Chapter 287: Independent world
before the end of the world.
Traditional families have always been the main force in childbearing.
But in fact, due to various reasons, the number of induced abortions has always been several times the number of newborns.
Su Wu now needs a large population.
Then we must face up to this problem.
"For most people, having children is driven by both emotional needs and profit."
"Pure emotions can hardly support a huge new population."
"There has to be enough benefit given."
"Just like in ancient times, children are assets to any family. Every additional child brings an absolute positive benefit."
"But at the same time, it's not enough to just give benefits. Not everyone is cut out to be a parent."
Su Wu browsed through social survey reports from before the end of the world.
Lost in deep thought.
After a long time.
The final decision was to implement a plan that combines public support and family subsidies.
Priority should be given to encouraging normal marriage and childbirth.
And provide these families with special child growth subsidies on a regular basis.
Then abortion and all contraceptive measures were banned.
Children born due to accidents but whose parents are unwilling to raise them will be taken in by shelters.
Public upbringing is carried out uniformly.
"Essentially, the shelter is responsible for bearing most of the cost of raising the baby. Then, when the newborn grows up, the money will be returned to the shelter."
"The investment of these resources is not low, but it is not high either."
"It's nothing more than providing food, education, medical care, etc."
"It doesn't consume too many basic supplies."
Su Wu, who holds the highest authority over the entire farmyard shelter.
Have absolute control over the shelter's resources.
You can also feel it more clearly.
These investments may seem scary, but in fact, they will not even bring much negative impact on the construction of the entire shelter and the expansion of armed forces.
The general direction has been determined.
The remaining specific details are much easier to handle.
The first step is to introduce a moral evaluation system.
Large-scale psychological assessments and testing are being conducted on all eligible men and women in the shelter.
Only those who pass the test are qualified to become parents.
If it fails, there will be no clear prompt.
However, artificial intelligence will fine-tune their work and living environment, making it basically impossible for them to fall in love and get married.
Of course, the standard for passing the test is not set very high.
They are basically a level lower than ordinary families before the apocalypse. Generally, as long as there is no high probability of cruelly abusing children, they can pass the test.
And after passing the test.
Then it will enter the next round of data matching stage.
Create conditions for contact between men and women who are suitable for each other in terms of personality, living habits, etc.
And regularly change the people you contact until they are no longer single.
"Although there is suspicion of human intervention."
"But in reality, AI is just screening the right people for them among tens of millions of eligible people."
"And create the conditions for them to engage."
"The final choice is up to them."
"If a person has good character and can make his or her own choices, the family he or she forms will most likely be happier."
When Su Wu formulated this rule.
I also added a small backdoor for myself.
Before the second round of data matching, all young women will first be matched with Su Wu himself.
All women whose appearance and personality meet, or even just part of, Su Wu's preferences.
They will all be automatically sorted out by artificial intelligence and submitted to Su Wu for his personal reading.
If he is interested, he will recruit her to the core area to serve as a maid.
This nature is actually similar to the selection of concubines in ancient times.
It's just that the screening scope is larger and more accurate.
Su Wu was neither a saint nor a gentleman.
He's just an ordinary man who was a little lucky and got a doomsday survival system.
I also have my own desires.
Given the chance, he didn't mind collecting all the beautiful girls he liked.
Even if you can't take care of it at the moment, you can just keep it by your side and enjoy it as a scenery.
Of course, because of the presence of Sister Chenxin.
This led to Su Wu having very high standards.
It is very likely that even if one screens the tens of millions of people in the current shelters, one may not be able to find someone who would interest Su Wu.
But there is this screening mechanism.
In the long time to come, there will be new gains.
"And then, for the children who might be discarded in the future."
"Uniform public care is needed."
There is modern society before the end of the world as a reference.
Su Wu knew.
This number is bound to be extremely shocking after he issued strict orders banning abortion and the trade of contraceptive tools.
It is likely to be several times more than the fertility rate of a normal family.
