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Because what drives this is human greed, which cannot be solved by education alone, but also by the objective environment.
For example, in areas with a large number of surveillance cameras, the crime rate will decrease significantly. However, if a superhuman's abilities could turn the cameras into decorative items, the crime rate would rise again.
However, this also proves the superhuman's ability from another perspective. After all, if the camera cannot capture criminal records, then his ability can either disable the camera or interfere with it. This is similar to how a fighter jet that is absolutely stealthy can still be detected by radar coverage over a large area because the radar waves in that area do not return.
It is necessary to replace and innovate the surveillance system in public places on a large scale. Human nature is prone to depravity when there are no objective environmental constraints. Our revolutionary predecessors did not expect that there would be such strange creatures as "little fairies" in the future. After all, the women around them are independent, autonomous, intelligent and brave. You cannot understand things that you cannot come into contact with in daily life.
In addition, it is necessary to guide and control social customs and trends of civilization. This is because there will always be people who feel that they can become "kings and generals" in the new era, automatically ignoring the question of "whether they are born with a special destiny" and starting to try to form cliques, build social relationships, and dismantle the existing social support system.
Qinshan ensured everyone's well-being from cradle to grave and made a super-planned economy possible, but some people felt they should be high above, giving orders from their offices, instead of working alongside the peasants, toiling in the fields.
Honestly, Qin Shan was speechless. Now our farms are all automated. The so-called new era of going to the countryside is almost the same as sitting in an office and watching machines work. Aren't you happy about that?
Yes, they just don't want to. They feel they should be high and mighty, bossing others around. It's fine if such people don't have power, but once they do, their craving for officialdom becomes uncontrollable. It becomes their get-out-of-jail-free card to flaunt their privileges everywhere, and they act as if they can contain the whole world.
There were even retired officials who, because of their strong desire to be officials, hired people to set up a government staff in their homes for their amusement.
The existence of these people has greatly affected social morality and corrupted ordinary people around them. This is something Qin Shan absolutely cannot tolerate. Didn't you see that the country didn't allow flaunting wealth online back then? This shows that many behaviors have a disastrous impact on social order and good customs. If you don't care today, and you don't care tomorrow, the day after tomorrow they will come and demand your power, and you will no longer have the ability to refuse them. This is reality.
That's why it's so important to nip problems in the bud.
For those who have clearly broken the law, there's no need to be polite. Just strip them of their extraordinary cultivation and send them straight to mining and planting trees. The farthest place of exile for the Human Revolutionary Alliance can now be on Pluto's moons, or even outside the solar system, so you won't have to worry about homesickness at all.
Another solution is the alternate world management model.
Simply put, it allows players to manage another world that is unrelated to themselves. There is no direct management relationship between the worlds. To put it simply, A manages B, B manages C, and C manages A. In actual operation, it will be more complicated. For example, A and B can manage C at the same time, or A and C can manage B together. The constructs controlled by the players are under the monitoring network of the Shenzhou civilization, which monitors them 24 hours a day without blind spots.
It's impossible for players to gain any benefits beyond points through constructs, because there's no direct material exchange between different worlds. At most, they can gain some emotional value through interactions with the locals. And people who would do anything for emotional value are extremely rare, no matter the era. The most famous of them would just be used as a negative example in history textbooks.
This cross-management model is a super-deluxe enhanced version of "non-local appointments," ensuring that officials are monitored throughout their work hours. However, the monitoring is not noticeable to players, and since they cannot gain any benefits locally, they are very willing to pick out and eliminate the corrupt officials who bribe them, as this earns them points.
Qin Shan never expected that fairness and justice could be achieved solely through law and morality. When it comes to human nature, only by considering everyone's behavior with the utmost malice can the lower limit of human nature be locked down, making it impossible to exploit loopholes. Only then will people think about climbing the ladder. Otherwise, as long as one person succeeds in exploiting a loophole, everyone else will wonder if they will be the next to make a fortune.
Don't understand? Then look at lottery stations. Even when people know there's something wrong with the lottery, there are still plenty of people buying tickets.
