Time flies, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, time has passed for decades.

In the new solar system, Xinghan's ambassador to the Earth Federation, Lu Kang seemed a bit boring. For decades, it seemed to him a very short period of time.

But for the current Earth Federation, these past decades are the most difficult decades in the history of Earth Federation.

Every year, a large amount of war reparations need to be paid to the Tiemuer civilization. This war reparations is like a heavy burden, which is heavily weighed on the Earth Federation, so that the Earth Federation is top to bottom. Was bent over.

According to the original agreement, the Earth Federation needs to pay 1,000 trillion iron war war compensation to the Tiemuer civilization side, because the Earth Federation has no way to pay it all at once.

Therefore, the two parties signed an agreement on instalment payments. According to the agreement, this huge war reparation will be paid in instalments of one hundred years. Counting the interest or something, this year, the Earth Federation must pay to Timur. Civilization pays war compensation of tens of trillions of iron yuan.

What's more, this war reparation is also priced by the Tiemuer civilization, and it needs to be paid with a lot of materials, instead of paying the Earth Federation's banknotes.

This in turn increases the burden on the Earth Federation. For example, a ton of steel should reasonably be worth thousands of iron dollars, but because the iron and steel civilization does not need these steels, so if steel is used to pay war compensation, one ton of steel May not even have 100 iron dollars.

Because the pricing power of value is on the side of the Tiemuer civilization, this means that the Tiemuer civilization can greatly reduce the price, thereby plundering the wealth of the Earth Federation more.

Although nominally tens of trillions of iron yuan war compensation is paid each year, in the process of actual operation, the value of materials that may be paid to the side of Tiemuer civilization exceeds one trillion iron yuan.

This is naturally very beneficial to the Tiemu'er civilization, but to the Earth Federation, it is equal to blood in disguise, and it is also drawn continuously every year for a full century.

It is only a few decades now. In Lu Kang ’s view, if the Earth Federation was once a strong man, then now, in just a few decades, the Earth Federation is already skinny and blood-making. Already can't keep up with the blood drawn from the Tiemu'er civilization.

"It was so comfortable before, but now I finally taste the taste of bitter days."

Lu Kang looked at the newspaper in his hand. The newspaper was introducing a kind of food, chicken feet, which introduced in detail the many methods and eating methods of chicken feet, and even praised chicken feet for comparison. Delicious.

As a long-time resident of the Earth Federation, Lu Kang knows very well that these people of the Earth Federation did not eat chicken feet decades ago.

Such things as chicken feet, pig's water, cow's hoof, bull's head, etc. These people in the Earth Federation have not eaten before. They generally make these wastes, or export these things to Xinghan. .

They only eat meat, beef, chicken, fish, and so on. They do n’t eat all kinds of miscellaneous things. One feels that these things are not clean. Second, they are too lazy to clean them, and they do n’t know how to cook. of.

Of course, this is also a tradition and habit of them.

In the history of the great voyage on earth, they were rich enough and didn't worry about eating. Naturally, they would not eat all kinds of miscellaneous things, and even they were full of contempt for Chinese people, thinking that they eat everything.

哪里 Where can they understand, how difficult the ancestors of the Chinese people experienced.

In the days of famine, let alone eat these things, that is, bark and Guanyin soil should be eaten, just like stubborn weeds, absorbing all the nutrients in order to live.

It is the habit of the old ancestors to cultivate food through frugality and diligence and thrift. This is especially true of food. Everything that can be eaten will try its best to turn it into a delicious food. Therefore, it is also the world-renowned Chinese cuisine.

But in the end, it is actually because the Chinese ancestors are poor and bitter. There is no way but to try their best to survive and try to fill their stomachs.

Now the situation is almost the same on the Earth Federation.

Under the weight of huge war reparations, the Earth Federation needs to move huge amounts of materials every year to the Tiemuer civilization side by side.

Gold and silver mined from asteroids to rare metals; from clothes and shoes worn by the Tiemuer civilization to the food, fruits, meat, etc. that the Tiemuer civilization needs for daily diet, as long as they can be used to pay war compensation The things that the Earth Federation has given priority to pay war reparations.

Under such a policy, the resources occupied by the Earth Federation have been greatly reduced, and the Earth Federation has plundered billions of people due to the pillage of Eurostar, and the population has plummeted.

Moreover, the policy of encouraging and compulsory fertility has not changed at all, and even to restore the population, it has even encouraged fertility and compulsory birth. This household is like Xinghan with a large population.

However, in terms of resources, it is far from reaching the standard of Xinghan, and naturally it is going to lead a hard life.

It may have killed a chicken before. People on the Earth Federation only eat chicken breasts. They do not eat chicken feet, chicken wings, chicken necks, and other miscellaneous things, either throw them away or use them as fertilizer. What.

But now, they have to eat these things, because eating chicken has become a relatively luxurious thing for ordinary people.

The huge war compensation is distributed to the enterprises, companies, organizations, and individuals of the Earth Federation. Enterprises and companies need to pay an additional tax each year. This tax is levied to pay war compensation.

Individuals also need to pay an additional tax. The Earth Federation here calls it a 'war tax'. It is also a special fund dedicated to paying war compensation.

Regardless of whether it is corporate, corporate or personal, this tax is very heavy, accounting for almost one-fifth of total revenue, plus other taxes, etc. It is conceivable that the current tax on the side of the Earth Federation How heavy is the fee.

But this is not the key. The key is that the tax collected also needs to purchase a variety of materials that can be used to pay war reparations. This means that the annual wealth obtained by the earth federation must be considered first. Paying war reparations can then be used to consider all aspects of your expenses.

如同 Just like the end of the Qing Dynasty, huge war reparations were weighed on everyone, and each person had to pay a few or two silver for reparations.

A couple of silvers are naturally not to the rich, but to ordinary people living on the bottom, it is a heavy burden, making the already difficult life more difficult.

也 The same is true of the Earth Federation at this time.

Because of heavy war compensation, large-scale demonstrations and outbreaks occur within the Earth Federation every year. Angry people have even lost their minds. They have been living for hundreds of years, but they have never been so difficult.

But no matter what, the war reparations still have to be paid, unless the Earth Federation feels that it can win the Tiemuer civilization, otherwise, the war reparations will continue to be paid.

Otherwise, the army of the Tiemu'er civilization will once again be under pressure, and the Earth Federation now is worse than that of the space fleet in the war a few decades ago. arrival.

So everything is as diligent and frugal as possible, and as short as possible, to endure, one generation, two generations, after this century, the Earth Federation can ease this tone.

"It's so boring, just go for a walk."

康 Lukang sighed slightly. The Earth Federation is no longer ambitious when it first came here, like a frosted eggplant, completely stunned.

I really felt the cruelty of the interstellar universe and felt the real pain.

But the Earth Confederation is fortunate. It is just war reparations. It is just land mutilation.

At least, the Earth Confederation still has sovereignty and is an independent autonomous individual. Despite being bullied, at least it has not lost its country and extinction, and it has continued.

The Earth Federation is at least fortunate compared to the countless annihilated civilizations in the interstellar universe. They still have opportunities and hope, which is enough.

负担 The burden that he is carrying now is nothing compared to the countless civilizations in the interstellar universe. Some civilizations have their entire civilization destroyed and disappear completely into the long river of history.

For some civilizations, the entire civilization has been conquered and became an interstellar slave. Generation after generation, slaves are born, and descendants are also slaves. There is no end.

Some civilizations are subordinate civilizations of powerful civilizations, and they need to pay huge numbers every year without any return or deadline.

Compared to these civilizations, the Earth Federation is really fortunate and too much.