and in 1847, Scottish doctor Simpson showcased chloroform anesthesia techniques. Following this, anesthesia technology was rapidly推广 anesthesia technology widely, and operating rooms gradually became less like hellish torture chambers.
Morton, James Young Simpson.
Morton, James Young Simpson
1847年的法国政府禁止集会， 于是人们举办宴会。 1848年二月政府尝试阻止一场宴会时， 擦枪走火引爆了社会矛盾。 路易菲利普逃亡， 路易-拿破仑-波拿巴 成为总统， 法国进入法兰西第二共和国时期， 拿破仑家族回到政治舞台中心， 通常认为波拿巴总统是代表中产阶级和资本主义的。
In 1847, the French government banned gatherings, so people hosted banquets instead. When the government tried to prevent a banquet in February 1848, it accidentally triggered social tensions. Louis Philippe fled, and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte became president, France entered the Second French Republic period, The Bonaparte family returned to the center of politics, It is generally believed that President Napoleon represented the bourgeoisie and capitalism.
1848年马克思和恩格斯起草了共产党宣言， 在英国伦敦发行。 写一份带有错误的文章不是犯罪， 甚至难以避免， 可是禁止人们修正错误又是为什么呢？ 是谁这样做呢？
In 1848, Marx and Engels drafted the Communist Manifesto, which was published in London, England.
It is not a crime to write an article with errors, and it is even hard to avoid them, but why are people forbidden from correcting these errors? Who does this?
马、恩的学说如果允许学者辩论， 这个学说是可以借鉴却无法推崇甚至可以说是无法立足的， 任何阶级的学者们都可以尝试， 只需要无分阶级的常识和理性就可以判读出它们的缺陷。 这个社会本来就是多元的，并非二元阶级对立， 认为无产阶级 必须要和 资产阶级 杀到你死我活更是荒唐。 马恩学说在理智和情感方面都有巨大缺陷，扭曲现实推导谬论， 因此只能在愚昧的社会被当做借口。
If Marx and Engels' theories allowed scholars to debate, these theories could be referenced but not endorsed, and could even be said to be ungrounded. Scholars from any class could attempt to do so, and without a bias towards any class, common sense and reason alone would reveal their flaws. Society is inherently diverse and not defined by binary class confrontation. The idea that the proletariat must fight the bourgeoisie to the death is absurd. Marx and Engels' theories have significant defects in both rationality and emotion, distorting reality to derive fallacies. Thus, they can only be used as an excuse in an ignorant society.
马恩痛批的资产阶级的罪恶后来都被打着他两人旗帜的共产党人彻底而且真实的实现了。
The evils attributed by Marx and Engels to the bourgeoisie have since been realized in full and in truth by communists bearing their banner.
两位的可悲之处在于：猩猩们喜欢暴力理论。 他们的理论不幸成为猩猩的借口。他们生活在当时发达的国家， 没有意识到在他们生活的世界之外， 暴力欲望是多么的深厚。
The sad part is that their theories justify violence for the apes.
Their theories unfortunately serve as an excuse for the apes. They lived in what were then developed countries,
and failed to realize how deeply rooted the desire for violence was in their world.
清政府在鸦片战争中认输后， 1850年， 中国发生太平天国起义， 但是再次证明起义者都会退化成为猩猩， 这是历史法则。 在太平天国最初的胜利中， 首领们一路蜕变， 攻入南京后住进了豪奢的宫殿， 用美女和奴仆填充后宫。 如果他们成功， 金字塔还将是同一座塔。 对天国的梦想化作无数死亡， 满族朝廷剿灭了太平天国起义， 浴血奋战的却多是汉族人。
After the Qing government admitted defeat in the Opium War, in 1850, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising broke out in China. But again, history proved that insurgents would degrade into chimpanzees—a historical law. During the initial victories of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the leaders underwent a transformation, occupying luxurious palaces in Nanjing and filling their harem with beautiful women and servants. If they had succeeded, the pyramid would still be the same tower. The dream of the Heavenly Kingdom turned into countless deaths; it was the Manchu court that extinguished the Taiping uprising, with most of the bloodshed being borne by Han Chinese.
1852 年，太平天国的 两位首领 杨秀清、萧朝贵 联合发表文章： 「救一切天生天養中囯人民諭」。文章本身并不精彩，但是 这两个概念，「中国、中国人民」，第一次登上了历史舞台。 在本书中我们一直以「中国」表示一个地理位置， 从商周秦汉，到宋元明， 其中大部分时间里这片土地上的人们都没有自称中国人。 但是在历史上，太平天国之前并没有中国这个概念。 类似的，「中华民族」这个概念现在也还不存在， 要等半个世纪后的 梁启超 来发明。
In 1852, the two leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui, jointly published an article titled: "救一切天生天養中囯人民諭". Although the text itself is not particularly impressive, these two concepts—'China' and 'the Chinese people'—first appeared on the historical stage.
In this book, we consistently use 'China' to refer to a geographical location, from the Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han dynasties, through the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. For most of that time, the people living on this land did not call themselves Chinese. However, before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there was no concept of 'China' in history.
Similarly, the concept of 'the Chinese nation' also does not exist now; it would have to wait for Liang Qichao's invention half a century later.
不甘者革命， 求生者战斗， 最终都向同一座塔上爬去了。
Those who rebel against the status quo, those who fight for survival, all climb towards the same tower in the end.
这是兽神的宝塔， 拥有兽化的魔力， 并不是这些人生来恶劣， 而是爬上去就会在不知不觉中化身为兽。
This is the Beast God's Tower,拥有兽化的魔力, it is not that these people are inherently evil, but those who climb it will transform into beasts unconsciously.
人们会说看到历史真相的人太痛苦了， 问题是没有看到历史真相的人， 包括他们的后代更无法回避这样的痛苦。
People say that those who see the truth of history are too痛苦 to bear, the problem is that those who fail to see the truth of history, including their descendants, cannot avoid such pain either.
关于奴役与反抗的问题有一种常见的逻辑。 因为中国历史上反复出现了大规模农民起义， 所以人们说这就充分反应了中国人民是勇于反抗的。
师夷长技以制夷！这是明明白白的猩猩们的企图。
但是相反的另一种逻辑也是成立的， 因为长久的大规模的接受了奴役， 所以最后才有大规模的反抗。
中国的金字塔上的大血祭，再次完成一个辉煌的乐章。
正是因为秦始皇开始的中国式皇权 和 集权统治的压迫力很强大， 所以人民是被齐民编户的管理的。 这一种巨大的奴役体制， 其中的人民是必须具有相应的奴性的， 这是一体两面的必然。 而集权体制也必然的腐败， 最后它就无法扑灭零星起义， 从而演化成为席卷天下的大乱。
同样在1850年，德国物理学家克劳修斯试图将热力学第二定律用熵的概念进行更准确的表述。 他进一步尝试将热力学第一、二定律扩展到宇宙范围，简化为两条描述：
欧洲则提供了相反的例子， 这里世俗的统治权力是被多方面制衡的。 首先，教会是一个深入基层的体系， 如果有情况的话 本地教堂可能调集资源化解危机。 另外地方贵族有真实的自治权，常常是世袭的， 也通常传承着被东亚人民嘲笑的骑士精神。 这样，在中央统治层、本地教堂都努力过后， 本地贵族就会聚集战士冲向最后剩下的起义者。 在自己的领地上贵族们不会敷衍了事， 他们的对手就是最后剩下的顽抗者们。 因此欧洲史上农民起义远远没有中国的规模和惨烈程度。
- 宇宙能量守恒。2. 宇宙的熵趋向最大值。
同时也就是说， 所谓中国的封建社会中并没有真实的地方封建。 官员通常是科举选拔、异地就职。 这不是封建制 而是中央集权体制， 它的代价就是大规模农奴起义， 起义成功的结果也还是换个皇帝继续奴役。
这直接地影响了人们对宇宙的理解，更多的物理学者开始更认真地研究熵的定义。 后来普朗克在1900年给出了熵的波尔兹曼公式的最终形式：S = K * Log(W)， 但普朗克将荣誉归功于另一位学者，他认为波尔兹曼发现了熵与微观状态之间的对数关系， 这一公式刻在了波尔兹曼的墓碑上。
太平天国起义的同时，有捻军回乱等连续的起义和战乱， 造成巨大的人口死亡。
At the same time as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, there were continuous uprisings and wars such as the Nian Rebellion, causing huge population deaths.
