Chapter 14 Sowing in Hawaii (Part 2)

  "I sincerely hope that all of you present here can promote our Chinese cultural knowledge, which has been accumulated over the past 5,000 years, and interpret it in a more accurate and understandable way, so that our future generations can benefit from it endlessly. Our Han culture is an excellent culture in the world." After finishing his speech, Zhou Yu bowed deeply to everyone with a 90-degree bow.

  The playground erupted in thunderous applause. "Well said Principal Zhou! Huaxia is the best!"

  After everyone calmed down, Zhou Yu continued with the topic from earlier;

  "Why do I say that the culture of Huaxia is the best? Why do I scold certain people for being a shame to their nation? It's all proven by facts. Next, let's take a look at Western medicine, which is primarily based on surgical procedures."

  "As early as the Three Kingdoms period of China, there was Hua Tuo's scraping bone therapy, skull cracking to cure diseases, and anesthesia with traditional Chinese medicine. In my opinion, Western medicine should not be called Western medicine but rather Chinese medicine, it's just that Westerners have developed and popularized the medical techniques of our China." (Another round of applause)

  "As for modern chemistry and physics, the historical origins of Chinese chemistry are very ancient. It can be said that from the time our ancestors learned to use fire, they began their earliest chemical practices."

  "Our ancestors drilled wood to make fire, used fire to roast food, warm themselves on cold nights and drive away beasts, making full use of the chemical phenomenon of light and heat generated during combustion."

  "The people of the Huaxia nation learned to make pottery from clay in a blazing fire, to smelt metal from ore, to brew wine from grains, and to dye silk and hemp fabrics with colors. These were all inspired by direct practical experience and came about through long-term exploration, representing the earliest chemical craftsmanship of the Huaxia people, but still without forming chemical knowledge, only the budding period of chemistry."

  "Our later generations did not carry it forward, but Westerners have made use of and developed it in a way that is fragrant both inside and outside the Great Wall. Physics, our Huaxia had clear physical applications as early as the era of Yao and Shun, such as the principle of leverage and Da Yu's control of floods. As for mathematics, that goes back even further, our ancient Huaxia humans' method of counting by knots and marking time by notches were the most primitive mathematical counting methods."

  "In conclusion, what qualifications do we have to criticize our great ancestors? What right do we have to comment on the social sciences of Chinese civilization? All we need to do is: use more scientific and systematic methods to describe the cultural knowledge left behind by our ancestors, so that our descendants can benefit for thousands of years. Is this okay with everyone?"

  "Good!" Everyone was relatively excited, as before they were all very inferior, because the modern cultural knowledge of Huaxia was far behind that of the West, and they also thought that Western culture was more advanced than that of Huaxia.

  Now, after comparing Zhou Yu's books and explanations, they suddenly realized that it was not the cultural knowledge of Huaxia that was backward, but rather these descendants of Huaxia who had not carried forward the excellent cultural knowledge of Huaxia. Can you say they wouldn't be excited?

  A relatively tender voice rang out: "Principal Zhou, may I ask a question?" This was a 15-year-old boy who was extremely mature and calm.

  "Go ahead! Young fellow, ask away!" Zhou Yu was extremely curious about this young man who dared to be the first to ask a question. What kind of environment could have nurtured and cultivated someone with such qualities?

  "Can the current system of China make China strong? What kind of system can make China strong?"

  "This classmate asked a great question! To answer these questions, we must first discuss the political systems of the world throughout history. Here, I will briefly analyze the world's political systems from ancient times to the present."

  "I categorize the political systems of the world into:"

  1. In primitive society, their economic life adopted egalitarian distribution methods, such as China's Yellow Emperor era.

  2. Slave society, where resources are owned by a tiny minority of slave owners who possess large amounts of means of production and enslave the majority of people, such as ancient Rome in Europe.

  Third, feudal society, the landlord class becomes the ruling class, while the peasant class is the ruled class. The fundamental way for the landlord class to rule other classes is through the feudal land ownership system, such as the Qing Dynasty in our China.

  4. In a capitalist society, capitalists exploit the surplus value of laborers through employment relationships. A social system based on capitalists owning the means of production and exploiting hired labor, such as the United States today.

  Five, communist society is a social system under my ideal state. The wealth of communist society is distributed according to need, that is, everyone contributes to society to the best of their ability and takes what they need.

  However, a communist society must have almost all citizens with very high quality, and labor productivity must be unprecedentedly improved. In a communist society, science and technology must be extremely developed, people's ability to recognize and transform nature must exceed any previous era, otherwise it is an empty theoretical society.

  "Indeed, the development of science is endless, and therefore social development will never stagnate. The young comrade just mentioned what kind of political system is suitable for China's current national conditions, I can very responsibly tell you that the current political system suitable for China is a constitutional monarchy."

  "Why am I saying this? Because in today's world, so-called democracy is not suitable for China."

