EBE Chapter 339 Deceiving History
Chapter 339 Deceiving History
The orders were passed down level by level without much publicity; those who could hold important positions in the local alliance were all shrewd and capable.
Luo Congmin's meaning was crystal clear: corruption has existed in every dynasty, and I can turn a blind eye to it, but if you mess up the things I ask you to do, let's see who dies first.
The current Earth Alliance has been established for several hundred years, which is the limit for a dynasty.
Corruption, embezzlement, forming cliques for personal gain, and abusing power are all signs of a decline from prosperity. They are like the spots that appear on a corpse after death.
It cannot be completely eradicated, nor can its spread be stopped, because the wheels of history keep rolling forward.
Luo Congmin looked out the window, from where he could directly observe the sun and the ring on it.
"I've thought of many solutions, worked hard to govern the country, and eliminated the rebels, but none of them worked."
"In the end, I found a very risky solution in ancient historical books—to live in the face of death."
"Since the change of dynasties cannot be prevented, rather than letting the unknown outcome determine the future of mankind, it is better to cultivate an enemy that can be seen with the naked eye."
Upon hearing this, Radiaz's pupils contracted, and he suddenly looked at Luo Congmin.
"You mean... you didn't prepare any follow-up measures at all?"
Luo Congmin nodded.
"Just like this military exercise, if there is a pre-set script, then it is just everyone playing along."
"What I'm going to do is deceive history."
Radiaz's expression remained unchanged, but he was utterly shocked inside.
"I thought you wanted to use the failure of the Star Ring Group to solidify the Earth Alliance, but you... you really don't know how to prepare anything. What if... what if the Star Ring Group really overthrows the Earth Alliance?"
"So what?"
Luo Congmin looked at Rediaz.
"Even if the Earth Federation is overthrown, isn't that great? A new dynasty can be established. I believe that AAA will be a better president than me."
"Of course, I'm not saying this to ask you to give up and surrender. Many things, from my personal perspective, are bad, but from a human perspective... that may not be the case."
"That Cheng Xin..."
"This has nothing to do with her. Whoever wins, she will be executed."
Upon hearing this, Rediaz breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Xuan once emphasized one thing to him: no matter what Luo Congmin does to the Earth Alliance in the future, he cannot allow Cheng Xin to regain power. Even if the Earth Alliance is handed over to Ai AA, it is better than giving it to Cheng Xin.
Therefore, Rediaz took this matter very seriously. Although he didn't know why Lin Xuan was more wary of Cheng Xin than the Trisolarans, he knew that Lin Xuan must have her reasons for doing so.
"Don't worry, I am the founding emperor of the Earth Alliance, and I can also be the last emperor of the Earth Alliance. If it really comes to that, I can just abdicate and go back to being the Minister of Education." Luo Congmin smiled.
This tradition dates back to the era of the UN General Assembly.
I don’t know if Lin Xuan set a good precedent for everyone, but at the beginning of the two major international eras, due to a lack of talent, most of the officials in core positions were transferred from the old subordinates of the PDC.
Apart from Wang Miao and Ding Yi being promoted directly to the research institute, there were almost no changes.
The same applies to the era of Earth Alliance, so the unspoken rule of the game is that no matter how the dynasty changes, the cultivation of talent is a matter of life and death, and the principle of ensuring that no talent is wasted must be upheld.
So even if A.A. succeeds, there's a high probability that, apart from a change in the presidency, the other positions will remain unchanged.
"Speaking of which, it seems that the most reactionary people in this demonstration were the students."
Rediaz found the incident somewhat amusing.
"I told you long ago, using your Chinese college entrance examination system is a thankless task. It would be much better to go with a dual-track system. Everyone would be happy, and you would also gain a good reputation."
The so-called dual-track system is an examination system that differs from that of China, completely separating vocational education from academic education.
Academic universities teach academic knowledge, and tuition fees are usually high, almost equivalent to a year's income for an average family.
Vocational education, on the other hand, offers more science and engineering majors, with the goal of helping students find employment.
The two serve completely different classes, but when China was founded, there was no class division, only stratum division, which made it impossible for them to use the dual-track teaching system. Instead, they adopted the college entrance examination teaching method.
The downside is that students who score only a few hundred points on the college entrance exam end up in academic universities that should be for the elite, making it impossible for them to find employment after graduation. Although the government is increasing the number of employment-oriented majors offered by academic universities, many people believe that industries and majors are the same due to information asymmetry.
For example, the difference between an education major and a subject-based education major is that one is about educational research and the other is about educational employment. Many people cannot distinguish between the two, which leads them to flock to the former and end up unemployed after graduation.
This is because the initial design of this profession assumes that you come from a middle-class family and that your family can help you find employment.
If it were a dual-track system, there would be no such concern, because ordinary people would clearly understand that this is not the major they should be studying just by looking at the tuition fees of hundreds of thousands of yuan per year.
However, this violates the original ideals of the nation's founding, as it completely exposes the class differences between people.
The same problem is faced by the Earth Federation: they need a group of highly skilled academic talents, but almost none of these talents are able to find employment.
For example, Wang Miao, as the dean of the Institute of Materials Engineering, earns a paltry 4500 yuan a month.
If he were to mentor students, things would be even worse. After graduation, they would only be able to earn less than two thousand yuan a month, which is even less than the female anchor next door who sways her hips.
However, this is truly a last resort. Given the odd population size, a dual-track education system is absolutely unusable. If implemented, it would completely block any possibility of upward social mobility.
If this were a time of absolute peace, the Earth Federation would not hesitate to divide people into classes. After all, which class you belong to does not affect your happiness index. Since ancient times, the Chinese have valued contentment and happiness.
But external factors do not allow it: the Three-Body Crisis, the Dark Forest Theory, the threat of the Carbon-Based Federation, and the six Earths that have existed so far.
This feeling of being universally opposed forced the Earth Alliance to mobilize everyone. They needed to sift through hundreds of thousands, millions, or even ten million samples to find one Wang Miao and one Ding Yi.
But the more than 90 million people who were eliminated had knowledge that was simply insufficient to meet their employment needs.
Therefore, they had no choice but to change tracks and continue competing.
Luo Congmin let out a long sigh.
"Each generation has its own mission, and each social class has its own social responsibilities."
"Just like back then, before the Earth Federation unified the world, I remember we had to learn foreign languages every day. Even after the completion of Project Mewtwo, when humans only needed to implant chips to complete translations, foreign languages were still one of the important subjects."
"Back then, one sentence my teacher said still remains fresh in my memory."
"We learn foreign languages now so that the next generation will not have to learn them."