Zhu Dilanum listened to her father's introduction, glanced at the pictures a few times, and felt very complicated and helpless:

"Father, son-in-law thinks, personally, if the real image is passable, who wants to play electronic shadow puppetry?

"Just like the actors of shadow puppets in the past, they can usually sing but their images are not pleasing, right?

"Nowadays, even if people are role-playing on the Internet, they should change their clothes and makeup as much as possible, instead of wearing a picture to participate.

"Let the popularity and popularity you gain fall on yourself and not on the shadow puppet characters you wear?

"But Erchen thinks that this industry is also beneficial.

"Originally, only naturally beautiful women and good-looking men had the opportunity to participate in public Internet live broadcasts and achieve certain success.

"If you don't have a good image, you can usually only be a clown to grandstand.

"Even if you have a special talent that you can succeed with your ability and talent, you will be limited by your talent.

"What's more, most ordinary people don't have any talent to get their hands on.

"With this electronic shadow puppet, people who are not good at image can also put on a shadow puppet to create more popular works.

"Let more people participate and create more entertainment programs.

"What's more, the orthodox mainstream shadow puppet show doesn't need the performer himself to have a good image, anyway, he can operate and sing."

Daming's electronic shadow puppet is obviously different from Zhu Jingyuan's virtual anchor in his previous life.

When they appeared on the computer and Internet stage, the average audience knew that it was a performance, that shadow puppetry had been moved to the Internet.

Rather than creating a virtual two-dimensional character as a streamer to interact with the audience.

Except for Zhu Jingyuan, a time-traveler who still has the knowledge of his previous life, ordinary people are not very curious about the image of these shadow puppet performers themselves.

Because it is a tradition for one performer to often play different roles, or even one person to perform several roles at the same time.

Most of the performers of traditional shadow puppetry are really not very good actors.

As the nature of the performance continues to decrease, the nature of interaction continues to increase, especially after ordinary people participate in it and basically use fixed characters.

The audience is becoming more and more curious about what kind of person the performers themselves are.

This kind of performer is no longer an actor, but purely a virtual avatar to interact and chat with the audience.

It is highly similar to the virtual anchor in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

However, there is a basis for shadow puppetry, and after the audience knows the real image of the performer, the frustration is far less strong than in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

Zhu Jingyuan himself didn't care much about this matter, and after listening to a few sentences of analysis by Zhu Dilan, he added explanations and questions:

"The image issue is not the point, I just said it incidentally, you don't have to think about it so much.

"The point is how this kind of thing should be managed, and how the imperial court should treat this industry."

Judy Lanthanum thought about it a little:

"It's not a good thing for two men and women to pretend to be the opposite sex on the Internet.

"Although there are also male actors in traditional opera, the reason for this is that women were not allowed to appear on stage in the first place.

"But there is basically no interaction during the traditional opera performance.

"Now interacting with the audience while reversing the strings can have an impact on the spirit and cognition of the performers and participants.

"After long-term accumulation and fermentation, it may have a relatively bad social impact.

"So while maintaining the Internet management approach, this industry is completely unworthy and should be promoted.

"Unless performers are allowed to perform on both internets.

"And even further reforms, expanding the scope of integration of the two Internets.

"Even today, there are many industrial facilities that cater to both male and female customers.

"On the Internet, you can just type and speak, and there is no way to make actual physical contact, so you don't need to be guarded."

Zhu Jingyuan frowned after hearing this:

"Do you think it's an anachronistic rule to completely separate male and female users on the Internet?"

The electronic shadow puppet itself is just a small matter, and the basic management method of the Internet is a big thing.

Judy Lanthanum usually thinks about this kind of thing, so now she basically says directly without hesitation:

"Yes, Erchen thinks that the two Internet ...... can be considered Appropriate merger ......"

Zhu Jingyuan immediately asked:

"Have you ever considered what kind of impact the two networks will have after merging? What are the pros and cons? ”

Judy Lanthanum said quite calmly:

"The biggest impact should be to improve the status of women in society.

"Because in the past, in reality, young women didn't have many opportunities to meet and meet men of the same age.

"You can only choose who to marry from the options provided by the family, and the autonomy is very low.

"If the Internet platforms of men and women are merged, and there are no restrictions on contact and communication between men and women.

"Women will be able to reach a large number of men through various platforms on the Internet.

"I have the opportunity to have all kinds of male encounters and meet men who really fit my heart.

And then resist the blind date arranged by the clan in reality.

This would reduce the clan's control over family members, which in turn would increase the court's control over specific family members.

"Clans are bound to oppose this approach, so internet mergers must be gradual.

"On the basis of the original dating platform, we can first add more overlapping areas for men and women on the Internet.

"Create a third public Internet that allows for the participation and relative freedom of access of men and women.

"And gradually expand the scale of this common Internet......"

After listening to this, Zhu Jingyuan asked directly:

Follow this line of thought and take a longer-term view.

"What kind of impact will men and women have on the Internet over time?"

Judy Lanthanum thought for a moment and said:

"Probably...... Will there be excessive virtual social information, so that it will cause the cognitive misalignment of the parties?

"Because the cost of socializing on the Internet is extremely low, males, as male animals, tend to cast a wide net for sowing......

So men may have no qualms about trying to reach as many women as possible.

"After switching to a female perspective in this situation, most women may think that they have an infinite number of 'suitors'.

"And there are always new 'suitors' who want to join the team of pursuing themselves.

"They feel like they have a lot of options at all times.

And then continue to raise the standard of mate selection.

"They despise the people they can really choose, the people they can reach in reality.

Again, the reverse is true for men.

"There seem to be as many women that men can reach online at the same time as there are women who have online suitors.

"Every woman is also just one of the countless options in a man's imagination.