  One, the cultural quality of the Chinese people is generally low, they do not know what democracy is, what rights they should have, and what obligations they should fulfill. Without an emperor, they think there is no king's law - that is, no law.

  If we let the current Chinese people elect our national leaders, they are likely to choose a storyteller or an actor who is well-known to everyone, because in their minds, these people are more famous and knowledgeable. However, whether the people elected by the common folk have the ability to govern our great China properly is a definite no.

  Thirdly, due to our country's several thousand years of imperial rule, every person has a deep-seated feeling of being an emperor, which may lead to the country's division and long-term warlord infighting, because everyone has an emperor dream.

  "In conclusion, I believe that under the current conditions, our China can only implement a constitutional monarchy, achieve separation of military and political powers, separate legislation from enforcement, and establish an independent supervisory body. Only in this way can we take root and sprout in the existing soil of China, wait for the development of China's productive forces and the improvement of the cultural quality of its people, before we can implement a truly democratic national system."

  "So: 'Principal, why don't you think that America's constitutional federal republican democracy is the most suitable democratic system for our country?'"

  "America is a multi-ethnic, multi-regional, multi-lingual and multi-religious immigrant nation with a history of over two hundred years. Its people come from different countries and places, so they do not obey anyone, therefore they must establish a system of checks and balances to protect each other's interests."

  "They can only develop when they have checks and balances, but we cannot. As I just mentioned, we have a long history of imperial rule. Under the condition that domestic productivity has not reached a certain level, if we rashly introduce the American-style constitutional federal republic democracy, it will inevitably lead to turmoil and division in Chinese society."

  "Among them, the main one is still the system of the United States, which is not a truly democratic system serving the working people, but a naked capitalist exploitative system that exploits the working people."

  "So I think that we can only gradually and step by step promote democracy, which is the most scientific and feasible method for China at present."

  "Let's put it in the simplest way; someone has ￡10 million at home, with five brothers and no elders around, so who should be in charge of this money now?"

  "Some people would say, isn't it easy, just divide 2 million among everyone and that's it!"

  "On the surface, it seems to be so, but isn't dividing equally just splitting up the family? If these 10 million are national assets, then isn't this just fragmenting the country?"

  "After dividing up the property, did the brothers really have no more conflicts? The answer is still a definite no! Because at that time, Father said I should get more because I contributed more."

  "The second elder would say that I'm the one who thinks most and should get the most, while the third, fourth, and fifth elders have their own reasons. Among the five brothers, no one can convince anyone else, and no one yields to anyone else, resulting in a big fight among the five of us. If this were between warlords, it would be a warlord melee, and another civil war would erupt in our China."

  "So, is there any way to avoid splitting?"

  "There is a way, which is to let the eldest be the head of the household, the second in charge of money, the third in charge of distributing money, and the fourth and fifth supervise them, then there will be no complaints. However, this is a solution that is not a solution, this is what I call constitutional monarchy. Only when brothers work together can they cut through gold, but if they scatter, they will be beaten passively."

  Zhou Yu's straightforward and easy-to-understand words made everyone think deeply.

  The little boy also lowered his head, pondering something with a hint of understanding!

  "Excuse me little friend, what's your name?" This made Zhou Yu, a thoughtful young boy, very curious.

  "Reporting to the principal, I am Sun Di Xiang, a native of Dongguan County, Guangdong Province."

  "Ah! Sun Emperor? Oh, buying cakes!" Zhou Yu let out a strange cry, startling the crowd who were deep in thought.

  "Principal, is there something wrong with my name?"

  "Oh! No, no! I was just a bit distracted earlier, that's why I had this question! Hehe!" Zhou Yu hastily explained with embarrassment. At the same time, he secretly thought to himself: 'A great man of his generation, ah! No wonder he's so seasoned!'

  "Sun, would you mind if I changed your name?" Zhou Yu started rubbing his nose again.

  "Alright, Principal! The principal is knowledgeable and talented, and will surely give the students a resounding name."

  "You, this group of people, whether students or teachers, will be the flowers of the motherland, the hope for the future, the foundation for national development, and the support for China's progress. That's why I call you Sun Zhongshan. How about it? Are you willing?"

  "I really like this name, and I also thank the principal for giving it to me. Can I be the principal's student?"

  "Of course, you were originally my students, all the trainees present are my students. When your knowledge surpasses that of the teacher in the future, come back and be the teacher's master, let the teacher also be your student, okay? Hehehe!"

  Everyone shouted in unison: "Hello teacher! You're too modest!"

  Zhou Yu thus deceived an ultra-grade student.

  Then everyone enthusiastically asked Zhou Yu all sorts of questions, and Zhou Yu gave perfect answers.

  After the meeting, Zhou Yu had a detailed conversation with Sun Yat-sen and specially rushed to give him two books: "Das Kapital" and "Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men".

  Watching Sun Yat-sen treasure the two books, excitedly running away with a skip in his step, Zhou Yu secretly wondered if he would change Sun's political beliefs! Can't wait to see what happens!