Chengdu.

In the office, Chen Nian, Chen Guo and Li Xiang sat together again rarely, each holding a teacup and chatting with each other.

In fact, it has been a long time since Li Xiang officially joined the intelligence department, and the three of them have not been together like this for a long time, and the division of duties and powers in their work is one thing, and maintaining an extremely high level of pressure and rhythm is another.

For Chen Guo, there are all kinds of planning, budgeting, and evaluation meetings all day long, and for Li Xiang, public opinion changes all the time, and his work does not stop all the time.

Chen Nian is even more exaggerated, not to mention the problem of technical output, just all kinds of learning and research occupy more than 50% of the time.

So, such a leisurely ride is a luxury for them.

After drinking the last sip of tea in the cup, Chen Nian continued the previous topic and said:

Therefore, now that the laser has basically been output, the technology has basically been output, and next, it depends on how the 11 institutes can dispatch resources for rapid application."

"However, this time the technology is relatively basic, and it will take some time for the technical dismantling of YLS-1000, and it is impossible to directly apply it to the Shenguang project."

"After the equipment comes out, there is a high probability that it will give priority to laser welding and laser engraving."

"It's not a bad thing for us to have welding technology in the civilian industry, we have always been weak, and this time we just make up for it."

Hearing his words, Chen Guo nodded slightly and replied:

"Yes, that's what the DAD said too."

"We are not in a hurry for the time being for the military application of this piece."

"As for the Shenguang Project, it is also a backup plan in itself, and the core is still on the EAST side."

"Progress at EAST is going a little bit faster than expected."

Chen Nian took over and said.

"How's the velvet team going?"

Chen Guo asked.

"Very good, we have begun to dismantle the principle of magnetic ripple field formation, and it is estimated that a conclusion will be formed within one to two months."

"After this piece is solved, the construction of the superconducting coil can be started."

"It's almost two months shorter than expected."

An expression of appreciation appeared on Chen Guo's face.

Sure enough, the young man never let himself down.

Think about how when I first met him, he was still an extremely young boy, holding a copy of the aerodynamic design drawings of the F-22 in his hand, and wanted to use the method of "handing in homework" to get his attention.

In fact, at that time, he probably had already anticipated everything that was going to happen, right?

It's just that I just regarded it as an accident.

It wasn't until he began to continue to take out the engine drawings that everyone, including himself, gradually took him seriously

Seven years have passed, Xinghuo is getting stronger and stronger, including himself, including Lei Gang and Lin Yongming, the affairs he is responsible for have changed, it seems that only Chen Nian still maintains the appearance of the first time he saw him.

——

It's the same, when he appeared, he was already at the peak, so there really is nothing to change

Thinking of this, he said with a little emotion:

"We've done a lot of things. But it seems that now the outside world does not understand much about these things? ”

Hearing his words, Li Xiang on the side laughed.

"Professor Chen, don't tell me that you still care about those statements on the Internet."

"These are all premeditated public opinion offensives, and there is no need to see them at all."

"I have to admit that they did grasp some pain points, but if someone is willing to investigate it themselves, they will find that what they present is a one-sided, carefully screened conclusion."

"Here's the problem."

Chen Guo shook his head and continued:

"We know it's a carefully screened conclusion, but most of the population doesn't know it."

"They just believe what they see at first sight and use it as a basis for judgment."

As soon as these words were spoken, Chen Nian, who was sitting on the side, also nodded again and again.

In fact, compared with Chen Guo, he can better appreciate the huge destructive power brought about by this "preconceived".

Otherwise, how can there be a saying called "spread rumors with one mouth, refute rumors and break your legs"?

The reason lies in a "precedent" problem.

This is not because people are "not smart", but precisely because they are "not smart enough".

A very simple example, when an event begins to ferment under deliberate guidance, the views output in this event naturally have the characteristics of being preemptive, and they also occupy the "commanding heights" in the public opinion showdown.

In the eyes of most people, "first" means "clear conscience" and "invulnerability", because they will instinctively think that the person who speaks first is actively exposing his flaws.

Then the person who speaks is "quibbling" or "denying" the other party's loopholes.

If not with confidence, who would do it?

