To give another example, if a wealth equalization policy is implemented directly, and each person receives one million, then a poor person with 500,000 in debt will still have 500,000 in positive assets after paying off their 500,000 in debt. However, a poor person with tens of millions in debt will still have negative total assets after only a small portion of their debt is reduced.

Therefore, wealth liquefaction is needed so that after offsetting everyone's debts, the total assets are ultimately the same, which can minimize the gap between the rich and the poor.

Through virtual space exercises, debts can be transferred. If positive assets are too high, people must distribute their money like the wealthy. This combination of positive and negative administrative suppression ultimately leads to all wealth flowing to the poor, making everyone's total assets positive.

The debt transfer from the virtual space exercise, according to the final development, will transfer all the debt to one person, who will become the poorest person in both human societies on Mars and Earth.

Then, the poor man's debts will be written off as bad debts, and the governments of both Mars and Earth will give him average positive assets.

This bad debt will be divided equally among everyone, and all existing assets will be extracted in a lump sum through taxation to offset the debts of the poorest individuals.

In this way, all the future cash flows that appear in human society in the form of 'debt' can be 'repaid' to the future.

To comply with this policy, experts must lie again, stating that the 'average assets' must be higher than the 'actual average assets,' thereby creating more room for debt cash flow.

Of course, this policy document on wealth liquefaction is classified. The public only knows the first half, while the second half remains completely unknown. Everyone is afraid of becoming the poorest person in human history, so they use all their skills to fight in space during virtual space exercises.

The higher a person's debt, the more they hope to transfer their debt through virtual space exercises. It has a gambling-like nature, but unlike gambling, which relies on deception, virtual space exercises rely on the bloody battles on the front lines.

Lin Feng's true purpose was to achieve this through this process.

Through this process, effeminate men will transform into a group of tough guys with effeminate faces and physiques. Even if a few slip through the net, it doesn't matter much. The majority are the ones who determine the social atmosphere.

The mainstream social values ​​will be forcibly corrected in a short period of time, and those intellectually challenged people in human society will mature rapidly in the fiercely competitive environment and become more thoughtful.

It not only solved the problem of the wealth gap, but also addressed the issue of feminist ideology, eliminated many intellectually disabled individuals, and cultivated a large number of talents capable of handling greater pressure—truly a win-win situation.

……

"Did all those people roll off their seats?" Lin Feng asked Edith, who had come to report.

Edith replied, holding the documents, "Some have already fallen, some are still in progress, and the doves are not a monolithic group. Some people just see the softening policy as a means to attack the hawks, not as staunch supporters of feminist thought."

Lin Feng was asking the supporters of feminist thought; there are quite a few such people among the upper echelons of humanity.

To address the feminist ideology in human society, it is essential to address these issues at the highest levels.

So Lin Feng obtained the list from the William family and used various means to remove these people from their positions one by one.

Hearing that some people hadn't yet been pushed down from their high-ranking positions, Lin Feng frowned slightly and turned to Edith to give her some instructions.

"Let's ignore the politicians' problems for now and prioritize addressing the issue of feminist ideology."

Edith nodded slightly and replied, "I understand... Some doves want to ask you, wouldn't humanity's strong aggression make it easier to arouse the Trisolaran civilization's vigilance? Will it increase the difficulty for humanity and the Trisolarans to merge into a single civilization in the future?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Feng shook his head. "It won't increase the difficulty. The first requirement for a surviving civilization is that one civilization's ideology can become benevolent and make another civilization truly lower its guard. If that were feasible, the Dark Forest Theory would not exist in the universe."

“I will relay your reply to them truthfully,” Edith said.

Chapter 253 I'm hardly a hero

Edith finished her report and was about to leave when Lin Feng suddenly remembered something and asked.

"Wait a minute, I asked you to check on Luo Ji's situation before. Is he alright now?"

Edith replied, "He lives alone on an island with his family. Would you like to visit him?"

Lin Feng thought for a moment, then shook his head and refused, saying, "No, I don't want to disturb his precious time. I can't let a hero shed blood and tears. He has already given enough for humanity."

“And what about you?” Edith suddenly asked.

"what?"

Lin Feng was taken aback, not understanding what Edith was referring to.

Edith looked at Lin Feng with concern, "You are also a hero. Shouldn't you stop and take a break? You've been busy with these human affairs since you came back."

"I am no hero. I am not worthy of the title of hero. I am just a capitalist who has temporarily switched to the political direction."

Lin Feng couldn't help but chuckle and waved his hand, completely disregarding Edith's words. He truly never considered himself a hero. The swordsmen were Luo Ji, Fleet World, Zhang Beihai, Davis, and Negan, not him. How could he be considered a hero?

"...As long as you're happy."

Edith sighed helplessly and turned to leave.

On the other hand, the virtual space exercise promoted by the Taylor Group has left the hidden hawks somewhat confused about whether the Taylor Group is friend or foe. Therefore, the hawks held another meeting in response to the policies promoted by Lin Feng.

"Is Maple Taylor planning to support us?"

One hawkish member asked in surprise, but someone else quickly retorted.

"No, he has never publicly stated that he would support us. Even when we protested to him, he was indifferent and even ordered his subordinates to point guns at us."

"He's just very averse to the softening policy, that's all; he's still a supporter of the doves."

Some say, "The doves are now split into two voices because of Feng Taylor: one supports feminist thought and the other opposes it. The infighting among the doves is good news for us. The more intense their competition, the more we can survive in the cracks."

Hawks are hawks no matter what, and they are enemies of doves. Now that their old rivals, the doves, are embroiled in internal strife, the hawks are naturally happy to see it.

During the meeting, someone suddenly suggested, "The wealth liquefaction achieved through policy is a good opportunity for us, and we should seize it."

"Chance?"

The proposer replied, "In this turbulent time, it will be much easier for us to borrow money from the wealthy and use that money to start an interplanetary company focused on building space industries and developing warships and weaponry."

"Such military companies need government support to be established," someone pointed out.

The proposer replied, "Since the bombing of Mount Olympus, the dignity of the Earth and Martian governments has been brutally trampled under the Taylor system, and their credibility has suffered an unprecedented blow."

"If any of us take the lead in starting a company, the government will definitely provide strong support."

Ever since Olympus was halved in height by the Coulomb bomb, the Earth and Martian governments have felt the same way the United States is investigating China's Galaxy spacecraft.

They were very unwilling, but had no choice but to cooperate. The governments of the entire planet couldn't gamble with the people of their own regimes; they couldn't be that crazy.

Therefore, the governments of both planets are eager to have a fleet dedicated to protecting their planets, which will form the basis for the hawks to form such a company.

"What about the Taylor faction? They will definitely strike us; the Taylor faction's strength is far beyond our reach," someone asked.

The proposer said, "It doesn't matter. The more they attack us, the more the government will protect us."

"Furthermore, our true objective has never been to confront the Taylor Group head-on. This interstellar company that is supposed to be a rival to the Taylor Group is just a front. We will have a fleet capable of engaging in military activities."

The Earth government would assume that they possess an armed force to defend the Taylor system, but most of the time, they act as a civilian space force with a certain level of armed capability.

However, in reality, this is truly a civilian armed fleet in space, a private fleet belonging to their hawkish faction, existing to clear blockade satellites as they advance into solar orbit.

"In this way, we will have the foundation to destroy those blockade satellites in the solar orbit," the proposer said confidently.

The meeting's chairperson fell into thought, and after a period of silence, gave a reply: "Let's do it this way. It must be done discreetly, prioritizing success. Ideally, everything should be completed before anyone discovers it."

"clear."

……

Joint meeting of the Solar System Fleet.

At this meeting, Lin Feng was questioned by other delegates.

"Mr. Taylor, when will you be able to release the Trisolaran envoys you brought back from the Trisolaran system?"

"Once we confirm that they pose no danger, we will allow them to pass," Lin Feng said, shrugging.

Another delegate asked, "So when will the inspection be completed?"

"Three centuries later," Lin Feng replied with a smile.

"..."

Upon receiving this reply, the representatives fell silent for a moment. They felt both angry and amused. How thick-skinned must someone be to say it so openly?

"You have no right to interfere with the Trisolaran envoys' freedom of action; this seriously damages the friendship between the two worlds," warned the representative of the Space City Federation.

Lin Feng also put away his joking attitude and answered seriously, "But I have the right to confirm their safety, because these Trisolaran envoys are the ones I brought back from the Trisolaran star system. If anything happens to them, I will be the one to bear the responsibility, do you understand? The disaster of the Doomsday War must not be repeated."

Upon hearing Lin Feng mention it, the expressions of the representatives from all sides softened considerably.

They initially believed the droplets to be a symbol of peace, but they ended up destroying almost all of humanity's space fleets, both military and civilian.

As a result, humanity's space power is now almost crippled, and even normal space trade has become extremely difficult due to the scarcity of transport fleets.

However, Lin Feng's three-century inspection time was still unacceptable to the representatives of all parties. A longer time was fine, but it shouldn't be too outrageous. This was really a monopoly on the right to conduct diplomacy with the Trisolaran world.

The Space Force representative asked, "Mr. Taylor, what kind of inspection would require three hundred years? Could you explain this to everyone here?"

"Of course, I'm checking every single atom in them. You know, a single sophon with the mass of a proton can lock down basic human science. My act of checking atoms is already a very lenient approach," Lin Feng replied matter-of-factly.

Lin Feng's words caused the representatives present to twitch at the corners of their eyes. Examining every single atom on the Trisolaran representatives was no different from counting grains of sand in the Sahara Desert. Let alone three hundred years, even adding another seven hundred years to make a full thousand years, they probably still wouldn't be able to finish counting!

Chapter 254 We Won't Do That

The representatives of the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference fell silent after Lin Feng's remarks.

After a moment of mental blankness, some of them finally came to their senses.

The representative of the Space City Federation said, "Mr. Taylor, while checking security is important, the inspection measures you proposed are far beyond the norm."

The security check method proposed by Lin Feng would take ten centuries to complete, let alone three. Moreover, even if all the atoms could be checked, the representatives did not believe that Lin Feng would let them pass so easily.

For example, during such a long period of time, the free movement of molecules may have resulted in some new atoms being added to the bodies of the Trisolaran messengers. Therefore, the safety of these atoms must be checked before they can be released.

Alternatively, one could simply state that the vacuum quantum sea is constantly changing; the atoms in this second are not the same as the atoms in the previous second, so this security check is indefinite.

In short, there's a lot of room for maneuver here; you can say whatever you want.

The delegates felt that Lin Feng was deliberately trying to prevent them from contacting the Trisolaran envoys.

And sure enough, they were right; that was exactly what Lin Feng was thinking.

Lin Feng glanced indifferently at the representative of the Space City Federation and asked in return, "So, the Space City Federation has already cracked the Three-Body Strong Interaction Material, other technologies of the Water Droplet, and other technologies of the Sophon besides the quantum entanglement real-time transmission information technology?"

The representative of the Space City Federation immediately turned grim, vaguely sensing that Lin Feng was mocking him.

The Earth government representative asked, "What necessary connection is there between what you're saying and what we're discussing?"

Lin Feng replied, "Of course there is a necessary connection. The technology of the Three-Body Problem is too far-fetched and too beyond common sense to us, so it is perfectly reasonable for me to use a security check method that is outside the norm. The fact that the representatives of the Space City Federation insist on using conventional security check methods shows that the technology of the Three-Body Problem is already conventional technology in their eyes."

The other representatives then understood what Lin Feng was trying to say—that the technology of your group is like that of primitive people in the eyes of the Trisolarans, yet you dare to be so reckless as to risk the entire human civilization. I really don’t know if you are stupid or evil, or both.

The representatives of the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference, just like the representatives of the Space City Federation, glared at Lin Feng with grim expressions.

“This is illegal detention,” the Earth government representative replied.

Lin Feng replied indifferently, "I firmly believe in the correctness of my choice, because as the person who brought these Trisolaran envoys back to the solar system, I have an obligation to be responsible for them."

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