Chapter 2923 Heartbeat
Shentong must admit that the concept of peace cannot be inherited, just like the concept of decisive killing cannot be inherited. His own personal experience is the best example, so he can understand it easily.
If it cannot be passed down from generation to generation, then how can more people accept peace? That is naturally to let everyone know that peace can also develop, make money, and rise. As long as everyone can make money in harmony, no one will think of starting a war. At the same time, through culture, let everyone trust each other, reduce social consumption, and reduce management costs, then peace can last longer.
In simple terms, it is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, use the resources of Guanshanhai to redistribute revenue, and use culture to reduce expenditure.
Shentong couldn't help but say: "I thought everyone supported me because of the concept of peace. Now I think everyone has their own ideas, not everyone accepts peace." From my own perspective, I can't understand the previous generation of Shentong, so how can others understand me?
The previous generation of Shentong's decisive killing was also for peace, but I still couldn't accept it? Then if I am for peace now, can others accept it? Obviously, it is impossible, so everyone came to the Avatar not for peace, some wanted to be protected, some for money, and some for the opportunity to rise. In short, one word can be summed up as seeking benefits and avoiding harm.
If peace can provide these two points, they will support peace. Even if the Avatar dies, everyone's heart for peace will not change.
"So not only the city needs to develop, but the whole world needs to develop together to truly achieve peace." The Avatar found that it is not only the city that needs to develop, but also the whole world needs to develop, but how can this be done?
"Can this be done?" The Avatar wondered: "When we resisted the Fire Nation, everyone had different routes. How can we unite and develop together? Is peace really impossible to achieve?"
The first generation of the Avatar would definitely feel the same as An. He fought on the battlefield all his life just to create peace and promote light, but he died tragically on the battlefield in the end. Even if he had the power to shock the world and weep ghosts, he could not build peace.
"It's useless to think about this kind of thing. Only practice can tell. Maybe it can be done or not, but thinking alone will never do it. Practice is the only way to test the truth." Duran said that he should not just think about it, but take action: "Guan Shanhai, promote cultural education, do it."
An looked at Duran helplessly. It was easy for the other party to say, but how to start? Especially culture is more difficult to start. "Guan Shanhai is still simple. Soka has explained it very clearly. It is to let the people produce, and then the government will purchase and sell it. In fact, it is the control of bulk commodities. Ordinary businessmen and wealthy families can only produce and cannot interfere with prices. I can understand this. But how to build something like culture that has no substance?"
Sokka also looked at Duran in confusion and asked: "Indeed, how to build culture?"
"The core of culture is just a piece of nonsense. Everyone takes their own share of benefits, which is to clarify obligations and rights. After fulfilling the obligations, take their own benefits. Isn't it very simple and easy to understand?"
"Vulgar." Soka couldn't help but say that whatever Duran said was full of vulgarity.
"Don't worry, this is just the core of culture. Perfecting the core and letting everyone accept it is the highlight of culture. Perfecting the core means letting everyone know to what extent they have fulfilled their obligations, and letting everyone understand the degree of obligations and rights. Only with the degree can everyone accept it. Then there are standards. Standards are to regulate everyone to work in one direction. Otherwise, there will be different ways of doing the same thing, and everyone will be dissatisfied, and the culture will be torn apart. Then there must be contracts, social contracts, so that everyone can trust each other and accept the culture with peace of mind without worrying about being betrayed. That's about it. Then there is another standard to measure the success of culture, which is 'simple, long-term, and correct'."
Simple means more people can understand it, and the coverage of culture is wide. Long-term means that culture cannot change and must be consistent. This is different from laws that keep pace with the times. If culture changes, most people cannot grasp it. Correct means that it is beneficial to everyone's survival. If it is not beneficial to survival, then culture cannot be spread.
"Core, degree, standard, contract?" An said that this is really a speechless analysis.
"We design the culture first, and then use the name of the first generation of the gods to promote it. Wouldn't it be more convincing?" Soka has already started thinking about using the celebrity effect. If the culture written by the young people cannot convince the public, then put their works on the first generation of the gods.
Duran couldn't help but remind him, "Although it's a good idea, An can communicate with the first generation of the gods, and he can do it in his next life. What if he overturns this culture in the next life? So it's best not to use the first generation of the gods as a cover. It's best to use a dead person who can't be verified at all to lock this culture and prevent future generations from overturning the case."
Soka thought it made sense. If An said that this culture was created by the first generation of the gods, then his next life could completely deny it. After all, they all have the ability to communicate with the gods, and outsiders don't know how to distinguish them. So it's best to find a dead person, a person who can't pretend to be dead, a person whose soul is scattered and has no soul, so that it's impossible to overturn the case.
"Have you calculated this? You really assume the worst of humans." Sokka said that Duran really saw through the hearts of humans and calculated all possibilities.
"Thank you for the compliment."
Sokha thought to himself that he was not complimenting you, but forget it. He said: "Although there is this direction, it is still difficult to promote culture. After all, the four major forces have their own culture. It is not easy to cover them. We can only try. Let's first take over Shanhai. This can still be achieved by relying on the force of the magic power."
Then take over Shanhai first. Speaking of Guanshanhai, the first choice is to unify the currency. The right to mint coins must be controlled by the government. Then there is unified purchase and sale, and bulk commodities are also controlled by the government.
In fact, the end of the business is all bulk commodities and land transactions, because other industries are already difficult to make enough profits. If these are all controlled by the government, then capital will be restricted. As long as they don't play with bulk commodities and can't hoard them, their influence will be limited and can't affect people's livelihood.
Shentong proposed the intention of taking over Shanhai. He thought that the wealthy would support him as usual, but he didn't expect that countless oppositions were waiting for him. For a time, the wealthy were verbally criticizing, saying that Shentong was competing with the people for profit. Is he going to become the second Fire King?
An never expected that they would turn against each other faster than turning pages of a book. Yesterday they said that the Avatar was wise and powerful, but today they regarded him as an enemy and said that he was the second Fire Lord. This was too exaggerated. It turned out that the wealthy families helped not because they loved peace, but because it was profitable.
Following the Avatar can get meat to eat, not because the Avatar's ideas are really accepted. The Avatar didn't even tell the story, and the wealthy families came to him. Just think about it and you know that they must be thinking about making money.
Faced with such opposition, An wanted to retreat again, because if he insisted, let alone long-term peace, the current peace would be lost.