Return to the exciting era of 1999

Chapter 2358: The decline in the ability of overseas students

"We are all the same race, how can there be such big differences? Are you exaggerating? This is a serious occasion, don't say such words in bytes to attract attention. We need to find out the reason for our current incident, not to increase our exposure!"

A very burly white man looked at the old man in the corner, with anger in his eyes.

Especially when I hear the old man constantly speaking well of the Chinese, it seems that the entire country has to rely on these outsiders. Don’t you know that local talents have the best genes?
Survival of the fittest, this is the truth, and we are the ones with the best genes.

The old man kept looking at the C position, then took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

"Any standpoint can only make us more narrow-minded. Starting with people like Faraday, find out where they really belong and where they were born. Without exception, they are outsiders in their local area."

"Only foreigners have really supported the entire history of scientific development, not local nobles. Don't tell me about Newton. Confucius, one of the earliest nobles in China, was also like this."

"Besides shouting slogans, what else do you know? The number of new English words created in the 21st century is almost more than the total number of words we added in the past 100 years. What are these words and concepts used for? Without exception, they are all used by you to cheat people out of money. Do they really add content to science and technology? Apart from one explanatory concept after another, is there anything else?"

Facing the C position, the old man was a little excited this time, and the scene was silent.

In the 21st century, it is too easy to make money for the land under our feet.

As long as you come up with a concept, someone on Wall Street will give you money, and funds from all over the world will come here to seek investment. This is the starting point and peak of the self-confidence of the entire bald eagle nation.

Decades of glory have made people naively believe that the world should be like this. When they look down again, they find that the ladder under their feet has become rotten, and the people who have been holding up the ladder for them for a long time have become tired or left, and they can no longer get down.

The C position sat there without saying a word for five minutes. The other party's assistant repeated the old man's words in his ear several times, and the other party thought about it over and over again.

"The engineers we recruited from them are also very good, and the compensation is also very good. Why can't we have top scientists now? Qi Jia was not particularly outstanding when he was at Bell Labs. He can't compare with the money he made back then. He can lead something if he returns there."

"Does this mean that they have no more outstanding talents to use? Does this also indirectly indicate that we are still their best choice?"

As the de facto leader, the C position now needs to leave an envelope for the next person, but the other party can't leave anything, which is the embarrassing point.

Is the long-standing model of Kaifa's world leadership in credit bonds still applicable?
"When Qi Jia and Qian were here, they often went to the National Library to read. There were many documents from ancient China in the library, and Qi Jia, in particular, read a lot of ancient Chinese documents."

"This time we got accurate information that the track of the golden comet was discovered by the other party from a large number of ancient Chinese documents. In recent years, I have counted the scientists and students from China who have studied abroad. In the past ten years, no one has read them."

"The money was read extensively in our state library, national library, and MIT library. This is the difference. It is difficult for us to fully understand the contents of these ancient books. Only they can understand them."

When it comes to the literature that Qian and Qi Jia have read, the old man is very envious.

In order to catch up, the other party has also been reading the books that Mr. Qian read in the past, but it is difficult to understand them.

The people at the scene looked at each other and signaled the waiter to take away the old man's microphone.

In the eyes of these people, this is just nonsense. Ancient Chinese historical documents have almost no reference value except for recording some affairs of emperors and ministers.

This cannot be compared with the works of Aristotle or Leonardo da Vinci.

The C position did not say anything, and the assistant repeated it in the other person's ear several times. The C position thought about it for a long time.

“Are these documents useful for scientific research?”

The long-term prosperity has made more and more people remember one thing: hard research is stupid and only laborers will do it.

As for what can be developed in the future? If you can’t figure it out through research, you can buy it, from technology to people. As long as you have the right to issue credit, you can do anything.

Therefore, many studies involving ancient books, especially those related to Asia, have been stopped.

These people would rather go to Italy to dig streets and build pyramids in Egypt.

"The highest good is like water, which can change the sea into mulberry fields. How much information is contained in this sentence? Where did it come from? What does it record?"

What made C position speechless was that the old man said such a nonsensical sentence in Chinese, which was difficult to explain even by the translator, because the profound meaning of Chinese is difficult to understand in the entire modern Chinese system.

What's more, these foreigners all use phonetic characters, so understanding the literal meaning is enough. It took a long time for the translator to explain the content clearly, and the people below were all dissatisfied.

