Chapter 748 Population Dormancy
According to what their emperor said on TV, if the empire wants to return to normal, 12 trillion citizens of the empire must go into hibernation. The audience in front of the TV held their breath for a moment.
Originally, they thought that the empire only needed to freeze a part of the population, but they never expected that they would need to freeze three-fifths of the population!
People fell into silence, although Li Mingze had just told them that after entering the hibernation chamber, people would live in a virtual world.
But how many people are willing to abandon their real lives and enter the virtual world to spend the rest of their lives.
On TV, Li Mingze also listed the possible adverse consequences that might occur if the empire could not return to the normal development track, and the citizens of the empire hesitated.
Now there are only two choices before them: for the country, for civilization, or for themselves.
Although the empire has opened a registration hotline and registration website, and has also opened registration points in various cities.
People only need to go to the registration point or log in to the website to apply for hibernation, and the empire will give them three months to deal with all the things in reality.
In order to compensate these people, once the application is approved, the Empire will compensate them with 300,000 energy coins each, which is enough to buy a private spaceship or an ordinary manor on a colony star.
Those who receive this money can choose to give it to their families or squander it in these three months.
After finally experiencing the things in reality, these people will be taken to the Empire's hibernation center by transport ships.
Under the capital ring world, countless construction ships have built hibernation facilities in the underground space that can accommodate 20 trillion imperial citizens.
Imperial citizens who participate in hibernation may sleep here forever, or even never wake up.
Three days, three full days, no one came to register at the registration point and the registration website, and it was obvious that everyone was still hesitating.
At this time, many old people suddenly appeared on the street, and these old people walked towards the registration point with a firm look in their eyes.
The biotechnology that the Empire now has can make the life span of the Empire's citizens reach nearly a thousand years.
But it is now the 2900th year of the Imperial Calendar, and it has been a full 880 years since the Empire stepped out of its mother planet Sith!
Most of the citizens of the Empire who have followed the Empire all the way have reached old age.
These elderly people have the deepest feelings for the Empire, so after three days of persuading their families, these old people of the Empire stood up without hesitation.
They don't have many years left to live, and they no longer create any value in the Empire. Their only role is to receive subsidies from the Empire to live at home.
But now that the Empire is facing this situation, they are unwilling to continue this worthless life. It is better to offer their last remaining heat to the Empire.
Instead of living and wasting the resources of the Empire, it is better to take the initiative to enter hibernation and make room for the young people of the Empire.
These old people agreed through spiritual networks or forums to go to the registration point together on this day. They want to set an example for those who are still hesitating!
On this day, all entertainment venues in the Empire were closed, and all entertainment programs were stopped. The eyes of everyone in the Empire were focused on these old people who went to the registration point.
Some hesitant people made up their minds in an instant. They put on their clothes and left home.
After all, hibernation is just entering the virtual world, they are not dead, so many people still made up their minds.
At this time, some young people who stayed at home every day were also touched.
They began to recall their lives and found that they did not seem to have done anything meaningful except receiving the empire's subsidies and staying in the game every day. They did not create any value for the world.
Since they stayed at home every day just to play games, why didn't they enter the virtual world directly? Anyway, they were immersed in a false world.
They entered hibernation and made room for those who created value for the empire!
Overnight, the number of people who signed up for hibernation in the empire increased rapidly, and in just one day, it was close to 10 trillion people.
This is equivalent to half of the empire's population choosing to sacrifice themselves to pave the way for the development of the empire.
Li Mingze was not surprised by this part of the population. The empire's real working population was only 6 trillion people. The remaining 14 trillion people were either staying at home and indulging in the game world, or they reached retirement age and were idle at home.
As the conditions of the empire became better and better, the number of people idle at home increased. The empire now has at least 4 trillion water that has not been squeezed out.
However, at this time, those who have not made up their minds are basically unwilling to enter hibernation.
After waiting for ten days, the number of applicants stagnated. Now the Empire has 11 trillion citizens willing to live in the virtual world.
Although the dormant conditions have been met, Li Mingze still plans to release some vacancies, so that the Empire can increase the population of natural persons.
Where will the remaining 1 trillion people come from? Of course, it is the clones of the Empire.
After such a long period of development, the population of clones has reached more than 1 trillion.
Excluding the clone soldiers in the army and some clone workers in the high-power industry, there are exactly one trillion clones who can be laid off for social services.
Faced with these clones that can be produced at any time and have no emotions, the Empire is not so kind and directly gathers them on a planet for destruction.
The day of destruction is called "Clone Sorrow". One trillion clones were gathered on a planet, and the Empire's antimatter cannon turned the planet and all the clones on the planet into dust in the universe.
For the Empire, this is just like recycling a lot of waste. All relevant records have been completely erased, and there will be no record of this incident in history.
After all, no one knows when a clone protection association will jump out to expose the "good deed" done by the Empire.
However, no matter how much the Empire conceals it, this matter still falls into the eyes of those who are interested, and the clone who once obtained the mental linker is one of them.
Seeing the planet full of clones being destroyed by antimatter through the camera, tears suddenly flashed in the eyes of the clone who escaped from the control of the Empire.
"I will avenge you!" The clone turned off the holographic screen in front of him and disappeared into the shadows.