Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 231 Population Issues and the Development of the Two Neighboring Production Teams
While strolling around the village, he also found that there were quite a few pregnant women, about 7 or 8 in total, and there were also quite a few children around one year old, about 1 or so. This number was considered very large in their team of only more than 10 households.

"Jiankun, you're out playing. I saw you guys coming back from the parking lot this morning. I hadn't seen you out for a while." Wang Yongjin, who was the first to join the shipping team, saw Wang Jiankun and quickly ran over to say hello.

"Yongjin, are you going home for vacation?" Wang Jiankun saw Wang Yongjin coming, stopped his bicycle and started chatting with him.

"Yes! I have 6 days off every month now. My wife is pregnant and about to give birth, so I take all my days off together so that I can go home and visit her." Wang Yongjin said.

"She's pregnant. She's about to give birth, right?"

"No, it's still early. The baby will be born at the end of the year. This is my second one. The first one is already a few months old." Wang Yongjin said happily.

"Ah? This is the second one. You are really amazing. You have two in three years!" Wang Jiankun said with a little surprise.

"We have to hurry up. I heard from your grandfather and father that the birth policy is getting stricter and stricter. If you don't hurry up and have children in the next few years, it will be difficult to have more children in the future. If they are discovered, the child will be arrested and aborted. Even if you give birth secretly, you will have to pay a large sum of money. So now those who have been married recently in our team are trying their best to have children, for fear that what happens in the future will really be like what the captain said." Wang Yongjin explained.

"That's right. The city is really strict now. Ordinary citizens can't have more children. If they are caught, they will have the babies aborted. If they give birth, they will be given a few thousand yuan. According to the usual speed of policy implementation, it should be implemented in rural areas next year or the year after next."

"Ah? It's coming next year or the year after? Then I have to ask my brother to get married next month, and then have the baby quickly. Don't wait until the end of the year. I'll try to have two more babies before then."

After hearing what Wang Jiankun said, Wang Yongjin did not doubt the source of Wang Jiankun's information, because he had seen a lot in the shipping team and had a general idea of ​​Wang Jiankun's abilities, so he immediately thought of asking his brother to get married earlier and not wait until the end of the year.

"Haha~, you guys shouldn't be short of the fine money. You can hide when you get pregnant, and then pay the fine after giving birth, right?"

"A few thousand dollars is a lot, and hiding is too troublesome. If things go wrong, someone might die because of the delayed delivery. My brother has already found a girlfriend, but the date was chosen late. It would be better to move it forward now to save trouble later."

"That's true. Then you can ask your family to hold on tight. I'll go shopping again. I haven't been back for a long time. I don't recognize anyone anymore."

"Okay, then take your time, and come to my house for dinner tonight?"

"No, I'll eat at home. I won't bother you anymore. Bye!"

Wang Jiankun said goodbye to Wang Yongjin and started riding towards the hydropower station upstream.

Combining what his grandfather said before with what Wang Yongjin said, Wang Jiankun roughly understood why there were more children and pregnant women in the team. It turned out that they all planned to have more children before the birth policy became stricter.

This is very reasonable in rural areas, because the old saying "there is strength in numbers" is deeply rooted in rural areas. If there are many brothers and sisters in a family, they will rarely be bullied by outsiders and can get more when things are divided.

Wang Jiankun actually agreed with this statement. He was previously influenced by the surrounding environment, but after obtaining Sophon and understanding some situations of space wars, he increasingly felt that if humans wanted to achieve a leap in the level of civilization, then sufficient human resources would be one of the necessary conditions.

Even if artificial intelligence and automated robots can complete most of the work in the future, and most humans can enjoy an abundant material life even if they do nothing, if there are no large numbers of humans who put forward continuous demands and generate endless creativity, then human civilization will eventually be replaced by mechanical and electronic civilization.

As long as humans always constitute the majority, the development and evolution of civilization will still revolve around humans.

Just like the United States, if the white race did not make up the majority and maintain a relatively high fertility rate, it might have been replaced by the black race.

This can also be supported by the development and evolution of several colonial countries in South America. For example, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile were all colonies of Spain and Portugal before, and the local indigenous people were almost wiped out at that time.

Later, as whites merged with local races and mixed-races gradually became the majority, pure white races were marginalized locally, and the development of civilization gradually evolved with mixed-races as the center.

