Chapter 124: Grim

The meeting in Paris, the regular meeting in Bern, plus a trip to Geneva to deal with some of the selection of the Jonas Foundation. By the time Zhou Nan returned home, it was already the end of November, and it had been a week since Audrey arrived home before him.

Although this year's winter in Switzerland is not as cold as last year, there are already several snows at this time, and Jonas Farm is already covered with snow.

Although Zhou Nan has been away from home, there are several more guests at home, and Kelly and Glewin also have a few more free helpers.

Before Zhou Nan and his return from the United States, two horse trainers sent by Marita had already come to the farm, plus Chen Hanlin and the four students who helped Zhou Nan sort out the lesson plan, and there were six people living in the guest room.

In addition to the two single assistants who originally lived, these people now also solve the problem of three meals a day on the farm.

Although Kelly has to cook for a few more people every day, she is happier, and she likes to have a little more excitement at home. Moreover, these students are very diligent, and when they are not in class, they almost take care of the farm work.

Although he returned home, Zhou Nan did not have time to rest, and the key was to make up all the lessons owed before Christmas.

For a week, Zhou Nan had to go to the University of Lucerne every day to give a class, and the people from all walks of life, who had been released by Zhou Nan for a month, filled the auditorium of the University of Lucerne.

Political economy is not a new discipline, but there is no scholar like Zhou Nan who classifies political philosophy, macroeconomics, microeconomics, symmetrical economics, comprehensive arguments, splits, and summaries.

In the eyes of many people, political economy is no different from Western economics, but Zhou Nan made a detailed division and formed political economy into an independent discipline.

Class, abstraction, and one-sidedness are the common characteristics of political economy.

Human economic activities are the unity of production relations and productive forces, and the law of economic development is the result of the comprehensive action of various factors of social production.

Political economy, which only studies the laws of the movement of production relations, cannot study the laws of economy as a whole and grasp the essence of the economy, so political economy is pre-economics.

This discipline only has a theoretical guiding role in the study of economic issues, but it can better link economic activities with political roles, and is an indispensable research object for politicians.

A politician cannot but study economics, but too much involvement in economic research will only make politics a vassal of the economy.

The purpose of political economy is to form an effective combination of politics and economics, so that politicians can understand the economy, but cannot submit to the domination of the economy.

Therefore, the opening of this subject is actually Zhou Nan's selfishness, although he has hundreds of students, although he has been teaching in German, but what he really values is still thirty students from Nanhua.

But in the process, it was not they who benefited the most, but the politicians who came to observe.

Because many of the issues are still complex academic issues in the eyes of their students, but for those politicians, Zhou Nan has cleared the fog between politics and economy, giving them a clearer understanding of their own positioning.

After the content of each class was leaked, it would arouse strong repercussions in the society, and the Lucerne daily newspaper even set up a special column to publish the content of Zhou Nan's lectures every day.

In addition to the daily lectures, Zhou Nan was busy writing new books, declining all entertainment and all conference invitations.

Construction has already begun on the museum, and digging the foundations into the hard rock is a laborious task, most of the time requiring the use of explosives, and the roar of explosives can be heard from outside the farm.

Although Zhou Nan is busy, he has a lot of time for himself, but Audrey works hard.

She was absent from class for a month, and she was about to go to Asia with Zhou Nan, so she has been making up classes every day for a while now.

Mr. Lin is a very good teacher, and after graduating from an American university, she has knowledge that is not comparable to Zhou Nan, a partial student. The high school knowledge that Audrey is learning now is not difficult for her at all, and it is rare that she can still explain it to Audrey in simple terms.

It was also because of her that Audrey, although she had been behind in class for a while, she quickly caught up.

On the afternoon of 9 December, Zhou Nan boarded a plane from Zurich to Stockholm with Etinny and Stolko, accompanied by officials from the Swiss Ministry of Education.

This time Zhou Nan did not ask Audrey to take leave to accompany him to Sweden because he would soon be returning, and the main celebration was also in Switzerland.

Although the Nobel Prize in Literature is a huge honor, Zhou Nan is well aware of the politics involved. If there are no major changes, next year's Peace Prize will probably go to him.

He initiated the European revival project, and now he can be described as the "great benefactor" of the European people in Europe, and every Western European country now regards him as the most important guest.

The Nobel Prize is now just a European award for him, so there is nothing too commendable about this, and it will not let Zhou Nan be carried away by this award.

An hour later, the plane landed at Stockholm Airport in heavy snowfall, and was personally greeted by Gustav VI of Sweden.