As for the drop in value, please, as long as the lottery winnings cover the first prize, the rest of the money is profit, okay?
This is similar to how players want to kill an online game. The best way is to keep the game company hanging on by a thread, giving them the feeling that they can make more money as long as they try to please the players. This constantly tempts them to invest more and develop more games, but the players restrain themselves and manage their spending. Only in this way can things turn out in the players' favor.
Of course, the above is only a theoretically optimal game model, which is difficult to achieve in reality. The spontaneous unity of the masses often only rises to unprecedented heights when their own interests are harmed. Without good organization, it will not last long. After all, survival and life are two different concepts. To survive, one must fight desperately, but if one can still live, one can swallow this grievance.
Every dynasty that collapsed did so because it messed up the issue of survival.
Having ensured internal stability, Qinshan's next task is to expand the pie, enabling human civilization to acquire more extraordinary resources and choose a new path of peaceful and sustainable development.
He believed that he and those who dared to explore could do it.
Chapter 40: Unbelievable Move, Awesome Shanghai Master
"Communists respect objective reality. Since extraordinary individuals and extraordinary powers exist, what we need to do is utilize and truly master this power, put it in the hands of civilization, and enable it to serve the vast majority of the people."
The teacher's vision and perspective remain as far-sighted as ever. For him, since the objective facts cannot be changed, what needs to be done is to accept them and guide them in a positive direction.
Qin Shan nodded and said, "You're right. That's how we've been considering it too. Ultimately, extraordinary power is just a kind of power, and the user of that power is a human."
This secret internal meeting was about the use of supernatural powers in Parallel World 12.
Long ago, the Human Socialist Reform Alliance discovered that as long as a superhuman appears in a world that does not yet possess superhuman power, it is as if a switch has been activated, and that world will begin to generate superhuman power, which will spread throughout the world in a very short time, thereby transforming the entire world into a superhuman world.
Doesn't the term "superpower" sound a bit like a viral infection?
Overall, the impact of supernatural powers on human civilization is more beneficial than harmful, but if not properly guided, the harm outweighs the benefit.
Don't forget how many countries were nearly destroyed when the world first awakened to supernatural powers, and how many smaller countries collapsed without even the chance to struggle.
The People's Revolutionary Alliance has now established a comprehensive supervision and management system for superhumans. Every superhuman, whether born or awakened, will be entered into the country's citizen management system, including their superhuman abilities and characteristics, and their future development potential will be calculated through big data.
These things are not found in any of the countries of World 12. This means that if a large number of superhumans awaken, these countries won't even have time to react.
It is also possible that although they reacted, their lack of understanding of the characteristics of superhuman abilities led to a situation where the superhumans went out of control.
Considering the cultural environment and grassroots management capabilities of different countries, those Hollywood movies made in the United States are very likely to become reality. Rather than Superman or Captain America, Homelander is more likely to be born.
However, the awakening of superhumans also brings an unexpected benefit: this widespread random awakening can quickly destroy the original social class structure, forcing a country into a transitional phase.
To put it simply, in Qin Shan's previous life, there were no established families in the world that had lasted for more than a hundred years.
The reason is very simple: a suddenly rising powerful superhuman is fully capable of overturning the order of a region on his own. If the other party were to launch a revenge plot based on the adage "Don't underestimate a young man's potential," then wiping out a family would be an easy task.
Qin Shan was quite experienced in this regard, because he had done many similar things in his previous life. Who told those bastards to provoke him? Didn't they know what it meant to be an adult? Times have changed.
The teacher nodded. As a great man who had come all the way from the revolutionary era to the present day, he was very clear that any reform would require bloodshed and sacrifice, and there was no possibility of a peaceful transition. The policy of "you're good, I'm good, everyone's good" is, frankly speaking, just muddling through, and muddling through cannot solve any problems.
After reading the various history books Qin Shan gave him, the teacher understood that Xinhua's development was not always smooth sailing. He was also well aware of the old forces' perverse actions, and that many things were destined to be done by the first generation of leaders. Because from the second generation onwards, compromise, peace, and development became the mainstream of the country. In this process, all of China's development and construction were just patching up the original foundation. Many things that had been fundamentally distorted could not be changed until the next round of liquidation and restart.
