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

In the new solar system, in the Xinghan Embassy in the Earth Federation, Lu Kang seemed a little bored, and a few decades seemed to be a very short period of time for him.

But for the current Earth Federation, the past few decades can be regarded as the most difficult decades in the history of the Earth Federation.

Every year, a large amount of war reparations need to be paid to the side of the Tiemuer civilization, and this war reparations are like an incomparably heavy burden, which weighs heavily on the Earth Federation, so that the Earth Federation is bent down from top to bottom.

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

Therefore, the two sides signed an agreement on installment payment, according to the agreement, this huge war reparation will be paid in installments over a hundred years, counting interest or something, and every year the Earth Federation will have to pay tens of trillions of iron dollars in war reparations to the Tiemuer civilization.

Moreover, this war indemnity is also priced by the Tiemuer civilization, and it needs to be paid with a large amount of materials, rather than being paid by taking the paper money of the Earth Federation.

For example, a ton of steel should be worth thousands of iron dollars, but because the Iron Muer civilization does not need this steel, if you use steel to pay war reparations, a ton of steel may not even be 100 iron yuan.

Because the pricing power of value is on the side of the Iron Mur civilization, this means that the Iron Mur civilization can greatly reduce the price, so as to plunder the wealth of the Earth Federation more.

Although it is nominally necessary to pay tens of trillions of iron dollars in war indemnity every year, in the actual process of operation, the value of materials that may be paid to the Tiemuer civilization is more than 100 billion iron dollars.

This is naturally very beneficial to the Tiemuer civilization, but for the Earth Federation, this is tantamount to blood drawing in disguise, and it is a continuous blood draw every year, which lasts for a full hundred years.

Now only a few decades have passed, in Lu Kang's opinion, if the former Earth Federation was a strong man, then now, in just a few decades of blood drawing, the Earth Federation has become skinny, and the blood production is almost unable to keep up with the blood drawing of the Tiemuer civilization.

"I used to live too comfortably, but now I finally taste the taste of hard life."

Lu Kang looked at the newspaper in his hand, the newspaper was introducing a delicacy, chicken feet, which introduced in detail many methods and ways to eat chicken feet, and even praised chicken feet, comparing it to a delicacy in the world.

As a person who has been stationed on the side of the Earth Federation for a long time, Lu Kang knows very well that these people in the Earth Federation did not eat chicken feet a few decades ago.

Things like chicken feet, pig water, cow hooves, cow heads, etc., these people in the Earth Federation didn't eat them before, and they generally made these into waste, or exported these things to Xinghan.

They only eat meat, beef, chicken, fish, etc., for those miscellaneous things, they have always not eaten, one thinks these things are not clean, and the other is too lazy to clean, let alone how to cook.

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

Historically, in the Age of Discovery on the earth, they were rich enough to worry about eating at all, so naturally they would not eat these miscellaneous things, and even they were full of contempt for the Chinese people to eat, thinking that the Chinese people ate everything.

How can they understand what difficult years the ancestors of the Chinese people have gone through.

In the years of famine, not to mention eating these things, even the bark of trees and Guanyin soil had to be eaten, like tenacious weeds, absorbing all nutrients in order to survive.

Thrift, thrift, this is the habit that our ancestors have developed in the long and arduous years, especially in food, everything that can be eaten will try their best to turn it into delicious, so it is also the birth of world-renowned Chinese cuisine.

But in the final analysis, in fact, it is because the ancestors of the Chinese people are poor and bitter, and they have no choice but to try their best to live and try their best to fill their stomachs.

Now, the situation is similar on the side of the Earth Federation.

Under the weight of the huge war reparations, the Earth Federation needs to move a huge amount of materials to the Iron Muer civilization every year.

gold and silver mined from asteroids to rare metals; From the clothes and shoes worn by the Tiemuer civilization people to the food, fruits, meat, etc. needed for the daily diet of the Tiemuer civilization, as long as it can be used to pay the war reparations, the Earth Federation will give priority to paying the war reparations.

Under such a policy, the resources occupied by the people of the Earth Federation have been greatly reduced, and the Earth Federation has been plundered by billions of people, and the population has been drastically reduced.

And the policy of encouraging and forcing births has not changed at all, and even in order to restore the population, it is even more encouraging and forcing births.

However, in terms of resources, it is far from meeting the standards of Xinghan, so it is natural to live a hard life.

Maybe in the past, when a chicken was killed and eaten, the people here in the Earth Federation only ate chicken breasts and whatever, and they didn't eat chicken feet, chicken wings, chicken necks, chicken offal, or anything else, and either threw it away directly, or simply used it to make fertilizer or something.

But now, they have to eat these things, because eating chicken has become a relative luxury for ordinary people.

The huge war reparations are distributed to the enterprises, companies, organizations, and individuals of the Earth Federation, and the enterprises and companies need to pay an additional tax every year, and this tax is levied to pay the war reparations.

Individuals also need to pay an additional tax, which the Earth Federation calls the 'war tax', which is also a special fund dedicated to paying war reparations.

Whether it is a business, a company or an individual, this tax is very heavy, accounting for almost one-fifth of the total income, plus the rest is taxes, etc., you can imagine how heavy the taxes and fees are on the side of the Earth Federation now.

But this is not the key, the key is that the tax also needs to purchase a variety of materials that can be used to pay for the war reparations, which means that the wealth obtained by the Earth Federation every year is first considered to be used to pay the war reparations, and then it can be used to consider all aspects of its own expenses.

Just like at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the huge war reparations were pressed on everyone, and everyone needed to pay a few taels of silver in compensation.

A few taels of silver is naturally not considered for the rich, but it is a heavy burden for the people living at the bottom, making the already poor life even more difficult.

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

Because of the heavy war reparations, large-scale demonstrations break out every year within the Earth Federation, and angry people even lose their minds, they have lived a good life for hundreds of years, but it has never been so difficult.

But no matter what, this war reparation still has to be paid, unless the Earth Federation feels that it can win the Iron Muer civilization, otherwise, this war reparation will still have to be paid.

Otherwise, the army of the Tiemuer civilization will once again overwhelm the realm, and the current Earth Federation is not as good as it was during the war a few decades ago, and the space fleet in its hands exists in name only, so what will it do.

Therefore, everything is as thrifty as possible, as much as possible, to endure it, one generation, two generations, after this century, the Earth Federation will be able to relieve this breath.

"It's boring, let's go out for a walk."

Lu Kang sighed slightly, the current Earth Federation no longer has the ambition it had when he first came here, it was like a frosted eggplant, completely gone.

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

But the Earth Federation is still lucky, it's just a war reparation, it's just a land cut.

At the very least, the Earth Federation still has sovereignty and is still an independent and autonomous entity, although it has been bullied, at least it has not been wiped out, and it still continues.

Compared with the countless civilizations in the interstellar universe that have been completely wiped out, the Earth Federation is at least lucky, they still have a chance and hope, and that is enough.

The burden that is now borne is nothing compared to the countless civilizations in the interstellar universe, and some civilizations have been wiped out and completely disappeared in the long river of history.

There are civilizations, entire civilizations have been conquered by man, and they have become interstellar slaves, generation after generation, born slaves, and future generations are also slaves, and there will never be an end.

Some civilizations are subordinate civilizations of powerful civilizations, and they need to pay an immensely large amount of tribute every year, with no return and no deadline.

Compared to these civilizations, the Earth Federation is too lucky, too much.