Zhao Changxing knew that he had once again made the right choice. The development of facts has proved that the continuous and uninterrupted efforts for hundreds of thousands of years to genetically modify, spread knowledge, and improve the quality of the population have yielded fruitful results.
Mandatory sperm and egg donation, in addition to the risks in the ethical and moral fields, as well as the risk of conflict between public and private rights, will undoubtedly have certain disadvantages for individuals. But it is obvious that most people believe that it is completely worth it to suffer a little loss and contribute to civilization so that it can become stronger.
Making this judgment obviously requires sufficient wisdom, which most people possess.
Compared with the fact that his order was passed without any trouble, Zhao Changxing was even more pleased that "most people are quite intelligent". This gave him a sense of accomplishment that "all these years of hard work have finally been in vain."
After this, the human reproduction and breeding center, which had been operating at low power for decades, was finally able to operate at full power.
Among the 10 specially selected roller bases, a total of 2 million artificial wombs were finally put into use. With the assistance of artificial intelligence Xiaoxi, each drum base only needs 100 staff to take care of these embryos.
Of course, it’s just about taking care of the embryos and monitoring their growth. The remaining aspects still need to be done by other people.
For example, the delivery and transportation of newborns.
In each roller base, a special area is divided, specially designed for the birth of newborns.
At this moment, the birth area of the No. 1 Breeding Center welcomed the birth of the first batch of babies after the implementation of the mandatory sperm and egg donation policy. The number of newborns increased significantly.
In the past, on average, only about 150 newborns were born in the birth area of each breeding center every day. But today, this number will increase several times, reaching about 670.
In order to welcome the birth of these babies, the staffing here has also been increased four times. There are a total of 30 midwives on standby here at the moment.
"Artificial womb number 11056 has reached the standard, and midwife No. 3 is ready to start delivering babies!"
"yes!"
A midwife sitting at the "work station" wearing an isolation suit to prevent the germs she carried from infecting the baby immediately became energetic.
The automatic transmission device transported an artificial uterus that was about the size of a basketball, with a middle body made of transparent glass, and complex instruments and pipes connected to the upper and lower parts, to Delivery Station No. 3. The midwife immediately started busy according to standard operating procedures.
At this moment, in the artificial womb, the little crumpled baby was waving his arms irritably, kicking his calves, and crying silently.
After completing the preparations, the outlet of the artificial uterus was opened, and with the help of the equipment and the assistance of the midwife, the little baby struggled to squeeze out of the outlet.
"Wow! Wow!"
The baby cried loudly. The midwife methodically cut the umbilical cord, bandaged the wound, disinfected, and cleaned the whole body. She breathed a sigh of relief when she was wrapped in a soft quilt and placed on the waiting robot tray.
This delivery took about 20 minutes.
The next delivery mission has not come yet. At this moment, she finally had time to take a look at this little life that she personally brought into this world.
The little baby's hair was soft and stuck to his scalp, his whole body was red, and his skin was full of wrinkles. He was very ugly and had nothing to do with cuteness. But at this moment, the midwife's eyes were full of gentleness, as if she was looking at a rare treasure.
"Hello little guy, welcome to this world..."
The baby answered with a loud cry.
"Xiao Xi, give him a name."
"OK."
The robot aunt in front of her agreed and projected a screen. There are about 20 randomly generated names on it.
The last name is random, and the first name is also random.
"Just call it...just call it this."
The midwife looked at it for a while, hesitated for a moment, and finally settled on a name.
"Wang Huan...from now on, you will be called Wang Huan. Huanhuan, hello..."
After completing this last task, Wang Huan was taken away by the robot aunt controlled by Xiao Xi and placed in an incubator in the nearby area.
Here, the babies born with Wang Huan will also undergo a series of vaccinations, health management and other tasks. They will not be moved to the next area until they are about nine months old and can crawl.
On this day, a total of 660 newborns were born in this breeding center. A total of approximately 7,300 newborns were born in 10 breeding centers.
For a moment, even this galaxy seemed to be enveloped in the cries of babies.
