Ever since Chen Feng had read that report, about 15 days had passed. After conducting a new population survey, Chen Feng discovered that the situation was not optimistic.
In 15 days, the Artis government had conducted a national population survey. The results showed that the total population of Artis was only 111.25 million, which was about eight million less than the previous estimate of 120 million.
Moreover, due to the years of war, the current population of Artis was unbalanced. There were about 45.28 million males and the remaining 65 million females. The ratio of men to women was extremely imbalanced. There were almost 20 million more women than men!
Moreover, among the 45.28 million men, only 15 million were of military age (18 - 22 years old), 40 million were qualified to work, and more than 5 million were elderly.
That was more than 20 million women! Moreover, most of them were women of marital age. This meant that a man might have to marry several women to satisfy his marriage needs.
Although Artis supported polygamy, due to the influence of Western values, most civilians were monogamy.
Moreover, the common people did not want to have a polygamous husband. Unless one's financial ability was very good, they could not afford to raise one. This would greatly reduce their own economic level.
Therefore, only wealthy merchants and some large families in Artis would maintain this tradition. They would have polygamy and engage in marriage alliances to ensure their own interests.
Normal civilians would not engage in polygamy. After all, Artis actually still maintained the traditional thinking of China and the West. As a traditional society, men were responsible for supporting the family. In the beginning, it was also because of the impact of Western values that many positions were opened to women.
But in fact, Artis's male thinking was still quite conservative, similar to the conservative values of the West in the 1940s and 1950s. Such an environment of thinking was incomprehensible to the public.
The Chinese government had long been at the forefront of the world in advocating gender equality. In fact, many parts of Western society were quite conservative. Women came to power because of the rise of the feminism movement, but now women's rights were almost completely played by Western capital and became a tool for politicians to profit.
In some of the more traditional countries like Japan and Korea, the status of women in these "developed" countries was actually not as high as in the United States. Even in the United States, many states were very conservative, and their values for women were still stuck in decades.
Chen Feng had only discovered this after arriving at Artis. He could not help but sigh. Many women nowadays were spoiled by the media and their wealth. In addition, there were more men than women. Under the vicious competition of men, the status of women increased unprecedentedly.
As a result, there were countless bootlickers. Many women were so arrogant that they looked down on men while licking foreigners.
However, when he came to Artis, he realized that the so-called western developed countries had much more serious discrimination against women than women. There were so many female officials in the current government of Artis because too many men had died and there was no more manpower. They had to free up productivity and further free up the female labor force.
Even so, there were many waves of opposition among the people. They hoped that women would be full-time housewives instead of working. Otherwise, if a man could not afford to support his wife and wanted his wife to work, such a man would be despised by others.
Why did he talk about values? This was because Chen Feng had discovered that once he started his subsequent plans, he would need a large number of people. But what if there was a shortage of males now? Even if they were to open up the recruitment of women into the army, they had to do it step by step.
No matter how open they were, men were the main source of soldiers and labor. How could they fight a war if they did not have enough manpower? How to build a country?
Chen Feng got someone to call Leah over. The Minister of State Martial Arts had arrived. He sat at his desk with an abnormally solemn expression, looking at the LCD screen.
"Leah, what do you think if we open the Artis immigration bill now?”
Leah looked at Chen Feng in shock.""Mr. President, you want to open up the immigration bill?”
Chen Feng nodded and looked at Leah solemnly."" I'm sure we'll open up the immigration bill. Altis itself is a country of immigrants, and now we need a new population and labor force.”
Without a population, how could they harvest leeks? The chives had to be raised well first. Only when they were fat could they harvest them properly. Since they were short of chives now, they had to plant a batch as soon as possible to stabilize the population and economic structure first.
"If we want to open up the immigration bill, which countries will we open it to?”
"America, France, Britain, and Europe have a high-quality population. Most importantly, Russia has a large number of educated laborers of the right age, and most of them are men.”
At this point, Chen Feng changed the topic.""Of course, we don't want just anyone. We mainly need to bring in a male labor force of the right age. Moreover, it's an educated population. We don't want any trash. You have to let the immigration department do a good job of reviewing.
Leah seemed to understand what Chen Feng meant. She then suggested,""If you're willing to join the Artis Army and work for the Artis Army, as well as high-quality talents, how about we give priority to recruiting them? For those scientists, professors, and high-end talents, we can offer generous conditions.”
"This supplement is not bad. I like it.”
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