What's Wrong With This Society!

Lu Yao did not understand. "I remember the last time I saw Wei Qixiang was only about two months ago, right? What exactly is going on with time here? How did more than ten years pass all at once?"

Song Shiyi explained the issue. "The Great Qin Empire is different from Earth. It exists in a continuum of void and reality. The exact calculation is very complicated, and the continuity of its movement is not at a constant speed... Every time we come over, we have to recalibrate."

"In actual circumstances, time passes faster for Qin State people than for us. They are closer to the Void Universe. But because void and reality are interlaced, their lifespans are also very long. I remember that in the data Great Qin previously gave, the average lifespan of Qin people was 801 years—or rather, that is how it is here."

"But when everyone lives a very long time, it also affects the vitality of the whole society. Class ossification becomes severe, and people's willingness to have children keeps dropping."

Song Shiyi ate the last bit of cake, wiped her mouth with the wet wipes she had brought, and handed one each to Lu Yao and Isabelle as well.

"From that perspective, First Emperor Qin adopting the imperial enfeoffment system was actually also a strategy. By using the most direct incentive of land interests to spur everyone to expand outward and open up new territory, he sent more people to the frontier, let them become wealthy through military merit, and used that to stimulate the whole society. Then it drove even more people at home to continue joining the army, using the military merit system to push the empire forward."

"People do not worry about scarcity so much as inequality. Cashing in military merit