At this moment, in the primary breeding center, tens of thousands of children who can crawl or waddle are laughing and crying under the care of robot aunts and caregivers, accompanied by many dolls and music. Playing.
In the playgrounds of the intermediate and advanced breeding centers, babies who can run and talk are playing happily. In kindergarten, children are reciting poems one after another in unison. In primary school, children are studying literature and mathematics seriously, starting the first stage of enlightenment.
In college, young people got their diplomas one after another. Depending on their future plans, they either continued to study in school, or they got free spaceship tickets to other space cities or planet bases, and started their professional lives.
In the coming period, the trend of substantial population growth of human civilization has taken shape and cannot be changed.
However, with the expectation of a substantial increase in population in the future, at this moment, there is no fundamental obstacle to overdrawing some future resources and wealth in advance and forcing the construction of two super particle colliders at the same time.
Thus, in the equally vast and vast Lakai 9352 galaxy, human civilization finally entered a truly prosperous development stage.
In the orbit of the planet, in the void of space far away from any stars, under the surging ocean, in the core of the asteroid, on the top of the planet's mountains, on the vast plains...
Factories were built one after another. Infinite chemical raw materials, metals, machinery, industrial products, etc., supported by the energy of nuclear fusion power plants one after another, are surging in like mountains and seas.
One after another, research equipment that can be regarded as important scientific research tools appeared in the galaxy. The number of basic scientific research equipment such as gravitational wave detectors, dark matter detectors, neutrino detectors, particle colliders, radio telescope arrays, optical telescope arrays, etc. continues to increase. Chemical laboratories, materials laboratories, metal laboratories, biological laboratories, etc. Application-level research institutions such as laboratories, genetic laboratories, blood research centers, neural research centers, supercomputing centers, etc. have also sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain.
At this moment, the scientific research field of human civilization, from basic science to applied science, has formed a complete closed loop. Although the scale of this closed loop is still relatively small - because the population is too small, the structure has been completed and the framework has been formed. All that needs to be done in the future is to continuously enrich and expand it as the population increases and the number of scientific researchers increases.
This is a process that comes naturally, and there is no need to worry about setting it up again.
In the year 1203 of the New Calendar, which is now 70 years after human civilization officially arrived in the Lakai 9352 galaxy, the population of human civilization officially exceeded the 10 million mark, and has maintained an average annual population increase of more than 2 million since then. speed.
This number has taken into account the increase in the population due to natural reproduction under normal circumstances, as well as the population that died due to various reasons.
As a result, just five years later, the population of human civilization exceeded 20 million. Of course, most of them are minors and can only stay in breeding bases and schools.
In the 18th year after the compulsory sperm and egg donation order was issued, when the first batch of children born into this world became adults and could join society in production and life, the total population of human civilization reached An unprecedented 33 million.
This has increased by almost five times compared to when it first arrived in the Lakai 9352 galaxy.
At this time, a new problem appeared in front of Zhao Changxing.
The existing 200 roller bases, which are enough to support 20 million people, will soon be insufficient.
In a way, this is a good thing and means that human civilization is getting stronger and stronger.
In this regard, Zhao Changxing does not intend to change the status quo or develop larger drum base construction technology. He still plans to continue building this kind of roller base that can carry about 100,000 people.
If the carrying capacity of a single unit is insufficient, just rely on the quantity to pile it up. Although this will cause a lot of trouble and inconvenience, considering the costs and benefits comprehensively, this model is the most cost-effective.
After all, these things will be discarded in the near future.
"But...how many should we make?"
Zhao Changxing fell into thinking.
The essence of this problem is actually how much the total population of human civilization should be maintained in the Lakai 9352 galaxy.
On the basis that the larger the population, the stronger the power, Zhao Changxing should undoubtedly go all out to increase the population. However, this problem is actually restricted by many factors.
The first factor is that Zhao Changxing cannot devote all the power and resources of the entire civilization to increasing the population.
After all, scientific research also requires manpower, infrastructure requires manpower, resource extraction requires manpower, and so on.
This results in that, at best, only a certain proportion of social resources and wealth can be invested in reproducing the population.
