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Chapter 280 Diminishing Margins and Technology Freeze

With the level of science and technology of a second-level civilization, the social management capabilities it can support are limited.

Social management also requires costs. There is nothing wrong with a man being left alone. If a thousand people stay together, there will be chaos if there is no management system.

If there is a social management system, corresponding social resources need to be paid. The larger the population, the more social resources are required to pay for the management system.

An obvious truth is that the difficulty of social management increases exponentially as the population increases.

管理一个100亿人口文明的难度为1的话，一个200亿人口的文明的管理难度却并不是2，而至少是10.

The population has only doubled, but the difficulty of social management has increased to 10 times.

The improvement of social management capabilities depends largely on the level of science and technology.

If social management capabilities are insufficient, social welfare benefits will decrease, efficiency will decrease, happiness will decrease, and the fertility rate will decrease.

As a result, the level of science and technology is linked to the population of civilization through a series of complex mechanisms.

It is not impossible to forcibly increase the population under the current level of science and technology, as long as Han Yang is willing to bear the cost of further chaos in social order and further reduction in happiness.

But both Han Yang and ordinary people are obviously unwilling to bear the consequences.

Moreover, Han Yang discovered that forcibly increasing the population had no obvious benefits.

I originally thought that the larger the population base, the greater the number of scientific research people, and the faster the speed of technological advancement, this theory was actually untrue.

This involves diminishing marginal effects.

That is to say, under the premise that the quality of the scientific research population is not high enough, their brain capacity is not large enough, and their thinking speed is not fast enough, facing a scientific research project, it may take 100 people to complete it. If it is increased to 200 people, the number of people will double. times, but the time may still take ten months, which is only shortened by 16.7%.

If it is doubled to 400 people, the time may still take nine months, which is only shortened by 10%.

In other words, the more people are stacked and the farther to the back, the slower the improvement speed.

In this way, piling up the scientific research population will not mean much to Han Yang and civilization.

Unless Han Yang can improve the quality of individual scientific researchers, making them have larger brain capacity, faster thinking speed, and smarter. But this obviously involves genetic science, and in turn involves basic science.

"Then there is no need to forcibly increase the population. Just let nature take its course and maintain a dynamic balance in the population of human civilization.

What I need to do is to reduce the communication costs of scientific researchers, improve their organizational skills and coordination, and indirectly achieve the purpose of increasing average output under the premise that the quality of scientific researchers is limited. Coupled with my own existence, the scientific research capabilities of human civilization are still at least ten times that of other civilizations.

Moreover, the more advanced the subsequent technology is, the further it will be ahead of other civilizations. Well, the advantage is still with me, and it's huge. "

Han Yang increasingly realizes that technological development is a long-term undertaking and must be done step by step in a down-to-earth manner. Haste makes waste. Although his own existence has greatly improved the scientific research capabilities of human civilization, he cannot break this basic law.

Han Yang's mentality became more and more calm, and some of the impetuous atmosphere that existed before quietly disappeared.

With full development, more than 20 years after the launch of the human civilization exercise fleet, Han Yang finally achieved his first major breakthrough achievement.

Measuring electricity computers once again ushered in a huge breakthrough. In tens of thousands of special fields, quantum computers have achieved quantum advantages and replaced traditional electronic computers. This has resulted in a huge increase in the overall computing power of electricity measuring computers, which has increased by ten times.

At this moment, even if the latest warships consume more computing power than the warships during the expedition to the Eta galaxy, Han Yang has reached the level of being able to control 15 new warships at the same time, greatly improving his combat effectiveness.

At this stage, Han Yang is at least 60% sure that even if he goes on an expedition to Yuanshan Civilization and destroys it, he will do so.

Han Yang became more confident and calm.

Time passed by in a hurry, and more than ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

Since the first exercise fleet set off, in the past few decades, the entire human scientific community and Han Yang have never stopped researching and developing the latest generation of warships.

The large-scale research on basic physics and applied physics has provided sufficient support for the research and development of the latest generation of warships.

At this moment, Lin Lin finally figured out that there are already more than 100,000 new technologies that can be applied to warships.

It covers everything from toilet water flow controllers to electromagnetic guns.

Seeing that time was almost up, Han Yang decisively issued a technology freeze order.

The so-called technology freeze is an engineering concept.

New technologies are emerging all the time. Just like the current human civilization, new technologies that can be applied to battleships emerge on average every day, ranging from six to seven to as many as twenty.

The design, development and manufacturing of warships takes time. You can’t just apply any new technology immediately after it comes out, right?

