Chapter 281: Empire’s Past
Hans Ming glanced at Prime Minister Mai Si, whose face was gradually becoming darker, and couldn’t help but feel secretly delighted in his heart.
He knew what this old guy was thinking.
Over 300 years of living like a puppet emperor had made him develop an extremely forbearing personality.
For this moment today, Hans Ming had long ago secretly begun investigating everything about Human Civilization.
If relying solely on the investigation information provided by the Prime Minister, let alone using troops against humanity, just the vague situation of Sirius Civilization interfering would make these high-ranking officials in the hall feel timid.
After all, even if joining Sirius Civilization, the 100% targets for clearance were only the Imperial Family members.
To maintain emotional stability among intelligent lifeforms in the civilization, most civilizations still use people from the original ruling group who have no right of succession and certain capabilities.
And the Mai Si Interest Group, with the Prime Minister who could never ascend the throne, was really a very good object to use.
Hans Ming had no doubt that these centrists in the hall, who wandered between the Imperial Family and the Prime Minister, would unhesitatingly throw themselves into the arms of the Prime Minister’s Interest Group once Hans Civilization joined Sirius Civilization.
But now, Hans Ming, relying on years of investigation and means not yet revealed, gave these centrists another choice.
Thinking this, he slightly nodded toward Luo Er.
Over there, after seeing the Emperor’s indication, Luo Er cleared his throat and then continued loudly:
“Not only that, but there is also a very special data point to highlight here.”
His voice made the noisy discussions in the meeting room instantly quiet down.
Luo Er looked around, very satisfied with this state, and then continued:
“Human Civilization is a very peculiar existence. Its civilization development history differs from 99% of ordinary races in the Galactic Alliance. Previously, I and the think tanks highly suspected this was a civilization trending toward Wise Civilization.
However, this suspicion was later negated by us.”
“Wise Civilization! Impossible. If so, Sirius wouldn’t allow such intelligent lifeforms to appear here, or rather, they wouldn’t allow a Wise Civilization outside their control to appear here.”
Before Luo Er finished speaking, he was interrupted by a veteran Ministry of Rites official in the meeting room.
However, he wasn’t angry. He looked at the other, nodded slightly, then shook his head and took over the conversation:
“Yes, that’s part of the reason. Listen to me finish, and we can analyze this point together.”
He said this unhurriedly, his gaze seemingly intentionally or unintentionally glancing at Mai Si, whose expression wasn’t great, and then smiled:
“Prime Minister, this official has a question to ask you.”
“Speak.”
Although Mai Si didn’t look well, years of governing experience prevented him from showing any substandard behavior in such a setting. Even with just one word, it still carried the demeanor of his Prime Minister position.
Luo Er smiled and nodded, not minding the tone that was like a rebuke.
“It’s like this. Prime Minister, for a civilization race, from the first Industrial Revolution to entering space taking 200 years, how does this speed compare to Wise Civilization?”
Over there, Prime Minister Mai Si, upon hearing this, didn’t continue to get angry but instinctively entered the state, with data on Wise Civilization immediately flooding his mind.
As an intelligent carbon-based organism type civilization race in the Galactic Alliance renowned for high IQ, this race’s characteristic was that its research capability far surpassed ordinary civilization races, with a huge strength gap.
Just taking the condition mentioned by Luo Er as an example.
Among the few registered Wise Civilizations, the cycle from starting the Industrial Revolution to first sending an intelligent lifeform into space was generally 50-100 years.
In contrast, for ordinary intelligent lifeforms, due to differences in political systems, IQ, and even living environments and various other factors, this cycle was generally 200-300 years.
Taking Hans Civilization as an example, after their first Industrial Revolution, due to the imperial system itself.
To maintain the unity of the imperial system, the royal research team under the Imperial Family was actually under very great restrictions.
After all, the productivity changes brought by the Industrial Revolution, if widely opened to the public, would inevitably affect the authority of the ruling class.
Once the means of production were mastered by the lower classes, the economic foundation would first face great challenges.
And changes in the economic foundation would inevitably challenge political power.
As time developed, such changes would also bring destructive impacts to the foundations of feudal systems like the imperial system.
To eliminate this hidden danger, imperial civilizations generally stretched this time cycle extremely long.
Using time, the most basic but most effective method, to let the public gradually adapt to the changes in the traditional feudal imperial system under productivity transformations over a long period.
And even without these factors, the time an ordinary civilization needed to cross this cycle would inevitably be over 200 years.
But in contrast, the time Wise Civilization took for this cycle was only 50-100 years.
A large part of this was due to their high-IQ brains.
Another part was because one of their biological characteristics was extremely low reproduction capability.
And this extremely low, even negative growth rate of reproduction capability meant that most Wise Civilizations had no class contradictions.
They were immersed in technology research and development, attempting to use technological means to extend lifespan, improve productivity, and so on.
Thinking of this, Mai Si nodded slightly and instinctively replied: “By this standard, Human Civilization’s speed in this aspect can only be said to be above average, but it has no meaning.”
“Yes, it has no meaning. After all, during this period, their civilization had internal forces disintegrating, with hundreds of countries worldwide, and their competition intensity, compared to the civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy, is among the very few.
And the technology speed improvement brought by this competition, if 200 years, could even be said to be slow.
Of course, a large part of this was because this civilization invested most of its resources during this period into research on gunpowder weapon systems.
However, if it were only this, I wouldn’t single this out to mention.”
Luo Er echoed Prime Minister Mai Si’s words, but at the end, he suddenly changed tone. At this moment, the calm expression on his face was gone, replaced by the same fanatical expression the crowd had when talking about population earlier.
