LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 306 Riven's "Man-made" Research

"How do you do it?" The young Master Yi couldn't help asking a question.

They have lived in this way for generations in the mountains. They were born, grew up, farmed, married, had children, raised their children, left the fields to their children, and then the children married and had children.
The life of the people in Wuji Village is so simple and ordinary, and they didn't do anything special.

"Is this strange?" Master Yi couldn't understand Riven's surprise.

He thinks that the people of Wuji Village live an ordinary Ionian village life.

Do you need to meet special conditions to maintain this ordinary life?
"Of course!" Riven looked serious.

Is this kind of life in Wuji Village normal?No, not at all unusual!
"How many years have you lived in the mountains in Wuji Village?" Riven suddenly asked emphatically.

"About five to 6000 years?" Master Yi thought about it carefully: "I heard from the old people in the village that when there is the Wuji Sword Sect in the mountains, there will be Wuji Village."

Ionia is the origin of human civilization in Runeterra. There was a mature magic civilization as early as 10000 years ago, so it is called the land of birth.

Almost every village and every city seen here has a history of at least thousands of years.

"Then in your Wuji Village, do people often move out of the mountain to live?" Riven asked again.

"This." Master Yi shook his head again: "There are, but very few."

The way of Wuji pays attention to "not seeing the troubled times", so the masters of Wuji almost never leave the mountain gate for a lifetime.

Although the villagers of Wuji are not members of the Sword Sect, they are also deeply influenced by the sword philosophy of the Wuji Sword School. up.

"Then" Riven asked the last question: "Do people in your village often open up wasteland?"

"Open up wasteland?" Master Yi shook his head again.

"The resources that the spirit of nature can give to human beings are limited, and we cannot ask endlessly from the mountains."

"And President Orianna, it's not like you haven't seen—"

"The Wuji Mountains are high and densely forested, steep and rugged. Even if the spirit of nature allows us to open up wasteland and farm, there is no way to develop more land suitable for farming."

"." Riven fell silent.

"Yi, haven't you discovered it yet?" Soon, she shouted excitedly: "You Wuji Village is simply the most incredible place in the world!"

A small village isolated from the rest of the world does not immigrate to the outside world, and its own land resources are limited. It has survived for thousands of years, and there is no conflict between people and land.

Everyone seems to have fields and food to eat.

This is very unscientific.

Riven was also from the countryside.While the villages of Noxus and Ionia are culturally and institutionally very different, many things are common.

Moreover, after escaping from Yipu River Port, she also took the time to interview some Ionian untouchables from the countryside, and did some social investigations on the Ionian countryside.

So Riven was well aware of how eager farmers, especially homesteaders in the countryside, were to reproduce.And if resources are abundant enough to allow human beings to let go of life, how amazing the speed of population increase will be.

Take, for example, an Ionian pariah she interviewed:
The family tree of this untouchable can be traced back to an extraordinary warrior 300 years ago.

This poor samurai who was also born as a pariah 300 years ago completed the class leap through his own extraordinary power, and then bought a large amount of land in his hometown, married a wife and had children, and multiplied the family blood.
Just this one man, in just 1 years, produced nearly 300 descendants in the local area.

And these 4000 descendants are only the main branch and the blood-related side branches that are eligible to be recorded on the family tree, and they are people with land inheritance rights and certain family properties.

In addition, there are more descendants of poor families. They were beaten as untouchables at birth, deprived of the qualifications to inherit land and family business, and their names will not be recorded in the genealogy.

If the large number of untouchables who were de facto expelled from the clan are counted, then the number of descendants of this young family with a history of only 300 years will be even greater.

However.
"And what about Wuji Village?" Riven seemed to realize the key point of the problem, she asked: "How many people are there in Wuji Village now?"

"Probably." Master Yi replied, "More than 1000 people, right?"

Riven's eyes lit up when she heard it:
The problem is indeed here!

Wuji Village has multiplied in the mountains for thousands of years, and the excess population will not be driven out of the village as pariahs, and they rarely move outside the mountains
Then how did they multiply until now, and there are only a few more than 1000 people? !
The territory of this village is only so big, logically speaking, it should be filled by the rapidly expanding population in less than 200 years!