中国人口下降数千万， 当时中国没有准确的人口统计。 但是这应该是一条法则： 没有言论自由也就没有死亡的真相。
学者的工作可以拓展人们的理解能力，人们生活在有限的时间段内。 时间可能是一条单行线，而生命是一个陷阱，生与死构成这个陷阱的两边。 肉体只有有限的存在时间，没有人能够走出阱外，最终只能坐井观天。
现在这样说有点时空错乱了。不论如何， 镇压后， 清朝皇权稳固， 中国人几乎本能的就可以自动堆积成为一座金字塔的形状， 太平天国失败之后有短暂的平稳， 洋务大臣们在洋务运动中尝试学习西方的技术。
人就是人，生命是有限的。自然科学让人们理解更为永恒的规律， 让思想离开生命的陷阱，理解科学描述更广大的时空。
师夷长技以制夷！ 这是明明白白的猩猩们的企图。
一些人探索寂灭的理论，研究“无我”的境界。 但当迷失在探索中，人变得不是人的时候，还是尽快清醒一下， 现实尚未寂灭，无论从什么角度面对学问还是面对现实，主体都应该是人。 任何一种事物，不管它是概念、学问、理想还是什么， 排除了人的存在，科学就失去基础。当一个人进入无的世界时，还有什么好说的？ 那是非人的世界。
中国金字塔上的大血祭，再次完成一个辉煌的乐章。
Grand blood sacrifices on Chinese pyramids have again completed a glorious chapter.
同样在1850年， 德国物理学家， 克劳修斯， 他尝试将热力学第二定律用熵的概念进行更准确的表述。 他更进一步尝试将热力学第一、第二定律扩展到宇宙范围， 简化为两条描述：
In the same year, 1850, German physicist Clausius attempted to express the second law of thermodynamics more accurately using the concept of entropy. He further tried to extend the first and second laws of thermodynamics to the universe, summarizing them into two descriptions:
1, 宇宙能量守恒。2, 宇宙的熵，趋向最大值。
- The law of conservation of cosmic energy applies.
- The entropy of the universe tends towards its maximum value.
这直接的影响了人们对宇宙的理解， 更多的物理学者开始更认真的研究熵的定义。 后来普朗克在1900年给出了熵的波尔兹曼公式的最终形式， S = K * Log(W)， 但是普朗克将荣誉推给另一位学者， 他认为是波尔兹曼发现了熵与微观状态之间的对数关系， 这一公式刻在了波尔兹曼的墓碑上。
This directly influenced people's understanding of the universe, more physicists began to seriously study the definition of entropy. Later, Planck provided the final form of Boltzmann's formula for entropy in 1900: S = K * Log(W), but Planck credited the honor to another scholar, believing that it was Boltzmann who discovered the logarithmic relationship between entropy and microstates, and this formula was engraved on Boltzmann's tombstone.
Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906), Max Planck (1858-1947)
Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906), Max Planck (1858-1947)
学者的工作可以拓展人们的理解能力， 人们生活在有限的时间段内。 时间可能是一条单行线， 而生命是一个陷阱， 生与死构成陷阱的两边。 肉体只有有限的存在时间， 没有人能够走出阱外， 最后只有坐井观天。
Scholars can expand people's understanding, living in a finite time frame. Time may be a one-way street, while life is a trap, with birth and death forming its boundaries. The flesh has only a limited existence, no one can step outside the well, and the end result is mere surface-level observation.
人就是人， 生命是有限的。 自然科学让人们理解更为永恒的规律， 让思想离开生命陷阱， 理解科学描述的更广大的时空。
People are people, and life is finite. Natural science helps people understand more eternal laws, allowing thoughts to escape the trap of life, and comprehend a wider space and time as described by science.
一些人探索寂灭的理论， 研究“无我”的境界。 但是当迷失在探索中， 人变得不是人的时候， 还是尽快清醒一下， 现实尚未寂灭， 无论从什么角度面对学问还是面对现实， 主体都应该是人。 任何一种事物， 不管它是概念、学问、 理想还是什么， 排除了人的存在， 科学就失去基础， 也就不用再讲平等。当一个人进入无的世界， 什么都没有了， 只有无， 还有什么好说的？那是非人的世界。
Some explore the theory of nirvana, studying the realm of "no-self."
But when lost in exploration and becoming something other than human,
it's best to wake up quickly; reality has not yet perished.
Whether facing knowledge or reality from any angle,
the subject should always be a person.
Any entity—be it a concept, knowledge, ideal, or anything else—
lacks its foundation in science if it excludes the existence of humans,
and there is no need to speak of equality. When an individual enters a realm of nothingness,
nothing remains but emptiness itself; what can one say about that? That is a non-human world.
不论菩提树是不是树， 或者风吹风铃动时， 心有没有动， 我们都可以假设看到这些的都是人， 想到这些的都是人， 既然有人， 就有人的故事。 佛与道如果进入了空与无的境界， 尽管高明， 可是这些境界仍然存身在人类的思想中， 应该明白地球是一个充满生命的星球， 而历史中太多痛苦的原因不过就是人失去人性而已。 要想让人们进入这些境界的话， 还是请先离开地球吧。
Regardless of whether the bodhi tree is a tree or not, or whether the wind makes the wind chimes move without the heart moving, we can assume that seeing these things and thinking about them are done by humans.
Since there are people, there are stories of people.
If Buddhism and Daoism enter realms of emptiness and nothingness, although they may be profound,
these realms still exist within human thought.
We should understand that the Earth is a planet full of life,
and too much suffering in history has been due to humanity losing its humanity.
To get people to enter these realms, perhaps we should leave the Earth first.
此时在清末的洋务运动中， 朝廷面对新世界的方法是学习技术而不是理解人性， 这样的做法好像是颠倒了因果。 用中国人的成语来说就是：缘木求鱼， 爬到树上去捉鱼， 这真是一种猩猩的作法。
During the Self-Strengthening Movement in late Qing Dynasty, the court's approach to the new world was to learn technology rather than understand human nature, which seems to have things backward. In Chinese idioms, this is described as "climbing a tree to catch fish," a truly ape-like method.
在人类漫长的进化中， 原始的进化路线由古人类的化石点缀出来， 显示肉体演变的过程， 这是十万年又十万年的漫长时光。
During the long evolution of humans, the original evolutionary path is traced by fossils of ancient humans, showing the process of physical transformation, which spans hundreds of thousands of years.
农业化之后， 文字出现， 更多的进步出现在肉体之外。 进化的过程变为进步的过程， 智慧的积累速度似乎超越了肉体的进化速度。 工业带来更多的生产力， 更多的机器制造产品。
After the agricultural revolution,文字 appeared, and more progress occurred beyond the physical body. The process of evolution became a process of progress, seemingly with the accumulation of wisdom outpacing the rate of physical evolution. Industrialization brought about greater productivity, with more machines producing goods.
