After arriving at the Poseidon base and visiting the circle, the various high-level officials of the Earth Fleet have already expressed strong expectations for the fact that the fleet is about to "change shotguns for guns". Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"We have to make a big change in our policy next!"

Coming to a conference room on the edge of the base's control hall, Zhou Chen discussed with everyone present how to make the Earth Fleet grow stronger in the Poseidon Galaxy as soon as possible.

First and foremost is the population problem!

"At present, the Earth Fleet has a total population of about 2.5 billion, and a total of 860 million independent families have been formed, because of the injection of life nutrient solution, the population with fertility among these 2.5 billion people accounts for about 60% of the total population, that is, 1.5 billion, but only more than 1.2 billion people are really eligible for childbirth!"

As soon as the discussion began, a member of the Civil Administration Committee in charge of population affairs stood up and reported to the audience.

Although there are a large number of children of appropriate age, more than half of them are no longer eligible for childbearing, which has both physical factors and ethical limitations, because the original evacuation was biased towards the evacuation of children and people who have contributed to society, so 14 years have passed, the original children have grown to the age of giving birth to children, and the babies who were still swaddling at that time, although the body has matured, but limited by the provisions of the law, still cannot marry and have children.

As for those middle-aged men and women, although they have been injected with life nutrient solution to prolong their youth cycle, they are already "elderly" years after all, and many of them are already grandparents, which also makes them lose the idea of childbearing.

In this way, only a little more than 1.2 billion people are actually eligible for childbirth.

"The population has to grow!"

Zhou Chen's eyebrows furrowed, and he said categorically.

In the universe, if a civilization wants to grow, it is inseparable from the huge group size.

There is no huge scale, which means that it is difficult to appear a sufficient number of outstanding talents, you must know that the more you develop to the back, the more branches of the discipline will be, and it will be difficult to appear all-round talents at that time, and it is bound to require a huge group of people to classify and master knowledge!

As far as Zhou Chen knew, a civilization in the early stage of the second level only needed a few billion people to master all the science and technology at that stage, and still had the spare strength to carry out rapid development of science and technology. For example, in the original earth, seven or eight billion people were still living very nourishingly, and various science and technology were constantly emerging.

In fact, at that time, only more than 3 billion people in the mainstream society were participating in the progress and improvement of civilization.

However, if the development reaches the late stage of the second level, there are still only a few billion people, then the development of science and technology will encounter a bottleneck, because there are many branches of science and technology at that time, and the scientific and technological content has become extremely complicated, requiring a large number of talents!

The objective reality has prompted a civilization with an insufficient population to stagnate the development of technology, and it is difficult for a civilization to make a major breakthrough.

And when it comes to the third-level civilization, at least a group base of 100 billion is needed, so as to ensure the superiority of the civilization!

Of course, the number of people is one thing, but the quality is also very important, and a four-star civilization can make more significant progress than other civilizations in less quantity!

Population growth is a slow process, so a high-literacy civilization obviously has an advantage over a low-literacy civilization! The reason lies in the fact that low-literacy civilizations must first spend more time on population growth, and only after reaching a certain number can they be considered to be on the same starting line as high-literacy civilizations.

Not to mention that the progress of some science and technology must appear genius-like characters, without the emergence of geniuses, even if you work hard for 10,000 years, you may not be able to cross the threshold of civilization breakthrough!

At present, the population of the Earth Fleet is too small, and only 2.5 billion people have arrived in the Poseidon Galaxy, and the total number of people who have arrived in the Poseidon Galaxy is only more than 3 billion, and the large amount of technology obtained from the Pegasus Civilization Inheritance Module requires a large number of people to digest, so the current Earth Fleet has actually seriously felt the limitations caused by the lack of talents.

If you are poor, you will think about change, which is a very simple truth.

"Captain, I feel the need to introduce a policy to encourage childbirth!"

Edwin, the convener of the Civil Administration Council, thought for a moment and said, "Now that the Poseidon system has enough resources for us to develop, so we don't need to worry about supplies, is there a more suitable time to increase the population than now?" ”

Zhou Chen nodded slightly and asked, "Then what are your specific measures?" ”

"We can introduce a reward policy, where we give a child, we give appropriate rewards, of course, this reward is not only reflected in the money, but also in the credit points of both parties! And we also want to encourage everyone to have more baby girls, because only women are the key to a civilization! ”

"The truth is true, but this will inevitably cause the problem of a high proportion of women in civilization, which may have an impact on normal marriages!" Zhou Chen frowned.

