LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

"How?" Young Master Yi couldn't help but ask.

They have lived like this for generations in the mountains. They are born, grow up, farm, get married, have children, raise the children, leave the land to the children, and then the children get married and have children...

The life of the people in Wuji Village is so simple and ordinary, and they don't do anything specially.

"Is this weird?" Master Yi couldn't understand Riwen's surprise.

He believed that the people in Wuji Village just lived an ordinary Ionia-style rural life.

Do we need to meet special conditions to maintain this ordinary life?

"Of course!" Riwen looked serious.

Is this kind of life in Wuji Village normal? No, not unusual at all!

"How many years have your Wuji Village lived in the mountains?" Riwen suddenly asked emphatically.

"About five or six thousand years?" Master Yi thought seriously: "I heard from the old people in the village that when there was the Wuji Sword Sect in the mountains, there was Wuji Village."

Ionia is the origin of human civilization in Runeterra. There was a mature magical civilization as early as 10,000 years ago, so it is called the land of birth.

Almost every village and city you see here has a history of at least several thousand years.

"Then in your Wuji Village, do people often move out of the mountains to live?" Riwen asked again.

"This..." Master Yi shook his head again: "Yes, there are, but very few."

The Tao of Wuji emphasizes "not seeing the troubled world", so almost all Wuji masters will never leave the mountain gate in their lives.

Although the Wuji villagers are not members of the Sword Sect, they are deeply influenced by the swordsmanship philosophy of the Wuji Sword Sect. They have a strong sense of relocating and living in seclusion. They will never leave the mountains easily, let alone move out of the mountains to live. .

"Then..." Riwen asked the last question: "Do people in your village often open up wasteland?"

"Opening up wasteland?" Master Yi shook his head again.

"The resources that the spirit of nature can give to human beings are limited. We cannot ask for them from the mountains forever."

"And President Orianna, it's not like you haven't seen anything in the past few days -"

"The Wuji Mountains are high mountains, densely forested, and steep and rugged. Even if the spirit of nature allows us to open up wasteland for farming, we will not be able to develop more land suitable for farming."

"..." Riven was silent.

"Yi, haven't you noticed yet?" Soon, she shouted excitedly: "Your Wuji Village is simply the most incredible place in the world!"

A small isolated village that has not immigrated to the outside world and has limited land resources has survived for thousands of years without any conflicts between people and land.

Everyone seems to have crops and food to eat.

This is very unscientific.

Riwen is also from a rural background. Although the cultures and institutions of rural Noxus and Ionia are vastly different, many things are similar.

Moreover, after escaping from Yipu River Port, she also took the time to interview some Ionian untouchables from the countryside and did some social research about Ionian countryside.

So Riven knew very well how keen farmers, especially farmers in the countryside, were on reproducing their offspring. And if resources were abundant enough and humans were allowed to live freely, the population would increase at an alarming rate.

Take, for example, an Ionian pariah she interviewed:

The family tree of this untouchable can be traced back to an extraordinary warrior 300 years ago.

This poor warrior, who was also a pariah 300 years ago, used his extraordinary power to rise through the ranks. He then purchased a large amount of land in his hometown, married a wife and had children, and multiplied his family's bloodline...

Just this one man, in just 300 years, gave birth to nearly 4,000 descendants in the local area.

And these 4,000 descendants are only the main branch and the closely related side branches that are eligible to be recorded on the family genealogy. They are people with land inheritance rights and certain family property.

In addition, there are many more children and grandchildren from poor families who were labeled as untouchables at birth, deprived of the qualification to inherit land and family property, and their names will not even be recorded in the genealogy.

If we include the large number of untouchables who were actually expelled from their clans, then the number of descendants of this young family, which is only 300 years old, will be even greater.

However...

"And what about Wuji Village?" Riwen seemed to realize the crux of the problem. She asked, "How many people are there in Wuji Village now?"

"Probably..." Master Yi replied: "More than 1,000 people?"

Riven's eyes lit up when she heard this:

The problem is indeed here!

Wuji Village has thrived in the mountains for thousands of years, and the excess population will not be driven out of the village as untouchables, and they rarely move outside the mountains...

