Chapter 280 Population
"Roll, tell me."
Hans Ming changed his tone, trying to lighten the atmosphere of the meeting, and smiled as he looked at Hans Rohr, who was in charge of the Ministry of Personnel among the royal family members.
"Uh, as you command, Your Majesty."
Luo Er was obviously shocked by the sudden change in atmosphere and felt a little uncomfortable.
He subconsciously glanced at Prime Minister Max on the other side, who looked obviously unhappy, and couldn't help feeling secretly happy in his heart.
Finally, this old guy who had been confronting the royal family all day long suffered a setback.
300 years ago, he was strongly opposed to this old guy serving as prime minister in the capacity of a regent.
However, the late emperor was already old at that time. In order to ensure a smooth transition of the empire's succession, he appointed Max, an old minister who was very capable at the time and was also the late emperor's confidant.
At that time, the average life expectancy of the Hans civilization was only 300 years.
The reason for appointing him as prime minister was that he did have outstanding abilities in general affairs, and the other was that he was nearly 280 years old at the time, which was almost the end of his life considering his long life span.
But what no one expected was that after the previous emperor passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne, the Hans civilization came into contact with the Galactic Alliance and even discovered higher-level life-extending drugs in the star market.
This directly doubled the average life expectancy of the upper class of the Hans civilization at that time, approaching the 600-year mark.
This also led to the old guy relying on his personal skills, his status as a regent and the fact that the new emperor was young and had no ability to handle state affairs. In the following period of time, he slowly gained a foothold and gradually took over two departments that were vital to the empire.
Ministry of War and Ministry of Revenue.
He holds military power in one hand and financial power in the other.
After having these two key departments, Max was very sensible and did not interfere with the remaining departments such as the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Works, and Ministry of Justice.
This is why the empire is now in a very embarrassing situation of extreme opposition between the imperial power and the power of the prime minister.
However, 300 years later, at today's meeting that is crucial to the empire, the young emperor finally raised the scepter of imperial power again.
With an arrogant attitude, he suppressed the old prime minister so that he dared not resist.
It really makes me feel relieved.
"Roll!"
On the throne, Hans Ming was getting impatient and shouted in his cold tone.
Luo Er came back to his senses and quickly remembered that it was not the time to celebrate yet. He immediately stood up and slowly told the information he had prepared in his mind:
“Your Majesty, according to the intelligence we have so far, the total population of human civilization, including both new and old populations, is approximately 25 billion.
Their population composition is basically monogamous, with each couple reproducing and surviving in the form of 1-2 children.
Among them, the delivery cycle is about ten months, which is basically the same as the one year in our civilization.
In our investigation, there are two possible reasons for this phenomenon, but other reasons cannot be ruled out.
The first is their short lifespan.
According to our statistics, intelligent creatures of human civilization have an average lifespan of 170 years with the help of current medical technology.
This is nearly half of the 300 years that the average person currently lives on.
The overly short lifespan may be the reason why the intelligent creatures of their civilization are not willing to have too many children.
In addition, in our survey, this civilization attaches great importance to pleasure.
Take miners in the mining industry as an example. Among the workers in this industry in human civilization, they only need to work 4 days a week.
Not only that, but they only need to work 8 hours a day, and they also have a week-long rest time for various holidays. In general, compared to the 6600 hours of annual working hours of our civilization's mining workers, the intelligent creatures of human civilization only need to work about 2000 hours a year.
Therefore, my conclusion is that in their civilization, great importance is attached to enjoyment.
In this kind of living environment that values pleasure, the fertility rate of intelligent creatures will generally decline naturally, maintaining at around 1-2 births in a lifetime.
At present, the population growth rate of human civilization is about 2% per year. It has to be said that this is an extremely low figure.
The above is my prediction of the population development trend of this civilization.
However, according to another situation we have learned, the body structure of human civilization allows them to give birth to at least 15 babies in their lifetime without affecting their lifespan.
In comparison, the female intelligent creatures of our Hans civilization can only give birth to a maximum of 10 babies in their lifetime.
So, from this point of view alone, the population growth potential of this civilization is huge.”
Rawl first reported on data such as the population formation of human civilization, which was interspersed with the analytical conclusions of the royal think tank.
After these words were spoken, a buzz of low discussions inevitably arose in the conference room.
As we all know, in the Galactic Alliance, population is a vital component to the development of civilization.
In an abnormal development environment where any intelligent device is prohibited, the population size largely determines the productivity of a civilization.
And now, in this backward star field, there is a race with such strong reproductive ability.
You know, among the surrounding civilizations, the reproductive capacity of the intelligent creatures of the Hans civilization can be considered the best.
And this is actually a far cry from human civilization.
As soon as Luo Er said this, everyone couldn't help but look eager in their eyes while talking.
After all, from another perspective, population is also a resource.
As is the case now, the Hans civilization can lease a large number of unemployed mining workers to human civilization for use.
But if you change the way.
For example, the human trafficking in the star domain market.
It is also a kind of 'resource'.
You know, in the vast Galactic Alliance, the reproductive capacity of many civilizations is very low, and there are even races that can only give birth to one baby in their entire life.
The only way for these races to develop is to rely on plundering, buying, selling, and leasing population to drive industrial development.
Hans Ming was extremely satisfied with what Roll said.
If, before this, Prime Minister Max's words could still make these people obey his orders.
Now, after the news that human civilization has a very strong population reproduction capacity came out, a flame of eagerness inevitably rose in the eyes of these senior officials.
Don’t worry, human civilization has more than just these.
Hans Ming recalled everything about human civilization in his mind, and his heart suddenly felt a little sour.
This is truly a race favored by God.
(End of this chapter)
