Urban Sims

The mass protest incident is over.

The time has quickly arrived in mid-February.

The Magic City held a council election.

All adult males over the age of twenty and those with a contribution score of more than 100 in their badge account have the right to cast a sacred vote.

However, the right to be elected is only available to adult male citizens who have contributed more than 100,000 points... It is only for a stupid country to make a poor person at the bottom of society rise to the top.

Zhou Ming was originally not very interested in this election and had not signed up to run for election. But somehow, after the election started, Zhou Ming's name and profile picture also appeared on the voting box.

The statistical results came out quickly. In the residential area where Zhou Ming was located, many residents knew and favored him. As a result, he received more than 5,000 votes without any publicity... In this community, seven people Many people voted for him.

Inexplicably, Zhou Ming became a councilor (a status equivalent to an elder outside).

In early March, at the Parliament Buildings, the Magic City held a plenary meeting to discuss the next five years and the issues that needed to be addressed.

Zhou Ming also attended the meeting of about 500 people and put forward a proposal he drafted.

"Proposal to increase the permanent population of the Magic City".

The main content of this proposal is to strive to increase the population of the Magic City to 3 million within three years and to 10 million within five to ten years.

As soon as his proposal was put forward, it aroused heated discussion throughout the parliament.

It's even controversial.

Because this proposal is too absurd, it is impossible for the population of the Magic City to increase!

"The nutrients (corresponding to the term 'oxygen') in the Magic City can support the survival of up to 1.2 million people. Beyond this number, the nutrient content will continue to decrease, and everyone will suffocate inside."

"Our environment is closed. If there are too many active people inside, not only will the supply of nutrients be insufficient, but the temperature will also rise, and everyone will die from the heat inside."

"If this proposal is not feasible, reject it directly." said the elder who presided over the meeting.

"Don't rush to dismiss it, Elder Essoln. That boy dares to make such a proposal, which means he has his own way. Let's listen to what he has to say." Old Wolf intervened.

So Zhou Ming walked up to the question desk and answered the questions one by one regarding his proposal.

Facing hundreds of parliamentarians and elders, Zhou Ming said:

"The nutritional problem is the easiest to solve. I have at least ten ways to solve the problem of nutritional balance. I can design a 'magic nutritional machine' to artificially create a large amount of nutrients and use computer control. Automatically adjust the nutrient content in the Magic City."

"The increase in temperature caused by the increase in population is actually caused by the greenhouse effect and the entropy effect. The solution is also simple. Let the Forbidden Magic Master regularly release large-scale ice and snow magic to implement artificial cooling... Use the power of magic to control the temperature."

"But I personally think the best way is to remove the elemental barrier outside and open our door."

"Yes, the dimensional wall membrane does play a role in protecting us, but it is too closed and restricts our hands and feet. If it is cancelled, the advantages to us will far outweigh the disadvantages."

Of course, Zhou Ming was just imagining and talking about closing the dimensional wall membrane and releasing the shackles of the Magic City. It was impossible for the more than 500 councilors and elders present to agree. After all, the membrane already existed for thousands of people. For thousands of years, there has been a strong historical inertia. How could Zhou Ming's few words break it?

Even Old Wolf said that the dimensional wall membrane is the foundation of the existence of the Magic City and cannot be opened.

Zhou Ming could only follow his idea after solving the "nutrient content" and "temperature control" problems of the Magic City. What benefits would increasing the population of the Magic City bring?

"First of all, as the population increases, the Magic City can carry more knowledge... Knowledge and wisdom need to be carried by the population. I know that there is an additional City of Knowledge outside the Magic City, which has the richest knowledge in the continent. , but that is only knowledge on paper, knowledge on bookshelves. This knowledge is either held in the minds of a few people, or placed there immovable, accepting the baptism of dust... That is meaningless.”

“Only knowledge that can flow at any time, be used at any time, and can be transformed into behavioral guidance at any time is real knowledge!”

“For example, you have been using the ‘Wandu Search’ more and more recently. Do you think it can answer more and more questions and is becoming more and more useful?”

