Chapter 292

Time flies, time flies

It's 5534, the 30th year after the Gliese left on the earth time, and the 74th year when mankind came to this star domain

In the next 30 years, four major events have taken place.

The first is the change in personnel. Captain Zhao, with gray hair, was a little dissatisfied with his work because of his energy decline, and began to prepare to retire to the second line

The position of captain can be said to be the highest position of the whole civilization, responsible for the overall planning of the contact and cooperation of various departments. At present, the development of civilization is still in the preliminary stage, and the captain should cover all walks of life. This alone is very difficult. If he can't understand the report presented below, what kind of captain should he be?

In addition, there is only one political party in the whole civilization. In order to ensure the consistency and effectiveness of policies, the term of office of this post is 20 years (according to the means of prolonging the life of earth civilization, the theoretical life expectancy can reach 322 years). The current constitution does not provide for a specific number of consecutive terms.

The captain will not be dismissed by the Scientific Council unless he has made serious mistakes during his tenure of office.

In this handover, Zhang Yuan of the Ministry of new civilization development is also the most suitable candidate. There is no more suitable successor than him in terms of qualification, prestige and ability.

The relevant vote was easily passed.

When the baton of power transfer was handed over to the younger martial brother, Zhao Qingfeng breathed a sigh of relief and felt that the burden on him was put down

This mood is very subtle

The inheritance of firewood is also an extremely important task. From Professor Qi Yuanshan in the 22nd century to captain Ma's generation, academician Ding and Zhao Qingfeng, and then to Zhang Yuan in the 56th century, it is hard to imagine how many hardships and difficulties have been experienced

It is a great honor that with the struggle of generation after generation, the new civilization school has grown from a small seed to a real towering tree.

Recalling this period of history, Zhao Qingfeng sighed. When they set out from the earth, they were almost the same age, but now he is almost the oldest of these millions. Because he has taken over this position during hibernation, dozens of waking periods more than others.

At that time, the technology of prolonging life was not as superb as it is now.

The effect of prolonging life when you get old is much worse. People in their twenties and thirties are essentially different from people in their fifties and sixties.

Therefore, compared with Zhang Yuan and Li Zhendong, Zhao Qingfeng's aging speed is also faster, and he has lived a short life of more than 100 years.

However, there is nothing to complain about. I already knew the result.

People have birth, old age and death, which itself is a cycle of natural justice. After obtaining some things, they always need to pay other things.

If a civilization wants to progress, someone must pay, and the future of civilization must be in the hands of young people.

According to Zhao Qingfeng's own words, "it's very lucky to live to see the current achievements of the new civilization and slowly get on track."

There are more than 1600 retired old people in the same group. In fact, most of them are the former senior leaders of civilization, including several former vice captains and a group of experts and scholars.

Retiring from the second tier also has the advantages of retiring from the second tier. At least, I have a lot of leisure at work. I don't have to spend so much energy anymore. I can enjoy the retirement life of the elderly peacefully.

New civilization has a very advanced pension system. The 1600 retirees are all gathered in a pension community with a special robot convalescent team.

These old people are restless people. When they have nothing to do, take a look at the latest scientific and technological progress, experience the children's campus life and educate the next generation; Occasionally attend the high-level meeting of the whole civilization, or engage in some intellectual work. Human intelligence can decline much slower than physical strength

This kind of retirement life is also interesting.

Moreover, a large number of internal policies of the new civilization are determined by calculation. The property of officials is open and their power is effectively controlled.

In order to ensure fairness and justice, even the appointment and removal of some middle-level cadres are determined by the standard of "civilized contribution", not designated by senior leaders.

There are also quite a lot of mathematical talents in this field. How to better measure a person's "contribution to civilization", if as fair and equitable as possible, is the main research direction of these mathematical people.

Of course, the supreme leader like Zhang Yuan is still elected by middle-level cadres. In case of incalculability or emergency, he will have some special rights.

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In addition to the changes in personnel appointment and removal, the second major event is that the birth rate of the entire civilized population began to decline slowly, from 5% at the beginning to 1.2% at present.

The population growth rate of 5% is a little too high. If we put it in the earth civilization, it is equivalent to every couple having five children!

Now the population base has reached 10 million, and it is not appropriate to increase the population violently. When the base number goes up, the absolute growth value of 1.2% a year is 120000 children, much more than the original 5%.

Even if the current population is not enough for the development of all walks of life, there are no constraints that will exist all the time. Some simple service industries and handicrafts can be fully replaced by intelligent robots.

In addition, the emergence of the "fully automatic universal factory" has greatly improved the automatic production capacity and reduced the required industrial population. The science and technology at the peak of secondary civilization is indeed more powerful than that of earth civilization. After 30 years of arduous reverse engineering, almost all the places that can be cracked have been cracked. These technologies from alien civilization began to be used in all walks of life.

Therefore, under the condition of basically meeting the needs, in order to maintain long-term population health and take into account the current higher and higher average life expectancy, the future population growth rate will be controlled to about 0.5% - 1%.

More importantly... According to the calculation of the history of new civilization, the population below 50 million is a relatively healthy state after the whole administrative system runs.

At present, the dynamic planned economy is still adopted instead of the traditional market economy. The planned economy brings very strong civilized action, but it also requires the government to have a very strong overall planning ability. Otherwise, it is easy to develop unevenly like the Soviet Union.

One million people, 10 million people and 100 million people are calculated in a completely different way.

According to Zhang Yuan's estimation, 50 million people will be the limit of the current algorithm. If you rashly exceed this population scale, the whole civilization will be affected by "Parkinson's law".

Parkinson's law is a nickname for "bureaucracy", which is known as one of the three major discoveries of western culture in the 20th century. It can also be called "officialdom disease", "tissue paralysis disease" or "big enterprise disease".

Its main meaning is that because of human selfishness, mediocre managers tend to find more mediocre people as assistants, so as not to affect their status. By analogy, we have formed a system of overstaffed institutions, overstaffing, wrangling with each other and low efficiency.

At present, the data monitoring system of the new civilization is very powerful, which basically eliminates this phenomenon, but the population it can control is limited. If the population increases significantly, the loopholes of this system can always be found, and the organizational efficiency of the whole civilization will decline.

What's more, in some fields, people are in a state of population shortage for a long time, which is conducive to economic activity and citizens' long-term struggle.

The reason why we began to control the growth rate in a population of more than 10 million is that the population must be sufficiently forward-looking. If we wait for 30 to 50 million people to control it, it will easily lead to the aging of the population structure.

For the new civilization of robot public breeding, controlling the population growth rate is a very simple thing. It is enough to give birth to fewer babies from artificial wombs.

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