The story of the Trojan Horse Massacre is so famous that whether it is Troy in Chinese or Troy in English or other language pronunciations, as long as this word is spoken, people will basically associate the corresponding event and the extended meaning of this word.

Simon's recently drafted Trojan Plan, as the name suggests, is still about invasion and infiltration.

This was largely inspired by the last time we had dinner together, when James talked about sending Philip Raybould to the U.S. Treasury Department.

Who controls the United States?

This has always been a hot topic.

All sorts of frivolous conspiracy theories aside, the United States is actually controlled by the country's elite.

The elite class in the United States is far from being just the rich as ordinary people are accustomed to knowing, although those who can be classified as elites are not too poor, but to be precise, this class should be the elite group that controls all aspects of the country's politics, economy, military, and culture.

The Westeros system already has a strong influence on the economic and cultural aspects of the United States, and it is relatively weak in terms of political and military influence, and it is precisely these two aspects that have a strong oppressive effect on the areas covered by the Westeros system.

If you want to make up for this shortcoming, you can definitely solve it more than just supporting the election and attracting a group of members of Congress.

Not to mention, James's arrangement of Philip made Simon realize that he had overlooked a very important class of non-campaign officials in the United States, the more typical of which is the US presidential cabinet.

This is not the most important point, because they are directly appointed by the White House or Congress, not contested, and relatively speaking, these positions are easier to obtain, less public opinion, unlimited tenure, and even hereditary.

Of course, there are drawbacks.

If you don't pay attention, you may be replaced by your boss, which is why many people often see news in the media that an official of a certain department in the United States was fired or voluntarily resigned because of such and such an incident.

However, as long as your own strength or backing is strong enough, this disadvantage is not a disadvantage.

It's a big deal to take a break for a while, and start again with another department.

This is the case with many established politicians in the United States.

It just so happens that you can also use your spare time to enter the private sector and cash in on the dividends accumulated over the years of serving the behind-the-scenes funders.

Just like Richard Cheney, who had little experience in corporate management after the elder Bush stepped down, he became the CEO of the energy company Halliburton, which has been in a miasma in recent years, but Cheney comfortably earns tens of millions of dollars a year.

The Westeros system is already trying to take a stake in Gilead, a pharmaceutical start-up, and one of the directors behind it is doing the same.

In the future, as long as it brings enough benefits to the Westeros system, Simon will certainly not be stingy in this regard.

This year happens to be an election year.

Last time, he didn't have the energy or strength to do so, and this time, Simon doesn't plan to let go of the opportunity to get some key positions from the Clinton cabinet. Congress can't let it go, and many sensitive departments in Washington, such as the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), etc., are actually subordinate to Congress.

And the military.

Simon also gradually realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding.

The U.S. military, no matter how ostensibly high-sounding its mission, largely serves U.S. interests.

The most typical are these wars around the turn of the millennium.

Now that the Westeros system is one of the large interest groups in the United States, Simon himself can try to use this force, instead of bothering to build the private forces of the Westeros system, after all, the matter of private forces is somewhat sensitive anyway.

Having done so much, Simon certainly won't give up on certain layouts because of this awakening. However, the power of the Westeros system can also gradually penetrate the US military.

Simon intends to do both, one direction is the civilian military in Washington, which can also be obtained through the White House and congressional spokesmen, and on the other hand, it is directly found in all levels of the American military, through Simon's personal military assistant Celia Miller The key is not difficult to implement.

Simon initially considered whether to train from the bottom, and then gave up, not because he didn't have the time and patience, but mainly, it was not necessary.

Like former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who was a director of Gilead at this time.

Others can do that, and it's even easier for Simon.

The last thing that the Westeros system lacks now is this kind of nominal and paid directorship.

Not to mention a series of directly affiliated enterprises in the Westeros system, with the continuous expansion of Cersei Capital, the three subsidiaries, especially the affiliated companies under the Black Rock Asset Management Company, are countless, not to mention the directors who are just nominal and take money, even if it is the position of the CEO of Halliburton, Simon can afford it.