1851年梅尔维尔出版了小说《鲸鱼》， Moby-dick， 讲述人们追捕一条鲸鱼的故事。 这本书卖不出去， 一年卖了5本。 幸运的是70年后人们终于发现他写的是一本杰作， 但是后来拍成电影的时候大海里的鲸鱼已经几乎被捕猎干净了。
In 1851, Melville published the novel Moby-Dick, which tells the story of people pursuing a whale. The book didn't sell well and only managed to sell five copies in its first year. Fortunately, seventy years later, people finally discovered that he had written a masterpiece. However, by the time it was adapted into a film, whales in the ocean were almost hunted to near extinction.
1853年英国女王维多利亚在分娩时使用乙醚镇痛， 利奥波德王子降生。 无痛生产的研究开始推广， 有的使用麻醉剂， 有的使用自然方式。 这让女人一生中必受的痛苦有可能减少到一个相对较轻的程度。
In 1853, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom used ether anesthesia during childbirth and gave birth to Prince Leopold. Pain-free labor studies began to be promoted, using either anesthetics or natural methods. This made it possible for women to reduce the severe pain they endured throughout their lives to a relatively lighter degree.
1853年美国四条蒸汽机帆船驶入今天的日本东京湾， 日本统治者接受现实、 停止闭关锁国的政策， 史称黑船来航事件， 因为美国来的四条船都是黑色涂装。
In 1853, four steam-powered ships entered what is today Tokyo Bay in Japan, the Japanese rulers accepted the reality and ceased their isolationist policies, an event known as the Black Ship Incident because all four American ships were black-painted.
太平天国之后直到二战结束， 在中国被饿死的人数可能令人无法相信：超过5000万， 这个数字缺少数据证据。
After the Taiping Rebellion until the end of World War II, the number of people who may have starved to death in China is hard to believe: over 50 million. This figure lacks data evidence.
但是如果这个数字不代表昆虫的数量， 那么这就是代表一个没有人性的社会。
If this number doesn't represent the quantity of insects, then it signifies a society devoid of humanity.
5000万条尸体腐烂会发出惊人的臭气， 却消失在空气中了。
Decaying 50 million corpses would emit a shocking stench, yet it disappears into the air.
这个世界常常被称为人世间， 另一个世界被称为阴间。 在饥荒中， 死亡的力量推动阴阳轮回。没有什么可以凭空 消失， 物质与能量是守恒的， 守恒定律高于人类的生命， 在人们无知无觉时， 已经生活到阴间， 陷入鬼畜的世界。
This world is often called the human world, while another world is referred to as the阴间 (yīnjiān). In famine, the power of death drives the cycle between yin and yang. Nothing can vanish out of existence; matter and energy are conserved, with conservation laws reigning over human life. Without people's knowledge or awareness, they have already lived in the 鬼畜 world (guichuxiuluo), trapped in a realm of ghosts and beasts.
当金字塔镇压了一切， 这个世界就变成了地狱。
When the pyramid suppressed everything, this world became hell.
金字塔不是一个完整的正八面体， 以地面为镜面， 塔基之下是另一个金字塔， 两者与大地对称。 往塔上爬就可以升官发财， 然而这样的荣华富贵恐怕不是一件好事情， 金银铺地， 可能是地狱的门票。
The Pyramids are not a complete regular octahedron, with the ground serving as a mirror. Beneath the base of one pyramid lies another, both symmetrical with the earth. Climbing up the pyramid can lead to official promotion and wealth, but such prosperity might not be a good thing. Gold and silver铺满地面，可能只是通往地狱的门票.
我们可以看到语言在人们将整个社会修建成为一座巨大的金字塔时的作用， 当金字塔越来越大的时候，它变得畸形，产生崩塌的危险。 此时人们需要语言的基本功能：交流，讲出真相。
We can see the role of language in people building society as a huge pyramid, as the pyramid grows larger, it becomes distorted and poses a risk of collapse. At this point, people need the basic function of language: communication, telling the truth.
但是金字塔中的文字记录形成迷雾，没有人看到真相， 少数看到真相的人不敢说出来，说出来的人被迫害了。
But the texts inside the pyramids have formed a mist, and no one has seen the truth. Few who saw the truth were afraid to speak, and those who spoke were persecuted.
最后越来越畸形的金字塔崩塌，让大量的人死亡。 而死亡的数字从来无法数清楚，因为死掉的已经是爬虫， 没死掉的继续向爬虫进化。
The increasingly distorted pyramid finally collapsed, resulting in the deaths of a large number of people. And the death toll could never be counted precisely, as those who had died were already crawlers, while those who survived continued to evolve into crawlers.
语言的功能被阉割， 不可以批判社会，不可以揭示真相，不可以区分真伪... 不可以刺穿魔鬼身上名为「正义」的铠甲， 不可以剥下恶狼身上的羊皮... 最后语言无法承载人类思维的逻辑，人类史因此变成了爬虫史。
The function of language has been castrated; it cannot criticize society, cannot reveal the truth, cannot distinguish truth from falsehood... cannot pierce through the armor called 'justice' on the devil, cannot strip away the sheepskin from the wolf's body... ultimately, language fails to carry the logic of human thought, and human history becomes that of lizards.
这就是言论自由的重要性， 但是不少中国人说：把你饿死你就知道什么更重要。
This is the importance of freedom of speech, but many Chinese people say: starve you to death and you'll know what's more important.
1855年英国人贝赛麦改进了炼钢法， 钢是铁和碳的化合物， 其中碳的重量在 2.14% 之上。钢的性能远胜于铁， 可是切割和焊接钢材甚至比处理木材更容易， 它即可以被弯曲也可以保持坚硬， 用钢材更容易实现各种图纸上的设计， 造 船、建筑、机械设备， 在各个领域钢材成为工业中最基础的材料。
In 1855, the British Bessemer improved the steelmaking process. Steel is an iron-carbon compound, where the weight percentage of carbon exceeds 2.14%. Steel outperforms iron in many ways, but cutting and welding steel are even easier than handling wood; it can be bent yet remain hard. Steel makes it easier to realize designs on blueprints for ships, buildings, machinery, and equipment, becoming the most fundamental material in industry across various fields.
钢材也迅速成为战争的材料， 枪炮、装甲、军舰， 大量生产的军备可以让一个国家得到完全不同的战斗力， 也让人们完全被这样的力量迷惑， 工业化推动更多国家进入军国主义。
Steel also quickly became a material of war, in guns, armor, and naval vessels. Mass-produced military equipment could grant a country an entirely different level of combat capability, and also led people to be completely captivated by such power. Industrialization propelled more nations into militarism.
此时英国皇家海军已经在禁止奴隶贸易的海面战斗很久了， 从1808年西非编队组建， 半个世纪、几代军人在海面追逐奴隶商船， 搜寻海盗， 几乎凭一国之力在四大洋上杜绝了奴隶贸易， 这一期间他们同所有的海军强国交过手。 海面上， 皇家海军已经让奴隶运输和海盗行为渐渐杜绝了。
By this time, the British Royal Navy had been fighting against the slave trade at sea for a long time, from the formation of the West Africa Squadron in 1808. For half a century and across several generations, military personnel pursued slave traders and searched for pirates on the high seas, almost eliminating the slave trade in all four oceans with one nation's effort. During this period, they fought against all major naval powers. At sea, the Royal Navy had already made the transportation of slaves and piracy gradually disappear.
West Africa Squadron, Royal Navy 1808-1867
West Africa Squadron, Royal Navy 1808-1867
同时， 越来越多的蒸汽铁甲战舰驶入大海。
Meanwhile, more and more steam ironclad warships sailed into the sea.