Then how come they have multiplied to this day, and there are still only more than 1,000 people? !

The territory of this village is only so large. Logically speaking, it should be filled with the rapidly expanding population in less than 200 years!

Once the population reaches the upper limit, the contradiction between man and land will become prominent, a pariah class will be born, and more cruel and ruthless class oppression will be born.

But why didn't all this appear in Wuji Village?

"Don't people in your village have children?" Riwen said to herself in confusion.

"Uh, wait..." She asked again: "Yi, do you have any brothers or sisters in your family?"

"No." Yi still had a question mark on his face: "It's just me."

"Your parents don't plan to have another baby? Or, you had other siblings, but you are the only one left?"

Yi's expression was a little subtle. He didn't know why Riven suddenly checked the household registration, but looking at the other party's focused expression, he still replied: "No, it's always been just me."

"Where are the other people in the village? Are they like this too?"

"Absolutely..." Yi thought for a while: "The elders I know only have one child at home, or at most two."

Riven: "This..."

This is so wrong.

If nothing else, as far as she knows:

The question of whether or not to have children, or how many children, has never been a matter for the villagers to choose independently in the countryside of Runeterra.

Because the villages in Runeterra are basically very backward and primitive. There are not even electric lights at night, and there are no other entertainment activities that can show their strength.

The villagers have nothing to do except play "online games" with their teammates at home.

And once this kind of "online game" is played, people will often lose their lives uncontrollably.

But in backward rural areas, everyone has no means of avoiding disaster. If something goes wrong, they can only have one head plus one, and there is no other choice.

Riven is. If her parents hadn't died early that year, she would have had several brothers and sisters.

So how did Wuji Village do it so that every household only had 1 or 2 children?

"Don't you usually have sex?!" Riven asked impatiently.

easy:"......"

This question made young Master Yi blush instantly.

He looked at Riven with piercing eyes, like an innocent boy meeting a female gangster:

"President Orianna, how could you say such vulgar words!"

"Ahem...Sorry." Riven responded in time.

She asked a more precise question: "Do you have any means to avoid being pregnant?"

easy:"......."

As a conservative Ionian country boy, the master's calorie bar was almost red-hot.

"Say it quickly!" Riwen didn't follow him.

The problem she wanted to study was very important, but she didn't have the time to spend on such inconsequential matters.

Then I saw Master Yi, who was usually free and elegant, saying coquettishly: "There is... there is a kind of spiritual grass in the mountains that can have the effect you mentioned."

"Do you usually use this?" Riwen asked again.

"Um... No, but I haven't used it, I just heard people say it."

"I see." Master Yi was still shy, but Riwen was already thinking about the next step.

Yes, this is Ionia.

In this nascent land soaked in magic, there are all kinds of strange spiritual herbs that can help humans solve their problems.

In other words, the reason why Wuji Village maintains a balanced population can be found in technology.

But this is only a technical reason.

Even if such technology exists, why would the people of Wuji Village take the initiative to use it?

"Why don't you create more people?" Riven asked again quickly.

"I..." Master Yi blushed and replied bravely: "Just... just make one or two."

"And if there are too many people, the spirits of nature will be unhappy. This will destroy the balance between people and nature."

Rui Wen:"......"

So that’s the way to balance!

The principles of equilibrium are deeply rooted in Ionia. Villagers naturally have a cultural tradition of protecting nature and maintaining balance, so they will spontaneously limit the generation of excess population.

"No, this is still wrong." Cultural traditions alone cannot answer this question.

In other parts of Ionia, we also have a cultural tradition of maintaining balance.

But why don't they take the initiative to control the excess population like Wuji Village, but instead try their best to create more people, and then treat the excess population as untouchables in the name of balance, and let the untouchables become the victims to maintain balance?

"Wuji Village is also a village..."

Riven finally realized that the most uncomfortable thing about Wuji Village was:

In other areas of Runeterra, including Ionia, the poor and backward villages have always been the places where human beings have the greatest need for reproduction.

This is simply not a cultural tradition of balance that can be stopped or changed.

A family with only one child like Master Yi is actually extremely rare in most villages in Ionia.

"What is the difference in Wuji Village?"