People in Terra, governing a weird little country

"Can't I join Kjerag's side?"

Christen was stunned, Ernst was stunned, and even Hinterea was stunned.

Christen was surprised that Levi would make such a reversal. Hinterea was surprised that scientists would rush to do research in the mountains of Kjerag, and Ernst was the most surprised.

He was thinking that Kjerag actually had scientific research!

Surprised, he immediately waved his hand and refused:

"Professor Klitschko, I understand your idea. I have to say that I do have this idea, too. But I also have to point out that this idea is indeed unacceptable. Apart from anything else, if you come to Kjerag, Kjerag's current situation will not be able to provide sufficient material support for your ideas. Without real support, no matter how many fantastic ideas you have, they are just castles in the air. You have read the Russian chapter, and you should know that we can't just rely on our own ideas to conduct scientific research. The results of such research will not meet our expectations."

Levi and Kristen were both stunned, and then asked in unison:

"what?"

"What I mean is that Kjerag cannot build a laboratory for you right now. Many situations on this land... are slightly different from what you imagined. If you come to Kjerag, your talent may be buried. Staying in Columbia may allow you to truly display your talent and even change the world."

Levi smiled and said calmly: "Scientists will not despise their own country."

"But..." Ernst was at a loss for words.

It's not that I have any problem with Levi himself. But as he said, where does Kjerag get the conditions to support the research of a scientist who is fighting for his life in the Rhine?

Moreover, Kjerag did not need a scientist like Levi for a long time, and sending him to Kjerag would easily cause conflicts and incidents.

People have their own thoughts, especially adults like Levi. Their complete values ​​are difficult to change in a short period of time. In Kjerag, his values ​​are bound to clash with those of the locals.

Ernst could certainly step in as a mediator. But what would he do then?

Should we restrict Levi and make him keep silent about everything about Kjerag? Or should we restrict the Kjerag people and make them fully respect and accept Levi's criticism and advice?

As we all know, disputes over interests are often not so likely to lead to extreme results. After all, there are no eternal enemies or friends, only eternal interests.

But it is often concepts, paths, ideas, or, to put it bluntly, ideological disputes that can easily lead to long-term confrontation.

After all, distance creates beauty.

He can have a deep communication with Levi, but he doesn't want Levi to have a deep connection with Kjerag. He also wants to avoid any disputes between the two in the future because of Kjerag's development.

To put it bluntly, in this cannibalistic land of Terra, Ernst treats every stranger with caution, even if this stranger has the bonus of the talent aura of a "fellow villager".

Who knows if this fellow villager will cheat on his fellow villager and make him cry?

On the other hand, the silent Christen had never suffered such a setback.

Although it doesn't sound very nice and even a bit superstitious, Kristen is like a scientific succubus, with a natural attraction to scientists.

Rhine Life is now a gathering of talented people, and most of the department heads chose to join because they were attracted by Christen's personal charm.

Only Levi.

Even though he didn't pay much attention to money, Christen knew that the conditions he offered were definitely not low - Rhine Life opened a separate "Originium Life Science" department for him, and let Levi Klitschko become the tenth department head (at this point in time, Dorothy and the Originium Art Application Department had not yet been established). This was not only a recognition of Levi's research results, but also a symbol that Levi's name would become a celebrity in Tremon, and even the entire Columbia and Terra as Rhine Life gradually grew!

Not to mention the various privileges and benefits that one can enjoy as the director of the Rhine Life Department. With these conditions, isn't it much better than being a slave in Kjerag?

She could not understand Levi's thoughts because she had never thought about or cared about the things that shaped Levi and Ernst's thoughts and views.

After some consideration, she proposed a second plan:

"If Mr. Levi wants to join the research at the Dome Research Station as a representative of Kjerag, we can accept that. But there is one condition."

"Mr. Levi's laboratory must be located at Rhine Life."

This may sound contradictory at first, but Kristen's meaning is actually very simple.

If you don't want to do it, that's fine. Rhine Life is such a big company, it won't kneel down and beg you to join.

What Christen needed was not Levi. What she needed was the by-product of Levi's research, the Originium product (transmitter) that could transmit consciousness.

Since you don't want to stay, your research results must be left behind!

Rhine Life will provide support for your research, but you will not be able to enjoy the benefits that Rhine Life employees can enjoy, and the fame and social status that can be brought about.

"I hope Mr. Levy can think carefully and make a prudent decision."

Christen said, looking at Ernst and Levi, stood up and announced,

"Let's adjourn for now. I think Mr. Ernst and Mr. Levi have a lot to talk about."

