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Lin Youde was very puzzled, and said in his heart, "What's the matter, is this the rhythm of wanting me to soak your daughter?"

Just as he was thinking this, Frederick IX spoke: "Mr. Lin, I have always wanted to ask you a question in person. ”

"Please." Lin Youde raised his hand and made a gesture of please.

"I'm a seafarer, and I'm free by nature, and a lot of times without purpose." Frederick IX began his opening sentence with a seemingly stylish passage: "Therefore, I am always curious about the purpose of people's actions. So I want to know, what is the purpose of you doing all this qiē in Europe, reorganizing the German economy, revitalizing Germany's military power, snatching precious mineral deposits all over the world, and inciting society everywhere? Don't accuse me for the sake of the welfare of all mankind, I won't believe it, because I'm a selfish person, and everyone who loves freedom is really selfish. ”

Lin Youde smiled.

"That doesn't seem like a big deal, doesn't it?"

"Yes, no matter what you say, what we are doing will not change in the slightest, these are my daughter's decisions, and I don't plan to change them." Frederick IX shrugged his shoulders, and to be honest, Lin Youde felt that his style at this time looked a bit different from his retro-style European court dress.

Lin Youde pursed his lips, and then made a gesture of invitation to the surrounding scenery.

"Look around here," he said, "that's what I'm here for." Of course, I could tell you a lot about ideals, about the good things about the world, but obviously that's not what you want to hear. Then let me tell you what I wish at the level of my personal desires, this splendid palace, beautiful women, endless wine and endless sumptuous dishes, this is one of the purposes for which I have been striving since 1930, and one of the important ones. ”

Lin Youde paused.

"I think you may not have carefully studied my panhumanism, so you may think that I and my followers are ascetics like the ascetics of the Crusader era, and that we preach the noble way of burning ourselves to illuminate others. On the contrary, panhumanism encourages the pursuit of self-realization, both spiritual and material, and emphasizes that each person should be rewarded for his or her contribution to society. And the reason why it is so incendiary is that it tells people that the good life they should have had has been taken away by those in the upper echelons of society who rely on the majesty of God. ”

Lin Youde said and began to hum softly a part of the Internationale he had composed by himself.

After singing, Lin Youde asked Frederick IX: "Haven't you thought that when those who sing this song become the masters of the world, they will get anything?" More bread, better clothes, bigger houses, nothing more. ”

Frederick IX nodded his head repeatedly, looking very satisfied with Lin Youde's answer, but then he asked: "But you are now the person who has the most wealth and resources in the whole German society, and you enjoy ......"

Frederick IX gestured around.

"Enjoy the splendid palace, the beautiful women, the endless wine and the delicious food. Didn't you think that one day those who believe in pan-humanists would rise up and take what you have? ”

"His Royal Highness Frederick IX," Lin Youde replied with a smile, "We have an old Chinese saying that 'Chen Li is listed as the one who can't stop', which means that one should hold a position according to one's ability, and those who do not have enough ability cannot occupy a position that does not match his ability." In fact, this sentence can be generalized. The distribution of social wealth should be carried out according to the ability of the individual, and once the society is in an ideal state where the wealth and social resources obtained by all people are in line with their abilities, the society will be stable. ”

Lin Youde spread his hands: "The reason is very simple, in this ideal social state, no matter how dissatisfied the person who takes less, he can't make big waves, because his ability is also matched with his meager income." You might say what would happen if there were more of them? My answer is that, in the ideal state I have set, no matter how many disgruntled people there are, because none of them have the talent to be commanders, so that they can only gather a rabble. ”

Lin Youde's words made Frederick IX let out a contemptuous laugh, although at this time Lin Youde had the strength to easily crush Denmark, a country with a standing army of only 15,000 men and completely unsafe, but the former king still did not mind showing his thoughts, and people had to admire his courage.

Lin Youde is not angry, after all, he was born in the debate team before the crossing, and he knows that he is the most taboo when debating, if it is just because the head guides the quick thinking, but once the control is not good, it will lead to the negative impression of the judges.

