The world enters the age of mythology.

Among the three children, one is nine years old, the other two are only two years old, and Xu is three years old. When they saw Ye Qingqing for the first time, they shouted excitedly: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!"

"Quack!" The boy jumped happily from his position, like a spring.

The little girl Lu Lingling was adopted because she was cute. After so many years, she has not become disabled, and she is still very cute.

The other two little ones, a boy and a girl, may be due to their excellent genes, and they are made up like porcelain dolls.

They were all twins born from IVF, and Lu Yiming and his wife had finally completed their fertility task after giving birth to these two.

And they are very smart, they knew from a young age that following their sister-in-law would give them the greatest favor.Relatively speaking, my parents are very strict.

"Lu Yiming, where's your wife?" Ye Qingqing asked, playing with the three-year-old boy's little feet by the way.

"Quack!" the boy screamed excitedly again.

"In the laboratory, what kind of micro-mutation is going on! But she will still go home after get off work." Lu Yiming said: "How are the students doing in the exam, how many of them can be admitted to Yunhai University."

"I don't know, it should be the average level. The class I lead is neither good nor bad. There are a few talents, but they are only at an average level." Ye Qingqing said, "In a grade, there are 600 students, and there are about ten students. Come to stand out from the crowd, every mock exam, those people are changing in turn."

"And in the entire city of sea of ​​clouds, among the more than 3 college entrance examination candidates, there will be a dozen or so who are extremely excellent. But in the real expert group, they are only average."

"Maybe a real genius will emerge in ten years..."

"This shows that the population base is still relatively small, and geniuses are always rare. Our current team of experts is the legacy of the earth's civilization, and everyone is at the level of one in a million. Naturally, it cannot be compared with the students."

Lu Yiming said: "In fact, the average intelligence of our current students is higher than that of the previous earth age."

It has been five years since Dongfang joined, and it has developed steadily for five years, and there are already more than 20 countries around the capital of the sea of ​​clouds.

So many ancient civilizations naturally have their own specialties.

A kind of nut called "Bodhi seed", a kind of honey called "acesulfame honey", and special varieties such as spiritual tea, long-term consumption can effectively improve human concentration and average intelligence.Some companies now have developed corresponding nutritional products to ensure that most people can eat them.

So the average intelligence of human beings has actually risen.

"But the number of geniuses is still not enough, probably because the next generation has not really grown up. The large number of newborns are generally only 1-5 years old."

"Oh, yes, one more thing."

Lu Yiming said: "Next, I may be busy and may not be able to go home. I can only ask you to take care of these children a little bit. Take them out to play or stay at home. This is their strong request. "

Lu Lingling, the oldest, laughed "hehehe". Instead of being taken care of by her grandparents, she might as well follow her young and beautiful sister-in-law, who would even buy them delicious and fun things.

"Sister-in-law, let's go to the giant tortoise zoo."

"Sister-in-law can't take care of the three of you alone, or you can take care of your brother."

"Yeah, ok, I'm pushing them with a cart."

The two-year-old boy shouted excitedly: "Turtle! Turtle!"

Immediately afterwards, the little girl followed her brother and yelled, "Turtle! Big turtle!"

As the two screamed, their legs kept thrashing like springs, full of vitality.

Ye Qingqing felt a little amused. Taking care of children of this age is actually not too strenuous, and they are at the most fun stage.

The older you get, the less fun you get.

The main reason why many people like cats and dogs is that cats and dogs can be manipulated by humans, and it saves trouble.Children of this age are also manipulated, and their subjective consciousness is not strong.

She turned her head and asked Lu Yiming: "You mean, it might explode again..."

"Yeah, our world is not stable, we have to find time to deal with potential crises."

"No wonder there are more advertisements for conscription."

The five years of development have not been smooth sailing. More and more monsters have gathered in the spiritual world next door, and the crisis is getting bigger and bigger.

There have been moderate-scale monster invasions.Although there were not many casualties in the capital of the sea of ​​clouds, hundreds of people were killed or injured in the surrounding ancient civilizations.

The accident is also a reminder that as the planet's population continues to grow, so does the attraction to monsters.

Many monsters are irrational, and the temptation of humans to them is almost infinite. Even if they are shot in the head, they will swarm into the human world frantically.

Therefore, in the major space rifts in the corridors of the underworld, all kinds of monsters are ready to move, and they can hardly be suppressed.

Instead of passive defense, it is better to take the initiative to attack!

This is also the way of thinking of the capital of the sea of ​​clouds.

It may not be far away from the first tentative war.

The real scale this time will be huge!

