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The green farms also have high yields, after completing the entire process from their birth to harvest.
This green farm has managed to supply the world with 10 units of green meat every month.
In other words, the entire Betel Empire's Nest City can produce 40 units of food per month.
According to the standards of the Federation of Humanities, this would be enough to support 800 billion people.
After Zhou Qing conducted his second round of population statistics and census, he determined the population of the entire planet.
After so much war and suffering, the world of the Betel Empire still has 376 billion people.
This is undoubtedly a terrifying number; no other planet in the Federation of Humanity has such a large population.
After all, the Federation has no shortage of habitable planets, and most jobs can be filled by AI and robots.
Furthermore, since all citizens of the Federation have undergone genetic modification, the difficulty of having offspring has been greatly increased.
Unless cloning technology is used, it is really difficult to produce offspring.
Moreover, a family usually only wants one offspring.
Due to various factors and interference, the current population of the Human Federation does not exceed 20 billion on any planet.
When Zhou Qing saw that there was a civilization that had crammed nearly 400 billion people onto a planet, how could he not feel excited and shocked?
It must be said that the human empire does indeed have a huge advantage in terms of population.
Zhou Qing was both happy that his side had a population of 376 billion and worried about not having enough resources.
Leaving aside the fact that all citizens are genetically modified according to federal standards.
Even if it weren't for federal standards, he couldn't afford the resources to perform genetic restorations for all citizens.
Not to mention gene therapy and a whole host of other things, he can't even get the resources for those.
Having a large population can be very useful at times, but that's only true for a fully developed interstellar civilization.
For Zhou Qing's nascent civilization, this is extremely difficult. The large population makes it impossible for him to perform gene modification, or gene therapy, on everyone.
More importantly, Zhou Qing's Star Series industry was too unfamiliar to the human empire.
The people of these human empires are simply unable to work in the new industrial system; only a few genetically restored individuals can.
So far, apart from the 400 million people who have undergone gene restoration at hydroponic farms, there have been no other cases.
The remaining citizens of the human empire continued doing the work they had done before Zhou Qing arrived.
There are even a large number of citizens of the human empire who are unemployed and can only stay in their homes idly every day.
All they could do was try their best not to cause Zhou Qing any trouble.
Then he lay in bed as long as possible, trying to fall asleep and generate his own energy to provide power for Zhou Qing.
This was the only way these citizens could think of to repay Zhou Qing.
They were unemployed, but Zhou Qing wouldn't abandon them.
After all, they came from the Federation of Humans, even if they were indeed poor.
But Zhou Qing still provided them with a place to settle down and make a living.
The various hive cities left behind by the human empire after the war ended.
Besides those that were destroyed, there were also a large number of vacant houses, which became the best option for Zhou Qing to arrange for these citizens of the human empire.
Meanwhile, the first urban planning area is also under construction.
At this moment, Zhou Qing understood one thing very well: a civilization must have motivation to develop.
The same approach taken by the Federation of Humanities is not suitable for the Human Empire at this time.
The housing provided by the urban planning institute is not intended to be distributed free of charge, but rather to be used as housing for working people.
As for the citizens who are unemployed, they can only live in the hive for the time being.
Of course, Zhou Qing also did his best to provide them with some medical care.
He provided basic free healthcare to all citizens.
Minor illnesses can be treated directly, as long as they are not major genetic diseases.
Minor illnesses like common gene chain breakdowns are treatable, but gene reshaping should be avoided for now.
That's all Zhou Qing can do.
But after he managed to provide everyone with a place to live and take care of all their food needs, he was already being treated like royalty by the local citizens.
In a human empire like Warhammer 40k, a planetary governor emerged who provided housing and food for everyone.
Most importantly, he also provided basic medical care for everyone.
Good heavens, this is not just basic medical care in their eyes, but their lifelong medical care.
Who is this person? He is practically a saint! He is the living saint of the God Emperor.
This idea had barely emerged when it was discovered by the person in charge of the state education, whom Zhou Qing had personally trained, and he subsequently focused on promoting it.