But what they don't know is that for organizations that do this kind of work professionally, the cost of rumor-mongering is so low that it hardly needs to be considered and calculated.

Anyway, the big deal is to change the number and reopen, under the operation of industrialization, if you want to create an influential account, in fact, it is only a few weeks at most.

To put it bluntly, most people think they are on the second floor, but in fact they are on the second basement floor.

This situation has not been alleviated with the increase in the penetration of the Internet and the increase in the amount of information throughput, but has intensified due to the increase in information fragmentation.

In Chen Nian's memory, even in the era before he was reborn, this problem was not really solved.

He was suddenly a little curious, in the current world, what kind of response plan would a public opinion worker like Li Xiang come up with?

And Li Xiang on the side immediately understood what he meant after seeing his expectant eyes.

He shook his head with a smile and said:

"What, you're all waiting for me to come up with a solution?"

"So what's not? Isn't that what you do? ”

Chen Nian asked rhetorically with a natural expression.

Okay. However, this kind of thing is not as difficult as you think. ”

"In fact, to put it bluntly, the only advantage that the other party occupies is not the so-called 'first strike'."

"In terms of plausibility and persuasiveness, they are unlikely to have any advantage over a formal investigative report."

"If you really dig deeper, in fact, most people can understand that the other party is just a general exchange of concepts."

"So, what we're going to do is very simple, and that's to make the other side's first-mover advantage disappear."

Hearing this, Chen Nian couldn't help frowning.

There is an obvious logic point in this passage, that is, the establishment of first-mover advantage is irreversible.

It's based on the most basic concept of "time", and it's impossible to reverse time, or take a pen like the man in black and erase everyone's memory, right?

He asked Li Xiang his own questions, and the latter patiently explained:

"When I say the elimination of the first-mover advantage, I don't mean it physically, but logically."

"The reason why the first-mover advantage can become an advantage is based on the fact that the two sides are engaged in a confrontation of public opinion based on the same agenda."

"So what if, at all, we don't discuss their preset agenda?"

Chen Nian was stunned for a moment.

At this moment, he suddenly seemed to understand a lot of things

Yes, the other side doesn't really care about the outcome of a debate.

What they care about is how many of the audience on their side can be purified in the course of the debate.

And once the intensity of the debate on both sides starts to rise, so does the range of what they can purify.

This is definitely not the result that Huaxia wants.

But there's a catch.

"So we're just going to ignore it entirely?"

"Of course not."

Li Xiang shook his head and continued:

"We routinely send out investigative reports in response, but we don't have to worry about the attention of the response."

"Because, after the new agenda is hot and the old one cools, there will always be people who turn our response out."

"At that time, it was much more effective than it was in high temperatures."

A few days later, according to the strategy of the public opinion department mentioned by Li Xiang, a program that surprised everyone began to air.

The production of this show is not very good, and like the vlog released by Wilson, it also adopts the method of first-person shooting, and it is also a duo configuration, and even the timbre of the narration is somewhat similar.

I have to say that at this point, the producer still played some cleverness.

But this little cleverness is not offensive, because the content it presents is indeed full of sincerity.

The name of the show is simple.

"A Day in the Life of a Chinese Man".

Similar to the "One Day of a Chinese Man" in Chen Nian's memory, all the characters who appear in this show are the most ordinary individuals in China.

The difference is that compared with the "ordinary" of the show in the previous life, this show focuses on more vivid and tragic reality.

In a total of 12 episodes of the program, what people see the most is the process of those so-called little people at the bottom of society struggling with life.

There is a family of urban poor who have returned to poverty due to illness and can only live on their elderly mother's breakfast peddling, and their daily meal is three meals of alkaline water, and only the dying patient on the sickbed is entitled to an egg;

There is an ordinary clerk who lives among skyscrapers, commutes more than four hours a day, has to give up a week's lunch to buy a white shirt for an interview, and the first thing he does when he gets paid each month is to send the money back to his parents, who are already old and unemployed;

Here in the northwestern land, she worked with her back to the loess and could only bathe twice in her life, but on the day of her wedding, she saved the water and gave it to the farmer who was livestock, and she stroked the mane of the donkey, and prayed for a rain in a hoarse voice;

There is a young man with his younger brother scavenging, he has never left himself anything good, he will only quietly pick up the milk carton that his brother has drunk and open it, lick and eat a few drops of liquid left on it, and then put the flattened box neatly into the snakeskin bag he carries.