也是在1855年， 黄河离开 淮河，重新流回到山东，抢了大清河的 入海口。 当年 8月 开封河段 决口，然后就完成了 黄河的又一次 下游大改道。 农业区 灾祸四起， 当时清朝朝廷 可是没空救灾。 历史上黄河下游就是 黄泛区，如果说 黄河是中华民族的母亲河的话， 这位母亲是 脾气暴虐、歇斯底里的。 清朝并没有随同中原母亲河一起离开， 大河改道后， 汉族的中兴汉臣们 继续努力为满族皇室 平定 太平天国、捻军回乱等等。
Also in 1855, the Yellow River left the Huaihe and flowed back to Shandong, taking the outlet of the Daghe River. In August of that year, a breach occurred at the section of the river near Kaifeng, completing another major course change of the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Disaster struck agricultural areas, but the Qing dynasty government was too occupied with other matters to address it. Historically, the downstream area of the Yellow River is known as the Huangfan region. If we say that the Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, this mother has a violent and hysterical temper. The Qing dynasty did not leave with the Central Plains' mother river; after the course change of the great river, Han officials who rose to prominence during the Ming-Qing transition continued their efforts to pacify the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Nian rebels, and Huiguo disturbances for the Manchu imperial family.
1859年， 英国生物学家达尔文出版物种起源， 他是一位病弱的人， 但是在思想上， 他迫使人类重新认识自己。 此时细胞学说也已经建立， 德国植物学家施莱登与动物学者施旺做出了贡献。
In 1859, British biologist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. He was a frail man, but in his thinking, he forced humanity to reconsider itself. By then, cell theory had also been established, with contributions from German plant scientist Matthias Schleiden and animal scientist Theodor Schwann.
然而进化论的过程通常要百万年来完成，这就很难以科学实验来证实。 一个明显的问题是：如果人是猩猩进化而来的，在最近四百万年里， 为什么非洲的其它猩猩们再也没有开启类似的进化？
However, the process of evolution usually takes millions of years to complete, making it difficult to verify through scientific experiments. A clear question is: If humans evolved from apes, why haven't other apes in Africa undergone a similar evolution in the past four million years?
1860年咸丰皇帝逃出了北京，英法联军进城烧了圆明园。 如果收集事件的起因就可以发现他们的行为至少是有借口的， 而且烧的也不是老百姓的住房。但是烧了就是烧了， 放火是一种犯罪行为。
In 1860, Emperor Xianfeng fled Beijing, and the Anglo-French联军 entered the city and burned down the Yuanmingyuan. If we collect the events leading up to this, one can find that their actions were at least justified, and it was not civilians' houses that were set ablaze. However, burning is still burning, and setting fire is a criminal act.
人类史的主角应该是人， 中国史的主角却常常是类似于圆明圆的东西。 火烧圆明圆是历时四年的第二次鸦片战争的结束事件， 战争中遇害的中国平民没有详细记录， 姓名、年龄、时间地点都没有列表。
The main characters in human history should be humans, but in Chinese history, it often revolves around things like the Old Summer Palace. The burning of the Old Summer Palace was the concluding event of the Second Opium War, which lasted for four years. There are no detailed records of the Chinese civilians who were killed during the war, and their names, ages, times, and locations are not listed.
当时黑奴在北美洲殖民者的种植园里劳作。 关于美国黑奴， 白人女作家 斯托 夫人 写了黑奴的故事：「汤姆叔叔的小屋」， 在1852年出版后。 南方人立刻发现这位北方女作家完全不了解黑奴在南方享受安宁生活的真实处境， 相比黑奴， 北方工厂里的工人也并没有得到更舒适的工作环境。 奴隶制没有在封建社会消失， 事实上它在工业社会还存在， 它不一定是人们想像中的残暴恐怖， 比如后来另一位美国女作家写的「Gone with Wind」(1939年出版）书中就可以看到庄园中黑奴们在幸福生活。 然而， 不论如何美国南方人和北方人打起来了， 就是美国南北战争， 废奴战争， 从1861 打到1865年， 南北双方战死75万人后南方人终于承认到他们输掉了这一场富人的战争穷人的战斗， 战斗中美军的靴子是不分左右脚的。
At the time, enslaved people worked on the plantations of North American colonizers.
Regarding American slaves,
Mrs. Stowe, a white female author, wrote about the lives of slaves in "Uncle Tom's Cabin",
which was published in 1852.
Southerners immediately realized that this Northern female writer had no real understanding of the peaceful life that slaves enjoyed in the South.
Compared to the slaves, workers in Northern factories did not have a more comfortable work environment either.
Slavery had not disappeared with feudal society;
in fact, it persisted in industrial societies.
It was not necessarily as brutal and terrifying as one might imagine—like the happy lives of plantation slaves depicted in another American female author's book "Gone with the Wind" (published in 1939).
However, regardless of this, fighting broke out between Southerners and Northerners—the American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States or the Emancipation War.
It lasted from 1861 to 1865,
with over 750,000 soldiers on both sides losing their lives before the South finally acknowledged that they had lost this war of the rich and for the poor.
During the fighting, the U.S. Army's boots were not left or right-specific.
南北战争时美国在工业化， 这个国家不仅有奴隶制而且有多妻制， 摩门教在尤他州修建新的教堂并且尝试多妻制。 人们在性高潮的时候可能搞不清楚天堂和地狱的区别， 但是， 罪恶如果还能够公开的话， 就还可以控制。 美国做为一个国家， 从来没有秦始皇包容天下的伟大胸怀， 却始终能够挤上人性的台阶， 这几乎就是一个奇迹。这个国家的历史中出现了各种罪恶体制， 但是如果还有一件令人认同的事情的话， 就是它还让人们保持理智， 拜自由言论之福。
During the American Civil War, the country was undergoing industrialization, this nation not only had slavery but also polygamy, the Mormon Church built new temples in Utah and attempted to practice polygamy. People may have difficulty distinguishing between heaven and hell during orgasm, but, if sin could still be publicly acknowledged, it could still be controlled. The United States, as a country, has never possessed the great胸怀of Qin Shi Huang to embrace all under heaven, yet it has always been able to tread the阶梯 of human nature, which is almost a miracle. Various systems of sin appeared in its history, but if there was one thing that could still be acknowledged, it was that people were kept rational, thanks to the blessing of free speech.
辩证法的逻辑可以证明这一切都是阶级斗争， 然而解放奴隶的不仅仅是战斗的奴隶， 多妻制中的女人的也不是暴动的女人解放的， 人类良心的存在实在不需要辩证法做为前提。
Dialectical logic can prove all of this to be a class struggle, yet the liberation of slaves is not merely by fighting slaves, nor are women in polygamous systems liberated by rebellious women. The existence of human conscience does not require dialectics as a prerequisite.
废奴战争的原因之一是一位白人女作家写的黑人大叔的故事， 不管有没有人相信， 当时的美军总司令也就是当时的美国总统， 林肯， 是这样对作者说的： 小姐你搞出一场大战。
One of the reasons for the abolitionist war was a story about a black uncle written by a white female writer, whether or not anyone believed it, the then commander-in-chief of the U.S. military, who was also the then President Lincoln, said to the author: Miss, you started a big war.
