Chapter 13: A First Look at the World
With a depressed mood, Sima Mulong once again stepped out of the house.
The reason why he was depressed was because he got many situations that made him more depressed in his memory.
For example, the change of a hundred and a few dollars is all his pocket money for the next month.
For another example, he has already received the manuscript fee this month, and if he wants to receive the money, he must wait for the next month, and the rent should be paid again, and the price is not expensive, only 600 yuan, the problem is that it will be paid next week, that is, thirteen days later.
According to the income from going to the construction site to move bricks every morning, I can earn 650 yuan in 13 days, which is really more than enough to earn enough rent money by then.
Shall I applaud the original owner's talent for precision computing? Controlling the cost so well is a great talent.
The good news is that the original owner of dinner has already been prepared, and he doesn't need to spend more money at all, he just needs to go out every night to buy two-yuan steamed buns, and he can eat to his heart's content. Some people may have guessed what dinner is, but Sima Mulong didn't think of it at all in advance, and then again, the variety of dinner is quite rich.
There are luxurious dishes as follows: half a catty of dried salted radish, three taels of pickled peppers, one catty of sour cabbage, so many pickles for rice, enough to eat for ten days and half a month. Sima Mulong extracted the ** scene of the original owner enjoying a luxurious lunch from his memory, and tried it out of curiosity, and immediately burst into tears and regretted it.
Let's go, let the miser of the original owner die, Sima Mulong decided to take out all the savings tomorrow, today's 100 yuan, barely buy some snacks or something, and treat the gluttonous worms in the stomach a little.
After cleaning up his depressed mood, Sima Mulong quickly turned his attention back to exploring and understanding the world.
Although in fact, because the original owner is an online author, he has already collected a lot of information about this world, and he has a shallow understanding of the power and pattern of this planet. Superficial cognition, however, too general information is always too superficial, Sima Mulong is still more inclined to believe in his own eyes, feel that he still has his own experience, after having a preliminary impression, and then integrate the existing information, he can naturally have a more intuitive impression of the overall power of this planet.
In this way, we can prescribe the right medicine and achieve better development results, so as not to deviate from the road, and the harder you go, the more mistakes will be made, and finally you will get into trouble for yourself.
With such thoughts, walking on the street, Sima Mulong paced while casually making a series of comments on some things around him from his own perspective.
Frankly, from the perspective of species reproduction alone, the population density of this planet is quite large.
In the Canglan Empire, because of the high degree of civilization development, the development and utilization rate of the planet is relatively high, a planet almost as big as the earth, the Canglan Empire can almost accommodate hundreds of billions of people, but even so, its population density feels far less than here.
It is said that this neighborhood is still a relatively remote suburban area of Songjiang Prefecture, but in terms of the number of people here, on the streets more than ten meters wide, there are a wide variety of vehicles shuttling back and forth, and the street pedestrian area, from time to time, there are also people walking by, and there is always a bustling scene, which is relatively rare on the Canglan side.
Of course, this is understandable, after all, except for large shopping malls, most of them do not have large-scale underground buildings, although there are generally more than a dozen or dozens of floors of buildings, and the capacity is still a little less.
Like in Canglan, the surface of the planet is full of aristocratic manors, villas, scenic spots, protected areas and so on, and the enemies who really live with a large population are still in the underground buildings that are not visible on the surface of the planet.
In that piece of underground building complex that is basically endless, there is generally an underground world with more than 300 floors, living in such a vast underground space, although the total population is so huge, but the space enjoyed by everyone is far beyond the imagination of the people here, and the density of people is not as big as here It is also a common thing.
However, the population of this planet is indeed not small, according to the data obtained from memory, it is said that when the global census was conducted at the beginning of this year, the latest population data for this year, that is, the earth's Gregorian calendar 2025, the total global population is as much as 8.1 billion!
Many people lamented that Mother Earth could no longer support such a large population.
So, can we afford to raise it? Sima Mulong was very interested in this question.
Whether the food supply is abundant or not is related to the stability of a society, and this is a very fatal matter, and there is a lot to be done here, but I don't know how the world is doing? The world has raised such a huge population, can its productivity match its population, can it supply enough food and nutrition to meet the needs of all people?
