cosmic hegemony

Chapter 346, 22nd Century
On December 2099th of the lunar calendar in 12, this time is calculated according to the Chinese time on this side of the earth. At the Yanhuang Square in the middle of Chang'an City, the capital of the empire, Xingyanhuangxing was already crowded with millions of people. The most sacred and solemn places together welcome the arrival of the new century.

The figures of Li Fu and Wang Yun were also there, just like countless young couples. At this time, Wang Yun was nestled in Li Fu's arms, looking towards the center of the square, listening to countless people around him shouting the countdown together.

"5!"

"3!"

"1!"

With the end of the countdown, the fireworks that had been prepared for a long time bloomed in the dark night sky in an instant. The new century has arrived, and countless people are cheering and shouting constantly.

"In a blink of an eye we're all over 100 years old, old man."

Wang Yun gently offered a kiss to Li Fu. Li Fu has been very busy all this time and rarely has time to be alone with him. I ran out alone and came to Yanhuang Square to celebrate the arrival of the new century with millions of people.

You must know that the two are full of children and grandchildren now. At the beginning, they had 8 children. After nearly 100 years, the branches and leaves have spread, and now Lao Li's family is also prosperous. In the past, it must be with his family during the Chinese New Year. , where there is a chance to live a two-person world.

Although they say they are old men, Li Fu and Wang Yun look no different from when they were at Huaxia Yanhuang University. They are still very young, just like countless young couples around them, so that no one around them has noticed. The emperor was actually with himself.

"Let's go, let's go back, old woman, the children probably have to wait."

Li Fu also said with a smile on his face, the empire opened Yuanli cultivation, even if there is no achievement in cultivation, it can prolong life. It is very likely that it is also an old monster that has lived for hundreds of years.

Back in the imperial palace, the entire imperial palace was very lively at this time. The members of the imperial royal family who are usually stationed in various galaxies and planets of the empire have all returned to the imperial palace at this time. They must go home during the Chinese New Year. This is what Li Fu has always emphasized Except for special circumstances, such as Li Wandu who is on a national mission, when he is fighting abroad, he must go home for a gathering during the Chinese New Year.

Li Fu's father and mother had gray hair and lost all their teeth. Although they had cultivated Yuanli all along, they were already very old when they practiced, and the effect was weak. They could only pray for the effect of prolonging life. Coupled with reasonable adjustments, I have lived up to now, but it is almost time to run out of fuel and lamps to dry up.

At this time, the two old people, with the support of their grandsons Li Wanzhou and Li Wansheng, looked at the lively children who were constantly playing and laughing, and they were able to live to see everything now. It can be said that they have no regrets in this life. .

"Dad, mom."

Li Fu's younger brother, Li Xing's family, had also come over, and it was also a very large family. A group of little kids became one in an instant, and the entire palace was filled with the sound of their frolicking and squabbling, which completely lost the majesty of the past.

Li Fu also acquiesced in this point. In the past, it was the imperial palace, but on the eve of the New Year's Eve, this is home. Since it is home, it should be played with the children.

"It's almost time for the reunion dinner, where did your brother and sister-in-law go?"

Li Fu's father checked the time and asked Li Xing.

"Grandpa, Mom and Dad ran to Yanhuang Square to welcome the New Year."

Li Wanzhou said with a helpless smile.

Although the time is that time, but at this time the Yanhuang star is just eating dinner time, this is different every year during Chinese New Year, some New Year's Eve is during the daytime, sometimes in winter, sometimes The time is in summer, Yanhuang star's revolution and autobiography are different from the earth, so this will happen. This year is a relatively good one, and it is at night.

"Call them back, really, the whole family is waiting for the two of them, do you want to put on airs of the emperor when you go home?"

Li Fu's father said angrily.

"I am back."

At this moment, Li Fu walked in holding Wang Yun's hand, and immediately more than a dozen little kids rushed up, each of them opened their little eyes wide and stretched out their hands.

"Hug! Hug!"

Where can Li Fu and Wang Yun hug, they can only touch this one, kiss that one, each of them is a sweetheart.

Soon, with the return of Li Fu and Wang Yun, the reunion dinner officially began to be put on the table. There were too many people in the family, and dozens of tables were set up. According to the rules, the reunion dinner was also made by their own family. The wives of Wang Yun, Li Wanzhou, and Li Wansheng of the third generation will be the wives of the grandchildren in the future, and this will be passed down from generation to generation.

