"Next, let's talk about Greece and Persia. I believe that there is no doubt that Greece and Persia are both in a stage of rapid development. Greece's magic is the best in the world, and the development of philosophy, geometry, theoretical knowledge and technology has far surpassed any country. This is not a boast, but something that has actually happened in the past few decades."

Almost everyone nodded.

Su Ye continued: "What is certain is that Persia is also developing at a rapid pace, but please note that the development of Persia and Greece are not in the same direction. Greece's development is magic, philosophy, geometry, knowledge and technology, and Persia is also making efforts in this regard. However, Persia's resources are used in the two most common places, one is war and the other is luxury goods, and then it is magic and knowledge. No one can deny this, right?"

Everyone agreed.

"War and territorial expansion can indeed bring wealth to the country, and war can also vigorously promote technological innovation. But the problem is that as investment in war continues to increase, the more investment in war comes to a boundary, the ultimate income will gradually decrease. The simplest example is, when we only have 100 golden eagles on our body, we will be happy to earn a new 100 golden eagles in one month, which is a typical low consumption and high development. But when we have 100 million golden eagles, we spend a month earning 100 golden eagles, we will overturn the table and scold people because this is a typical high consumption and low development."

Everyone smiled and nodded. This metaphor is very vivid.

"I won't say much about luxury goods. The whole country of Persia is luxurious. Their excellent magicians and craftsmen are all spending their energy on making gems and making gold and silver jewelry. But what about us Greeks? We make new living tools, we are studying new paper, we are developing navigation technology, we are exploring the sky, stars, oceans, philosophy, magic, technology, and other fields that will inevitably appear after a long period of accumulation."

"And, with gods here, there has been no large-scale internal fighting among our Greek city-states for many years, and internal consumption has been reduced to a minimum."

"To sum up, Greece is a low-consumption and high-development country, while Persia is a high-consumption and high-development country. So, now I ask you again, in the long run, will it belong to Persia or Greece in the future?"

"Greece!"

Warm applause rang in the chamber.

Krimela whispered: "Teacher Su Ye is so awesome."

Palos nodded slightly and wanted to continue to light it. Suddenly stopped, raised his chest and looked up, and glanced at Su Ye secretly.

Su Ye smiled and said, "I can only say that from this perspective, using this method, the future belongs to Greece, but if from another perspective, the result is not necessarily the case. Even when Greece is in the stage of ‘low consumption and high development’, the future belongs to Greece. However, if one day a country surpasses Greece, such as Rome or Nordic, their consumption is lower than Greece and their development is faster than Greece, because consumption development is relative, and Greece becomes a country with high consumption and low development, then the future belongs to a new country."

"Okay, very good. You let us see the courage of young people and the wisdom of magicians. So, let's continue to discuss the most intense question just now. How should we treat Persia? Should we confront the whole, or reduce confrontation, abandon part of our interests, and make concessions?" Larence asked.

Su Ye showed a hint of embarrassment.

But the teachers laughed. The discussion just now was the most intense in the audience.

Those who support the full confrontation almost scold the support and concession as traitors, slaves, and kneeling tribes.

Those who support concessions almost scold the people who are in full confrontation as idiots and brainless barbarians.

If Larence hadn't called the stop, both sides would have sweared.

"Tell me, if you don't answer, I will fail the tenth subject this year." Larence said with a smile.

The teachers laughed as well.

Su Ye looked at Nideen angrily, he learned everything from you.

Nideen looked calm, nothing to do with me?

"I have seen your point of view, let's say it out." Nieden decisively sold his teammates.

"Oh? You have already had an opinion? Tell me!" Aristotle was curious.

During this meeting, Aristotle did not speak. When everyone saw that even he was talking, they became even more curious about Su Ye.

Su Ye said helplessly: "Before answering this question, I will first ask the two of the two sides who had the most intense argument just now. Teacher Gregory, you are a pro-war faction, so why are you attacking Persia in an all-round way?"

"Of course it is to defeat Persia. Persia is immortal and Greece will never be powerful." Gregory said.

"Okay, then, Mr. Kadelius, you said that in order to preserve Greece, you can sacrifice some of your interests to make concessions and seek peace. So, what is your purpose of seeking peace from Persia?"

"I said before that in order to accumulate strength, find opportunities, and finally defeat Persia. You cannot lose everything because of a moment of impulse." Kadelius said.

Su Ye nodded and said, "Then I will just say it. I think that people from both sides are correct, but they also ignore a very important issue."

