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

But this idea is very beneficial in terms of social stability and resolving class conflicts.

The reason why the group alliance did this was to guide everyone's thinking to this level. From the beginning, they never expected to occupy a city by some means, but to use people's self-reflection characteristics to completely reverse the positive and negative relationship between the Star Ring Group and the Earth Alliance in people's minds.

After all, most people still think in black and white. Their lives are hard enough. The economic base determines the superstructure. The heavy pressure of life does not allow them to think more dialectically about things. This group of people are often the easiest to brainwash and exploit.

The most important thing is to attack the enemy with troops and attack the heart.

The technological gap between Dilian and the Group Alliance is minimal, and the fundamental basis that makes its position unbreakable is its own legitimacy.

Once people begin to doubt the legitimacy of the existence of the Local Federation, it will directly lose all its original mass base.

This alone is worth a thousand troops. If the Star Ring Group can show some real strength at this time...

"Mr. President, this is bad. A large fleet has been detected approaching from outside the Oort Nebula."

When Yu Tuan reported the data, Luo Congmin was thinking with his eyes closed, while Diaz next to him was already in a panic.

Under his command, the Seventh and Eighth Fleets began to turn around to meet the sudden mysterious fleet.

Originally, these firepower groups were used to encircle and suppress the Star Ring Group fleet that fled within the solar system, but now they have to switch from defense to offense.

"Too many. The difference in military strength is 32 to 1. How can the Star Ring Group have so many fleets?"

Looking at the densely packed red dots on the star map, no matter how capable Diaz was, he couldn't help but see a drop of sweat on his forehead.

The simulated battle between him and AI Cheng Xing that year used this troop configuration, except that he was the one at No. 32.

Seeing that Luo Congmin was still calm, Yu Tuan wondered what this woman was trying to say. Just as she was about to remind her, Luo Congmin spoke before her.

"How's the corruption case I asked you to investigate last time going?"

Yu Tuan was stunned, not knowing why the other party suddenly brought up this at this time, but he still said it with gritted teeth.

"Mr. President, I'm sorry for my incompetence. I have already informed my subordinates about this matter, but the corruption case of the Land Union is very complicated and the relationships are even more intricate. I'm afraid that what I have found so far is only the tip of the iceberg."

"Oh?"

Luo Congmin immediately became interested and opened his eyes to look at Yu Tuan behind him.

"How much have you checked so far?"

"So far... the total is about 13.724 billion, which involves many high-ranking members of the Earth Federation. We currently only know the approximate number, but we don't have any concrete evidence to make an arrest."

Luo Congmin nodded.

"Where's the list?"

Yu Tuan raised his hand, took a piece of white paper on the table, scanned it with his artificial eye, then printed out a thick list and handed it to Luo Congmin.

"Some of these people have pleaded guilty, but the funds have flowed out and have not yet been recovered. Some of them were completely unaware of this, but their subordinates did it under their name."

Luo Congmin did not accept the list, but asked again.

"How much did you take?"

Yu Tuan was silent for two seconds.

"My subordinates have embezzled about 480 million in total, which is also marked on the list."

After hearing this, Luo Congmin took the list and glanced at it.

"Okay, Yu Tuan, you are just one of my secretaries. You don't even have a position in the local or central league. The amount of money you embezzled is equivalent to the lifetime income of hundreds of families."

"I know my crime, but I really have no other choice..."

Yu Tuan's expression remained unchanged. Luo Congmin could not have been unaware of her corruption. This was already an accepted unspoken rule in official circles.

If Yu Tuan was not greedy, she would have to step down from the position of Secretary General within three days.

Everyone can be an upright person, but the difficult part is to be humble and incorruptible. If you want to be an honest official, you must know how to be more corrupt than corrupt officials.

If Luo Congmin really wanted to blame her for this incident, it only meant that she was no longer comfortable with the position of Secretary-General and was planning to change him, there was no other reason.

"Okay, get up. I don't mean to blame you."

Luo Congmin rubbed his temple.

"I just want to know, if the group alliance collapses this time, can the money swallowed up by Dilian be made up?"

Yu Tuan was stunned and didn't understand what Luo Congmin meant.

"The doves have almost finished their labor reform in the Ring World. I think it's time to replace them. In addition, although the third phase has been completed, the immigration work still requires a lot of money. You see..."