At present, the mainstream marriage relationship in human society is monogamy, and polygamy is practiced in a few places, and monogamy has also been pursued since the establishment of the Earth Fleet. However, if more women are born according to Edwin's suggestion, it will inevitably lead to an imbalance in the ratio of men and women, which will have an impact on the marital status.

There are a large number of women who cannot get married, and the social problem is also very serious.

"We can appropriately amend the marriage law to allow polygamy to occur!"

Edwin shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.

Zhou Chen couldn't help but smile dumbly: "Will this cause another social contradiction?" ”

Thinking of the rise of the feminist movement when the earth came, how could Zhou Chen not be worried? Is polygamy a dwarfing behavior in the eyes of these people?

"There is no way to do this, after all, if civilization wants to develop rapidly, women are indispensable, I think everyone should know that only by making the Earth Fleet develop faster and spend the period of weakness in the shortest possible time is the most beneficial to all of us, as for the social problems caused by this, we can always find a way to solve them."

"So what do you think?" Zhou Chen nodded and asked.

"Otherwise, we can open up the marriage law moderately and allow some people to adopt polygamy, but only if the woman is given more power, and the husband needs to obtain the wife's consent to marry another woman, and the wife has the most serious veto power in the law." A member of the Civil Administration Council made a recommendation.

"I don't think we should get too involved in civil marriage, it's a big deal that we officially remove the restrictions on monogamy, and it's up to them to decide how the specific civil family chooses, but the official should explain that if the family is ready to add female members, the wife has the final say on this matter."

"This power is protected and supported by the official fleet of the fleet, and if the man violently coerces the woman to agree, the fleet should deprive the man of all rights and reduce his credit score!"

"But what if, once this policy is promoted, some feminist activists will follow suit and demand polyandry?" Zhou Chen frowned, his fingers bouncing lightly on the table.

"This ......" everyone couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Obviously, if there is really an emphasis on equality between men and women, this kind of thing is indeed possible, why can it only be polygamous, and polyandry is not possible?

"What should I do?" Zhou Chen asked solemnly.

"If there is such a demand, our fleet officials will also acquiesce! But only if the man also has the final say on the same as polygamy! Edwin gritted his teeth and said with a serious face.

Zhou Chen was dumbfounded for a while, but he secretly shook his head in his heart.

After some heated discussions, the final meeting decided to acquiesce in the appearance of polygamy or polyandry, but the fleet officials neither supported nor opposed, and left everything up to the family to choose, but if they chose to form such a family, they needed to report to the authorities.

Come to think of it, whether it is polygamy or polyandry, there are not too many families that can be formed in the end on the premise of handing over power to the weaker party.

"This decision is too big for a few of us to decide the future of countless families." Zhou Chen thought for a while and said, "In this way, let the whole people vote after the meeting, and the final vote of the whole people shall prevail!" ”

In fact, Zhou Chen did not agree with this "shocking" suggestion in his heart, the reason is very simple, this has too much impact on the established family model of human society, and an inadvertent will cause a major crisis of social trust.

Polygamy is not a problem, after all, human society has experienced this experience and is a way to solve social problems in the context of encouraging more female babies.

However, polyandry is a major impact on the already formed human ethics, which will cause the collapse of human ethics and morality.

If you choose one of the two, you will be accused of being unfair, and if you choose both, it will cause serious consequences, so don't choose either at all.

As soon as Edwin heard Zhou Chen's statement, he also knew that the captain still had scruples in his heart, so he had to shake his head and say nothing more.

"Perhaps we can maintain the normal one-to-one sex ratio of human fertility, and then assist in the use of technology to cultivate new people...... Generating new population ...... through artificial insemination and artificial culture"

A member of the Science and Technology Committee hesitated.

"No!"

"It's absolutely not going to work!"

As soon as this proposal was put forward, it was immediately opposed by everyone.

Is this kind of human being cultivated by scientific and technological means still human beings? Maybe it's a disaster!

In fact, there is nothing more absurd than this kind of creation of humans out of cold cultivation pods. (To be continued.) )