Seven days after the meeting, Zhou Donglai's freezing work was presided over by Qin Guang himself.

Watching his proud protégé with high hopes turn into an "ice sculpture" in a freezer, Qin Guang was both melancholy and helpless.

He remembered the conversation that had happened between him and Zhou Donglai last night.

Qin Guang wanted to scold Zhou Donglai at first, but when it came to talking, he just patted the student's shoulder.

"Next time before making such a big decision, I hope you can think it through first, or talk to someone more."

"Teacher, you once told me that a true commander can only rely on himself on the battlefield. Every decision should be fast and accurate. Commanders must take responsibility for their own decisions, and they cannot always expect others to share their responsibilities in meetings. If every major decision needs to be voted on by a meeting, then we still vote in the conference room when the enemy's artillery fire has already covered Hanju. When you made the scalpel treatment plan for the fleet, it was your own decision. As your student, I certainly will do the same. ”

"Shhh...... Since you are so capable, so resourceful and responsible, then you should do your duty, not play tricks to escape! I'm ...... old."

"Teacher, you are indeed old. But the experience of history tells me that the older the wine, the more fragrant it is. Maybe you still think that I am just doing my own thing to protect your honor, or maybe you really think that I am evading my responsibility, but I believe that with your wisdom, you will understand what I am trying to do one day. ”

……

In the autumn of 2909, under the auspices of Qin Guang, the reconstruction of the fleet was finally fully on track.

In June, the fleet's ability to synthesize specialty materials was further enhanced by the Empire's shared energy refining technology in the Curvature Space, and the fleet's ability to synthesize specialty materials was further enhanced by the latest ultra-high-efficiency and complex polycrystalline synthesizers available in the Curvature Space.

As early as 2815, the empire was already able to do it in the original three-dimensional space, but it was necessary to reconstruct it in the curvature space, and it also did not destroy the structure of the curvature bubble when it operated, and the technological content and difficulty of implementation were raised by several levels, but with the persistent efforts of tens of thousands of research institutes distributed in thousands of galaxies and hundreds of millions of scientific researchers in related fields, the technical barrier was finally broken and transmitted to the fleet synchronously for the first time.

In his speech at the announcement of the technology, Qin Guang said quite emotionally: "The value of these two technologies to the whole civilization is only accumulation, but for us, their value is comparable to cryonics technology. We are more than 15,000 light-years away from the frontier of the Empire, and we cannot go back in this life. However, our hometown has not forgotten us, and has never stopped supporting and helping us. I want you to know that in order to apply these two technologies to the curvature space, in the past 100 years, a total of 6.7 billion researchers at the master's level and above, 230 million PhDs, 7.6 million Imperial Certified Senior Scholars, and more than 200,000 Treasure Masters have devoted their lives to related projects. In order to meet the experimental conditions, there are more than 30 billion workers in all walks of life. In the past 100 years, the number of casualties in laboratory accidents alone has reached more than 30 million. What they were doing was a job that didn't help the empire itself. Who do you think these people are for? ”

Many people who watched Qin Guang speak lowered their heads in shame.

Qin Guang's skillful use of facts taught a profound lesson to the second and third generations in the fleet.

After that, with the help of new technology, one brand new spacecraft quietly broke away from the towing ship in the curvature bubble and began to operate on its own.

In order to restore the population as soon as possible, as well as to increase the total amount of human resources, the large-scale breeding program was launched.

In just a few months, the number of embryos entering the bionic uterus at the same time is as high as a billion.

Of course, due to the loss of Zhou Donglai's right-hand man, Qin Guang's workload has increased a lot.

In just a few months, he looks a lot older.

On this day, after a busy day, Qin Guang returned to his room alone and rested on the bed for a long time before going to wash.

He looked at his silver-haired, age-spotted face in the mirror and was stunned for a long time.

He looked back at the large photograph hanging in the center of the living room behind him, his eyes blurred, and his vision gradually blurred.

In the photo, he is standing side by side with several old men and women in military uniforms or suits.

Everyone had a smile on their faces, which was joy and excitement from the heart.

Behind the group, there is a star of travelers hanging high.

