Chapter 140

After saying goodbye to Li Zhendong and greeting several friends, Zhang Yuan came to the news office and met academician Ding, a teacher who had been away for a long time.

"Zhang Yuan, we haven't seen each other for a thousand years. In the twinkling of an eye, you are a young man over 1000 years old. " Academician Ding was in a good mood and made a little joke.

"Teacher..."

Zhang Yuan quietly found that academician Ding was much older and looked like an old man in his 70s and 80s.

Maybe it's because I wake up a lot. Fortunately, with some longevity potions in the biological laboratory, I'm not as old as I used to be. On the contrary, I'm still in the vigorous period of my career.

Academician Ding patted him on the shoulder: "this new year is mainly for the new civilization historiography conference, three months later. If you have anything to say, you can bring it up at that time. "

"By the way, we have read your doctoral dissertation. It is not difficult to pass the defense. But it's just a doctor of new civilization history, equivalent to a doctor of science. "

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "doctor of science should be OK, too..."

Another old professor also said with a smile: "about the psy function you proposed, I think it is still of great reference value I have a few more questions for you

A few people discussed for an hour about the academic aspect and some things happened on earth.

Since it's new year, it's bound to be busier. The nuclear power plant and other equipment have to be repaired, and all aspects of the spacecraft will be checked, including communication devices, inventory and so on.

"You've just woken up from hibernation and haven't fully recovered. Take a rest for a week."

"Learn about the whole spaceship and the changes of earth civilization..."

Zhang Yuan nodded.

Half an hour later, Zhang Yuan returned to his bedroom.

It's time to get to know the latest progress of earth civilization.

After checking my luggage, I found that my mobile phone was broken and I couldn't open it, but the tablet computer could still be used. He was a little skeptical that the next time he woke up, he might not 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 in front of the computer and took a deep breath.

I remember the last time he hibernated, there was a cold war in the inner and outer political circles of the solar system with Mars as the dividing line.

The main reason is the class contradiction caused by the gap between the rich and the poor.

The cold war is just a way to transfer internal contradictions.

He sighed in his heart: "I don't know if there is a solution now, 500 years later. It's impossible to have a cold war for 500 years, isn't it? "

Click on one of the oldest reports: "Hello, colleagues of earth age and golden sun. I'm Ding Quan, President of the deep space foundation... "

Familiar with the opening line, to bring a very reassuring feeling.

Under the impact of time, the earth civilization has long been changed, and all familiar things gradually disappear. The deep space foundation is the only trustworthy organization on earth.

"Under the cloud of war, internal contradictions are gradually slowing down and populism is rising," the report said

"I'm sorry to inform you that the deep space foundation belongs to the inner ring political circle of the solar system We have no way to know all kinds of data in the inner political circle. "

Including economic data, Engel coefficient, Gini index, industrial index and so on, the deep space foundation can only estimate through various external performances.

"But unfortunately, relying on the cold war to solve internal contradictions, new problems soon emerged..."

The first problem is that house prices on earth are beginning to collapse.

War is imminent, and even local wars have broken out on Mars. In this risk preference, house prices can not continue to rise, coupled with people just want to hide further away from the battlefield of Venus and mercury, is fueling.

More and more people began to sell their houses on earth and fled to safer mercury and Venus. Finally one day, house prices began to collapse.

The speed of collapse is so fast that even the government departments have not responded to make decisions. In just one year, many cities' rooms have been cut to pieces.

The collapse of housing prices has made many people with mortgage loans become negative assets overnight.

Since all negative assets, what mortgage?

So this group of people with negative equity directly broke the contract, and they didn't want the house, so they ran away from the earth.

Now the bank is miserable. It has to accept a lot of non-performing assets, but it can't deal with them in this bad economic environment.

Coupled with all kinds of asset transfer, run storm, the bank also began to support.

As a result, as soon as the banks fell, the capital chain broke sharply, and other industries began to fall one after another

A tsunami like financial crisis swept the earth's political circle, causing a huge blow to the entire economy!The original political circle of the earth, relying on the two heavy industrial bases of mercury and the moon, plus the earth with profound foundation, has much stronger economic strength than the other political circles. However, after a financial baptism, the strength has been greatly damaged, and both sides have reached the same starting line.

Zhang Yuan sighed.

Click on the next report, and it's bad news at the beginning.

"Hello, earth age and golden sun. I'm Ma Tengfei, President of the deep space foundation... "

“…… I'm sorry to inform you that the budget of the deep space foundation has been reduced again because of the economic downturn. For the time being, we can't afford the high 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 so sorry."

The president said many "I'm sorry" in a row.

It really needs a huge amount of money to send a huge amount of information in Pb on the scale of light years.

Since the beginning of this report, as time goes by, the interval between messages sent by the deep space foundation has become longer and longer. Now, no one will recall the original ambitious deep space plan. When the economy was in the doldrums, everyone was on their own.

Zhang Yuan didn't know how to describe his mood.

The deep space foundation, the original behemoth, has finally gone into real decline in the wind and rain

From various intermittent reports, we can see that the cold war lasted for 120 years.

Destruction is always easier than building. All kinds of space weapons can't directly destroy the planet, but they can easily destroy all kinds of ecosystems.

For example, in various space cities, a few lasers can leak the air inside, and there is no way to intercept the laser. The huge earth is a moving target, and it's easy to destroy the ozone layer with various weapons. However, it can make a significant change in the earth's ecological environment

In particular, all kinds of genetic weapons and biological and chemical weapons cost very little, but their destructive power is enormous. It's very easy to kill people on a large scale.

In such a tightrope situation, the governments of all countries have cautiously maintained restraint, and the local wars have only been carried out on Mars.

Just like the original nuclear deterrence, when the nuclear weapon is on the launcher, it is the time when the deterrence is the greatest. We fight for the economy, but we don't want to cause a huge rebound and exterminate ourselves.

In this way, 120 years later, no one has completely annihilated one side of China. Under the condition of long-term consumption, the war weariness in all regions is growing.

As a result, the opportunity for peace came slowly

"Hello, earth age and golden sun. This summer is a year of melting glaciers, we ushered in real peace! Thanks to the world, maybe our civilization can get out of the trough. "

Zhang Yuan's spirit was boosted.

A great man named "Quincy" appeared on the earth and delivered a century speech. Under all kinds of opportunities, he really contributed to the peace of the whole world.