Urban Sims

Chapter 291 Make Money
Wenyue Middle School.

Class [-], Grade [-].

In the newly opened Humanities and Sociology class.

"Since the Blue Star Federation entered the era of great interstellar navigation, what is the biggest difficulty encountered?"

"The strong magnetic field environment in space that causes the spacecraft equipment to fail?"

"Space meteorites everywhere?"

"During the long-term space voyage, various physical and psychological diseases occurred?"

After citing several common situations in succession, the humanities teacher shook his head and said, "Neither of them, these are not the biggest difficulties."

"greedy."

"In the face of a huge amount of wealth, the insurmountable greed in people's nature has always been the biggest difficulty."

"No matter how united and friendly the expedition team is, in front of an entire galaxy, an idea will pop up in your mind: Do you want to kill all the partners around you?"

"According to statistics: 65% of the teams had disagreements, 48% of the teams fell into cannibalism. In the Federation's 500-year history of interstellar development, more than half of the casualties of explorers came from black guns fired by close teammates."

"Some people may ask, since the resources of the universe are so huge and massive, and they are inexhaustible, why do explorers still kill each other?"

"How to answer this question is why you study the course "Humanities and Sociology"."

"That's why this course is worth 120 points in the higher education unified examination."

The topic brought up by the humanities teacher caused the 33 students in the class to fall into deep thought for a long time, eager to know the answer to this question.

However, the humanities teacher made a fool of himself and didn't follow the topic. He buried the problem in the hearts of the students and let them think for themselves.

……

On the way to school.

"Grandpa, since resources are unlimited, it is impossible for a few people to occupy the entire planet. Why do so many explorers go to kill each other because of greed?"

Yun Xinghe couldn't help asking the old man in his mind about the question left in his heart in humanities class today.

"How should I put it? This question involves a lot of knowledge points in humanities. There are many vivid theories that can explain it. However, these explanations are too professional and general, and you may not understand them."

"Let me give you a simple example. If you have one pear in your hand, you will eat it into your stomach; if you have ten pears, you will eat them all within three days before the pears go bad." if there were 1000, you would want to sell some of the pears."

"If there is a whole pear orchard, you can't eat it all, you can't sell it, and when it's ripe, most of it will fall to the ground and rot, what will you think about it?"

The old man in his head asked.

"I, I will invite others to eat for free, whatever they want!" Yun Xinghe thought for a while and replied.

"Not bad boy, you know how to share with others, but, grandpa will ask you again, if those who eat your pears for free think your pear orchard is very big, so they ask you to give them half an acre of land, so that He can eat pears every year, would you like to?"

"I...Of course I don't want to, the pear orchard is mine! Pears can be eaten, but it's too much to want my pear orchard!" Yun Xinghe said.

"The standard answer, my child, is the so-called 'Pear Garden and Pear' theory in humanistic sociology. This theory can basically explain all similar problems."

"If a planet is compared to a pear orchard, those explorers who came from afar should be regarded as the masters of this pear orchard."

"The resources on the planet are pears one by one. They are big and delicious, and they form forests. A few people, dozens of people, or even tens of thousands of people can't finish eating these pears. They can only sell or give them away."

"However, can you see that the owner of the pear orchard even gave away the land full of pear trees to others for free?"

"No, almost none. No matter how kind a philanthropist is, it is unlikely that he will donate his pear orchard."

"No!" Yun Xinghe interrupted him: "This is different. These planets are unowned and belong to the Federation. Those explorers are not qualified to own a planet."

"Indeed, most explorers did not have the idea of ​​'I am the master of this place' at the beginning. Their ideas were pure and great at the beginning, and they only wanted to make a little contribution to the Federation and become the heroes recorded in the historical texts. great man."

"But as time goes by, the environment of the planet is getting better and better. After hundreds of years, when the Federation's colonial mothership arrives, will they still think so?"

"Time is the food of the greedy monster. It will grow stronger every day, and it will erode the bottom line and persistence every day..."

"Generally speaking, when the transformation of the planet takes place around 200 years ago, conflicts will basically erupt."

"With the coming of the colonial mothership, this contradiction will become more and more intense."

"Because, when something has been held in your hands for more than 200 years, even if you know that it is not your personal thing, it is difficult for you to return it right away...because you have put a lot of effort into it."

"So, don't think that your ancestor, Yuntian Peak, is just a rare individual misfortune. None of the 14 administrative stars of the Blue Star Federation were taken back to the federal government through normal means, and they are stationed in the space of the Bora star. The Federation's 11th Star Fleet near the city, with thousands of huge warships, is the key to the Federation's stable governance on this planet."

