flstandardbreds Chapter 152 The Wallfacer's Last Duty
Chapter 152 The Wallfacer's Last Duty
After this incident, people realized how dangerous it is to build too many gravitational wave transmitters.
If Lin Xuan hadn't made prior arrangements and predicted the actions of the Earth's Children, humanity and the Trisolaran world might have suffered a devastating blow.
In response, the Earth Alliance urgently halted the construction of all remaining gravitational wave transmitters and dismantled the original dozens of transmitters, leaving only the last four.
Besides the one on the Gravitational spacecraft, there was one spare unit left on each of the three continents.
This time, there was no opposition from the public to the resolution; people were simply still shaken.
They were also curious about how Lin Xuan could so accurately predict the development of events. Lin Xuan always seemed to be able to guess what would happen in the future one step ahead of them, which was simply unbelievable.
However, the higher-ups at the Earth Alliance didn't take this seriously. They knew that the control of a dispatch station in the third-stage Super Dream Database was in Lin Xuan's brain, which meant that he could freely allocate the computing power of all of humanity's brains. Who knows how terrifying the computing power of billions of people's brains could be? Maybe it really could predict the future.
The story of the Children of Earth served as a wake-up call for both the Trisolarans and Earthlings. In times of peace, the harm caused by extremists is even more destructive than that of traitors who defect to the Trisolarans. Therefore, the Earth Federation began to consciously and proactively seek to befriend the Trisolarans.
The most obvious manifestation of this is the subtle shift in their attitude towards the People's Federation.
Before the Doomsday War, Zhang Beihai, Chang Weisi, and others were a disgrace to humanity. After the Doomsday War, they became far-sighted human heroes who preserved the spark of hope for humanity. However, after the Deterrence Era, people mostly describe them with two words—abandoned pawns.
That's right, they didn't condemn the other party's escape, after all, it was an essential part of Lin Xuan's plan, but they also felt that this group of people was quite pitiful, the navigator was a sacrifice abandoned by Lin Xuan.
In their eyes, Zhang Beihai, Chang Weisi, and the others were all bait released by Lin Xuan to attract the three water droplets. They would never have a chance to return and were destined to become ghost ships drifting in space.
After all, no matter how you look at it, people who don't know the inside story would think that Lin Xuan abandoned them, dragging down 3 droplets at the cost of their 100 star-class warships.
Thus, the debate over whether Lin Xuan's actions were in line with humanitarian principles began to resurface, and the destruction of the star by Luo Ji, the Swordholder, during his previous experiment with the curse was also strongly condemned.
Of course, everyone can only talk about it. After all, all of humanity, the Swordholder, the President, and the Monitor are now of the same faction. Although their actions can be criticized, no one is really stupid enough to want to send one of these three to a military court.
Luo Congmin had actually considered resigning from the presidency to take a break for a while. After all, compared to Lin Xuan's leisure and his father's power, only he, as the president of the local federation, was truly doing the work.
Luo Congmin always exceeds her daily workload; almost every daily task, big or small, requires her to formulate response strategies.
"Mr. President, we are running out of food."
"Then increase subsidies for farmers, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences should increase research on mass-producible foods, and the publicity department should go out and promote the policies so that every household will grow some land."
"Mr. President, programmers have launched a major strike demanding the protection of their basic rights."
"In this way, amend the commercial law, severely punish a few companies as a warning to others. I don't remember there were a few companies that embezzled funds that haven't been dealt with yet. Make them pay the state, or expose them and punish them severely. Once these big companies pay, the smaller companies will follow suit."
"Mr. President, several serious crimes have recently occurred in the country. What do you think..."
“Investigate thoroughly and find out who is stirring up trouble behind the scenes. Make a note of those who cannot be touched and let them pay the money they owe to replenish the national treasury. If they can be touched, don’t rush to kill them. Give them a promotion in these two months. Killing high-ranking officials will have an impact on the lower levels. Killing a few small fry is useless and will only make the public opinion below start to conspire again.”
Luo Congmin possesses an extraordinary political sensitivity. If Lin Xuan is the one who can always turn the tide in times of crisis, then Luo Congmin is the one who can stabilize the overall situation in times of peace.
However, Luo Congmin's authority in the local government is not absolute. Sometimes, even when she provides the most correct solution, those at the lower levels will still outwardly comply but inwardly cause trouble for her.
For example, Luo Congmin once discovered that many of the middle and lower-level officials were on temporary assignments, and their workload was not full. There were often situations where a small task was handled by a whole group of people.
To address this issue, she ordered all departments to streamline the number of public officials and simplify all procedures. Any redundant positions discovered would be subject to penalties.
And guess what? There's always a way around the rules.
After Luo Congmin issued this decree, the subordinate department immediately established a streamlining department, held a large meeting to discuss and study the spirit of the meeting, and formed relevant study groups to deal with the streamlining phenomenon within the department.
After going through the whole process, the number of public officials not only did not decrease but increased, which made Luo Congmin so angry that he almost overturned the table. He cursed these old foxes from the PDC era, saying that they were all cunning and always liked to bring their old ways of doing things to the local government.
Later, in a fit of anger, Luo Congmin decided to resign and run away. She first went to interview teachers at her alma mater and submitted her resume.
Although Luo Congmin lived two centuries ago, he was still more than capable of teaching at a university.
As a result, her resume was rejected in the first round of blind review.
When Luo Congmin saw the reason for rejecting the blind review, he almost laughed out of anger.
"I'm sorry, interviewee number 8423, because our big data analysis shows that you have no promotion record in the past 5 years, we have determined that your personal potential is low. Please continue to work hard."
Luo Congmin: ? ? ?
She was speechless. How could she possibly get promoted from her current position?
The next promotion would only be to become a Swordholder.
She had actually considered whether she should become the second-generation Swordholder in the future, but Luo Ji said, "If you dare to become the Swordholder, I will immediately hand over the detonation switch to the Trisolarans."
She knew, of course, that her father was joking. After all, only Luo Ji truly understood the dangers and loneliness of being a swordsman, and he didn't want his daughter to become like him.
Two centuries have passed. Luo Ji went from being a spoiled brat to being forced to become a Wallfacer, then forced to save humanity, and finally becoming the Swordholder.
He was already starting to feel bored.
Now, all that sustains Luo Ji is his already limited sense of responsibility towards humanity and his concern for his family.
Just like Zhao Kaiming back then, he is no longer living for others. Luo Ji doesn't care about the destruction of humanity. What he is doing now is simply fulfilling his final duty as a Wallfacer.