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Chapter 252 Population Will Explode

Zhang Jingyi smiled mysteriously: "The wisdom of the high elves is not low. I believe you are very reasonable. Let's talk about reason without exaggeration or slander. What do you think is the most important factor restricting population growth?"

If you ask this question to a dwarf, you might get a big question mark.

But the elves were quite intelligent, and all of them had a high level of education. Even the archers understood economics. One archer said, "Of course it's food!"

"Correct!" Zhang Jingyi said, "The biggest factor restricting population is food. Because of insufficient food, humans dare not have more children. But as long as there is enough food, humans will give birth to children no slower than rabbits."

Zhang Jingyi: "For more than a thousand years, the population has remained below 4 million because human food production technology has not made rapid progress. However... in recent years, human food technology is about to have a huge breakthrough."

The elves listened attentively, their ears pricked up: "Is food technology going to break through? How will it break through?"

Zhang Jingyi smiled but said nothing.

He didn't even have to explain because he knew someone would explain it to him right away.

A guard immediately stepped forward and said, "Elves, you may not know this yet, but we have made a leap forward in fertilizer technology. Through our understanding of fertilizer, we have been able to double our food production."

Elves: “?”

Another cow next to him raised its hand: "Recently, we have been researching improved varieties. By crossbreeding different wheat varieties, we can retain their excellent genetic genes and remove inferior genetic genes to ensure increased production... Although we have not succeeded yet, our chief is very confident that with improved varieties and fertilizers, it will be easy to increase production by five or six times."

Elves: "???"

Another guard said, "By the way, we also have many excellent machines that can help us open up wasteland, plow, irrigate, and fertilize, which greatly increases the area of ​​land that one person can cultivate, and the yield will naturally increase."

The eight dragon eagle archers all had confused expressions on their faces. They were obviously highly intelligent creatures, but now they couldn't understand what these people were saying. Oops, being outsmarted by other races was not a good thing for the proud elves.

Zhang Jingyi said, "I will make a bold prediction. In another three to five hundred years, the human population will exceed 20 billion, and then increase at a faster rate, breaking through 50 billion in just one or two hundred years. By then, every island in the world will be visited by humans, every forest will have humans running around like monkeys, and even every cave will have bored humans tying a rope around their waists to explore. In the -meter-deep trench under the sea, there will also be detectors released by humans to stroll around. There will be no more Peach Blossom Spring in the world, and you will lose your place to survive."

At this point, Zhang Jingyi changed the subject and spread his hands, saying, "For humans, three to five hundred years is a long time, it takes several generations, but for the elves, three to five hundred years is just a period of your life. The eight elf ladies present here, you will definitely be able to see the scene three to five hundred years later. You don't want to be alone in your old age, without even a place to live, right?"

The youngest of the eight dragon eagle archers is over 160 years old, and the oldest is only over 190 years old. They are still young among the elves, and it will be no problem for them to live another to years.

They were shocked to hear that in three to five hundred years, humans would fill the world.

The eight people whispered to each other for a while, and after a while, a dragon eagle archer said, "Please wait here, I will go and inform them."

She rode on the dragon eagle and flew into the woods in the bay. After a while, she flew out again, this time with a huge dragon eagle following behind her, which was even bigger than the one she rode. When they flew closer, everyone saw that the elf grandmother who got off the huge dragon eagle looked like a human in her 70s or 80s. Such an appearance on an elf meant that she was at least 700 to 800 years old.

The seven or eight hundred year old elf grandmother looked around at the humans present and her eyes fell on Zhang Jingyi: "Are you the prophet Mr. Zhang?"

Zhang Jingyi smiled and said, "I only know a little bit, not everything."

The old elf lady said, "Your prediction of the population is intended to scare us, right? In order to achieve your goal of coercing us."

Zhang Jingyi thought to himself: Oh, the old ginger is really witty, he saw through my true face at a glance. Don't panic, I can still make excuses.

He spread his hands and said, "The word 'coercion' is not quite the right word."

Grandma: “Oh?”

Zhang Jingyi: "If I use unfounded things to scare you, or use evil means to deceive you, that is coercion. If I use the facts that are about to happen to discuss with you, it can't be called coercion, it can only be called: discussion."

Grandma: "Your judgment on the population sounds like a mirage. Who can tell what will happen in the next few hundred years? Even if food can really increase as you said, the human population will decrease after a few wars. I find it hard to believe that the human population will reach billions in a few hundred years."

Zhang Jingyi: "You see, this is the error of empiricism. Just because there were only 4 million people in the previous thousand years, you think there will only be 4 million people in the next thousand years... This is not the judgment that a wise person should have. I strongly suggest that you send a small team to visit our town and learn about the productivity that humans now have. After all, you have been hiding here for hundreds of years, and the outside world is already very unfamiliar to you."

These words made the old lady's heart beat fast.

The wiser a person is, the less likely he is to get stuck in a rut or cling to his own ideas. Because true wisdom is full of curiosity, learning anytime and anywhere, correcting one's own shortcomings anytime and anywhere, and moving towards a more perfect direction.

The old lady thought about it for a few seconds and sighed softly: "In that case, we are here to disturb you."

Zhang Jingyi: "You are most welcome."

Elizabeth and Antonio could not help but be delighted: He is really amazing! We have come here several times but have not been able to establish a basic friendship with the elves. Unexpectedly, after a few words from him, the elves agreed to learn about the current situation of human society.

The old lady quickly made arrangements and went personally with eight dragon eagle archer girls to Gilneas town.

In order to let the elves know the location of Gilneas Town, we didn't open the portal this time. We went upstream along the river...

(End of this chapter)