1855 United States Tycoon

Hearing Scrooge's words, Dena was silent for a while. She knew that Scrooge didn't tell lies, what he said were things that were very likely to happen in the future. Even as long as she wants, she can think of many more terrible things. For example, the people are willing to follow the Bolsheviks because the Bolsheviks promised to end the war and bring them a better life. In theory, never worry about insufficient demand. As long as there are resources, the socialist system that can expand production without restriction should indeed bring peace and a better life to the people, but in practice it is not necessarily the case. The war between the Emperor, the Kingdom, the Lord and the Righteous is over, but the civil war has begun, and the civil war has continued to the end of the Emperor, the Kingdom, the Lord and the Righteous War. In fact, because of this, many people who supported the revolution in the first place have already regretted it, and even turned to the counter-revolutionary side. If the civil war is over, you can farm with peace of mind and develop people's livelihood with peace of mind. Then Dena believes that the people will be satisfied and will soon forget the extra war time.

But things are not so easy. Although Dena believes that victory in the civil war is not too difficult, but this is not the end of the difficulty, but the beginning of the difficulty. This emerging country is surrounded by enemies. It must become strong as soon as possible, and it must advance fast, and at all costs, it must advance fast by all means. For this, it must sacrifice a lot of things, perhaps one or two generations, or even more. Not many people can really bear such a life that they can't breathe, so many people will regret it, and they will feel that they have been fooled. However, there must be no pause in this country. Pause means Death, which means that all the blood that has been shed before has been lost, and the sins suffered before have been lost for nothing. In the future, if the people have to suffer and suffer the second stubble again. Therefore, anyone who tries to make this country breathe and lighten the burden on the people is dragging the country back. They are enemies of the revolution, they are all counter-revolutionaries, and they all need to be ruthlessly suppressed. Some of these people may be very good people, they may simply be revolutionaries now, but...

"But Dena, I am very worried about your future." Scrooge said, "I think you should be able to understand that after your revolution, you will encounter a series of problems. Maybe today's fellow travelers may change. To become the counter-revolution of tomorrow, especially in the process of rapid industrialization that you need to desperately and unscrupulously. The whole situation may be exactly the same as during the French Revolution, especially during the Robespierre period. Red in Moscow On the field, a high guillotine may be erected, and on each telephone pole there will be a corpse such as a counter-revolutionary, an enemy of the country, a traitor, etc. Dana, you have enough knowledge and experience , You know that I’m not exaggerating here. This is something that is completely possible, and even something that will happen. Do you think it’s really good for you to stay in such an environment?"

Scrooge looked at Dena, hoping to see doubts, fears, and shakes in Dena's eyes. This is normal. When anyone sees such a dark future, even if he believes that there is light behind the darkness and believes that crossing this darkness is the only way to see the light, he will still be suspicious and fearful. . After all, humans are not machines. As long as they are humans, they are afraid.

The two did not speak any more. After a long time, Dena smiled bitterly and said in a voice that almost only she could hear: "When the white army officer called me out, I thought he would take me to the river. Side, then threw me a shovel, let me dig a hole in the river beach, and then shot me in the back of my head. Now that I think about it, the result is actually pretty good. Although it’s like a slaughter to die like this Greif said: "This is a nameless sacrifice. You will perish, and no one will even... No one knows, and no one honors you in memory." Although I felt that I was already on this road. Be prepared for all kinds of preparations, although I have even been'prepared for crime', although I have thought about it, maybe one day,'you know that in the future you will deny your belief in your present situation, and you will think that you are wasting it in vain. I’ve lost your youth’, but I’m still not brave enough, I haven’t dared to really face the darkness ahead... But I still believe that my judgment is not wrong, and the path I am taking is not bad. Just like Rob There was nothing wrong with Spear’s path back then!"

Dena's voice gradually rose, and she also raised her head, staring into Scrooge's eyes without fear.

"Well, Dena." Scrooge said in a disappointed tone. "You know, the family has always wanted you to go back. Although the third-generation children in the family are almost grown up now, they can be compared. You still don’t have any."

