I'm the Demon King in Marvel

Chapter 576 Human Breeding Farm

Although the Steve Rogers here has not systematically learned the experience of struggle like the real captain who was transformed by Lin Hao, he is also a veteran who has been on the battlefield and led a team. He has been constantly observing and learning in the past fifty years, and is no longer the same as before.

So he also knew that an underground organization must adhere to a strict confidentiality system. Some things, such as the organization's program and purpose, can be disclosed to all members, but some things, such as the organization's membership list and secret communication channels, obviously cannot be disclosed to all members.

Red came to complain under the influence of alcohol, but he actually had his own little thoughts.

He saw that Steve could enter and exit "Rockefeller Planet" freely, so he knew that he must have his own transportation channels. So he wanted the captain to do him a favor and take him back to Earth first.

This was not just his idea. Other workers who drank with him had the same idea. As long as Steve dared to speak up, others would certainly have an excuse to make demands.

Yes, Steve's team is that complex now.

How much awareness can a group of immigrants who are just dissatisfied with the consortium but do not have the courage to jump out and resist with force have if they have not experienced the test of blood and fire?
The capital consortium is controlled by selfish desires. Aren’t these immigrants who wish the consortium’s bosses dead just taking care of themselves first?

Steve also wants to find some energetic young people, but the young immigrants have not yet seen the true face of the capital consortium and are still blinded by the high salary trap. Who dares to take the risk to join him in the underground struggle?

As for those immigrants who were brave enough to resist with force, they had already "disappeared" in batches.

The arms giants sell weapons wantonly in America, but on their own unique planet they guard their weapons very strictly, and would like to equip even a stun baton with a tracker.

After all, America belongs to everyone. It cannot be privatized anyway, so making money is the most important thing. But our own planet is our own, so how can we allow the little people to master weapons?

Steve has no shortage of weapons, but he is still waiting for an opportunity.

Because over the past thirty years, although the immigrants have accumulated a lot of resentment towards the capital consortium, it has not yet reached the level of supporting their armed resistance. Most immigrants, like Red in front of them, just want to escape back to Earth and get away from the persecution of the consortium.

"Don't worry, this won't last long!"

After Steve calmed Red, he continued to use the artificial intelligence that Tony had updated for him to invade the Rockefeller family's network and collect the intelligence he wanted.

Over the past fifty years, scientists on Earth have naturally been promoting technological advancement, and in many aspects have already caught up with Tony Stark from more than fifty years ago. However, Tony is not standing still. He has a brain that was inspired by a Marvel editor. Although this world rejects supernatural powers, it does not reject technology.

What's more, this world itself is still in the Marvel Universe and has not yet transcended.

Of course Tony's genius brain is still working, and so is Lin Hao's brain.

Tony Stark still suppresses the scientists on Earth by himself. In addition, he himself possesses many alien technology reserves that far exceed the technological level of the Earth. Therefore, even after fifty years, he still maintains an absolute advantage in the fields of mechanical manufacturing, electronic engineering, etc. that he is good at. However, he is relatively weak in the field of biological sciences and has gradually been overtaken.

Of course, if this continues, he will be completely surpassed sooner or later.

Because of the uncertainty of genes and the huge population base, a new genius brain will be created sooner or later, like Einstein and Landau.

Steve was conducting his daily intelligence gathering, but unexpectedly, an unexpected wiretap allowed him to find the opportunity he had been waiting for.

At this moment, the top leaders of the Rockefeller family were holding an internal meeting.

“Human resources remain a big challenge.”

Through the surveillance, Steve saw a Rockefeller family member in a suit and tie presiding over the meeting.

"After all these years of fighting, the American population on the old planet has dropped to 100 million. They can live comfortably on Earth, and their desire to immigrate and open up new land is getting smaller and smaller."

"According to the statistics department's estimates, over the past thirty years, the top ten financial groups have only recruited an average of about 20 million people each, and the remaining 100 million Americans have been divided up between other families and the federal government."