At the feet of the group was the highest podium of the Voyager System's administrative command space station.

At that time, he had just taken the role of acting commander-in-chief, leading the humans of the Voyager galaxy to win the war against the Osanders.

At that time, he was only forty-six years old, in the prime of his youth, and he was in the prime of life.

That year, he had no stars on his shoulders, but he was sharp.

Qin Guang vaguely remembered what he thought at the time.

"I have finally proved that I will go to the highest stage of all civilization, I will prove myself, and I will dedicate my life to the great struggle of human civilization without regrets."

Time flies, and almost two hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The short jet-black hair that was full of energy turned into a mess of half-length silver threads, and even the eyebrows turned white.

The handsome square face of the Chinese character is hung with bags under the eyes behind the back, furrow-like wrinkles, and is covered with bullet-like old age spots.

Qin Guang took a deep breath and sat down on the sofa.

He silently thought in his heart, I have fulfilled my promise, and I have dedicated my life to the most noble cause of liberating mankind without distraction, and I have no regrets.

But hundreds of millions of miles together, there is always a time to say goodbye, I am old.

I don't know how long I'll last, and I'm not even sure if I'll make it to the day I reach the Silver Heart.

But don't be late, the big war is coming, but I'm about to reach the limit.

Qin Guang was in a daze, and gradually closed his eyes.

He was so tired and sleepy that he didn't finish the task he had set for himself, checked the roster of rotations before going to bed and fell asleep.

Time is the sharpest weapon in this universe, and no matter how strong a person is, he can either grow old and slowly move towards death under the tearing of the blade of time, or he can only hide in a freezer, turning himself from a person into an "object", and begging for the mercy of time by giving up his life for a short time.

In the middle of the night, Qin Guang woke up from his sleep.

At this time, he has been transferred to the bed by the intelligent life assistant, but he still remembers the situation before falling asleep, and he can't help but feel ashamed in his heart.

"I'm getting old and confused, and you're still counting on me. To say that the wine is the older it is, the more fragrant it is, it's just a fart. ”

Qin Guang muttered two sentences, but his mind inexplicably recalled the "historical experience" that Zhou Donglai repeatedly emphasized.

Qin Guang made a decision to see what ancient books Zhou Donglai had read during the time when he was pretending to be frozen.

The Complete History of Modern China - Rising in the End of the Decade (1840~2049).

When he saw the title of the book, Qin Guang was stunned at first, and then couldn't laugh or cry.

Since he completed his studies at the military academy, he has rarely looked through history books.

Even in his research, his perspective is usually confined to the history of wars over the past 6,000 years.

Qin Guang learned the best about things related to current politics and the history of the new civilization after the establishment of the world government.

He was not very interested in old history.

In the years of his birth, the most popular trend in the galaxy of travelers, which gave birth to many starry voyagers, was to worship freedom, to be proud of being in the sea of stars, and to improve the efficiency of the empire's trade and exploration capabilities.

At that time, human thinkers generally believed that since human beings had clearly known that the identity of the enemy was an alien civilization, they should focus more on how to deal with the enemy, and the internal contradictions of different races, skin colors, and social systems in the old history were irrelevant.

Under the influence of this dominant current, what happened between 1840 and 2049 belongs to the less important old history.

After all, the technological background of the times is completely different, and some of the worldly and racial ideas of the past must also be abandoned.

Qin Guang hesitated for a few seconds and almost gave up, but out of curiosity about Zhou Donglai's thought transformation process, it didn't hurt for the old man to think about it.

"Ten times faster, play."

He never expected that this would be seven days, and it would occupy almost all of his spare time.

Seven days later, Qin Guang turned back to the first page of the history book, "Original speed, play." ”

Time flies, and one hundred and thirty-five days have passed in a blink of an eye.

Qin Guang also has dozens of more book friends.

Not only did he read the material word by word, but he also replayed it little by little, and from the current point of view, it could only be described as an inferior slide of video material.

Qin Guang saw a lot of things.

The bewildered Chinese nation was knocked open by the ironclad ships of the great powers.

In just a few decades, the population of 400 million people has plummeted to more than 200 million due to internal and external troubles, and the lives of the people have been devastated.