In just one month, Zhou Qing was directly worshipped by the local state religion and citizens as the emperor's chosen god and living saint.
Human empires are feudal, ignorant, and superstitious, and superstition sometimes becomes the best means of governing these ordinary citizens of human empires.
This greatly reduces the energy consumed by the mechanical legion's daily patrols.
At the same time, their energy production was also increased because they stayed indoors all the time.
Therefore, the national education system also started its propaganda machine.
All unemployed people should stay in their rooms every day and not wander around, thus increasing the burden on patrol officers.
You must study hard so that you may serve the Governor.
Books of knowledge were taken out of Zhou Qing's hands and then distributed to everyone by his mechanical legion.
Zhou Qing was unable to perform gene restoration surgery on them at this time, but it wouldn't be right to keep supporting these people indefinitely, so he needed to enable them to learn something on their own.
At worst, he could just build them a production line based on what they've learned, one that they can use.
In short, we can't just sit idle.
Although he can afford to support them, he can't support them indefinitely.
Human beings are inherently lazy; who knows if raising a child might turn into an enemy?
Chapter 38 Paying a Blood Tax? The Human Federation Will Never Abandon Its Citizens
In accordance with the usual practice of the Human Empire, Zhou Qing reported to the Ministry of the Interior that their world had already cleared out the Greenskins.
Anyway, he has already made the report; whether the Ministry of the Interior receives it or not is their business.
Judging from what Zhou Qing has learned, the Human Empire may be late in other matters, but they will definitely collect the tithe.
Just as Zhou Qing had planned, he was not prepared to turn against the human empire, so he had to pay this tax.
But that's the problem.
The taxes levied by the human empire are outrageous; they require everything and there is absolutely no specific standard.
Betel Empire Nest City World
The Hive City can produce the laser guns needed by the Astral Army.
The artillery and tanks needed by the Astronautical Army.
They even have these ammunition and can produce some food.
All of these things are subject to taxation.
In short, after Zhou Qing learned of this news, he felt that this empire was very abstract, and he really couldn't understand how such an empire could be maintained.
It looked like it was about to collapse no matter how you looked at it.
Food is easy to solve; we only need to take one-third of the monthly production capacity from the horizontal farms, and the food tax can be completely resolved.
After all, the Betel Empire's hive world is not a traditional agricultural planet.
Therefore, he needs to pay relatively little food tax.
Weapons and equipment are not a problem either, after all, Zhou Qing has already thoroughly mastered the weapons of the Human Empire.
He could easily open more factories and then let idle citizens participate in the manufacturing.
With the help of some machinery, this problem can be completely solved. What really bothers him is that this Nest City world actually requires blood tax and astral military tax.
Blood tax is for psionicists.
Is this something that can be handed over?
No one knew better than him what a psionicist meant: it meant a huge and very useful workforce.
After receiving systematic training, these psionicists can be incorporated into the planetary defense forces and become valiant planetary defenders.
In addition, they learn knowledge faster than others.
In other words, if there are a large number of psionicists, then Zhou Qing will have a sufficient labor force in two years.
In short, Zhou Qing considered psionicists to be high-quality labor, and apart from this factor, the Human Federation would never hand over its citizens.
Even though, theoretically speaking, the Human Empire is currently the legitimate human power, and its Human Federation has not yet emerged and is still just a planet under the Human Empire, that's not the point.
The federal government will never betray its citizens, nor will it ever hand them over; this is an ironclad rule.
After all, the information left behind by the previous planetary governor made it very clear that these psionicists were sent to Holy Terra to be used as firewood.
That's like sending your own citizens to their deaths.
The federal government will not allow such a thing to happen.
In comparison, the selection process for the Astral Army is easier to solve, since the Astral Army fights for the entire human civilization.
Zhou Qing was still willing to send a portion of his troops as part of the Astral Army to participate in the war for the human empire. Fighting for the race was no problem.
Therefore, Zhou Qing's biggest problem at this time is the blood tax; he needs to think of a way to avoid paying it.
After some deliberation, Zhou Qing made a decision.
The blood tax can be said to be the foundation of human empires, and it is difficult to avoid paying this tax.