"Since it is unacceptable to change the marriage law and use technological means, then it can only encourage men and women of appropriate age to have children!"

Edwin thought carefully and suggested: "We have another option, which is to fine-tune the reproductive age, with the progress of modern science and technology, human beings are becoming more and more precocious, and we can increase the number of people who are eligible for childbirth by lowering the reproductive age!" ”

"How do I do that?" Zhou Chen nodded and asked. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"We can change the law to lower the legal age of marriage to 16, which would increase the number of children by about 100 million!"

The current marriage law sets the age of marriage for men and women from 18 years to 16 years, which can add about 100 million men and women who meet the requirements of the marriage law.

"It seems to work!" Zhou Chen thought for a moment and looked at the others.

At this time, a member of the committee in charge of population affairs thought for a moment, stood up and said: "Captain, it is indeed feasible to lower the age of marriage!" ”

"On Earth, China required men and women to be at least 22 and 20 years old to get married, while England required men and women to be at least 16 years old, and other countries, such as Japan, required men to be 18 years old and women 16 years old; France stipulates that men are 18 years old and women are 15 years old, Italy even stipulates that men are 14 years old and women are 12 years old, and in Spain men are 12 years old and women are 10 years old! ”

"In Taiwan, for example, the law stipulates that the age of marriage for both men and women is 20 years old, but with the consent of parents, it can be relaxed to 18 years for men and 16 years for women!"

"From the practical experience of many countries, it is completely feasible to lower the age of marriage to 16 years."

The Earth Fleet adheres to the multi-national average, so from the beginning it has required men and women to marry at the age of eighteen, and there are additional restrictions on childbearing due to the need for interstellar voyages.

It seems reasonable to relax the age to sixteen now.

"It's just that in this way, married men and women are still underage boys and girls to a certain extent, even if we stipulate that sixteen years old is an adult, then do they really have the social cognitive ability to start a family?" Zhou Chen asked.

If you are just a child, how can you take on the responsibility of being a parent? The so-called upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, but the education of children is a major topic in sociology!

"This is just a small problem, we can stipulate that men and women are sixteen years old as the legal age of marriage and childbearing, but they do not have complete social independence qualifications, both parties must accept the guardianship of parents before reaching the age of eighteen, and only after the age of eighteen can they independently go out and establish a new family!"

Is that okay too?

Zhou Chen was slightly dumbfounded, at this time he was really impressed by the brains of the committee members.

In fact, doing so is equivalent to saying that the child is still a child, but let the child get married and have children first, and then go out independently when he is an adult......

Watching a group of committee members worrying about the fertility of young men and women, he suddenly felt that this picture was very beautiful. He even vaguely found that some committee members seemed to think that sixteen years old was not early enough, and in order to grow up as soon as possible, they were eager to let the children have children as soon as they were developed, which really made people feel speechless.

One by one, this is using young men and women as fertility tools and breeding pigs? Is it also possible to consider having twins, triplets, or even a litter at once?

After all, it is not impossible to work hard and have a litter.

"In that case, leave this issue to the legal profession to worry about, so that they are ready to change the law." Zhou Chen smiled, and this policy was set.

"The Civil Administration Committee should also do a good job in the service of giving birth to women of appropriate age, and the fleet will face a wave of fertility peaks at that time, and various policy packages must not be left behind!"

"Don't worry, Captain, we'll take care of it!" Edwin assured solemnly.

Zhou Chen smiled: "If everything goes well, the newborn population of the Earth Fleet may reach 600 million next year, which is really a crazy fertility peak!" ”

Edwin and the others narrowed their eyes and said with a smile: "No, no, captain, you are still too conservative, before the fleet strictly controlled fertility, suppressing many men and women who originally had the desire to have children, and now it has suddenly turned to encouragement, there will inevitably be a very strong backlash, counting those slightly older fertility population, our limit is to add 800 million newborns!" Even if some people don't care about ethics, it is possible to increase to 900 million! ”

Zhou Chen was stunned, and a magical picture suddenly appeared in his mind, in a huge ward, a grandmother but a young woman looked at the newborn baby with a kind face, and there were sons and grandchildren visiting on the side, well, this picture was too beautiful, he didn't dare to think about it.