This time, Yu Tuan understood.

Luo Congmin wanted her to spread the news so that those corrupt officials would find a way to settle the bill.

If you haven't cleaned your ass by the time Luo Congmin investigates, don't blame Luo Congmin for being ruthless.

How to settle the account? Of course, destroy the group alliance and then put the blame on them.

Great, this trick is really great.

The Star Ring Group wanted to use public opinion to make the officials of the Local Federation feel insecure and eliminate the legitimacy of the Local Federation. However, Luo Congmin only used one trick to bring all the officials of the Local Federation together.

As long as there is no chaos within the Federation, no external factors can shake the legitimacy of the Federation.

War has always been an extension of politics.

Whether a war is won or not is not the key. There has been no such thing as winning a war since ancient times. The most important thing is whether the political goal is achieved.

Chapter 339 Cheating History

Orders were passed down level by level without much publicity. Those who could hold important positions in the Local Federation were all smart people.

Luo Congmin's meaning was very clear. Corruption has existed in every dynasty. I can turn a blind eye to it, but if you mess up what I asked you to do, let's see who will die first.

The current Land Federation has been established for hundreds of years, which is the limit for a dynasty.

Graft, corruption, factionalism, abuse of power are all manifestations of the decline from prosperity. They are like groupers after a person's death, which will slowly emerge from the corpse.

It cannot be completely eradicated, nor can it be stopped from spreading, because the wheel of history always rolls forward.

Luo Congmin looked out the window, from where he could directly observe the sun and the ring belt on the sun.

"I have thought of many solutions, working hard to govern the country and eradicate the rebels, but nothing works."

"Finally, I found a very risky solution from ancient historical books - living towards death."

"Since the change of dynasties cannot be stopped, it is better to cultivate an enemy that is visible to the naked eye rather than letting an unknown outcome determine the future of mankind."

When Diaz heard this, his pupils shrank and he looked fiercely at Luo Congmin.

"You mean... you didn't prepare any follow-up measures at all?"

Luo Congmin nodded.

"Just like this military exercise, if the script is set in advance, it will just be a show for everyone."

"What I want to do is to cheat history."

Diaz's facial expression remained unchanged, but he was shocked to the extreme.

"I thought you wanted to use the failure of the Star Ring Group to stabilize the Earth Union, but you... you really don't know how to prepare anything. What if... what if the Star Ring Group really overthrows the Earth Union."

"So what?"

Luo Congmin looked at Diaz.

"Even if the Federation of Land is really overthrown, isn't it good? A new dynasty will be re-established. I believe that AA will be a better president than me."

"Of course, I'm not saying this to ask you to give up and surrender. Many things are bad from my personal perspective, but from a human perspective... not necessarily."

"Then Cheng Xin..."

"It's none of her business. Whoever wins will be killed."

Diaz heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this.

Lin Xuan once emphasized one thing to him: no matter what Luo Congmin did with Di Lian in the future, he must not allow Cheng Xin to take power again. Even if he gave Di Lian to Ai AA, it would be better than giving it to Cheng Xin.

Therefore, Diaz was particularly concerned about this matter. Although he didn't know why Lin Xuan was more wary of Cheng Xin than the Trisolarans, Lin Xuan must have his reasons for doing so.

"Don't worry, I am the founding monarch of the Local Federation, and I can also be the last monarch of the Local Federation. If it really comes to that, the worst that can happen is that I will abdicate and go back to being the Minister of Education." Luo Congmin smiled.

This is a tradition that started during the UN General Assembly era.

I don’t know if Lin Xuan has set a good example for everyone, but at the beginning of the two major international eras, due to the lack of talent, most of the officials in core positions were transferred from the old PDC personnel.

Apart from Wang Miao and Ding Yi being promoted directly to the Research Institute, there were almost no changes.

The same was true in the era of the Earth Alliance, so the default rule of the game was that no matter how dynasties changed, talent training would be one less as one was used, and the principle of no waste must be ensured.

Therefore, even if Ai AA really succeeds, there is a high probability that except for changes in the position of President Luo Congmin, other positions will continue as planned.

"Come to think of it, it seems that the students were the most reactionary in this demonstration."

Diaz mentioned this incident and found it a little funny.

