"Teacher, I am not a narrow-minded nationalist. I am not even a human being. So I cannot do what you do, because my surname and blood have such a high sense of identity with ancient China. I can only make an independent analysis of the objective facts that have already happened in history from my personal perspective."

"Facts have proved that during the development period of ancient China, there were indeed many brave and fearless combat heroes who were ready to die. In peacetime, we can also see many ancient Chinese soldiers, medical personnel, firefighters, and rescuers who knew that there were tigers in the mountains but still went there."

"People in ancient China would not ask their leaders for salary before setting out on a mission that required every second to complete. They would always think about completing what they could do first, and then consider other things. Those predecessors were always able to clearly recognize what kind of battle was an important battle, and what situation required life-threatening. Whenever it was needed, there would always be someone who stood up from the humble. He might have been just an ordinary person the moment before, but the next second, he became a warrior who could block a machine gun with his chest." "

After the end of World War II, ancient China, under the pressure of internal and external troubles, took 70 years to complete the journey of other countries in 150 years, and completed the largest-scale post-modern industrialization process in human history. All this was not a blessing from heaven, but a miracle of civilization accomplished by all the people in this country together."

"There is no result without a cause. The birth of miracles must have a reason. The reason lies in the historical sedimentation of ancient China that has never been interrupted. It allows people who grow up in this historical culture to have empathy for their fellows that can transcend life and death, and to have a spirit of sacrifice and fearless courage that seems unreasonable to others. It is so profound that it can become the cradle that ultimately breeds the common collective wisdom of the entire human civilization."

"The fertile soil of 5,000 years of history has fostered humanity's true will to unite across classes. This unity transcends ethnicity, skin color, and faith, and is naturally invincible, able to conquer any battle, and to clear any mountain or control any flood. This unity is different from the freedom, peace, and love that people in other systems dominated by capital at the time glossed over. Under the guidance of this unity that focuses on the vision of all civilizations, ancient China, which gradually became a world leader, did not indulge in hegemony, but always restrained itself with a high sense of responsibility and took the interests of all civilizations as the highest criterion."

"Of course, during the transition from the 21st century to the 22nd century, some biased thoughts were born in ancient China. But these thoughts were harmless and could not shake the foundation. Fortunately, during this period, the ancient philosopher became the highest spiritual leader in science and technology, economy, politics and military. His high degree of self-restraint and his insistence on a fair strategy played a crucial role in the unity of civilization." "

He insisted on telling the truth and doing real things, and was not afraid of others' malicious slander. He insisted on treating those who failed to keep up with the latecomers with a tolerant and kind attitude. At the same time, he maintained absolute superiority in all aspects, built an overwhelming power system, and effectively prevented unstable factors."

"Time has proved that the ancient philosophers were right, and has also proved that the ideology of the ancient people was of the highest timeliness, the most far-sighted and advanced nature, and the strongest sense of civilizational mission."

"I do not deny the height of the ancient philosophers' thoughts. But I think that the ancient philosopher himself is just one of the individuals in Chinese civilization. His thoughts are based on his life experience and the cultural attributes of his environment. His life experience and cultural attributes are based on the historical sedimentation of the ancient country." "

It was the profound historical and cultural soil of ancient China that first gave birth to the personality of the ancient philosophers, and ultimately there would be the ancient philosophers themselves, the epitome of human civilization thought. Without the ancient philosophers, there would be no present. But without the past, there would be no ancient philosophers."

The overly precocious Tang Xia'ao explained to Zhou Donglai his comprehensive outlook on life and society from his personal perspective.

Zhou Donglai, however, sensed something else. "Xiao Tang, are you saying that the leader of mankind is not the individual sage, but the history of ancient China?" "

No, teacher, this is back to the philosophical debate of which came first, the chicken or the egg. I think that at critical historical stages, we still need great leaders like sages who have extraordinary strategic thinking to accomplish the mission of unifying the will. After all, if we regard collective wisdom as an individual, the level of consideration of this individual is actually not deep enough."

