Mystery Makes Me Strong

Yes, people don't know when, the desire to have children disappeared.

In an agricultural society, after giving birth to a child, as long as they are raised until they are five years old, they can start to help with various farm work and produce wealth.

Being able to serve as free labor for parents until the age of 18 is equivalent to 13 years of work for nothing.

The reason why the industrial society is unwilling to raise children is because the work in the industrial society requires children to be 16 years old before they can work.

Having a child is a complete loss of money, and after the child is 16 years old, he will get married at the age of 20, and the wages earned during this period will not be handed over to the parents at all.

For the workers, the child is just a person who helps to sign in the hospital or in the nursing home after getting sick in old age.

As long as there is one is enough, at most one more can be used as insurance.

However, even so, even though it is beneficial for people in an agricultural society to have children, most young farmers are unwilling to have children.

Emperor Lancelot is very anxious, although the total population has reached an extremely exaggerated 45 billion.

But this is not enough.

The envoy told him in his mind that the more population the better, there is no upper limit.

So he decided to visit privately.

Anyway, as long as the envoy and the world are satisfied with him, he will never die.

On the contrary, if the two are not satisfied, no matter how hard he struggles, he will die.

He didn't think it was a kind of coercion, because he knew very well that there was never absolute freedom in the world.

Even if you were an emperor in the past, you have to consider the balance between the great nobles and the interests of the family. There are some things that must be compromised.

If the emperor wanted to live a life of his own accord, within five years all the relatives and relatives would be deserted.

He came to an ordinary old farmhouse, pretended to be a traveling merchant, and asked the other party for water.

The other party generously gave him water to drink, and he also gave the other party a handful of the dates he trafficked as a gift in return.

He drank water, casually said to the old farmer enjoying the cool air: "Old man, how is your family's harvest this year?"

"The harvest is very good, and life is easy. The family has five acres of land, and they have harvested 3,000 catties of wheat, 4,000 catties of corn, and some vegetables, melons and fruits. They don't have to pay taxes, so they don't have to worry about eating and drinking." The old farmer said casually.

"Then how many people are there in your family?"

"There are six people, my wife and I, and four children. The eldest is twenty years old, and he is trying to find a wife for him, but this child will not marry anyway. He is just doing nothing. If you don’t plant any crops, just live here with me.”

"Then you don't say anything about him?"

"I can't say it. If you say something, he has ten sentences. He said that the ancestors have been digging food on the land for generations. What hope is there? I will work until I die. I will be tired all my life. There will be endless quarrels and endless anger. , just don’t give birth.” The old farmer also worried.

"It's not okay to think like this. Passing on the family line is the glory of the ancestors. If there are no descendants, how can the glory of the ancestors be maintained?"

"Uh, he said that our ancestors were poor and had no honor."

"Yes, the priest should reprimand him, after all, having children is the best way to atone for sin."

Of course, Lancelot will not give up the church, which is a big killer of fertility. Of course, the church advocates having more children.

Even a lot of measures have been taken to ensure that, for example, if there are more children, the communion can be received first.

"Well, these young people don't like the priest's teaching. They just want to play all day long. They idle around until they are in their 30s, and then they go on adventures, and they die when they explore." The old farmer sighed.

"Expedition? What expedition?" Lancelot was a little puzzled, there was news that he didn't know.

"It's just to explore some miracle caves. Everyone knows that there is nothing there, but the children still think that there will be the power of gods inside."

Lancelot understood.

The so-called miraculous caves are lava caves formed when the surface is covered, and there is indeed nothing inside.

However, the deep environment and the black book seem to have escaped some power, forming some fantastic life with the help of the darkness.

Those fantasy beings are basically ferocious and tyrannical, but there are also some gentle and cunning ones.

They also have exotic materials that people in industrial areas want.

This is the source of those young people yearning for adventure.

They could not enter the industrial area, so they had to choose to enter the cave.

To be honest, because of the isolation between the industrial zone and the agricultural zone, several major uprisings broke out in the agricultural zone, and they also wanted everything in the industrial zone.

But they were all suppressed by miracles.

Human power is too weak in the face of divine power.

However, they are powerless to resist, but they can passively resist.

For example, prevent children and grandchildren from repeating all these boring lives.

It is difficult for me to force them to give birth, and it is even more difficult to force them to raise them.

Lancelot sighed.

But if you let them all live a happy life in the industrial area, they will not have children.

Not to mention 40 billion, 4 billion is barely enough.

God's envoy will not persist until now.

I'm afraid he would have been escaped by the black book hundreds of years ago.

It's a pity that the knowledge that World Tree has given itself only reaches the level of so-called modern technology, which cannot advance population production to the level of industrialization and assembly lines.

He once tried to let scientists study related technologies, but he often encountered accidents such as lightning strikes and fires.

This means that those technologies are taboo and cannot be studied.

He can only work hard on the traditional way of reproduction.

Now the common people don't have to worry about food and drink, but the next generation is unwilling to repeat the life of the previous generation.

What should we do now?

Lancelot returned to the palace and asked the ministers this question.

"Your Majesty, the solution is actually very simple, it just depends on your majesty's determination." General Duke Lancer said.

"tell me the story."

"As long as the regulations continue, those who have no children at the age of 25 will be executed, and those who have no three children before the age of 30 will also be executed. If this screening continues, the remaining people will naturally be those who have children." The general said proudly.

"brutal!"

"Inhumane, you are crazy!"

Several court earls sternly criticized.

There is no way, according to the other party, their own sons will have to die a batch.

There are a lot of people who are 25 years old and have no children.

Many aristocrats have had enough fun and don't have children until they are 45 years old.

According to the general's suggestion, they all deserve to die.

"Simple and rude, this is the law of the army, not the way of governing the world." Of course, Emperor Lancelot would not be so naive.

If it goes on like this, it will definitely cause a mess.

In the end, it is possible for the population of 40 billion to be directly lost to 4 billion.

"Then there is nothing I can do." The general said disappointedly.

How simple, just kill it.

Unfortunately, the emperor is not stupid.

"Your Majesty, we can properly improve the lives of the people and give them hope." An earl thought for a while.

Lancelot shook his head.

He learned some fragments of the future from the seedlings of the World Tree. In the future, people will live a good life, get what they want, have air conditioning in summer, and heating in winter, eat until they are full, and fat people walk everywhere.

But no one wants to have a baby.

Only poor places have more births. Those poor people go to rich places, and after the second generation, they don't want to give birth.

Subsidies are provided in some places, but it is not enough to subsidize the low birth rate, and it can only make up for it a little.

Millions of subsidies must be provided, which is basically equivalent to the ten-year income of an ordinary person's salary, so that they are willing to devote their efforts to raising one more child.

And these subsidies are simply unaffordable.

It can be said that this is a seemingly simple problem that cannot be solved.