It is an unspoken rule that everyone understands that high-ranking US officials enter private companies after leaving their posts.

It is very convenient to operate.

Even if someone wants to deal with the Westeros system in the future, they will not easily use these things as an excuse, because this is tantamount to smashing everyone's jobs, and it is not impossible to commit suicide in a car accident every minute, after all, the world is so dangerous.

Further penetration of the two major spheres of American politics and military is the Trojan plan that Simon has recently considered.

Inside an estate in the northern suburbs of Greenwich.

Sophia and Simon were sitting together on the couch in one of the villa's living rooms, the sound of the television was soft, and the woman said as she flipped through Simon's recent scattered notes on the two plans, "The question now is, how to choose the personnel, and how to ensure that these people are loyal to the Westeros system, right?"

Simon put his arm around Sophia's soft waist, nodded, and shook his head slightly: "It's really a bit troublesome to choose people." My goal, though, is not to make sure that these people are absolutely loyal, but to bring them together as much as possible to create a sense of recognition and belonging to the Westeros system. ”

In the original time and space, Bill Clinton unexpectedly defeated the elder Bush in the 90s and was elected president, and operated for more than 20 years, until Hillary Clinton ran for president, the Clinton family was no longer the political upstart of the 90s, and the planned Hillary Clinton cabinet was full before the election began.

In stark contrast, a certain golden retriever real estate developer, because he is a complete political amateur, until the end of his first term, the cabinet is still missing.

This is the most obvious manifestation of the gap in the accumulation of heritage.

Speaking of which, it has been almost a decade since Simon's rise in 1986, but it was the 1992 election that really began to increase the layout of the political field, and he emerged in the 1994 midterm elections.

This Trojan plan can be regarded as infiltrating to a deeper level.

Since it is also a lack of foundation, it is unrealistic to be overly demanding of loyalty, and Simon has never had too high expectations for the so-called loyalty, but he still believes in the position more. It is still inspired by the biochemical mode of a shooting game in memory, once the player turns into a zombie, he will immediately change his position and attack his former teammates, which is actually the most intuitive embodiment of human nature in extreme environments.

What Simon needs, and the people he supports next, can recognize that he belongs to the Westeros system.

Sophia heard Simon say this and asked, "So, what do you need me to do?"

Simon said: "I had the idea last year, and if Iger and I wanted to talk about things, we had to borrow someone else's club field, you know, I'm not used to that. So, the Westeros system should have some top clubs of its own, so that our people can communicate with each other. ”

Sophia nodded and said, "Actually, I thought about this a few years ago, but I just understood that you weren't really interested in socializing, and you didn't take the initiative to join any clubs, so I didn't mention it." Now, in fact, many of our existing resources can be directly used, just like Christie's auction house, every auction is actually equivalent to a club-style activity. Also, the military theme park you built in Ukraine can be used as an event venue, and some people are invited to play there regularly. Also, don't you control a real estate company here in New York? I remember that the company had a lot of entertainment facilities like casinos and golf courses, which were very useful. In fact, the key to setting up a club is to do a good job of checking the members, and many people are particularly concerned about this, they don't want to get along with people who are not at the same level as themselves. In addition, it is to hold regular events, which is what you want to bring people together. ”

Seeing Sophia say so much without thinking, Simon smiled and said, "It seems that you have really thought about it seriously, so I'll leave this matter to you." ”

Sophia agreed, and said: "This matter can't be rushed, what you just meant was not only to set up a club, but also to divide different circles, which requires more cumbersome planning." ”

"Of course there is no hurry, after all, the premise of implementing the Trojan plan is to select people first, the workload is very large, and you don't need to delay your work, just prepare slowly, and you can get it done by the end of this year. ”

"It won't take that long," Sophia added, "and I think we can bring in the existing network resources of the Westeros system in advance, so as long as the plan is decided, it can be started directly." By the way, in that case, you'll need to attend more events next. ”

"I didn't plan to join all those clubs. ”

"Of course not, but you have to let people know who's behind the scenes, and when the club is on the right track, even if you don't show up for a year or two. ”

Simon thought about it for a moment, so he nodded.