"But the spouses that men actually have the opportunity to choose are still basically the women who have direct contact with them.

Over time, both men and women will despise each other.

"Men feel like they can find an infinite number of women, and women feel like there are countless men pursuing them.

This can motivate them to oppose the traditional marriage arrangements around them.

"It makes the real marriage arrangement extremely complicated, and it may even lead to the collapse of the existing family, that is, the number of adulterers increases.

"All things considered...... It is detrimental to social stability......

"Therefore, the Internet cannot be completely merged, let alone merged indefinitely.

"The size of the public Internet accessible to men and women needs to be controlled and regulated more stringently than that of separate networks for men and women.

"The existing rules of contact premised on marriage should also be largely retained.

"Continue to publicly display your real identity on the information interface, publicly display the number of friends of the opposite sex you have, and show the total number of people of the opposite sex who have sent messages.

"You can't make them feel like they have an infinite number of people to choose from, and they don't know anything about other people's friends.

"It's important for them to be aware that everyone has a lot of choices.

"The Internet has really increased the social reach of the average person, and the key issue should be to make this felt and remembered by all involved.

"Don't let the influence of real-life experience lead to cognitive misalignment.

"In fact, the number of friends of the opposite sex who have made public and the number of people of the opposite sex who have publicly posted messages will in turn limit the frequency of contact between the two parties to the opposite sex.

Because in an environment where the public is open to their true identities, they will avoid being labeled as debauchery by the opposite sex.

"In the end, the number of men and women who actually come into contact with the opposite sex will not be as high as they are in theory."

After listening to this, Zhu Jingyuan did not directly evaluate the plan, but continued to ask other new questions:

"Have you ever noticed that the number of children people have is changing......

Zhu Di Lan has been training in the local area and has been in direct contact with folk affairs for a long time.

Although there is no special research, I often look at various civil affairs data, and I have noticed this:

Erchen noticed that the number of children born to newlyweds in the last decade seems to be decreasing.

"Among older couples, it is most common for a woman to have six to seven children.

"It's not uncommon to have eight or even nine children, and more than 10 children.

"But the younger generation of couples, a woman usually has only four or five children.

"Six children is already relatively rare, and seven children are as rare as the previous ten."

Zhu Jingyuan attaches more importance to this matter, so he pays special attention to the relevant news of the household department:

"Yes, in the past ten years, the number of children born to the people has decreased, mainly because the frequency of childbirth has decreased significantly.

"In the past, after a couple got married, they usually had children when they were able to have children, and they usually had a child in less than two years on average.

"Having six or seven children in ten years is a normal rate, and having five children in ten years is already significantly lower than the average frequency.

"The ten years between the ages of 20 and 30 are the most suitable for children in a person's life.

"In the past, it was common for a woman to have six or seven children.

"In recent years, a new generation of couples who have had their first child often has to wait more than two years before having another child.

"Couples are still usually married between the ages of eighteen and twenty.

"In the 10 years between the ages of 20 and 30, there are usually only four or five children.

"Whether or not you will continue to have children after the age of 30 depends on the specific situation.

"Due to the continuous upgrading of medical technology, the mortality rate of fetuses and young children continues to decrease, and the life expectancy of ordinary people continues to increase.

"Add to that the older generation who continue to have children, and the new generation of families who have more children.

"So the overall population growth rate is still not slowing down.

"But this state of affairs is not sustainable.

"When medical technology reaches a bottleneck, the premature mortality rate is reduced to the limit, and the life expectancy is increased to the limit.

"The overall population growth rate will be slower.

"So why do you think the new generation of couples has fewer children more frequently and in greater numbers?

"More importantly, will the number of births continue to decline in the future?

"For example, a couple who only have one or two children, or even don't want children at all?"

Judy Lanthanum hadn't really thought about it before.

After thinking for a few seconds, he said:

Erchen felt that it might be because the child death rate in the old era was too high, and the children born to the people did not know how many would survive.

That's why there is a situation where you can be born and continue to be born.

"Just like in the past, weapons had a low hit rate, and they could only be destroyed by stacking up numbers.

"Now the infant mortality rate is getting lower and lower, even if it is a difficult birth, it can be delivered by caesarean section, and the mother and child are basically safe.

So the people began to have children as they actually thought.

"If you want to have a few children, you will have a few children, and then concentrate on raising these children.

"Instead of unlimited childbearing, let's see how many can survive.

Based on this logic, the number of children born to couples in the future should not continue to decrease.

"Erchen used to deal with a lot of workers and asked them questions about their children.

"The vast majority of workers want to have four or five children themselves.

"Then they have a good chance of getting two boys.

"Although the mortality rate of young children is low now, the probability is not zero after all, and there is a risk after adulthood.

"So having two boys is enough to ensure a normal succession.

"The natural ratio of boys to girls is almost the same, and there are probably two boys and two girls at the same time.

"Most of the workers also felt that it was better to have siblings, both boys and girls.

"So they actually want to have four or five children.

In fact, most of the workers themselves still feel that the more children they have, the better.

"Just having and raising a child does require a lot of effort.

"Ordinary workers basically have only one wife, and taking care of four children and handling household chores are already quite tiring.

"On the contrary, there will be more children from wealthy families who can hire specialized servants."

Zhu Jingyuan is just like when his grandfather talked to him back then.

Keep your opinion in mind for the time being, and the main goal is to evaluate the philosophy of the child in front of you.

At the same time, continue to ask for more of his deeper thoughts:

"If all ordinary workers in the future still maintain this rate of fertility.

"Is there a time when our population will be so large that the whole world will no longer be able to carry it?

"It should be said that before that day came, our court and society were also on the verge of collapse.

"It's like the three-hundred-year cycle of dynasties for two thousand years.

"At the end of the road again?"

(End of chapter)