Chapter 20 It's Time to Let You Know More
At this time, what Dai Bingcheng was most worried about was that Li Zhen's stubborn temper would recur and said something unknown. He knew Ying Gong's attitude, but that didn't mean that he would like to hear other words say it straightforwardly from others' mouths. This kind of thing is always tacitly understood. No matter who wants to uncover the veil in person, it is not a pleasant thing.
However... Li Zhen was really confused again. After all, the newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger.
He didn't care about Dai Bingcheng's winks and then took a deep breath: "Ying Gong, I don't know if I'm thinking right."
Ying Ziyang said lightly: "You talk."
"Okay." Li Zhen looked like he was going to the battlefield. In fact, he had been holding some words in his heart for a long time. Many young people have the habit of giving advice, and he was no exception in the past. Although the matter of "I don't know who the governor of this province is" is embarrassing, he and his former classmates did not intend to study political systems wholeheartedly - they just had a taste of their mouths.
But the result of private debate between each other now is to be fully entrusted with a banished official... and now he finally feels a little real excitement in his heart.
"I think this is completely impossible. As long as people are still humans, there is no way." Li Zhen said in a deep voice, "Just like all kinds of creatures have natural lifespan restrictions, the same is true for a country composed of people. No matter how perfect a system is at the beginning, once it is operated for a period of time, it will be eroded by people's supreme. Those who obtain power certainly do not want to lose it again - even if there are one or two noble and selfless people, they are also a minority after all. As a whole class, those who hold power are destined to try their best to hold their own power. And they have their own relatives and friends, and they also long for the benefits and benefits brought by power like ordinary people."
"So with the convenience of power, they will use rules and even break the rules to achieve their goals, so that the originally perfect state machine will gradually become diseased and difficult to take steps. Even if we can set other rules to supervise this power, the executors are still human after all, and the supervision power itself is a kind of power and benefits, so in the end they will definitely become birds of a feather."
"So, as long as human beings still exist, as long as those who hold power are still humans, it is inevitable that a country will go from health to decline, and from decline to destruction. This is the case with the previous dynasty, and this dynasty... should be the same. All we can do is to exchange the blood for this system, let it start from scratch again and again, and cycle forever."
It was impossible to tell whether Ying Ziyang was satisfied or not. He looked at Li Zhen carefully and said, "You haven't finished talking yet. Don't have any worries, let's continue. This is not the Governor's Office."
Li Zhen looked at Dai Bingcheng again. Director Dai's face seemed to have improved a little now... I don't know which sentence of his heart was settled.
So he continued, "However, I have read books written by a man before. That man is not a famous scholar, but a booklet I found in a corner of the bookshelf of the school library. The man's pen name is Big Bearded Max, a German. It seems that he was persecuted and exiled to the empire by the German authorities more than a hundred years ago and then wrote it down. The name of the book is Socialism."
Ying Ziyang thought for a while: "Oh? I haven't heard of this book."
"The content of that book is quite interesting. At first I read it as a novel." Li Zhen smiled, "That person made a fictional world in the book. It is said that in that world, crops can grow naturally, and the grain and vegetables harvested every year can be enough for people to eat in the whole world - and harvesting crops does not require humans to do it, but is done by robots. Other work in that world does not require humans to do it, and they are all done by machines. He said that it is a world with extremely developed material things."
"Under this premise, he felt that people could be completely equal. Because manipulation of machines ultimately requires human action, it is the only labor of people in that world. When he said that at that time, because material was greatly satisfied, everyone had no special pursuits, and everyone's morality was extremely noble. Then he felt that the country established on that kind of society should be a brand new form and would never perish."
Ying Ziyang glanced at Dai Bingcheng and smiled: "Oh? There is such a society? It's really like a novel. So do you think he makes sense?"
