Chapter 170: Human Society Completed (3rd Update)
Cai Lao and the others left, and Jonas Farm returned to peace. Only once in a while, when the pasture is harvested, will it be a little lively.
On weekdays, there are only about 20 people on the farm, most of them are Zhou Nan's assistants, except for two bachelors who live in the guest rooms of Zhou Nan's house, most of them go back to their own homes in the town.
In addition to these two assistants, Zhou Nan's home also has four Chinese students, who are also helping Zhou Nan organize the content of the lecture.
Then there were two horse trainers, both of whom lived in the guest rooms, but they all fired their own fires or bought their own food.
Courtesy is a good quality, but it is very strategic.
For example, if your family eats together, if there is a maid, whether to let the maid eat with you is a very contradictory question.
There is no distinction between hierarchies, and it is true that it can win people's hearts, but it is difficult to control what kind of person the other party is.
Especially when your identity is different, not paying attention to proportion, it will not do you any good.
Doing so will often only make the servants think they shouldn't have and encourage them to think they shouldn't.
Zhou Nan didn't want to draw a cold rank, but he didn't want his private life to be exposed, so he generally didn't need a servant at home.
People like horse trainers are very mobile, and they have too much contact with Zhou Nan's family, and the chance of betrayal will be greater.
As for Chen Hanlin and his students, although they helped Zhou Nan sort out the content of the lecture, Zhou Nan was unwilling to promote their sense of superiority. So they just let them stay in the guest room, but they don't let them eat with their own family.
Even when Zhou Nan was at home, he invited them to a banquet, and often called a large number of people to the banquet at one time.
Falling into politics has a very great impact on one's own academic research, and even a genius such as Newton has no genius breakthrough after entering the government.
If Zhou Nan didn't have the thoughts and experience of later generations, he suspected that he would not be able to create anything now.
Because these cumbersome matters require a lot of energy to deal with, they cannot be carefully studied at all.
Everything in his mind is ready-made, and he doesn't have time to refine it!
Thinking carefully about the events that took place during this time in history, there was nothing to worry about in the period before December.
So Zhou Nan once again announced the retreat.
Audrey went to college, and of course she took Zhou Nan's classes as an elective.
However, Zhou Nan has now taught in the second semester, and the courses of their freshman year have been replaced by two lecturers selected by Zhou Nan to give lectures.
They are teachers who have listened to all of Zhou Nan's courses in the past year, and then after Zhou Nan's assessment, they found that their thinking and understanding are almost the same as their own, so they let the new students to teach.
In addition to their own lectures, every time Zhou Nan came to class, they and a group of teachers also continued to audit, for three consecutive years, Zhou Nan had to teach at least six qualified teachers, and then he could be completely freed.
After three years, he would refine the textbooks he had compiled into a complete political economy lesson plan and publish it.
In the future, he will not need to teach in full, and he will be able to give lectures occasionally.
Every time Zhou Nan lectured, the position in the middle of the front row by the aisle became Audrey's special seat. When Zhou Nan needed an assistant, Audrey always went up to help, which became a good story at school.
Audrey went to college, and she didn't need her family to take a boat to see her off every day. Because the University of Lucerne is right next to the train station, every half hour at the Hilton Hotel, a boat sails between the hotel pier and the railway station pier.
In this way, Zhou Nan and Glevin don't need to send her anymore, and they have more free time.
Zhou Nan exercised every morning, rode horses, did farm work, and met customers. After the lunch break, until dinnertime, I would concentrate on my creation.
At dinner, it is also the time to summarize the day's work, and Zhou Nan needs to make some arrangements for the big things that happen.
After dinner, until midnight, I will continue to concentrate on my work.
Sometimes, when he encountered a creative bottleneck, he would divert his attention and write the script for "Roman Holiday".
The time came to the beginning of November, when the first winter snow fell, Zhou Nan's second masterpiece "Human Society" was finally completed.
This "Human Society" is the same as "Guns, Germs and Steel" as a framework, but in terms of content, there is almost no similarity.
Half of the content of Zhou Nan in the "General History of the World" is borrowed from Lao Si, but this one, at most, thirty percent has some relationship with the original book.
The first reader of Zhou Nan's new book was not Audrey this time, but Wittgenstein, who had been living in his house.
From being invited to his home by Zhou Nan, Wittgenstein, an Austrian, did not feel uncomfortable with Switzerland.
His favorite thing to do every day is to ride a horse and take a leisurely walk by the lake, barely greeting anyone.
It's not because he doesn't like to deal with people, it's because he thinks about things all the time.
He almost never writes during the day, and even at night he rarely writes, and he only thinks about many things in his head.