The two discussed some more details, Sophia continued to flip through Simon's memo, and soon saw a photo, which was an A4 paper-sized black and white group photo, with the appearance of twenty or thirty people on it, and the woman turned the folder sideways, and recognized the person in the center of the photo at a glance: "This is, Einstein?"

Simon looked at the photo in Sophia's hand together and nodded, "Yes." ”

After speaking, he successively pointed out the names of other people in the photo.

In addition to Einstein, there are also Marie Curie, Schrödinger, Planck, Lorenz, Bohr, etc., and almost all of the big names in the field of physics and chemistry who have changed the recent history of mankind are covered by this photo.

Simon explained in Sophia's slightly wide-eyed eyes: "This is a group photo of the attendees of the Solvay Conference held in Brussels in 1927, which was a discussion summit in the field of physical chemistry sponsored by Ernest Solvay, a European entrepreneur. ”

Sophia only reacted at this time, brushed her fingertips over the photo, and exclaimed: "I can't imagine that these people have ever gotten together, it's unbelievable." ”

Photographs of the 1927 Solvay Conference were widely circulated on the Internet in Simon's previous life, and the gathering of a group of legendary scientists such as Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Schrödinger definitely exceeded any celebrity group photo. However, the photo in front of him was found by Simon with great difficulty, and the Internet at this stage has not yet been enriched to the extent that it will be more than ten years later.

Sophia sighed, continued to turn the page, and saw two beautiful handwritten words: Solvay Plan, and the woman did not rush to read the contents, but aimed at Simon.

Simon stretched out his hand to help the woman turn the page, and took the initiative to explain: "Do you remember that I planned to get involved in a series of cutting-edge science and technology fields last year, such as aerospace and nuclear energy?"

"Remember, that, ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, $5 billion, and the newspaper said that you would sponsor it personally, why didn't it follow?"

"Because of disappointment. ”

"Huh?"

"Actually, I really wanted to sponsor this project, but I was very disappointed when I personally studied the current situation in this field, so I temporarily dismissed these thoughts. Simon said this, seeing that Sophia was still puzzled, and continued: "These fields, whether it is aerospace or nuclear energy, have been controlled by various governments for a long time, and private enterprises are not allowed to enter, but the cost is too high, and everyone can't afford it, and it can only be sustained through government funding." As a result, whether in North America or Europe, due to government control, various bureaucracy, red tape and lack of incentives and other shortcomings have long caused these fields to seriously lose their vitality, and many technologies in the field of aerospace nuclear energy are still at the level of the fifties and sixties of the last century. Just like the ITER project, if I really throw $5 billion into it, and after investigation, I find that it is not worth that much money, and the result may be better than converting it into gold coins to go down the drain. ”

"So," Sophia gestured to the folder in her hand, "Project Solvay?"

Simon nodded: "Yes, I have seen the idea before, that human history is made by ordinary people. Later, it became clear that it was a joke. The so-called history promoted by ordinary people is often just a cycle of standing still. The real history of mankind is actually created by geniuses, just like these people in this photo, as well as many other great scientists of that era, they really made mankind complete a breakthrough that has not been achieved in thousands of years in more than a hundred years, and in one fell swoop from the agricultural age that has been reincarnated for thousands of years into the steam age, the electric age and even the information age. Now, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the most dangerous confrontation of mankind in the electric age has ended, and the world has re-entered a period of peace, and without faith, without confrontation, society will inevitably stagnate, you know, this is actually very dangerous. ”

Sophia listened carefully to Simon's words, and was a little puzzled: "Isn't it good that we enter a time of peace?

Simon did not directly answer Sophia's words, but asked again: "Do you know the Kardashev rank?"

Sophia shook her head honestly: "I don't know. ”

Simon explained: "This is a hypothesis proposed by the former Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev about the level of cosmic civilization, he divided the cosmic civilization into three levels, in simple terms, the first level civilization can use the resources of the entire planet, the second level civilization can use the resources of the star system, and the third level civilization can use the resources of the galaxy level large galaxy. What level of civilization do you think we're in right now?"