"Since China entered the interstellar era, it has become difficult for us to absorb Chinese immigrants, and other countries on Earth have also had other options."

"Currently, the number of immigrants under the control of the Rockefeller family has just reached 27.55 million. This number, placed on the four habitable planets under our control, can only support one or two cities each."

"China has built at least ten cities on each of the fifteen habitable planets under its control, and their population has achieved healthy growth."

Half a century after the earthlings entered the interstellar age, everyone has realized that without a large population base, it is impossible to support a healthy interstellar civilization.

For example, the Rockefeller family, although they controlled four habitable planets and dozens of mineral planets, seemed very empty due to the lack of population.

There are only one or two cities on each habitable planet, and only one mine is set up on the mineral planet to mine the main mineral resources. Even the names of them have become "Coal Star", "Iron Star" and "Copper Star". They seem to be extremely arrogant, but in fact they are full of helplessness.

Rather than saying that such a planet is occupied by the Rockefeller family, it would be more accurate to say that a dog urinated on it and self-righteously marked it as its territory.

Right now, all the people on Earth are busy developing wasteland, but once the pace of exploring new habitable planets slows down and all the habitable planets in nearby star fields are discovered, competition and even war will inevitably break out.

Over the past few decades, their top ten financial groups have had many conflicts over the competition for mineral planets rich in gold mines, rare earths and other resources.

It is conceivable that once all the habitable planets in the nearby star fields are found by the people on Earth, war will follow.

After all, habitable planets are absolutely non-renewable resources.

With a growth cycle of billions of years, the people on Earth don’t think they can wait until the next batch.

With the current layout of only a few scattered cities on each planet, how can we deal with interstellar wars?

On the habitable planets controlled by China, many cities have been built and populated in accordance with the planetary defense strategy. Each city has a population of millions or even tens of millions, and the average population on each planet is over 100 million.

Each planet is managed very well and is preparing for the interstellar war that is likely to occur in the future.

Although the United States has an advantage in the number of habitable planets under its decentralized control, it is weak everywhere. If a war really breaks out in the future, China's spacecraft can land in desolate areas, and they cannot even deploy an orbital interception network.

However, the American financial groups, aware of this serious problem, can no longer stick together for warmth.

The top ten conglomerates all have their own territories. Who is willing to sacrifice for someone else's planet?

If a fight really breaks out, it would be good enough if you don't take the opportunity to add insult to injury!

"Why has China's population doubled in these fifty years?" a slightly younger Rockefeller asked in the conference room.

The elder Rockefeller did not expect him to ask such a stupid question, and for a moment he did not know how to answer it.

In the end, his father didn't want him to continue to embarrass himself, so he glared at him.

"We can't learn their methods." The man presiding over the meeting said indifferently.

The reason why the population of the great Eastern country has doubled in fifty years is, of course, because the existing system has relatively restricted the selfish desires of the noble families and brought better welfare benefits to ordinary people.

As income increases and life pressure decreases, ordinary citizens naturally want to have more children.

Just like the passionate years, the people who overthrew the mountains broke out with a strong desire to reproduce. In just over 20 years, the population doubled from 400 million to 800 million.

Of course, the American capitalist consortium cannot learn this because it requires them to relax their exploitation of the lower classes.

It seems that as long as they have a little long-term vision and more conscience, they will be rewarded handsomely.

However, the capital consortium driven by selfish desires can only be united when fighting for the meat. If they are asked to share some of the meat, there will be many problems!

What is the most common thing in a big family?
Although there is a lot of money, there are also a lot of people!

Ordinary people can’t afford to raise a child, so why should they worry about this?
Especially for a big family like the Rockefeller that has existed for two hundred years, how many side branches does it have?
Most of these tribesmen have moved from Earth to their home planet in the past thirty years, and they control the three cities, eighteen towns, and hundreds of mines and farms on the home planet.