This Gustav VI is also sixty-five years old, but because his father is the longest-lived person in the Swedish royal family, he is still a crown prince.

In terms of torture, only Charles in later generations is more persecuted than him. He ascended the throne three years later, and was king for 22 years.

But Charles, at the age of seventy, is still the crown prince......

Sweden in December, because it is on the edge of the Arctic Circle, it is already dark at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. After a while, there will be a brief polar night phenomenon.

However, due to the influence of the warm Atlantic current, the winters here are not particularly cold. The whole of Europe also benefited from this climate, which is why it was able to become the center of modern human civilization in such a northerly location.

Zhou Nan got into the royal family's car to greet him, and arrived at the Stockholm Royal Palace on Queen's Island in the heavy snow, where he was received and warmly received by Gustav V, who was nearly 90 years old.

Sweden, like Switzerland, is a country in the middle of a wreck. They were too close to the Soviet Union, so the threat from the Soviet Union was also very serious.

In World War II, the royal family favored the Nazis and the government favored neutrality. So as a result, their positioning in World War II was very confusing, sometimes following Germany, sometimes following the Soviet Union.

After the end of World War II, they were not subject to much liquidation, but the royal family was stripped of all power.

Moreover, the current Sweden, so to speak, has always been shrouded in the shadow of the USSR.

Although the royal family has been deprived of all power and has only become a symbol, it is still a royal family after all.

The arrival of Zhou Nan was inconvenient to be too warm at the government level, because they were too close to the Soviet Union and did not dare to get close to the West politically, or too close to Zhou Nan.

At this time, it is most appropriate for the royal family to come forward.

If it had been last year, Zhou Nan's relations with the Soviet Union were in a honeymoon period, and the Swedish government would definitely have no taboos.

However, since the beginning of this year, Zhou Nan's European revival plan has been officially implemented, especially after Nanhua boycotted the Red Party throughout the territory, all the Red Party has changed its appearance, and Zhou Nan's relationship with the Soviet Union has become precarious.

Although there is no clear opposition between the two sides now, and Zhou Nan's lectures have always been attended by Soviet officials, the relationship between the two sides has entered an ice age.

At such a time, Sweden did not dare to communicate with Zhou Nan at will.

At the palace, Zhou Nan was warmly welcomed by the royal family. Because Sweden has the largest iron ore mine in Northern Europe and has become a window for the Soviet Union to import technology and resources from Europe, Sweden's economy is currently in good shape, and the royal family's treatment is better than that of the British royal family.

The dinner was very rich, and Zhou Nan's meeting with the royal family was also very happy and relaxed.

They are both fluent in German and have a very close relationship with Germany. Zhou's German background also gave them some intimacy, so there was no hindrance to communication.

Gustav V was an old man with a strange physique, his body was thin like a bolt of lightning, and he could be said to be the thinnest person Zhou Nan had ever seen.

But he is in good health, he is almost ninety years old, but he still thinks clearly, eloquently, can pick up any topic, and can make accurate judgments.

He was still haunted by the defeat of the Nazis, but now they had no power, and even sympathy for the present Germany could not do anything.

Although Sweden is now a neutral country, its neutrality is completely different from that of Switzerland, and its policy tendencies are almost controlled by the Soviet Union.

The conversation continued until ten o'clock in the evening, when Gustav V was about to rest, and Zhou Nan returned to the room they had prepared for himself.

This is a small island in the heart of Stockholm, with a view of the city of Stockholm on the north shore. On this snowy night, there are warm yellow lights everywhere.

Etinny and the others walked in, followed by Popler. "Jonas, tomorrow's trip is secure, we need to make sure now."

Zhou Nan shook his head and said: "The Soviet Union will not do anything to me, and when my political economy is not finished, my role in the Soviet Union is still there." ”

Stolko said with a smile: "Strongmen are not so stingy, and besides, our existence does not affect their confrontation with the United States." I'm not worried about the Soviet Union, but I'm worried that others will fish in troubled waters and use you to detonate a series of political pressures. ”

Zhou Nan stopped talking, yes, the curtain of the Cold War has been opened, and the food shortage in winter has made the already grim situation even more tense.

In half a year, the first Berlin crisis will break out......

What benefits can Switzerland and South China gain from this crisis?

(Recommend the new book of "Poetry and Knife" history, a teenager crossed over, fell into the house of the immortal old man, the sage taught in his heart, and the long knife was left in his hand.)

Different history, different splendor, worth looking forward to. )