Urban Sims

Wenyue Middle School.

Class 3, Grade 6.

In the new humanities and sociology class.

"What is the biggest difficulty the Blue Star Federation has encountered since it entered the age of interstellar navigation?"

"The strong magnetic field environment in space that caused the spacecraft equipment to malfunction?"

"Ubiquitous space meteorites?"

"What are the various physical and psychological diseases that occur during long-term space voyages?"

After citing several common situations in succession, the humanities teacher shook his head and said, "No, these are not the biggest difficulties."

"greedy."

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

"If we unite a friendly expedition team, in front of the entire galaxy, an idea will pop up in our minds: Should we kill all our partners?"

"According to statistics: 65% of the teams have disagreements, and 48% of the teams fall into cannibalism. In the Federation's more than 1,500 years of interstellar development history, more than half of the explorer casualties came from black guns fired by close teammates. "

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

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

"This is also the reason why this course is worth 120 points in the Unified Higher Education Examination."

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

However, the humanities teacher gave up and did not follow the topic. He buried the problem in the hearts of the students and let them think about it on their own.

…

On the way home from school.

"Grandpa, since resources are unlimited and a few people cannot occupy the entire planet, why are so many explorers killing each other out of greed?"

Yun Xinghe couldn't help but ask the old man in his mind the question that lingered in his mind during today's humanities class.

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

"Let me give you a simple example. If you have a pear in your hand, you will eat it into your stomach; if there are ten pears, you will eat them all within three days before they go bad. If there are 1,000 pears, you will want to sell some of the pears."

"If you have a whole pear orchard, you can't eat it all, you can't sell it, and when it matures, most of it will fall to the ground and rot. What would you do?"

asked the old man in his mind.

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

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

"Of course I... don't want to. The pear orchard is mine! You can eat pears, but you still want my pear orchard. That's too much!" Yun Xinghe said.

"The standard answer, kid, 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 come from afar should be regarded as the owners of this pear orchard."

"The resources on the planet are just pears. They are big and delicious, and they are like forests. A few people, dozens of people, or even hundreds of thousands of people can't eat all these pears, so they can only sell them or give them away."

"But, you can see that there is a pear orchard owner who gives 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 ownerless and belong to the Federation. Those explorers are not qualified to own a planet."

"Indeed, most of the explorers did not have the idea of ​​'I am the master of this place' at the beginning. At the beginning, their ideas were simple and great. They only wanted to make some contribution to the Federation and become the heroes recorded in the history texts. Great man.”

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

"Time is the food for the monster of greed. It grows stronger every day, eroding the bottom line and persistence every day..."

"Generally speaking, when planetary transformation proceeds for about two hundred years, conflicts will basically break out."

"With the imminent arrival of the colonial mothership, this conflict will become more and more intense."

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

"So, don't think that your ancestor Yun Tianfeng is just a few individual misfortunes. None of the 14 administrative stars directly under the Blue Star Federation were returned to the federal government through normal means and are stationed in the Bora space. The Federation's 11th Star Fleet near the city, with thousands of huge battleships, is the key to the Federation's stable governance on this planet."

"Furthermore, in the next one thousand years, in order to gather resources and expand the 14 directly-administered stars into 140 directly-administered stars in the Blue Star Federation, the methods adopted were nothing more than division, inducement, blockade and war. In the process, hundreds of super families were slaughtered, causing rebellions in dozens of colonial galaxies, but in the end, they were all completely suppressed by the Federation's expedition fleet... No matter how fierce their resistance was."

Yun Xinghe was stunned in shock and murmured: "In this case, why does the Federation still send those interstellar explorers to explore those habitable galaxies? Why not send some unmanned exploration spacecraft there and let the robots complete the work? "

It was really hard for him to understand. Since the Federation relied on those explorers, why did it end up massacring the families founded by those explorers?

"You are right. Since humans are so greedy, why not send robots? Because the greed of human explorers will ultimately cause limited destructive power. What if the robots are greedy? If there is a one-in-a-billion chance, something will happen. To destroy a machine civilization that disobeys the federation, the price we need to pay is far greater than destroying human careerists."

"Actually, greed is not a bad thing. It is also the internal motivation for the Federation to promote external expansion. Even if there are 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 foresight of careerists is simply vulnerable.”

"As for the Furuwu family on Planet Brabra, will the upper echelons of the federation see their threat? Will they be indifferent to their various actions?"

"Wrong. Just look at the weak influence this family has in the upper political circles and the federal army. The destructive power of the Furuya family will never leave the planet Bora."

Yun Xinghe's heart was shaken, and he opened his eyes wide and said: "Grandpa, do you mean to say that the Federation has considered all the problems before deciding to go out of the universe?"

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

In the face of such a grand layout, young Yun Xinghe could not calm down for a long time.

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

"Child, don't worry that your dream won't come true. The Furuya family doesn't need to be afraid. I can give you many options to choose from. You don't even need to buy expensive tickets to other galaxies. You don't need to immigrate. You will waste hundreds of years on the road, and even if you are on Planet Bora, you can still embark on an interstellar adventure like your father."

"Really?"

Yun Xinghe said in surprise: "Great!"

However, after hearing what the old man said, Yun Xinghe's confidence became extremely strong. However, he still had no idea about the specific plan and where to start, so he could only ask the old man.

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

"Grandpa, do you want me to find a job? But I am only 12 years old, and I have not yet reached the legal age to work, so those shops won't want me." The service industry in the interstellar era will still recruit some employees. It's a store full of robots, but not many people go there to shop.

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

"Grandpa, are you talking about writing novels? I know this, but I haven't read many books and I don't know how to make up stories!" Yun Xinghe said, having guessed what the old man was thinking.

"Who said I asked you to write it? Grandpa asked you to copy it! This is the simplest cheat, you know? Just a few best-selling novels in the future era will be enough for you to earn tens of billions in royalties!"

There are also some classic songs, film and television scripts, etc. Just copy them and take advantage of the market audience of hundreds of billions of consumers. If you want to make money, don't make it too easy.

"That's great, thank you grandpa!"

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

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

"Just you, want to write a novel?"

Yun Xiaoying's eyes widened, then she shook her head and said, "Come on, write your Chinese essay that doesn't have a high score first."

Yun Xinghe blushed, took her aunt's hand, and said in a pleading voice: "Aunt, please lend it to me for a while. I will give you one-fifth of the royalties earned, uh, one-third." , is this possible?"

"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 royalties mentioned by Yun Xinghe, soon after, she saw the long list of almost astronomical figures on the royalties payment slip. , which was approximately equal to her salary for 100 years of working in the Taijutsu Club. She was stunned for a while, and then cut off the first five digits, and then took away a third of the remaining four digits. .

"Auntie, you are so shameless!"

Yun Xinghe felt like crying but didn't have any tears. He really wanted to grow up right away and use his own writer account to write books.