Time passed little by little, and in a blink of an eye, Xu Wentao's first term of office ended.

Thanks to the trade between the Star Spirit Empire and the countries of the Earth and the growth of the population, the economic growth rate of the Star Spirit Empire has not slowed down and continues to maintain a high speed.

Now, the population of the Star Spirit Empire has reached 211.27 million, and the number of new births reached 2.2 million last year.

Correspondingly, employment pressures in the Astral Spirit Empire have begun to appear, and many members of Congress have made public speeches suggesting that the government reformulate its population policy.

If the population continues to grow like this, there will be a very serious economic crisis of overpopulation in the future.

It's a pity that neither the Prime Minister nor the Emperor of the Star Palace took into account the opinions of these people.

Earth, after a year of turmoil, began to return to calm, and the consequence was that countries began to desperately increase their starships.

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EU, there are ten starships.

United States, four starships,

Country E, four starships,

Eagle Country, three starships

TC, six starships,

Japan, three starships

ANZ, two starships

Seven countries, large and small, including Argentina, Canada, XX Kingdom, and Brazil, all have a starship.

And that's not all, TC, the United States, the E, the European Union, the starship factories in these four countries are still producing starships.

Now these big countries don't care about the delivery of starships by the Apocalypse Machinery Group, because the countries that buy the starships from the Apocalypse Machinery Group are all small countries.

Even if you have a starship, it's just one, and it won't do much.

All countries have focused on starships, navies, and lands, the two once prominent military expenses, have been very ruthlessly compressed.

It can't be compressed, because these two branches of the military are simply powerless in front of the starships, and they have purely become live targets for the starships to show their muscles.

The army is a little better, after all, the army still needs to consolidate the territory, plus the one-man aerial vehicle, it still has a certain retention value.

The status of the navy has really plummeted, and it has completely become a chicken rib, and it is a pity to abandon it without taste, and it has become a marginal edge.

Tanks, the kings of land warfare that are highly valued by all countries, are now also marginalized.

In front of the pilots and starships, the tank has also become a live target, and it has been restrained by these two branches of the military.

And Africa has once again begun to become turbulent, for the simple reason that the weapons of the great powers have developed in an all-round way in terms of energy weapons, and the war reserves accumulated in the past have become worthless.

Dumping, dumping all of them into Africa, and not having money for supplies, is much better than putting them in warehouses for scrapping.

The influx of ammunition, guns, and low prices has directly created many warlords in Africa, and these warlords are now doing one thing, arresting people for mining and labor.

Then use these materials to exchange for guns and ammunition, and then arrest people, or fight with the surrounding forces.

Less than half of Africa's original number of countries at the United Nations level is now less than half, and the rest are in ruins, with no legitimate government at all.

In such a chaotic situation, Africa's exports to other countries have begun to grow, which is something that many people did not expect.

From the beginning of only ore, to later ore, grain, livestock, etc., began to diversify.

Decades of international aid have not changed Africa's laziness, but now the chaos has changed that, and many experts and professors in sociology have begun to think about Africa's problems.

Xu Ping'an is very aware of the control of the earth, and now the number of interstellar warships on the earth is still small, and when it reaches a certain point, it is estimated that it is time to compete for interests.

In the future, the direction of the earth is no different from World War II, the only difference is that the United States, which sold arms to make money and developed in the past, has become the Star Spirit Empire.

The start of the Earth War has no impact on the Star Spirit Empire, and even if there is a wave of refugees, it will be difficult to affect the Star Spirit Empire.

There are a lot of people who want to immigrate to the Star Spirit Empire, and there are a lot of applications every day, but 99% of them have been brushed down.

Now there is no shortage of people in the Star Spirit Empire, including all kinds of scientific researchers and engineers, and the strong education system has laid the foundation for the development of the Star Spirit Empire.

In the past two years, the number of people admitted to the Apocalypse Science and Technology University of the Star Spirit Empire has continued to decrease, and many people cannot understand the exam papers of the Apocalypse Science and Technology University.

The knowledge reserves of the two sides are no longer at the same level, and if you have not gone through the systematic study of the Star Spirit Empire, it will be difficult for you to understand the knowledge taught by the Apocalypse University of Science and Technology.