With such a question, Sima Mulong entered a community supermarket on the side of the road.
Such a supermarket, at least in Sima Mulong's view, is quite common and should be representative.
Walking into it, Sima Mulong felt refreshed.
Perhaps it was tens of thousands of years of wandering that Sima Mulong had adapted to the food scarcity that prevailed in backward civilizations, and correspondingly, the food supply here was simply extravagant!
The shelves are full of all kinds of food, all kinds of meat, eggs and dairy products made by various specifications and brands using different processing methods. Grains and seafood, not only to maintain people's survival, but also to further satisfy people's enjoyment of the tongue, to see that all people are almost puzzled by obesity, everyone is moistened by sufficient food smooth and round, a few thin and tall special people, either suffering from certain diseases, or congenital lack of obesity genes, even the young girls who are determined to lose weight, although they are hungry, the little face is also full of red blood.
What is lacking here is not food, but the money in people's pockets, and while coming to this sad conclusion, Sima Mulong is also full of sadness and counts his banknotes, picking and putting all kinds of food into his shopping basket.
After paying, Sima Mulong couldn't wait to start eating, and suddenly all kinds of delicious and delicious tastes filled his sensory world, making him feel a lot of enjoyment at the same time, but also a little frustrated, now it seems that the sharp sword of food seems to be a little unwieldy in this world.
Such emotions naturally can't cause lasting trouble to Sima Mulong, since this road is not passable, there are naturally other options, but it is just a long twist and turn. Sima Mulong didn't really care in his heart, but he was a little regretful that such a simple strategy could not be implemented, and it seemed that he could only take a more complicated and brain-consuming route.
Just while tasting the delicious food, while casually walking some way, Sima Mulong has seen three construction sites along the way, each construction site, there are large construction machinery in the continuous tense construction, a glimpse of the whole leopard, it can be seen that the development speed here is also quite amazing.
In addition, Sima Mulong also discovered the surveillance network that spreads throughout the entire social system!
Almost every street shop is equipped with monitoring probes inside and outside the house, and there are dense monitoring points at the intersection of almost every road, even in some small lanes, many residents are inside and outside the house, and monitoring facilities are installed next to the traffic road.
All in all, this is an area with strict order and a fairly meticulous surveillance network, which is quite powerful in deterring ordinary people at least, and also has self-evident benefits for maintaining social order, which can effectively control the situation.
Sima Mulong's heart gradually became a little heavy, and it has developed to such a height, how can such a society be underestimated?
After several industrial revolutions, this world has even mastered the powerful tools for exploring the interstellar universe such as artificial satellites, which shows that they already have extremely terrifying long-range delivery capabilities.
With the support of modern science and technology, a modern army with high-level weapons and equipment is unprecedented in its lethality, control, and accuracy.
As a challenger, if you want to overthrow such an army, it is no longer enough to rely on the number of people, not to mention that as a latecomer, how can you be more powerful than the forerunners.
The only way is to create a weapon of war that can crush them, and to do this, you must have a deep enough foundation and unfathomable economic strength, and to do this, you must first have a broad space for development and growth.
Such a space will never be provided by such an impenetrable social control system...... Unless inside it, a hole is pierced.
A strong social production and construction system, abundant material supply, and a set of extensive supervision system, supplemented by strong leadership, make people daunting and lethal. Then, once all the above elements are gathered, a behemoth that should not be underestimated is naturally about to emerge, and once such an existence is mobilized, it can easily show the overwhelming power of the group.
Such power is simply terrifying!
If such a place is just an ordinary corner of this planet, then even Sima Mulong has to admit that it must be quite difficult to quietly rise in an environment like this that is full of heaven and earth, and finally accumulate a huge power, so as to obtain the right to dominate the development of the entire civilization.
Fortunately, Songjiang Mansion is by no means an ordinary place, and the Han Empire in this memory is by no means an unknown person on the earth, and similar terrorist forces, even if they are visited all over the world, are only three or four.
In that case, then there is a lot to be done!