If the big guys at the top get to eat the meat, then the little guys below have to have a sip of the soup, right?

Otherwise, how can I be worthy of my last name "Rockefeller"?
Therefore, the upper level set the tax rate at one tenth, and after layers of increase, the lower level dared to collect five tenths. Of course, the means would be relatively covert, and wealth would be recovered in various ways.

For example, if the family member in charge of the farm is short of money, he can find an excuse to raise the price of meat, and the immigrants will pay for it anyway.

Everyone is enjoying themselves while eating meat and drinking soup, and you want us to give up these grey incomes with just one sentence?
Why?
If you have the ability, the bigwigs above you can give up your extravagant lifestyle and set an example!

This... this is costing my life!

How can a master who has been accustomed to a life of luxury since childhood endure such hardship?

Therefore, this family-based model of interstellar development cannot benefit the people at all. A family that is capable of entering the interstellar era cannot be just a small family with a simple structure, and must take into account the feelings of its side branches.

But they are connected by blood and cannot even learn from the state machinery. Even if something goes wrong, they are just fined three glasses of wine.

Especially in the current situation where there are still a lot of resources to be developed, it is impossible for the big family to be ruthless and carry out rectification.

Otherwise, people’s morale will be low and it will be difficult to lead the team.

In the era of pioneering, if we don’t rely on blood and marriage, do we have to rely on outsiders?
On Earth, even larger family businesses have to face such problems, let alone on an alien planet where there is no other supervisory force?

The model of benefiting the people and thus promoting natural population growth simply does not work on a planet dominated by large families.

"The only option is to increase investment in the research and development of artificial intelligence and fully automated production lines."

Faced with the problem of human resource shortage, the Rockefeller family made the same choice as the United States in reality and tried to replace manpower with machines.

But in reality, what Americans lack is cheap labor, even the Rockefellers here are lacking it.

In fact, they are essentially pursuing cheap labor.

"This is certainly a good idea, but the demand for outstanding talents will be even greater!" The man presiding over the meeting sighed: "For this kind of talent, money has lost its appeal..."

Because in this era of fierce competition and development, both the East and the West, and all the forces that can enter outer space are competing frantically for talent.

If there is a psychological upper limit to the vicious bidding for ordinary immigrants, in the competition for talents, all parties have no upper limit at all. They dare to offer any conditions. It all depends on whether you have the talent.

After competing for half a century, the Rockefeller family still could not gain an overwhelming advantage, and the number of talents attracted over a period of time remained relatively fixed.

"In this regard, Stark Industries has a greater advantage than any of our families..." As he spoke, the Rockefeller cursed, "Damn Tony Stark!"

"Why don't we increase investment in basic education and train our own talents? As long as the base is large, there will always be a steady stream of talents..."

The young man just now once again put forward constructive suggestions, but was interrupted by his father as expected.

"Shut up!"

This unfortunate child, doesn't he know that the education industry is under his own management? Doesn't he know that your father just raised the tuition fees of the school on the main planet a few days ago?
If you don’t run the household, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are. There are so many people in our family who eat with us!

In the interstellar development, the population that can play a greater role must not be illiterate, but must have a certain amount of knowledge reserves.

When it comes to cultivating a large base of educated young people, the Eastern giant has achieved more than the American consortium!
The large Eastern country that continued its original system did not abandon compulsory education, but invested a lot of subsidies to educate the new population.

Capital consortiums cannot do this.

They can allow their family members to attend school for free due to blood ties, but they still charge high tuition fees to other immigrants, turning the school into a business.

Not only that, they also brought America's "fine traditions" to the planet they controlled.

For example, the school allows students to slack off and teachers do not care about classroom discipline at all.

For example, the teacher only reads from the textbook in class and does not teach any useful tips, but leaves these tips in the after-school tutoring classes he opens. If students want to learn them, they have to pay a high tuition fee.