让我们提前窥视一下大战之后的情况， 观看时间轴上另一条独立的线索：
Let's take a peek at what comes after the great war, and view another independent thread on the timeline:
战后一周林肯遇刺身亡。美国史上被杀掉的总统常常是优秀的总统， 共有四位。副总统接任了林肯的职务， 然后黑人问题被推后了一百年， 比如教育权、选举权、平等就业和人身安全之类的问题。 黑人当时的教育和经济情况远低于当时美国的平均水准， 我们并不知道如果林肯活着他会如何处理这些问题， 但是毫无疑问， 林肯并不是一个天真的理想主义者。
Lincoln died from an assassination a week after the end of the war. Four presidents in American history who were killed in office were all excellent presidents. Vice President succeeded to Lincoln's position, and then the issue of black people was postponed by a century—issues like education rights, voting rights, equal employment opportunities, and personal safety.
At that time, the education and economic conditions of blacks were far below the average level of America at that time. We do not know how Lincoln would have handled these issues if he had lived, but there is no doubt that Lincoln was not an idealistic天真主义者.
后来美国南方3K党兴起， 他们讨厌的人不管是黑人还是白人在半夜遭受吊打致死。 这种私刑被称为凌迟， 英文是： lynch， 这虽然接近中文凌迟的音译， 受害人也都被害死了，但是仍然有很大不同。 在英语语境中，Lynch 通常是指不经过司法程序的处死， 通常是吊死， 也可能是枪击、投河、甚至酷刑折磨致死， 这是美国史中的一个关键词。 1880-1968年间大约 4743人被凌迟， 其中3446名黑人， 暴行中通常宣布受害者犯下谋杀或者强奸的罪行， 但是据调查有1/3 是冤枉的。 被凌迟的也有贫穷的白人（包括爱尔兰、普鲁士 、东欧地区的移民）， 受害者中同样少不了亚洲后裔。 而废奴宣言给南方黑人的解放已经得到了修正：平等并且隔离。
Later, the Ku Klux Klan emerged in the American South, and they inflicted lethal beatings at night on both Black and White people whom they disliked. This private punishment was known as lynching, which is "lynch" in English, although it closely approximates the phonetic translation of Chinese '凌迟', the victims did indeed die, but there were still significant differences. In the English context, Lynch typically refers to an extrajudicial execution, often by hanging, but could also involve shootings, drownings, or even torture, making it a key term in American history. Between 1880 and 1968, approximately 4,743 people were lynched, of whom 3,446 were Black individuals. Frequently, victims were accused of murder or rape during these atrocities, but investigations revealed that about one-third were innocent. Poor White people (including Irish, Prussian, and Eastern European immigrants) were also among the lynch victims, and Asian Americans were not excluded as victims either. The Emancipation Proclamation had already corrected the liberation of Southern Blacks to include equality with segregation.
（专门写清受害人数的原因之一是希望爬虫们回去试一试数清同一时期在中国死亡的暴行受害者人数。作者无意丑化中国史，说明金字塔杀人的原理才是目的。大约在同一段时间中，清朝的所谓司法体系中有明文的凌迟刑法，后来在西方强盗的要求下才逐渐去除了这样所谓法律保证的血腥。）
One of the reasons for specifically writing about the number of victims who were wrongfully killed is to hope that crawlers try to count the victims of atrocities that died during the same period in China. The author does not intend to defame Chinese history; the purpose is to illustrate the principle behind the killings in the pyramids. Approximately at the same time, there was a clear legal provision for the death penalty by slow slicing in the so-called judicial system of the Qing dynasty, which was later gradually abolished under pressure from Western intruders.
在内战中黑人得到机会加入北军， 他们表现还不错， 维护了军人的名誉。但 是后来， 在军队中黑人同样被隔离使用， （1917）一战中仅承担辅助工作 。（1944）二战末期一些战事激烈的战区取消了种族隔离。二战中一些开 明的部队， 比如在巴顿将军的坦克军中， 更早就开始平等对待黑人士兵， 同样的武器同样的任务。巴顿将军对黑人和对任何士兵一样说：你他妈的 不要让我失望， 如果有麻烦就来找我， 我在第一辆坦克上。到了朝鲜战争 （韩战1950-1952）军队内普遍不再区别对待种族差异， 黑人和白人士兵完 全混在一起。底层士兵通常来自社会底层， 他们中许多人在其它地方没有 得到职业训练， 因此选择入伍参战。韩战后期， 军人总统艾森毫威尔当选 ， 这名老兵对黑人军人没有异议， 提拔了许多黑人军官。他任期内经济不 是很好， 但是在当时冷战压力下美国局势受益于他身为军人平静果敢的处 事方法。参选总统时人们问他：韩战什么时候结束？他说：如果当选， 我 会亲自去朝鲜。于是人们知道这场战争算是结束了。As good as over. 美 国另一位名将， 在朝鲜指挥了仁川登陆的麦克阿瑟原来也有机会竞选总统 ， 但是他被中国军人狠狠的教训了一顿， 当时已经被图门总统解职了。不 过就在被解职前的二战之后韩战之前这几年里， 他已经帮助日本开始了战 后改造。朝鲜战场上有成千上万的中国军人的尸体， 具体的数目是个秘 密。而且他们并没有官方身份， 他们都被当做志愿者组织成为志愿军， 他 们在法律上和当时统治中国的共产党政权没有关联。在美国， 4743 名遭受 凌迟私刑的人里主要是黑人， 他们的尸体吊在这一段从内战到韩战甚至越 战的时间轴上。而同一个时间段上， 在中国遭受厄运的人数也许至少要乘 以一万吧。之后， 黑人才开始得到更普遍的平等。从汤姆叔叔的小屋， 到 废奴宣言， 在选票、国会、法院、军队中寻找平等， 在美国经济中得到生存 和挤身中产阶级之后， 大约一百年后， 路德金永存的演讲：我有一个梦... 这是美国黑人在 美军之内和之外， 在废奴战争之中和之后一百年的时间里 的一些情况。
During the Civil War, blacks had opportunities to join the Union Army and performed well, maintaining military honor. However, later on, they were still segregated within the army; during World War I (1917), they primarily took on auxiliary roles. During World War II (1944), in some battlefields towards its end, racial segregation was canceled. Some progressive units, such as Patton’s tank corps, began to treat black soldiers equally earlier, giving them equal weapons and tasks. General Patton said to the black soldiers as he did to any other soldier: "Don’t let me down; if there is trouble, come to me; I’m on the first tank." In the Korean War (1950-1952), racial differences were no longer distinguished within the army, and blacks and whites mixed together. The lower-ranking soldiers usually came from the social underclass, many of whom had not received professional training elsewhere, thus choosing to enlist and fight. Towards the later stages of the Korean War, President Eisenhower, an experienced soldier, showed no objection to black troops; he promoted many black officers. Although his economic policies were not stellar, at that time, the Cold War pressures benefited from his methodical and calm handling as a military man. When asked during his presidential campaign about when the war in Korea would end, he replied: "If elected, I will go to North Korea myself." This indicated that the war was effectively over for him. As good as over.
Another American general who commanded the Inchon landing in Korea also had a chance to run for president but was severely disciplined by Chinese soldiers, even though he had been relieved of his post by President Truman. However, during the years just before the Korean War and after World War II, he helped Japan with its post-war reconstruction.
There are thousands of Chinese soldiers’ bodies on the battlefield in Korea; the exact number remains a secret. Furthermore, they did not have official identities and were organized as volunteers under the title of "Chinese Volunteer Army," legally independent from the ruling Communist Party regime at that time in China.
In the United States, 4,743 people subjected to the barbaric practice of slow death, mostly blacks, had their bodies hung along this timeline from the Civil War through the Korean and Vietnam Wars. In the same period, the number of those who suffered misfortune in China might be at least ten times as many.
It was only after that blacks started to receive more general equality. From Uncle Tom's Cabin to the Emancipation Proclamation, from the ballot box, Congress, courts, and military to economic survival and entry into the middle class, it took about a hundred years for African Americans: Dr. King’s eternal speech, I Have a Dream...
