Chapter 747 Population Reduction Plan

Although Li Mingze did not want to raise the butcher knife against the citizens of the Empire under his command, he had no feelings for the people of the three experimental civilizations.

When the three empire hive motherships arrived at the three river systems, the outcome of the war was already determined.

After each hive mothership was upgraded with space folding technology, the one hundred trillion Wasp drones it carried could be said to be "covering the sky and the sun".

All hostile facilities disappeared completely wherever the swarm went. The three experimental civilizations that had just unified the river system were no match for the empire's swarm.

As soon as the two sides met, the swarm of bees directly devoured the fleets of the three civilizations.

After dozens of minutes, except for the flying swarms, the former fleets had disappeared, and all the materials on these warships became materials for the motherships to replenish the lost Wasp fighters.

In less than a month, the fleets of the three experimental civilizations were all destroyed, and all the buildings in the orbits of these civilizations had been devoured by the swarm.

Now the people of these three experimental civilizations can only shrink on the surface of the planet and dare not show their heads.

Any spacecraft that dares to break through the atmosphere will eventually be swallowed by the swarm.

After taking control of all the planets of the three experimental civilizations, the empire immediately began to experiment on these experimental civilizations.

According to the calculation, if you want to restore technology to normal, you can only reduce the population.

And there is more than one way to reduce the population. Killing all the excess population is one way.

And sending the excess population into a dormant chamber is another way. Of course, whether this method will work depends on the experimental results.

The third method is a method between the two, that is, after killing all the people, extracting their souls and storing them in a specific container.

The empire began to use these three methods on the three experimental civilizations one by one.

Ten years have passed.

The first experimental civilization, that is, the civilization that used the most primitive and brutal method of slaughter to reduce its population, successfully restored its technology research and development to normal after the population was reduced.

As for the second experimental civilization, Li Mingze did not think that the method of sealing the excess population in dormancy would be successful.

But unexpectedly, this method actually worked. After more than half of the population was frozen in hibernation, the technological research and development of this civilization also returned to normal!

Not to mention the third experiment, which also returned to the normal speed of technological research and development.

At this time, the conclusion of the experiment came out, that is, as long as the daily population is kept below 10 trillion, then the speed of technological research and development of this civilization will not be slowed down.

And the excess population can be completely sealed in the hibernation chamber, so that the empire can be restored to operation without killing them.

But Li Mingze knew that this was no different from killing these people.

After all, he didn't know when these people would wake up again.

As long as the population of the empire is limited to 10 trillion, then these excess populations may never have the opportunity to wake up in this life after hibernation.

In this case, they are tantamount to being "killed".

Therefore, Li Mingze fell into a new dilemma, that is, how to select the people to be frozen, and how to do ideological work for these people so that they voluntarily freeze.

Compulsory freezing is indeed feasible, but Li Mingze can't get over the hurdle in his heart.

Moreover, this is likely to cause dissatisfaction within the empire and seriously affect his prestige!

"Your Majesty, there may be some turning point." Tianyi suddenly comforted.

"Oh? What turning point?" Li Mingze asked in confusion.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten the existence of the virtual world? These people can enter the virtual world to live out the rest of their lives after being frozen!"

"In this way, these people are just changing places, but they can experience the life they never had before, and they can even achieve immortality in a certain sense!" Tianyi explained, looking into Li Mingze's eyes.

That's right, once the body enters hibernation and the consciousness enters the virtual world, it means that these people's bodies will stop metabolizing, and their bodies can exist for thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years.

As long as their bodies are not dead, their consciousness can gallop in the virtual world forever, and they don't have to fear death or hunger!

These people can do many things in the virtual world that they couldn't do before, and they can choose what kind of world and what kind of era they live in.

These people can choose to be born in a magical world or in the Earth of the 1980s.

In the "fantasy" world, any place that people can think of can be created.

Such conditions can still attract many people to enter the hibernation chamber and freeze completely.

After all, there are only less than 8 trillion people working in the empire now.

After scientists and technicians, the rest are the elderly, children, and citizens who play games at home.

These citizens can't create any value for the empire anyway, so it's better to let them enter a complete hibernation, and they can have everything they want in the virtual world!

"No, I think I still need to tell my citizens the real situation. They have the right to know the truth and they also have the right to choose their own lives!" Li Mingze shook his head gently and rejected Tianyi's plan to trick people into entering the virtual world.

If he had just come to the empire, he would still regard these citizens of the empire as NPCs in the game, now he sees these citizens of the empire as living people!

"Your Majesty, as you wish!" Tianyi nodded and disappeared.

The next day, Li Mingze delivered an important speech to the entire empire through television.

"Dear citizens of the empire!"

"The empire is now trapped in the restrictions of this universe's rules."

"With the rapid increase in the empire's population, the speed of our empire's scientific and technological research and development has gradually slowed down and finally touched the ceiling of known science!"

"If we don't reduce the population, then our empire's technology will stagnate until a more powerful civilization appears to destroy us"

"We." Li Mingze's serious expression appeared on the screens of all the empire's devices through holographic images.

The citizens of the empire also learned about the current situation of the empire through this national speech.

"In order to allow the empire to continue to develop, we decided to put a part of the population into hibernation to get the empire back on the right track!" Li Mingze slowly stated his plan.