Chapter 137: 120 Years of Cold War
After bidding farewell to Li Zhendong and saying hello to several friends, Zhang Yuan came to the reporting office and met his long-lost teacher, Academician Ding.
"Zhang Yuan, counting it, we haven't seen each other for a thousand years. In a blink of an eye, you are already a young man over a thousand years old." Academician Ding was in a good mood and made a little joke.
"Teacher..."
Zhang Yuan found silently that Academician Ding had aged a lot, and looked like an old man in his seventies or eighties.
It may be because of the higher frequency of waking up. Fortunately, with some longevity potions in the biological laboratory, people in their 70s and 80s are not as old as before, but are still in the prosperous period of their careers.
Academician Ding patted him on the shoulder: "This New Year's Eve is mainly prepared for the New Civilization History Conference, and the time is three months later. If you have anything to say, you can bring it up then." "
Yes Yes, we have already read your doctoral dissertation. It is not difficult to pass the defense. But it is only a doctorate in the history of new civilizations, which is equivalent to a doctorate in science." Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "A doctorate in science should be fine
... ..."
Another old professor also smiled and said, "As for the Psy function you proposed, I think it is still of great reference value... I still have a few questions I want to ask you." Several people discussed for an
hour time, about academic aspects, and some things happening on Earth.
Since it is the new year, it will inevitably be busier. Equipment such as nuclear power plants have to be overhauled, and all aspects of the spacecraft will be checked in an all-round way, including communication devices, inventory checks, and so on.
"You just woke up from hibernation and haven't fully recovered yet. Let's rest for a week." "
Learn about the entire spaceship and the changes in Earth's civilization..."
Zhang Yuan nodded.
Half an hour later, Zhang Yuan returned to his bedroom.
It's time to learn about the latest developments in Earth civilization.
I checked my luggage and found that the phone was broken and there was no way to open it, but the tablet was still usable. He had some doubts in his heart, maybe the next time he wakes up, he won't even be able to use his tablet. At that time, I can only get a very old-fashioned black and white screen work computer.
Shaking his head, Zhang Yuan sat upright in front of the computer and took a deep breath.
I remember that when he hibernated last time, with Mars as the dividing line, there was a cold war between the inner and outer political circles of the solar system.
The main reason is the class conflict brought about by the gap between the rich and the poor.
The Cold War was nothing more than a way to divert internal conflicts.
He secretly sighed in his heart: "I don't know now, five hundred years have passed, whether it has been resolved. The Cold War can't be five hundred years old, right?"
Click on the oldest report: "Everyone, the Earth Age, the Golden Sun My colleagues, hello everyone. I am Ding Quan, the president of the Deep Space Foundation..." The
familiar opening words gave people a very reassuring feeling.
Under the impact of time, the earth's civilization has long been changed, and all familiar things have gradually disappeared. The Deep Space Foundation is already the only trustworthy organization on Earth.
I saw this report read: "Under the cloud of war, internal conflicts are gradually slowing down, and populist sentiment is rising." "I regret to
inform you that the Deep Space Foundation belongs to the inner political circle of the solar system... We have no There is a way to know all kinds of data in the inner political circle."
Including economic data, Engel coefficient, Gini index, industrial index, etc., the Deep Space Foundation can only make estimates through various external performances.
"But unfortunately, relying on the Cold War to resolve internal conflicts, new problems soon appeared..."
The first problem is that housing prices on the earth began to collapse.
The war is on the verge of breaking out, and a local war has even broken out on the Mars battlefield. Under this kind of risk appetite, housing prices cannot continue to rise, and people only want to hide in Venus and Mercury, which are farther away from the battlefield, which is even more fueling.
More and more people began to sell their houses on the earth and fled to the safer Mercury and Venus. Finally one day, housing prices began to collapse.
The speed of the collapse was so fast that even the government departments hadn't reacted to make a response decision. In just one year, the rooms in many cities were directly cut in half.
The collapse of housing prices has turned many people with mortgages into negative equity overnight.
Now that they are all in negative equity, what mortgage should they pay?
So this group of people with negative equity broke the contract directly, they didn't want the house, and ran away from the earth.
Now the bank is in a miserable situation. It has to accept a lot of non-performing assets, and there is no way to deal with them under such a bad economic environment.
Coupled with various asset transfers and bank runs, banks began to fail.
As a result, as soon as the bank collapsed, the capital chain was severely broken, and other industries began to collapse one after another...
A tsunami-like financial crisis swept across the political circle of the earth, causing huge damage to the entire economy!
The original political circle of the earth, relying on the two heavy industry bases of Mercury and the moon, coupled with the deep foundation of the earth, has much stronger economic strength than the outer political circle.
Zhang Yuan sighed.
Click on the next report, and the beginning is directly a bad news.
"Golden Sun, colleagues from the Earth Age, hello everyone. I am Ma Tengfei, the president of the Deep Space Foundation..." "...I am
sorry to inform you that due to the economic downturn, the budget of the Deep Space Foundation has been reduced again .We are temporarily unable to afford the exorbitant cost of sending the next message."
"I'm sorry."
"We promise that when the funds are sufficient, we will find a way to send the next message." "
I'm really sorry."
The president said many "sorry" in a row.
Sending a huge amount of information in petabytes on a scale of light years does require huge amounts of money.
Starting from this report, as time went by, the interval between sending messages from the Deep Space Foundation began to get longer and longer. Up to now, no one will recall the ambitious deep space program at the beginning. When the economy is in a downturn, everyone only cares about themselves.
Zhang Yuan didn't know how to describe his mood.
The Deep Space Foundation, the original behemoth, has finally come to a real decline amidst the wind and rain...
From various intermittent reports, it can be known that the Cold War lasted a total of 120 years.
Destruction is always easier than construction. Various space weapons cannot directly destroy planets, but they can easily destroy various ecological circles.
For example, in various space cities, a few shots of lasers can cause the air inside to leak, and there is no way for lasers to intercept anything; the huge earth is simply a moving target, and it is too easy to destroy the ozone layer with various weapons. But it can cause major changes in the ecological environment of the earth...
Especially various genetic weapons and biochemical weapons cost very little, but have huge destructive power. It is simply too easy to kill people on a large scale.
In this tightrope situation, the governments of all countries exercised restraint with trepidation, and the wars that broke out locally were only carried out on Mars.
Just like the original nuclear deterrence, when the nuclear bomb is on the launch pad, it is the most deterrent time. Everyone is fighting for the economy, but they don't want to cause a huge backlash and wipe themselves out.
In this way, 120 years have passed, and no one has completely annihilated me. In the case of long-term attrition, war weariness in all regions is increasing day by day.
Therefore, the opportunity for peace finally came slowly...
"My colleagues on the Earth Age and the Golden Sun, hello everyone. This summer is a year of melting glaciers, and we have ushered in real peace! Thanks to the world, maybe Our civilization can still get out of the trough."
Zhang Yuan's spirit lifted.
A great man named "Quincy" appeared on the earth and delivered a speech of the century. Under various opportunities, he actually re-promoted the peace of the whole world.
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