Therefore, they are given the greatest attention.
"Public care is best broken down into a one-to-one model."
"Provide each baby with two robots that are all his own."
"To try to fit in with the parents' positioning and accompany him as he grows up."
In this regard, the difficulty of implementation is not too great.
Artificial intelligence is capable of simulating the speech and behavior of a qualified parent.
Then combine it with the appearance of a bionic man.
It is even more likely to raise outstanding children than natural families.
"The construction of schools that cater to newborns should also be taken seriously."
"The current primary school system can be restored to the nine-year compulsory education before the end of the world."
"Then there is the construction of a corresponding number of special schools, vocational schools, and advanced universities."
Special schools are places where students with problems are given more stringent and centralized management.
Prevent vicious incidents such as bullying from spreading in ordinary schools.
Vocational schools are the mainstream of the future.
With the IQ and talent of most people, there is actually no need to waste resources on higher education.
Providing more single and professional vocational education can save resources while giving them a more relaxed student life.
"Well, although it's essentially a vocational school."
"But this name seemed to have a bad reputation before the end of the world, and it's not easy for people to accept it."
"Why not just unify the names of junior high school and high school?"
"Vocational education and training can be implemented in the form of clubs and hobbies."
"Then go on to college."
"You just need to pass an in-depth psychological test and your overall performance to be assigned directly."
"There is no need to have a special exam."
For admissions to advanced universities.
In addition to IQ and talent, morality is also very important.
The more knowledge a morally unqualified person possesses, the more damage he will cause.
There is no possibility that you can change from a bad person to a good person by learning more.
As expected by Su Wu.
In the end, only less than one in a thousand people will have the opportunity to receive advanced education.
They will be the elite class in the future shelter.
There is a greater chance of getting a better living standard than ordinary people.
Immersed in the new construction of the shelter's social system.
Even lunch was delivered to the control center by Chenxin, and they just ate a few bites to get by.
It was around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Su Wu finally completed the preliminary plan.
But at this point, the entire system is still very rough.
There are many more problems.
However, Su Wu was powerless to do anything about it.
We can only wait until a relevant research group is established in the future, conduct follow-up analysis, and gradually make improvements.
Stand up.
I poured myself a glass of freshly squeezed grape juice and drank it in one gulp.
The sweet and sour taste of the juice refreshed Su Wu's slightly tired spirit.
Take a few steps and arrive at the metal platform.
Su Wu re-projected the structural diagram of the entire farmyard shelter.
He has just drawn up a series of measures to stimulate population growth.
But without a sufficiently good environment, even the best measures are unlikely to be effective.
"Currently, nearly half of the 8 underground floors have been built."
"We can move the material warehouses on the 7th underground floor and the super factory there."
"Freed up space."
"It is used to create two-bedroom suites for families and one-bedroom studio apartments."
"Also, you can go to the 8th floor underground,"
"Try to build an amusement park, and a park on a larger scale."
With the current scale of the farmyard engineering team.
After such a long time, only half of the 8 underground floors have been completed.
It's not that the engineering team's efficiency has slowed down.
This is because the specifications of the 8th underground floor are higher than those of the first 7 floors.
Considering that the ball lightning control chamber is 36 meters high, it occupies the core area below the 7th underground floor.
Su Wu was building the 8th underground floor.
For the convenience of statistics and management.
Why not just set its floor height to be level with the ball lightning control cabin?
This has directly led to the fact that the 8th underground floor, which has only been half built, has an actual space size that is even half larger than the complete 7th underground floor.
Such a vast space.
It can not only accommodate a previously designed super reservoir of 8 million cubic meters, a warehouse that can store hundreds of millions of tons of materials, and the super factory that originally occupied nearly a quarter of the 7-story underground area.
There is also huge room for creating a resort space.
"The floor height of 36 meters is equivalent to the height of an ordinary residential building with more than 10 floors."
