Chapter 916: Changes in Civilization

If there was any benefit to the Charlunt War, which lasted for ten years, it was that the colonization had been carried out in parallel.

At the end of the war, not only was the colonization army of human civilization already ready to go, all kinds of work related to the establishment of colonies were in place, and the colonization and development of the home galaxy of the Charents civilization had also been carried out for many years. Charunt has been completely transformed by human colonizers, and has the science and technology equivalent to the information age of human civilization. Relying on controlled nuclear fusion and energy from the planet's core, as long as the number of individuals does not increase, the Charunds will be able to reproduce on their home planet for tens of millions of years.

At this time, the number of human colonists who have arrived in the Charundt system has exceeded 300 billion, and the number continues to increase.

The orbits of the two very unstable planets have been adjusted, all of them are within the life zone, and the ecological environment established by science and technology has been basically formed, and the size of the colony is rapidly expanding, and it will not be long before it will develop into a permanent settlement.

In fact, when it came to modifying the Charundt system, scientists proposed two schemes.

The first is to use the Saruntes to establish it, which was severely damaged in the war, but still exists, and build it into a colony, and then expand into a permanent settlement. The second is to transform the solid planets in the life belt so that they can meet the basic living needs of human beings.

Comparatively, the former is more attractive.

After gaining a deeper understanding of the Charent civilization, human beings found that this intelligent civilization evolved from amphibians has far more requirements for the size of living space and the quality of the living environment than humans, the former is almost ten times that of humans, and the latter means that more resources need to be spent for survival. If the three spatial realms built by the Charund civilization can be repaired, it will be enough to accommodate thirty trillion people!

Because the Charundt system is more resourceful, it is not too much of a problem to ensure the survival of thirty trillion people.

It's just that repairing the three spatial realms is a problem in itself.

During the war, the three spatial realms were devastated, and there were still very big hidden dangers, not only did it take a lot of resources to repair, but even after repair, it was likely to pose a threat to the lives and safety of the colonists. For example, no one knows how many mines were installed by the Charunts before the surrender in Ludao. Those mines, all loaded with star cores, were enough to kill the colonists who only had mass. If these hidden dangers are taken into account, the cost of repairing the three spatial realms must be an astronomical amount. For the Authority, this meant issuing a large number of "contribution points", and it meant that the colonists were not crazy about reproduction.

Obviously, this is not in the fundamental interests of human civilization.

After the conquest of the intelligent civilization created by Kate, the Governing Authority passed a law that all colonies to be conquered in the future belonged to the entire human civilization, not to the colonists who first arrived. The colonists only had the right to develop, but they did not have the sovereignty of the colonies. Because Luo Jinyong has solved the problem of space bridges, it is impossible for the colony to use space distance to break away from the entire human civilization.

Since it is the common property of human civilization, everyone has the right to settle in the colony.

For this reason, the population of the colony had to be limited, that is, the colonists could not multiply indefinitely and thus flood the entire colony.

Of course, resources are also a very serious problem.

Repairing the three airbornes requires a large number of Plasmids, and the only way to obtain them is to mine the resources on those giant planets. Prior to this, the Charunds had already begun to develop giant planets, even leading to the demise of one giant planet, and the mass of several giant planets was greatly reduced. At the time of the defeat of the Charunds, their exploitation and use of giant planets had destroyed the gravitational system of the star system.

If human colonists continue to exploit these giant planets and obtain resources on them, it is very likely that the entire star system will become unstable. If the gravitational system of the star system collapses, causing a planet, even a large asteroid, to go out of orbit, be captured by the gravitational pull of the star, and eventually fall into the star, the result will be catastrophic, because the eruption of material from the star will sweep through the entire life belt, and the three solid planets and the three space world realms will be completely destroyed, and the colonists may not be able to escape. Even if such a catastrophe could have been prevented, the cost of doing so would far outweigh the benefits brought by the three Dimensional Realms.

As a result, the Governing Authority ultimately chose the latter, transforming the two planets.

