Chapter 219 Encounter
What can you buy in Hongsawadi with 500 gold yuan?
You can buy 60 kilograms of chicken legs, or 500 liters of raw milk, or 2,500 eggs, and this is the price before discounts . During maternity leave, the price of purchasing special food for pregnant women is usually 50% off.
A comprehensive prenatal check-up costs only 75 yuan after reimbursement of medical insurance and maternity leave subsidies.
In this case, employees do not actually feel too much pressure about having children, and naturally do not feel that having children is a difficult choice.
In fact, this is a natural law.
When the pressure of survival exceeds the limit of biological endurance, self-sterilization will inevitably occur within the biological population.
For example, lemmings in the vast tundra of the Arctic Circle are a typical example.
When food is scarce in certain years, the suicide rate in the lemming population will skyrocket, and the natural growth rate will plummet.
The natural growth rate of lemmings will not increase until the population size drops to within the sustainable range of the environment or the food supply increases.
The Sapiens company behind the Aoba Group has simulated the social operation model of Southeast Asia through supercomputers.
It was found that with the improvement of education level and living standards, the natural population growth rate in Southeast Asia will quickly enter a low growth state or even negative growth.
However, before entering a period of low population growth, there is a special window period of about 20 years - the human reproductive renewal period.
The so-called human reproductive renewal period refers to a transition period before the entire population enters a period of high welfare and high quality.
During this special window period, the population that still holds traditional ideas is still generally in the age group suitable for childbearing.
During this period, new concepts have not yet been formed, the younger generation is still a child or has not yet been born, and it will take about 20 years for these people to reach childbearing age.
Therefore, Sapiens adopts a complete set of guidance solutions.
Including using economic means to encourage current young people to get married and have children.
At the same time, it has fully intervened in the fields of education, culture and entertainment, and has taken direct and strong measures against books, television and film works that promote celibacy, childlessness, and special fetishes.
This window period is very important. Once we miss it, the difficulty of changing young people’s mindsets will increase dramatically, and the cost will be greater than it is now.
Sapiens Inc. is aiming to become a giant company. Before artificial womb technology and cloning technology are mass-produced, natural reproduction is currently the only means of increasing the population.
Maintaining the natural population growth rate is protecting the company's fundamental interests.
Lai Xiaoni and Fang Xinxin were not clear about the secret, they just felt that the three major groups were very humane.
"It seems like a lot of people here speak Chinese? I didn't have to speak English at all all the way here."
Fang Xinxin smiled and poured a cup of black tea for her husband, then continued, "You may not have learned this in depth, but in fact, when you enter a restaurant, store, station, airport, etc., you only need to look at the badges on the staff's uniforms to know."
"Are there any details about this?" Lai Xiaoni came all the way here, thinking that many people in Hongsavadi could speak Mandarin.
Fang Xinxin explained: "Those wearing emerald badges can speak Burmese; those wearing ruby badges can speak Chinese; those wearing sapphire badges can speak English; those wearing amethyst badges can speak Thai; and those wearing obsidian badges usually speak multiple languages."
"So that's it." Lai Xiaoni suddenly realized, and she looked at the waiters in the tea restaurant.
Sure enough, some people wore ruby badges, and some wore sapphire and emerald badges.
"In addition, when you take public transportation, your identity information has actually been entered into the internal system. The system will automatically remind the service agency of some information so that they can arrange the corresponding waiters. This is my experience working at the airport." Fang Xinxin reminded.
Now Lai Xiaoni finally understood that it was not that she was lucky to meet a waiter who could speak Chinese, but that the waiter had prepared it specially for her.
No wonder many people who have recently traveled to Hongsavadi have praised the service here.
After all, the biggest worry when traveling abroad is the language barrier.
As they chatted, the two turned the conversation to travel.
"Xiao Ni, if you want to travel in Taunggyi, I recommend you go to Swallow Mountain, which is the largest nature reserve around Taunggyi."
Fang Xinxin then added: "If you don't like to see pure alpine rainforests, you can also go to Hongyan Farm , which has the largest low-salt ham production base in Shan State. I heard that the ham variety was introduced from Xuanwei in southern Yunnan."
Then Fang Xinxin introduced several other good places.
"It seems that Sister Xinxin travels often!" Lai Xiaoni quickly took out her notebook and wrote it down.
"The company gives us at least five days off every month. When it comes to holidays, it's easy to combine them and take a week off. My husband and I travel a lot. If it weren't for my big belly, I would have planned to travel to Siam for a while."
Mao Heshui suddenly said, "After the baby is born, there will still be more than eight months of vacation. It won't be too late to go then."
"I wonder how Brother Xinwu is doing recently?" Fang Xinxin became a little worried.
Mao Heshui shrugged. "When he contacted me some time ago, he seemed to say that he was going to Kachin to get jadeite. Several jewelers from Hong Kong were going there to discuss business."
"Jade? Isn't mining banned?" Fang Xinxin was a little surprised.
Mao Heshui, who knew some of the inside story, laughed dryly and said, "It is forbidden for private mining. The Development Group still has three mining areas that are mining on a small scale."
Lai Xiaoni, who had heard of the fame of Hongsavadi jade, asked curiously, "Is there no jade for sale in Taunggyi?"
"No, the specialties here are medicine and agricultural products." Mao Heshui's answer was simple and clear.
Speaking of medicine, Fang Xinxin quickly recommended it to Lai Xiaoni: "Xiaoni, it is very cheap to buy medicine in Dongzhi. In addition, the hospitals here are also very good. They provide scar removal, plastic surgery, body odor removal, and color blindness correction surgery. Not only are the technologies good, but the prices are also relatively reasonable."
"Color blindness correction surgery? Color blindness can be corrected?" Lai Xiaoni was very surprised.
One of her former classmates from Australia was red and green color blind, so she specifically learned about this disease.
Fang Xinxin nodded: "This was developed by Dr. Li Qingye."
"Li Qingye? The scientist who invented the new antibiotic? The founder of Qingye Group?"
"Yes, that's him."
"Is there any detailed introduction?" Lai Xiaoni asked quickly.
"The official website of Qingye Medical should have an introduction to this."
Lai Xiaoni turned on her laptop and connected to the tea restaurant's signal. Soon she found relevant content on Qingye Medical's official website.
This is a special technology that allows patients to see normal colors by implanting an artificial cornea and artificial bionic nerves into their eyes.
Currently, only Qingye Hospital can perform this type of surgery, and the price is 50,000 gold yuan for both eyes and 30,000 gold yuan for one eye. In addition, artificial corneas have a lifespan and can only be used for an average of about 5 years.
After the corrective surgery, I went to Qingye Medical to replace the new artificial cornea, which only cost 10,000 yuan for both eyes.
This technique is also suitable for conjunctival diseases, corneal detachment and damage.
In fact, this technology was developed by Li Qingye for his own red-green color blindness genetic disease. However, the one now put into commercial use is an adjusted simplified version. The artificial cornea used by Li Qingye himself is permanent.