What's more, at this time, Lin Youde was fully confident, believing that he could theoretically defeat the sailor in front of him - to be precise, the former king's royal highness who claimed to be a sailor.

"Courage, for example, can be seen as part of one's own talent, and you have no objection to that, Mariden." Lin Youde deliberately emphasized Frederick IX's self-proclaimed identity - it was impossible for a sailor not to recognize courage as a talent, so Frederick IX nodded, and Lin Youde continued, "Suppose there is a society that relies only on individual courage to determine the wealth and social resources that people acquire. So what happens to the people at the bottom of society, who are the least courageous, who are dissatisfied with their income? Will they rise up and resist? No, they won't, because they don't have the guts at all, and none of them will come forward.

"And those who have a little courage have more resources than these people, so he puts more weight on the side of 'maintaining the status quo' when faced with a choice than those who have no courage at all, and this weight may even exceed his boldness, forcing him to settle for the status quo. And the bolder the people, the more they gain in this society, and the more difficult it is for them to give up the present. So the social pyramid is stable. ”

Lin Youde stared at Frederick IX, and this time the sailor king listened carefully to Lin Youde's words.

So Lin Youde continued: "Of course, this model is very idealistic and completely impossible to realize in real society. ”

"And you're going to spend so much time talking to me about this?" Frederick IX interjected with a helpless expression at this time, "What is the value of paying attention to something that is completely impossible?" ”

"Of course, with our current state of technology, there is no way to observe an object that is completely unaffected by external forces, but the ideal model proposed by Galileo is still valuable. These idealized models can help us figure out how society works. In the real world, many talented people will secretly invest in the pearl, and their talents may not be used for a lifetime, while some people are overestimated and then put in a high position that they should not have reached, these situations are very common in reality. However, if you look at it from the perspective of the overall situation, you will find that when a society is in a stable period, most people must be in the right position, and in a **** society, there must be many talented people who do not get the positions they want, so they will obtain these positions in a more intense way.

Of course, sometimes some unexpected events will also make some people who have already obtained a certain amount of social wealth driven by ambition to strive for greater wealth and power, because those unexpected events make them less risky, which makes them more inclined to take risks when making decisions. For example, when Sweden became independent from Denmark, your goddess was already very old and weak, and you executed 80 Swedish nobles to arouse the sense of nationality among the Swedes. So the great aristocrat Gustav, who already had a lot of wealth and power? Vasa rose up and occupied Stockholm and became the first king of the Kingdom of Sweden. ”

Perhaps because he poked the sore spot in Denmark, Frederick IX's expression changed more obviously, but he was obviously in high spirits of debate, so he asked Lin Youde in a loud voice: "Do you plan to sue me that all dynastic changes and social changes in human history have happened like this?" ”

"No, that only explains the turmoil that is not happening in times of social transition." Lin Youde completely ignored Frederick's expression and continued, "When society enters a period of transition, another major factor, the productive forces, will join the ranks of promoting social change and become the main driving force. You must know that the reason why human society develops is because human beings are always trying to improve production efficiency. In the era of slavery, because of the lack of agricultural tools and agricultural knowledge, only large-scale and intensive use of labor in the field could obtain a relatively rich income, and slavery was the most efficient form of production in the era of slavery. But when iron farming tools became popular, the area of fields that one person could take care of greatly increased, and the feudal era came.

"All the reforms in human society are actually just to meet the needs of the productive forces at that time. And when the social change led by the productive forces is approaching, if the society is in a relatively stable environment, then the change will take place in a relatively moderate way. At such times, the people at the top are often capable and far-sighted people, who will foresee the coming of the reform, and take the initiative to use the social resources at their disposal to carry out the reform from the top down, and crush the anti-reform forces with absolute superiority. ”

If it was in his original time and space, he would definitely talk about the changes in various countries in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period. At that time, the fierce wars of annexation of the princes left the top of the countries with more capable people, and the countries governed by incompetent people either became small vassal states of no importance or were simply eliminated. Therefore, the transition from slavery to feudalism in Chinese society was relatively mild - although there were constant wars throughout China at that time, if we only look at the internal affairs of the vassal states, we will find that the reforms were carried out relatively smoothly, far less "passionately" than when the feudal system was transformed into capitalism.

