Deep Space Fleet

It's not the social public breeding system, but its pre-plan - using artificial womb technology to reproduce human babies in large numbers to achieve a 5% annual population growth rate. In fact, many people have been informed of this proposal in advance and discussed it for a period of time, but various controversies are still very big.

Zhang Yuan restrained the crowd, and said slowly: "Everyone, according to our population report, how many people were born last year? The exact number is 1,823, a birth rate of 3.6 per thousand. The birth rate Very low, down to the point of horror! Indeed, our population structure is still very young, the death rate is zero, coupled with the low quality of life, the objective environment is poor, and it is not a big deal to give birth a few years later.”

"But, think about it, what will happen in fifty years' time?"

"Fifty years from now, our average age will rise by 50 years. Everyone here is 80 or even 90 years old. How many young people are there? 100,000!"

"Yes, with a growth rate of 3.6 per thousand, after fifty years, there will only be 100,000 young people! The total population will only be 600,000, and that's on the basis of zero mortality."

"Fifty years!"

There seemed to be a sense of crisis that exploded in the hearts of many people.

The current development model is bound to be unsustainable.

"Your Excellency Zhang Yuan, we can use the method of encouraging births instead of the radical method of using artificial babies..."

The female congressman in the audience immediately stood up and said excitedly: "Its impact on our society is too great... It is unimaginable! Have you considered the reality?"

"Yeah, in a few years, there will be more artificial babies than natural people. What's the big deal?"

"I object!"

The voices of all kinds of discussions are getting louder and louder, and voices of opposition emerge in endlessly.

Zhang Yuan raised his hand and suppressed all the voices.

He said loudly: "Seat 145, Congressman Qian Lihua, as an electrical engineer, do you discriminate against these babies born from artificial wombs? Or, do you think they are not normal human beings?"

All eyes turned over, and this Mr. Qian turned pale, and quickly said, "There is no discrimination."

"So, if there is no discrimination, there are more artificial babies than natural people, so what's the problem?"

"..." This gentleman's face turned red and pale. If he put on the big label of "discrimination", his political career would be over. It took him a long time to speak, "Is there any problem...I don't know."

Zhang Yuan asked another lady who wanted to vote against it earlier, his eyes were like a flash of lightning: "Ms. Zhong from the Ministry of Education, if a baby is born without a father and a mother, let you raise it carefully. Can you let him Neither humble nor overbearing, neither arrogant nor impetuous, form an independent and optimistic personality, and become a useful person to society?"

This Ms. Zhong hesitated and said, "But..."

Zhang Yuan ignored her following "but", and asked immediately: "I just asked, can he be neither humble nor overbearing, neither arrogant nor impetuous, to form an independent and optimistic personality, and become a useful person to society? Yes, Or not!"

"……Can."

"Do you think this kind of raising can be promoted on a large scale? In other words, can a large number of babies without parents become useful people to society?"

Ms. Zhong did not reply.

"Since one person can do it, a group of people should do it too."

Zhang Yuan came to a conclusion on his own, then turned his head, and asked again: "Then...Minister Ding of the Human Resources Department, if the policy of actively encouraging births is adopted, how much can our natural population birth rate reach?"

The gray-haired Minister Ding quickly replied: "The highest can reach 2%-3%, but it is impossible to last for a long time, and it will drop sharply in the end. First, according to statistics, a couple who have one or two children the highest willingness, the number of people who want to have three children is very low, and the number of people who want to have four or more is almost zero. Therefore, it is impossible to reach a birth rate of 5% by natural growth alone. Our population is not a backward population, but a high quality population."

"Secondly, our population has gaps. The age is almost all concentrated around the age of 30. After a wave of concentrated births, the subsequent birth rate will be infinitely close to 0, and another gap will appear... No one wants to have a child at the age of 30. , give birth to one at the age of 40, and give birth at 50 or 60. Each population gap will undoubtedly produce bad social phenomena for a civilization.”

"Furthermore, promulgating a policy to encourage childbearing will consume a large amount of social costs and hinder the development of other industries. According to our statistics, the social cost of raising infants and young children by individuals will be three times or even four times that of collective raising..."

"That is to say, the cost of raising a child by a single person can allow the collective to raise 3 to 4 children..."

There was another few minutes of silence in the meeting room.

Zhang Yuan turned around: "Minister Li from the Ministry of Resources, how long can our advanced equipment last?"

Minister Li stood up and replied: "Many of our robots are brought from the earth. High-precision advanced equipment, once started, the depreciation rate is very fast. Some equipment will not work in 10 years... In addition, 30 years Well, fifty years at most."

"Our industrial mother machine is broken, it is really broken, and it is extremely difficult to repair. If at that time, the things brought from the earth are damaged, and we have not been able to build an industrial mother machine of the same specification, then..."

Minister Li's face is not so good-looking: "Technology... will go backwards!"

The meeting room suddenly became very quiet.

This year, the entire civilization has achieved great results, but most of them are just eating their laurels. Many people did not expect that time is so tight.

After a while, the person sitting below frowned, summoned up the courage to ask.

"But, sir, isn't it too many to have 20,000 to 30,000 children a year... Can our whole society support it?"

Zhang Yuan said coldly: "Sir, I remind you to take a long-term view. If 1,800 babies are born this year, there will only be 1,800 more laborers in 20 years. If 30,000 babies are born this year, 20 years from now, we will be able to There are 30,000 more workers... We must not only live in the present, but also in the future, and today's hard work is for tomorrow's sustainability."

"Anything else?"

"No more..." As if being suppressed by Zhang Yuan's momentum, the gentleman quickly sat back.

The lady surnamed Zhong stood up again and retorted: "Babies need a lot of nutrition to grow, especially if there is no breast milk, they need milk powder and more supplementary food."

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, have you ever calculated that with our current productivity, adding so many babies will invisibly raise prices and lower people's quality of life. Our economic structure and even production structure need to be greatly adjusted .”

"Ma'am, you're right, it's true...we're not productive enough."

Zhang Yuan said blankly, "But... the quality of life will be reduced because of this, is that why you object? We have traveled 20 light-years, is it just to enjoy life? People who hold this kind of thinking should stay On Earth, not here!"

The lady was flushed and stood there in a daze.

Snapped!

Zhang Yuan slapped the table heavily and roared loudly: "Then..."

"Since no one discriminates against these children, education is not a problem, and no one wants to have more than 10 children for civilization, population has become the biggest constraint on development..."

"Let me ask you, why are you against this proposal! Why?! Do you want the entire civilization to be extinct here in a hundred years?!"

As if shocked by Zhang Yuan's roar, for a while, no one dared to stand up and make trouble.

Perhaps, many people recalled that Dr. Zhang and Minister Zhang, who were usually polite and gentle, were a fierce man who dared to cut off his own legs, a fighter who defeated a super life form alone!