For safety reasons, the orbits of these two planets are very special. In addition to one being inside Charunt and one outside Charund, the orbital periods of the two planets are also unique, guaranteeing that at all times, one planet will be on the same side as Charund. In this way, the monitoring stations set up on the two planets can keep an eye on Charlunt at all times, and monitor the remaining Charunds.

Development of the Charundt system has begun in full swing, while development of the other two star systems has already begun.

In addition, human civilization has not spared the four star systems that have not been completely destroyed, but has not established colonies in them.

These four star systems still have value that can be exploited, such as mining the most important resources.

To that end, the Authority had sent the most capable colonial teams and had rewarded those colonizers who volunteered to exploit the resources.

Thanks to the space bridges, the resources mined from these four star systems can be put to good use.

Although the war of foreign expansion had begun before the attack on the Charent civilization, for human civilization, the past decade was the beginning of the colonial era.

During this decade, almost everyone tasted the benefits of waging a colonial war.

No matter how bad the outcome of the Charendt War was, the interests were clear, and no one could deny it. The key is not the three star systems, but the impact of the colonization of these three star systems and the comprehensive exploitation brought about by the colonization on human society.

This impact is first and foremost reflected in the economy.

Although only about 500 billion people participated in colonial development, accounting for only 5 percent, that is, there were only five colonizers for every 100 people, it was definitely not only these 500 billion colonizers who benefited, but all people. Colonization required more than enough resources, at least for the original colonizers, resources from the second home were essential. To produce these resources, we need enough workers, which means that more people can earn "contribution points" through their labor. According to the estimates of the administration, each colonist needed at least five laborers to support him. Next, the colonists would spend the money they earned when they returned to their second home, known as "contribution points", which required more service personnel and created more jobs.

In a sense, almost the entire human civilization revolves around colonization.

The economic changes had an immediate impact on the culture of the society.

Before the colonial era, the administration did not promote the participation of all people in the labour force, at least not by encouraging it, mainly because there was no way to provide enough jobs. The production of basic subsistence resources has been almost entirely automated, and the main labor positions in society are related to services. Even so, a couple with five children only needs at most one of them to participate in social work.

At that time, the problem for the management was not a shortage of labour, but that there was too much labour.

In order to solve this problem, the management has taken a number of measures, such as doubling the training time in the sciences, arts, literature, etc., which cannot be directly imparted by scientific and technological means, so that citizens need to spend more time studying, and thus postpone the age of participation in social work. The vast majority of citizens need more than 50 years of study and training in school to acquire the basic skills to participate in social work.

The problem is that none of these solutions can solve the problem of overwork.

It is important to know that human beings have an infinite lifespan, and as long as they wish, anyone can continue to engage in social labor after adulthood. What's worse is that the main purpose of the vast majority of adults to get paid for their labor is not to improve their lives, but to reproduce.

It's just that, in the colonial era, all this changed.

The shortage of labor has become a major problem for the management authorities.

For this reason, the management has had to encourage people to work, and even through the introduction of laws that make it mandatory for all citizens to engage in social work, and to establish leave time equal to the contribution of labor, and to implement a stricter "contribution point system" to force citizens to participate in labor.

Of course, when it comes to cultural propaganda and education, the management authorities have not relaxed.

More importantly, the vast majority of citizens are aware of the importance of labor under the impulse to reproduce, and the entire social culture has changed.

It is precisely in this way that human civilization has been able to form a large-scale colonization team in such a short period of time.

Chu Tianjiang saw these changes, and also felt them, and became more aware of the impact of these changes on human civilization.

Of course, Chu Tianjiang knew that these changes were all related to Zhang Xiaogang.

If you only look at the individual, Zhang Xiaogang is not strong, and he is not even as good as the best soldier in the legion. However, his strength is not his personal ability. He knows human civilization better than anyone else, understands human nature better than anyone else, and he knows how to control human civilization.

The question is, is the change that Zhang Xiaogang has brought to human civilization necessarily a good thing?