It's such a good business and everyone is busy making money. Now you say you want to improve the education environment, increase subsidies for basic education, and cut off your own financial resources. Who is willing to agree?
America on Earth can directly absorb successful college students from all over the world, so it can avoid large investments in basic education.

In this highly competitive era, are there any students from Peking University or Tsinghua University who would be eager to study abroad on their planet?
"This is not allowed, that is not allowed..." The young man was scolded one after another, and his anger surged. He shouted directly: "Why not just lock up all the immigrants to give birth to children!"

"Asshole!" His dad next to him raised his hand to hit him.

A Rockefeller sitting opposite the father and son's eyes lit up: "Kerry's words gave me inspiration!"

"Tell me, what suggestions do you have?" The purpose of the meeting was to gather ideas from all sides, and the man presiding over the meeting was eager to hear more suggestions.

"It is true that they can be forced to have children, but it does not mean locking them up. Instead, it means making sure that they have no other hope in life except having children..."

After eavesdropping on this, Steve's eyes suddenly became sharp.

The Rockefeller continued, "The main factors that affect the fertility rate are: high living pressure, high cost of educating children, and high education levels of women, which leads to a lower desire to have children."

"These factors are actually intrinsically linked, but they are not absolute."

"Does it mean that people are unwilling to have children because of the high pressure of life and the high cost of educating their children? Then why do Indians still have children without any scruples?"

"Because Indian women have a low status and most of them are even illiterate!" The young man sitting across the conference table finally said something that wouldn't get him scolded by his father.

"That's right. So if we want to completely solve the population problem, we can actually learn from India and artificially create a 'human breeding farm' on every planet!"

"We can continue to increase the living pressure of migrants and transfer those who cannot make ends meet and go bankrupt to 'human breeding farms', regardless of whether they are men or women."

As he spoke, the man smiled and said, "Of course, beautiful women have more value and are a scarce resource. There is no need to send them to the failed men in the 'breeding farm'."

"It won't be long before the men and women in this 'farm', apart from doing menial jobs, have only the pleasure of making babies when they return home, just like the slums in India."

"As long as we ensure basic hygiene and medical conditions in the 'breeding farms', we can obtain a steady supply of newborns, just like raising livestock."

The Rockefeller who made the suggestion became more and more inspired as he spoke, and he constantly improved his ideas in the process.

"In addition, in order to give these lowly animals some hope, we can open some science and education programs so that the newborns in the 'farm' can test their IQs. Those with high IQs can emerge from them, and we can provide them with scholarships or student loans."

"Of course, beauty pageants like the one in Poland are also necessary! After all, even the ugliest parents can give birth to beautiful children. This is the magic of human genes!"

"Hehehe..." A man's laughter rang out in the conference room.

"As long as we persevere, the 'Human Breeding Farm' will not only provide us with a steady supply of cheap labor, but also geniuses and beauties born from genetic mutations."

"In the future, as long as the population base of the 'breeding farm' grows, geniuses will slowly become a new cheap labor force and form a group of middle class."

"There is no need to worry about the pressure of overpopulation on the environment. As long as the sanitation and medical conditions of the 'breeding farms' are slightly lowered, the excess population can be eliminated just like the 'swine fever'."

"Genius!" The man presiding over the meeting praised Rockefeller who made the suggestion: "What a genius suggestion!"

Instead of asking them to cut costs to reduce exploitation of immigrants or increase investment in basic education, this suggestion encourages them to cut more ruthlessly, which will also solve the problems of cheap labor and talent shortage in the future.

It really suits their taste!
After all, these people in the "human farms" are just like those in the slums, they have lost all hope in life.

Give it a try by having more children. If a genius or a beauty is born, it can change the fate of the family. The probability of this happening is actually higher than getting rich through hard work.

The Rockefeller family did not even promote the caste system, and gave equal opportunities to the "animals". They were so kind!
(End of this chapter)