Chapter 29: Subjectivity
Human beings are creatures with subjective agency. When people's thinking and practice are combined, people can use their subjective initiative to react to the objective world consciously, purposefully, and in a planned way.
Dussander had learned these things when he was in college, but he didn't understand what they meant.
It's kind of funny to say, as a science student, he really doesn't have any concept of these courses. And those liberal arts students who can understand it...... Anyway, I won't get together with Du Shengzhe to discuss relevant content.
In the end, of course, he passed the exam - could there be any open-book exams that he couldn't pass? It's just what is taught in class...... He had mostly forgotten about it.
Now, Dussander wants to go back to 14 years ago, eat a meal of Yunhe cuisine, and then go to Yunhe University to take out and beat himself up when he is busy playing games.
After the beating was over, he viciously threatened Du Shengzhe, who looked confused, "Listen well in class!" You'll need it later! ”
Tsk, infuriating.
Although he lacked sufficient knowledge of the previous knowledge points, this did not prevent Dussaint from taking some of them to heart, and suddenly began to understand its meaning in such a place.
When these underqualified armourers began to unify their thinking and practice, something surprising happened.
They begin to take the initiative to learn. The commanders studied and memorized the instruction manual, and did not let go even when they were eating. The loaders began to practice on their own, asking the person with a pocket watch to be the judge who could load the most shells in a minute.
The gunners' training was more akin to that of the commander, who needed to familiarize themselves with the "unique" ballistic characteristics of the three-inch gun in addition to the rangefinder and the gravity and atmosphere of the Newsal, as well as the corresponding calculation of the firing elements.
Drivers come together and begin to figure out the most efficient way to drive for changes in the queue. By determining the position and number of each tank in the queue, they worked out a specific plan for changing the formation. The scheme is accurate to what depth each person needs to press the throttle after receiving the signal, and where to pull the track speed differential handles on both sides.
Dussander was impressed by the positive changes – these armed security guards weren't stupid, they weren't incapable of taking their skills to the next level.
They just lack a reason to do it, and the belief to react to it. Dussaint gave everyone a letter of conviction with a letter of intel from Bomir and a threat that was indeed in front of everyone.
In any case, tanks had to become standard in the Imperial Army.
Looking at the many armored soldiers who suddenly became serious, Dussand's heart felt a little complicated. On the one hand, the changes in these young people are really impressive. On the other hand, Dussander began to hate himself for not listening well to the lectures back then.
Just setting the right target can have such a big effect, if you carefully complete those three courses, wouldn't it be possible to directly make these armored soldiers suddenly turn into fierce men from the sky, and they will not breathe in a dozen or fifty?
When the book is used, Dusander's desire to go back to beating himself up in college fourteen years ago.
It's definitely not because I miss pork ribs and lotus root soup, stir-fried bacon with beetroot moss and hot dry noodles.
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People are very peculiar creatures, and it's okay if you don't want to. Once you remember something, you will always remember it. For example, when you realize that you are breathing, you have to control each breath yourself.
And Dusander is now caught in a "Lao Tzu just wants to hot dry noodles" obsession. This obsession was so deep that it even made him feel a little angry.
Lao Tzu wants to hot dry noodles!
The biggest difficulty between Dusant and a bowl of hot dry noodles is that the difference between the ingredients of the two worlds is too great. Wheat and wheat flour are similar, but the wheat on the Empire's side is mixed with some strange grains, which seem to be caused by not cleaning the husk when grinding.
The style of pasta in the empire is closer to the Western food of the previous life, but there are also "edible alkalis". But looking at the form of that alkali, Dussaint always felt that it should be sodium hydroxide instead of sodium carbonate.
The use of this alkali is also "special", and the cook at home will melt this alkali in salt water and brush it on bread. When the bread is baked, it will have a special dark brown hue that resembles black.
But how can this kind of difficulty stop a Yunhe man who is determined to hot dry noodles? After a successful point-and-finger description, Dussaint took a bottle of marinade from the chef that was said to be used to marinate beef - white crystals that do not melt into a viscous liquid when placed on the hand, and a bunch of small bubbles bubble when added to the vinegar.
Add baking soda, mix and knead the dough. Dusson gritted his teeth and tossed out a dough, and then "ordered" the cook in the manor to give him a hand. Dussander himself didn't understand the steps of turning dough into noodles, but that didn't stop him from using the mechanical principle to quickly process an oversized dough sheeter – stuff the dough into a metal cup with a hole underneath, and then squeeze the dough desperately with a round metal plate connected to a lever to get a alkaline dough.
If you don't have sesame seeds, replace them with oily flax with larger particles. Although this Empire's specialty oil crop has a hard crust on the outside, and eating the sauce directly after grinding it can greatly affect the taste, Dussaint doesn't want to worry about it.
Lao Tzu wants to hot dry noodles!
