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The half-moon gradually left the ridge of Yuelu Mountain, hanging in the distant sky, the stars could not be seen, but there was an endless city light, those flickering lights, in the darkness like fireflies flying in the sky.

Cheng Mo and Li Jiting walked down the winding road, and soon returned to the Aiwan Pavilion again, Li Jiting looked at the pavilion of the red lacquer garden pillar and the glazed blue tile located in the middle of the mountainside, and said very embarrassedly: "It's really a thing or a person..... I think that in the past, great men often gathered with Luo Xuezan, Zhang Kundi and others and Cai Hesen here, read books, discussed the situation in the world, and explored the truth..... At that time, it was still full of red leaves, but now the sweetgum leaves of Yuelu Mountain do not turn red....."

Sighing, Li Jiting chanted a poem with nostalgia, "'Transported to no floods, the passing of the year has been urged'....."

In the middle of the night, Yuelu Mountain was empty, only the footsteps of Cheng Mo and Li Jiting, and his affectionate chanting echoed in the lonely air.

Cheng Mo didn't mean to stop at all, but he was just surprised that Li Jiting read Xie Lingyun's "Twilight", which seemed to have some unclear meaning, this "Twilight" is a nostalgic poem, to the effect that the poet Xie Lingyun was deeply worried, tossing and turning, and felt that the long night seemed endless.

This poem is not simply a worry about the natural life span, but a complex thought intertwined with the contradictions of life's pursuits, social personnel and other aspects.

However, the whole still expresses the poet's regret for the irretrievable passage of time and the melancholy for the failure of his career.

Li Jiting is in the prime of life, with the blessing of Ouroboros' skill points, the Chosen One is healthier than ordinary people, generally speaking, as long as there is no accident to live to the age of eighty or ninety is not a problem, Li Jiting's strength is so strong, it is probably difficult to die of death, at this time to read this poem, it is really not a good situation, but with Li Jiting's level, it is naturally impossible to read it wrong.

Just when Cheng Mo was puzzled, Li Jiting turned his head to look at the back door of Yuelu Academy, smiled and said, "Just now you talked to Xie Minyun about the difficulties and shocks of the inheritance of Chinese civilization..... Didn't you have the passion to serve your country?"

"Oh, it's useless..... I'm sorry, Uncle Li, I really don't like nationalism, the state and the nation are just imaginary communities, and when the elites feel the need for popular support to establish effective rule, they vigorously promote nationalism to protect their interests..... (A few words are omitted below)" Cheng Mo said mockingly.

Li Jiting said with a serious expression: "Cheng Mo, I know that you are a liberal, but each of us is in the torrent of the times, can we really stay out of the situation? I remember I told you about the scene after the air raid I saw in Afghanistan, in fact, I think death is not a relief, I remember the one who helped us clean up, Jennat, who was washing clothes, her father and husband died in an air raid, and the family had a mother with a broken leg and three children to raise, and the whole family lived in rubble, without a house under the fence, and they all relied on the money she earned alone to support, the suffering was indescribable..... There is no hope at all, no matter how hard she tries, it will be difficult in the future - difficult means not only that it is difficult for her to live, but it is difficult for her family to live, life is so difficult, her only choice is to get close to religion....."

"The most painful thing in life is not the pain itself, but the loss of hope. Often at this time I think that lies are really beautiful things. I told Jennat day after day that the war was almost over, and made her look forward to it, for her, no more desperate efforts could change anything, but if she didn't work hard, it was not only her who died, but her family, which could only be more miserable...... Just like in Greek mythology, it is useless to push a stone up to the west of the mountain, and it is useless to push it up, and it will come down if you go up, but if you don't push it up the mountain, it will be all over..... So, what should I do? I only believe in religion!" Li Jiting's heavy tone had a piercing pain in his heart.

Cheng Mo sneered and said, "So what? didn't you just watch Jennat fall into despair and do nothing?"

Li Jiting smiled bitterly and said, "Jennat is the last servant we hire.... The first two were worse than her, and we used other channels to send them to Europe.... Jennat, we also promised her to drop her off while we were leaving..... It's a pity .... She didn't have a chance to live to that day, she didn't die under the air raids, she died in the robbery, and we gave her a little more food during the Spring Festival that day.... Even if it's the Chosen One.... What can we do in the face of war?"

"Nothing can be done. Li Jiting said infinitely sadly.

Cheng Mo didn't continue to walk forward, just stood at the edge of the road and was silent, and after a while, he whispered, "Is there going to be a war?"

Li Jiting also stopped, he turned around and walked to the edge of the road, looking at the Yuelu Academy at the foot of the mountain through the gap in the woods, "You also know that now we live in the Yalta system (note 1), which is a cage set up by the Anglo-Saxons, stained with the light of the United States, and we have become the P5, probably few people now know that the most opposed to our entry into the P5 at that time was the former Soviet Union?"

"For the current world, Lian Heguo is the government, and the P5 is the police, and when world peace is breached, the police have two ways to deal with it. If it is only a small country-wide expansion or revolution, the police can blockade, quarantine, embargo, etc., and if the threat is great, they can exercise their right to act as 'police' to issue an ultimatum to the country concerned, and if they are refused, to organize military action immediately....."