With thoughts in his heart, Lu Yiming drove the electric car to the administrative area.

The commercialization of private cars is also a major change in the past five years. The automobile industry chain is also considered a high-end industry, enough to feed hundreds of thousands of workers.

"Okay, let's go play with your sister-in-law." Lu Yiming got out of the car and kissed the children one by one, "Be good, don't buy toys, and don't disturb your sister-in-law's driving!"

The children were still laughing happily, squealing and screaming, and they didn't know how to make such a sharp sound.

"goodbye!"

"Goodbye Dad!"

"Goodbye!" Lu Yiming smiled and waved again.

Children are really strange, a little thing can be excited for a long time, and then turn upside down in an instant.

Their mood swings seem to be a hundred times that of adults. What a wonderful time.

As for what it's like to be a father of three...

At first, I felt a little overwhelmed. I felt that there were too many things, and the children were very irritable. I didn't know how to take care of so many children.

But that's how it goes.

It will save trouble when the baby grows up, he will talk to himself with the toy, play with one toy for a long time, and play with each other.

Having a group of brothers and sisters is actually not bad.

If it is not crazy introversion at the educational level, the cost of parenting is not so high.

Educational fairness is also the most important concern of the capital of the sea of ​​clouds, after all, it involves the most critical population fertility rate.

Now, the people in the capital of the sea of ​​clouds have a very high satisfaction rate on the housing issue.Since all houses are allocated, there is no theory of high housing prices or school district housing, and the economic burden is not high.So the only thing that may cause serious involution is children's education.

The 12-year compulsory education starts with kindergarten, goes to the nearest school, starts from elementary school, and continues to junior high school. Basically, it is a lottery system. Whichever school you draw, you can only study in that school.Anyway, the whole city is only so big, and it takes 20 minutes to get from one end of the city to the other end of the city by passing the urban railway tracks.

The distribution of teaching staff also strives for fairness.

It is not until high school and university that talents are screened in a differentiated manner.

As long as education fairness is done well, it is one's own business whether one learns well or not, and the birth rate will not be too low.

With these thoughts in mind, Lu Yiming came to the Central Building to conduct a security check.

"Drip!" The ether value detector scanned his body several times. The characteristic value emitted by the soul wave is the most accurate way to judge a person's identity, which is also one of the latest research results.

Entering the Central Building and coming to the large conference hall, many people are already discussing the recent development of the sea of ​​clouds. Many soldiers and high-level government officials greeted Lu Yiming.

Lu Yiming also responded with a smile, "Hello."

He found his place, took the information at hand, and read it carefully.

After about half an hour, everyone came together, and the lively discussion gradually stopped.

"Good afternoon, comrades." Prime Minister Liang of the Interior Office spoke on stage: "It has been five years since the residents of Dongfang were integrated, and we have achieved long-term development in the past five years."

"Our current population is 147. Although there is still a long way to go to a metropolis with a population of tens of millions, it will grow slowly at an annual rate of 6636% in the foreseeable future."

"In addition, in the past five years, we have encountered 32 foreign civilizations. At present, there are a total of 22 civilizations, settled on the islands near the capital of the sea of ​​clouds, with a total population of 48.33. Most of these ancient civilizations It can provide its own characteristic industries, among which there are three civilizations, which are still in a state of internal chaos..."

The ancient civilizations near the capital of the sea of ​​clouds are divided into three levels. The first level of civilization is naturally the Great Jin Kingdom and the Giant Turtle Kingdom.These two countries have a good foundation, a good cultural environment, and the fastest development speed.

The second level of civilization is a civilization that can provide superior specialties, such as Yuzhu Kingdom can provide high-quality spider silk cloth, Tianyan Kingdom can provide spiritual tea and so on.Now the capital of the sea of ​​clouds is already a metropolis with a population of one million, and its consumption power has also increased significantly. As long as it develops advantageous industries, at least it can live a good life.

"So it's not useless to train so many younger brothers."

"Among the army of the Cloud Sea Alliance, there are also [-] ancient troops. How is their combat effectiveness?"

"It's okay. The first group of people who joined has formed combat power and can cooperate with our joint operations. The 1 people who joined later are still undergoing cultural training, and their comprehensive quality is not enough. They can only engage in some simple tasks Fighting, the big corps is still struggling."

"I heard that the birth rate of most ancient civilizations has dropped a lot."

"Yeah, just like the Great Jin Kingdom, which used to have a birth rate of 5%, but now it has slowly dropped to 3%. This is also the inevitable price of industrialization."

Chapter 662 The Evolution of Social Thought

"For ancient civilizations, the cost of education is still a little higher, and it is difficult for most people to afford the cost of education for their children."

