Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 577 - 570: Meeting

Chapter 577: Chapter 570: Meeting

After a day of welcome, on the second day, the headquarters and Ilanadale held consultation meetings. Unlike before, both sides sent senior officials from their respective countries. Princess Nina represented Ilanadale, while Chief of Staff Lin Wei represented the headquarters. This clearly showed the importance of this meeting to both parties.

The two sides discussed and exchanged views on economic, political, and military aspects. Nina hoped that the headquarters would provide all-round military technology support to help Ilanadale establish a complete modern standing army to resist the persistent hunting of elves in Ilanadale.

However, Lin Wei focused on economic aspects, as before his arrival, the highest chief had already instructed to increase the import of Kedal metal to meet the renewal and iteration of the military’s weapon development.

In order to receive satisfactory ore from Ilanadale, it is necessary to help them realize industrialization, otherwise relying solely on the elves’ backward manual mining, the quantity would be far from sufficient to meet the procurement requirements for military construction.

Once industrialization was mentioned, one point inevitably had to be raised, and that was the issue of Ilanadale’s labor force. Currently, Ilanadale’s population growth rate has always been very low, even lower than the lowest birth rate in any country on Earth. Therefore, the issue of population growth in the Elf Race became a key point for both sides’ discussion.

"After discussing with our technical staff, we have two proposals for increasing population," Lin Wei said after a pause. "First, we can adjust the birth rate of the Wood Elf Tribe through our bioengineering. Theoretically, this can be achieved, but according to our existing gene technology, it may take ten years or even longer. It’s too long to wait for both sides."

Actually, before the meeting, Lin Wei and the technical staff had discussed this issue. They all believed that the Elf Race was a rather primitive genetically modified species, and unless they intermarried with other races, it was almost impossible to improve the birth rate in a short period of time. Moreover, even if the birthrate increased, the growing period for the Elf Race is between one hundred to nearly two hundred years, which is a difficult period.

Remember, humans have undergone four industrial revolutions in just over two hundred years since the first. If the Elf Race had to wait that long to complete the first industrial revolution, other races from the Otherworld might have migrated to space by then.

Therefore, some technical staff suggested that instead of spending so much effort on the birth rate of the Elf Race, why not pick up the previously abandoned Elf Planet Project, use the genes of the Elf Race to assimilate the Earth’s population, achieve the effect of extending life and increasing longevity, and achieve immortality in some form.

As a result, Lin Wei reprimanded these technical staff, thinking they were conscienceless. Since the Elf Race has requested them to improve the birth rate, they should provide a reasonable plan to see if it is feasible, instead of secretly coveting others’ excellent genes, which is akin to the behavior of an ingrate.

After listening to Lin Wei’s statement, Nina nodded, indicating her understanding. In fact, she was very clear that industrialization needed to provide a large population in a short period of time to support the development of industry. After Earth’s entry into the Industrial Revolution, the population skyrocketed, and the growing population effectively promoted the development of industry.

Although there was generally no industrialization in the Otherworld, thanks to the people of Earth, their provision of food led to a population boom in the Otherworld. In just over twenty years, the population of the Otherworld doubled, with the Human Race growing the fastest.

Industrialization was proposed and realized by Earth humans, so this system is more adapted to the Otherworld Human Race, which is similar to Earth humans. The explosive population growth of the Human Race in a short time is enough to meet the needs of industrial development.

But the Elf Race couldn’t do it. No matter how you looked at it, the Elf Race couldn’t adapt to this industrialization system of Earth humans. Not to mention their birth rate, just their lengthy maturing cycle was enough to extinguish the fringes of industrial development.

"Then there is the second point," Lin Wei hesitated slightly before continuing. "You may not be pleased when you hear it, but compared to the previous one, this is the best plan, that is to let Ilanadale introduce Half-elves."

Half-elves have a growth cycle roughly similar to the Human Race, but their lifespan is only slightly shorter than the original Elf Race, one that lasts for several hundreds of years. Because of the long-term discrimination from Otherworld Human Race, they have never been able to regard this race correctly.

Actually, in the eyes of earthlings, this is a considerably excellent race. They have a growth cycle similar to humans, but their lifespan is several times that of humans and their appearance is more accepted by humans. Since they are mixed with elf genes, they rarely get sick and have extreme vitality. For governments worldwide, this race can greatly reduce fiscal spending on medical insurance, and they have a working and tax-paying cycle that lasts for hundreds of years. They can be regarded the most perfect race, unsurpassed by any other.

The Elf Planet Project hasn’t been launched, mainly because of the huge difficulties in genetic integration, but equally important is earthlings’ acceptance towards this race. As previously mentioned, the elf genes are extremely dominant. Offspring of elves and humans can only be elves. Human genes seem far too weak in front of elf genes, so offspring are almost always characterised with elf race traits. The most typical examples are siblings Luo’er and the half-elves bred by Haiya Academy.

The Luo’er siblings, to put it bluntly, other than inheriting their father’s surname, there’s hardly anything that significantly shows Luo Chuan’s traits. Their features are more similar to their mother’s.

Although Luo Chuan and Nina make a perfect match, Luo Chuan’s human genes are still unable to overcome Nina’s elf genes and are completely surpassed and enveloped by Nina’s genes.

Hearing Lin Wei’s words, Nina nodded after pondering for a moment, expressing her understanding towards Lin Wei’s viewpoint. She is also aware that the best way to increase the population rapidly is to introduce outside populations. The Elf Race is fairly conservative and would not want to introduce outsiders, so half-elves undoubtedly become the best choice.

But she is also worried that there will be domestic opposition against introducing half-elves. There has always been a discourse about preserving pure lineage within the Wood Elf Tribe. Under such a framework, introducing half-elves, who do not have pure lineage, might very likely provoke these conservatives.

"Of course, considering your acceptance of half-elves, we can propose a plan for your reference." Lin Wei said after a pause, "Our plan is to divide part of Ilanadale into a half-elf governance zone, allowing half-elves to settle in these areas. Afterwards, we will set up factories in these areas, allowing half-elves to participate in industrialization and to achieve the industrialization of Ilanadale."

Lin Wei’s plan is quite risky, which he is fully aware of. Dividing regions for half-elf governance, then setting up factories and having half-elves work there. In the long term, with the development of the Industrial Revolution, half-elves will hold more sway within Ilanadale.

Just as the economic base determines the superstructure, with the support of industrial factories, these half-elves will certainly strive for political equality, and then interfere in Ilanadale’s politics.

However, for the headquarters, this is not a loss at all, because both half-elves and the Elf Race are their partners. If half-elves are willing to cooperate with the headquarters, then they will default to half-elves controlling Ilanadale’s politics. If half-elves reject the headquarters, then they can team up with the Elf Race to curb the development momentum of half-elves.

When Lin Wei proposed this plan, he had already anticipated what would happen next. Even though he always says that Nina is an earthling’s bride, Ilanadale and the headquarters are in-laws, he is still quite ruthless when making moves.

Although Luo’er is subordinate to the headquarters, he is also quite wary of them. He clearly knows that these people can do anything for profits. This can be seen when they recalled the Advance Team at any cost after finding out that Nina was about to visit.

As a princess, Nina naturally understands the complex relationship behind this, hence she finds herself in a dilemma. If she rejects Lin Wei’s plan, then the industrial development plan falls through. But if she agrees with his plan, Ilanadale has to guard against the rise of these half-elves.

Thus, a prolonged discussion on this issue began between the two parties, but no satisfactory answer was reached. So they had to temporarily adjourn, take a break and hold the meeting to discuss further in the afternoon.

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