Christen was right. Ernst did have a lot to talk to Levi about.

For example, persuade him to accept the first plan, as well as a more ambitious blueprint.

"Comrade, you are narrow-minded, short-sighted, and small-minded! With your talents and ideas, it would be a waste to only do scientific research in this land."

"Don't be angry about this. Please allow me to tell you a story and you will understand my thoughts."

"This story happened in the 20s. It was called the Color Revolution."

Chapter 109: For the country he loves, for Kjerag

Levi finally chose to join Rhine Life.

the reason is simple

——"As the director of the Rhine Life Science Department, I can be considered an authority in the field. Once my research achieves a breakthrough, this authority can be further upgraded and spread to other fields. Just like Oppenheimer."

"I see. If that's what you said, then staying in Columbia is indeed more useful than going to Kjerag."

Levi replied thoughtfully.

What surprised Ernst was that Levy did not show much sadness and loss after listening to the incident that many people now regard as a symbol of the failure of international gy.

Failure is normal. No one is immune to failure. If you keep winning, you will eventually lose everything.

What matters is not how many times you fall, but how many times you stand up again.

This is also why China, which has always been obsessed with gambling on the fate of the country, completely lost the right to become a normal country after just one failure. However, from the Opium War to modern times, China has failed countless times, but it can still rise again and stand firm.

But Levi still has some concerns:

"Comrade Ernst, if, as you said, we don't occupy the propaganda high ground, the enemy will. That's why you have subtly achieved this goal by publishing Ers under limited conditions. But, in order to control larger propaganda channels and make a more powerful voice, do we have to gain a higher social status?"

Levi is a scientist, but he also knows that it is almost impossible to impress the upper-level vested interest groups with an ideal or a concept.Ideological propaganda really targets the people at the bottom of the general public, and the lower they are, the more effective it is.

The reason why his motherland was able to be established in times of crisis was not because he relied on a few mentors to become the Tsar's bodyguards and impress the Tsar, right?

The hole-drilling czar in the physical sense is more like that.

"You're right." Unexpectedly, Ernst nodded very straightforwardly and acknowledged the legitimacy of Levi's doubts. He explained, "But that's because the national conditions are different. In Tsarist Russia at that time, the various social contradictions in the country had accumulated to the extreme, the State Duma's reforms were hesitant, and the defeat on the front line triggered the revolution."

"At that time, everything within the country was in chaos. The army was in chaos, the government was in chaos, and the people's minds were in chaos. There was no absolute authority that could stand up and make a voice around which the people could unite and fight against other ideas and propaganda."

“But look at Columbia today, Tremont today, are there such conditions?”

No matter how hard life is in the frontier, how cruel the inhumane human experiments are, or how embarrassing it is for the infected people who are recognized by the law but denied by society, it cannot be denied that Colombia is thriving today!

It is almost impossible to bring about a revolution at the ideological level in a stable and powerful country.

Unless many potential crises have accumulated within the country, and it has given up the high ground of ideology and public opinion.

That's what I did myself.

Haven’t you seen that even its biggest enemy, the Lighthouse Country, did not expect that the seemingly normal Soviet Union would suddenly collapse, so that the entire domestic thinking has not been able to change until today, maintaining a pure Cold War mentality?

“In this world, there is only one kind of ship that leaks from the top, and the name of this ship is country.”

"Never take it for granted, and don't take it for granted. In the short term, this form of confrontation, such as improving social status and expressing emancipatory ideas, will not have any effect. But as long as you do this in different ways every day for ten or twenty years, its impact will be beyond your imagination."

Even though the Chinese people have now come to their senses and have begun to oppose those public intellectuals who actively brainwash the people or who have become brainwashers after being brainwashed, the effect of this theory has gradually become apparent.

Let’s not talk about China, but in the West, our beautiful country has been using the methods of public intellectuals and white leftists on itself for decades to tame the people, which has led to the extreme division in society today. The chaos caused is obvious to all.

“The weapon of criticism cannot replace criticism by weapons, but no matter how much criticism by weapons there is, we cannot abandon the weapon of criticism.”

Ernst said bluntly.

If we abandon the latter, the doctrine without the support of guns will only be a victim of brutal repression. But if we abandon the former and blindly believe that the power of weapons can replace the education of ideas, the result has been shown in countless bloody examples...

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

"I understand, comrade." Levi said with a sullen face.