The education of the Star Spirit Empire has once again been reformed, from the first grade to the seventh grade, for adult education, as long as you complete this education, you are considered an adult.

Next, there will be two forks, one is a variety of vocational system education, and the other is a three-year higher education in the direction of scientific research, and the amount of knowledge is already different.

The Star Spirit Empire has a limited number of three-year in-depth education schools, with only two schools in each city, and the local enrollment ratio is thirty to one.

Only those who have passed higher education can enter universities, and at most half of these students who are admitted to higher education are admitted to universities for advanced knowledge.

The rest were admitted to other technical universities.

This kind of regulation is cruel, in the words of the Ministry of Education, you are not a high-level research material, even if you are allowed to go to university, you are miserable.

Because that knowledge is like a book from heaven to you, and you can't understand it at all.

It is better to learn other skills early, and it is better to have a high-paying job in the future, and those who are proficient in job skills will earn less every month than those who are not engaged in scientific research.

In order to carry out the education reform, Xu Wentao was very willing, directly with the members of Congress, with the so-called education circles, and with representatives of the civil opposition to start a TV debate.

Through one debate after another, it also made the entire Star Spirit Empire understand why education reform is needed, and if the Star Spirit Empire wants to develop, what is very needed is those who can invent and create scientific research talents.

Ordinary people can't engage in these scientific research work, they can only be selected like this, and only in this way can they maintain the advantage of the Star Spirit Empire's science and technology leading human society.

In the final result, Xu Wentao won, and everyone in the debate scene was speechless.

Xu Wentao is very capable of tossing, and in the past few years in office, he has not only carried out reforms in education, but also carried out reforms in other aspects.

In Xu Qian's words, Xu Wentao is too capable of tossing.

Just a few days before the start of the prime minister's election, the Apocalypse Machinery Group issued a statement on the delivery of starships ordered by Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, and four countries.

For the first time, Mexico and Thailand have starships, which is a major event for both countries.

The most unhappy thing about this statement is the United States, your little Mexico also dares to have starships, what do you want to do, do you want to rebel.

Argentina has starships, that's because Argentina belongs to the younger brother of the Star Spirit Empire, what do you want to do in Brazil, and now it has two starships.

The current style of the United States is very forbearing, and it has begun to prepare for the construction of two new starship construction factories to cope with future changes.

On this day, the registration for the election of the Prime Minister of the Star Spirit Empire is closed, not counting Xu Wentao, there are still five, and these five are all confidently challenging Xu Wentao.

Next, Xu Wentao will start to compete with these five, and see how the people choose.

The six of them flew around the country to expound their governing program, which was very lively.

However, this election can be divided into two factions, one is to revise the current birth incentive scheme to control the continued uncontrolled growth of the population, and all five candidates are supporters of this opinion.

On the other hand, it is time to maintain the current birth policy, and it is not yet time to control the population, and Xu Wentao is a supporter of this opinion.

How to choose, now the people are also blind, it can be said that many people are the beneficiaries of the birth policy, if it is canceled, the cost of living will rise sharply.

Now in the family of the Star Spirit Empire, it is normal for each family to have three or four children, and the investment in raising children in the family is not large.

Most of the children's milk powder money, vaccine money, and kindergarten and school attendance are paid by the state, and individuals do not pay much.

More than a month passed slowly, and the voting began, and the ten-day voting period passed quickly.

As before, Congress, the Department of Justice, the Ministry of Supervision, and the Department of Intelligence formed a joint monitoring group to count votes, and the media could broadcast them live.

Three days later, the results were released, and Xu Wentao was re-elected with 51.7 percent of the vote.

Several competitors issued congratulatory statements after the results came out.

It was lively outside, far away in Xu Ping'an's manor in Xinghai City, and the atmosphere at the moment was not very good, Darina returned to the Star Spirit Empire from Earth.

brought bad news, Xu Ping'an's former secretary Liu Wenjun died of illness in a small city in the northeast of TC.

After Dalina's funeral of Liu Wenjun, she returned to the Star Spirit Empire in a small flying machine.

When Darina suddenly appeared in a small city accompanied by a special department, she directly frightened several bigwigs in the small city, and immediately followed the instructions of her superiors to receive them at the highest level.