"I've said it before, continuing with your Chinese college entrance examination system is a thankless task. It would be much better to go with a dual-track system. Everyone will be happy, and you can also have a good reputation."

The so-called dual-track system is an examination system that is different from that of China. It completely separates vocational education from academic education.

Academic universities teach academic knowledge and the tuition fees are usually high, almost the annual income of an average family.

Vocational education, on the other hand, offers more science and engineering majors, aimed at preparing students for employment.

The two serve completely different classes, but when China was founded, there was no class division, only stratum division, which resulted in them being unable to continue using the dual-track teaching system, and instead adopting the college entrance examination teaching method.

The disadvantage of this is that children who only scored a few hundred points in the college entrance examination go to academic universities that are supposed to be attended by aristocrats, which results in them being completely unable to find jobs after graduation. Although the country is also adding a large number of employment majors to academic universities, due to information asymmetry, many people believe that industry and major are the same.

For example, the difference between the education major and the subject education major is that one belongs to educational research and the other belongs to educational employment. Many people cannot tell the difference between the two, which causes them to rush into the former and become unemployed directly after graduation.

Because this major was designed from the beginning with the assumption that you come from a middle-class family and that your family can help you find employment.

If it is a dual-track system, there is no such worry at all, because ordinary people only need to look at the tuition fee of hundreds of thousands of yuan a year to know that this is not the major they should study.

But this goes against the original concept of the founding of the country and completely exposes the class gap between people.

The same problem is faced by the Geo-Union. They need a group of high-end academic talents, but these talents are almost unemployable after being trained.

For example, Wang Miao, as the dean of the School of Materials Engineering, only earns a pitiful 4500 yuan per month.

If he is asked to teach students, it will be even more troublesome. He can only get less than 2,000 yuan a month salary after graduation, which is even less than that of the female anchor next door who is twisting her hips.

But this is indeed a helpless move. Given the odd population numbers, dual-track teaching is absolutely not feasible. Once implemented, it will completely block any possibility of class crossing.

If this were an era of absolute peace, the Earth Federation would divide people into classes without hesitation. After all, which class you are in does not affect your happiness index in life. China has always emphasized contentment since ancient times.

But external factors do not allow it, the Three-Body Crisis, the Dark Forest Law, the threat of the Carbon-Based Federation, and the six Earths so far.

This feeling of being the enemy of the whole world forced the Earth Union to get everyone involved. They needed to select a Wang Miao and a Ding Yi from 100,000, 1 million, or 10 million samples.

But the knowledge learned by the more than 90 million people who were eliminated is simply not enough to meet their employment needs.

In this case, they have no choice but to change tracks and continue competing.

Luo Congmin sighed.

"Each generation has its own mission, and each class has its own social responsibilities."

"Just like before the Earth Union unified the world, I remember that we had to learn foreign languages ​​every day. Even after the completion of the Mewtwo Project, humans only needed to implant chips to complete translation, but foreign languages ​​were still one of the important subjects."

"At that time, my teacher said something that I still remember vividly."

“We are learning foreign languages ​​now so that the next generation won’t have to learn foreign languages.”

Chapter 340 Cerebellar Atrophy

Back to the topic, the war continues.

Although the sudden ambush of the Star Ring Group caught all the top leaders of the Earth Alliance off guard, as a regular army, the Earth Alliance's fleet is no pushover either.

With the bloody lesson learned that year, Wang Miao did not pay much attention to firepower and ship defense when designing the fleet, but instead maximized maneuverability.

The psychological trauma that the Trisolarans brought to humanity was so profound that the Earth Alliance, which already had a fear of insufficient firepower, also suffered from a fear of insufficient mobility.

For an interstellar battleship, no matter what other features it has, its maneuverability must be maximized. Even if you are driving an aircraft carrier, you must operate it according to the maneuverability of a destroyer.

Yes, especially the issue of array escape, which is of utmost importance. All fleets must add a line to the shipborne orders. Once an uncontrollable situation occurs, don't worry about any orders from superiors. As long as the spacecraft is in the fourth state of forward movement, all fleets must make way for it step by step.

The purpose is to be able to deploy the fleet formation in a short period of time in order to achieve the highest survival rate.

Even many space force members learn the first operating instruction when they board a ship for the first time, which is how to make the ship enter the deep sea state.