Li Zhen shook his head: "In his era, people from more than a hundred years ago may seem to make sense. But now we still think it's a bit ridiculous - he still hasn't broken out of the limitations of the times. More than a hundred years ago, it happened to be a war, and the living standards at that time seemed extremely backward today, so I think that person must have lived a bad life. So he regards the great satisfaction of material things as the ultimate goal people pursue. He feels that material things are satisfied, everything is satisfied, and there is no dispute. In fact, this is the same as the peasant woman who thinks that the emperor uses a golden pot to fry fried dough sticks, and he thinks that the emperor must be the happiest person in the world."
"You see, if the level of development in our era suddenly came here, he would definitely feel that today's material life was greatly satisfied. However, the kind of society he imagined has not arrived. So I think even if the world really develops into what he described, the society he imagined will not appear. Because his theory has the biggest loophole - he ignores the human ** itself."
"Maybe all matter can be satisfied at that time, but human beings themselves cannot be eliminated. Some negative emotions, such as jealousy and hatred, are even more impossible to eradicate - once they are eradicated, people will not be human. So there will be crimes, so institutions will be needed to maintain social order and organize social development. So there will be those in power. Perhaps those in power no longer need to make money, but what about other things?" Li Zhen hesitated for a moment, "For example, what about the desire to control? For example, what about the opposite sex?"
Ying Ziyang and Dai Bingcheng smiled.
Li Zhen's face turned slightly red: "These two things must be the targets people have been chasing. And the ambitions, greed, and hatred that are derived from such ** will eventually corrode this perfectly-looking state machine, as I said before."
"So as long as humans are still humans, as long as humans are still restricted by the whole society, prosperity and replacement is an inevitable result. But this is also reasonable - what can be in this world be immortal? Unless..." Speaking of this, Li Zhen was stunned. He looked straight at Ying Ziyang and Dai Bingcheng and murmured, "Unless... everyone's power is incredibly powerful, so powerful that the power of the whole society cannot restrain him, or the price of restraining him exceeds the limit that the whole society can bear."
His voice gradually fell down, thinking.
Ying Ziyang actually waited for him for a while. At this time, Ying Zhaoran also walked out of Ying Jueran's room and asked a young woman to serve hot tea for several people. Ying Ziyang picked up the teacup and took a sip, looked up at Li Zhen from the misty heat: "What did you think of?"
"I thought of... species." Li Zhen raised his head in a daze. "If it is a society composed of species, if they are incredibly powerful, if the struggle between them goes far beyond the bottom line that that society can bear, then will they have to restrain themselves under such threats - if they can't harm each other without any means, then they will inevitably choose to escape from each other and form a loose individual alliance, and will only communicate with each other when needed, avoid excessive contact to stimulate conflicts. Then..."
Ying Ziyang put down the teacup, and the expression on his face finally became solemn: "Then why did they die?"
Li Zhen was shocked and began to regret it at the same time - how did he bring the topic here?
Of course, he was not completely aware of what power destroyed such a powerful group - his previous inference was actually based on his own judgment. If the species were all adults, their abilities would definitely be far beyond human imagination. Such an existence that could not fear high temperatures and coldness, and at the same time, it could use powers that transcend physical laws. If they fought each other, it would definitely be as expensive as he said. No one could destroy anyone, and no one could defeat anyone.
Then, the power to destroy them...
Is it the kind of power that is still mysteriously hidden in oneself? Is it the kind of power that can ignore their spiritual power?
He couldn't help but remember what Ying Jueran said to him just now.
"What the hell are you?"
What exactly is I...
He once told Dai Bingcheng that he could ignore the psychic energy of various species. He then underwent some tests at the North Institute, but he did not draw any clear conclusions. The Ying Gong in front of him must also know about this.
So……
Li Zhen simply raised his head: "I don't know. But as far as I am concerned, I can ignore their psychic energy. As mentioned in the previous information, species may be the ancestors of all living things today, so I think my ability should have also appeared in the community of species. Maybe they died because of this."
Ying Ziyang nodded: "You know yourself very thoroughly. You are right, you do have this ability. So letting you come here today is because we all think it's time to let you know more about things." (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)
Chapter completed!