The first large-group campaign command exercise since the internship ended with a narrow victory for mankind. The students all smiled and waited for the final evaluation of the judges. Bai Ziying's face was serious, and Xiaoxue whispered beside her: "We won, why are you unhappy?" ”

Bai Ziying said: "There's nothing to be happy about, just wait for training." ”

"According to their rules, we won, why should they discipline us?" Xiaoxue asked in a low voice.

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The judges didn't know what they were talking about, and finally Xing Wen said: "Students, you scored such a result for the first time, how can you say it, if you really win from the proportion of battle losses, it is not easy." But have you ever thought about what the consequences would be if this was a real battle? ”

The classmates began to discuss, what kind of consequences could there be, war, either win or lose. In modern interstellar warfare, it's basically these two outcomes, there is no draw, there is no peaceful coexistence.

Summer stood up, came to everyone, motioned for Xing Wen to step back, and said, "Students, sit down." Before I wrap up, I want you to have a question: what do you think is a civilization, the most recent element that makes up this civilization: people. What should they all be made of? In other words, what kind of talent does our civilization need most? ”

Baihuaxiang was the first to raise his hand and said: "Of course, it is scientific and technological talents and military talents." ”

Most of the other students chimed in and said yes. Summer nodded and said: "What you said is very reasonable, in the star civilization, scientific and technological talents are the first, because the survival and development of civilization is inseparable from science and technology." The second is military talent, and without people who can fight, it is difficult for civilization to survive. ”

When Xia said this, she deliberately looked at Xiaoying, and saw that she frowned, as if she was thinking about something, and asked, "This female classmate, do you have any opinions of your own?" ”

Xiaoying immediately stood up, and after being motioned to sit down, she said: "Chief, if civilization only needs a single scientific and technological talent and military talent, then why do we still engage in so many colorful amateur lives in the Ming Dynasty?" As he spoke, he looked around and said: "Look, film and television, literature, music, travel, entertainment, etc., these things are almost everything in our Ming civilization, and there are still a lot of them." Come to think of it, we only need technology and military talent anyway, so what's the use of these superfluous entertainment facilities?

"When I say this, I don't mean to object to the richness and diversity of our lives, but I just want to raise my own questions about Baihua's answer."

Summer smiled and said, "What is civilization?" What are the elements that make up civilization? We are a human civilization, so people are an important component of our civilization. I once asked my messenger friend to hire a social scientist on Earth to do the argument and come up with three numbers: 1, 10 and 89.

"1 is a military talent, and this military talent includes commanders and combatants. 10 are professional talents, including scientific research, science and technology engineering, literature and art, social sciences and other talents, we collectively call them workers. 89 are surplus people, including children, the elderly, the sick, the disabled, and the unemployed.

"These three figures illustrate the problem: 1 military personnel needs 10 workers and 89 unemployed, which is exactly 100 people. To put it in layman's terms, if we have a population of 1 billion, then we need 10 million soldiers, 100 million jobs, and 890 million unemployed. ”

When Xia said this, he looked at everyone, and saw that the children were all talking, so he said: "Some of you may ask questions, we are an interstellar civilization, we have such amazing medical technology, we basically have the ability to cure patients, and the anti-aging effect is also very effective, but why is there such a large proportion of unemployed people?"

"yes, why? This is the social nature of human beings, human beings are emotional animals, and only a person full of feelings can give full play to his ability. This is why the proportion of the population is so constituted. ”

Baihuaxiang raised his hand and asked: "Chief, people who have no positions, except for children, the elderly, and the sick can understand, but why are there many unemployed people?" Isn't that tantamount to raising idlers? ”

Xia said: "When the population is large, there will be many people who are not willing to pay and sit back and enjoy the results. As civilized people, you tell us, what should we do with these vagrants? These unemployed vagrants, such as the rich second generation and the second official generation, have parents who have made outstanding contributions to civilization, but their children have no jobs and are not willing to work. You say, what are we going to do with them?

"And the homeless, the criminals, these people are healthy people. We're not going to kill them all, are we? Summer looked at everyone when he said this, and everyone laughed, "Actually, the starship civilization and the planetary civilization are the same thing, they are both civilizations. Therefore, like the planetary civilization, as long as the wealth created by the people working in the post is enough to support the operation of this civilization, it will be fine.

This ratio shows that one person can support ten people, and in a highly developed civilization, it is possible for one person to support a hundred people, so the proportion of workers in the figure I just mentioned is still relatively high. What I want to tell you about the ratio of working and not working is that these people are indispensable to civilization. Whereas......

"In the simulated actual combat just now, the population ratio of the fleet commanded by the students is 1 million military talents and 5 million civilians, which is a very high ratio, actually reaching 1:5, while the normal ratio I just said is 1:100. Reflect on yourselves, and let you take a million people to protect five million people, and they all ended up like this. Did you say you won?"

Having said all that, Summer finally got to the point. The students also bowed their heads.

"The future of the Ming Dynasty may have to develop to a population of billions, or even tens of billions and hundreds of billions, and it is impossible for such a large population to have such a high proportion of military personnel. There are only 10 million military personnel out of a billion people, and probably less. If it's a real combat and you are asked to protect a hundred times more civilians, can you do it?

"And what I want to say is that in civilization, everyone is my incomparably precious property, you look back, in just one hour, you have sacrificed 25 million civilians, this is not counting soldiers, if this is a real battle, you have made me bankrupt! Do you think I can afford to hire you high-priced commanders? ”

(End of chapter)