"why is that?"

"Just look at the dark circles under Director Kinnear's eyes. He recently led hundreds of staff members to upload books and materials in the library to the server day and night. However, in more than two months, he only completed two Despite the uploading work of 10,000 books, the total number of books in the library exceeds 20 million. At this rate, it will take at least 160 years to complete the uploading of all books and turn dead knowledge into living knowledge."

"So in order to make 'Wandu Search' more useful, the library must expand its enrollment. If 10,000 people are allowed to help input data at the same time, in just two years, the function of 'Wandu Search' will become extremely powerful."

"It is said that the number of books in the City of Knowledge is a hundred times that of the City of Magic. If all the books in the City of Knowledge are imported into the server and imported into the database of 'Wandu Search', the functions of 'Wandu Search' will be much more powerful. powerful?"

"Of course we have to send at least 100,000 people to the City of Knowledge to complete the uploading of the data."

"There are also database maintainers, intelligent search engine programmers, and people from all walks of life. In order to bring dead knowledge to life, in order to make knowledge serve us better... we need a lot of manpower!"

"Secondly, as the population increases, the Magic City's productivity will also increase."

"Take the Ai Feng 1st generation magic phone in your hands as an example. Just to develop and produce its hardware, there are more than 300 fields and more than 10,000 mages, engineers and ordinary workers in the Magic City. , working and serving it, this does not include the more than 5,000 magic puppets on the assembly line."

"Even so, the production of our Ai Feng 1 generation mobile phone is still not high, still around 10,000 units per month...which is far from meeting the demand."

"In the future, we will also have to produce magic computers, build supercomputers, build giant servers, and turn them into products on the assembly line... These jobs all require people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, and these manpower It cannot be all low-quality ordinary people, it must be scholars or erudite mages with sufficient cultural foundation... We need a large number of high-end talents!"

"In this way, the Magic City can produce millions of magic phones, hundreds of thousands of magic computers, and tens of thousands of network and data servers every year."

"Also, the increase in the population of Magic City will also help Magic City establish a complete high-tech industrial chain and promote the healthy development of magic technology..."

"Finally, increasing the population of Magic City will be more conducive to the development and circulation of Magic City's economy..."

Zhou Ming kept talking, as if he was holding a press conference again. At one point, two points, and three points, he talked about the various advantages and benefits of increasing the population of the Magic City. The arguments he listed were very sufficient, and the points he put forward were very convincing. .

In addition, after the launch of the 'Love Crazy 1' smartphone, the councilors and elders present realized the bright prospects and unlimited benefits brought to them by the "digital age", "knowledge explosion" and "big interaction" era. Among them, most of them have been brainwashed by him.

Now when they heard Zhou Ming talk about these profound things, they all nodded like students who were paying attention to the lecture, mesmerized.

"Yes, yes, everything he said is right!"

Some people even have this voice in their hearts.

But there are still a few people who express concerns: It is already very difficult to manage a Magic City with only about 1 million people. If 5 million or 10 million people come in, and all kinds of contradictions and conflicts arise, how can they manage it?

Hearing this question, Zhou Ming had something in his mind that he really wanted to blurt out: I'm not targeting any one person here, I want to say that everyone here is rubbish!

A million people can't be managed well. How the hell do you have the nerve to say this?

Is it difficult to manage five million people?

Is it difficult to manage 10 million people?

It's not difficult at all!

Of course, Zhou Ming didn't want to say something too harsh, for fear of hurting their self-esteem, so he had to issue a guarantee: "If you trust me, if you encounter any difficulties in management, you can leave these problems to me and I will help solve them. "

The congressman who asked the question immediately nodded in relief.

The old wolf on the side was even more happy, and said in his heart: "Haha, boy, this is what I have been waiting for! Just work for us obediently!"

Seeing the bright smile of the old wolf, Zhou Ming was puzzled: "Why does this scumbag smile so happily?"

The seven elders also looked relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, Zhou Ming's "Proposal to Increase the Permanent Population of Magic City" was successfully passed with 497 votes in support, 10 abstentions, and no objections.