There is no doubt that diligence is a virtue, and we are always taught to be diligent in our daily lives, but laziness as opposed to diligence is not useless. During the American Civil War, there was a shepherd named Joseph, who invented something because of laziness, but it changed the pattern of war because of it... What is the magic thing? If you are also curious, the following Xiaobian will reveal the secret to you.
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Diligence is certainly worthy of recognition, but there is also a saying called "lazy people change the world", such as the American Hamilton Smith was too lazy to wash clothes, so he invented the washing machine; the German Carl Benz was too lazy to walk, so he developed a car; and the Japanese Momofuku Ando was too lazy to cook, so he made instant noodles... There are countless examples of similar inventions, all of which have invariably changed people's lives and promoted the development of society. What I want to say is that laziness is actually not terrible, what is terrible is that laziness is not willing to change. In addition to these great inventions, there is also a humble invention that also changed the world and is still in use today.
In the United States in the 1750s, California in the west was at its most prosperous, with not only an endless golden coastline, but also vast pastures. At that time, there was a private ranch in California called Huls, covering an area of about 60,000 square meters, with more than 3,000 sheep and more than 1,000 cattle, and the farmer also deliberately recruited several young people as shepherd boys, including the youngest shepherd boy named Joseph Greenden. Grazing is not a simple job, not only to feed the cattle and sheep, but also to let them not run around, the most important thing is to bring back a lot of horses at night, otherwise not only will they be fined, but even beaten by the farmer, so the shepherd boy is very hard every day.
Among these shepherd boys, except for Joseph Gredon, the others were very diligent, driving the cattle and sheep out early in the morning, returning on time at night, and staring at the cattle and sheep during the grazing process to prevent them from running out of the fence, and Joseph Gladden not only walked late, but also came back late, sometimes the sheep ran away and he found him in the middle of the night to go back. What infuriated the farmer the most was that Joseph Gladon always hid in the shade of the trees and read a book when he was herding, and did not look at the state of the cattle and sheep for several hours, so several times the cattle and sheep rushed out of the fence to eat other people's pastures.
In this regard, Joseph Gredon also thought of many ways, such as tying red ropes on the fence, or pulling out the grass outside the fence, and even whipping the cows and sheep near the fence, but on the one hand, the effect was not good, on the other hand, it was also troublesome, so he eventually gave up. Once, when Joseph Gredon was crossing the fence, he found that his clothes were scratched by the wire, so he took the opportunity to twist the wire against the fence and turn the tip of the wire inward, so that when the cattle and sheep approached the fence, they would be hurt by the wire, and then obediently retreated. In this way, Joseph Gredon's grazing became easier, and there was no longer any need to worry about cattle and sheep running out of the fence.
Years later, Joseph Gladon left the ranch, improving the wire tips he made when he grazed his cattle, and an invention was born, the barbed wire. Joseph Gladden sold the barbed wire to other ranches, earning his first pot of gold, and later to the U.S. army for fortifications. At that time, the United States was in the middle of the Civil War, so barbed wire was in great demand in the military, and Joseph Gladden also set up a special factory to produce barbed wire.
In many war movies, we can find the barbed wire fortifications, which are not only efficiently arranged, but also strongly blocked, once the enemy is trapped in the barbed wire, up and down, left and right, front and back can not move, and if you do not pay attention, you will be injured. In this way, Joseph Gladon changed the pattern of the American Civil War on his own, and the barbed wire began to be widely used after the end of the war.
The small barbed wire fence, from the pasture to the battlefield, from the battlefield to life, also from the United States to the world, but also to China. Nowadays, the application of barbed wire in daily life is also ubiquitous, such as the separation wall set up near the high-voltage power grid, the anti-theft net set up in the residential area, and the isolation belt of high-speed and railway, etc., all of which are indispensable to the barbed wire. It can be seen that the barbed wire has really changed the world.
Because of people's lazy nature, we have invented things that can be continuously lazy, although it seems negative, but it is actually positive progress, we can free up more time, and then use this time to do more meaningful things, and this is the value of laziness. However, what Xiaobian needs to remind is that if you want to be lazy, you must change first, otherwise you will always be a lazy person who has achieved nothing.
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"The Story of Invention" by [Beauty] Fang Long; Translated by Yu Jie, Publisher: Tianjin People's Publishing House
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang's