Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

But political games have never been like this. Conservative officials as a whole have been unwilling to see the world around them from the beginning. They feel unknown about what will happen in the future, and the unknown represents fear and risk.

This would pose a serious challenge to their previously solid position.

While closing her eyes, Cheng Xin heard footsteps approaching her. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Chieko, dressed in casual clothes, slowly walking towards her.

Beside Chieko, two guards from the Earth Federation were guarding her on both sides. As the interlocutor between the two civilizations, she couldn't let anything happen here, as it would affect the other party's reputation.

"Humanity's wars began in ancient times and lasted for thousands of years. They fought, schemed, and killed each other for their own gain. But before the Three-Body Crisis came, humanity fell into a brief period of peace."

Chieko still had that gentle smile on her face. Even though the Three-Body Civilization had been wiped out from the universe, it didn't seem to affect her at all.

“This period of time is the hundred years when nuclear weapons were invented.”

"From the moment humans mastered nuclear weapons, the war fell into a strange state of stagnation, and the originally turbulent situation also ushered in a brief peace."

"Most people think that leaders of various countries are afraid of the power of nuclear weapons and dare not start a war easily, but this is not the case at all."

"The emergence of nuclear weapons has completely changed the basic rules of the game of war. This is why the chaebols and those in power are really afraid."

"In the past, wars were fought by a farmer's son who traveled thousands of miles to kill another farmer's son. Regardless of whether a country existed or not, the rulers still held power. What did the rise and fall of a country have to do with them? They just changed countries and continued to hold power."

“So the poor people at that time loved to talk about state affairs the most, because they had nothing but the small piece of land under their feet. If the country was destroyed, they would not be able to survive like those capitalist oligarchs.”

"But the emergence of nuclear weapons has changed the rules of the game. War is an extension of politics. What everyone is fighting for is nothing more than fighting for more survival resources. Nuclear war will make the already scarce resources even less, making the war lose its original meaning."

"So, the nature of the Ring World is similar to nuclear weapons. In the eyes of conservatives, the war between humans and the Trisolarans was just an exchange of interests from the beginning. Even after so many years, they still don't really see this war as a war that will lead to the destruction of the nation and the race. If it weren't for the fact that there are geniuses like Thomas Wade, Lin Xuan, Ding Yi, Wang Miao, Luo Ji, and Luo Congmin among humans, the Trisolarans would not have lost this war at all."

"You are too naive, Cheng Xin."

Chapter 254: This overwhelming wealth finally fell into the hands of the Propaganda Department!

Cheng Xin didn't say anything. At this point, she already knew that her mistake was probably irreversible.

After a long silence, she spoke again.

"I just don't understand one thing. What agreement did you reach with Lin Xuan before?"

Tomoko was silent at first, then she shook her head.

"It's nothing, it just asked me to take the initiative to cut off the connection with the Three-Body Civilization."

Cheng Xin was stunned when she heard this.

"So... you are now actually relying on your own consciousness to carry out activities?"

This still shocked him a little. As an artificial intelligence developed by the Three-Body World, Sophon must have a certain degree of autonomous consciousness. However, most of the time, she was controlled by the background. Now that the connection with her own civilization was cut off, half of her own functions were actually useless.

At that moment, Cheng Xin suddenly smiled.

She suddenly understood why the Trisolarans chose to bypass the Earth Union and reach an agreement directly with Lin Xuan.

The deterrence was long gone, but Lin Xuan still made them feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Looking back at myself, my previous idea of ​​wanting two civilizations to coexist peacefully was so ridiculous.

Suddenly, she seemed to remember something and looked at Tomoko again.

"Yun Tianming, is he doing well now?"

Hearing this, Tomoko nodded slightly at her.

"I'm glad you still remember him. I thought you had forgotten him long ago."

"How could I forget? I was the one who let her down during the Staircase Project."

Proposing the ladder plan is Cheng Xin's greatest achievement in her life, but it is also the life choice she regrets the most.

When others become successful, they may joke and say things like, "I'm not interested in money," and regret that they were able to achieve such success in the past. But when Cheng Xin said this, it was absolutely from the heart.

Yun Tianming was a direct victim of the Ladder Project. If there had been no Ladder Project, he would have been able to live out the rest of his life in peace in the Crisis Era.

With the development of the times, the number of suicides has been rising steadily since the beginning of the two major international eras.

At first, everyone was surprised by this phenomenon, but in the long run, the promotion of euthanasia will undoubtedly provide relief to those at the bottom of society who have nowhere else to go.

Suicide booths can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys. For a period of time, Taylor personally endorsed this thing.

The slogan is: Return yourself to God, and you will have no regrets in the world.

Therefore, Cheng Xin never felt that she had saved Yun Tianming. On the contrary, perhaps being able to allow him to complete the entire euthanasia process smoothly was actually a good thing for him.

"He is living a good life now, and has achieved the same social status as you over there."

Chieko hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not tell Cheng Xin that Yun Tianming had become the Archon of the Fairy Tale.

This matter is too confidential. Yun Tianming doesn't say it himself, and they are unwilling to reveal it.

Hearing the other party say this, Cheng Xin breathed a sigh of relief and her brows relaxed a little.

"That's good too. Thomas Wade was right when he said that he is not suitable for human society. If he can make a difference in another civilization, it can be considered as realizing the value of his life."

But today, I don’t know if Chieko did it on purpose to anger Cheng Xin. When she heard Cheng Xin’s words, she immediately spoke again and interrupted her fantasy.

"But that's just what you think, right?"

"Ms. Cheng Xin, we cannot judge past choices based on current results. Before arriving at the Trisolaran civilization, you and Yun Tianming did not know what they would face. So, in fact, he alone was responsible for the unknown outcome. I cannot agree with your spirit of self-consolation."

Shock value from Cheng Xin +99!

Cheng Xin was so annoyed. No, I was just expressing my feelings casually. Do you have to be so rude to me?

……

After Luo Congmin regained control of the Local Federation, he finally got this huge political machine running again.

It's not that she is so capable, but the previous local federation was a mixed bag, with no unified voice at all. There were three parties in one government, and no matter whether it was government orders or anything else, they could not be implemented at the local level.

Not to mention the people below who were having a headache, even the people in the Local Union themselves felt a bit of a headache.

Everyone began to miss the days when Luo Congmin was around. At least there was always someone who could stand up and make the final decision for any decision.

If there are unexpected policies, there are people to take charge, and everyone does not have to worry about being held responsible for any constructive suggestions.

So now that Luo Congmin has returned to take charge of the Local Federation, everyone is very happy.

As for whether they were afraid of Lin Xuan, everyone knew it. How could they easily admit such a thing? They had no emotional intelligence at all. This was called considering the overall situation and giving up the power in their hands. They were doing this for the benefit of all mankind.

The reconstruction plan of Ring World was finalized the day after Luo Congmin took office.

The specific details of the meeting also went quite smoothly.

"Madam President, I think the position of chief designer for the Ringworld reconstruction project should be given to Mr. Kant. He has made great achievements in this area."

Wei Shiqing from the Dilian Engineering Department stood up and suggested.

As a result, before Luo Congmin could speak, Lin Xuan on the side rejected it first.

"Who is this, Kant? He was born in the 13th year of the Deterrence Era. He is less than a hundred years old. What achievements can he make? Wang Miao seems to be still alive. If he is not dead, let him continue to take over the Ring World project. Don't stay at home playing games with Bai Bing and those two idiots every day. Tell Bai Bing that he'd better show me some results this year, otherwise I will expose all the facts about him starting a job to develop game plug-ins."

Hearing Lin Xuan's words, everyone present couldn't help but twitch their lips.

"Listen to what you are saying, is this human language? What do you mean by less than a hundred years old? Among those present, apart from you and Luo Congmin, there are only a few people who have lived to be over a hundred years old. If you don't want to use other people, why don't you just decide on them from the beginning? Why do you have to let us nominate them?"

"Why, do you really like the veto power of the five permanent members of the UN General Assembly?"

Even Luo Congmin couldn't help but look at Lin Xuan with a reproachful look. He had become more and more domineering since he came back. As an observer before, he didn't dare to directly manage the affairs of the earth. But now, he came directly to the Earth Federation to rule the country from behind the scenes, acting like a real emperor.

"Then...how do we solve the workers' problem?"

Someone else stood up and raised questions at this time.

Before the construction of the Ringworld, Thomas Wade had to forcibly recruit civilians and clones from all over the world.

We can't let it happen again now. If we do, there's no need to wait for the Dark Forest's attack to arrive. The infighting among humans themselves is enough to bring disaster to the entire Earth Alliance.

"As for the workers' problem, let's just go with the conscription system. I don't have any good solution at the moment."

Luo Congmin gets a headache whenever he mentions this matter, because clones still have some defects compared to ordinary humans, and they cannot use some machines for the time being.

Before the supporting tools for cloning humans are developed, ordinary people can only be recruited to operate these instruments to do the work.

But in this case, fiscal expenditure will become very tight, and the economic system that the local government has managed to stabilize with great difficulty will fall into collapse again.

"I'll think of a solution. We can only tighten our belts during this period."

Luo Congmin finally understood what it meant that a good cook cannot cook without rice. But just when she was still thinking about how to make money, Lin Xuan spoke again.

"Why should the local union pay for workers? Aren't there ready-made ones outside the door?"

When these words were spoken, all the local federation members in the meeting hall were stunned.

Luo Congmin was the first to think of something and looked at Lin Xuan with horror.

"Tell Cheng Xin and the others that since the doves have realized their mistakes, we will send them to the sun to repair the ring world as a form of labor reform. When the repairs are completed, they can come down again."

"Let Rey Diaz arrest anyone who has anything to do with the Doves and who supported the Black Domain Project. I just want people. Send them all to the Sun for forced labor."

As soon as these words were spoken, many people in the venue could no longer hold back.

"Mr. Lin Xuan, this... this is absolutely not allowed. No matter what, even if the doves did something wrong, they are still high-ranking officials of the Earth Federation. How can they go to the Ring World to do manual labor?"

Song Chen from the Ministry of Culture and Education was the first to stand up and oppose. In fact, he could be considered a half-dove, but the Ministry of Culture and Education had always been controlled by Luo Congmin, so his identity made it inconvenient for him to openly join the dove faction at that time.

Lin Xuan couldn't help but frown slightly when she heard that.

"You mean, the officials of the local federation are superior to others, and they can't do the physical work that ordinary people can do? Then what's the use of these good-for-nothings who can only eat, drink, defecate and urinate? Just kill them all, don't leave any of them alive!"

Hearing this, Song Chen panicked and hurriedly explained.

"Mr. Lin Xuan, that's not what I meant. You may not know that the genes of those who want to work in the Earth Union have been highly edited. It's not that they are superior to others, but they are better at mental labor rather than physical labor. It would be a waste of talent to ask them to do rough labor!"

After hearing what the other party said, Lin Xuan couldn't help but look at Luo Congmin beside her. After getting the latter's affirmative nod, she was speechless.

Principal Liu Chang’s words suddenly rang in his ears.

"Lin Xuan, you are destroying me. Gene editing technology, damn, I dare not even think about it. This is not only an ethical issue. Once this technology is successfully developed, you and I will become inferior people!"

Gene editing technology is a technology that will truly divide people into different levels in a biological sense.

In the past, if you said that people were divided into high and low classes, people would just laugh at you for being narrow-minded, but now the divisions of people into high and low classes are actually written into textbooks.

Those with a higher degree of gene editing are good at mental work, while those with a lower degree of editing can only do physical labor.

However, these technologies are naturally firmly controlled by the rich, so the children of the rich will generally become smarter and smarter. For the children of ordinary people, it is still very difficult to narrow the gap unless their acquired efforts can far exceed their genetic deficiencies.

However, this is not absolute. Even after hundreds of years, the fairness of the college entrance examination remains unquestionable.

Although it is impossible to achieve complete equality for all, it will at least give those with poorer genes at the bottom some opportunities to climb up and cross classes, so that the class structure will not be completely solidified.

Luo Congmin personally supervises the college entrance examination every year. Even during the years when she served as president, she never relaxed the management of the college entrance examination.

Therefore, for everyone, asking the senior officials of the Local Federation to do physical labor is completely unacceptable to them. Even as a punishment, it is too severe.

Lin Xuan looked at everyone's reaction and immediately laughed.

"Okay, in that case, then tell the families of these executives that if they don't want to work, they can come to me and pay to redeem them!"

"The ransom for a second-level official is 200 million, and the minister's starting price is 1000 million. I've heard that corruption is rampant among officials in the local federation. Could it be that your family can't even come up with this little money?"

"If you pay, I'll let you go immediately. If you don't pay, I'll let Rey Diaz broadcast his work live to the entire solar system."

"Don't you care about your reputation? Don't you think that superior people can't do manual labor? Then I will fulfill your wish, but I have only one request, which is money. If you have money, everything will be fine. If you don't have money, then you have to embarrass him to death."

When all the local officials heard Lin Xuan's words, they couldn't help but twitch their lips.

My goodness, how can this be called an observer? Isn't this just a bandit?

Even bandits don't do this. Kidnapping, extortion, and the starting demand is one million. They are planning to empty the assets of these high-ranking officials of the local federation.

"Where are the people from the Propaganda Department?"

"exist!"

Several people immediately stepped out from the queue of the cultural and educational departments. They were all heads of the Propaganda Department of the Local Federation.

"Every week, you will be responsible for the live broadcast work of this group of people. Who has not paid and how much is still owed, keep a clear account of it. If there is any shortfall, I will cause trouble for your publicity department!"

"As ordered!"

The director of the Propaganda Department had no choice but to agree. Since the Local Federation had always had a bad reputation and people nowadays were too liberal in their thinking and not easily brainwashed, the Propaganda Department had always seemed to be of little use in the Local Federation.

The director of the Propaganda Department used to pray every day hoping that one day he would be able to make use of his talents.

Well, this overwhelming wealth has finally come to them.

The meeting was over. Although Lin Xuan's approach was somewhat outrageous, it was extremely useful. The reconstruction of the ring world that had troubled Luo Congmin for a long time was solved so easily by Lin Xuan.