Why is there no factionalism or clique formation in Xinhua News Agency now?
One very important reason is that many of the comrades in the Discipline Inspection Commission are actually the same kind of national supervisors that players play. They are completely unbridable, can appear anywhere in the country, and possess many superpowers. They are like eyes and sharp knives, ready to strike at the corrupt organs of the country at any time. They will not compromise, are not afraid of sacrifice, and their numbers are endless. If you want to fight them, you really have to be prepared to wipe out your entire family.
Not long ago, a large-scale rectification campaign was carried out in various parts of the south. The number of families that were wiped out alone exceeded 30. These people were directly sent by Qin Shan to prison planets in another world for labor reform. They basically can forget about returning to their hometowns in their lifetime.
It's not that Qin San was ruthless and wouldn't give them a chance to reform; rather, it's that once human nature goes astray, it's very difficult to truly change, especially for those who have held high positions. When we're outwardly promoting the rule of law, we must remember that a leopard can't change its spots when selecting talent. Even after losing power, former leaders still wield considerable influence, and failing to deal with them properly will leave behind all sorts of problems.
Everyone longs for a peaceful life, but there are always some people who hope to be above everyone else.
Qin Shan wouldn't dare to have such an arrogant idea, so how could those people dare?
Sure enough, some people's thought processes are beyond our comprehension.
However, there's no need to understand. Labor reform, Siberia, farm stays, Gulag Grand Hotel—there's bound to be one that suits you.
Just like the superhuman monitoring agency established in the native world, Qin Shan once again took on the responsibility of managing superhumans in Parallel World 12.
To put it simply, the goal is to prevent superhumans from appearing outside of Xinhua. It is very easy for high-level superhumans to sense low-level superhumans and suppress their potential or control their awakening time. In this way, the awakening range of superhumans can be confined to a safe range.
Qin Shan has already provided a list, which consists of children of workers and peasants, and they must be children of workers and peasants with a progressive spirit. Those proletarian scoundrels are absolutely unacceptable. The only value of these good-for-nothings is to enter the labor factory and receive ideological education. If they can't be educated, then let them work for the rest of their lives. At least they will be on an eight-hour workday and given the various benefits they deserve. In this way, they can be considered to have made a contribution to society while they are alive.
On a optimist note, at least Qin Shan didn't turn these people into machine slaves like he did with Warhammer 40K. You have to understand, with the current technological level of the Human Revolutionary Alliance, turning people into machine slaves would be a very simple thing.
This closed-door meeting discussed many things, mainly topics related to superhumans. After all, superhumans are also human beings, and they should enjoy all the rights of citizens, rather than setting superhumans against ordinary people.
The teacher is very wary of the Western world's anti-dragon-slaying tactics that vertically divide society. To put it bluntly, this approach is to incite the masses to fight against each other, masking class struggle under identity politics through various fancy performances, undermining the organization of the people, and with the addition of new-era immigration policies, it can cultivate a group of easily fooled fools.
However, the teacher also pointed out that such methods are extremely harmful to the entire country. Although it may not be apparent under normal circumstances, as soon as there is any disturbance in the country, and the upper echelons lose their ability to control the grassroots, the social organization and people's unity, which have been completely disintegrated, will immediately backfire on the entire superstructure of the country. Those officials who thought they were safe will soon experience the same kind of joy they felt when they were purged by Huang Chao in an even more terrifying flood.
When that time comes, they will truly be left with no one to turn to for help.
There are always some self-proclaimed clever individuals who think their methods are better than the teacher's. Little do they know that only when everyone works together and respects each other's dignity can society function harmoniously. The greatest truths are the simplest; true governance doesn't require so many complicated maneuvers. Maintaining moderation, peace, and stability are paramount. If national interests are sacrificed for the benefit of an individual, organization, or group, then the entire nation is not far from disintegration.
Of course, in Xinhua, where unification is the core, this expression might be more radical, namely, restarting after a complete understanding of the entire social structure.
