Chapter 325 Nomadic? Settled?

It is impossible to realize the mass production and service of neuron warships in the short term, so Qi Yiming completely gave up this route.

If in the future development, human consciousness can be digitized and successfully integrated with neuron warships, Qi Yiming will use this part of the combat power as a special combat power of mankind.

Therefore, in the next few decades of development, population will become the biggest obstacle to human development.

Although most industrial facilities have achieved fully automated production, technicians are always needed to patrol the production line.

As for the production of some high-tech equipment, even if full 3D printing is currently achieved, it is still impossible to produce with quality and quantity, and can only return to the most primitive state of hand rubbing.

The place where these high-tech equipment is used most is various types of warships.

Qi Yiming bent his right hand fingers and rhythmically tapped the table floating in the air, muttering: "Population... Population..."

After nearly a thousand years of escape and fighting against the Zerg in the Nirvana Galaxy, there are now less than 10 billion people left in the human race, which is extremely incredible for a civilization that can sail across thousands of light years.

In fact, Qi Yiming wanted to follow the practice of the former Human Federation, using a large number of artificial spare tires and artificial breeding, so that a large population could be created in a very short time.

But this would invisibly divide humans into two classes.

Qi Yiming knew very well that when a large number of artificially bred humans entered the workplace, it did have a profound impact on human development in the early stage, but as time went on, human society was filled with the argument that natural people were more noble than non-natural people.

Many things cannot be solved by a decree, especially some views on specific things that naturally arise from the depths of human hearts, which cannot be easily changed by the authorities.

This situation may be gradually alleviated as the proportion of non-natural people in the population increases, but some sharp social contradictions will inevitably arise in this long process.

But Qi Yiming knew that the current situation did not allow humans to slowly digest these sharp social contradictions, so Qi Yiming did not want to use this method.

The only way Qi Yiming could think of to promote rapid population growth was to link the number of children born by each family with citizen welfare.

Classify some specific welfare into the sequence of rewarding fertility.

The most direct way is to improve the citizen level.

The improvement of citizenship level means that you can enjoy more social resources and privileges in certain occasions.

Then it is to reduce the time cost that families have to spend on raising offspring.

In a highly civilized society, people with higher citizenship levels are less willing to give birth to the next generation. The most direct reason is time cost.

Because there are too many things to do, most of them prefer to realize their self-worth rather than spend time raising the next generation.

Then the government departments can take over the task of raising the next generation, that is, everyone just gives birth, and the government departments are responsible for how to do it.

But this will also cause another problem, that is, the sense of belonging of these children raised by the government is indeed.

But now Qi Yiming has no way to estimate these. Compared with the sharp social contradictions, Qi Yiming is more willing to face the problems that can be solved by arranging more psychological counseling.

Soon, several regulations on encouraging childbirth were reviewed and issued by government agencies.

After a period of trial implementation, some detailed modifications were made, which did play a role in promoting childbirth.

Within half a year after the policy of encouraging childbirth was issued, more than 30% of families chose to give birth again in order to improve their citizenship level.

Although this population growth rate is not as fast as artificial embryo cultivation, Qi Yiming believes that with the increase in the human population base, the number of newborns will increase exponentially in the next hundred years.

Perhaps in less than 150 years, the human population can double.

The problem of population growth has been temporarily solved, and the next issue is the development of the Nirvana Galaxy.

Originally, Qi Yiming did not want to establish colonies on the major planets of the Nirvana Galaxy, because no one could say when the Zerg would appear again around the Nirvana Galaxy, so humans must be prepared to evacuate at any time.

However, with the issuance of the decree to promote population growth, Qi Yiming had to face the dilemma of extremely shrinking human living space after the population explosion.

In fact, Qi Yiming can continue to expand the Hope and the other two giant colony ships, or build more giant colony ships to carry more people.

Qi Yiming thought so at first, so he approved and started building two giant colony ships.

But as time went on, Qi Yiming found some strange problems.

In many inspections, he found that the lack of sufficient sense of urgency in human society caused the slow growth of productivity, and even had a trend of declining year by year.

At first, Qi Yiming didn't understand what the problem was.

But during a conversation with Ye Lu, he realized the problem.

Qi Yiming was worried about the slow growth of human productivity at the time, and was afraid that when the swarm arrived, humans would not have enough strength to deal with the swarm's attack again.

So he asked Ye Lu if there was any good countermeasure.

But Ye Lu's answer surprised Qi Yiming. Qi Yiming remembered very clearly what Ye Lu said at that time: "What is there to worry about? We have enough colony spaceships and long-distance delivery from war stars. If we can't win, we can just run away."

This sentence left a deep impression on Qi Yiming. He didn't expect that Ye Lu, as a fleet commander, would have such a negative idea.

Qi Yiming then conducted a wide social survey, and the final results showed that more than 85% of humans had more or less similar ideas to Ye Lu.

Qi Yiming was scared to death after seeing this result.

If this kind of thinking is widely prevalent in human society, what is the point of counterattacking the Zerg?

If everyone holds the mentality of running away if they can't win, there is no need to fight this war, and humans will be exterminated by the Zerg sooner or later.

The direct reason for this idea is that after fleeing their homes, humans have sailed for nearly a thousand years. In a sense, humans have changed from a settled civilization to a nomadic civilization.

Nomadic civilizations originally use giant spaceships as their homes and fly wherever they go.

So it is not uncommon to have this idea of ​​running away if they can't win.

If there were no threat from the swarm, it would not be bad for humans to continue like this.

But the problem is that the swarm is encircling humans. If humans continue to wander around in the form of nomadic civilization, they will sooner or later be surrounded by the swarm and swallowed up bit by bit.

There is only one way to solve this problem, that is, to let humans find a sense of belonging to a fixed home again. With a fixed home, humans will have greater potential when facing the threat of the swarm.

And the problem of slow productivity growth that Qi Yiming was worried about was solved.