"Civilization needs scientific leaders, opinion leaders, thought leaders, military leaders, political leaders, business leaders and other leaders who truly have a sense of responsibility, mission and ability to help ordinary people improve their thinking depth and avoid resource waste as much as possible. This resource includes both material and energy in a narrow sense, and in a broad sense, the limited disposable time that everyone has in their limited life."

"In the past, we were very lucky because we had the ancient philosophers. They possessed all the characteristics required of all the above types of leaders, so they were great leaders."

"But in our fleet, the military leader used to be General Qin, and now it is you, teacher. The personal ability leader is Teacher Tong, and the scientific leader is Emerson... But unfortunately, even though Teacher Tong has achieved extraordinary achievements, she still cannot be compared with the ancient philosophers."

"Teacher, even if you and other people's influence in the fleet is added together, it is still not as great as that of the Sage. This is the core reason for the outbreak of the civil strife. The civil strife did improve the average military quality of the fleet, which is our gain. But if there was a second Sage in the fleet, perhaps we would have performed better in the last battle without going through the civil strife."

Zhou Donglai responded, "Yes. We need a leader like the Sage, but unfortunately... forget it. It's too late today. Xiao Tang, you should go to bed early."

Zhou Donglai hung up the call, opened his personal diary system, and began to quickly record his reflections and summaries.

He started the conversation between the master and apprentice today with the original intention of cultivating Tang Xiaao, but he never thought that he would be enlightened again. After

thinking for a long time, Zhou Donglai opened the internal information system again and checked the Empire Weekly that he had just received a ten-thousandth of a second ago, looking through the latest scientific research progress and the leadership's comprehensive report on current affairs, military affairs, economy and other core contents.

After a long time, Zhou Donglai sighed and said to himself: "This really can't go on."

The birth of a leader like Chen Feng is too accidental and there is no possibility of replication.

To borrow a sentence from the ancient philosopher Chen Feng himself.

According to unofficial historical records, he once said this at a small gathering of the founding team of the salvation team: "I can't help it, and I don't want to raise myself so high. I have even tried very hard to weaken my presence. But I must share what I get from the future in advance, and use it to lead civilization forward. Now is an information society, and even I can't hide the truth forever under the cover of the sands of time."

"What I have done will definitely be discovered and studied by historians of future generations, and I will definitely be deified. I can't stop this. After my death, as long as the war between humans and the compound eyes has not ended, and humans have not yet stepped out of the Milky Way and entered the real big universe era, in theory, it is impossible for humans to give birth to people who surpass me."

"This is not only dependent on ability and talent, but also because I, as a relay of civilization, have completed too much work that connects the past and the future. Before the advent of the Great Cosmic Era, it is impossible for others to surpass me in terms of workload and achievements. I don't want this to happen, and I believe you don't want it either, but this is an objective fact that cannot be changed." The fastest update on mobile::

In short, the objective fact means that after the sage Chen Feng entered the embryonic resurrection state and disappeared with the entire original gene research institute, mankind had to enter an era without a leader and without a real leader.

This is true for the Imperial Headquarters and the Nameless Fleet.

It is undeniable that many remarkable figures have been born in the long years and the infinite territory, such as Lai Wenming, Xie Ergai, Qin Guang, Yang Guoding, etc., as well as the current Tong Ling, Emerson, Zhou Donglai, and Ophiroth Cage and Solent Cage, who left a strong mark in the history of the fleet although they were short-lived.

These people have their own achievements and should not be underestimated.

However, no matter how extreme the historians are, who study certain fields and whose research scope is limited to certain specific periods, they cannot put these names on the same level as the ancient philosophers.

Perhaps some people think that in every timeline in the past, mankind has also experienced a similar leadership gap and has also passed through it.

But past "successes" are not worth emulating, because no matter how much progress humanity has made in the past nine timelines, it still lost in the end.

