The human diplomat glanced at the pangolins and replied, "All civilizations rise from weakness, and we don't care if they're strong at the moment, we only care if they bring progress to the entire alliance." ”

"As long as it can bring progress to the league, then everything is meaningful."

It turned out that this backward civilization was called the Gliese civilization, and Orn shook his head slightly.

I don't know why, he was actually a little envious.

"They're good at math?"

"Yes, they are really good at math and are willing to fight for it all their lives."

There are no pure mathematicians left, and the golden years of scientific research are so long and so long ago that they are almost forgotten.

This forgetfulness causes orangutans to not be able to comprehend this frenzy. They just came to the conclusion that as long as there is a civilization with a skill, it may be able to join the alliance.

But what skills does their civilization have to meet the standards of this alliance?

Biology? Research on bugs?

Or is it all the miscellaneous pseudoscience? Although pseudoscience is very easy, it is very difficult to produce results, and an interstellar alliance must have enough ways to distinguish these pseudosciences.

"Hey......" Orn glanced at his own think tank a few more times, secretly remembering this information in his heart, and did not speak again.

These are smart people who have experienced political edification, so naturally they will not put forward their demands too bluntly. How can there be any reason to ask to join the alliance as soon as you come here and visit politics?

It's no wonder if you don't get rejected.

Next, after visiting the Interstellar Marketplace, the diplomats led the Leniños on a tour of the Alliance University, an academic institution founded by multiple species. The fact that an ordinary undergraduate student brought it out and whose knowledge level was comparable to that of a well-known professor of the Leinno civilization made some of the experts and scholars who followed him feel extremely ashamed, and they couldn't even raise their heads.

The group came to the literature exhibition hall again and exchanged some of each other's literary works to enhance mutual understanding. However, in recent times, the Lenino civilization has not produced any particularly good literary works, and can only exchange some very ancient works.

As for why no excellent literary works have been produced, there are many reasons, and this has always been the case with the civilization of the Sunken.

Finally, we visited the Interstellar Museum of the Kyushu.

Most of the texts in the museum are written in human language, and a small number are in the language of the Gaian civilization. However, the Leñinos did not even have a translation in this regard, so they could only look at the pictures and get an idea through the human translations of the diplomats.

……

"How's it going, it feels good to host this civilization with a low level of technology, right? I saw their look of surprise, this was the first time we had received an alien species on the Kyushu. ”

Zhang Yuan arrived at the scene by high-speed train and asked Foreign Minister Yang in the monitoring room.

Most of the visits that lead the Leño civilization are done by young people, and the elderly can be seen through surveillance. If they don't do something well, these young people will still be criticized afterwards. But as things stand, they've done a good job.

Yang Fan said with satisfaction: "This feeling...... Isn't that good? That's what progress means. ”

"Isn't the happiest time to be a diplomat just to show off your civilization, strength and wealth in front of aliens?"

"I really thought it was fun to quarrel and play with aliens! Of course not, showing off your wealth is the happiest! ”

Lao Yang opened his hands and said with a smile: "Especially standing in front of the monitoring room and witnessing their rich expressions. Tsk, let me know how Li Hongzhang felt when he entered New York during the Qing Dynasty and saw the high-rise buildings of Americans...... It's an amazing state of mind. ”

Not only Lao Yang, but other old guys were also addicted to this kind of happiness and couldn't extricate themselves, and then sighed and shook their heads: "Hey, we're still like this at a lot of age, we're really vulgar!" ”

"Not bad, absolutely good!"

Zhang Yuan hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile: "We have been busy writing a new brain operation thinking mode, and this piece is a high-end spiritual enjoyment!" In what situations do you feel happy and in what situations do you feel sad? In the new mindset, these need to be redefined. ”

"In the hierarchy of human needs, there are five major needs, physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs. Your current mentality can be regarded as self-realization, the most high-end demand! ”

Therefore, the happiness brought by this kind of behavior is high-end and conducive to the progress of civilization. The new thinking modification plan mainly revolves around this part...... So it's definitely not bad! ”

Lao Yang said: "The same thing, when I say it, I am pretending to be forced, and when I say it in the mouth of a scientist, it has become a high-end spiritual enjoyment." You should be a diplomat with such eloquence, and now it's really condescending! ”

Everyone in the monitoring room burst out laughing.

At this time, the Leños had already visited some pictures of war, and although they couldn't read the text on them, they still learned that there were wars between interstellar civilizations.

This discovery made them a little curious and frightened, it turned out that the starry sky was not calm, what caused the interstellar war?

This question is a bit sensitive, but it has to be asked.

"War? In most cases, the civilizations of the universe can coexist peacefully, but it does not exclude some bandit civilizations......"

"You should be able to understand that between civilizations, the most logical thing that can explain their behavior is profit. It would not be surprising if it could bring greater and greater benefits. ”

"There are also powerful civilizations that like to impose their will on others, which can be regarded as a kind of export revolution," the diplomat said...... When the contradictions between the two sides reach a certain level, war will arise. ”

"This kind of civilization is really very powerful, and if we encounter it, we can only run away."

Orn asked another question that had been lingering in his mind for a long time: "Your alliance is so powerful that it can force us to do anything, why should we do it through an equivalent exchange?" If you plunder, won't you be able to reap the benefits? ”

The question was complex and involved in many dimensions, which made the young diplomat standing in front stunned for a moment.

Even Zhang Yuan and the others in front of the monitoring were all in thinking.

Why?

Of course, it's also because of interests.

After a few seconds, the young man replied: "A civilized culture is rooted in its history. ”

"In our home planet, there were many famous art museums, the Louvre, the British Museum, and some museums in the United States, where the art was plundered from other countries, but the elegant and refined surface could not hide the shamelessness of the robbers...... No matter how developed the productive forces and how superior the technology is, the bandit hearts of these countries will always exist. ”

"When the country is at peace and civilization is developing, everything is well, and the inner facts of the robbers are obscured; When development stagnates and encounters a crisis, this kind of bandit mentality will gradually be exposed, which in turn will produce chaos. ”

"History is always watching us, and our every move will become a part of history and become a permanent culture. Our civilization has a special discipline called the historiography of new civilization, which will deliberately cultivate some cultural systems that are conducive to the progress of civilization. ”

"So, for the most part, when we come into contact with weaker civilizations, we use the model of equivalent exchange, and we don't force the sale, because this small profit is not worth destroying the current cultural system. Plunder, which will change the current cultural system, is not worth it. ”