Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 140: One hundred and twenty years of the Cold War

We bid farewell to Li Zhendong, and greeted several friends again. Zhang Yuan came to the report office and met his long-lost teacher—Academician Ding.

"Zhang Yuan, after all, we haven’t seen each other for a thousand years. In a blink of an eye, you are already over a thousand years old." Academician Ding was in a good mood and opened a small joke.

"Teacher..."

Zhang Yuan silently discovered that Academician Ding was much older, and he looked like an old man in his seventies or eighties.

It may be because of the more frequent waking hours. Fortunately, with some longevity medicines in the biological laboratory, the 70s or 80s are not as old as they used to be, but they are still in the prosperous period of their careers.

Academician Ding patted him on the shoulder: "This new year is mainly prepared for the New Civilization History Conference, which will be three months later. If you have anything you want 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 is only a doctorate in the history of new civilizations, which is equivalent to a doctor of science."

Zhang Yuan smiled and said: "Doctors of science should do too..."

Another old professor also smiled and said: "About the Psy function you proposed, I think it is of great reference value... I still have a few questions to ask you."

Several people discussed a total of one hour about academic aspects and some things that happened on the earth.

Since it's a new year, it will definitely be busier. Nuclear power plants and other equipment have to be repaired and inspected, and all aspects of the spacecraft will be inspected in an all-round way, including communication devices, inventory counts, and so on.

"You just woke up from hibernation and have not fully recovered. Let's rest for a week."

"Learn about the entire spacecraft and the changes in earth civilization..."

Zhang Yuan nodded.

After half an hour, Zhang Yuan returned to his bedroom.

It’s time to learn about the latest developments in earth’s civilization.

I checked my luggage and found that the phone was broken and there was no way to turn it on, but the tablet was still usable. He was a little skeptical, maybe the next time he wakes up, he won't even be able to use the tablet. At that time, I can only get a very old-fashioned black-and-white work computer.

Shaking his head, Zhang Yuan sat in front of the computer, taking a deep breath.

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

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 shift internal conflicts.

He sighed secretly in his heart: "I don't know now, five hundred years have passed, whether there is a solution. The Cold War can't be the cold war for five hundred years, right?"

Click to open one of the oldest reports: "Dear colleagues of Earth Age, Golden Sun, everyone. I am Ding Quan, President of the Deep Space Foundation..."

The familiar opening remarks give people a very reassuring feeling.

Under the impact of time, the earth’s civilization has long since become a human being, and all familiar things have gradually disappeared. The Deep Space Foundation is already the only trustworthy organization on the planet.

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 way to know the various data of the inner political circle."

Including economic data, Engel coefficient, Gini index, industrial index, etc., the Deep Space Foundation can only estimate through various external performance.

"Unfortunately, relying on the Cold War to resolve internal conflicts, new problems soon appeared..."

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

The war is on the verge of breaking out, and even a local war has broken out on the Martian battlefield. With this kind of risk appetite, housing prices are unlikely to continue to rise, and people just want to hide from Venus and Mercury, which are farther away from the battlefield, adding to the flames.

More and more people began to sell their houses on the earth and flee to the safer Mercury and Venus. Finally one day, housing prices began to collapse.

The rate of collapse is so fast that even the government departments have not reacted to make a response decision. In just one year, many rooms in the city were directly cut in half.

The collapse of housing prices has turned many people with mortgages into negative equity overnight.

Since we all have negative equity, what mortgage should I still pay?

So this group of people with negative equity directly broke the contract, and the house was no longer needed. They patted their **** 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 can't deal with it in this harsh economic environment.

In addition to the various asset transfers and runs, banks have also begun to be unable to support it.

As a result, as soon as the bank fell, the capital chain was severely broken, and other industries began to fall one after another...

A tsunami-like financial crisis swept through the political circle of the earth and caused huge damage to the entire economy!

The original political circle of the earth relied on the two heavy industrial bases of Mercury and the moon, coupled with the profound earth, the economic strength was much stronger than the outer political circle, but after a financial baptism, the strength was greatly lost, and the two sides reached the same Starting line.

Zhang Yuan sighed.

Click to open the next report, and the beginning is just bad news.

"Earth Age, colleagues of the Golden Sun, hello everyone. I am Ma Tengfei, the president of the Deep Space Foundation..."

"...I regret to inform you that due to the economic downturn, the Deep Space Foundation's budget has been reduced again. We are temporarily unable to bear the high cost of sending the next message."

"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 a lot of "I'm sorry" in a row.

On the scale of light years, sending huge amounts of information in PBs does require huge amounts of money.

Starting from this report, with the passage of time, the interval between the Deep Space Foundation's sending of information began to grow longer and longer. By now, no one will recall the original ambitious deep space plan. When the economy is down, everyone just cares about themselves.

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

The Deep Space Foundation, the original behemoth, has finally gone into true decline in the wind and rain...

In various intermittent reports, it can be known that the Cold War lasted for 120 years.

Destruction is always simpler than construction. Various space weapons cannot directly destroy the planet, but they can easily destroy various ecosystems.

For example, in various space cities, a few shots of lasers can leak the air inside. There is no way for lasers to intercept them; the huge earth is simply a moving target, and the use of various weapons to destroy the ozone layer is simply too much. It’s easy, but it can make a major change in the earth’s ecological environment...

Especially all kinds of genetic weapons, biochemical weapons~IndoMTL.com~The cost is very small, but the destructive power is huge, it is simply too easy to want to kill people on a large scale.

In this tightrope walking situation, governments of all countries have tremblingly maintained restraint, and local wars have only been fought on Mars.

Just like the original nuclear deterrence, when the nuclear bomb is mounted on the launch pad, it is the time when the deterrence is greatest. Everyone struggled for the economy, but didn't want to cause a huge backlash and wiped out themselves.

In this way, 120 years have passed, no one has completely wiped out one side of me. Under the condition of prolonged consumption, the war-weariness in all regions has been on the rise.

So, the opportunity for peace finally came slowly...

"Dear Earth Age, colleagues of the Golden Sun. This summer is a year of melting glaciers, and we usher in true peace! Thanks to the world, perhaps our civilization can still get out of the trough."

Zhang Yuan's spirits refreshed.

A great man named "Quincy" appeared on the earth and gave a speech of the century. Under various opportunities, he actually renewed the peace of the whole world.