"Now, the humans on Source Star have entered the interstellar era. We have interstellar ships and space elevators. Everything we see before us has beco more complex, like the water cup in your hand - why is it so crystal clear, how does it happen to solidify into this shape? And this wall, what material is the insulation layer made of, how is it synthesized and manufactured?"
"These things, you and I don't need to understand, because we are users, not producers. But the people who manufacture them must understand. The knowledge in various fields has expanded to an astonishing level, requiring at least tens of millions of smart brains to organically combine to bear so much knowledge. Then, it requires a population of ten billion. But currently, not only has our knowledge not progressed, it has stagnated. Do you know why?"
Xiao Xingyue: "Because we have largely adopted the alien products procured by the Alson Group in most industries?"
Ren Zhong nodded, "Yes, so everyone only needs to know how to use them, why bother with understanding the principles? Too much wisdom is wasted because it's housed in the bodies of the lazy citizens and the uneducated people, resulting in what you and I, along with the chairman, are witnessing - the decay of civilization."
"Actually, you can see from the changes in the Ren Group, I just freed the lives of more than ten million people, which led to so many changes. If all the uneducated could get a fair chance to compete, if all the lazy citizens lost their privileges and also had to compete, had to learn and strive to live better lives. Then the products sold to us by the Empire would not be shackles that bind us but rather ladders for us to ascend."
"Most people at birth are actually a blank sheet. What content ultimately remains on this sheet doesn't depend on how blank it is, but where it is. In an artist's hand, it can beco a beautiful painting. In a mathematician's hand, it might give birth to a great mathematical formula. In a top commander's hand, it might be inscribed with a strategy plan that changes the era. In the bathroom, it can only be crumbled into a ball for wiping."
"Whether it's an artist, a mathematician, or a bathroom, they can all be collectively terd with another two words, 'environnt.' 'Environnt' can shape most blank sheets. Nurous sheets with aningful content written on them stacked together constitute a civilization's epic. What I really want to do is create an environnt for all the blank sheets on Source Star, the sa as those within the Ren Group territory."
"Xiao Xingyue, what do you think of my ideal?"
Xiao Xingyue was stunned for a long ti. She hadn't just t Ren Zhong today and claid to know Ren Zhong very well. But when Ren Zhong confessed his heart to her in such simple and straightforward words for the first ti, it still took her by surprise.
She instinctively wanted to refute that Ren Zhong's ideal was too unrealistic, but upon further reflection, she was shocked to realize Ren Zhong had actually been steadily progressing towards this ideal for quite so ti.
More than a year ago, Ren Zhong was just a new arrival, a penniless outsider. Now he has beco a guest of four of the top nine leading companies, holding territory of thousands of square kiloters, commanding a population of tens of millions, and even having a million strong army.
Quietly, he has grown to such an extent. If he can continue to grow at this rate, in ten years, he might actually go out and pursue this seemingly utopian ideal.
Ren Zhong is both an idealist and a pragmatist. He isn't joking, but truly striving.
For so reason, Xiao Xingyue's heartbeat edged faster and stronger than when she first heard the transformation plan from the chairman in her youth.
Xiao Xingyue swallowed, "I think your ideal is remarkable, but... it's... it's very hard."
Ren Zhong laughed.
At that mont, he confird that Xiao Xingyue could beco one of his own.
Ren Zhong grasped her hand and patted the back of her hand, "Of course, this is much harder than the chairman's goal. But hard doesn't an I won't do it. Or perhaps, if only I strive alone, it's very hard. But you see now, I'm not alone in this endeavor, there are Sun Miao, Ju Qingng, Ma Dafu and his daughter, and so many others, everyone is helping , my strength is growing stronger and stronger. Maybe right now we still lack strength, but more and more people will join my ideal. Now, there's one more you. In the future, there will be more like you... with this going on, what's there to fear?"
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