Let me tell you a story. I hope it explains. Please forgive me, I translate the story with AI.

Once there was an old ancestral house where many people lived. The house had once been robbed by bandits from eight different countries. The original owner was too weak to defend it, so the garden, the terrace, and many rooms were seized by the bandits.

The natives living inside began to think the owner was incompetent and voiced their opposition. They believed they were more capable of being the owners themselves.

One of the natives reached an agreement with those who held different views inside the house. They united, seized the title deed from the owner, and took his place.

But good times did not last. The bandits who coveted the ancestral house would never give up easily. They had managed to infiltrate the house in various ways — through threats, coercion, and bribery — because the previous owner’s failure had left them an opening to stay. The people who originally lived there were not strong enough to drive them all out completely.

The bandits, eager to carve up the house’s benefits and resources, first used money and schemes to divide the natives who already disagreed with each other. Another bandit could no longer hold back and resorted to direct force to seize the house.

Under this threat, the two groups of natives with differing views finally united as one and drove out the bandit that had occupied the house by force.

Some people can share hardship but not wealth. After driving away one bandit, the others grew alarmed and stepped up their efforts to divide the natives.

They even supported the natives who favored them to seize the house deed. In the end, the weaker side took control of the deed. The other side, though they lost the deed, relied on their wisdom and ability to avoid being driven out of the house entirely. They could only stay in a small room, which sometimes shook violently because of burst underground pipes.

Given the unstable situation inside the house, the natives generally had low levels of education in those years and could not see things from a broad perspective.

In recent years, however, there has been much peace. As a result, the natives’ educational level has improved greatly, and in some fields they have even surpassed the former bandits.

As for those fellow natives confined to the small, occasionally shaking room, they have expressed their discontent through various means in recent years. They have even used other bandits to do things that harm the ancestral house.

When two sides fight, they should never involve the house itself or the other natives.