"Using the entire world as a pasture for breeding magical beasts? Isn't this a waste?"

Although the planetary ranch plan proposed by Lin En was very shocking and could solve the most troublesome problem facing the current parliament, Raphael and others still felt that something was wrong.

That's a whole planet of life! "One planet is nothing..." Lin En naturally saw everyone's doubts and couldn't help but said with a smile. "Don't forget, the Geometry Civilization gave us three star systems, and there are at least two more planets of life like this!"

If they could master the corresponding ecological transformation technology, or obtain life or create a kind of priesthood, they would be able to transform and convert other planets in the system. Therefore, the life planet is too rich for them, and the empire simply does not have enough population for colonization.

"The population of the kingdom is still too small!" Lin En sighed.

For nearly a thousand years, under the rule of the empire and the church, the total population of this continent is about 20 million.

Thanks to the fact that they ended the war that swept across the continent at lightning speed, the population did not decrease on a large scale, but instead increased a lot.

The increased population mainly consists of liberated slaves and hidden households. They were not counted in the empire's statistics before, but it is different now. All those who have suffered from oppression by the nobility and the church are the most loyal subjects of the kingdom!

Together with the barbarians who were incorporated into the North and the halflings who fled from foreign lands, the population increased by about five million again.

However, in the past decade, childbirth has been the main cause of population growth! As living standards have risen sharply and there are no protective measures, the number of births has soared like a rocket, and the population has naturally increased dramatically, from 25 million to 60 million!

The population has nearly doubled in more than ten years, which is undoubtedly a terrifying speed, but it is also very normal. A rough calculation shows that the average annual growth rate is only 9%. In fact, if it were not for the tight work schedule, adding a few million more people would not be a problem.

Under the empire's unique child labor system, the first batch of teenagers were already able to participate in work. These newly added laborers who had received basic education largely made up for the gap in technical workers.

Even so, in Lin En's opinion, it is still far from enough. If you want to support a huge galactic civilization, a population of tens of billions is not enough, and hundreds of billions is just barely enough.

"The population growth rate needs to continue to accelerate. In fact, we can consider using some rewards or honors to encourage childbirth..." Lin En gave suggestions to Harov and others based on the policies that encouraged childbirth in his previous life.

If he remembered correctly, in the past, when agricultural civilization was gradually moving towards industrial civilization, some countries even achieved a natural population growth rate of more than 20% per year. It only took 16 years for the population to increase from 60 million to 1 billion. This was the horror of exponential growth! Anyway, they didn't need to worry about the problem of insufficient resources. Of course, the more people, the better. If they waited until the rise of humanistic thought, it would be a fantasy to have such fertility again.

"Oh, Speaker Lin..." Vittorio on the side said as if he had thought of something. "Just a month ago, those Geometry people sent two warships over to hand over part of the compensation."

During that period, Lin En happened to be out of contact, and suddenly found that a fleet of Geometric civilization appeared in the galaxy, which scared them to death.

Fortunately, it turned out to be just a false alarm.

He had seen the so-called element seven in the memories of some Geometry people, but he did not search through the minds of scientific researchers, so he only obtained some basic information.

However, the Geometry Civilization has always kept it hidden tightly, and they almost fought over it during the previous negotiations. This is enough to prove the importance of Element VII, which is regarded as a treasure even by galaxy-level civilizations. This is why he specifically asked Raphael to ask for it during the negotiations.

"Have you figured out anything in this month?" Lin En asked curiously.

Vittorio's expression suddenly became a little strange. "This element is very strange. It seems to have no fixed form. We have used many methods but cannot accurately calculate its mass and volume. Even the Great Disintegration Technique cannot break it up..."

Vittorio's words made Lin En even more interested. He immediately postponed the original welcoming process and went to the place where element seven was placed to take a look.

The parliament obviously knew the importance of this thing, so after completing the handover with the fleet of the Geometry Civilization, it placed it at the bottom of the Sky Tower and the guards were very strict.

About half an hour later, Lin En walked through a door engraved with runes and saw the long-awaited Element No. 7.

It was a ball of matter only the size of a fist, glowing faintly. Just as Vittorio said, its shape kept changing. At the same time, Lynn also noticed that the surrounding space had undergone subtle changes.

It's not like it was a twist caused by quality, but a more profound effect.

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Harov, who is most knowledgeable about element VII, couldn't help but speak up. "I found that this thing seems to be somewhat similar to Godhead. I suspect it is very likely a kind of..."

"Higher-dimensional matter!" Lin En took over Harov's words and agreed with this point of view. He also instantly understood why the geometric civilization attached so much importance to it.

Ordinary high-dimensional matter is not a rare thing, because microscopic particles all possess high-dimensional properties. In a sense, all matter has more than three dimensions, but the universe seems to have some kind of limitation. Once these microscopic particles are arranged and aggregated into macroscopic matter, they lose their original high-dimensional properties.

Element 7 is different. Its volume is trillions of times that of microscopic particles, but it can still exist in a high-dimensional form. This special feature is its value! Lin En stretched out his hand, and under the traction of magic, Element 7 floating at the bottom of the tower floated over and landed in his palm.

Then a large amount of divine power with will poured into it, and soon Lin En noticed the difference. If divine power is compared to water flow, then this palm-sized mass of matter is like a bucket that can never be filled. It continuously receives water flow but there is no sign of filling up at all...

(End of this chapter)