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Time flies, time flies...

It is now 5534, the 30th year since the Gliese people left on the "Era of Earth", and the 74th year since humans came to this star field...

In the next 30 years, a total of four major events took place.

The first is the change in personnel. The gray-haired Captain Zhao is a bit dissatisfied with his work ability because of his energy decline, and he is beginning to prepare to retire to the second line...

The position of captain can be said to be the highest position in the entire civilization. He is responsible for overall planning and communication and cooperation between various departments. Since the development of civilization is still in its infancy, the captain has to dabble in all walks of life. This alone is very difficult. If you can't even understand the report submitted by the lower class, what kind of captain should you be? ?

In addition, there is only one political party in the entire civilization. In order to ensure the consistency and effectiveness of the policy, each term of this position is 20 years (according to the life extension method of earth civilization, the theoretical average life expectancy can reach 322 years old), the current The constitution does not stipulate a specific number of consecutive terms.

Unless the captain committed a serious negligence during his tenure, he would be dismissed by the scientific council.

And in this handover, Zhang Yuan from the New Civilization Development Department is also the most suitable candidate. No matter in terms of qualifications, prestige, or ability, there is no more suitable successor than him.

The relevant votes were easily passed.

When the handover of power was handed over to this junior, Zhao Qingfeng heaved a sigh of relief, feeling that the burden on his body had just been let go...

This feeling is very subtle...

Torch inheritance is also an extremely important task. From Professor Qi Yuanshan in the 22nd century, to the generation of Captain Ma, then to Academician Ding, Zhao Qingfeng, and then to Zhang Yuan in the 56th century, it is hard to imagine how many hardships and difficulties they have encountered in the middle...

It is a great honor that, with the efforts of generations, the New Civilization School has grown from a small seed to a truly towering tree.

Recalling this period of history, Zhao Qingfeng sighed. When they set off from the earth, they were almost the same age, but now, he is almost the oldest group of people among these millions of people. Because he had already taken over this position during the hibernation period, he had dozens of waking periods more than others.

At that time, the life extension technology was not as advanced as it is now.

If you wait until you are older to prolong your life, the effect will be much worse. People in their 20s and 30s take injections and medicines for maintenance, which is fundamentally different from people in their 50s and 60s.

Therefore, compared with Zhang Yuan, Li Zhendong and others, Zhao Qingfeng's aging speed is also faster, and his life is shortened by more than a hundred years.

However, there is nothing to complain about this matter, and the result was already known at the beginning.

People have birth, old age, sickness and death, which in itself is a cycle of heavenly law. After gaining some things, one needs to give something else.

If a civilization wants to progress, someone has to pay, and the future of civilization must be in the hands of young people.

According to Zhao Qingfeng's own words, "It is very lucky to be able to live to see the current achievements of the new civilization and slowly get on the right track."

In the same group of retired seniors, there are about 1,600 people. In fact, those who are aging faster are mostly the former high-level civilization, including several former deputy captains, as well as a group of experts and scholars.

Retiring to the second line also has the advantages of retiring to the second line. At least I have a lot of leisure time at work, and I don’t have to worry so much, and I can enjoy the retirement life of the elderly in peace.

The new civilization has a very advanced pension system. These 1,600 retirees are all gathered in a retirement community, with a dedicated robotic recuperation team.

These old people are restless people. When they have nothing to do, they can take a look at the latest technological progress, experience the children's campus life, and educate the next generation; occasionally participate in high-level meetings of the entire civilization, or engage in some Intellectual work, human intelligence declines much more slowly than physical strength...

This kind of retirement life seems to have a good taste.

What's more, a large number of internal policies of the new civilization are determined through calculations, officials' property is disclosed, and power is also very effectively controlled.

In order to ensure fairness and justice, even the appointment and removal of some middle-level cadres is determined by the standard of "civilization contribution", not by the high-level leaders.

There are also quite a lot of mathematical talents who study this area. How to better measure a person's "civilization contribution" and how to make it as fair and fair as possible is the main research direction of these mathematicians.

Of course, a supreme leader like Zhang Yuan is still elected by middle-level cadres, and he will have some special rights when it is impossible to calculate or in emergency situations.

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In addition to the changes in personnel appointments and dismissals, the second major event is that the birth rate of the entire civilized population began to decline slowly, from 5% at the beginning to the current 1.2%.

The population growth rate of 5% is really too high. If placed in the civilization of the earth, it is equivalent to every couple having 5 children!

But the current population base has reached 10 million, and it is not appropriate to increase the population violently. The base number has increased, and the absolute growth value of 1.2% a year is 120,000 children, which is much more than the original 5%.

Even though the current population is still not enough for the development of all walks of life, there is no longer the constraint that always existed before, and some simple service industries and handicraft industries can be completely replaced by intelligent robots.

Coupled with the emergence of that "automatic universal factory", the automated production capacity has been greatly improved and the required industrial population has been reduced. The technology at the peak of the second-level civilization is indeed more powerful than that of the earth civilization. After 30 years of hard reverse engineering, almost everything that can be cracked has been cracked. These technologies derived from extraterrestrial civilizations have begun to be used in all walks of life.

Therefore, in order to maintain long-term population health and take into account the current increasing average life expectancy under the condition that the demand is basically met, the future population growth rate will be controlled to about 0.5%-1%.

More importantly...according to the calculations of New Civilization Historiography, a population of less than 50 million is a relatively healthy state after the entire administrative system is in operation.

At present, the dynamic planned economy is still adopted instead of the traditional market economy. The civilized action brought by the planned economy is very strong, but it also requires the government to have a very strong overall planning ability, otherwise it will be easy to develop unevenly like the Soviet Union.

A population of one million, a population of ten million and a population of 100 million are calculated in completely different ways.

According to Zhang Yuan's estimate, the population of 50 million will be the limit of the current algorithm. If the population size is exceeded, the entire civilization will inevitably be affected by "Parkinson's Law".

Parkinson's Law is another name for "bureaucracy" and is known as one of the three major discoveries of Western culture in the 20th century. It can also be called "official disease", "organization paralysis" or "big business disease".

The main meaning is that because of the selfishness of human nature, mediocre managers tend to find more mediocre people as assistants, so as not to affect their status. By analogy, a system with overstaffed institutions, overstaffed people, bickering and low efficiency has been formed.

The current data monitoring system of the new civilization is very powerful, basically eliminating this phenomenon, but the population it can control is limited. If the population increases significantly, loopholes in this system can always be found, and the organizational efficiency of the entire civilization will actually decline.

What's more, in some fields, the long-term underpopulation is conducive to the vitality of the economy and the long-term struggle of citizens.

The reason why the growth rate is controlled at a population of more than 10 million is because the population must be sufficiently forward-looking. Waiting for a population of 30 to 50 million to control it will easily lead to the aging of the population structure.

For the new civilization that realizes the public raising of robots, it is a very simple matter to control the population growth rate, just to reduce the birth of babies from artificial wombs.

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