It's 2026.

The annual Lunar New Year is coming soon.

However, for Meng Yunfeng, the captain and company commander of the second company of the third battalion of the third mechanized infantry brigade of the First Land Corps, this year is a little different from previous years.

In previous years, this was the peak of requests for leave to go home, but only one-third of the requests were approved, which means that the probability that each legionnaire will be able to go home for the New Year with his family is about 33% under the fairest circumstances.

For the sake of fairness, every officer and soldier has to go home once in three years for the New Year.

Of course, it is not that officers and soldiers cannot return home, on the contrary, they have many opportunities to go home, and due to the flexible transfer leave system, even the most basic soldiers only need to complete 225 days of full-time service every year.

The remaining 140 days are all sunny holidays, and it is no problem to go home ten times.

Meng Yunfeng is the kind of person who likes to hold back his big moves, in order to accompany his wife and children who are far away in Xia Kingdom, during his service in the legion, unless he is injured or sick, he can not rest for 200 consecutive days, but once he rests, it is a full four months.

He passed the screening at the age of 28 and joined the First Land Army, when he had already started a family, had a son and a daughter, his wife Zhang Qing did not go to work, and concentrated on taking care of the children at home, the living expenses of a family of four, plus the mortgage and car loan, all pressed on Meng Yunfeng alone, although the salary at work is not low, but he can't save much money every month, a proper moonlight family.

Later, when he saw the recruitment advertisement released by the dark group, Meng Yunfeng, who had good physical fitness and good exercise habits, turned his heart on and went to Gangbia, successfully joined the First Land Army, and lived a career as a soldier wearing exoskeleton armor and carrying a rifle.

Of course, there is nothing to say about the treatment provided by the dark group, the lowest-ranking private has a basic salary of 50,000 yuan per month, and with his outstanding performance in recent years, Meng Yunfeng, who has been in the sixth rank, has risen to more than 120,000 per month.

Coupled with holiday benefits, task subsidies, year-end rewards, etc., it is close to 1.5 million per year, and there is no need to pay any taxes.

This level of treatment is ten times that of his previous work.

But even so.

He still couldn't save any money.

The mother-in-law in the family spends a lot of money, the more you earn, the more she spends, and the annual salary of millions is equal to giving it for nothing in front of her.

However, Meng Yunfeng has nothing to complain about, after all, in response to the policy of encouraging population, his wife Zhang Qing has given birth to a son and a daughter to him in recent years, and now he has four children under his knees, and he can make a table alone.

And although the current national policy is good, giving birth to a child is directly rewarded with 50,000 yuan, entering a public kindergarten for free, and enjoying 12 years of free education, and most of the reimbursement is given when you are sick, which seems to reduce a great burden on a couple.

But this is just a routine, your children in the family have increased to four, the original three-bedroom and two-living room is definitely not enough to live, at least you have to change to a big house with four bedrooms and two living rooms, and the car has to be changed to a larger space...... Houses and cars can cost at least millions of extra dollars.

In addition, the number of the next generation is increasing, the competition in the field of education has begun to become bigger, compulsory education is only the foundation, extracurricular training courses are the main battlefield, in order not to be too backward, at least 3 to 4 training courses must be enrolled in children every year...... Again, that's a lot of money.

Coupled with other expenses, if you choose to cultivate carefully, each child will spend at least 50,000 yuan per year.

Even if you have higher expectations for your children, if you go to a private aristocratic school, the annual registration fee will be more than 100,000 yuan.

For this kind of overweight game with almost no upper limit, Meng Yunfeng's million-dollar annual salary is not enough at all, and even the standards of the middle class are not met.

However, Meng Yunfeng likes children very much, because the conditions permit, his wife Zhang Qing is not opposed to asking for more, and the older generation is smiling, there is a way to have more children and more blessings, it is better to save money than to save people, compared to those selfish Dinks who only consider personal enjoyment, they are simply models of the country.

But four children is indeed the upper limit, and I am afraid that any more children will be low-quality free-range, and my wife Zhang Qing can't manage it, and the aging rate of being tossed by a group of children is at least twice that of their peers, so they decided to stop here and concentrate on cultivating these children in the future.

This year, like last year, Meng Yunfeng did not have the opportunity to go home for the New Year, so he could only continue to stay on Gangbia's side and relieve his longing with a video call.

This year, however, there has been a welcome change.

That is, the top management of the regiment introduced a new welfare policy, began to allow relatives to visit relatives, not to mention, but also took out the first batch of 3,000 places, allowing the families of 3,000 outstanding officers to be placed in the "officer family community" in St. Mary's City, after living in the community for a period of time, there is a great possibility in the future, you can move to the space city and become the first batch of space immigrants!

It really makes people breathe fast and their hearts pound.

What are the benefits of immigrating to a space city?

Some people estimate that there will be some disdain, the space is deserted, there is a comfortable and lively ground, and all kinds of supporting facilities are not perfect, who wants to go over?

How could the brains of these ignorant people understand the hearts of the officers of the Land Legion who knew some inside stories.

To take the simplest example, recently in the medical field, has successfully completed two life-extending surgeries, announced to extend the effective life of patients to 130 years old "life-extending medical" technology, is still only the exclusive use of the powerful, in the next two or three decades, ordinary people in addition to the long queue, and do not pay more than tens of millions of costs, life extension medical services, the majority of ordinary people can only think.

But after becoming an official resident of the space city.

Each resident can enjoy two free life extension medical services.

In addition, life extension surgery is more effective in space, and for the first time, the effective life span can be extended to about 150 years.

In terms of education, the use of quadrillion supercomputers and the Dark Empire's advanced virtual teaching technology have cultivated all outstanding talents.

As for the other benefits in the space city, it is even more difficult to describe, in short, it is definitely several times better than the ground in all aspects, and it will become the "human master" that human beings on the surface of Blue Mercury are extremely envious of in the future.

Therefore, almost all the regiments above the rank of second lieutenant have applied to settle their families in the city of St. Mary's in Gangbia first, and get the qualification to immigrate to the space city with their families.

After some screening.

Meng Yunfeng became one of the lucky 3,000 people, and he was assigned a 160-square-meter house in the "Officer's Family Community", and he could notify his wife Zhang Qing in advance and tell her to prepare to bring the child over.

On the side of the dark group, 10 luxury cruise ships, including the "Starry Sky Princess", were sent to Tianhai City, Shenzhen-Hong Kong City, Lanton City and other port cities, and 3,000 military officers' families were brought to Gangbia's side.

Luxury cruises, blue sea and blue sky.

The sea breeze is gentle, and the scenery is delicious.

It can be said that I was in a chic and fun mood all the way, and slowly arrived at Banzhu Port in St. Mary's City...... Even Meng Yunfeng was envious.

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January 28th.

The new wharf of Banzhu Port.

The Starry Sky Princess slowly docked.

Lowering the gangway, the family members of the officers holding small buntings walked down the gangway one by one and stepped on the sturdy pier.

Meng Yunfeng saw at a glance the wife with a straw hat and a floral dress, holding a child in her left hand and one in her right hand, followed by two half-sized children each holding a suitcase in front of her.

"Wife, I'm here!"

Meng Yunfeng, who was dressed in uniform, trotted over, looking at his wife and children who came over, his face was full of happy smiles, and unconsciously, his eyes became a little moist......