Star Tycoon

Chapter 220 2017
"Yueyue, drink some water."

When Bai Wanru saw her daughter come down from the court, she immediately brought her the prepared water.

Covered in sweat, Zhu Nuanyue took the water glass and took a small sip.

It's already May, and the weather has warmed up a bit.

Zhu Nuanyue was wearing athletic shorts and a short-sleeved shirt, with a pink sports cap on her head and her hair tied in a vibrant ponytail. Her face and neck were covered in healthy sweat.

Bai Wanru and her daughter sat down together. There were four badminton matches in the gymnasium.

These are all Chengbang employees. Because the boss likes to play badminton, Chengbang has always regarded playing badminton as more important than work since its establishment.

Chengbang provides its own venues, including dedicated indoor gymnasiums with multiple facilities.

The Tian Er San Girls' Home has a badminton hall on the second floor, and the Tian Er San Pregnant Women's Home still retains the badminton hall today, showing no fear of anyone getting hurt.

Cheng Bang Trading Building also has badminton courts, and the nearby gymnasium used for stage plays and concerts can also be used.

With no shortage of courts, and balls, rackets, and shoes provided free of charge, Tian Ersan could open his own sporting goods factory specializing in producing rackets, shoes, and badminton equipment.

From ice cream to sporting goods to food and beverages, Tian Ersan has done a lot of things that don't make money.

Bai Wanru looked at her daughter, who was also watching the game during her break, and smiled indulgently.

Although she really wanted to help her wipe her sweat, Zhu Nuanyue repeatedly refused, emphasizing that they couldn't be so intimate at the company.

People will laugh at me if they see this.

Zhu Nuanyue didn't want to sit there with her mother, so she quickly stood up and left.

"What's wrong? Do you need to go to the restroom?" Bai Wanru asked quickly.

"Just taking a walk, you go ahead and get busy." Zhu Nuanyue walked away in a few steps.

Bai Wanru knew perfectly well that her daughter was embarrassed, so she also got up and left.

"I feel relieved to come and take a look," Bai Wanru said as she walked into the elevator and headed towards the floor where her office was located.

Back in her office, Bai Wanru posted a picture of her daughter playing ball on her WeChat Moments.

[Chengbang is amazing. Yueyue has always been in poor health, but after two months of treatment at Chengbang, she's healthy again, and we no longer have to worry about her suddenly fainting.]

Not long after, her phone chimed, and Bai Wanru saw that someone had replied to her WeChat Moments.

Bai Wanru subconsciously assumed that Tian Ersan had replied, and excitedly checked the message, only to find that it was her own sister who had liked and replied.

My good mood vanished instantly, and I was very disappointed.

Bai Mengru: My Xiangxiang's grades have improved too. Before, she scored 60 or 70 in math in elementary school, and could only pass Chinese in the first year of junior high. After coming to the junior high school arranged by Chengbang, she can pass all five subjects in two months!

***
Since the Tian Er San Shao Fu Zhi Jia (a women's home) opened on the day of the Lunar New Year, the number of pregnant women in Cheng Bang Building has increased.

To outsiders, it seems that the young women in Xingbang Street eat and drink for free, and even receive money from Chengbang Group after having children, so of course they are eager to have children.

After keeping a low profile for half a year, the data of Xingbang Street was exposed.

The results, released on June 1st, were distributed by the statistics bureau staff the following day.

A post about "Chengbang Speed" appeared on an online forum.

Wang Xiaoyu: The data for the first half of 2017 is out. The Xingbang Subdistrict Committee sent it to the county, and the county then sent it to the city. My classmate, who works in the city, saw the data. As of May 31, Xingbang Subdistrict had over 40,000 couples registered for pregnancies last year, and 10,000 registered for pregnancies in the first half of this year! It's terrifying!

Winter Mushroom: The birth rate was close to 10% in the first half of the year alone. If we add it up in the second half, it will definitely be close to one-sixth. One-sixth of the 1.4 billion people in the country, can the number of births this year exceed 200 million?
A flourishing era: The estimate of 50 million newborns is still too conservative.

Jin Dan: If you don't buy a house now, you'll definitely regret it later!

**
The post was quickly reprinted by major media outlets, and a group of experts and professors soon predicted that this year's birth rate would be extremely high!
Major milk powder companies are expanding production, and real estate agents across the country are touting that housing prices will continue to rise!
These things have nothing to do with Tian Ersan; Tian Ersan doesn't care about outside affairs.

The Xingbang Street Neighborhood Committee is made up of its own people.

From a twenty-year-old girl to a fifty-something-year-old mother-in-law, Tian Ersan's hard work has resulted in the birth of 30,000 people!

The number of pregnancies does not represent the true population growth rate of Xingbang District.

Rest and recuperation can restore one-thousandth of the population and replenish the workforce in areas with nine out of ten empty houses, but it cannot exceed the housing occupancy limit.

This is an active skill!
Actively release people to create population in the original house.

For example, if someone is missing in the house, that person will come out; as long as she is of childbearing age, she can get pregnant regardless of whether she has a husband or not.

There are no men in the empty house, but by resting and recuperating, one can create a man to be a husband, a father-in-law, or a mother-in-law, and also create a child.

It's about replenishing and restoring; if a character is missing from the room, their original character setting will be restored.

There should be few men in the Yang family's house, but the setting is that the men are already dead, so it makes sense that they had a posthumous child.

Anyway, apart from She Jinhua and a few children, it didn't matter which other widow Tian Ersan was. He didn't care about reputation, so what if they were illegitimate children?

A thriving population is a technological achievement; at level six, the population can increase by 0.06% per day, but cannot exceed the total population cap.

This is passive technology, which is an increase. The population includes naturally conceived population as well as suddenly appearing immigrants. It can break through housing restrictions to have more children, but the total population cap will not change.

