Chapter 46 Population Issues

Yu Yifeng slowly woke up and opened his eyes. What came into his sight was a bright small room. Several nurses in white coats were recording something beside him.

What happened? Did I faint? Why am I lying in the infirmary? He smelled a pungent smell of disinfectant and squinted his eyes to look around. It was a small infirmary. He should have been sent here after fainting.

He felt that he had a real dream, dreaming of a group of stars, and dreaming that he turned into the sun... He didn't know whether it was a dream or something else.

He was hung with various inspection instruments, such as heart rate monitors, brain wave monitors, etc., and there was an IV on his arm. He looked up at the IV bottle, which should be glucose nutrient solution.

The two special forces soldiers guarding the door had serious expressions, but their expressions were still stable. The spacecraft should not be out of control.

Seeing this, Yu Yifeng finally breathed a sigh of relief. Except for a little dizziness in his head, he felt that his physical condition was very good and he did not feel any discomfort.

No... The whole world seemed to have changed a little in his perception, as if it was clearer, and he couldn't tell what the change was.

"Mr. Yu, you're awake!" Seeing Yu Yifeng wake up, a young female nurse said happily, "The doctor said that you fainted because of excessive fatigue. You need to pay more attention to rest. I'll call the doctor."

Before she finished speaking, she ran out in a hurry, probably to find a doctor.

Yu Yifeng didn't care about that, he jumped up from the bed and pulled out the needle himself. There was no need for any rest, he felt very good, and he didn't have time to rest.

"Xiao Li, how long have I been unconscious?" He asked the special forces at the door.

"Report to the captain, from the time of discovery, ten hours and thirty-six minutes. Last night, Captain Xu Yunjin had something to ask you, and found you fainted, so he sent you here."

"We have kept it strictly confidential, and only a few people know that you are in a coma."

Hearing this, Yu Yifeng felt relieved. He was most afraid that something would happen when he was in a coma. He is now the backbone of the entire spacecraft. If he suddenly falls down, it may cause panic and riots. No one else can be the captain of the Noah except him.

Fortunately, the coma time was at night, so it should not be a big deal. He is still relieved that Xu Yunjin is doing things.

Ten hours of rest, this may be the longest rest he has had in this period of time. He feels very energetic!

"Okay, thank you for your hard work!" Yu Yifeng thought for a while and said, "You go back first. There should be nothing important here. Oh... Tell the doctor, I'm fine."

"Yes!" The two team members saluted again.

Xu Yunjin is looking for him for something? Yu Yifeng's heart moved, he put on his clothes, tidied himself up a little, and hurried over again. What the doctor said, "Rest more" and so on, became a wind in his ears.

"Old Xu, I think about it. If we humans want to grow and develop, population is a big problem!" He said hurriedly as soon as he entered the door.

This is what he said in his heart. When Yu Yifeng was unconscious, the group of stars he saw was only more than 50,000. His first feeling was that it was too few and too dim.

What can 50,000 people accomplish? You have to know that there were 7 billion people on the original earth.

After the two major projects, the Agricultural Reform Plan and the Noah Plan, his first feeling was that the population was seriously insufficient. Although the overall quality of such a small labor force was very high, it still hindered the development of civilization.

"Captain, you are awake!" Xu Yunjin said in surprise when he saw Yu Yifeng coming in. He is now the captain of the security team, but he still habitually calls Yu Yifeng "Captain".

"By the way, what do you want to talk to me about?" Yu Yifeng asked.

Xu Yunjin was stunned for a moment, his expression changed, "Last night, I felt a sun rising from the bottom of my heart, hot and hot, I don't know if it was an illusion or something... I asked other people, and they also had similar feelings."

"My first feeling was that you, the captain, and then I came over and found that you fainted... Now people are discussing what the son of God is... More people believe in Calvin."

Xu Yunjin didn't know what to say. He was a firm believer in Marxist materialism. Now there would be such a mysterious supernatural phenomenon, which felt a little inexplicable.

"Don't ask me, I don't know either." Yu Yifeng was silent for a while, and told the scene he saw when he was in a coma. The two looked at each other, both feeling incredible.

