Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 211 - Victory Dinner
Chapter 211: Chapter 211: Victory Dinner
Chapter 211: Chapter 211: Victory Dinner
After the meeting, all members of the council gathered in the restaurant in Zone Z for a grand banquet as the annual New Year’s party.
Compared to the simple and less appetizing dishes, the atmosphere of discussing various issues was quite intense. Many unfinished topics were brought to the table. Although there were arguments at times, the overall mood had slightly eased. It was no longer as oppressive as before.
Many were pondering how to encourage the birth rates of natural persons. If the birth rate of natural persons could reach 5% per year, then this plan would not need to be implemented.
But clearly, that was impossible. A 5% birth rate meant that, even with a zero death rate, each couple would have to have five children! Even these elites were unwilling to do this, let alone the general public. Unless civilization regressed to widespread poverty, where the populace was unenlightened and children were needed to support old age, achieving a 2% birth rate would already be a huge miracle.
Given this, it was necessary for the government to publicly support the rearing of a large number of babies; there was no need for too much hesitation…
Especially Ms. Zhong from the Ministry of Education, who initially had strong objections but now had to compromise and reluctantly accept the new task: to properly plan the education and guide a large number of children born from artificial wombs.
The thought of so many children different from natural persons in the future also made these educational experts’ heads tingle with worry. It was most important to cultivate their ideologies as close as possible to those of natural persons.
Ms. Zhong was loudly expressing her views, “We should not educate a large number of children in an assembly line manner!”
“Each child has their own talent. They should have their own choices, creativity, and imagination…”
“They are not robots, nor are they born to work, and certainly not so-called… tools!”
“We need to tailor our teaching to each individual’s abilities… Let them feel human care, not develop antisocial personalities. Yes, the most important part of each person is themselves, not others, nor for civilization. The most important thing is to cherish oneself, and then one can cherish others.”
“We must not discriminate against them, we firmly oppose discrimination! We can even include this in the law, they are human beings, not much different from us.”
Resignation… of course, was out of the question.
If she resigned, she would become an ordinary person without the corresponding power, becoming an ordinary citizen with even less ability to be heard. She could not allow these people to turn the entire civilization upside down!
“Even if we must implement this policy, we should do so in a way that conforms as much as possible to human nature… about the systems of small and large families, and closed education plans…”
Ms. Zhong saw that no one was paying attention to her, so she quickly walked over to Zhang Yuan and kept bombarding him with various opinions.
“…We need to cultivate their true personalities, indistinguishable from those of natural persons! This can indeed be accomplished through education, even without parents. A four-good education: moral, idealistic, cultured, disciplined…”
Zhang Yuan initially listened with interest for a while, but then his head began to ache. Ms. Zhong meant well, but why was she so long-winded…
He raised his glass, “Alright, alright, Ms. Zhong, this is a matter for your Ministry of Education, not within my responsibilities. You should discuss this with your leaders, or go to Captain Zhao. I’m only responsible for manufacturing robots!”
“Oh, and Ms. Zhong, I suggest you take a look at the Earth Civilization data in the database. There is already much historical experience in robot education and many papers written by education experts. It’s much more effective than us groping in the dark. Just how much punitive authority robot teachers actually have or tailoring teaching to the students’ abilities, those are problems you’ll need to tune yourselves.”
“Let’s all drink to the future hard work!”
Ms. Zhong was startled and realized she had indeed approached the wrong person. Zhang Yuan was clearly not responsible for educational matters.
Education was no longer traditional education, as robots with superior morals were set to replace human teachers at their jobs, putting an end to any scandals involving incompetent teachers.
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Human teachers, in turn, were supposed to adjust these robot teachers, within certain limits.
Clang!
After clinking glasses with Zhang Yuan, this lady complained briefly and could only slink away.
“Mr. Zhang, handsome! So cool!” After a few minutes, Lin Xuanyuan hopped over excitedly, “Just now on stage, you made my heart race… There are lots of girls cheering for you online. You might as well quit being an official and become a celebrity!”
“Is that so?” Feeling good, Zhang Yuan joked casually, “I’ve always been quite famous, you know. But being a celebrity always involves being bothered, unlike holding office…”
He pointed to the soldiers at the door, implying that whoever came to bother him would be taken care of!
Lin Xuanyuan leaned close to his ear and whispered, “Ah, but isn’t it nice to be bothered by a beauty?”
Zhang Yuan replied, “My standards are pretty high, and only beauties of your caliber catch my eye.”
“Haha, such a sweet talker?”
“It’s a shame the spaceship doesn’t have another one like you. If there was… Ow, that hurts…”
Zhang Yuan quickly corrected himself, “One is enough; more would be troublesome!”
In this public setting, Lin Xuanyuan found herself laughing heartily. Although they were already a decade-old couple, she still found him amusing.
Noticing others looking over, she swiftly changed the subject, “Between the two of you, hospitals are going to be overwhelmed. With a growth rate of five percent per year, birthing seventy or eighty babies a day is quite a lot. I suggest we establish a children’s hospital and assign nurturing robots there. We can’t expect nurses to perform parental duties, right?”
Discussing serious matters, Zhang Yuan waved his hand, “The mass birth of babies is also a gradual process; we’ll need to pause before infrastructure is ready. It’s not happening that swiftly.”
“It starts with Ye Kaifu and other engineers digging a hole in the Underground City, raising some cows there and starting basic animal farming. Then we’ll need a milk powder factory to keep up with nutritional needs.”
“First, cows should be the earliest animals we raise, not cats, dogs, or poultry. However, these animals cause significant biological pollution…” Zhang Yuan frowned, considering the economic costs.
“Cows won’t do. It should be goats; goat milk is closer to human breast milk, less allergenic than cow’s milk, and more suitable for infants…” Lin Xuanyuan said with a smile, “And they should be happy goats. Only then the milk produced is of high quality!”
“Happy goats? Figuring out how to make goats happy is a puzzle…” Unable to help himself, Zhang Yuan burst into laughter.
As the toast continued, the banquet came to a close.
Today, true change had occurred in the new civilization, taking a crucial step of its own… This step would forever affect the course of thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years!
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