Especially after learning about Liu Wenjun's past, I was very surprised in my heart.

Who would have thought that such an old lady would have such a difficult experience, and it would be the assistant of the living legend.

When Xu Ping'an heard the news, he was just stunned at first, but Darina's words made Xu Ping'an uncomfortable.

"Liu Wenjun has never been married all his life and has always been single"

"Hold my hand before you die, let me convey a word to you, I'm sorry"

This sentence made Xu Ping'an a little unbearable, although so many years have passed, although Liu Wenjun's identity is problematic, Xu Ping'an has not been ruthless to Liu Wenjun from beginning to end.

Speaking of which, in the development stage of Xu Ping'an's Tianqi Group, the people who have accompanied Xu Ping'an for the longest time are Liu Wenjun and Dalina, and the two women have always been by Xu Ping'an's side.

After so many years, it is impossible to live without feelings.

Liu Wenjun's age is not very large, and the reason why he died so early has a lot to do with his bad mood.

I completely closed myself off, and I couldn't see anything in a short time, but after a long time, I would definitely be sick.

This time I called Dalina because Liu Wenjun felt that his time was short, and the only person who could speak in his life was Dalina.

Dalena knew very well why Xu Ping'an let Liu Wenjun leave, and after receiving Liu Wenjun's call, she found another excuse to return to Earth.

When she saw Liu Wenjun, Dalena was completely dumbfounded, she didn't expect Liu Wenjun to be so old, and she held Liu Wenjun's hand and accompanied Liu Wenjun for two days.

Liu Wenjun died of illness directly, and according to Liu Wenjun's meaning, Liu Wenjun's ashes were buried in J City, in Liu Wenjun's words, the happiest time in this life is when the three of them are together.

Isabella, Song Xinyun, and Miao Yiyi also heard what Dalina said, knowing that Xu Ping'an was in a bad mood, they all consciously didn't bother Xu Ping'an.

Time passed slowly for a week, Xu Ping'an's mood recovered somewhat, and he wrote and painted in the study alone for several days.

On this day, a man left in a small flying machine, aiming for Earth.

On the plane, I contacted the ambassador of the Star Spirit Empire to TC, and I didn't see anyone this time, so I left a day later in order to mourn my old friend in J City, and let the staff complete all the procedures.

The TC bosses were stunned when they received the report, and after a little investigation, they understood what was going on, and many people let out a long sigh, and under the greeting of the big guy above, all the procedures were handled very quickly.

When Xu Ping'an's flight was about to reach Earth, the ambassador of the Star Spirit Empire to TC replied that all the formalities had been completed, Xu Ping'an could land in J City, and no one would disturb Xu Ping'an.

The small flying machine landed not far from the cemetery, and Xu Ping'an got off the flying machine with the bodyguards around him and went straight to the cemetery area.

It didn't take long to find Liu Wenjun's tomb, looking at the photo of Liu Wenjun on the tombstone, Xu Ping'an had mixed feelings in his heart.

As a result, Xu Ping'an, the sacrifice in the bodyguard's hand, set it up, began to burn the paper goods, and raised his hand from time to time to touch the tombstone, his face was sad.

He opened the country, but he didn't want to leave Liu Wenjun behind, although he hated Liu Wenjun for not confessing to himself at that time, but it became a pity after all.

opened a box, which contained ten pairs of Duren Sutras copied by Xu Ping'an's own hands, and they were also burned directly.

"You all leave, I'll stay alone for a while" Xu Ping'an said lightly, the bodyguards looked at each other, left Xu Ping'an's side, and stood guard in the distance.

Time passed little by little, Xu Ping'an stood in front of the tombstone for almost four hours, and the bodyguards looked at each other very anxiously, but no one dared to persuade Xu Ping'an.

"Shaohua is fleeting, and the face is easy to age"

"Life is short and hurried, a few decades to a hundred or ten years at most, Wenjun, there is fate in this life, but I look forward to the next life, I hope that we will meet again at that time."

After speaking, he bowed four times to Liu Wenjun's tombstone, turned around and left, and the bodyguards breathed a sigh of relief and immediately escorted Xu Ping'an.