This was the situation of American blacks both within and outside the army during and after one hundred years of the anti-slavery war.
回到美国南北战争初期的中国。
Back to China at the beginning of the American Civil War.
1861年慈禧太后成为中国实际统治者， 直到1908年去世。 她是顽强的女人， 风雨中这一段时期中国满是灾难， 不仅是清朝的结束期， 也是所有中国帝王家族和太监们的最后历史。 在二千年王朝更迭即将终止的血色夕阳里 ， 是一位女人而不是男人在统治中国。
In 1861, Empress Dowager Cixi became the的实际统治者 of China, reigning until her death in 1908.
She was a tenacious woman; this period, filled with disasters during the storms of history,
was not only the end of the Qing Dynasty,
but also the final chapter for all Chinese imperial families and eunuchs.
Amidst the blood-red twilight as the two-thousand-year span of dynastic rule neared its termination,
it was a woman rather than a man who ruled China.
秦始皇定下中央帝制的二千年后， 在最后的风景中， 一位美丽的女人， 她端坐在满族清朝金字塔之巅。 做为最高统治者， 镇压了半个世纪的凄凉。 苛政猛于虎也， 她一生操纵猛虎， 随意的疏忽可以制造千万人的死亡。
Two thousand years after Qin Shi Huang established the central imperial system, in the final scenery, a beautiful woman sat at the pinnacle of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's pyramid. As the supreme ruler, she suppressed half a century of melancholy. Heavy taxes are worse than tigers, she manipulated fierce tigers throughout her life; a casual oversight could lead to the death of millions.
她统治的年代， 这个世界彻底殖民化。 工业化的力量冲入殖民地体系中， 机器、商品流向全世界的同时， 政治和战争也在全球化。这样的背景下， 代表中国的实际上是慈禧太后和她的脚下的大臣们和太监们。
The era she ruled was one of total colonialization. The force of industrialization invaded the colonial system, with machines and goods flowing to every corner of the world while politics and warfare were also going global. Under such a backdrop, what represented China was actually Empress Dowager Cixi and her ministers and eunuchs beneath her.
在她之后至少一个世纪左右， 爬到中国权力顶点的男人们没有一个能够为中国社会提供能与她媲美的： 宽容、言论自由、面对西方文化的胸怀等等， 许多方面她都足以让中国男人们汗颜。
A century or so after her, none of the men who climbed to the apex of Chinese power provided anything that could match her in terms of: tolerance, freedom of speech, and an open-minded approach to Western culture, in many ways they were ashamed by her.
但是在作者眼中，死亡人数是对统治者的第一个也是最后一个评价， 这对她似乎太不公平了。在天地变化的洪流中， 要一个女人， 尽管她篡取了最高权力， 为满族皇族和中国黎民承担命运？ 虽然如此她害死的中国人民的数目也不比她之后的公猴子头领们害死的更多。
But to the author, the death toll is the first and last word on the ruler, which seems too unfair to her. In the torrent of heaven and earth, would a woman, who despite her seizure of supreme power bears the fate for the Manchu nobility and Chinese commoners, be judged so harshly? Although the number of Chinese people she harmed does not exceed that of her successors, the public monkey leaders.
对于女权问题，我们需要说一下， 金字塔力学是纯粹的：权力。这是不分男女的权力， 爬上去就得到权力，完全不用区别公母。 但是在完全没有人权的社会里，比如自古以来在中国， 女权主义的奋斗是完全有可能让两个性别都得到解放的， 在男性彻底腐烂的环境中，女权更无可厚非。
Regarding women's rights, we need to make a point: Pyramid mechanics are pure: power. This power is not gender-specific, climb to the top and you get power, there’s no need to distinguish between male and female. But in societies where human rights do not exist, like China has been historically, the struggle for women's rights could liberate both genders completely. In an environment where men have thoroughly corrupted themselves, feminism becomes even more justifiable.
而如果读者把本书视为历史书，我们也需要说明一下， 和普通的所谓中国史不同，我们没有其它所谓历史学观， 我们的重点只是普通人类的死亡。 不是说什么精神的死亡， 我们说的只是肉体的死亡，相对于生命的死亡。
If the reader considers this book to be a history book, we also need to make a clarification: Unlike typical views of Chinese history, we do not adhere to any other historical perspectives. Our focus is solely on the death of ordinary humans. Not what is called spiritual or ideological death, we are referring only to physical death, in contrast to the end of life.
我们不寻找真理，也不会为死亡寻找任何借口，死亡就是死亡。 这样说是因为爬虫们已经为杀人找到了一万种借口。
We do not seek the truth, and we will neither find any excuse for death, as death is simply death. This is because the spiders have already found ten thousand excuses for murder.
如果我们以一维空间来简化中国社会， 我们可以同样的推导出中国社会的特点。 在二千多年的时间里，这个社会完全的被权力的规则支配着。 我们在一维坐标上截取 -1400 至 2023 的一段直线， 权力在这条线段上是正方向， 也就是上方， 顶点就是权力对社会的限制， 代表无可超越的极值。 之前几十年里，这个顶点就是慈溪太后。 我们看到： 除非顶点死掉， 不然这个社会很难得到不同的尺度。 慈禧太后采用务实的统治手法给予当时的中国社会在她之后一个世纪都难于企及的社会宽容度。
Empress Dowager Cixi's rule began in 1862 when Prince Bismarck of Prussia, then serving as the Prussian ambassador to France, successfully petitioned King Wilhelm I for a position as prime minister. Soon after, he initiated wars against Denmark, Austria, and France.
慈禧太后去世时中国人口在 4.5 - 4.8 亿人左右， 相应的把这一条线段分割为 4.8 亿份， 每一小段上是一只爬虫， 这些爬虫出生后得到的最强约束是：位置。 也就是权力的距离，因此在中国民畏官是结构力量的体现， 这样的力量几乎是任何人无法抵抗的，除非这个人能够跳出这一条线段。 而在权力社会中唯一能够上升的方法就是前面一只爬虫死掉， 这决定了这是一个食人社会、互害社会。 杀掉前面一个人是结构限制，是体制的驱动力， 而且这条线段上的爬虫是无法理解在正方向之外还有无数可能性的。 爬虫们只知道自己上方的爬虫一定比自己更高， 爬虫们后天得到的短路意识就是完全的相信这个方向一切都更好， 这个方向上人们更高明、更有能力、更大学问、更高阶级、更强武力、更多的财富、更美的女人等等。 在极权社会里，人与人的关系是黑暗互害， 人们失去自然的表情，笑怒不露，面容死板、形如僵尸。 因为结构要求人杀人， 所以人与人之间毫无可能相互宽容，礼仪就等于虚伪， 官方礼仪是不会让人有头部面部和肢体接触的， 它的礼节是下位者被迫的自愿跪地磕头、引颈待戮的方式。 而轻易下跪的人们在心中所想必然是要让受跪人死掉， 在结构上这是唯一可能性，是爬虫爬过去的必由之路。 这样的社会结构中，人类沦为爬虫类是一种必然。
In January 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation two years into the Civil War.
慈禧太后的统治后期， 在汉人官员中， 袁世凯从军方上升， 后来成为直隶总督。 徐世昌在文官中升职成为东北总督， 慈禧太后像是贾府老太太看着他们长大。
In the later years of Empress Dowager Cixi's rule, Yuan Shikai rose from the military ranks to become the Governor of Zhili, while Xu Shichang advanced in the civil service to become the Governor of Northeast China. Empress Dowager Cixi seemed like a的老太太 watching them grow up.
