In other words, the Will of Heaven did not care about cruelty or kindness.
It only cared which approach could bring order and advance the world.
And when this fellow abandoned his former familiar methods, he failed.
But after being reborn once again,
the Pirate Captain understood.
This set of methods was what truly worked.
It might cause problems at critical moments, but it could help him in ordinary times.
What he needed to do was combine it with benevolence and righteousness.
Be cruel when cruelty was called for, and benevolent when benevolence was called for.
So he continued acting cruelly.
He used cruelty to intimidate the pirates, then made them train every day, training hard.
Anyone who trained poorly had their ears and tongue cut off.
They would be turned into slave laborers aboard his ship.
He could forcibly tame a group of modern people into a group of Middle Ages servants.
Some might ask, how was that possible?
Because reality was this absurd.
There were many such examples in reality.
One example was a social experiment.
In less than a month, a group of college students participating in the social experiment
rapidly regressed into a World War II-style system, all for the sake of survival.
And that was merely because they had been removed from the rules of real society.
Of course, those college students did not know that at first. They were full of confidence that they could preserve the morality of real society.
Yet as the beneficiaries pushed their advantages further and further, those who upheld morality retreated step by step.
In the end, under the threat of starvation, they became a World War II-style system.
They submitted before the few strongest people.
They even took the initiative to curry favor with them in exchange for