"Before the Yalta system was established, there were no laws, no police, no courts in the world, and countries basically did whatever they wanted to other countries, as long as there was military force. Internally, the government provides security guarantees for society..... But there is no such restraint between the worlds, there is anarchy, all countries are in such a state, every day is a jungle society, and fairness, justice, order, these good things that everyone aspires to have, do not exist between countries..... The idealist Roosevelt built the Yalta system, and people began to try to cross the barrier of human nature, and countries shared values, agreed rules, and built mechanisms, such as the United States, the World Bank, the IMF, and the TO..... Humanity is beginning to try to establish morality at the national level, and it cannot speak solely on the basis of interests....."

"But now that the Lianhe state has lost its authority, and the Yalta system is on the verge of collapse, you should know what that means, without security guarantees, trust between countries is extremely fragile, said Joseph Nye Jr., four things lead to a slide into war: the security paradox, the prisoner's dilemma, the credibility problem, and the self-fulfillment of prophecy. ”

"Although the global economy is now highly integrated, and the interdependence between the two countries is conducive to reducing the likelihood of conflict, it does not mean security. Before the First World War, there were books that predicted that war would not break out, because the breadth and depth of economic exchanges made war more harmful than beneficial.... But the reality is cruel. ”

"Interdependence does not mean that cooperation necessarily replaces disputes, trade is a common creation of interests by both sides, is a positive sum game, but in the distribution of interests, it is still a zero-sum game, you are more, I am less. ”

"If the chip can't be beaten, then soybeans, if trade can't be beaten, then finance, if the economy can't be beaten, politics will be hit, and if politics can't be beaten, it will be the turn of the war in the Middle World, and the war in the Middle East will break out, and the military conflict will not be far away.... This is the sequential disintegration of layers of interdependence....."

"In fact, our relationship with the United States has never been close, even if the economy is highly dependent, in the current situation, it has become quite tricky to maintain a cooperative relationship above the bottom line.... If this trend continues, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"You should also know that in order to survive, all countries must pursue force, and this pursuit cannot be stopped, and it is inevitable to achieve absolute superiority over other countries and become the hegemon.... The so-called hegemon means that one country can fight the world..... Be stronger than all other nations and alliances..... Therefore, it is a zero-sum game between countries, which has nothing to do with the nature of the state, has nothing to do with national preferences, has nothing to do with the form of government, and has nothing to do with good or evil....."

"In 2016, the strategic think tank of the United States released the report "War with China: The Unthinkable" ("ar ith China"), he is the executive deputy director of national intelligence of the United States, and also acted as the director, and the absolute insider ....."

Li Jiting stood in the evening breeze and said softly: "Cheng Mo, when the torrent comes, what can you do as an ant?"

There are many things in the middle, Li Jiting only said it superficially, and he didn't say it very clearly, but Cheng Mo naturally knew that Li Jiting, as a superior, said such a thing, that is, the relationship between China and Mi was very pessimistic.

Cheng Mo also has the habit of watching the news, and he also understands that the relationship between the two countries is collapsing from the rich dimension of the positive-sum game to the single dimension of the zero-sum game, and the speed is still very fast.

Someone else wants to watch the play on the side?

No way.

"I'm just a..... What else?" Cheng Mo replied very calmly, because he also knew that even if a war broke out, the situation would not be much worse, because the existence of nuclear weapons would not have decisive consequences, no side could win absolutely, and no side could completely lose, but economic regression was inevitable, and China's losses would be much greater.

Li Jiting said lightly: "Didn't you help your classmates participate in the election of the president of the student union in school? Is this a kind of 'WTO accession' for you? Probably in your opinion, the world is very bad, and most ordinary people are stupid, blindly obedient, paranoid, and fanatical.... And the elites, cruel, cunning, stupid, indifferent..... But Romain Rolland said that true courage is to know the truth of life, but still love it...... If you just pretend to fit in with this society, it's nothing more than a cheap compassion, a shameless ....."

"What's more, you killed Liu Dongqiang, and now Jing Xing is investigating you.... If I don't help you, sooner or later he will find out about your teacher..... Can you sit idly by?" After a pause, Li Jiting smiled and said, "I guess you can't..... Otherwise, I wouldn't have killed people for more than 200,000.... You see how good I am to you, I didn't take the initiative to threaten you with this matter, but I reasoned with you bitterly, and my saliva dried up....."

"Let's talk about the benefits...."Cheng Mo lowered his head.

"Good boy, courage is commendable!" Li Jiting smiled and patted Cheng Mo's shoulder.

Cheng Mo said expressionlessly: "There is no such thing as courage, courage is luck, and it is a choice you have to make in a specific situation..... I don't have a choice. ”

Li Jiting shook his head, "No, no, this is called growth, you have to learn to stand on the overall situation of your life, you have to keep saying goodbye to your past self, do something you think you will never do, like drinking Coke, eating hamburgers, you have to try to like someone, although you may feel stupid in the future.... But such a life is complete.... Man cannot live only in books and theories.... When you come out, you will see a bigger and more majestic world. ”