Zhou Chen shuddered, and scolded with a smile: "You must not encourage this kind of bad idea, just let those eligible men and women give birth, and stop the rest for the time being!" ”

Too small is not suitable for childbearing, too big impact on ethics, not too big and not too small, just right!

The first wave of birth peaks, six to eight hundred million newborns, is enough!

Considering that it is impossible for a family to have one child every year, it is more popular, and it is almost the same for a family to have two or three children, if the policy guides it, it is not impossible to have four or five, but this will not become the mainstream.

If all goes well, it will only take twenty to thirty years for the population of the Earth Fleet to double from the current two and a half billion to five billion!

At that time, the new generation will enter the peak of fertility, and at that time, the policy of encouraging childbirth can be appropriately slowed down, after all, the development of a civilization needs to go through a long period of precipitation.

A civilization with young faces is certainly vibrant, but its heritage may not be sufficient.

After the population policy was determined to change from a certain degree of suppression to the encouragement of childbearing, the next issue was the redistribution of the shelters of the inhabitants of the fleet.

"At the beginning, because of the limited conditions, everyone was wronged to live in a residential ship with relatively poor conditions, but now that they have arrived in the Poseidon Galaxy, this aspect can also be adjusted."

Zhou Chen had a faint smile on his face, after all, he was sharing benefits to everyone, and the atmosphere of the meeting became much more relaxed.

"At present, there are a total of sixty habitation ships on the Earth Fleet side, including fifteen first-class habitation ships and forty-five second-class habitation ships, and on the Poseidon base, there are a total of one hundred and thirty-six comfort habitation ships!"

"Based on the calculation of 7 million people living in each comfort habitation ship, we can transfer a total of 1 billion people, almost half of the population, so that even if they are not transferred, the people who remain in the old residential ships will have a relatively comfortable environment."

The habitation ships built on this side of the Poseidon base are all comfortable habitation ships designed by the fleet at the beginning to accommodate 7 million people, but they are not first-class habitation ships that live 21 million people and second-class habitants that live 44 million, and the latter two are crammed together for survival, which is not comfortable.

And the comfort type of habitation ship is basically not much different from living on the earth, one is equivalent to a large and medium-sized city, and each layer is equivalent to a county-level administrative district.

There are ponds, farmland, lakes, rivers, and forests, and it is a good environment for internal circulation.

"This dare is good!"

Gu Qiushi of the advisory group smiled at this time, looking happy.

Zhou Chen nodded: "In addition, the transformation of the two terrestrial planets on the side of the Poseidon Base has also been completed, these two planets that are very similar to the earth have been named Tianhe Star and Tianyao Star by us when they were named earlier, and now the question is, should we immigrate directly to these two planets, or wait for the construction of the follow-up habitation ship to be completed, and im......migrate to the habitation ship."

The advantage of immigrating to a residential ship is that you can leave at any time in case of an unforeseen situation, and it is not as troublesome as living on a planet, and you also need to mobilize......

"It's a troublesome question, and strategically we certainly tend to let everyone continue to live in the fleet, but emotionally, why limit them to live in a bad place when there is a better place?"

Wu Zhongping of the advisory group frowned, obviously feeling that this question was a little difficult.

"It's better to leave it to the people to choose...... After all, the living environment of the existing old-fashioned residential ship is indeed not very good, and it is better to live there when you have to, and everyone will not complain at that time, but now that the conditions are relatively improved, I am afraid that some people do not want to live there anymore. ”

Zhou Chen nodded, indeed, forcing them to stay in an old-fashioned residential ship with a not so good living environment would probably make people psychologically unbalanced.

Don't suffer from widowhood but unevenness, it has been the embodiment of human nature since ancient times!

"In that case, let's start the work of diverting the people after the various institutions of the fleet are relocated to the new station!"

In the end, Zhou Chen set the tone.

"All the policies discussed at the meeting will be open to the whole people after the revision is completed within a month, pay attention to the formation of multiple sets of plans, with this month, we can solicit opinions from the society on the marriage policy, and finally decide what plan to adopt!"

"At the same time, the Civil Administration Committee should also organize and study the details of immigration, and it must be done properly and comprehensively!"

After that, everyone continued to discuss the next plan for the expansion of the fleet, and the Science and Technology Committee and the Military Forces Committee mainly expressed their opinions in this regard, after all, the expansion of the fleet involves the most extensive fields of science and technology and the military field. (To be continued.) )