The charm of science fiction is that it can not only break through the constraints of reality and stimulate imagination, but to some extent, it can also reflect human reality and foresee future history.

"Galactic Empire 1: Foundation" is one of Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction novels. The author wrote seven volumes of base stories throughout his life, namely: "The Base", "The Base and the Empire", "The Second Base", "The Edge of the Base", "The Base and the Earth", "Toward the Base" and "Prequel to Base". This series of novels is inspired by "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Therefore, the content of the novels is not only science fiction, but also contains many elements such as history, politics, economy, and human nature. It can be said to be an imaginary historical story under the cloak of science fiction.

"Galactic Empire 1: Base" mainly introduces psychohistory, the origin of the Terminus Base and the three "Sedon Crisis".

The greatest contribution of the psychohistorian Hari Seldon in his life is nothing more than the development of psychohistory and the "Sedon" Function" to establish the Terminus Star Base. Here, Terminus will encounter multiple crises, and the solution is the only one that will guide the base in the right direction. These crises are called "Sedon Crisis."

The First Seldon Crisis: Terminus Mayor Cypher Harding used the "checks and balances" method to successfully resolve the crisis, and within the base, the ordinary citizens represented by Harding also successfully resolved the crisis. Seizing power, the Encyclopedia Editorial Committee was ousted, and the base entered the civil era.

The Second Seldon Crisis: Cypher Harding’s foresight was to use the export of science and technology to form “religious” control over the four “barbarian” kingdoms, and successfully resolved the crisis. The clergy class within the base is becoming increasingly powerful, and the base has entered a religious era.

The Third Seldon Crisis: The merchant Hooper Marlowe brought down the Corel *** and the Republic through trade. Marlowe, who represented the merchant class within the base, defeated the clergy class and succeeded. Seizing power, the base entered the era of business.

The ancients taught us: By taking history as a mirror, we can know the ups and downs. Studying human history, we try to learn something from it, but we can never escape the "law of historical cycles". In the author's writing, the base's "Seldon Crisis" often occurs when internal and external conflicts reach their peak at the same time.

Looking around the world today, it is easy to find the shadow of novels in reality: technological blockades in high-tech fields, trade disputes, financial wars, ideological infiltration, etc., are all writing a realistic version of the book with great colors. The "base novel". Every country in the whirlpool of history will inevitably encounter the "Sedon Crisis" in the process of development. How to deal with it is a moment that tests the country's determination and national wisdom.

When large countries, small companies and individuals encounter the "Sedon Crisis" of internal and external difficulties in the development process, they might as well calm down and read this science fiction novel carefully.

Here, I excerpt a few classic sentences from the work in order to awaken the memory of re-reading the classics in the future!