Chapter 40
Protecting species?
Upon hearing this word, Chenxi couldn't help but freeze in shock.
Jin Yi chuckled softly, her beautiful, heavenly voice continuing slowly, "Protecting species means being protected by the intelligent race. Other races are prohibited from harming, selling, or enslaving them. Violators will be punished accordingly."
After hearing Jin Yi's explanation, Chen Xi's eyes lit up, and she said, "This is good, this is it!"
Jin Yi smiled and continued, "The Earfox Clan is widely distributed in the Star Beast Domain. However, apart from the Earfox Clan on Earfox Star, the Earfox Clan on other planets are not living well and have no ability to protect themselves. For easier monitoring, it would be best to gather all the Earfox Clan scattered among other races together. However, the total number of Earfox Clan members is not small, far exceeding the carrying capacity of one Earfox Star. But this is not a big problem. We also control many vacant habitable planets in the outer universe. Allocating a few to settle them will be enough."
As Jin Yi explained the resettlement methods one by one, Chen Xi looked at him with starry eyes, filled with boundless admiration.
Although Jin Yi didn't say anything, it was clear that he was in a good mood under Chen Xi's gaze. However, while this arrangement was very thorough and feasible, it also had a very obvious drawback.
After explaining the specific arrangements, Jin Yi pointed out the only drawback of this arrangement: "The Ear Fox Clan is a race with a very fast population growth rate. Each Ear Fox Clan member can give birth to two to three Ear Fox Clan members in one litter, and a healthy Ear Fox Clan member can give birth to more than a dozen litters in their lifetime. Therefore, if we give them sufficient resources and allow them to survive without any danger or loss, their population expansion will be terrifying. There will be no problem in the short term, but in the long term, it will be a very large number, and may even become a heavy burden for us."
Chen Xi understood Jin Yi's words almost immediately. After all, everyone knows how to do math. If the Ear Fox Clan were allowed to develop freely, they would have 2 offspring for 30, 30 for 450, 450 for 6750, and so on. It was terrifying how they would grow exponentially. Even if the Intelligence Clan had solar mines, they would never be able to support them forever. However, Chen Xi said he knew how to solve this problem. As a Chinese person, a Chinese person born in the 21st century, he hardly needed to think about this kind of question. The first word that popped into his head was "family planning"!
After all, he was very familiar with this matter, given that he was born during the era of the one-child policy.
So Chenxi quickly asked Jin Yi, "What if we implemented family planning in the Ear Fox Clan?"
Jin Yi's eyes curved slightly. "Then of course there's no problem."
So Chenxi and Jinyi discussed what the family planning policy of the Ear Fox Clan should be. The final conclusion was that each Ear Fox couple could have one child in their lifetime, and each Ear Fox birth would result in two to three offspring. This number was enough for the Ear Fox Clan to have healthy generations.
With only one offspring, the Earfox population will tend to remain in equilibrium indefinitely. After all, if an Earfox couple has two to three children, and considering the exceptions among the Earfox who die unexpectedly, are infertile, remain single because they cannot find a partner, or choose to remain childless for life, this number is already very close to two. Even if the Earfox population still experiences a slight increase under these circumstances, the rate of increase will never be enough to burden the Intelligence Clan.
After all, although Chenxi liked the Ear Fox Clan, she didn't like them to the point of wanting to sacrifice the entire Zhi Clan.
All the details have been considered, so now there is only one question left: can the Ear Fox Clan accept this plan of listing them as a protected race, but at the cost of implementing family planning for the entire race?
The next day, Chenxi summoned the Ear Fox Clan Prince again and spoke to him about protecting the race and family planning.
When the prince of the fox clan was first summoned, he was a little listless, with dark circles under his swollen eyes, indicating that he hadn't slept well the night before. However, he was still soft, cute, and adorable, which made Chen Xi unable to resist giving him another quick pat.
However, after hearing Chen Xi's words, the soft and cute prince of the fox clan couldn't help but widen his eyes further and further, completely in a state of disbelief and stunned silence.
Looking at the Ear Fox Clan's Crown Prince, Chen Xi couldn't help but feel a little uncertain. After all, although he was very accepting of the plan, it was because he had lived under the family planning policy since birth. This rule that a pair of Ear Fox Clan couples could only have one child was probably too shocking for the Ear Fox Clan, who lived in a universe that was not even on Earth.
However, Chen Xi clearly misunderstood the real reason for the Ear Fox Clan Crown Prince's stunned state. He looked at Chen Xi in disbelief, his large, watery eyes wide open to the extreme, and asked in an almost dreamlike tone:
"You mean that after being listed as a protected species, the Sages will protect us? From now on, no other race will ever capture the Ear Fox Clan as slaves again? And no race will ever harm or humiliate us again?"