It was only in the winter, when the outdoors was no longer suitable for exercise, that he would lock himself in his room and start writing.
He has always been the first reader of Zhou Nan's manuscript, and has given Zhou Nan a lot of suggestions and improved a lot of content.
If he hadn't objected, Zhou Nandu would have wanted to list him as the fourth creator.
Zhou Nan's is finally written, and the happiest should belong to Holm in the UK, this book, he has been waiting for almost two years.
So Zhou Nan also sent him a telegram as soon as possible, inviting him to come to Switzerland.
Muller didn't show too much joy, but only congratulated Zhou Nan. He considered himself to be a basic contributor to the material he had contributed and that it was inappropriate to be included as an author as a contributor.
He also refused the royalties that Zhou Nan wanted to give him, and in fact, he didn't care about the money at all.
He is the chief scientist of Basel Pharma and is now the president of South China Medical University, and his laboratory is so large that he manages more than a dozen laboratories in addition to his own.
Especially last month, the Nobel Committee announced this year's winners, and he won this year's Prize in Physiology and Medicine, which took his fame to a new level.
Of course, compared with Zhou Nan, he is still slightly inferior, because Zhou Nan won another award this year, this time not the Literature Award, but the Peace Prize.
In fact, Zhou Nan had a high demand last year, but Zhou Nan had already won the literary prize last year, so the Noble Committee took this issue into account and changed his list to this year.
Zhou Nan's award was given to the European Recovery Plan, which has seen the recovery of the European economy since its implementation this year.
In addition, Europe has not experienced extreme weather this year, and although the supply of agricultural products is still insufficient, it is not far off.
Nanhua also organized a large number of merchant ships to transport rice to Europe, rice is not a staple food that Europeans are used to, but at the very least, people don't have to go hungry.
All this has made Europeans grateful to Zhou Nan, and now the European media, whether it is the Conservative Party or the Radical Party, whether it is the left card or the right card, no one will say bad things about Zhou Nan and jointly maintain Zhou Nan's reputation.
Because as long as anyone dares to speak ill of Zhou Nan, it is to isolate themselves from the people.
Hearing that Zhou Nan's new book was completed, Jonas Farm immediately became lively.
The major publishing houses that we had cooperated with in the past came one after another, and scholars with good relations from various countries also came to have a sneak peek.
But it's not them who are the happiest, it's EMI Records.
Because the book publishing cooperation was negotiated between Etinny and these publishers from the beginning, and now it is just a matter of course.
But EMI Records waited for two years, and they even helped Zhou Nan sort out dozens of world classic tunes, wanting Zhou Nan to adapt them into Xiao songs, but they were all rejected by Zhou Nan on the grounds that writing a book was more important.
Now that the record of thirty-three and one-third rpm has been widely used, Baidai has been looking forward to Zhou Nan being able to write well as soon as possible, and he will be able to make a lot of money again
In two years, the old set of five records sold 15 million copies, which did not break the record in the history of music records, but also ranked in the top three.
The only two albums that surpassed Zhou Nan's record sales were two dance music collections, but they were both albums that incorporated famous works by many musicians, and there was no comparison with Zhou Nan's solo portfolio.
For example, Strauss's Blue Danube and Mozart's Wedding to Figaro are in a set of albums, and these records are used for all balls, so they are not comparable at all.
Among the pure music appreciation works, the sales of Zhou Nan's personal works are already the highest.
EMI made a lot of money, and now because of the upgrading of the record, they have reissued his record in a single record, and it is still selling very well.
Heitinga's three lawyers are all over the world all day long, and in terms of royalties, Zhou Nan also makes a lot of money.
Zhou Nan has long been ready to release a second record, and there may even be more than one, because he is also ready to take out "Liang Zhu".
The complete version of "Liang Zhu" is nearly half an hour, which is almost enough for a record. However, it depends on the outcome of Etinney's talks with the other party, and the record company may also be divided into two releases to maintain Zhou Nan's popularity.
Jonas Farm was lively, and Wittgenstein was a little unaccustomed to it.
He has a good relationship with his sisters and returns to Salzburg for Christmas every winter, so this time he plans to go back early.
Zhou Nan persuaded him: "Wait a few days, Thomas will come back from Nanhua, we are all going to do a full body examination, I hope you will go with me." ”
He shook his head and smiled, "Life is dispensable to me, and I prefer to accept God's judgment." ”
Zhou Nan said sincerely: "Ludwig, just for our friends, okay?" ”
He hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Zhou Nan put his mind at ease, hoping that Mueller's examination could detect his prostate disease, and not wait until two years later, when he found out, it became cancer, and he couldn't cure it even if he wanted to.