Xinhua is still Xinhua, only the leadership has changed, a completely different group of people.
At this point, parallel universe number 12 has arrived in 1957. If a time traveler from Earth were born in this world, he would surely be shocked by its unfamiliarity.
If historical figures can be matched with textbooks, why is the historical trajectory so out of place?
Following this secret internal meeting, Xinhua made many changes.
Of course, many of these changes are not directly related to ordinary people, so the public's awareness of them is not high, and even among Xinhua's top management, only a very small number of people know about them.
The secrecy surrounding this was handled so well that there were no major changes throughout Xinhua.
However, the promotion of some other policies has truly affected all aspects of Xinhua.
For example, the Xinhua government announced a relaxation of media controls, allowing the emergence of private newspapers.
This greatly encouraged many intellectuals, who praised it highly, feeling that the good old days of being able to command the country again and being favored by important figures while sitting in their offices were about to return.
But in reality, this is an open conspiracy with no solution.
The current situation is that the true proletarian revolutionaries within Xinhua are well aware that many unclean impurities have infiltrated the revolutionary ranks. Therefore, Xinhua's Party organization has been conducting a second review of the qualifications of Party members and has expelled many Party cadres, especially those who do not conform to the characteristics of the vanguard of the proletariat.
For example, those who joined the Party hastily in 1949.
It's not that everyone here should be condemned outright or labeled as a fence-sitter, but you have to understand that people who could join the Party in this era were generally well-educated. When the People's Liberation Army liberated the entire south, not many local people knew about the PLA or the Communist Party. Many locals also had a misunderstanding of our Party and our army due to the reactionary propaganda of the Kuomintang, which caused a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings.
This was the information channel that ordinary people could access back then, and this is also the perception that the vast majority of ordinary people would have.
In such an environment, your cognitive conditions are on a different dimension from others, which is a kind of dimensional reduction attack. Such people are really easy to become fence-sitters.
The purpose of re-examining the qualifications for joining the Party is to ensure the purity of the revolutionary ranks. After all, a true revolutionary must have a gun pointed at himself, but these people clearly prefer to point two guns at others.
Therefore, in addition to internal self-purification, it is also necessary to open a channel externally, allowing certain people to speak freely and voluntarily expose themselves to the light of day.
This is similar to how Weibo can't be completely shut down. If you blow up a septic tank, the feces and urine inside will flow out.
Moreover, it doesn't matter if it's a private newspaper, because the management channels and power are still in the hands of the government, and requirements are set for the content of the reports. Of course, it's lenient, and you have the right to exercise freedom of speech, but you also have to bear the corresponding price after exercising freedom of speech.
This is the huge pitfall left by media freedom, a trap set by an open conspiracy.
Don't you have a desire to show off? Don't you want to educate the masses? Fine, go ahead and try your skills. See if your words can be accepted by the people. If the people can't accept them and curse you out, then you only have yourself to blame.
Moreover, with the help of the People's Revolutionary Alliance, Xinhua will soon enter the information age. Now that it has established some so-called private newspaper, it will be crushed by self-media in the future.
The so-called private newspaper licenses being issued now are, frankly speaking, just a way for the state to reclaim some of the funds held by these individuals, and then use those funds to do more important and meaningful things.
Those self-righteous intellectuals gained what they called freedom, the country gained funding, the people gained entertainment channels, and everyone had a bright future.
And then, sure enough, in less than half a month, Master Hu pulled off an incredible feat.
"Women's Bodily Freedom, Our Rights to Sex and Love" — Shanghai Daily
Section 41: If you don't take the right path, then take the dead end.
If you think the world only started going crazy after the turn of the 21st century, you're sorely mistaken.
Turning the pages of history, you'll find that there's never a shortage of peculiar figures in the long river of history.
These oddballs have become eternal stains on the annals of our times, either because of their outrageous remarks, actions, or sophisticated egoism.
Xinhua has been engaged in the women's liberation movement since the Soviet era. However, some people always feel that privileges are also rights that women should obtain in the liberation movement.