"And, in the following 1000 years, in order to gather resources, in the process of expanding the 14 direct administrative stars into 140 direct administrative stars in the Blue Star Federation, the methods adopted were nothing more than division, temptation, blockade and war. During the process, hundreds of super families were slaughtered, causing rebellion in dozens of colonial galaxies, but in the end, they were all suppressed by the Federation's expeditionary fleet... no matter how fiercely they resisted."

Yun Xinghe was stunned, and murmured, "If this is the case, why does the Federation send those interstellar explorers to explore those habitable galaxies? Why not send some unmanned exploration spacecraft to let robots complete these tasks? "

It was really hard for him to understand, since the Federation relied on those explorers, why did they slaughter the families established by those explorers in the end?

"You are right. Since human beings are so greedy, why not send robots? Because of the greed of human explorers, the destructive power caused is limited after all. What if robots are greedy? For a machine civilization that does not obey the Federation, the price to be paid for destroying this civilization is far greater than destroying human ambitions."

"Actually, greed is not a bad thing. It is also the internal driving force for the Federation to promote external expansion. Even if there will be some problems in the future, in the face of the Federation's far-leading technological level, strong cultural centripetal force, and military power that can defeat all rebellions, some The far-sightedness of careerists is simply vulnerable."

"Take the Guwu family of Planet Bola as an example. Will the upper echelons of the Federation see their threat? Will they be indifferent to their various actions?"

"Wrong, just look at this family. You can see its weak influence in the upper-level political circles and the federal army. The destructive power of the Furuya family will never leave the planet Bora."

Yun Xinghe's heart trembled violently, and he opened his eyes wide and said, "Grandpa, do you mean to say that the Federation has considered all issues long before deciding to leave the universe?"

"Otherwise? A person who can stand at that height can't control the greed in human nature?"

In the face of such a grand layout, Yun Xinghe's young heart could not be calm for a long time.

Not only that, Zhou Ming also gave him a reassurance:

"Son, don't worry that your dream will not come true. The Furuya family is not afraid. I can give you many options to choose from. Even, you don't need to buy that expensive ticket to other galaxies, and you don't need to emigrate. On the way, if you waste hundreds of years, even if you are on Planet Birla, you will be able to embark on an interstellar adventure just like your father."

"Really?"

Yun Xinghe said in surprise: "That's great!"

However, after hearing so much from the old man, Yun Xinghe's confidence was also extremely sufficient, but he still had no idea where to start with the specific plan, so he could only ask the old man.

"Start by making money." The old man said lightly.

"Grandpa wants me to find a job? But I'm only 12 years old, and I haven't reached the legal age to work, and those shops won't ask for it." The service industry in the interstellar era will still recruit some employees. It is a shop full of robots, but few people spend in it.

"Go and borrow your aunt's ID card to use it, and register a writer account on Xingkong Century Online."

"Grandpa, are you talking about writing novels? I know that, but I don't read enough books, so I don't know how to make up stories!" said Yun Xinghe, who had guessed what the old man was thinking.

"Who told you to write it, the old man told you to copy it! This is the simplest cheat, do you know? Just a few best-selling novels in the future era are enough for you to earn tens of billions in manuscript fees!"

There are also some classic songs, film and television scripts, etc., just copy a little bit, take advantage of the market audience of hundreds of billions of consumers, and it is not too easy to make money.

"Great, thank you grandpa!"

Yun Xinghe skipped to the next room, found his aunt, and asked to borrow an ID card.

Yun Xiaoying asked him why he borrowed his identity card, and Yun Xinghe said that he wanted to write a novel!

"Just you, want to write a novel?"

Yun Xiaoying opened her phoenix eyes wide, then shook her head and said, "Come on, let's finish writing your Chinese composition with a low score first."

Yun Xinghe blushed, took her aunt's hand, and said in a pleading voice: "Auntie, just lend me a loan, and I will share one-fifth of the manuscript fee you earn, uh, one-third of it with you." , can this work?"

"Pfft~"

Yun Xiaoying was amused by him, and after thinking about it, she lent him her identity card. As for the one-third of the manuscript fee that Yun Xinghe said, after a while, she saw a long list of almost astronomical figures on the manuscript fee payment slip. Yes, it was about the same as her 100-year salary in the gym club. She was stunned for a while, then cut off the first five digits, and took a third of the remaining four digits. .

"Auntie, you are really shameless!"

Yun Xinghe wants to cry but has no tears, he really wants to grow up immediately and write a book with his own author account.

(End of this chapter)