NOVEL NEXT Chapter 260: Lu Yuan's Fifty Thousand Children
After being encouraged by examples, carrying forward the culture of human civilization to start businesses immediately became the most popular project!
Industries like paper-making, movable type printing, bicycles, and tricycles, all these simple industrial chains, began to flourish.
It was able to serve civilization and also make some money, so why not?
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"Everyone is really proactive..."
For Lu Yuan, he was still supportive of these civil entrepreneurial efforts and did not oppose setting up a fair market. Continue your saga on My Virtual Library Empire
After all, the awakening of public intellect is subtle.
As long as the labor force could be utilized to its maximum, it was clearly not a bad thing.
No enemies, no neighbors, abundant material resources, and hardworking people—the feeling of thriving development was indeed very good!
During this period, he had also held a simple yet dignified funeral to honor the warriors who had died on the battlefield and provided support to their families.
The number of people who died in the war was not many, only 38.
For such large-scale warfare, this was already an impressive number.
People of this era still had an acceptable tolerance for death; in the past, human lives were as trivial as grass, and a village brawl could easily cost dozens of lives.
However, Lu Yuan still acknowledged the dead's contributions, erected a monument, and believed that the culture of heroism should be passed on to the next generation.
"Here I promise, heroes' parents will enjoy long-term government subsidies, and their children will also receive nutritional support before they reach adulthood."
"The dead have passed away, but we, the living, must still live well!"
"Salute!"
"Swish!"
As the soldiers gazed at the monument of heroes, they uniformly raised their arms.
In just a few short years, they had transformed from feudal peasants into warriors defending their homeland.
Their eyes were calm and their faces weathered, but when they turned to look at their children, families, and Sky City, a faint gentleness appeared.
"Salute completed!"
"Exit in an orderly manner!"
Lu Yuan exhaled softly, spoke to a few scarce researchers, "For those who have lost limbs, we need to find a way for them to regenerate limbs. In the Supernatural era, this is no longer a dream."
As for adding extra points in the college entrance exam for heroes' children...
That's not necessary anymore.
Because there is no college entrance exam.
Everyone is already receiving the highest level of education possible.
Lu Yuan didn't know whether the absence of competition in the college entrance exam was a good thing for a civilization.
But he still aimed to provide as much educational welfare as possible.
"Everyone goes to school based on their abilities."
"If they can't learn, it's not my fault."
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The tasks after the funeral became even more numerous.
Cultivating Insect Soldiers, nurturing fifty thousand babies, expanding industrial production, developing Ideal Technology—each was a massive project, enough to keep people busy for a lifetime!
The human resources were simply not enough!!
At best, only about two thousand people were able to engage in intellectual work, and that was after easing the conditions.
In the foreseeable future, talents will not increase much...
After all, the first generation was all adults; habits are very hard to change. Being able to nurture two thousand intellectual workers was already the result of everyone's efforts; no more could be demanded.
As for the follow-up talents...
They would need at least twenty years of training!
Lu Yuan had never been so busy, and the shortage of talents really worried him.
Especially since he was still a tree!
Every time he appeared, he had to deal with creating a clone, which was quite troublesome.
He still had to endure several years before he could transform back into a human...
Old Cat reported the recent work, "This generation is just like this; they are older and less adaptable. I suggest you invest heavily in the next generation."
"The count for the batch of babies is in, 54,332, with 27,529 being female and the rest being male."
"The male-to-female ratio is still balanced. They are all currently dormant in buds."
"What comes next has to be arranged by yourself; I'm powerless."
Sky City had turned into a kindergarten, and the pressure on Lu Yuan was tremendous.
Old Cat shook his head and said, "What I mean is, how do you plan to nurture them? Not in the physical sense of feeding them—we have many dairy cows and goats, feeding 50,000 children isn't a big issue."
"But on a societal level, these children have no parents; from infancy, they are orphans, and that's a huge educational challenge."
"Think about it, people without parents have no backing and are definitely at a disadvantage."
Lu Yuan swallowed: "Is anyone willing to adopt?"
"Impossible, how many could they possibly adopt?"
Lu Yuan fell silent.
These children were the "Cabbage people" bred by the Monster Emperor.
Monsters acted as their parents, breeding them for the next generation and providing minimal education to bring their Divine Attribute to a passable level.
Once their Divine Attributes met the standards, the monsters consumed them, ending their tragic lives as farm animals.
However, in Lu Yuan's eyes, these children were actually precious assets...
Surviving such historical disasters, the probability of them manifesting Divine Skills should not be too low.
"Over fifty thousand people, once grown up, that's fifty thousand talents... My expectation isn't high; there should be 100 Divine Skills, right?"
"Together with the original ten thousand, that makes sixty thousand people, the population of civilization 18- almost decent enough."
However, education was a big issue!
It included not only school education but family education as well...but where would the families come from?
Well-educated children are future societal wealth; poorly educated ones might as well be livestock!