"We've been oppressed by men for so many years, shouldn't we get some compensation?"
This is a typical example of using gender narratives to mask the essence of class narratives, a type of vertical social manipulation that capitalist countries particularly favor.
You like gender narratives? Great, great, that's wonderful. You men and women should stick together at the bottom so no one will pay attention to our sexual exploitation of the entire lower and middle classes.
Throughout history, only a minority of people have been able to enjoy unrestricted sexual resources.
Indeed, excellent resources, whether human beings or anything else, are rare, extremely scarce, and cannot be mass-produced.
Since these things are so rare, naturally only the powerful and wealthy can possess them. The vast majority of ordinary people are not qualified to even touch them, let alone understand them. However, with the continuous development of information technology, the lives of many upper-class elites have become novelties in the public eye, and many middle-class people have begun to flaunt their so-called high-society lifestyle. Little do they know that they are merely the price paid in this massive luxury goods promotion campaign.
At this point, some awakened middle-class individuals mistakenly believe that gender differences have become a reason for one side to oppress the other.
In reality, among the general public, the status of men and women is not so drastically different that one side severely oppresses the other. As for the records in history books, please, do things that are neither historically valuable nor sufficiently outrageous qualify for inclusion in history books?
History has proven time and again that unrestrained freedom is just another form of disorderly revelry. Once the family, the most stable basic unit of society, is shaken, the stability of the entire society will be shaken.
As one of the most prosperous regions in Xinhua's market economy, Shanghai naturally absorbed much of the dross of capitalist elites—an inevitable price to pay for developing a market economy. When you decide to absorb a certain ideology, you can't be selective; you have to accept both the good and the bad. But that's not the real problem. The key is whether subsequent actions can completely suppress the bad aspects to a level that won't affect social stability.
At least in the 1950s, overly outrageous ideas of gender freedom could not take root in the vast areas of China. This was similar to how the New Culture Movement of that time failed to awaken the peasants on the vast land of China. Although they were the absolute majority of the population in China, the backwardness of their regions, the lack of infrastructure, and their harsh living conditions meant that they simply did not have the extra energy to think about these issues.
Living is already so difficult, and you still want me to think about freedom? You must be bored out of your mind.
Therefore, despite the various cultural movements that swept across China in the past, their actual impact was very limited, and they mainly targeted the middle and upper classes.
This reality also meant that after the founding of Xinhua, the movement to liberate people's minds was a top priority in national development.
This ideological propaganda naturally includes giving the general public a heads-up.
As the saying goes, the enemy's reaction can make the people clearer about who the good people are and who the bad people are, and then make the right choice based on their own simple values.
This article by Shanghai did indeed spark a major discussion among intellectuals, but the general public didn't actually pay attention to it. They were busy farming or working in factories. Only the well-fed and leisurely petty bourgeoisie would bother with and study these things. So, their propaganda was essentially just them entertaining themselves behind closed doors within their own group.
Nevertheless, they did seriously damage Xinhua's public opinion environment. Many discussions quickly began to tilt in another direction after this article appeared, clearly indicating that some people wanted to restore some capitalist elements.
However, a closer look reveals a gap of about a month. This means that not all propaganda departments followed suit immediately after the article was published, including those media outlets that clearly sided with the petty bourgeoisie.
These guys are all smart; they're waiting for the government's reaction. Only if the government doesn't make a clear statement will they follow the propaganda machine and promote their so-called correct ideas.
After discovering that the government was indeed not responding, these people became much bolder and began to use this topic as a springboard to talk at length about so-called freedom, democracy, and elections.
To put it bluntly, it's just their version of capitalism.
While these people were celebrating, the Xinhua Daily published this article and distributed it in the daily newsletters of various schools and rural newsstands. The message was: since you want to discuss this, let everyone join in and have a serious discussion.
Xinhua is not only home to workers and intellectuals, but also to farmers who make up more than 80% of the total population.
For any idea to truly resonate with the public and gain their approval, it must ensure that at least half the population of the country knows what it is talking about.
Now that the country is giving you this opportunity, go and make a name for yourself.