If this family has more, that family will have fewer.

The seventh-level governing hall provides 7,000 residential plots both inside and outside the city.

The houses provide initial 5+ level 6 technology labor force positions. Each house can have 11 labor force vacancies, and more than half of the labor force is recruited. Young women are generally able to join the army.

The farmhouse consists of 1+6 members, all seven of whom are able-bodied, capable of working and paying taxes. About one-third of them are soldiers.

At this point, the population cap is 77000 + 49000 people.

In reality, due to the influence of various functional buildings and layouts, many places did not build houses everywhere, and the total population limit was only 120,000.

The upper limit is not the actual population; in reality, even with the reserve population included, it is still less than 120,000.

In a farmhouse with seven people, two elderly people who are unable to work often come out to rest and recuperate, have children, and then the population gradually increases.

The house, which houses 11 people, is often frequented by single, introverted men or wealthy single women, and it will also take time to restore this peculiar structure.

With 120,000 people, and an increase of 16 per ten thousand per day, theoretically, 36,000 people could be produced in more than half a year.

But this is only in theory. Mu Xiuying and the child in her womb are two people, but some women preparing for marriage also occupy two reinstatement slots after becoming pregnant.

One is the transformation of the reserve population into labor force, and the other is the population in the womb.

The population provided by the system only includes the working population. The reserve population can only work outside; in the space, they are just background figures, no different from weeds or pigs in a pigsty.

The increase of more than 30,000 laborers, plus 10,000 pregnant women and 10,000 newborns in their wombs, equals more than 20,000.

The final addition of more than 10,000 people appeared as missing kinship networks, including but not limited to relatives from other provinces.

Xingbang Subdistrict has limited space and there is no longer any room for people from other places to live.

Tian Ersan didn't want these people to come out either; they should all work in the Star Country, which is the right use of labor.

The strong desire to have children displayed by Xingbang Street, the successful launch of a lunar probe to collect lunar soil in the past six months, and the continuous transport of resources to the moon by Smith Corporation to build a base have led many people in China to believe that the population of Earth will soon explode and that immigrating to the moon is an urgent matter.

The interstellar age is coming!

Housing prices are skyrocketing!

***
At 11 p.m. on the 5th, Tian Ersan entered the space.

Last year, I gave him a Pangu ring for my birthday, and it caused the development speed to rise even faster than the housing prices!
Happy birthday! May you have many more birthdays to come!

Today is your birthday, make a wish!

Please choose one of the following types as your reward. A lucky draw will be held shortly, randomly selecting one reward from number one to five!

[Food, Soil, Wood, Stone, Metal, Troops, Copper Coins, Equipment, Skill Books, Heroes, Speed-Up Items, Treasures, Medicine, Blueprints]

"Equipment! Stop drawing, just give it to me!"

Tian Ersan remembered saying something similar last year.

"Give me another Pangu ring, or if that's not possible, a Nuwa ring will do."

【ding dong~】

Tian Ersan only heard the ding-dong sound and then saw the words "ding-dong" slowly appear.

"Go ahead! I don't want to swear!"

【Extracting...】

[Extraction successful! 】

[Ding-dong~ Congratulations on obtaining the epic equipment Pear Blossom Spear]

"Hiss..." Tian Ersan gasped, no longer wanting to look at it.

Excellent, Perfect, Epic, Peerless, Supreme, Saint-level

If the Pangu Ring is SSS-grade, then this epic item is B-grade, right?

What a fool!

Holding the pear blossom spear, Tian Ersan lowered his head and put it into the government hall, then went to patrol the streets in a depressed mood.

He rode his bike with his head down, looking very unhappy.

On both sides of the bustling street, young women shopping in the market and pregnant women eating wheat in front of their apartment buildings greeted Tian Ersan warmly, even though he hadn't collected taxes for six months.

"My lord, come in and have some fun!"

"My lord, come and drink! I've learned the squatting dance!"

"My lord, have you eaten?"

Tian Ersan, riding his bicycle, quickly turned into a white light and flew away, leaving only an abandoned bicycle lying on the ground.

Soon a group of little girls ran over happily, picked up the bicycle, and started playing with it on their own.

Because of the Pangu Ring, I've been looking forward to this year's lottery for a whole year.

I feel very empty now.

Tian Ersan finally understood a principle.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

When I'm in a bad mood, I just scroll through my phone.

After seeing the various blatantly provocative videos, pictures, and invitations sent by the women, Tian Ersan felt a little better.

"I should treat probabilistic things like I would treat women. As long as I don't have expectations and prepare for the worst, I can accept even the most unexpected events with equanimity."

"From now on, I should take a more relaxed approach to every lottery draw. I shouldn't even think about the fact that I won tens of thousands of copper coins just by eating dumplings this year."

Tens of thousands of copper coins wouldn't even cover half a day's tax now, so there's no need to look forward to the New Year so much anymore.

"Anyway, it's all free. We've already gotten a top-tier treasure for free, so it's normal for the air force to be inactive for a while."

Tian Ersan felt much better, and his frustration at not winning the lottery eased.

"There is definitely an upper limit to the development of a city. There are limits to population and technology. The most important thing is my own improvement."

"We still need to develop aerospace technology."

Tian Ersan couldn't sleep at night, so he started arranging for people to notify the students of Wangzhuang High School to take the college entrance examination.

China's aerospace industry is developing too slowly; it's better to develop it ourselves.

Those people from abroad certainly can't come over now; their nationalities limit how others perceive them.

"I hope that in the future, all countries can live together in harmony, just like brothers and sisters from different provinces."

***
On the 7th, students from Wangzhuang High School took the college entrance examination.

(End of this chapter)