The empire does not have shredded shallots, but there are leafy garlic. The taste is slightly different from that of shredded green onions, but it can barely be replaced. The only thing that couldn't find a substitute was the marinated diced radish, capers and brine sauce.
As a Yunhe person, Dusand didn't know how to make the brine juice, which made him a little frustrated. He ended up chopping some pickled cucumbers and adding two spoonfuls of beef broth as a substitute, and finally had a bowl of Empire's special version of hot dry noodles.
Dussand's pride in this semi-finished product was so great that even the chef who did it said it tasted good.
Dussaint decided to share this joy with others. So, he took the noodles he made with his own hands, rode his black horse, and went to Lorraine's house with a bang.
"I invented it with my own hands." After entering Lorraine's house, Dussaint couldn't wait to take out the insulated lunch box he was carrying, "Taste it, it tastes good!" ”
Lorraine looked a little absent-minded today, she ate two bites of hot dry noodles, and did not show the kind of "eyes glowing, covering her mouth with her hands, and asking this and that excitedly" that Dussander expected. After a few polite bites of noodles, Lorraine broke away from all the maids and men.
She put down the silver fork in her hand and frowned at Dusander, "I heard from my mother in the afternoon that our whole family will go to Orin next week. ”
"To Orin?" Dussander didn't expect to hear such news, and he asked curiously, "What are you doing in Olin?" Mr. Winsall and Lady Bronnie have business in Olin? ”
"If it's a business visit, it won't take me with you." Lorraine shook her head and denied her fiancé's question, "I secretly asked my mother just now, and she said she was going to take me to visit a sick aunt - I never heard that my father still had relatives in Orin. ”
There was something strange about it, and Dussand sensed that the reason was a bit outrageous.
"I'm not worried about anything else." Lorraine looked at Dusand and said, "You and Lady Andronie are developing just right, they won't kidnap me to Orin and force me to marry some great nobleman." This will only make you feel humiliated and create a huge threat to the whole family that will be difficult to deal with. ”
Dussander is still a little uncomfortable with Lorraine's way of talking and thinking, which always gives him the illusion that "the two of us are not in the same group".
Fortunately, Lorraine is not such a person. She had a clear view of her position—whether it was for personal reasons (so as not to be used as a marriage tool to marry a nobleman), or for the sake of the family, it was only good and no harm to tie herself and Dussander together.
If it was purely for profit, her 10% stake in the Belford Automobile Factory would never have been so easily ceded to the Imperial Finance Minister.
It is "efficient" to take this share as a dowry and then marry the illegitimate son or youngest son of the financial minister.
"Since there is no big problem here...... Dussander said in a careful tone, "it means that there is nothing wrong with this news, and we will have doubts or even miscalculations about it because of the limited information we have." ”
In intelligence work, we need to pay attention not to overdo it and not let imagination take the lead. This is an important principle that Dussaint has learned—intelligence work itself is eight points of collection and two points of analysis, and if the ratio is reversed, it may be possible to make up unfounded and frightening "facts" such as "the empire and the alliance are actually one family, and both sides are controlled by some higher level of civilization".
Since it was decided by Winsall and Bronnie together, there shouldn't be any problem - the two of them have been tirelessly spreading rumors for so many years in order to keep Lorraine with them, and they finally see the hope that the rumors will come true, and they will not suddenly regret it at such a time.
Sunk cost is also a real cost.
"Then go ahead." Dussand, of course, was a little reluctant. But after all, he and Lorraine are now a little reluctant to say that they are "unmarried", and it seems a bit too much to interfere with each other's whereabouts. He pulled himself together and said, "Would you like to talk to Teacher Polina?" She's also from Olympus, so she should know a lot about what's good to eat and have fun over there......"
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"Mademoiselle, Mr. Lord has left." In her boudoir, Lorraine untied her waist with the help of two maids. She propped herself up on the dressing table in front of her, inhaling deeply and exhaling. This damn corset is getting more and more uncomfortable right now.
Usually when she meets Dusander, she never wears such a corset. But today, she decided that she was going to put on this damn thing and make herself a little more perfect in front of Dussand.
It was Lorraine's first time as a child, and her destination was far away in Orin - although in the case of interstellar travel, the trip would only take four or five hours to complete, but she was still a little nervous.
If Dussaint had spoken up, even if it was a fight with her parents, Lorraine would have chosen to stay in Newsar instead of following them to Orin. But Dussaint didn't do that, and out of more caution and "politeness", he chose to wish her a good trip.
There's nothing wrong with finding a cautious and cautious person to be your husband. In fact, Lorraine is somewhat glad for this - most of the reckless and emotional aristocrats will not end well.
But she still hopes that Dussander can save herself.
Looking at the baron's manor in the distance, Lorraine was in a trance, as if the manor was getting farther and farther away from her.