"Both sides are concerned about the other party's 'what is doing'. One party thinks that the other party is giving in, and naturally infers that the other party has no backbone and is suspected of surrendering, and then reverses, believing that the other party is on the side of Persia, which will eventually harm Greece and think that the other party is the enemy."

"The other side believes that supporting a comprehensive confrontation is blind and stupid, because war cannot solve the real problem, but will make the problem bigger and bigger, and naturally it will be reversed. The other side's behavior may drag Greece into an endless abyss, and ultimately harm Greece, and it is also considered an enemy."

"The final result must be that both sides curse, or even, in order to prove that they are right, the other party is wrong and is hostile to the other party, but they forget that our common enemy is Persia outside."

Everyone was silent.

Su Ye continued: "I am different from both sides. I don't pay attention to 'what both sides are doing'. I don't reverse the situation. I first pay attention to 'why both sides do this'. Why are both sides sitting here discussing this? It is to protect Greece! To make Greece better! Then this is a big deal. Both sides think that the other side is harming Greece, but I think both sides are protecting Greece? Think carefully, is the other side here harming Greece or helping Greece?"

The meeting room was silent.

"Indeed, both sides are helping Greece, and even I was almost trapped in just now." Larence sighed.

Some people nodded slightly.

Su Ye said: "In other words, when judging each other, both parties use the wrong order of inference, first looking at the surface, then deducing the wrong cause from the outside to the inside, and finally nailing the other party to the wrong wall of sin. But I, or a few people, first look for the cause directly, and then get the final result from the inside out. The order of our thinking is different, resulting in the completely opposite results."

"This is very good, I want to remember it carefully. This is what you said... the correct sequence logic is right?" Euclid recorded it carefully.

The golden mages were stunned for a moment, looked at the masters of the Holy Land that were recording, and took out magic books to record them.

Among the silver magicians, most people recorded it carefully, but a few people were stunned, looking confused.

After a while, Larence looked at the record of the crowd and asked, "So, do you think we should confront each other in a full-scale confrontation, or give in at the same time as the confrontation?"

"The problem can never be solved at the level where the problem occurs. We must break through this level and find a way to solve the problem from a deeper level. To give the simplest example, we feel itchy and scratch it. But if we often itch and spend a lot of time every day on itchy, what will happen? It must be that the skin on the whole body will turn red and rupture, but it still cannot solve the 'itry'. If we only blame the itchy body, or only blame ourselves for the wrong scratching, then we will never solve the problem. What will we do in fact? We will break through the 'itry' of the appearance, make sure it is a 'disease', and then ask a doctor to help with treatment. After treatment, our illness is cured and we will no longer itch, and we will no longer scratch."

"Itchy is the level where the problem occurs, and scratching is the solution to the level where the occurrence is. But this method actually cannot solve the problem. But we found that the deeper part is 'some disease', and then using the treatment method to solve the itchy and the problem can be solved."

"Using this principle, let's look back. The teachers on both sides all the logic is 'Persian attacks us, how do we fight back against Persia', that is, the itch comes, we tickled. Do you remember when I asked Gregory and Kadelius at the beginning? I added 'Persian' to the question."

"I asked Teacher Gregory why we were going to attack Persia in an all-round way. His answer was, of course, to destroy Persia."

"I asked Mr. Kadelius what the purpose of asking for peace from Persia was, and his answer was to accumulate strength, find time, and defeat Persia."

"It doesn't seem to be a problem, but when I gave up Persia and we thought together, 'Why are we sitting here to discuss this matter', I said that everyone was trying to protect Greece, and everyone took it for granted. So, why is this?"

"Because we are easily attracted by superficial goals and forget to explore deeper goals, we will never solve the problem."

"Then, I ask one last time, what we really want to do in our hearts is to protect Greece or defeat Persia? Those who choose to protect Greece raised their left hand, and those who choose to defeat Persia raised their right hand."

Larence took the lead in raising his left hand.

Then, most people raised their left hand, and only a small number of people firmly raised their right hand.

"Very good, all those who raise their right hand, I can tell the truth that you are scratching the itch and don't want to cure the disease. That is to say, you think itch is the cause, you think itch is the purpose, but you don't, curing the disease is the purpose. Just like Persian invasion is just an appearance, you regard it as a cause. And you regard defeating Persia as an end, but in fact, defeating Persia is just a means, and our real purpose is not to defeat Persia, but to protect Greece, and peace. The two seem the same, but it is like a world of difference."
Chapter completed!