"Of course it's a first-class civilization. ”

"You're wrong, according to our ability to use the earth's resources, it's actually only a level 0.7 civilization, and only when we achieve controllable nuclear fusion and have a theoretical endless energy source, can we be considered to reach a level 1 civilization," Simon said, without waiting for Sophia to ask, he said: "Each civilization level has its own survival limitations, and the core is actually resources." It's like the agricultural era that has lasted for thousands of years, because the civilization level has not broken through, they can only continue to reincarnate, or destroy. Now, although we have stepped into the information age, this is really just a continuation of the electric age, and the steam age is the prelude to the electric age. Therefore, the resources available to human beings are not much different from those available to us a hundred years ago. In the past 100 years, two world wars, and even the Cold War that lasted for half a century, Sophie, do you think, fundamentally, why did it happen?"

Sophia understood a little: "Fight for survival resources?"

Simon nodded: "That's right, in the final analysis, it's all just about fighting for survival resources." Because the resources that we can use in the 0.7 civilization are limited, therefore, for more than a hundred years, there are always wars, and there are always uninterrupted economic crises of all sizes, which is essentially that every few years of human development, the resources in our hands are no longer sufficient, and the first is the economic crisis to adjust, forcing human beings to optimize resources. When the optimizations brought about by the economic crisis are no longer effective, war arises, and a most brutal means of direct population reduction and resource consumption is achieved. Therefore, if we stop now, it seems that we have ushered in an era of peace, but in fact it is still within the 0.7 level of reincarnation, because the level of civilization is stagnant, perhaps after the accumulation of several economic crises, we find that the optimization of resources is no longer effective, and the result is still war, this time, because we have mastered nuclear weapons, it will basically only be a nuclear war that leads to the self-destruction of mankind. Don't think that humanity is sane enough to avoid a nuclear war, if humanity had this sanity, there would not have been two world wars, and there would have been no cold war that lasted for half a century. ”

Sophia looked at Simon for a moment, then reached out and touched the man's face: "Simon, you are so pessimistic. ”

Simon pressed the woman's warm palm: "What about you?"

"I'm also pessimistic now. Sophia said, and then asked, "How long do you think we are?"

Simon shrugged: "Who knows, maybe 30 years, maybe 50 years, maybe, even less." ”

Sophia's attention turned back to the document in front of her: "So, the Solvay Project, well, should be to create a group of geniuses similar to Einstein and them, break through technologies such as controlled nuclear fusion, and let mankind enter the era of real level 1.0 civilization?"

"That's right. According to some survey statistics, the proportion of human beings born with high IQ is actually very high, and some statistics believe that the proportion of people born with an IQ of more than 130 genius level exceeds 2%, but most people are unable to fully tap these advantages due to the limitations of their living environment, so these talents are buried in the day after tomorrow. The Solvay Project is to take the initiative to find these gifted children, educate and instill them in a targeted manner, and finally cultivate the geniuses we need to change the world. ”

Sophia worried: "If you do this, it may cause controversy. ”

Manipulating the life of a child, or the life of a group of children to be precise, is simply anti-human in the eyes of many. According to those people's ideas, children should grow up happily and freely according to their own ideas.

When Simon heard this, he raised his hand and said, "Enough money!"

“......”

Sophia rolled her eyes slightly, actually thinking that this was the best solution, and instead asked, "Simon, and then?"

"What?"

"If we manage to reach level 1.0 civilization, then what, do you think everything will change?"

Simon shook his head: "No, maybe it's just another level of reincarnation, but it's definitely better than now." Moreover, I offer only one possibility. As long as we achieve controlled nuclear fusion and have endless energy, we can easily get rid of the shackles of this planet, and when the time comes, we can even choose to immigrate to Mars, as for the people on the ground, it doesn't matter how they want to toss, even if they toss themselves, it has nothing to do with me. ”