In this case, the new warship was about to be built, but today five new technologies were released, and they were re-designed. After finally designing it, and several new technologies were released and added to it, the new warship would never be built. .

This requires setting a time node and doing a technical freeze. That is to say, after this point, no matter how awesome a new technology appears, it will not affect the manufacturing of existing spacecrafts, and will at most be put into the manufacturing of the next batch of newer models of warships. After the technology freeze, new warships quickly entered the research and development and manufacturing stage, and 1000 ships were completed again before another exercise node.

The second exercise fleet has already set off. At this moment, the first exercise fleet has still not reached the Pollux system.

The distance between the stars is too far, and this is also the normal state of every civilization. Not only human civilization, but also the other three civilizations.

After the second exercise fleet set off, Han Yang worked non-stop and immediately began the research and development of the third generation of new warships.

Time passes slowly. At this moment, in the vast space, the human fleet commander Zhang Mingyang slowly opened his eyes.

The hibernation cabin cover slowly came down, and he sat up in a daze. It took him a moment to regain consciousness, and he remembered where he was and what mission he was performing.

In the blink of an eye, more than seventy years have passed since it left the solar system. The fleet is almost reaching Pollux and is about to start slowing down.

Looking back at the time when I left the solar system and then conducted ten years of non-stop training, it seems like it was just yesterday.

As soon as he woke up, it was already time to rush to the battlefield.

Yes, in peacetime, this exercise is a war for the civilizations of the Yuanshan Alliance. The Pollux system is the battlefield.

"Then... let the other three civilizations see the combat effectiveness of human civilization!"

Zhang Mingyang is full of confidence.

As an officer who joined the rebel guerrillas in the early days and later personally participated in the expedition to the Eta system, Zhang Mingyang grew up on the front line as an officer. He has extremely excellent military qualities and is recognized as a rising star in the fleet.

Being able to send him to the Pollux system to participate in the fleet exercises of the four major civilizations is enough to prove that Head of State Han Liang attaches great importance to him.

At this moment, carrying the expectations of hundreds of millions of compatriots and carrying the responsibility of fighting for honor on the battlefield for human civilization, Zhang Mingyang didn't have any nervousness in his heart, but only great pride.

bring it on! bring it on! Look at this vast universe, who is the king?

More than 80,000 elite soldiers in the fleet, as well as twice that number of logistics and engineering personnel, also woke up and began to perform deceleration tasks.

At the same time, the soldiers also started restorative training, and the engineers began to carry out maintenance work on the warship.

If it fails due to mechanical failure and loses the face and dignity of human civilization, no one can bear this responsibility.

At this moment, in the vast universe, the bright orange star is already visible in the distance.

Pollux is about twice as massive as the Sun. It is an old star that has entered the final stage of evolution. At this time, its body has expanded into a giant star, its volume has increased, its density has decreased, and its surface temperature has decreased.

In hundreds of millions of years, it will evolve into a white dwarf after losing most of its mass.

There are up to a dozen planets surrounding Castor. Rocky planets, gaseous planets, with atmospheres, without atmospheres, Jupiter-like planets, sea-like planets, asteroid belts, comet belts, dwarf planets, they all exist, and the environment is extremely complex.

But precisely because of the complex environment, it is more suitable as a training venue. Because people can find almost any kind of galaxy environment here and conduct confrontations in any environment.

After a long slowdown, the human exercise fleet finally anchored on Planet Seven.

It is an atmosphereless, rocky planet with a mass between Mars and Venus. The Yuanshan Alliance assigned this planet to human civilization. From then on, drill personnel will be stationed on this planet permanently.

The aerospace carrier stopped, and a large number of engineering machinery and engineering personnel descended on the planet's surface and began to build industrial systems and various air defense bases in accordance with standards.

Zhang Mingyang led the fleet's top brass and took a small spacecraft to the director's base in space.

The top brass of the fleets of the other three major civilizations are already waiting here.

Wearing spacesuits, Zhang Mingyang and his group had just entered the venue when they saw a total of more than 300 people sitting in front of them. The top brass of the other three major civilization fleets, also wearing spacesuits, stood up at the same time and applauded enthusiastically.

While applauding, they also cheered loudly: "Welcome, welcome! Warm welcome!"

"Long live humanity!"

The three commanders in chief even trotted all the way to greet him, shaking hands with Zhang Mingyang enthusiastically: "Welcome, welcome! I've waited for you all!"

For a moment, Zhang Mingyang wondered if there was something wrong with the sexual orientation of these aliens.

　The new year has arrived. I wish you all a happy family and all the best in the new year.

　　Also, no matter how weak I am, please ask for some guaranteed monthly passes...

　　

　

(End of this chapter)