"No, Scrooge Uncle, I won't go back." Dena said firmly.

"Tell me your reasons." Scrooge didn't show any dissatisfaction because of Dena's refusal.

"I don't want to do useless things that are destined to be eliminated by history." Dena replied, "Going back to the family, of course I can be an excellent capitalist, but the capitalist set has the same mathematics as Xiantian. Its failure and demise are inevitable and inevitable. Such a thing is not worth investing too much in it."

Scrooge understands the "mathematical" "Xiantian defect" described by De Na, that is, the problem that supply is inevitably greater than demand in an isolated capitalist economic system. Of course, this problem can be alleviated to a certain extent by plundering the colony. However, the colony is limited, and the expansion of production capacity is not unlimited. This way, the economic crisis is inevitable, so because there is too much production, everyone has no food. Eating, there is nothing to use, such an obvious situation that does not conform to the most basic mathematical laws appears.

"Dana, of course there is a little truth in what you said, but I don't think the phenomenon you are talking about violates the most basic laws of the world." Scrooge thought for a while, and replied, "Dana, you know , The second law of thermodynamics has such a description: "The entropy of an isolated system never automatically decreases. Entropy does not change in the reversible process, but increases in the irreversible process." What you said about the capitalist Xiantian problem is actually very consistent Isn’t it the law of physics? To increase negative entropy, you have to find ways outside the system, just like relying on colonies to solve problems. And what you imagine now is that you don’t need to rely on the economic self-prosperity of the colonies in front of you, that’s a violation. The law of nature."

After hearing this, Dena laughed: "Scrooge Uncle, you are secretly changing the concept. Indeed, in an isolated system, the entropy will always increase irreversibly. But for society, negative entropy The source does not originate from foreign colonies. Otherwise, it would not be possible to explain the increase in negative entropy within the entire human society since the Industrial Revolution. Negative entropy originates from the source of energy that drives social production, not from colonies. What? I thought about this issue a long time ago."

"The source of energy?" Scrooge did not react for a while.

"Before the industrial revolution, the energy required for all human activities originated from the direct or indirect use of solar energy by living organisms. The reason why the industrial revolution allowed mankind to take a big step forward was that it enabled mankind to obtain negative entropy not only Relying only on the direct and indirect use of solar energy by organisms, the use of fossil energy has become the mainstream. The use of fossil energy accumulated over hundreds of millions of years makes the negative entropy that humans can obtain greatly exceeds any previous era. This makes today's society possible. Of course, the consumption of fossil energy will be far greater than its accumulation, so from this perspective, the negative entropy of human society has increased, but the overall entropy of the earth has also increased. One day in the future Maybe fossil energy will be exhausted, but thanks to Einstein, thanks to Marie Curie, thanks to their great discovery, Einstein told us E=MC2, which shows that besides fossil energy, there are other possible negative entropy Ms. Curie Marie’s research on radioactivity has pointed out the direction for the possibility of new energy sources. When will fossil energy be used up, but maybe by that time, we can directly use the energy contained in matter? .So, the colony is not a necessary thing." Dena replied.

Dena's answer went far beyond Scrooge's expectations. Scrooge hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Denah, what you said seems to make sense, but I have to think about it again. "

In the conversation, it is not a terrible thing to be at a disadvantage on an issue. The terrible thing is that you don’t know whether to admit defeat or stop loss. Instead, you are entangled in this issue that is already at a disadvantage, and the result is a flaw. More and more, and more and more at a disadvantage, unable to turn over. At this time, immediately admit that you are not thinking comprehensively, then end the topic and shift the direction of the conversation to other areas. That is the correct approach.

"But Dena, even if you don't consider this issue, even if capitalism is destined to perish, your revolution will inevitably fail. Or we can deduct it on the spot." Scrooge said.

Dena has always been a very good and strong person, and Scrooge knew that deducing something full of confrontational colors on the spot would definitely attract Dena's attention.

"Okay, Scrooge Uncle, I am also very interested in this." Dena replied.

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