Chapter 221: Datong Society

Just when Xiao Xuan was a little confident, some members of the Datong Society, who were reserve members, suddenly asked these two very big and somewhat in-depth questions. This made Xiao Xuan suddenly recall the era of recitation during the high school entrance examination. There are many things that need to be memorized to pass in that era xiao xuan has forgotten although he temporarily remembered some because of the controversy on the internet but it seems to xiao xuan again. Some of these reasons do not seem to be very persuasive in the new era, if not outdated. At least as far as you know it.

However, fortunately, the "theory" created by himself was also carefully thought about at the beginning, so he was not troubled by such a relatively large proposition for a while. After a moment of silence, he smiled and said, "Before you ask this question, think about it: What is the essence of the essence of Datong? Tongjingjiao... Oh, those religions of foreign monks, I have talked about them before, what is the difference between them and those religions? ”

"I don't believe in God...

"No, the essence of Datong is science, and I have already talked about what science is: science must have a scientific spirit: it is impossible to force regular and quantitative things to be timed and quantified, which is a manifestation of a lack of scientific spirit. For example, we don't know the timetable for conquering the whole world, conquering the whole of Tessie. None of you can predict what the enemy will do because of our actions. From the perspective of seeking truth from facts, this process may be as short as four or five or three or four years, but it may also take more than ten or even twenty years. The same is true of when mankind realizes the common goodness of the world. For example, if a group of peerless geniuses emerge somewhere in China next year or the year after that, they invent and create a production tool that can use thunder and lightning or boiling water power to make paper and ink, and even rapid printing, so that the speed of education popularization will be greatly improved. A generation later, countless geniuses emerged, and the world soon entered an era where the power of lightning, the power of mineral oil, coal power, or some other fossil fuel was used to do the work automatically. On this basis, more and more people have become inventors and scientists, and scientific and technological progress and productivity progress are changing with each passing day. If we quantify it: if the output of the same labor force and the same price increases by 8 percent every year, then perhaps 80 to 90 years, that is, in just a few generations, we can enter the great contemporaneity of the world. Why? Human selfish desires and desires for prosperity are objective facts, but the hierarchical and limited nature of human desires are also objective facts. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era, everyone wanted to be the emperor, and various conspiracies emerged one after another, but when it came to the Two Song Dynasty and even the Ming Dynasty, many people did not feel that they had to be emperors or a very small number of powerful people to meet their interests. If, in the future, with the progress of people's skills and knowledge, the efficiency of labor production develops at a rate of 8 percent per year, or 10 times more than 10 years per year, the level of material affluence will be 100 times that of contemporary books, and then the per capita annual consumption or economic volume will be roughly converted to the current level of several thousand stone of grain per capita and tens of thousands of stone per household. Although it is not possible for everyone to live the life that only the top powerful and rich can live, through a rational system and ideology, the social contradictions caused by the conflict of interests can be greatly alleviated. After all, the productivity of a few thousand stone per capita grain price has been able to make too large a proportion of people content with their current life and thus agree with the practice of the common good. If we do not even have the technology and level of a few thousand stones per capita and tens of thousands of stones per household, it is impossible to fundamentally eliminate the hidden danger of a very small number of careerists seeking to become superior people. This is an objective estimate based on human nature. ”

Xiao Xuan remembered that not to mention the annual growth rate of labor productivity of 8 percent, that is, the economic growth rate including scale and urbanization exceeding this figure can only be achieved by a medium-term society of urbanization and industrialization with sufficient resource channels and reserve labor. Or maybe it's just a special case that only exists in extreme cases. In less than ten years, one's wealth or income has doubled, and even a craftsman, trader, or even an apprentice blacksmith can do it by some chance. But it is very difficult to achieve such a rapid increase in the productive capacity of wealth in society as a whole, or rather, it is unlikely in the long run, and only a very small chance of occurring. For example, if the labor productivity of the whole society increases by only 1.5 percent per year in the long run, it will take about four to five hundred years to reach that level of development. Of course, this is also a relatively conservative estimate and goal, and I don't want your future career to be so mediocre. However, if you're unlucky, it's not out of the question. Therefore, it is said that the realization of Datong society may require the struggle of several generations, but it may also take more than ten generations or dozens of generations。。。。。。 ”

Seeing that many people seemed to be a little disappointed, Xiao Xuan sneered: "If you are just to let your children, or even yourself, have a good life in your old age, and you don't have the consciousness to sacrifice all your individual interests for the liberation of the world. You can apply to me to withdraw from the company now. Your feats are not small. Let you people live a life in a few hundred years, although there are many technical deficiencies, but through other ways to make up for it, the world's financial resources should be more than enough now, how about it? If anyone is going to seal his wife and is embarrassed to stand up now, then I have no problem saying that I have a chance after class... ”

Hearing this, some people seemed to be ashamed, but some people said with some grievances: "Your Majesty, I... We weren't trying to do anything for ourselves or our descendants, or we wouldn't have come to the camp. I just want to know more about what Datong society is like... ”

Xiao Xuan was silent for a moment, and suddenly remembered that a certain mentor in the nineteenth century refused to make too detailed a definition of the future society. So Xiao Xuan smiled mysteriously: "The details of the future society, each of you can actually have your own supplements, I want to see how your own imagination can be evaluated?" It is also a test of your political understanding ... ”

(End of chapter)