The palace of New Year's Eve is destined to be spent in laughter and laughter like countless families in the empire!
The next morning, Li Fu woke up early from the bed, looking at the beautiful woman beside him, Li Fu's movements of getting up also became lighter, for fear of disturbing Wang Yun's dream.

When he came to his office, Li Fu gently opened the map of the empire and looked carefully.

It has been nearly 20 years since it was decided to stop the expansion of the empire and consolidate the existing territory first. In the past 20 years, the territory of the empire has not changed a bit, and it has not expanded even if it is a galaxy. The original 30+ galaxies.

However, with the large-scale promotion of space-time ocean current sails, the time required for communication between the various galaxies of the empire is getting shorter and shorter. Now it only takes about 5 months to go from the important Yanhuang star of the empire to the Temple galaxy on the edge of the empire. Time is enough.

"The empire has not expanded abroad, but this interstellar colonization act is becoming more and more difficult to implement."

Li Fu looked at the territory of the empire, thinking about everything about the empire in his mind.

The core of the Interstellar Colonization Act is that as long as you immigrate to the new territory of the empire, you can get 100 square kilometers of permanent private land. In the past, the empire had a small population and many galaxies, so there was obviously no problem with its extremely rapid expansion.

However, once the empire stopped expanding for 20 years, problems began to emerge. The empire now has no new planets to support the implementation of the Interstellar Colonization Act, and the population of each galaxy has begun to prosper.

The long-term insistence on the compulsory birth policy, coupled with the tireless efforts of the imperial government to instill in the imperial people the idea and concern of having more children and more blessings, the promotion of Yuanli cultivation, etc., have greatly improved the physical fitness of the citizens of the empire, and the fertility rate has continued to increase. It was very high, and the death rate was very low, so the population of the empire also experienced a big explosion within 20 years.

From a population of only about 5 million at the beginning, in just 20 years, it has exceeded 22 billion in the 20nd century, a direct increase of 4 times. Of course, the population of 20 billion is still very small compared with the vast territory of the empire. It can be said that a living planet is enough.

The most direct problem brought about by the population explosion is that the empire's interstellar colonization bill is difficult to maintain, because more and more people choose to immigrate, but the number of living planets owned by the empire has not increased. Naturally, there are too many monks and too few food.

People who chose to immigrate decades ago are now making a lot of money, so the people in the empire are now very emotional about immigration. Who doesn't want to immigrate to a new galaxy and exchange a piece of permanent private land for their descendants.

"The Karan Empire has been very smart over the years. It has been doing business with the Empire silently. It did not leak the news of the Empire. It made them a lot of money, but it also integrated my mind."

"On the other hand, the Earth Federation has never stopped expanding outwards, and now it has occupied several galaxies, but it seems that the contradictions within the Earth Federation are getting deeper and deeper. As I expected, there is no common cultural basis. Even if they are barely combined, they will eventually drift apart."

Li Fu looked at the galaxies around the empire. The territory of the Earth Federation and the territory of the Karan Empire were also marked out. The Karan Empire had nothing to worry about. The battle in the Boyle galaxy was completely frightening. The Karan Empire, if the empire doesn't bother them now, everything will be fine for them.

The Earth Federation has always been dominated by China, but this position is now difficult to maintain. The empire continues to draw blood from China, which has caused China to lose countless talents, so its strength is getting worse and worse in comparison. weak.

The other is the population. Even though the Huaxia people have a policy of compulsory birth, the population growth is still very slow. On the one hand, the pressure of life is high, and on the other hand, the continuous blood draw of the empire, plus other people in the Earth Federation are particularly capable of giving birth. In the Earth Federation, the proportion of Chinese population has been continuously declining.

Therefore, within the Earth Federation, they are becoming more and more dissatisfied with Huaxia's control over the position of the President of the Earth Federation. In the new galaxy, the forces of division are becoming stronger and stronger, and several of them have already shown their signs.

One is the forces headed by powerful Western countries such as the United States, Britain, France, and Germany. They are extremely powerful and ambitious. They dared to be inferior to China. Expansion among them is now the main separatist force.

Another powerful separatist force is Japan. The Japanese are ambitious and very powerful. They have always longed for a vast country. They have already begun to plan secretly a long time ago, wanting to monopolize a galaxy.

There are also black alliances, green alliances, Indian elephants, etc., these people are restless, they do not have much right to speak, and they want to split. It can be said that although the current Earth Federation is still unified on the surface, but internally Already torn apart.

(End of this chapter)