Direct peace talks began, and the delegations of the two sides held detailed talks, signed a dense treaty on the market and national consumption, and held detailed discussions on the differences in consumption between the East and the West.

For example, in terms of food consumption, Oriental lactose intolerance is not able to consume large quantities of dairy products, but needs to consume large quantities of soybeans. In the West, there is no large-scale consumption of soybean oil, and there are differences in the physique of the two races. When formulating standards, negotiators on both sides need to consider carefully.

Under the new system, the thrift and thrift of any country's citizens and the social resources saved cannot be called a reason for the extravagance and waste of another country's citizens, and in the same way, any country that develops technology and uses it on a large scale must also give substantial feedback. So there's a lot of interest calculations involved. The two sides will hedge and offset. This hedging calculation that cancels each other out is based on a floating formula, because society is floating.

Even before agreeing on the formula, both sides acknowledged that the current system was a trial and that it would be changed annually in the future. And both sides have the right to suspend the implementation and declare the right to reopen the standard.

And the current conference in Versailles and the Forbidden City (with two venues) has also given birth to a new term - the Earth Alliance.

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The Great Conference of the Earth Alliance, which was held simultaneously in Paris and Beidu, was the representative of East Asia to Europe, (Europe also sent representatives to East Asia). On the European side, Li Sanxiang followed Hans (Level 7) to visit the machinery manufacturing factories on the European continent, as well as the aviation and aerospace projects under construction. Both sides showed their civilization's technological engineering to the deep sea, deep underground, universe, and microcosm to the ambassadors of the seventh-level psionic powers.

Hans took Li Sanxiang to visit the experimental departments that could be called the country's important weapons before the power failure. Of course, Li Sanxiang expressed his appreciation, and the two sides ran away from the contradictions of the past race and state quality inspection, and held constructive consultations on the future of mankind.

The meeting was in full swing for a week, while Hans and Li Sanxiang were in Europe for a week.

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On the banks of the Rhine, Hans handed him a glass of water from a local bottled water factory (which, during the war, supplied drinking water from all over Europe). As for the water used for bathing and washing clothes, it is another indicator.

Hans asked, "I heard that Mr. Li is in charge of education in the East. ”

Li Sanxiang said: "Yes, I personally appreciate the innovation of the compulsory education system in modern Germany, which is no less than the contribution of the Oriental imperial examination system to human civilization. ”

Hearing this, Hans couldn't help but nod his head, then shook his head with a sigh and said: "Whether the educational concept in society and culture is thick or not is the foundation of cultural power. ”

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The two talked about education, and then sighed about the fate of the United States. In the time of the great power outage, the European side regretted that the United States did not join them. But this is wrong, the most elite forces of the United States are not absent

During the Great Power Outage, almost all of America's talent returned to Europe. And now it is the United States that remains after the elites have been squeezed clean. And the United States is isolated, and isolation is able to break away from the traditional thinking of the Old Continent. Be innovative. And isolation can also mask problems.

During World War II, the United States absorbed outstanding talents from all over the world, and finally achieved the position of the world's largest scientific and technological power, thanks to most of it due to immigration policies. Immigration policies have made American science and technology, but they have also masked the weakness of America's weak basic education. College and elementary school are different. Compared with elementary school, university is more like a century-old store.

Because compared to the calamities of the Old World, the land of America was far from the scourge of war. The facilities of various educational institutions will not be eroded by war as in Europe after two world wars. The scientific research process, as well as the continuous layer of scientific research team, can be connected with the stable accumulation of hundreds of years, which is the real foundation of a first-class university.

As for the difficulty of Chinese universities in the early 21st century, it is not because of the size of the campus, not even how many professors can be recruited in a short period of time, let alone the source of students. And because everything needs to be accumulated for a long time, the accumulation of scientific and technological literature, the accumulation of basic research and development equipment and supporting research methods. The most important thing is the market that the university has developed.

That's right, the university is a century-old store, the old store sells things, and the university sells things, and there is a party to buy things. Universities are engaged in academics, and this concept is a legacy of the masters of the Republic of China.

The university is a necessary part of modern society, is the research and development force of the industrial age society, a university of more than 100 years, and has a stable cooperative relationship with various enterprises in the industrial society. This relationship is the foundation of the enterprise and the foundation of the university.

As the saying goes, scientific research results can be seen at the level of a university. But human nature is that if you give money, you will do more, and if you don't give money, you will do less. The university conducts research for a number of companies, and the R&D results are booked and purchased by these companies. That is, entrepreneurs fund research, and in Hollywood blockbusters, big bosses sponsor a certain project. As soon as the project does not bear fruit, your big boss will cut off the funding, and the scientists will beg for continued sponsorship. It is based on this social model.

Universities are not high-minded, even very philistine. For the sake of money, Western universities can even gild the sons of some financiers - almost all of the rich second generation in the West have graduated from prestigious universities. Put aside the sacred skins of "science", "technology" and "human future". A university organization is a shop where scientists use their brains to serve society in exchange for payment.