"If it is used to build an amusement park, as long as the design is a little restrained, most of the other amusement facilities except the Ferris wheel can be squeezed in."
"The same is true for large parks."
"Many special landscapes require sufficient height to be built."
"It's just right to place it on the 8th underground floor."
Build playgrounds and large parks.
The purpose is nothing else.
It is to provide a place for men and women of marriageable age to date.
As for relaxation and leisure, they are only incidental.
After the date, of course, we can't just go back to our own dormitories.
A corresponding hotel complex needs to be built around the park and amusement park.
And there are hotels, amusement parks and parks.
Perhaps some shops can be added on the first floor of the hotel buildings.
Forming a commercial street.
Contribution points and game currency can be used there to purchase high-end food and luxury goods that are difficult to buy in other urban areas of the shelter.
There are also some non-essential decorations and toys.
Among these products, in addition to high-end food.
The other commodities are not included in the production chain designed by Su Wu.
Most of them come from pre-apocalyptic inventory moved from other affiliated shelters.
The quantity is limited and cannot be sold as a regular product.
However, the price is a bit high and it is only available in limited quantities here in the commercial street, but that's not a big problem.
"The total area of playgrounds and parks is expected to reach 3.3 million square meters."
"It's equivalent to three Disney parks combined."
"If the building structure is more compact, more indoor tourist facilities can be added."
"The tour time will be further restricted, with only 4-hour half-day tickets and 8-hour full-day tickets being issued."
"And if it's open 24 hours a day,"
"It can receive about 2.4 million to 5 million visitors every day."
"That's enough to meet the needs of the entire shelter."
Plan all the way down.
Su Wu suddenly discovered.
He has designed the 8th underground floor into a super complex that integrates commercial entertainment, billion-ton material storage, and industrial manufacturing.
And the scary thing is, even if so much stuff can be stuffed in.
They also only occupy less than half of the 8th underground floor, so there is still great potential for expansion in the future.
"From studying to working, from starting a family to leisure travel."
"The entire farmyard shelter now basically includes all the common functions of a complete human society."
"If you only look here."
"In fact, we are slowly beginning to escape the apocalypse."
From an ordinary person's perspective.
From birth, to going to school, to working as an adult, to falling in love, getting married and having children.
All that you need.
All of this can be done in the farmyard, a super shelter that can accommodate tens of millions of people.
Even if in the end you never take a single step forward in your life.
It won't have much impact on his life.
The so-called natural disaster outside the shelter, the so-called extremely cold world on the surface.
To him, it's probably all the same as the TV series on the Internet.
At most, it can be used as a topic of conversation after dinner, but there will be no real feelings.
"If I have to describe it,"
"It's not appropriate to use the Truman Show."
"A paradise on earth, or a miniature Earth."
"It's more relevant."
Staring at the holographic projection of the shelter.
Thinking about the new generation in the future, most of them may be confined here from birth to death.
Su Wu felt it for the first time.
The shelter with a diameter of 7 kilometers was once thought to be huge.
Suddenly it became a little narrow.
"Walk a little faster."
"You can walk from one side to the other in an hour."
"It is the entire scope of the life activities of countless people."
He shook his head and sighed helplessly.
Su Wu let go of this unreasonable melancholy.
He reached out and clicked to enlarge the holographic projection structure diagram of the 7th underground floor.
He does not have the ability to allow large numbers of ordinary people to leave the shelter in the future.
However, through planning, people living in shelters can have a better life.
To some extent, this can be regarded as compensation for the new population born in the shelter in the future.
Chapter 288: Air Transport Spreading to Dongzhou
February 22nd.
The blizzard once again covered the surface of Jianghe City.
The water vapor in the air condenses into ice crystals, turning into lingering white mist.
Together with the freely flying snowflakes, the whole world becomes dark and hazy.
Being in this world.
Whether it is human vision or the lens of a camera, it is difficult to see clearly what is more than 10 meters away.
Except for the whistling wind.
Deep in the fog and snowstorm.