可是人们已经知道：大观园破落了。
However, people already knew that Grand View Garden had fallen into decline.
文学名著就这样预言了历史， 假作真时真亦假。 红学本身是个陷阱， 作者连自己的名字都不敢写， 一群群研究者却要凭借这本书拿教授薪水。
Literary masterpieces have prophesied history in this manner: false becomes true, and true becomes false. Scholarship on Redology is itself a trap; the author dares not even write their own name, yet countless researchers strive to earn professorial salaries from this very book.
慈禧太后的名字太长了， 我们以后尊称其为：慈后。 和她身前、身后的男人们相比， 她的权力来源同样是： 偷来、骗来、抢来。然而和最终继承了她的权力的中国共产党相比， 慈后以更间接的手段行使了统治中国的权力， 相比之下， 她更诚实， 也更仁慈。 虽然她也是柏拉图所说的暴君，以不良的方法得到权力， 但是她的晚年在中国史上算得上是相当有言论自由的时期。
Empress Dowager Cixi's name is too long, so we will refer to her henceforth as: Empress Dowager. Compared with the men before and after her, her sources of power were similarly: stolen,骗取, and seized. However, compared to the Communist Party that succeeded her in inheriting power, Empress Dowager exercised control over China through more indirect means, making her both more honest and more benevolent. Although she was also a tyrant as Plato described, obtaining power by improper means, her later years in Chinese history were relatively free in terms of speech.
1862年， 普鲁士驻法国大使俾斯麦请普鲁士王威廉一世任命自己做首相， 他 很快发起战争， 兵锋指向丹麦、奥地利、法国。
In 1862, Bismarck, the Prussian ambassador to France, requested that King William I of Prussia appoint him as Prime Minister. He soon initiated wars, targeting Denmark, Austria, and France.
1863年1月， 林肯发布废奴宣言， 此时内战打了已经将近两年。
In January 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, by which time the Civil War had been ongoing for nearly two years.
1863年11月， 林肯发表盖兹堡演讲。 在原哈佛校长、美国参议员和演说家埃弗里特两个小时的演说之后， 林肯演讲的长度只有两分钟。 在这两分钟内第一小段实际引用了独立宣言：人们是生来平等的。 用短短的两分钟， 他将这一场南北战争， 美国的内战， 定义成了奴隶解放战争。更令人惊奇的是， 在他的演讲中实际上无法区别战死和献身的到底是南方还是北方的军人。 在两分钟内， 林肯用一口今天听起来更像是乡下方言、 混合着当时印第安纳 和 肯德基（Indiana, Kentucky）的口音， 他不仅改变了战争的目的， 而且改变了历史走向。
Rearranged rifling techniques gradually became widespread, and cavalry carbines saw significant improvements like the Spencer Carbine. Additionally, the Henry 1860 rifle with a 0.44 caliber used preloaded cartridges with shells and primers, allowing for the loading of up to fifteen rounds for continuous fire.
而从世界范围来说，解放奴隶的不仅是在北美大陆战斗的南北两军， 还有封锁非洲几十年的英国皇家西非舰队， 不仅有议会枯燥的辩论语言， 还有作家写出的曲折故事， 还有律师精彩的法庭陈述。而奴隶们的表述途径， 只有身体语言。
And from a global perspective, it was not only the fighting forces of the Union and Confederacy on the North American continent that fought to liberate slaves, but also the British Royal West Africa Squadron that had blockaded Africa for several decades, not just the枯燥的议会辩论 language, but also the winding stories penned by writers, and the compelling courtroom statements made by lawyers. The only means of expression for the slaves was body language.
也因此我们观察历史的方法不是历史书中的文字，我们更相信身体语言。 自古以来被切掉鸡巴的中国太监，和宋朝以来被折断脚掌的小脚女人， 这都是我们观察中国文明程度的最重要参照。 而最重要的历史基准线，在我们的模型中从来都是：死亡。
Therefore, we observe history not through the words in historical texts but more through body language. The castrated eunuchs of ancient China and the women with bound feet since the Song Dynasty—these are among the most important references for us to gauge the civilization level of China. And the most crucial historical benchmark in our model has always been: death.
在死亡目前，我们不相信任何借口，不管它是什么， 文明、胜利、正义、思想、学说、传统、忠孝、社会演化... 死亡永远是耻辱的。金字塔永远掩饰人类死亡的数字， 人类的死亡就是它最真实的耻辱指标。 而中国史从来数不清楚中国人死亡的数字， 因为巨大的数字都是它们自己杀掉的。
Before death, we do not believe in any excuse, no matter what it is, Civilization, victory, justice, thought, doctrine, tradition, loyalty and filial piety, social evolution... Death is always a disgrace. The pyramids always conceal the number of human deaths, Human deaths are its most truthful指标of shame. And Chinese history has never counted the number of Chinese people who died, Because the huge numbers were killed by themselves.
中共曾经用阶级斗争理论解释一切社会现象和历史现象， 如果非要证明阶级斗争解放了奴隶， 也许可以有一百种证明途径。 阶级斗争的理论是一种同类相残的理论， 解放奴隶的历史可以说明问题， 这种后来盛行在中国和苏联的理论不会真的解放奴隶， 只会制造新的奴隶主。
The Communist Party used class struggle theory to explain all social and historical phenomena. If one were to prove that class struggle liberated slaves, there might be a hundred ways to do so. Class struggle is a theory of self-inflicted violence, the history of freeing slaves could support this point, but this theory, which later prevailed in China and the Soviet Union, would not truly liberate slaves; it would only create new slave masters.
南北战争的时候， 已经有照相技术， 因此战争的记录更为真实。武器 方面， 转轮手枪使用6发弹仓， 但是要手工装填火药， 比如 Colt Revolver。
During the American Civil War, photography technology already existed, so the records of the war were more realistic. In terms of weapons, revolvers used six-round magazines but required manual loading of gunpowder, such as the Colt Revolver.
Springfield 1861 型来福枪使用的子弹是尖头的， 相比圆球弹丸更容易穿透人体。 后膛装填子弹的技术逐渐普及， 骑兵在马背上使用的卡宾枪得到大幅改进， 比如 Spencer Carbine。 另一种， Henry 1860 型来福枪0.44口径， 使用预制子弹带有弹壳和底火， 可以提前装入15发， 连续射击。
The Springfield Model 1861 rifle used bullets with pointed tips, making them more likely to penetrate the human body compared to round ball projectiles. Loading through the breech became increasingly common, and carbines used by cavalry received significant improvements, such as the Spencer Carbine. Another example is the Henry Model 1860 rifle in .44 caliber, which used pre-formed bullets with cases and primers that could be loaded in advance for fifteen consecutive shots.
然而陆战的主角还是火炮， 12磅、6磅和3磅的火炮， 多数还是滑膛炮， 大炮轰鸣的位置常常就是主战场的位置。 机枪和铁甲战舰都在战争中出现， 工业影响了这场战争， 武器相当便宜， 军队沿着铁路线作战， 而林肯总统可以通过电报了解军情。如果不是工业， 也许南军有更多机会取得军事胜利， 他们有相当出色的军官， 比如最后决定投降的李将军， Robert E. Lee， 他战后在弗吉尼亚的一所大学做校长， Washington and Lee University。
However, the main actors in land battles were still artillery—12-pounder, 6-pounder, and 3-pounder cannons, mostly smoothbore guns. The positions where big guns roared often marked the main battlefield. Machine guns and ironclad warships also appeared during the war; industry influenced this conflict. Weapons were relatively cheap, armies fought along railroads, while President Lincoln could keep abreast of military developments via telegraph. Without industrialization, perhaps the Confederates had more chances to achieve a military victory. They boasted quite competent officers, including General Robert E. Lee who ultimately decided to surrender. After the war, he served as president of Washington and Lee University in Virginia.