The slave-owning class that had been replaced at that time did also rebel, and in the Qin state they even killed Shang Ying, a representative of the reform, but in general, the splash they made was nothing compared to the various turmoil that led to the later transformation of feudalism into capitalism.

However, this is not the case at all in the Warring States Period of this time and space, and Lin Youde can't use it as an argument, but fortunately he has an example that is more familiar to Europeans.

"For example, when society began to change from feudalism to capitalism," Lin Youde said the word capitalism, which felt very peculiar, because capitalism was his "original" word in this time and space, "England was under the leadership of the wise Queen Mary I, so the War of the Roses ended in a relatively peaceful way, and the Glorious Revolution after that basically did not have any bloodshed." ”

This period of history that Lin Youde said is the most different place between the history of Britain in this time and space and the previous time and space.

Under the power of Mary I, the reforms were introduced, and English society gradually changed to adapt to mechanized production, although Mary I's reforms left many drawbacks, but after all, capitalism gained the soil to grow. Correspondingly, across the sea in France, the king was obsessed with handmade zuò, and as the first goddess of the queen, Josephine? Johanna? The Habsburgs simply did not have enough knowledge to foresee the need for reform. All in all, most of the French top leaders at that time were pigs. ”

Lin Youde's words caused Frederick IX to burst into hearty laughter.

But Lin Youde did not stop, and continued: "So there was a great revolution in France, partly because the people were fed up with being led by fools, and on the other hand, because the prescient people saw the future. Although they did not clearly see what the future would look like, nor did they grasp the systematic sociological theories that I am using now, they instinctively realized that change was coming, and that they were standing on the cusp of history, and that the productive forces themselves would become the backing of their history. They knew this, so they stood up and led the revolution in France. ”

Frederick IX began to applaud the moment Lin Youde's words fell: "Wonderful theory, you have convinced me, I now begin to believe that the society you established can be stable for a long time, before I was always worried that after you instilled the spirit of resistance into the general public, the society will fall into a relatively long **** era......"

"You have not grasped the essence of what is happening in Europe right now." Lin Youde interrupted the sailor, "You are just a sailor, you only have the insight of sailor Cheng Dù." Let me tell you what's wrong with Europe now, listen, what I'm doing is nothing more than what the French Revolution didn't finish more than a hundred years ago, look at France under the Tricolor! They claim to be republics, but in reality they are just aristocratic representative states in disguise, and if you look at the other kingdoms in Europe, each of them has remnants of feudalism. Just because of the existence of the gods, all the reforms you have done have been abandoned halfway, and you have postponed radical changes for centuries. ”

Lin Youde had already stood up when he said this, and his voice could be heard clearly throughout the amusement park.

"Mary I, Chancellor Bismarck, or Maria of Austria? Empress Theresa and Peter the Great of Russia, monarchs who were determined to reform and strengthen their country, actually poisoned Europe. Although their reforms gave European capitalism room to develop, they also led to the survival of feudalism in Europe.

"Look at America across the sea! They didn't have a damn king from the beginning, and they didn't even have a god-queen often, and when Washington's wives were dying, there wasn't a god-queen in the whole of America who was sober enough to prevent a civil war! But because of this, the United States has become the most suitable country in the world for the development of capitalism! So it's growing faster than all of Europe combined! ”

Lin Youde stopped, looked around and stared at the Norse kings and nobles who were staring at him with surprised eyes.

"So you should thank me!" He continued, "Thank you for smashing two of Europe's most important crowns, thank you for giving Europe a chance to catch up!" Do you think that the people call me the savior of Europe because of my deceptive propaganda? Wrong! The eyes of the people are bright, and they realize by their simple instincts that I, Lin Youde, am the savior of Europe! ”

After Lin Youde finished speaking, the entire venue was silent.

Suddenly, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark began to applaud, and the girl looked at Lin Youde with a reverent expression and clapped her hands vigorously.

Immediately afterwards, reluctant applause rang out, and then was completely overwhelmed by the warm applause of the waiters and maids who had listened to Lin Youde's speech.