"Maybe... Superhumans still have some potential that has not been developed. I heard that the human brain still has a lot of potential to be developed... Superhumans should be the same." After a long time, Xu Yunjin finally suffocated a sentence.

"So, what other feelings do you have?"

"I just feel full of energy, nothing else... It seems that it should be a good thing?"

"Since it's not a bad thing, let Dr. Roman and others study the details..." Yu Yifeng shook his head.

Since I can't figure it out, I simply don't think about it. Xu Yunjin is a pure soldier, not a scientist. He was just depressed for a while and put it behind his mind.

At this time, Yu Yifeng remembered the business and said, "Old Xu, I thought about it carefully. Our population problem is still a big problem. How many people do we have now?"

"51,223 people." Xu Yunjin was in charge of the security of the entire spacecraft and answered quickly.

"Fifty thousand is just over 50,000. Alas, it's too few. How is the population distribution?"

"There are 26,298 males and 24,925 females, with an average age of 28.6 years old. There are no children and no elderly people over 60 years old. The vast majority are of child-bearing age."

Yu Yifeng nodded. In other words, the men and women on the spacecraft are basically balanced, and the older ones are basically great scientists. Most of them are young people, which Yu Yifeng prefers.

"So if people try to have children, in a year we can have up to 20,000 more babies?"

"This... should be the theoretical maximum." Xu Yunjin sweated profusely, "But it's basically impossible! We calculated that there are only more than a thousand couples and couples in total. Most people will not choose to go to the moon. There are very few pregnant women during this period, only 16.”

"Besides, captain, our public facilities cannot support so many children."

16 people? Too little, too little! If 16 people are born in a year, then the human race is not finished yet?

The current population pyramid is all concentrated in one interval, with no one at the top and bottom. Although the labor force is now abundant, there is basically no need to consider things like supporting the elderly. But what about the future? When these people get older, they will face serious aging risks.

When these people die of old age, the population will become smaller and smaller, and human civilization will become extinct?

You need to plan ahead. As the supreme leader of the spaceship, Yu Yifeng must consider the future. Therefore, population is really a big problem.

But humans are not animals. It is impossible for them to be born just as they are born, and it is also impossible for the government to designate a match between two people, and then a child can be born.

Human reproduction requires men and women to first have the spark of love, and then enter the running-in period. After the running-in, they get married, and there is still a ten-month pregnancy period. After giving birth, the child must be educated and raised...

This series of processes consumes a lot of energy. Therefore, many young people nowadays do not like to have children because it is too troublesome.

According to statistics on earth, the more economically developed areas are, the lower the fertility rate is; people with higher overall quality have a lower desire to have children; the more stressed and busy people are, the more they want to have children.

These three conditions weighed on Yu Yifeng's heart like three mountains, because all the people in the Noah spacecraft met these three conditions...

Yu Yifeng has a headache. He really can't think of any particularly good way. Family planning does not exist here, but the reproduction rate is still very low.

"Let's do this, let people start dating first and get married first... We will also introduce a bill to encourage having children in the future to encourage childbirth."

"Yes." Xu Yunguo replied duplicity. In fact, he was a soldier and didn't know how to deal with it, and he couldn't think of a particularly good way.

"By the way, what will happen to the moon?" Yu Yifeng asked casually.

"Oh, we have already turned it into a blind date platform, and the effect is not bad." Xu Yunjin said with a bitter smile: "But when this happened yesterday, the screen was flooded again, what the sun, the son of God, the phenomenon of personality worship is again Out……"

"I will ask Dr. Roman to study this matter clearly..." Yu Yifeng shook his head and said, there are still many secrets about superhuman beings that have not been solved. A sudden thought occurred in his heart, it would be great if the perfect element could be used on everyone... everyone would be stronger and smarter, that would be great.

As for the personality cult phenomenon, there are advantages and disadvantages. It seems that it will not disappear for a while. It was impossible for him to discredit himself. He could only consider this issue after all the reforms were completed.

"Captain, something suddenly occurred to me!" Xu Yunjin raised his voice and said, "Our living environment is so bad. We live in iron houses and a group of people share the toilet. Who would even think about having children!"

"I think it is very important to improve the living environment."

"You're right." Yu Yifeng sighed, "Next, I want to launch another major project."