There are also more than a dozen huge pipes with a diameter of more than ten meters, cast from fast cement.
It extends all the way from the edge of the farmyard shelter to an artificial mountain 2 kilometers away.
Inside the pipe.
A huge rotating motor and a conveyor belt with slots.
At a constant speed.
The rubble excavated from the ground is continuously transported to the other side of the mountain.
Let it grow little by little as time accumulates.
The basement level of the farmhouse.
Control center.
"It's time to adjust the position of the pipeline outlet again."
Su Wu reached out and fiddled with the transmission pipeline for transporting waste rock on the holographic projection.
From different angles.
Observing these dozen or so buildings that can definitely be called giant buildings.
The engineering team currently excavating the 8th underground level of the shelter produces tens of millions of cubic meters of rubble and waste every day.
Almost all of it is transported out through these pipelines.
As long as they pause for a moment.
The construction progress of the entire shelter will be affected.
And given their importance.
Even Su Wu had to come and inspect in person regularly.
To ensure there are no hidden dangers.
Well done on observation.
Another convoy carrying spider robots and construction materials was dispatched to the artificial mountain to carry out the task of fine-tuning the pipeline.
Su Wu withdrew his gaze.
He then began to look at the map of the entire Dongzhou.
The current Dongzhou.
The dividing line is Chongzhou City, a super city about 300 kilometers west of Jianghe City.
Continue westward, approaching the area of the Western Wilderness Plateau.
It is an area directly controlled by the Dongzhou government.
And to the east of Chongzhou.
Basically, they are like Su Wu's Jianghe City, which has been completely separated from the influence of Dongzhou's capital.
A local independent force that enjoys de facto autonomy.
But, even though it is autonomous.
But in these autonomous regions.
The official shelters in various places still have close ties with federal officials.
Normally they may not interfere with each other.
But if you encounter serious problems, such as what Su Wu once did.
Large-scale plundering of resources from official shelters.
This may lead to federal intervention.
Just look at these.
Because we cannot target the official shelters that have the most resources.
The ceiling of Su Wu's future development seems to have been locked.
But in reality, the opposite is true.
The territory of Dongzhou is really too large.
Only those small number of people in civilian shelters who were labeled as anti-human camps were eaten.
It is enough to support the current rapid development of Su Wu.
And in the vast wild areas outside the official refuge.
Limited to the harsh surface environment.
For the vast majority of local official shelters.
There are no mines that have the capacity to be developed.
For Su Wu, these were all readily available resource collection points.
and.
Led by the Ice-class land frigate, the caravan is capable of reaching any remote area in Dongzhou.
Just normal trade with shelters in various places.
The resources are exchanged for small industrial products that have become rampant in farmyard shelters and are almost as expensive as the raw materials.
It will not be inferior to mining income.
These are three ways to obtain resources.
It is enough to allow the scale of Su Wu's shelter to expand several times, or even dozens of times.
Once it develops to that point.
It is the world's first super shelter that can accommodate more than one billion people with a diameter of only seven kilometers, comparable to the population size of an entire continent.
Even the federal central capital.
Nothing can compare to it.
And that's besides the point.
It's not true that the official shelters cannot be moved at all.
For example, the steel city that Su Wu had previously occupied.
That super city still has a population of 23 million.
But not all of them are controlled by local families and gangs.
There are also forces that have inherited the name of Steel City's official shelter.
But that's the result.
Su Wu merely demonstrated his military power to the capital of Dongzhou.
Took ownership of it.
From this we can infer.
There is actually quite a lot of flexibility here.
As long as Su Wu didn't go too far, he would occasionally take over a few official shelters within the autonomous region.
It shouldn't lead to too serious consequences.
"As the apocalypse continues."
"The control of the East Continent capital and the Federation over the local areas is declining at a speed visible to the naked eye."
"Wait until the future and eat up all other edible resources."
"At that time, we can also consider forcing a war of unification."
