Time flies, the sun and the moon fly by......

It's 5534, 30 years after the Gliese people left aboard the Earth Age, and the 74th year that humans have come to this field......

In the next 30 years, a total of four major events took place.

The first is the change in personnel, the gray-haired Captain Zhao is a little incapable of his work because of the decline in energy, and he began to prepare to take a back seat......

The position of captain can be said to be the highest position in the entire civilization, responsible for the overall planning of the contact and cooperation of various departments. Since the development of civilization is still in the initial stage, the captain has to be involved in all walks of life, and this alone is very difficult.

In addition, there is only one political party in the entire civilization, and in order to ensure the consistency and effectiveness of the policy, the term of office of this position is 20 years (according to the means of life extension of the earth's civilization, the average life expectancy can theoretically reach 322 years), and the current constitution does not stipulate a specific number of consecutive terms.

Unless the captain commits serious negligence in the course of his tenure, he will be removed from the Council of Sciences.

And in this handover, Zhang Yuan of the New Civilization Development Department is also the most suitable candidate, whether it is qualifications, prestige, or ability, there is no more suitable successor than him.

The relevant vote was easily passed.

When the baton of power was handed over to this junior brother, Zhao Qingfeng breathed a heavy sigh of relief, feeling that the burden on his body was just let go......

This mood is delicate......

Passing on the torch is also an extremely important task. From Professor Qi Yuanshan in the 22nd century, to Captain Ma's generation, to Academician Ding, Zhao Qingfeng, and then to Zhang Yuan in the 56th century, it is unimaginable how many hardships and difficulties have been encountered in the middle......

It is a great honor that with the struggle of generation after generation, the New Civilization School has grown from a small seed to a real towering tree.

Thinking back on this period of history, Zhao Qingfeng sighed, when they set out from the earth, they were almost the same age, but now, he is almost the oldest group of people among these millions of people. Because he had already taken over the position during hibernation, dozens more wakefulness than others.

At that time, the life extension technology was not as superb as it is now.

If you wait until you are older to prolong your life, the effect will be much worse. People in their twenties and thirties take injections and take medicine for maintenance, which is fundamentally different from those in their fifties and sixties.

Therefore, compared with Zhang Yuan, Li Zhendong and others, Zhao Qingfeng has also accelerated the speed of aging, and he has lived a short life of more than 100 years.

However, there is nothing to complain about in this matter, and the result was already known in the first place.

People are born, old, sick and die, which in itself is a kind of heavenly cycle, and if you gain something, you also need to pay something else.

If a civilization wants to progress, someone must pay, and the future of civilization must also be in the hands of young people.

According to Zhao Qingfeng's own words, "I am very lucky to be alive to see the current achievements of the new civilization and slowly get on the right track." ”

There are about 1,600 of the same group of retired elderly people, and most of them are actually aging faster, most of them are the former high-level civilization, including several former deputy captains, as well as a group of experts and scholars, and so on.

There are also advantages to taking a back seat, at least you are much more idle at work, you don't have to work so much anymore, and you can enjoy the retirement life of the elderly peacefully.

The new civilization has a very advanced pension system, and the 1,600 retirees, all gathered in a pension community, have a special robot recuperation team.

This group of elderly people are all idle people, when they have nothing to do, take a look at the latest scientific and technological progress, experience the children's campus life, and educate the next generation; Occasionally attending a high-level meeting of an entire civilization, or engaging in some intellectual work, human intelligence can decline much more slowly than physical strength......

This kind of retirement life also seems to be delicious.

What's more, a large number of the internal policies of the new civilization are determined by calculations, the property of officials is open, and the power is also very effectively controlled.

In order to ensure fairness and justice, even the appointment and dismissal of some middle-level cadres are determined by the criterion of "civilized contribution" and not by senior leaders.

There are also quite a lot of mathematical talents in this area, and how to better measure a person's "contribution to civilization", if it is as fair and equitable as possible, is the main research direction of these mathematical people.

Of course, a supreme leader like Zhang Yuan is still elected by the votes of middle-level cadres, and he will have some special rights if it cannot be calculated, or in an emergency.

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In addition to the changes in personnel appointments and dismissals, there is a second major event, the birth rate of the entire civilized population has begun to decline slowly, from 5% at the beginning to 1.2% at present.

The population growth rate of 5% is really too high, if it is placed in the earth civilization, it is equivalent to each couple having 5 children!

Now that the population base has reached 10 million, it is no longer appropriate to increase the population violently. The base number goes up, and the absolute growth value of 1.2% in a year is 120,000 children, which is much more than the original 5%.

Even if the current population is still not enough for the development of all walks of life, there is no longer the original kind of constraints that will always be there, and some simple service industries and handicrafts can be fully replaced by intelligent robots.

Coupled with the emergence of that "fully automated universal factory", the automated production capacity has been greatly increased and the number of industrial population required has been reduced. The technology at the pinnacle of the second-level civilization is indeed more powerful than that of the earth civilization, and after thirty years of arduous reverse engineering, the place that can be cracked is almost cracked. These technologies, which originated from extraterrestrial civilizations, began to be used in all walks of life.

Therefore, in order to maintain long-term population health and take into account the current higher and higher life expectancy, the future population growth rate will be controlled to about 0.5%-1% in order to basically meet the demand.

What's more...... According to the calculations of the historiography of the new civilization, the population of less than 50 million is a relatively healthy state after the entire administrative system is in operation.

At present, the dynamic planned economy is still adopted, rather than the traditional market economy, and the civilized action brought by the planned economy is very strong, but it also requires the government to have a very strong overall planning ability, otherwise it is easy to develop unevenly like the Soviet Union.

A million people, 10 million people and 100 million people are calculated in a completely different way.

According to Zhang Yuan's estimates, a population of 50 million will be the limit of the current algorithm, and if the population size is exceeded, the entire civilization will inevitably be affected by the "Parkinson's Law".

Parkinson's Law is another name for "bureaucracy", which is known as one of the three major discoveries of Western culture in the twentieth century, and can also be called "officialdom disease", "organizational paralysis disease" or "big business disease".

The main meaning is that because of the selfishness of human nature, mediocre managers will tend to seek out more mediocre people as assistants, so as not to affect their status. And so on, and so on, a system of bloated institutions, superficial people, mutual conflict, and inefficiency has been formed.

At present, the data monitoring system of the new civilization is very powerful, and basically eliminates this phenomenon, but the population that can be controlled is limited. If the population increases dramatically, loopholes in the system can always be found, and the organizational efficiency of the entire civilization will decline.

What's more, in some areas, long-term lack of population is conducive to economic vitality and the long-term struggle of citizens.

The reason why the growth rate began to be controlled in a population of more than 10 million is that the population must be forward-looking enough, and if it is controlled by a population of 30 to 50 million, it will easily lead to the aging of the population structure.

For the new civilization to realize the public maintenance of robots, it is very simple to control the population growth rate, and it is enough to give birth to fewer babies from artificial wombs.

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