Chapter 715
Year 6206 in the Huaxia Calendar
That year, Huaxia Official released the Huaxia Development White Paper and the World Development White Paper.
The World Development White Paper pointed out that even after losing a significant portion of the population in Penglai and Fangzhang continents, the world’s population still exceeded two billion.
Among them, there were over 800 million cultivators, accounting for about four percent. However, most official positions in various countries are now held by cultivators, blocking the path of promotion for ordinary humans.
Ordinary humans are now inferior to cultivators in all aspects. The violence index speaks for itself – without weapons, it’s challenging for ten thousand ordinary humans to defeat a single cultivator. Moreover, cultivators are more skilled in using weapons.
The best development opportunity for ordinary humans now is to become a skilled worker. It’s even challenging to become a scientist because compared to ordinary humans, cultivators have more time and energy. Therefore, the White Paper also calls for strengthening care for ordinary humans.
At the same time, it also points out the worsening current situation. The strength of the demon race is still rapidly growing. Apart from Fangzhang Continent, the countries in the western Shen Continent are also under constant threat from the demon race, living in uncertainty.
If we consider the oceans, the territories controlled by the demon race are larger than those of the human race. The human race only firmly controls the eastern parts of Shen Continent, the central and southern parts of Ying Continent, and the eastern parts of Fangzhang Continent. Everywhere else is either under the control or threat of the demon race. The world’s development still revolves around the confrontation between humans and demons.
The Huaxia Development White Paper provides more detailed information. According to statistics, the cultivators in the Huaxia Federation number around three billion, making it the largest in the world. Not only in quantity but also in quality, the Golden Core Period cultivators exceed a thousand in number.
Military, government, education, and many other institutional personnel have all been replaced by cultivators. Having Spiritual Root has become one of the mandatory criteria for entering the system. In the region, besides the northern city of Jingdu, most cultivators are concentrated in the eastern coastal areas, along the major rivers, leading to very uneven development.
At the same time, within the land of Huaxia, the demons have been persistently active. Among more than thirty large mountain ranges in Huaxia, there are still many active demon beasts. Although these demon beasts are not high-level and cannot threaten cultivators, they still pose a huge challenge to ordinary people. Every year, at least hundreds of thousands of ordinary people die from the mouths of demon beasts.
The white paper also points out many data, such as the number of acres of spiritual land, the quantity of various cultivation resources and minerals, as well as the demon breeding industry, and so on.
The quality of this white paper is very high and can serve as data guidance for policy-making. Lin Jiang is earnestly studying and researching it.
"Uncle, this white paper is different from the one published online."
Cao Ying saw Lin Jiang reading attentively and came over to take a look. She found that many contents were different.
"Because there are many contents that are not suitable for public disclosure, so they specially sent the physical document."
Lin Jiang closed the file. Internet security has always been an area of great concern for Lin Jiang. Even though he has a special team responsible for his network information security, for some important things, he still prefers physical documents, which he can lock away in a secure cabinet or burn after reading.
"Let me have a look."
Cao Ying took the file and looked through it quickly. The information on Lin Jiang’s and the one published online were quite similar, with some extra details added.
"Hmm, no wonder they can’t publish it. The person who wrote this article seems really indifferent."
"I think it’s good to be objective without personal emotions."
"That’s why they dare not publish it, otherwise it may disrupt some moral values."
Cao Ying explained that the unpublished content in the white paper interprets the distribution of people from different perspectives. It includes many ‘useless’ people, not only ordinary folks but also cultivators.
There are over three hundred million Huaxiacultivators, with the majority still in the Qi Refining Period. Many of them don’t produce anything but consume resources. Also, many Qi Refining Period cultivators are old, becoming a burden on society.
Although the text doesn’t propose to solve these burdens, the tone remains condescending towards them. If this wording is made public, it could cause a huge stir.
"After reading, remember to keep it to yourself."
"I won’t speak out of turn, but sometimes I feel a chill in my heart. If one day my vitality fades, my strength declines, would I also become a burden, turning into one of the ‘useless’ people?"
"There’s no need to worry, you are stronger than the Nascent Soul, even if you decline."
"Hehe."