"The entire autonomous region will be completely dyed the color of Jianghe City."
I have a vague understanding of the future development path.
All the confusion in Su Wu's heart was swept away.
Next.
He turned his attention to the Kuanjiang River Basin on the map.
It was the first place managed by Su Wu.
There is nothing there except the official shelter.
Most of the civilian shelters had been completely cleared out by Su Wu.
All the people inside were moved to the farmyard.
However, there are a large number of mature mines in that area that are producing resources continuously.
At this time, there were still nearly 30 caravans.
Traveling in that area for a long time.
Responsible for the finished resources produced by the mine and refined, as well as the gains from trading with the local official shelter.
Bring them all back to the farmyard.
These caravans can complete a round trip every 4 days on average.
In total, it can bring nearly 300,000 tons of supplies.
The scarce resources will be used to build land warships and sixth-generation fighter jets.
Most of the ordinary supplies are used to expand the underground shelter in the farmyard.
The remaining small portion is invested in the manufacture of snow transport vehicles and other conventional mechanical equipment including robots.
"Output from the mines in the Kuanjiang River Basin."
"It belongs to the basic source of income from the outside world."
"Plus, due to the large-scale migration over the past month, the roads in that area are better maintained."
"Transportation costs are much lower than in other places."
"It can be regarded as the back garden of Jianghe City."
And out of the emphasis on the back garden.
Even though there are almost no robbers there.
Su Wu was not at all negligent in protecting the place.
Not to mention the caravan itself, the 1,500-ton carrying capacity of the Iceborne-class land frigate is almost entirely used to carry combat drone clusters, spider robot formations, and weapons and ammunition.
The firepower that can be unleashed is strong enough to tear apart a division-level regular army without long-range heavy weapons.
Each of the affiliated shelters and communication signal tower fortresses along the way serves as a backup supply point.
A certain scale of armed forces are also stationed there, ready to provide support at any time.
Even, in the hangar on the ground floor of a farmyard.
There are also more than 10 sixth-generation fighter jets available 24 hours a day, fully loaded with ground-to-ground missiles for combat, ready to take off at any time.
We guarantee that we can arrive at the scene to provide support within 40 minutes at the latest.
"Then over in the northern steel city."
"There are also 30 caravans stationed there to transport supplies and people."
Different from the Kuanjiang River area.
On the 400-kilometer journey between Jianghe City and Gangcheng.
There are more than just steep mountains blocking the way.
Making it almost impossible for regular vehicles to pass through.
The complex forces of various shelters along the way and the robbers they bred also added a lot of risks to the journey.
Although it will not affect the transportation safety of the caravan.
But every once in a while, the caravan would indeed encounter some small-scale battles.
The strategy adopted by Su Wu in this regard.
It is to let multiple caravans act in unison.
Improve fault tolerance with a larger scale.
"The rare resources stored in Steel City have already been transported to the farmyard in advance."
"Nowadays, it mainly consists of ordinary supplies."
"However, Steel City is the only super city we control besides Jianghe City."
"It also undertakes the task of serving as a sub-base, gathering the output of several large and medium-sized mines in the surrounding area, and conducting primary refining and processing."
"As a result, some new rare resources will continue to be produced."
"The caravan there."
"It's mainly used to transfer people, and occasionally transport some common metal materials back."
"They are also the main providers of the nearly 200,000 new people that the farmyard shelters still receive every day."
At the beginning of design.
A caravan can normally carry 8,000 people.
But now the surface environment has become extremely harsh.
Apart from special means of transportation such as land warships and snow transport vehicles, there are basically not many vehicles that can safely travel long distances.
The original seats were removed and passengers were forced to stand and squeeze inside the snow transporter.
It is not impossible to accommodate 1.5 to 2 times the number of people.
At most, it will be a little more difficult during the ride.
Of course, you can also make temporary stops and repairs in some affiliated shelters along the way.
In fact, it won't really cause too much torture to the passengers.
