At different times, different methods were needed to solve problems.
If Lin Fan had traveled to the Republican era, he would have chosen to join the revolution.
He would have torn the warlords' fortresses to pieces and buried the feudal system in its grave. Countless impoverished people had to rise up against the cruel oppression that had endured for thousands of years.
Enemies lurked hungrily outside, while corrupt parasites waited for their chance within. At such a time, Lin Fan would not have called for the great unity of the world's peoples. He would first have reunified the shattered land and let the downtrodden masses cry out their final roar.
If Lin Fan had traveled to the age of feudal dynasties, he would not have thought about launching some communist revolution.
Instead, he would have chosen to advance society's productive capacity and use the power of science to drive the wheels of history onward.
Society had to move from a relatively backward feudal society toward a more advanced capitalist society. After all, without productive forces to sustain it and the necessary accumulation of wealth, forcibly pushing society into its next stage would be nothing but a castle in the air.
The economic base determined the superstructure.
If Lin Fan had traveled to Western Europe and witnessed the sweeping Protestant Reformation and peasant uprisings, he would not have sought to enslave the masses' minds in the name of the Son of God.
He would not have joined those lofty noble lords, nor would he have joined those solemn, hypocritical priests and servants of God.
Truchsess had cried, "God will never abandon nobles born to greatness!"
Martin Luther had cried, "When dealing with peasants, use your fists to make blood spray from their noses, use blades to make heads leap from shoulders,