Some principles held true in any world—for instance, "true knowledge comes from practice."
Faced with cruel lords and commoners who could barely survive, those reformists harboring naïve ideals were profoundly shaken. Their thinking underwent earth-shaking changes, and quite a few of them even made a full one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn, becoming the most radical anti-aristocratic faction outright. Sui Xiong had no choice but to give them ideological and political lessons from another angle, explaining the need for gradual progress and going on at length about things like "Rome wasn't built in a day," trying his best to cure their poison with highly concentrated chicken soup for the soul.
Fortunately, there were not that many people who veered either far left or far right. After recognizing their mistakes, most reformists did not leap from one extreme to another. They merely grew somewhat dejected for a while before pulling themselves together, once again brimming with enthusiasm and high fighting spirit as they threw themselves back into their work.
As for whether the articles Sui Xiong had sent them deserved any credit for this—particularly whether Pavel Korchagin's passage, which had inspired countless readers on Earth, had played a part: "A person's life should be spent this way: when he looks back upon the past, he will not regret having wasted his years, nor will he feel ashamed for having accomplished nothing. And when he faces death, he will be able to say: I devoted my entire life and all my strength to the most magnificent cause in the world—struggling for the liberation of all mankind."—well, nobody knew.
"I suddenly realized that, as a transmigrator, I have a huge advantage." Amid the rumbling artillery fire, Sui Xiong said to Crick, "Those chicken-soup one-liners that are already everywhere on Earth, those famous sayings where even children can