"Finally, in addition to these 60 caravans that travel back and forth regularly."
"The remaining 100-odd caravans will disperse to other areas of Dongzhou that have not been visited before."
The missions these caravans undertake are somewhat complicated.
Some were responsible for capturing civilian shelters that were marked as anti-human camps and turning them into supply bases for Su Wu.
And based on it, the surrounding minerals are mined and smelted.
Some are responsible for trading with local shelters, exchanging supplies and technical services for the other party's excess resources, including population.
Others are responsible for traveling to more distant places.
A vertical take-off and landing airport for sixth-generation fighter jets will be built in a selected large mine or a small or medium-sized civilian shelter.
It is responsible for refueling the sixth-generation fighter jets and increasing their operating radius.
Because vertical take-off and landing airports are not cheap.
Su Wu only planned to build six fixed vertical take-off and landing airports outside.
Three of them are located 1,500 to 2,000 kilometers away in the south, north, and east respectively.
It is mainly used to expand the flight range of the sixth-generation fighter jets.
It allows it to truly reach the entire Dongzhou, and even every corner around Dongzhou, in the air.
The remaining three.
Among them, one is located in Steel City, and two are located near two super cities in the economically prosperous southern area.
These three airports are built purely for economic reasons.
Mainly used to transport supplies from the air.
As Su Wu's 320 sixth-generation fighter jets gradually rolled off the production line.
Su Wu's air transport capabilities.
It has completely grown to a level that cannot be ignored.
A sixth-generation fighter can transport 15 tons of supplies at a time, with a maximum flight speed of 4 times the speed of sound.
This means that in just one hour.
Su Wu can be within a radius of five to six hundred kilometers around Jianghe City.
This range includes Gangcheng, Kuanjiang River Basin and most of the surrounding areas of Yu'an City.
Any place where a vertical take-off and landing airport is built.
Transport 4,800 tons of supplies back to the farmyard.
These supplies alone are almost equivalent to the transport volume of half a caravan of carriages.
In addition, a caravan of vehicles wanted to transfer supplies to Jianghe City from a place five or six hundred kilometers away.
The round trip takes at least four or five days.
There are these times.
It is enough for the sixth-generation fighter jets to fly back and forth 90 times.
Convert it.
That is the transport capacity of 320 sixth-generation fighter jets.
It is roughly equivalent to about 40 caravans.
It has accounted for one-quarter to one-fifth of Su Wu's land transportation force.
"And, relative to the complexities on land."
"Air transportation is safer and more efficient."
"The longer the distance, the more cost-effective air transport is."
Because we fully understand the advantages of air transport.
Su Wu naturally tried his best to use them to make the most of this advantage.
Therefore, in addition to the 6 fixed vertical take-off and landing airports.
Su Wu also built a movable vertical take-off and landing airport twice as large.
Every mobile vertical take-off and landing airport.
They are converted from a total of 6 snow transport vehicles with a total mass of 600 tons.
They are additionally attached to the caravan carriages.
Can move with the caravan.
Arrive at a designated location.
For example, mines, shelters, and other places that require transportation.
It can be assembled on site into a temporary airport for a sixth-generation fighter jet to take off and land.
It was not until the sixth-generation fighter jets transported all the supplies from that place back to the farmyard by air.
Only then will they continue to follow the next caravan and head to the next destination.
If nothing unexpected happens.
This air transport network composed of sixth-generation fighter jets is capable of covering the entire East Continent.
For quite some time to come.
It will be responsible for the surplus rare resources that can be used for trading in the entire Dongzhou civilian shelter.
All were quickly transported back to the farmyard.
It became the main way for Su Wu to obtain high-end resources in the future.
And the entire air traffic network, except for the sixth-generation fighter jets.
There are also 55 biplane helicopters and tens of thousands of Qingkong-class transport drones.
This is also a transportation force that cannot be underestimated.
Together, they are equivalent to more than a hundred sixth-generation fighter jets.