Compared with the so-called "suffering" shown in Wilson's video, the suffering presented in this series of programs has completely reached the level of crushing in terms of level and authenticity.

And people's first reaction after seeing this show is not anger, but horror.

In fact, many people's understanding of suffering is superficial and one-sided.

Many people measure suffering only by cold figures, defined by the so-called "monthly income less than XX".

However, this show is clearly telling everyone that the suffering is definitely more than that.

It's not a string of numbers, it's not one or two images, it's a kind of thick black cloud that runs through some people's entire lives, always oppresses over their heads, and makes it impossible for them to straighten up no matter how hard they struggle.

Or else?

Will the old man who sells breakfast be able to save enough for his son's medical expenses to get him up from bed again?

Can hard-working employees save enough money to establish themselves in that magical city?

Can the peasants of the northwest open up a waterway to irrigate her dried-up pastures like Yugong moved mountains?

Or is it that the boy who picks up waste can turn the gears of fate one day and change his fate from now on?

The vast majority of people think that this is absolutely impossible.

They can't imagine what other possibilities are possible for these people shown in the show.

I can't imagine what a big opportunity it will take to get them out of the quagmire.

——

Until a comment came along.

"In fact, there are some things that are not without a little opportunity."

"In 04, I was like the scavenging boy in the show, my parents died, I dropped out of school at home, and I could only live on a little leftovers from my neighbors every day."

"At that time, I felt that my life was over, and I thought countless times that I would go to the agricultural machinery store in the village to buy a bottle of pesticide to drink, and go with my parents."

"Ironically, I can't even afford a bottle of pesticide, so I have to steal it."

"But after stealing, I didn't think I could do it, I didn't want to die and still have infamy, so I survived again-—— which is probably a kind of luck."

"I survived for six months, and after six months, someone took me to school, waived my tuition and fees, paid for winter clothes, and gave me a poverty grant that was enough to survive a year."

"I would get the same amount of money every year for the next three years."

"This money allowed me to successfully finish high school and be admitted to a junior college-—— unfortunately, it was not a university."

"Maybe I wasn't born that good at reading."

"But so what? I now make 5,000 dollars a month. ”

"Just last week, I went back to my hometown to settle the money I owed to the owner of the agricultural machinery shop six years ago."

"The bottle of pesticide that I stole back is still on the windowsill, the bottle is rotten and deformed, and the potion inside has long evaporated to the point where I don't know where."

After this comment was posted, it even surpassed the video itself.

At the bottom of the comments, countless netizens followed the posts, telling their experiences.

Of course, there are many more people who take a closer look at the current situation of several of the protagonists in the video, and then share those surprising results.

The old man who sold breakfast sent his son to BJ with a special subsidy for special diseases.

The company of the staff of the snail house took over the major projects from the government, and he also received a large bonus.

Farmers in the northwest did not move the mountains themselves, and XCMG's XE215DA excavator dug the canal for her.

And the boy who scavenged waste, just like the experience of netizens in the comment area, has returned to the campus that should have belonged to him.

Is life really like an abyss, after falling into it, you can never get up again?

It wasn't until this moment that people suddenly understood the purpose of this show.

In the face of surging doubts and torture, it tore open its deepest scars almost without changing its face, showing its bloody flesh in front of the flies flying in the sky.

But just as the flies were about to eat its flesh, the bleeding wounds began to heal at an alarming rate.

——

Yes, it's not like we're doing nothing.

We've done a lot, but some things will take time to prove.

Or to put it another way.

For many years, those aircraft carriers, those cannons, those missiles, they have guarded the bowl of most people in this country with a resolute attitude.

And now, perhaps, it's time to add rice to the bowl?

At this time, looking back at those painful sufferings, an unprecedented realization suddenly appeared in the hearts of most people:

Perhaps, there are indeed many desperate situations in life, which is an indelible and undeniable truth.

But why don't you believe that even in such a desperate situation, someone can lead you to turn the tables?

(End of chapter)