Deep Space Fleet

The first line, suppressing the natural population birth rate, is not family planning, but a more gentle way.

Want to have a baby? Yes, no problem at all, and there are even certain policies to support individual fertility.

But to have a child has to be nurtured. The process of raising children is not only a personal matter, but also a public matter of the whole society. It requires a certain ability, and it is not easy to be a parent.

Most of the people on the spaceship are young people. Except for some kindergarten teachers, it is impossible to have experience in raising them, and there is no help from the older generation. The care robot is still in an experimental state for the time being, and has not yet been mass-produced, so it is impossible to allocate one to each family.

In order to reduce the appearance of unqualified parents, please take a certificate first - "parent certificate".

According to regulations, both parents have to take the exam, and after passing the exam, they can have children.

This kind of natural "political correctness" has of course been unanimously praised by the masses. After all, the vast majority of people who eat melons have no desire to have children at all. The remaining few people can only bite the bullet and accept it. Having a child without taking the certificate will be unanimously condemned by public opinion.

With such a small population, if you don't look up and look down, if you are despised for a long time, life will become very difficult.

As a result, these parents found out. The difficulty of textual research is much higher than imagined, and it may not be possible to pass the test several times, including the rebellious periods of children, when to supplement what nutrition, how to survive the rebellious period, etc... The questions are very difficult.

Some people just don't bother to give birth when they see such trouble.

The second is to promote prenatal and postnatal care.

At present, the new civilization is full of waste. Although the current living conditions have improved a bit, there are still no such things as milk powder. Not even a cow, which has yet to be cloned from an artificial womb...

Diapers, pacifiers and the like are of course impossible.

Well, anyway, there are no such material conditions. These are objective facts. It is not that the entire civilization does not need these resources, but it takes time to accumulate these resources to be able to produce them.

If you still insist on having a child under such circumstances, you can find a way to overcome the difficulties you encounter...

In particular, the long-term public opinion propaganda has made everyone form a natural thinking that "it is the basic quality of a responsible adult not to have children casually when the conditions are immature."

"It's so poor that everyone is still mining and farming."

"Traveled 20 light years just to have a baby? Aliens will be laughed to death by you."

"I will die a few years later, so urgent."

In addition, people with higher educational backgrounds have lower fertility intentions, which is also an objective law.

In this way, with the cooperation of the objective environment and subjective policies, the birth rate of the entire civilization is naturally kept relatively low.

The sluggish birth rate has made some insightful people jump their feet anxiously, calling on everyone to let go of birth. But this kind of willingness cannot be increased by appealing... Who would like to have ten children like a pig?

After thinking about these objective factors and sorting out his thoughts, Zhang Yuan raised his head and walked into the conference room.

This time the scientific meeting is quite grand, and the various data in development are already known to everyone, but they are still released in an official form.

Captain Zhao made a solemn speech on the stage: "...this year's work tasks have been completed successfully, even overfulfilled. I am very grateful to everyone for their hard work, and also to the 60,000 engineers on the surface for their silent dedication. Without your active labor, there would be no The normal functioning of this society will not allow us to have a better and better life.”

Clap clap!

There was a warm applause from the audience.

"The task for the next few years, the first is to develop more cutting-edge technology. The earth civilization has left us a lot of precious heritage, enough for us to enter the real interstellar era. The second is to raise the automation level of all projects. There is a lot of room for optimization. When the industrial population cannot grow on a large scale, improving automation capabilities is the only way to improve work efficiency..."

"There is also the population issue, which is a more important issue. Regarding this point, every person of insight should feel worried..."

"Population has become an important factor restricting our development. Many projects, we have no way to continue because of the small population. Do you know what kind of work is the greatest contribution to the entire civilization?"

After a pause for a few seconds, Captain Zhao said with a smile: "It's not mining on the surface, nor being a scientist, nor speaking on stage like me. It's about having 10 or even more than 20 children. , bring them up, then these parents are comparable to the greatest heroes in the world!"

Some of the people below couldn't help laughing, it was just a small joke in a serious meeting.

Captain Zhao continued: "...Of course, human beings are not pigs, and there is no way to have ten children at once. The birth of the next generation is not only a major event of civilization, but also personal freedom. Therefore, it is impossible for us to force children, plus The objective environment is worrisome, and I don’t even have a child. I’m too busy, I have no choice, and I have no interest in having a child..."

After saying this sentence, the meeting room fell into a long silence.

Everyone seems to have predicted what will happen next...

Immediately afterwards, it is the main event, to really solve the population problem!

This population bill should have been proposed by the Minister of Human Resources, but this bill is a key content in the history of new civilizations. In addition, the minister's weight is not enough, and the popularity is not enough... Said Maybe as soon as it is raised, it will be called a pig's head by the public.

Only Zhang Yuan's level, high enough prestige, and a powerful person in the New Civilization Development Department can make a big enough splash!

Time is up.

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and stood up from the stool.

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, I think you should know what will happen after submitting this bill. If I were you, I would definitely think twice... It has too much influence on us."

A female member of the Ministry of Education who was sitting next to her suddenly said, "Are we really pressing for the time period to reproduce babies in large numbers with artificial womb technology? Or...is it just the personal selfishness of your entire school?"

Zhang Yuan looked at her with a smile: "I think you know whether it is urgent or not. I am only for civilization."

Whether it is expression or tone, it is very flat.

But in this plainness, the congresswoman suddenly felt a biting cold wind from the far North Pole.

Deep in the core of the entire civilization, there seems to be a strong and icy will that is slowly pushing all this forward. No matter what kind of resistance, it's just a mantis' arm acting as a cart.

Feeling the pressure, she frowned and said, "I will vote against it."

Zhang Yuan smiled, but his words were not gentle: "Your objection alone is invalid. We are a democratic society...Of course, you have the right to speak, and you can raise rebuttals at any time."

He came to the stage with a stack of documents, walking steadily and calmly.

A document is displayed on a large screen.

In an instant, like boiling water, the entire conference room boiled!

"About using artificial womb technology to hatch babies in batches"!