"Can you please get your words straight? We don't want to hear this nonsense. We can't respect you just because you are old. If you have nothing else to say, you can sit down."

Several middle-aged people were very impatient. Especially as successful people, they were very unwilling to listen to preaching. The person in the C position asked someone to remind the old man to speak faster, and the old man smiled.

"The highest good is like water, which has its own boundaries. The water from heaven fills the world. 'Circle' in Chinese means rules, and can also be translated as heaven and earth. The mighty water overflows heaven and earth and is everywhere. This is the same as the words of our Noah's Ark."

The old man paused as he spoke. The scene had already become noisy, but everyone quieted down after the old man's words.

In the entire Western mythology system, the event of Noah's Ark is considered to be a very important time node.

In recent years, there has been a vast amount of interpretation and research materials surrounding this matter. Almost all larger companies are doing certification and research in this area, and everyone knows about it.

The group of people in front of them only knew that there was a similar document in China and a myth about Dayu controlling floods.

I didn't expect that a sentence from a Chinese literati's poem could record such rich information. Someone has already taken out a tablet to check the source of this poem. The old man paused.

"The vast sea turns into mulberry fields. The mighty floods receded, and fertile land appeared, which could be used as good farmland. In the long ancient Chinese world, the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, where men farmed and women wove, had been passed down for more than 2,000 years. Where there are mulberry fields, there must be farmland."

"This poem was written in the Jin Dynasty in China. Qi Jia has read it. Suddenly the sea water receded. According to modern research, how long will it take for crops to be grown on the beach after the sea water receded? There is only a very short period of time when the sea water backflows, or tsunamis in short, and then the sea water recedes before humans can grow crops."

"What if the sea floods the land for a long time? It would take hundreds or decades before we can grow anything. We have reason to believe that this was a tide. A fleeting tide, not the kind caused by the moon approaching the ground, which would last a long time."

"The only explanation is that another large celestial body passed by the Earth's surface, causing a brief tsunami. The sea water came and quickly receded. This is the accurate record of this golden comet. Can we find such accurate information in our writings?"

"I want to ask, is this nonsense? If our scientific research is based on your attitude, I think in another fifty years, our scientific research can only produce technology businessmen like Steve Jobs and financial scammers like you like Elon Musk. That's all. I'm done!"

The old man handed the microphone to the waiter and slowly sat down.

The so-called bigwigs below are now collectively silent. Before today, no one had ever realized or thought that in faraway China, someone could use short words to record a piece of history.

Even the history of scientific research, in the long-term propaganda, has left these people with only one impression: Chinese written records are all obscure and difficult to understand, and they are about the crappy things people did.

Only Aristotle is great, and only the West is central.

No one told these people that the accumulation of data for real scientific research began more than two thousand years ago. The literati at that time used concise writing and precise words to provide first-hand scientific research data to people two thousand years later.

On the other hand, the history of Zhuyin is full of incest, assassination, fighting, and all kinds of darkness that were glorified by later generations as public opinion and human-dog.

If you really use it as a reference for scientific research, you are simply crazy.

In Yakou Village, Ji Donglai was also sitting in the study. Xinyang and Ji Zhensheng were playing below, and Shen Hao was thinking hard with an ancient book in his hand.

Ji Donglai had no idea what to call the little guy in Haitang's belly.

"What are you thinking about? You've been sitting here for hours. Are you avoiding me?"

Qiu Haitang seldom entered Ji Donglai's study, where there were many ancient books, some of which were rare copies, all of which were given by some people. Ji Donglai was deeply moved and donated them to the Yakou Village School.

Like Ji Donglai, many children in the school are reading these books and they like them very much.

"I'm thinking about what to name our third child. I'm having a headache looking for how the ancients named their babies. Why don't you call dad and ask him? I'm not good at this!"

Qiu Haitang was now a little overweight, so Ji Donglai made way for him, and the two of them sat on the huge armchair, with Ji Donglai's flesh squeezed into a pile.

"What are you thinking? We give birth to a child according to the zodiac signs based on the month of birth. Every time the old man comes, Xinyang causes him so much trouble that he now hides from his children when he goes home. Xinyang got into trouble at school and took the children to build a rocket model. When the teacher tried to teach him a lesson, he told the teacher that it was donated by my father..."

(End of this chapter)