"But if you don't educate, you can only be poor all your life and farm at home. In this way, the cost of education will increase, and the birth rate of ancient people will naturally decrease."

Hearing the discussion of the two experts sitting behind, Lu Yiming sighed slightly in his heart, is even the fertility rate of ancient civilizations declining...

Counting the 5 soldiers in the Sea of ​​Clouds Capital, the current number of soldiers in the entire Sea of ​​Clouds Alliance is as many as 7, which is indeed enough.

As for the third level of civilization, it is naturally a civilization with nothing and a rather chaotic interior.Under the influence of international rules, the population of this kind of civilization will be absorbed by other countries sooner or later, and then naturally eliminated.

As cruel as it sounds, it's actually the only way to do it.Not any tiny country can become a civilization on its own. The so-called cultural diversity is simply not worth mentioning in the face of the vastness of the multiverse.There are so many civilizations in the world, how can they be saved?

Weak and poor countries will eventually be eliminated.

…In addition to population growth, we have also achieved long-term progress and development at the industrial level and infrastructure level.The first is the establishment of electric vehicles and semiconductor industry chains... These high-end industry chains have attracted a large number of working people and solved the problem of being unemployed. "

In fact, these two industrial chains are completely redundant compared with the powerful productivity of Universal Factory.

The universal factory is fully capable of producing better semiconductor products and better electric vehicles.

But you must know that in a healthy society, most people need to have a job, so that the whole society can run healthily.

Once most people have no jobs and the atmosphere of laziness spreads greatly, social order will inevitably become chaotic, the crime rate will increase significantly, and the scientific research environment and learning atmosphere will also be brought down.

This has nothing to do with social welfare or economic development, it is determined by human nature.

Therefore, semiconductors and electric vehicles have become the best industrial chain so far, and the production of these materials will not use the capacity of the universal factory.

On the one hand, the added value of these two industries is high enough, and the value of the products is hard enough, which can arouse people's consumption desire.

The sales of electric vehicles and various consumer electronics are very good, and they can also be exported to foreign countries.

On the other hand, it is impossible for the surrounding ancient civilizations to engage in these industries, so the average salary in this industry is relatively high.Some labor-intensive, low-value-added industries can also be done by ancient civilizations, and it is impossible for employee compensation to increase.

There is also a third advantage. The industrial chains of these two industries are long enough to accommodate enough job opportunities.

The electric vehicle and semiconductor industries, from design, to production, to sales, have absorbed at least 40 laborers!

That is about half of the labor force.

As for the remaining labor force, they are engaged in education, medical care, scientific research, Internet, and various service industries, and a large part of them are students who do not need to participate in work.

However, after the introduction here, Chief Liang said worriedly: "However, everyone must deeply realize that these two industrial chains are just expedient measures. If they are placed in the interstellar era, the so-called high-end industries are not high-end. Up, 40 people."

"In the real interstellar era, only a part of the designers can complete these tasks, and the rest of the production is completed by a fully automatic factory, and the sales work is also carried out on the Internet."

"In fact, in the face of stronger productivity, these jobs are unnecessary and artificially created."

"But we really can't find a better way to resettle these people. There are 50 idlers, it is impossible to prevent them from working, and it is impossible to let them engage in relatively low-level industries... that is impossible .”

"So, the social transformation of becoming an interstellar civilization is beyond imagination. We are completely at a loss, and we can't find a better way to run society. In the face of 10 times or 100 times productivity, if we can't find a good way, We still can only seem to wander in front of the crossroads."

Lu Yiming nodded, understanding this worry.

To put it bluntly, even if they are engaged in the production of electric vehicles and semiconductors, the high-end industries on earth are nothing special in the interstellar era.The population engaged in these industries will be eliminated in the interstellar era.

What do interstellar civilizations need?A population engaged in intellectual labor!

Even more than 90% of people are intellectual workers, and that state is the best.

But obviously, this is impossible. Human intelligence is normally distributed, and most people are destined to be mediocre.

It is impossible for the government to eliminate jobs and abandon these people.

So the current solution is to artificially build a seemingly high-end industrial chain, and arrange a fairly good job for ordinary people with a seemingly decent salary... It sounds cruel, but in fact it is.

As the population base increases, the number of geniuses will increase, and the mediocre population will also increase. At that time, we can only continue to develop new unnecessary industries and stuff people into them.

This approach is not ideal.

There were some discussions in the meeting room.

"Society is ultimately driven by geniuses, and geniuses are born from ordinary people. As a result, ordinary people have little value in the end. This is indeed a perennial problem."