A child was drowned in the reservoir because the power outage was too hot, which is a big news in the local area, and parents and relatives will cry and regret not taking care of their children, and even complain about why there is a power outage, and they don't know how to overhaul in advance.

But in terms of the whole country and the world, it is not a ripple, and it has no impact on the overall situation.

Everything is still going according to plan.

The weather is still so hot, the water is still so scarce, the places that should be dry are dry, the places that should be waterlogged are waterlogged, the mountain fires that should be started are burning the plains, and the volcanoes that should erupt will not be less spewed.

All kinds of extreme weather are still pouring out.

Within a few years, Xia Guo had to introduce the grain stamp system again because there was too much land in various places to reduce production and lose harvest.

And adjust step by step in the days that followed.

The difference is that when everyone's share of food stamps per month is reduced to 20 catties, the mass production technology of artificial starch is still far away, and the conventional controllable fusion power generation technology is still without signs.

Food stocks have been reduced to the minimum warning line.

In order for more people to live.

The General Administration of Grain and Oil has once again carried out industrial adjustments.

The first is to stop the distribution of food stamps, and all of them will be changed to nutrients and distributed downwards, with three tubes per person per day, and no more, so as to further reduce food consumption.

The second is to continue to engage in underground planting bases.

The third is to make full use of food substitutes to make nutrients, and everything is implemented with survival as the only standard.

What does that mean?

That is to say, in the past, the raw materials for the manufacture of nutrients were all grains, but in the future, it is not necessarily, everything that can be eaten and cannot be eaten, as long as it is non-toxic, and can extract the essential elements of the human body, can be added.

For example, large-scale bread worms can be added to supplement the essential protein of the human body, such as a large number of harvested seaweed, can also be added to nutrients to supplement trace elements, and even trehalose.

Crop straw, roots, leaves, shells, and even algae such as chlorella are added with nutrients.

Although these operations alleviated the famine to some extent, they also left many people undernourished, especially after a few years of such operations.

A large number of elderly and infirm people began to die.

At the same time, without artificial starch there would be no human mutual aid associations, and without human mutual aid associations, many small countries would simply not be able to sustain themselves, and the end result would be either almost annihilation or chaos until the population of each country was reduced to the extent that the existing conditions could support it.

The wars between many small states were finally settled.

The original state system has long since completely collapsed.

There are only small agglomeration tribes left, reunited in places that can still be planted, barely surviving.

Until the food problem cannot be completely solved, many things will remain the same, as they have been, are and will continue to be so. When the population grows to the limit and the food is insufficient, it will fall into the troubled times, until the population is again reduced to the extent that the food is sufficient.

And so on and so forth, and if you don't perish, you won't end.

And several other great powers, now following this principle, have allowed ordinary civilians to starve to death in large numbers.

Regardless of whether you worry about it or not, you don't need to provide disaster relief.

Anyway, in their view, the construction of the country mainly depends on the elite, and as long as the elite is still there, then the main body of the country is there, and it will always recover slowly in the future.

Only Xia Guo is unwilling to let it go.

I've been trying to figure it out.

So that more people can live.

Many people are doing research without sleep and food, hoping to make a breakthrough as soon as possible, but even so, some things are difficult to achieve overnight, artificial starch technology finally six years later, only to reluctantly succeed in breaking through, the initial realization of large-scale production and manufacturing, this year the national population has dropped to 800 million, and most of them are malnourished.

With the breakthrough of artificial starch technology.

After that, artificial protein and other technologies were initially realized in the next four or five years, and slowly overdeveloped in the direction of mass production.

However, even so, Xia Guo can only ensure the food and clothing of the people, and there is still a long way to go to restore the well-off level of the year, and I don't know when it will be realized, as for going to the moon to transform the planet.

It is not enough for all scientific research to concentrate on agriculture.

And how can there be energy to be distracted from this.

But no matter what, in the end, Xia Guo relied on the concerted efforts of the whole people to win the world and protect the world's largest population. How to describe it, at present, the total remaining population of the world is not more than half of the remaining population of Xia Kingdom, that is to say, except for Xia Kingdom, the remaining population of other countries combined is less than 400 million, and they purely rely on population reduction to survive the famine.

As long as enough people died.

The rest of the people will not go hungry.

They thought that they were superior in technology, and they thought that as long as the elite class was protected, it would be a matter of minutes for the country to recover, but it didn't take long for the reality to slap them hard, except for the Xia Kingdom, all other countries began to regress in science and technology, and regress in civilization.

A very simple truth, the elite is not born an elite, nor can it guarantee that every one of their descendants is an elite, there is not enough population support, where are so many elites, population is the cornerstone of supporting the development of science and technology and civilization, no building supported by the foundation, no matter how good-looking, how long can it exist?

Although the living conditions and living standards of the people of Xia at this time were far inferior to those countries that sacrificed a large number of people, they maintained the momentum of the development of science and technology and civilization, and slowly recovered on this basis.

Even if the national living standards of the Xia Kingdom have barely relied on the continuous progress of science and technology decades later, and have returned to the well-off level of the year, compared with some countries that have regressed in science and technology to the point that it is difficult to maintain fission weapons, time has proved that the choice of the Xia Kingdom is correct.

They sacrificed with the hard work of two generations.

It has once again created a prosperous era for future generations.

It took another 40 years for the global environment and ecology to slowly return to a stable level, and at the same time, Xia finally overcame all the technical problems in fusion.

Officially began to march towards the interstellar age.

For example, building a lunar survival base, transforming the environment of the glowing star, and driving a light-speed spaceship to explore the universe and start a cosmic voyage.

Without the help of outsiders, although Xia Guo's scientific and technological development process has experienced more setbacks, spent more time, and sacrificed more people, each step has been developed step by step on their own, and the process of pretending to be human has made their foundation more solid, and the future prospects are also more ambitious.

But how exactly it will be, it will have to be left to time.

Only time is the test of everything.