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Chapter 1579 Mercury Becomes Mercury

"Daozu, I, the junior Liu Xiu, am here to pay my respects to you!" After returning from Mars, no matter what kind of new immigration wave would occur on Earth, Liu Xiu would be the first person to come to see Daozu Zhang Liang.

For Liu Xiu, the person he admired most was actually Zhang Liang. Later, when the world was in chaos and he was conquering the world, he once encountered a life-threatening situation. If Zhang Liang had not appeared and rescued him, he would have died under the siege of three golden immortals.

It was after that time that Liu Xiu asked Zhang Liang for advice on how to break through to the Golden Immortal Realm, and Zhang Liang gave him this advice. So when summoning all the cultivators in the world, Liu Xiu immediately invited Zhang Liang, but Zhang Liang did not show up.

Liu Xiu didn't take it seriously and thought that Zhang Liang was disdainful of worldly things, so he deliberately avoided him.

This time, Liu Xiu took the initiative to visit Zhang Liang and have a chat with him, intending to hand over the "Nine-Day Scripture" to him. However, after Liu Xiu told him his purpose, the disciples of Zhang Liang who came to greet him all looked embarrassed.

Liu Xiu felt something was wrong at the first moment. He ignored his disciples and broke into the place where Zhang Liang was practicing. However, he found no trace of Zhang Liang at all. At this time, Zhang Liang's disciples had to hand a letter to Liu Xiu, saying that Zhang Liang asked them to give it to Liu Xiu and that if Liu Xiu came to find him one day, they should give it to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu couldn't wait to open the envelope, but after reading the letter, he remained silent.

It turned out that Zhang Liang told Liu Xiu in the letter that he found that the upper limit of this world was the Golden Immortal. No matter how he practiced here, he could not make any further progress, so he planned to leave this world and look for an opportunity for a breakthrough outside the world.

Finally, Zhang Liang directly stated in the letter that there was a high probability that he would not be able to come back alive, so he left all the Taoist books he had summarized over the years to Liu Xiu, hoping that Liu Xiu would be able to lead the people well in this world and not be like Liu Ying, who ended up becoming a scourge to the world.

"How long has Daozu been gone?" Liu Xiu asked helplessly after reading it.

"He left three years ago!" said the disciple.

"Alas, the Taoist left the world in order to break through, but he didn't know that the opportunity for a breakthrough would appear in the world three years later. Is this God's will?" Although Liu Xiu felt regretful, it was impossible for him to leave the world to look for Zhang Liang. He could only wish in his heart that Zhang Liang could really find an opportunity for a breakthrough, not die outside, and come back one day.

Liu Xiu quickly put aside the affairs of Daozu and began to devote himself wholeheartedly to a new round of large-scale development.

In order to encourage the whole world to take action, Liu Xiu even sent people to compile the story of his landing on Mars into a vernacular book to spread it throughout the world, and then published the contents of "Nine-Day True Scripture" throughout the world to let everyone know the ways and means to break through to the Golden Immortal.

For a while, the entire Han Dynasty was plunged into crazy immigration and human creation activities in order to make the total population exceed one trillion.

In such a crazy situation, all kinds of means are naturally inevitable.

Naturally, there are the most basic policies such as encouraging childbirth and immigration. At the same time, under the command of Liu Xiu, the court began to try to develop a large-scale immigration shuttle, that is, a shuttle that can carry one million people to Mars at a time.

In addition, the public is encouraged to encourage strong people from various sects and families to take their children and go directly to Mars to settle down. After all, a strong person at the true immortal level, equipped with a shuttle, is capable of taking hundreds of people to Mars.

These immigration methods are actually easy to do, as long as a large amount of resources are invested, they can be done quickly. The real trouble lies in how to quickly reproduce the population. After all, having children is difficult to do quickly. Even if all women of childbearing age give birth to a child every year, it will still take a long time to increase the population 100 times.

It is simply impossible for women to give birth to a baby every year. After all, the childbearing age for women is only about 20 years, and the frequency of giving birth to one baby a year is enough to cause the body to collapse. Generally speaking, giving birth to a baby every two years is reasonable.

But these problems were not a problem for the crazy Han Empire. So after investing massive resources in Mohism, the Han Empire gradually invented some quite outrageous things.

For example, there are elixirs that can guarantee the birth of twins, or even triplets or quadruplets; there are also elixirs that can make a sixty-year-old woman pregnant and give birth; there are also elixirs that can make a baby be born directly at 7 months old, and make the baby fat and strong, without the problem of premature birth, and so on.

Anyway, as long as the entire Han Empire needs it, there is nothing that the Mohists cannot do.

After these policies were implemented frantically for several years, a large number of cities and various settlements had appeared on the originally empty Mars. At the same time, the population of the Han Dynasty doubled in just a few years, bringing the population back to 200 billion.

But all these newborns are babies under five years old.

So new problems were put before Liu Xiu, such as the cost of raising children for parents. Liu Xiu directly ordered a large number of immortals to transfer to become agricultural officials, who were specifically responsible for regulating the climate in various regions and developing various agricultural tools to speed up the reclamation, sowing and harvesting... There was also an official named Nong Ping, who pioneered the invention of immortal rice. This kind of rice seeds cultivated through immortal techniques can directly increase the rice yield per mu to more than 1,000 kilograms.

With the help of this series of technologies, the various material costs of raising children have been solved, but another more difficult problem lies before Liu Xiu, that is, Mars may not be enough within 5 years.

That's right. Mars is still a new planet that has only been discovered for three years, and the population on Mars has just reached 20 billion. However, according to the Ministry of Household Affairs' estimates, at the current rate of 20 billion people migrating to Mars each year, the population migrating to Mars in batches will reach 5 billion within five years.

Because Mars has re-implemented the policy of distributing land according to population size, Martians have an even higher desire to have children than Earthlings. Basically, every household is giving birth to twins, so within five years there will be 20 billion children born on Mars.

Adding the 100 billion people who have previously immigrated to Earth, the population of Mars will reach 300 billion.

As a planet of similar size to Earth, the upper limit of the population that Mars can sustain is actually only 300 billion, so in five years the population of Mars will reach the limit of 300 billion, while the population of Earth will reach the even higher limit of 400 billion... Unless humans now hollow out a layer of the underground of Earth and Mars to increase the resident population, otherwise Earth and Mars really cannot accommodate so many people.

If the population continues to increase in this way, in the absence of various supplies, the massive population will probably be the root cause of chaos in the world.

What’s even more terrible is that these problems seem to be impossible to solve at the moment. After all, there is only so much land, and unless a planet like Mars and Earth suddenly appears out of thin air in the universe, it will not be able to accommodate so many people.

Then, just when Liu Xiu was scratching his head in distress again, the Imperial Astronomical Observatory reported that the original Mercury had undergone drastic changes... Mercury seemed to have really become a Mercury.

(End of this chapter)