The 5,000-year-old country has lost its dignity and freedom, guns and cannons have destroyed the backbone of civilization, and black paste has worn out the will of civilization.

The cultivated land is full of weeds, and there are nine dry bones in ten rooms.

The wealth of the 5,000-year-old kingdom was swept away, and children were born in numbness, and died early in numbness and hunger.

More than 90 percent of people don't know why they want to live, and they don't know that there are people in the world who can not be anxious about the next meal.

The self-esteem of the Chinese nation has been eroded to the point that only a spark remains, and the 5,000-year-old civilization is about to be destroyed.

At this critical moment of life and death, the male lion who had been tortured to the point of scrawny finally let out an unwilling roar.

After another turbulent decades, after 1949, the people of the 5,000-year-old country finally knew that ordinary people were also eligible to own a piece of land of their own, and if they could not eat the food they planted, they could exchange it for other living materials, and it turned out that everyone should not be born a slave.

But at this time, the male lion who had just escaped from the fierce battle was still skinny, angry everywhere, vigilant, seduced, despised by others, and even held a butcher's knife to show off his might outside the house.

He was also spread around the house with a book full of "Little Freedom", and was even slandered by the "own family" who was holding a "Little Freedom" book in one hand and holding a green ticket in the back of the hand.

On the faltering road forward, the lion has to face both the outside world and the so-called "reasonable differences" that seem to be righteous but are actually vicious internally.

It's been a tough one.

Time flies, and it's 2020 in a blink of an eye.

The people of the 5,000-year-old country have finally come to understand the "small freedom" and the "great freedom", and finally use their unstoppable national strength to tell the entire human civilization again in 2049 what is the right way.

In this small book club that re-learns history, Qin Guang said: "The lessons of history tell us that science and technology are the fuel that promotes the progress of civilization, but thought is the rudder that leads civilization forward. For hundreds of years, humanity has been moving too fast, too fast. Our fleet, in particular, has been staring at the ultimate goal, but has forgotten to stop and look behind us. Forgetting history is tantamount to betraying civilization! That's where the chaos of the Free Will Alliance comes from! If we had grasped the ideological work from the very beginning, such a tragedy would not have happened. I do not deny that everyone has the right to pursue themselves, but there must be a precondition. That is, human civilization must have developed to such an extent that no matter what risks or turbulences, can endanger the survival of the whole civilization! At that time, people will be qualified to do whatever they want, and who they want to do. Otherwise, you are a traitor to civilization! ”

Dozens of other people in the book club nodded their heads in agreement.

No matter what galaxy these people come from, what kind of body shape and skin color they have, and what different personalities they have, there is no denying the lessons of history.

"Starting tomorrow, we will renegotiate and come up with a set of feasible solutions."

Qin Guang announced the adjournment of the meeting.

Back in his room, Qin Guang checked the condition of Zhou Donglai in the freezer again.

He smiled with relief.

Every father's greatest dream is not to achieve fame himself, but to see his children surpass him.

Qin Guang had no descendants in the fleet, and Zhou Donglai was both his student and his child.

Qin Guang said to himself: "This stupid boy has already surpassed me. ”

Zhou Donglai chose to protect Qin Guang by himself, not because he thought that his ability was inferior to that of his teacher, but because he thought that Qin Guang, who was more than 240 years old, was already living history.

Qin Guang rose in the first sudden battle in the depths of the empire, participated in the rapid defeat of a huge and prosperous galaxy under the surprise attack of the compound eye, and then the process of difficult recovery, and even laid a great reputation in the birth and death of the frontline galaxy.

The same words coming out of Qin Guang's mouth will have a deeper sense of history than those spoken by Zhou Donglai, the second and third generations of leaders.

To teach the fleet's collective thinking a lesson, it is this sense of history, not clever words.

These things can only be given by Qin Guang.

Qin Guang decided to give more of himself away and give it to others.

As for himself, he retreated slightly into the background and became one of the spiritual leaders.

"I'm going to teach everybody a good lesson. Will also hold on until you wake up. ”

Before falling asleep, Qin Guang said so.