Here I still quote the original words of the ancient philosopher Chen Feng himself, "Winning the king and defeating the bandits, there is no need to quibble. There is no essential difference in the results between a beautiful defeat and a humble defeat. As long as you lose, it proves that there must be something you did not do well enough and needs to be improved."

Today, the times are different.

Under different circumstances, human civilization must put forward new demands on itself.

Whether it is the social structure or the demand for talents, or the leadership culture, they must keep pace with the times.

In the past, until the eighth timeline, humans have been trapped in the solar system by the dome.

Although humans knew almost nothing about the enemy at that time, it was precisely this ignorance that saved them trouble. They had no time to think about it. They only thought about completing more work and had no unrealistic expectations for the future.

In the ninth timeline that just passed, the situation became a little more complicated, and there were many disturbances in the outer colonies.

But humans at that time were still pessimistic and had no vision for the future.

There had never been a core team that undertook a major mission of the same level as the Nameless Fleet.

The epochal value of the Shadow Galaxy is roughly comparable to that of the Nameless Fleet, but the development model inside the Shadow Galaxy is highly similar to the solar system in the previous eight timelines, and there is no large-scale chaos. The fault tolerance brought by the characteristics of its galaxy civilization is also much greater than that of the Nameless Fleet.

But this time, Zhou Donglai took a quick look at the overall situation and found that the intense war was different from the desperate war in the past timelines.

Now humans can neither see the hope of winning in the short term nor the possibility of a quick defeat. In the process of constant entanglement and killing between the two sides, the direction of human social ideology and structure has become more complicated.

The tense war situation in the frontline galaxy with both sides winning and losing is a trap in itself.

In the process of deceiving the Compound Eyes and intending to confront each other, humans further quickly absorbed the core technology of the other side. At the same time, they also used the war experience and technological advancement gained on the front line to complete the technological reserve

in the rear, and quickly transformed it into a continuously improving military force, waiting to give the other side a hard blow. But it is obvious that judging from the Devouring Worms and Hive Giant Ships encountered by the Nameless Fleet, the Compound Eyes have never completely revealed their true cards in the previous confrontations, and even in the long wars in the past nine timelines.

Humans are not sure to win, and many people should understand this, but unknowingly, humans have jumped into the pit they dug for the Compound Eyes.

This pitfall is not a tactical intrigue, nor a strategic intrigue, but a higher-level ideological trap that involves the direction of ideology.

Looking at the entire human race, no one can be immune to it and stay out of it.

Unconsciously, too many people began to have a wrong perception in their hearts, thinking that humans have mastered the winning formula by countering the Compound Eyes and even the slave army, which is stronger than the main frigates in the past, without going all out.

No one denies the defeat of humans in the history of nothingness, but the history of nothingness that cannot be witnessed is indeed more superficial than the real history, and cannot form a sufficient imprint of thinking.

Moreover, under the indoctrination of the consciousness left by Chen Feng, this group of people more firmly recognized the superiority of human beings as the core race of the universe.

The string of living for death that people had been holding in their hearts in the past has been relaxed, which easily breeds overconfidence.

Self-confidence is not a bad thing, but overconfidence will lead to laxity.

This is wrong.

The correct situation should be like this.

In the case of a certain loss, blind self-confidence can boost people's hearts.

But when there is a real chance of winning, confidence should be withdrawn and other advanced civilizations born in the vast universe should be in awe.

Everyone understands the truth, but the subtlety of the human heart is that knowing is easy but doing is difficult.

The long-term lurking action and the long-time separation from the main civilization of the Nameless Fleet have led to the emergence of escapism, which is called free will, but is actually blind confidence that they can survive by going out. This is a very obvious manifestation.

In the Empire, although there are many great think tanks such as the Imperial Government, the Salvation Organization, the Institute of Space-Time Topology, and the Academy of Sages, which have strong executive power and control the overall situation, and with the increase in the per capita gene awakening, it has also brought stronger innovation and productivity, but problems have gradually been exposed, but the degree is not as obvious as the chaos in the Nameless Fleet, and the differences are slightly smaller.

