Three-body: The Most Competent Wallfacer in History

Jiang Yu couldn't help but laugh and cry, "Can the Scientific Academy expand any further?"

The scale of the Scientific Academy and the Military Department is planned in detail every year.

Not without reason, as these two departments are too costly, and if their scale grows too large, it would impact the entire human world's economic system.

Yet, substantial financial investment is indeed necessary for these two departments, so their scale is planned in detail by the Strategic Department according to the actual situation.

As expected, Number Three said, "There's no way to increase the size of the Scientific Academy within the next ten years, as all fifteen provinces are in a state of massive construction, and money is needed everywhere.

"Perhaps, only by implementing military control could we gather enough resources to support a colossal Scientific Academy."

Jiang Yu nodded, "One has to eat one bite at a time, Jiang Shiliu's thoughts are indeed a bit radical.

"Once the construction of the provinces is mostly complete, it will be time for them to give back to the Qingnv Star System, and then it won't be too late to expand the Scientific Academy."

That was all Number Three had to report, and seeing the vigorous development of the Solar System State, Jiang Yu's sorrow greatly diminished.

He asked Number Three, "What do you think about Teacher Luo Ji's final reminder?"

"Teacher Luo Ji previously mentioned his thoughts regarding the Dark Forest Law within civilizations," Number Three said, "He believes that humanity can go much further by properly synthesizing the interests of all parties.

"However, Teacher Luo Ji's thinking and logical capabilities have become somewhat dull in the past dozen years.

"He must have realized that interests are key to the Dark Forest within civilization, but he hasn't formed a complete conception yet."

Jiang Yu nodded. Everyone knew that interests played an extremely important role in human society, but what role did interests play at the level of civilization?

After finishing the call with Number Three, Jiang Yu then met with Yun Tony, Hao Ying, Cao Yang, and others, who all looked much older or aged.

Busy until late into the night, it was not until the next day that Jiang Yu contacted Jiang Que.

Jiang Que now had her own team, and having completed two projects, she had become one of the outstanding representatives of the younger generation.

Her romance with Qin Hai had continued until now, and they were now discussing marriage.

Jiang Que said, "I've been dragging it out until now because I hoped that you could attend my wedding."

These words made Jiang Yu very happy, feeling that his daughter truly had grown thoughtful.

The father and daughter talked for a long time, and Jiang Que also told Jiang Yu that Qin Hai had learned that his father-in-law was the Wallfacer, Jiang Yu, which had left him restless for a long time.

Now he had come to terms with it, after all, he was marrying Jiang Que, not marrying into the Wallfacer's family.

As Jiang Yu left the light-speed flight, he gradually began his work.

First, Jiang Yu learned about the general military strength of the Solar System United Military from senior officers like Cao Yang.

Then, Jiang Yu gathered information from Hao Ying about the political and military leaders of the fifteen provinces.

Jiang Yu also specifically contacted Zhuang Yue to offer condolences for Luo Ji's death once again, then inquired about how Luo Ji had spent the last several decades.

Overall, Luo Ji had had a fairly good life over the past forty years or so.

Zhuang Yan got married and quickly had children, with Luo Ji and his wife helping to take care of them, enjoying family bliss in their later years.

Until Galaxy Year 42, when Zhuang Yan dies, Zhuang Yue's children had to go out to work and could not stay at their grandfather's side.

After that, Luo Ji started to think again. His thoughts were largely consistent with Jiang Yu's—they both believed that there wouldn't be just one law of Dark Forest within civilizations.

Logic had always been paying close attention to various aspects of humanity, hoping to draw some conclusions through human civilization.

Latter he discovered the role benefits played in society, but he couldn't find the relationship between benefits and civilization.

In social activities, it's usually direct benefits that inspire people's motivation.

For instance, as long as there is work, there will be wages, and many times, the wages are the motivation to keep working.

This is the most basic pattern of how benefits drive people.

But what about civilization? Often, civilization too is built upon benefits; for example, the initial shift to agriculture was because it provided more food than hunting and gathering, so everyone gradually turned to farming.

However, many products of civilization are not driven by benefits, such as inventions and creativity.

Even to this day, Jiang Yu remembers the details explained by Kong Xiang about the difference between society and civilization; at that time, Kong Xiang used Watt's improvement of the steam engine as an example. In social terms, it was benefits that led Watt to improve the steam engine.

But the explanation at the level of civilization is exactly the opposite, because Watt's original intention for improving the steam engine was just to pump water out of coal mines.

It was only later that people began to apply this technology in various fields, and this process couldn't be explained by benefit-driven motives because Watt never even considered using it as a locomotive's power when he was improving the steam engine.

This is the difference between society and civilization; the perspectives from which they view issues are likely to be opposite.

This is also why Jiang Yu had always tried to create a relaxed environment for life and creativity in many aspects of the Solar System State.

Only in such an environment could the "steam engine" be applied in various fields, rather than just for dewatering mines.

As Number Three said, Logic later became somewhat slow in his thinking, unable to make up his mind, without any definitive conclusions.

Some scholars from the Academy of Sciences also made some hypotheses following Logic's line of thought, but they couldn't find a connecting point between society and civilization.

So benefits have influenced civilization, but whether this could rise to the level of the Dark Forest Law has always been debatable.

Since his conversation with Zhuang Yan, Jiang Yu often pondered this question.

He knew that this problem, like the Dark Forest Law he had summarized before, would solve everything as long as he found the breakthrough point.

Jiang Yu's fleet had been traveling at conventional flight speeds for more than half a year before arriving at the capital of Starship Earth.

This was a terrestrial-like planet, the fourth planet in the planetary system; from space, one could see the oceans of the planet and the greenery on land.

Although Jiang Yu had specially authorized the technology for Starship Earth's Climate Air Conditioning, Starship Earth initially had such low production capacity that it couldn't manufacture climate air conditioning. Therefore, their colonization efforts had to find planets very similar to Earth.

In the near-Earth orbit of this planet, there was a small space station; that was the planet's spaceport, where occasionally, traders from the Solar System State would come to exchange goods with the planet.

But in Jiang Yu's view, this spaceport was too small and the facilities were too simple, giving him the sudden illusion of having come from a big city to the countryside.

After entering the spaceport, Jiang Yu immediately saw Zhang Beihai, Dongfang Yanxu, and others who had come to meet him.

Seeing the gray-haired Zhang Beihai, Jiang Yu stood stunned; he remembered the first time he saw Zhang Beihai, which was in Zhang's father's sickroom.

Back then, he was a young military officer with a calm demeanor and a boundless future.

As time flies, that Zhang Beihai with an incredibly resolute gaze has softened his look to become almost gentle, resembling a kind old man standing there, smiling at him.

The two walked towards each other and then tightly clasped each other's hands, a gesture that made Jiang Yu feel a strong current of warmth.

Even with his eloquence, at this moment, he didn't know how to express his inner excitement.