Wang Jiankun previously took the risk of conducting human creation research in preparation for future interstellar development. In the future, he hopes that there will be only one main civilization on the mother planet Earth, that is, Chinese civilization, and that the yellow race will occupy the vast majority. In this way, when conducting interstellar development, the power of the mother planet will be able to be united.

Therefore, he is opposed to the strict birth control policy currently being implemented in the country. Unfortunately, he does not have enough influence in the country now, and it is difficult for him to expose his superpowers, so he can only make efforts in northern Myanmar and Southeast Asia.

Therefore, his grandfather and father revealed the future policy to the team members and encouraged them to have more children, which he was happy to see happen. Wang Jiankun's mind was working quickly, thinking about the future population development while riding his bike, and soon he arrived at the power station.

At this time, the plum rain season had just passed, and the amount of water in the river was very large. The repaired and raised dam had accumulated a lot of water, so the power generation capacity of the hydro-generator could reach full load at this time.

Wang Jiankun parked his bicycle, chatted with the person guarding the power station, and then used his superpowers to repair the power generation equipment that had some minor wear and tear, keeping it in best operating condition.

After doing all this silently, he got on his bicycle and continued riding upstream, first arriving at the Shibao Production Team.

This production team is the closest to Wangjia Production Team, only less than 2 kilometers away. Because this production team has nearly 150 households and is the largest of the three nearby production teams, the primary school was built downstream of this production team, located closest to the other two production teams.

Wang Jiankun attended primary school here for three years, so he is quite familiar with this production team.

It was summer vacation, so the elementary school was closed and there were no students attending classes. Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to look inside and found that the desks were brand new wooden tables, not the shabby ones he had seen when he was in school.

The small playground in the school is also paved with cement, and is no longer the compacted yellow mud it used to be.

In addition, there are two ping-pong tables and a basketball hoop on the small playground. Unfortunately, due to insufficient space, the basketball court under the basketball hoop is only half its size.

However, a venue of that size is more than enough for primary school students in grades 1 to 3. The standard basketball court is for older children.

After visiting the school, Wang Jiankun rode slowly along the team’s main road and observed the living conditions of the production team.

This should be the slack season for farmers. The rice has not yet tillered, and weeding will take another ten days, so there should be a lot of young people in the team.

However, after looking at most of the production team, he found that there were very few young people. After thinking for a while, he realized that they should have gone to the factory of Wangjia Production Team or went out for transportation. Most of those left in the team were the elderly, pregnant women and children.

He made a rough count and found that there were relatively many pregnant women and children in this team, exceeding the number that would naturally occur. Presumably, the message that the birth policy should be tightened had been accepted by the people in this team, so they all learned from the people in Wangjia Production Team and gave birth early and had more children.

Of course, because this team mainly relies on young people to work in factories and run transportation, its economic conditions are much worse than those of the Wangjia Production Team. Only about one-third of the houses are new, and the other houses have only undergone simple repairs.

Living conditions were also much worse. There were few refrigerators and washing machines, but televisions were basically universal. Of course, most of them were black and white, and color TVs were relatively rare.

Wang Jiankun looked at the houses on both sides along the main road and got a rough idea in his mind.

He started to go around to the main road and rode downstream to visit the Zhankeng Production Team.

The results of observation were much better than those of the Shibao Production Team, because this production team built its own brick and tile factory, and the bricks and tiles produced were not only used by its own team, but also sold to other production teams.

In addition, several companies also joined together to set up a wood processing plant, using the pot-camel power that Wang Jiankun had previously manufactured to process the pine wood cut down from the mountains in their team into boards and wooden boxes. These boards and wooden boxes were supplied to several factories in the Wang family production team.

Because of the existence of these two small factories, the Zhankeng production team has developed relatively well. Almost every household in the team has built new houses, most of which are equipped with color TVs, and several households have installed air conditioners and refrigerators.

It seems that there are still people with good vision in this production team. They know that if they want to become rich, they still have to develop industry so that they can obtain more surplus value.

After the tour, Wang Jiankun returned home and planned to speed up the two production teams because the commune-brigade reform was about to be carried out and the two production teams would be incorporated into the economic development zone.

For the sake of his father and hometown, Wang Jiankun had to make some plans for them and keep up with the development pace of the Wangjia Production Team as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)