In the Empire, most people are still concerned about the overall interests of civilization, but there are still many people who are content with pleasure.

Excessive inferiority and excessive self-esteem are still in their infancy.

Even in some star regions, various scientific and unscientific sects have emerged.

Under the complete imperial republic system, in some star regions, different vassal systems have emerged according to different natural and cultural environments. There are military systems, republican systems, parliamentary systems, religious systems, scientific and religious systems, scientific systems, industrial systems, agricultural systems, entertainment systems, and other complex ideologies and cultural attributes that influence each other.

The mixture of many different systems has formed an empire republic that is like a big pot of hodgepodge.

This complex overall environment is shaking the unified will of mankind.

This is like cutting flesh with a blunt knife, and it is also a potential crisis of division and disintegration within the human race.

This is inevitable. Because human thinking is uncertain and infinitely random.

The short life span is both an advantage and a disadvantage for humans. It is difficult for earthlings to rely on cloning and immortality like the compound eyes to keep the ideology unchanged for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.

Now the people in the war zone and the people in the rear are gradually developing ideological differences, and due to the differences in cognition and racial character of each race, this differentiation is becoming more and more serious.

Many knowledgeable people have already realized the problem, and many of them have even sought advice from Zhou Donglai, a member of the fleet who had experienced the turmoil.

This problem has indeed troubled Zhou Donglai for several months, and it is also the reason for his discussion with Tang Xiaao.

Zhou Donglai once again began to reflect on the causes and consequences of the last internal turmoil.

He believes that although it was his teacher Qin Guang who made the plan and he himself who implemented the plan, there is no doubt that Tong Ling is the key to turning the world around.

It is because of Tong Ling's existence that the fleet can stabilize the situation at a critical moment.

The reason why the subsequent work can be carried out smoothly is also closely related to Tong Ling's strong strength and her unshakable lofty status in the minds of all fleet members.

After successfully overcoming the civil turmoil, the fleet not only completed the training, but also re-strengthened the functions of the management system, and made the fleet members clearly aware of the nature of society, the value of beliefs, and the relationship between individuals and groups.

After the civil turmoil, the fleet members regained a dialectical outlook on life and learned to face up to their responsibilities.

In the key battles after the successful implementation of the fleet republic, there was no coercion, no force, and no suspicion. Everyone was united in the same hatred of the enemy.

Everyone knew that no matter whether they moved forward for different beliefs, they must move forward and move towards eternity.

Because of this, the fleet was able to escape from the deadly situation created by the Devouring Worm and the Hive Battleship.

Now the fleet has been broken up into 12,000 groups, but with the stronger cohesion created by the Fleet Republic, Qin Guang is emotionally willing to believe that others can complete the convergence in 2960, but reason tells him that he has to do something to prevent changes.

Forty years is enough to change dynasties in the slow-paced ancient times, let alone now.

So Zhou Donglai believes that his thinking is not only giving back to the empire, but also helping himself.

Zhou Donglai thought for a long time without sleep, taking notes while thinking, and finally wrote a paragraph.

"Only great leaders can become the spiritual pillars of ordinary people, and enable ordinary people who are partial to one side and have limited abilities to walk on the right path without knowing all the truth."

"Humanity needs leaders. What leaders leave to mankind is not just those visible and tangible results, but an indelible spiritual power."

"Real great leaders are hard to come by, and require too many factors such as time, place, and people to meet the standards. Over the long course of time, civilization will inevitably face the situation of a lack of leaders, so at least the spiritual power left by the leaders must be passed on."

"The transmission of spiritual power should be between people, and cannot rely on artificial intelligence. Because artificial intelligence itself lacks emotions, it naturally cannot teach everyone the true spiritual attributes." "

But how can we engrave the spiritual imprint in people's hearts?"

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