武器升级意味着印第安人也将失去战斗优势， 哪怕他们可以骑在光背马上奔驰。 然而和战斗中的遭遇相比， 无法建立对等的法律系统也许才是将最 后一族红皮肤的人押入保留区的最大因素吧？他们不可能建立这种系统， 却 清楚的知道白人用一份份合同和法案骗了自己。不是每个白人都是坏蛋， 红人也不全是傻呵呵的好人。为贪婪寻找借口， 如果人们只能做到这个程度 ， 实在用不着卖弄聪明。后来当人们刚有机会测试IQ的时候， 就发现红人、 也就是印第安人的IQ不比白人更差。热心前去传教的白人传教士曾经羞愧的 发现这些土人还没有学会打孩子， 也没有学会区别对待自己和别人的孩子 ， 他们的部落生活远比这些自以为是的传教士的预期更和谐。可是他们最终 无法抵抗白人的病菌和酒精。酒醒之后， 没人能说清楚哪一方犯了更多的 罪行， 毕竟部落战争早在白人来之前就存在了。毕竟， 不仅红人剥过白人头 皮， 白人也剥过红人头皮。不论如何， 美国内战之后， 北美印第安战争也 就很快落幕了。
Upgrading weapons means that the Indigenous people will also lose their combat advantage, even if they can ride bareback horses. However, compared to encountering battles, perhaps failing to establish an equal legal system might be the greatest factor in locking the last Native Americans into reservations? They couldn't establish such a system, but they were clear that white people had tricked them with contracts and bills of rights. Not all whites are bad guys, and not all red people are foolish good guys. Making excuses for greed—if people can only do this much, there's no need to flaunt one's intelligence. Later, when people first had the chance to test IQs, it was found that Native Americans' IQs were not worse than those of whites. Honest white missionaries once shamefully realized these indigenous people hadn't yet learned to discipline their own children or treated their children differently from others. Their tribal life turned out to be far more harmonious than the self-proclaimed missionaries had expected. However, they ultimately couldn't resist white diseases and alcohol. After sobering up, no one could clearly say which side committed more crimes, since tribal wars existed long before whites arrived. Indeed, not only did red people scalp white people, but whites also scalped red people. Regardless, after the American Civil War, the Native American Wars in North America quickly came to an end.
当时也有一些中国人在照片上留下了身影， 许多人目光呆滞好像失魂落魄， 如同一群群待宰的猪羊。后来， 有国外摄影师说出了缘由： 当时当地官员在场。 这些洋人摄影师后来展示了另外一些他们在中国得到的照片， 在没有官员在场的时候， 中国人神情自然， 仪态从容。
There were also some Chinese people who left images in photographs at that time, many of whom had a呆滞的目光好像魂不守舍， 像一群群待宰的猪羊。后来， 有外国摄影师道出了原因： 当时当地官员在场。 这些洋人摄影师后来展示了他们在华拍摄的另一些照片，在没有官员在场的情况下，中国人神情自然、仪态从容。
思无邪， 意思是说：思想(本来)是无邪的。 但是被甲骨文切断后又被金字塔镇压， 现在的中文好像是金字塔上的植物， 成为一种有毒植物， 毒性超强， 让不识字的人也中毒。 而读书的人跪在一个女人脚下并没有抬高这个女人， 只让读书人更下贱。
Thoughts should be pure, meaning that thoughts are originally innocent. But after being severed by oracle bones and suppressed by pyramids, modern Chinese seems like plants on pyramids, becoming a highly toxic plant, poisoning even those who cannot read. And reading people kneeling at the feet of a woman do not elevate this woman, only making the readers more submissive.
这些读书人做官后行为乖张、违背自然。 以‘端茶送客’这样的官场礼节为例，在多数人类社会里， 对着客人端起饮料的含意都应该是 请客人饮用， 但是在这些做了官的读书人那里就变成了：送客，请人离开。 这扭曲的行为语言 直白的说明了 这个社会文化的 表里不符。
These literati who entered politics behaved oddly and went against nature.
Take the official etiquette of "presenting tea to guests" as an example. In most human societies, offering a drink to a guest implies inviting the guest to drink it. But for these literati who became officials, it turned into: seeing off guests, asking them to leave. This distorted behavior clearly indicates the discrepancy between the surface appearance and the underlying reality of this societal culture.
本书反复强调身体语言， 也多次揭示中国古人礼节中的矛盾之处， 并且认定 身体语言 讲述的历史 至少比 中国文字史更真实， 目的之一就是为了防止孔子信徒们继续用古人的名义害人， 学着说什么礼乐崩坏 是 道德沦丧的原因， 就算是所谓周公之礼也早已经反映出一种近似食人族对人类身体进行拘束的企图了。
The book repeatedly emphasizes body language, and also reveals the contradictions in ancient Chinese etiquette on multiple occasions, and asserts that the history told by body language is at least as true as the written history of China. One of its purposes is to prevent Confucian followers from continuing to harm others under the guise of ancient traditions, claiming that the collapse of ritual and music is the cause of moral decay, even so-called Zhou Gong's rituals already reflect an attempt similar to that of cannibals to constrain human bodies.
作者没有打算否认中国文化的许多优越之处， 但是中国历史本身的路径就是走向了专制极权暴政，这是历史事实。 如果以复兴伟大文化的名义再回去走一遍，结果恐怕还是暴政。
The author does not intend to deny the many superior aspects of Chinese culture, but the path that Chinese history itself has taken is toward autocratic tyranny, which is a historical fact. If one were to go back and repeat this in the name of reviving great culture, the result would likely still be tyranny.
此时的世界人口应该已经过13亿了， 一个半世纪后中国一国人口就有这个数目。
The world population should have surpassed 1.3 billion at this time, with China alone having this number a century and a half later.
文字通常是黑的。看书的时候人们忘记语言和身体的关系， 没有一种语言可以脱离身体语言， 看了跪着写的书， 读者也会跪下来。
Text is usually black. When reading a book, people forget the relationship between language and the body; there is no language that can exist without bodily language. After reading a book written while the author was on their knees, the readers might also kneel down.
不少人都经历过这样的生命历程：从最初睁开眼， 如果父母不负责， 婴儿将看到一个恐怖的世界。相反， 就可以在关爱中慢慢适应新的世界。 小时候的生长， 会渐渐形成「我最大」的意识， 青年时身体与思想的形成期里又会发现「世界最大」， 社会比自己强大无数倍， 就这样从新建立自我渺小的意识， 多数人就在这种矛盾意识中走完人生旅途。
Many people have experienced a life journey like this: when first opening their eyes, if the parents are irresponsible, the infant will see a terrifying world. Conversely, they can slowly adapt to the new world in care. During childhood growth, a sense of "I am the biggest" gradually forms, during adolescence, when bodies and minds are developing, one discovers that "the world is the biggest," society being infinitely stronger than oneself. Thus, the consciousness of being small is re-established. Most people spend their lives traveling through this contradictory awareness.
只有当一个人再次理解到自己和整个世界一样大， 自己身上的每一个碳水化合物中的碳原子都比最伟大的帝王更古老， 并且所有人都如此， 人生来平等可以作为一个信仰， 从元素周期表来说也是一个事实。
Only when a person re-understands that they are as vast as the entire world, and every carbon atom in their carbohydrates is older than the mightiest emperor, and all people are thus equal at birth, can the belief in equality be a faith, and from the perspective of the periodic table, also a fact.
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