novelden Chapter 325 You May Not Know Much About History
Chapter 325 You May Not Know Much About History
"Earth Union Bill No. 174: A vote was held on whether the Group Alliance has the legal right to run schools. The results were 21 votes against, 144 votes in favor, and the rest abstaining: the bill passed."
"Earth Union Bill No. 177: A vote was held on whether the Group Alliance has the right to independently expand its military. The results were 17 votes against, 162 votes in favor, and the rest abstained. The bill passed."
"Earth Union Act No. 213: A vote was held on whether the population born on planets represented by the Group Alliance has a complete household registration. The voting results were 1 vote against, 180 votes in favor, and the rest abstaining. The Act is passed."
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In the short six months since Lin Xuan left, the Earth Alliance has passed nearly 20 bills related to the Group Alliance, many of which involve the fields of medicine, military and education.
Luo Congmin even relinquished the administrative rights over some planets.
The current group alliance is virtually indistinguishable from the local alliance in every respect, except for the lack of governing power.
The reason Luo Congmin signed so many bills was to stabilize morale. During the time Lin Xuan was away from the Earth Alliance, she needed to maintain the stability of the solar system as much as possible and complete the final construction work of the ring world perfectly.
However, this is not something that can be solved by simply talking. Although the threat of the Trisolarans is no longer present, internal conflicts within the Earth Alliance persist.
The political system of the Earth Alliance is different from any other political system in human history. The president has absolute power and can arbitrarily change the general direction of the entire civilization's development.
However, the president has no say in what specific policies should be implemented at the local level.
This is also closely related to the Swordholder system established in the early Deterrence Era.
The advantage of doing this is that when the Earth Federation faces a situation like the Doomsday War, it can react quickly and prevent the government in the rear from completely collapsing after the front line is defeated.
However, the downsides are equally obvious: unless one possesses a super-powerful brain like Lin Xuan's, capable of monitoring the entire solar system, the specific implementation of a policy ultimately depends on the parliament's decision.
This will put the political acumen of the person holding the presidency to a very high test.
Luo Congmin's greatest skill lies in minimizing such hypocritical behavior through macroeconomic regulation.
For example, Luo Congmin always felt that the education of arts and sciences in China was too distorted, and wanted the number of people trained in humanities and social sciences to be higher than that in science and engineering.
If she raises the issue directly, the implementation of this bill at the local level could lead to the training of a large number of interdisciplinary students in various regions.
Because there is an objective demand for entry-level positions in science and engineering, most children from ordinary families can only have better employment opportunities by studying majors such as computer science or electronic information.
While the humanities and social sciences are useful as a whole, for individuals, the income earned by a student majoring in education or literature is simply incomparable to that of a student majoring in science and engineering.
So, to satisfy both the policy requirements from above and the objective facts, it would be better to have everyone study science and engineering, and then train a portion of them as interdisciplinary students.
This not only increases the number of liberal arts students in a general sense, but also addresses the employment issue, and even creates more job opportunities for universities to offer some seemingly prestigious majors that are actually just variations on the same theme. It can be described as killing three birds with one stone.
But if this continues, the end result will be that every major will have to be related to computer science and electronic information engineering, and even a dog on the street might know Java.
Whether society has developed better or not is unknown, but these two majors, which originally had good employment prospects, will sooner or later follow in the footsteps of civil engineering.
Therefore, in order to implement policies to the desired effect, some seemingly absurd policies become indispensable.
For example, a pro-Lin Party member once proposed a bill to legalize dowries, which would help reduce the divorce rate in the United States.
When this proposal was first introduced, the legislator was so criticized by the public that he was practically cursed. However, it also successfully shifted the attention of the lower classes to their views on marriage, indirectly leading to a decrease in the number of people using gene-editing technology to have children. A saying even circulated among the people.
"Anyone who marries without love is not pure in nature, and the same goes for having children."
In that one month alone, the group's gene-editing technology lost nearly 30% of its profits, a loss that made AiAA's scalp tingle.
The power of the masses is great, but their goals are often blind. Throughout Chinese history, any purely peasant uprising has ultimately led to its demise.
Therefore, in policy-making, as a planner with an overall perspective, Luo Congmin's focus is more on minimizing the impact of unexpected events rather than preventing them from happening.
This is why Lin Xuan, despite possessing the mental computing power of 50 billion people, could not replace Luo Congmin's important position in the Earth Alliance.
Civil servants are supposed to follow the rules and maintain a moderate approach. Everyone knows how to do things, but knowing what to do and knowing how to do it are two different things.
However, simply backing down is merely a short-sighted solution; at best, it only delays the eruption of internal conflicts.
"So, how much longer can we hold out?"
At a conference table, Luo Congmin leaned back in his chair, looking at the thick stack of documents piled on the table.
There is only one person in the entire Earth Alliance who can place Luo Congmin in the second seat.
Luo Ji.
Perhaps it's because he's been taking care of himself at home lately, but Wang Miao always feels that Luo Ji looks younger than his daughter now, as if he's seeing that academic fraudster from back then who could shamelessly buy experimental results when he was teaching at Tsinghua University.
If reincarnation exists, Luo Ji must be the reincarnation of Edison.
"As for the military, there's no need to worry for now. Although the AA has been working to expand its military, to be honest, the production lines are all here with us, and what we're giving them are obsolete parts."
Since taking control of the military, Rediaz has become increasingly authoritative.
It's worth mentioning, however, that Luo Congmin had even considered having Taylor work for him, but his father and uncles strongly opposed it.
At first, Luo Congmin didn't understand and asked his mother, Zhuang Yan. Later, Zhuang Yan remained silent for a long time before saying something profound.
"Child, this is Lin Xuan's fault. After he destroyed the PDC, some scholars embellished a lot of history in order to whitewash him, and even deleted a lot of information about the UN General Assembly, which is why you are not clear about the relationships between the countries before."
"To put it simply, Taylor was elected a Wallfacer because he was the Minister of Defense, and Diaz was elected a Wallfacer... because he led his country to successfully resist Taylor."