Once the population reaches the upper limit, the contradiction between man and land will become prominent, and the untouchable class will be born, giving birth to more cruel and ruthless class oppression.

But why didn't all of these appear in Wuji Village?

"Could it be that no one in your village has children?" Riven wondered to herself.

"Uh, wait." She asked again: "Yi, do you have any siblings in your family?"

"No." Yi still had a question mark on his face: "I'm the only one."

"Your parents don't plan to have another child? Or, you originally had other brothers and sisters, but you are the only one left?"

Yi looked a little subtle.He didn't know why Riven suddenly checked the household registration, but seeing the other party's focused expression, he still replied: "No, I've always been the only one."

"What about the rest of the village? Are they all like this?"

"It's about the same." Yi thought for a while: "The elders I know have only one child in their families, at most two."

Riven: "This"

This is so wrong.

Among other things, as far as she knows:
The question of whether to have children or how many children will be born has never been a matter for villagers to choose independently in the villages of Runeterra.

Because the villages in Runeterra are basically very backward and primitive, there is not even an electric light at night, and there are no other entertainment activities that can promote power.

Apart from playing "online games" with teammates at home, the villagers have nothing to do.

And once this kind of "online game" is played, it will uncontrollably cause frequent deaths.

But in the backward villages, everyone has no means of avoiding the accumulation, and if something happens, they can only add one head, and there is no other choice at all.

Riven is.If her parents hadn't died early, she probably would have had several brothers and sisters.

How did Wuji Village manage to have only one or two children in every household?

"Don't you usually have sex?!" Riven asked impatiently.

easy:"."

This question made the young Master Yi's face turn red instantly.

He looked at Riven with piercing eyes, like an innocent boy meeting a female hooligan:

"President Orianna, you, how could you say such vulgar words!"

"Ahem. Sorry." Riven reacted in time.

She changed to a more precise way of asking: "Do you guys have any means to avoid cherishing?"

easy:"."

As a conservative Ionian country boy, the master's heat bar is almost red hot.

"Say it!" Riven didn't come here with him.

The problem she wants to study is very important, but she has no time for such insignificant things.

Then I saw Master Yi, who was usually unrestrained and elegant, but now he said coyly: "There is a kind of spiritual grass in a mountain, which can have the effect you said."

"Do you usually use this?" Riven asked again.

"Well, no, but I haven't used it, I just heard people say it."

"So that's how it is." Master Yi was still shy here, and Riven had already entered into the next step of thinking.

Yes, this is Ionia.

In this magic-soaked nascent land, there are all kinds of strange spiritual herbs that can help human beings solve problems.

In other words, the mystery of Wuji Village's population balance can be found technically.

But this is only a technical reason.

Even if there is such a technology, why would the people of Wuji Village take the initiative to use it?

"Why don't you like to make more people?" Riven asked again hastily.

"I..." Master Yi blushed and answered bravely, "That's right. It's enough to make one or two."

"And there are too many people, and the spirit of nature will not be happy. It will destroy the balance between man and nature."

Rui Wen:"."

It turns out that this is the way of balance!

In Ionia, the way of balance is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.Villagers naturally have a cultural tradition of protecting nature and maintaining balance, so they will spontaneously limit the generation of redundant population.

"No, it's still not right." Cultural traditions alone cannot answer this question.

In other parts of Ionia, people also have a cultural tradition of maintaining balance.

But why didn't they take the initiative to control the excess population like in Wuji Village, but instead desperately exploded and created people, and in the name of balance, they labeled the excess population as pariahs, and let the pariahs be the victims of maintaining the balance?
“Wuji Village is also a village”

Riven finally realized that the most strange thing about Wuji Village:
In other areas of Runeterra, including Ionia, the impoverished and backward villages have always been the place where the need for human reproduction is greatest.

This is simply not a cultural tradition of balanced ways that can be prevented or changed.

A family with only one child like Master Yi is actually extremely rare in most villages in Ionia.

"Where is the different place in Wuji Village?"

(End of this chapter)