I have to say, if I hadn't more or less understood Levi's character after our contact, his somewhat "villain" face with this gloomy expression would really give the impression that there was a conspiracy behind the scenes.

"It is extremely difficult to launch an armed revolution in a country with strong power and stable government. Using ideas as weapons and wielding a big stick in the realm of national spirit is indeed a low-cost and high-return method."

Ernst nodded in satisfaction, and at the same time gave his fellow countryman from a different time and space a piece of good advice he had heard from a media friend in his previous life:

"In the information age, the essence of the war of public opinion is not who can reveal more truth, but whose fake news can spread faster. It doesn't matter whether it's true or not. The key is to have a hot topic, to find out what the masses are concerned about and what they are interested in, and to do it faster on that basis."

This is different from Levi's idea.

But that’s because, in previous eras, the speed of information dissemination and its influence were completely not on the same level as in the Information Age.

In the past, the influence of government statements was far greater than that of a single media outlet, and because of the limited access to information, it was countless times easier for the government to maintain its credibility than in the information age. Therefore, even if the government's conclusion on a matter was wrong, it could still become a fact in the minds of the vast majority of people with its absolute information advantage.

For example, if 1+1=2 is a newly discovered knowledge, before the information age, the government could announce to everyone through the channels it controlled that one plus one equals 0. Even if a newspaper or an individual gave the correct answer, the lie would not be exposed.

Because most people can't buy newspapers, and half of those who can buy newspapers don't read them. Half of those who read newspapers don't care about mathematics at all, and half of those who care about mathematics won't take the trouble to popularize the correct answers to everyone, and they can't do it either.

In the information age, the roles of government and media have been reversed.

The media spreads news unscrupulously, and news can be delivered to even an ordinary farmer through the Internet. When the channels for obtaining news are greatly broadened, rumors such as one plus one equals zero will be self-defeating.

In turn, the government has become the one that needs to dispel rumors. Rumors spread so quickly that it is not uncommon for the government to have to work very hard to dispel them even though they are just one word away from making them.

This is also the result of the changes in the times brought about by the development of productivity, which in turn caused changes in the social environment, causing theories that were once regarded as "truth" to become inapplicable in today's era.

For the first time in his life, Levi experienced what it meant to "listen to one word from you, and it is better than reading for ten years."

Although Ernst was ahead of Levi’s time, perhaps even by far more than a decade.

"Come to think of it, I forgot to ask you, Comrade Ernst."

Before returning to the Rhine Building to inform Christen of his final decision, Levi asked,

"Your thoughts and actions are different from those of my country, and according to you, my country collapsed at the end of the 20th century. So, what country are you from?"

Faced with this question, Ernst was silent for a moment and nodded.

"I am Chinese."

A light of hope shone in Levi's eyes. The middle-aged man who came from another world but was not from the same hometown as Ernst was looking at him expectantly.

He didn't ask the question, but Ernst already knew what he wanted to ask.

He nodded solemnly.

"Thank you, I was right in calling you comrade."

Levi turned around and walked towards the towering Rhine Building without hesitation.

Ernst stood alone at the door, watching him disappear into the elevator, silent for a long time, until Hinterea came to him with a newly printed job notice.

"Boss, take a look. I asked Ms. Yara, the head of the HR department at Rhine Life, if this style is okay?"

Ernst withdrew his gaze and thoughts and lowered his head. Next to him was the face of Xinteleya who was holding a job notice and asking him questions.

He smiled.

Indeed, now was not the time to be sentimental. He also had things to do.

He took every step down to earth, for the country he loved and for Kjerag.

Chapter 110: I didn't lie, I just didn't tell the truth

"Kjerag joins hands with Rhine Life to launch second phase of recruitment!"

"Do you want to be a participant in national policy? Do you want to be a powerful figure in a foreign court and show your talents? Do you want to experience the high benefits and high salaries of civil servants?"

"Welcome to Rhine Life Headquarters, Building B, Room 302. Kjerag welcomes you!"

“(Fresh graduates are preferred).”

Ernst read the entire recruitment notice bit by bit, especially the HR message to be published on the talent market website. Then he looked up and looked at Xinteleya's expectant eyes, and replied reluctantly:

"Better than the first time."

To be honest, this is the truth. Although this job posting is also abstract and cute, it is indeed much more normal than the first job posting that looked like a scam in northern Myanmar.

They explained the situation clearly, announced the job openings, used the Rhine Life platform, pointed out the location, and even designed a paragraph of attractive words to attract applicants. Everything seemed normal, even excellent.