And what the century-old store is afraid of is war. American universities escaped the devastation of World War I and World War II, and as a result, they became old-fashioned universities. However, the talents of this time-honored brand are not cultivated by their own basic education, but attract world-class students to come in, which is equivalent to recruiting workers from all over the world.

Therefore, the United States has the capital not to attach importance to basic education, and the large-scale basic education in other countries is to select the seeds of outstanding scientists in a thousand miles. The United States uses its economic advantages and immigration policies to attract researchers from other countries to come and develop. (In the early 21st century, it was a trend for East Asian researchers to pursue higher development in the United States, and in the first half of the 21st century, China increased its attraction to scientific researchers, and India helped Silicon Valley.)

Of course, if you come for profit, you will also end up with profit. But when disaster struck both the Old World and the New World, American university education fully exposed the hidden dangers of rootlessness. Gone are the days of the entire American scientific research boom.

"A large number of scientists returned to the United States, regardless of interests, with the ambition of building a great and noble ideological realm in the United States, and rebuilding Haval" Well, this style of painting seems to be not American.

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Li Sanxiang and Hans sighed at the United States for eternity. In fact, this is the forcing of the two surviving strong men pretending to be "invincible and lonely". America is all dead. Nostalgia for a dead opponent, and then act like a very empty look. To show that after defeating the opponent, you don't feel like you're enjoying it. - This is similar to when playing e-sports games, one side has a big advantage, one side has a big disadvantage, and the side with a big advantage often does not persuade the other side to surrender, but "encourages" the other side not to invest against the risk. If the headwind side really rises up and begins to overtake people by squatting in the grass, then the original dominant side will definitely change its attitude and spray CNMB out through the screen.

However, the two continued to have an in-depth conversation on this common topic, and soon talked about Eastern and Western philosophies. Hans introduced idealism and materialism from Western Greek philosophy and German philosophy.

Hans then asked Li Sanxiang about the materialism of Eastern philosophy? Or is it the maintenance of the heart? problems.

Li Sanxiang thought about it slightly and gave such an answer

Li Sanxiang: "Materialism and mental maintenance, concepts, are the worldview of Western philosophical thinking to interpret the world. The philosophy of the Confucian faction in the East is based on the 'human standard'. You can understand it as 'humanism'"

Hans was intrigued and said in Chinese: "People-oriented. ”

Li Sanxiang nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, the logic of this worldview is like this.

In the world in my eyes, I am human and you are human too. I live in this world, and you live in this world. We can influence each other's lives in this world. In Chinese philosophy, it is necessary to let the people in the world you see survive. Sometimes decisions must be made at the expense of personal interests to safeguard this purpose. And this act is called 'righteousness'. And the same is true of what we call 'righteousness'.

Whatever is conducive to this end, the action is in accordance with the 'general righteousness'. It has nothing to do with the general meaning and can be ignored. But there are limits to this."

Li Sanxiang looked at Hans, who was listening very seriously, and said: "This limitation is the limit of our vision. Three thousand years ago, the world from our perspective was only Henan, and we were people-oriented, but in fact, we were only based on the people we saw in our perspective. Rather than focusing on people who may exist in the unknown. Then our people-oriented scope gradually expanded, expanding to the entire Central Plains. And then, four hundred years ago, we met you. ”

Hans suddenly said: "At that time, you thought that you were the central dynasty, and the scope of people-oriented did not include us. And this people-oriented, at the time, we were people on the edge of the world as you saw it. It is not covered by the general righteousness. ”

Li Sanxiang nodded, looked up at the starry sky, and then said: "At that time, we dismissed technology as a miracle. Because in the world we saw at that time, agricultural technology had developed to the top of the Eastern world. And at that time, because I didn't understand what the industrial age was, technology wasn't the main thing. It was necessary to improve the moral system of the existing agricultural civilization at that time in order to maintain the stability of the rule. So at that time, technology was ignored by the general righteousness. And now,"

Li Sanxiang looked down at Hans and said, "After 1840, the world in our perspective has suddenly become larger. You are new people in our perspective, and we have to admit that we have to communicate with you, not with you, so that we can ignore them. So the scope of righteousness expands. It is necessary to communicate, and to communicate with you on an equal footing, industrial technology is indispensable. Therefore, research and development of technology has become an act in line with the general righteousness.

Of course, at that time, we were still thinking about what else was in line with the general interest besides science. For example, freedom, democracy, constitutional monarchy, and the Latinization of the text, etc., may be able to communicate with you on an equal footing at the time.

We are not passively accepting your indoctrination, but when we find something that does not help us to communicate with the West on an equal footing, such as a slap in the face at the Paris Peace Conference, we will speculate. After a series of speculations on the use of ideology and culture in your development, we finally use the assimilation of choice under the framework of people-oriented. (In the Eastern mode of thinking, materialism and idealism are not the focus, only talent is the focus.) ）

At this time, Li Sanxiang looked at the sky in the distance again, and at this time, the stars were already lit up in the sky, and said meaningfully: "Our world will continue to expand." And righteousness may have something new to add to it. ”

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