Chen Xi smiled and nodded, "Yes."
"You also said that you would rescue all the Ear Foxes who were stranded among other races, and then give them several habitable planets to settle them in?"
Chen Xi replied affirmatively, "Of course."
"And all this comes at the cost of each couple in our Ear-Fox Clan having only one child in their lifetime?"
"That's right, so what's your answer?"
"I agree! I agree!! Our Ear Fox Clan will strictly abide by this rule from now on, and we will never have more children, as long as it allows us to become a protected race! As long as it can truly rescue our fellow clansmen who are stranded in other races, I will agree to do anything!"
The Earfox prince was overwhelmed with emotion. From a young age, he knew of the Earfox tribe's plight and watched helplessly as his father, trapped in sorrow and pain, was powerless to change it. He had once harbored ambitions to change the Earfox tribe's tragic fate, but now he could only watch helplessly as their misery continued. He couldn't even rescue those captured and forced into slavery by other races; he couldn't completely drive away the slave traders who indiscriminately captured Earfox on Earfox Planet. Faced with a powerful alien race, the Earfox tribe's weakness was ingrained in their very being, leaving them powerless no matter how hard they tried.
He once thought that his dream could only ever be a dream, and that the fate of the Ear Fox Clan was to be bullied by other races. But what did he hear today?
He heard Chenxi tell him that if he wanted to list the Ear Fox Clan as a protected race, the Intelligent Clan would protect them, and the Intelligent Clan would also rescue all their scattered kin. Furthermore, the Intelligent Clan would even provide them with habitable planets to settle those rescued kin.
Everything was so beautiful, like a dream.
The prince of the fox clan looked at the black-haired boy who was smiling at him, and his eyes finally welled up with tears.
Chen Xi was also very happy to know that the Ear Fox Clan Crown Prince had fully accepted all the arrangements. He looked at the Ear Fox Clan Crown Prince, whose eyes were filled with tears and who was trying hard not to cry, and smiled as he patted his hair, saying, "Then it's settled."
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Once the agreement was reached, the Intelligence Clan immediately dispatched personnel to the Star Beast Domain to complete the mission.
The other royal heirs were unaware of the affair between Chenxi and the Ear Fox Clan's crown prince. They remained engrossed in the game, having never been exposed to anything like it before, and were far less quick to detach themselves from it than Chenxi.
Once they managed to break free from their addiction to the game, they discovered the changes in the Ear Fox Clan's prince.
If the former prince of the Ear Fox Clan was forced by the pressure of the Zhi Clan and the terror of the legendary humans, allowing Chen Xi to hug and touch him all over, even touching his sensitive areas like his tail and ears, he would lower his head, blush, and dare not utter a sound.
So, it can be said that the current Crown Prince of the Fox Clan is actively throwing himself into Chen Xi's arms.
This change made the royal heirs look at them strangely. They already looked down on the weak Earfox Clan, and seeing the Earfox Clan Crown Prince's behavior now only made them more contemptuous.
Hmph, no wonder the Ear Fox Clan is so easily defeated. So what if the Intelligence Clan is powerful? Does it have to act so obsequious?
He's supposed to be the heir to the royal family? He's a disgrace to that title.
Unbeknownst to these royal heirs who secretly despised the situation, while everything seemed normal and nothing appeared to have happened, a great upheaval was taking place in the Star Beast Domain, where many races lived.
Previously, due to the various actions of the Intelligent Race—such as robbing slave traders from various races and taking away the Earfox Clan, and when some races were bullying and harming the Earfox Clan, they suddenly descended from the sky, frightening all the races present into submission, and then simply took the Earfox Clan away—many races sensed something amiss and temporarily dared not attack the Earfox Clan. Even slave traders from various races have recently stopped going to Earfox Planet. However, everyone is now paying closer attention to the Earfox Clan and Earfox Planet than ever before, because the Intelligent Race's recent anomalies are too obvious, and almost all of them are related to the Earfox Clan.
While these races watched and speculated, they finally witnessed another earth-shattering change. Almost on the same day, the Intelligence Clan's fleet arrived above all the main planets of all the races. Then, the Star Beast Domain's common language resounded throughout the entire planet, announcing that from this day forward, the Ear Fox Clan had been designated as a protected race. All races were prohibited from harming, selling, or enslaving the Ear Fox Clan, and violators would be punished.
After hearing these words, all the races looked confused. What was this "protection of races"?
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