The first route, suppressing the natural birth rate, is not family planning, but a more gentle way.

Want to have a baby? Yes, no problem at all, and there are even certain policies to support individual childbearing.

But to give birth to a child, you have to nurture it. The process of raising children is not only a personal matter, but also a public affair of the whole society, and it must have a certain ability, and parents are not so easy to do.

Most of the people on the spaceship are young people, except for some kindergarten teachers, it is impossible to have any experience in raising them, and there is no help from the older generation. The supportive robot is still in an experimental state for the time being, and has not yet been mass-produced, so it is impossible to allocate one per family.

In order to reduce the appearance of unqualified parents, please first take a certificate - "parental certificate".

According to the regulations, both parents have to take the exam, and after taking the certificate, they can have children.

This kind of natural "politically correct" thing, of course, has won the unanimous praise of the broad masses of the people, after all, the vast majority of people who eat melons have no desire to have children at all. The remaining few people can only accept it head-on, and giving birth to a child without taking the certificate will be unanimously condemned by public opinion.

With such a small population, if you look up and don't look down, if you are despised for a long time, life will become very difficult.

As a result, these parents found. The difficulty of the examination is much higher than imagined, and it may not be possible to pass the exam several times, including how many times the child has a rebellious period, when to supplement what nutrients, how to spend the rebellious period, etc...... The question is difficult.

Some people simply don't bother to give birth when they see such trouble.

The second is to advocate eugenics.

At present, the new civilization is in ruins, and although the current living conditions have risen a little, there are still no things like milk powder. There isn't even a cow, and the cow has yet to be cloned from an artificial womb......

Of course, diapers, pacifiers, and the like are not available.

Well, anyway, there are no such material conditions, these are objective facts, and the entire civilization does not need these, but it takes time to accumulate to be able to produce these resources.

If you still insist on having a child in this case, you can find a way to overcome the difficulties you encounter......

In particular, the long-term public opinion propaganda has made everyone form a natural thinking that "when the conditions are not ripe, not having children casually is the basic quality of a responsible adult." ”

"It's so poor, everyone is still mining and farming."

"Ran 20 light years just to have a baby? Aliens are going to die of laughter from you. ”

"I'll die in a few years, so urgent."

In addition, the higher the education, the lower the fertility intention, which is also an objective law.

In this way, with the cooperation of the objective environment and subjective policies, the birth rate of the entire civilization is naturally relatively low.

The sluggish birth rate has made some people of insight anxious to jump and call on everyone to let go of life. But this will in itself cannot be increased by appeal...... Who wants to have ten children like a pig?

After thinking about these objective factors and sorting out his thoughts, Zhang Yuan raised his head and walked into the conference room.

This time the scientific council was quite grand, and everyone already knew the data in the development, but it was still released in an official form.

Captain Zhao solemnly spoke on the stage: "...... This year's work task was successful, even exceeded, and I am very grateful to everyone for their hard work, and also thank the 60,000 engineers on the surface for their silent dedication. Without your active labor, there would be no normal operation of this society, let alone our better and better life. ”

Bang Bang Bang!

There was a round of applause from the audience.

"The task of the next few years, the first is to develop more cutting-edge technology, and the earth civilization has left us a lot of valuable legacy, which is enough for us to enter the real interstellar age. The second is to raise the level of automation of all projects, where there is still a lot of room for optimization. In the absence of large-scale growth of the industrial population, improving automation capabilities is the only way to improve work efficiency......"

"And then there's the demographic issue, the more important one. On this point, every person of insight should be worried......"

"Population has become an important factor restricting our development. Many projects, we have no way to continue, just because of the small population. Do you know what kind of work is the greatest contribution to civilization as a whole? ”

After a pause for a few seconds, Captain Zhao smiled and said, "It's not mining on the surface, it's not being a scientist, it's not like me, speaking on the stage. Rather, give birth to 10 or even 20 more children, raise them, and these parents are comparable to the greatest heroes in the world! ”

Some of the people at the bottom couldn't help but laugh, it was just a joke in a serious meeting.

Captain Zhao continued: "...... Of course, humans are not pigs, and they can't give birth to ten at once. The birth of the next generation is not only a major event of civilization, but also a matter of personal freedom. Therefore, it is impossible for us to force childbirth, and in addition to the worrying objective environment, even I myself do not have children. I'm too busy to have no way and no interest in having a baby......"

After saying this, there was a long silence in the conference room.

Everyone seemed to be expecting what would happen next......

Then, it's time to get to the big thing, to really solve the population problem!

This population bill should have been proposed by the minister of the Ministry of Human Resources himself, but this bill is a key content in the historiography of the new civilization, and in addition, the minister's weight is slightly insufficient, and his popularity is not enough...... Maybe as soon as it is proposed, it will be scolded by the people as a pig's head.

Only Zhang Yuan's level, whose prestige is high enough, can a powerful figure in the New Civilization Development Department make a big enough splash!

Time...... It's here.

Zhang Yuanshen exhaled and got up from the stool.

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, I think you should know what will happen after this bill is submitted. If I were you, I would definitely think twice...... The impact on us is just too great. ”

A female congresswoman from the Ministry of Education who was sitting next to her suddenly said, "Are we really pressed for the time to mass-breed babies with artificial womb technology?" Still is...... Is it just the personal selfishness of your entire school? ”

Zhang Yuan looked at her with a smile: "Urgency or not, I think you know in your heart that I am only for civilization." ”

Both the expression and the tone are very bland.

But in the midst of this blandness, the congresswoman suddenly felt a biting cold wind from the distant Arctic.

Deep at the core of the entire civilization, there seems to be a strong and cold will that is slowly pushing all this. No matter what kind of resistance, it's just a mantis arm as a car.

Feeling this oppressive force, she frowned and said, "I will vote against it." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled, but his words were not soft: "Your opposition alone is invalid, we are a democratic society...... Of course, you have the right to speak and can always make a rebuttal. ”

He took the stage with a stack of papers, and his pace was steady and calm.

A piece of material is shown on the big screen.

In an instant, like boiling water, the entire conference room boiled!

"About the Batch Incubation of Babies Using Artificial Uterus Technology"!