The time has come to 2026.

The annual Lunar New Year is coming soon.

But for Captain Meng Yunfeng of the Second Company, Third Battalion, Third Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the First Land Corps, this year is a little different from previous years.

In previous years, this time of year is the peak time for applications for leave to go home, but only one-third of the applications will be approved. In other words, under the fairest circumstances, the probability of each legionnaire being able to go home for the New Year and reunite with his family is about 33%.

To be fair, every officer and soldier can only go home for the New Year once every three years.

Of course, it does not mean that officers and soldiers cannot go home. On the contrary, they have many opportunities to go home. Due to the flexible adjustment and leave system, even the most basic soldiers can go home as long as they complete their 225 days of full service each year.

The remaining 140 days are all sunny holidays, so it’s 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 Country, during his service in the legion, he can work for 200 consecutive days without rest unless he is injured or sick, but each rest lasts for a full four months.

He passed the screening and joined the First Marine Corps at the age of 28. At that time, he had already started a family and had a son and a daughter. His wife Zhang Qing did not work and focused on taking care of the children at home. The living expenses of the family of four, plus the mortgage and car loan, all fell on Meng Yunfeng alone. Although his salary was not low, he could not save much money every month. He was a typical family living paycheck to paycheck.

Later, seeing the recruitment advertisement released by the Dark Group, Meng Yunfeng, who had good physical fitness and a good habit of exercising, made up his mind and went to Gangbia. He successfully joined the First Land Corps and started a military career wearing exoskeleton armor and carrying a rifle.

The treatment provided by the Dark Group is of course impeccable. The lowest-level private has a basic salary of 50,000 yuan per month. In recent years, thanks to his outstanding performance, Meng Yunfeng, who has reached the sixth level of military rank, has seen his basic salary increase to more than 120,000 yuan per month.

Including holiday benefits, task subsidies, year-end bonuses, etc., he earns nearly 1.5 million yuan every year, and does not have to pay any taxes.

This level of salary is ten times what he earned in his previous job.

But even so.

He still couldn't save any money.

The woman at home spends money lavishly. The more you earn, the more she spends. A million-dollar annual salary is nothing to her.

However, Meng Yunfeng had nothing to complain about. After all, in response to the policy of encouraging population growth, his wife Zhang Qing gave birth to a son and a daughter for him in recent years. Now he has four children, who can form a table by themselves.

Moreover, although the country's policies are good now, there is a direct reward of 50,000 yuan for having a child, free admission to public kindergartens, and 12 years of free education. Most of the medical expenses are reimbursed in case of illness. It seems to have greatly reduced the burden on a couple.

But this is just a routine. If the number of children in your family increases to four, the original three-bedroom, two-living-room house will definitely not be enough. You have to at least move to a larger house with four bedrooms and two living rooms, and you also have to change your car to one with a larger space... The house and car will bring at least millions of extra expenses.

In addition, as the number of the next generation increases, competition in the education field begins to become fiercer. Compulsory education is only the foundation, and extracurricular training classes are the main battlefield. In order not to fall too far behind, children must be enrolled in at least 3 to 4 training classes every year... This is another considerable expense.

Adding other expenses, if you choose to carefully educate your child, each child will cost at least 50,000 yuan per year.

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

For this kind of game with almost no upper limit, Meng Yunfeng's annual salary of one million is not enough at all, and it does not even meet the standard of the middle class.

However, Meng Yunfeng likes children very much. Since conditions permit, his wife Zhang Qing does not object to having more children. The older generation is smiling from ear to ear. As the saying goes, more children means more blessings, and saving money is not as good as saving people. Compared with those selfish DINKs who only care about their own enjoyment, they are simply role models for the country.

But four children is indeed the upper limit. If they have more, they will probably be raised in a free-range manner with low quality, and his wife Zhang Qing will not be able to take care of them. Being tossed around by a bunch of children will make him age at least twice as fast as his peers, so they decided to stop here and concentrate on raising these children in the future.

This year, just like last year, Meng Yunfeng had no chance to go home for the New Year. He could only continue to stay with Gangbia and use video calls to ease his longing.

However, there has been a welcome change this year.

That is, the top brass of the corps has introduced a new welfare policy. Not only did they allow relatives to visit, they also set aside the first batch of 3,000 places, allowing the families of 3,000 outstanding officers to be resettled in the "Officers' Family Community" in St. Mary's City. After living in the community for a period of time, there is a great possibility that they will be able to move to the space city in the future and become the first batch of space immigrants!

This really makes people breathe quickly and their hearts pound.

What are the benefits of migrating to a space city?

Some people may be dismissive, thinking that space is cold and deserted, while the ground is comfortable and lively, and the supporting facilities there are not perfect. Who would be willing to go there?

How could these ignorant people understand the feelings of the officers of the Land Corps who knew some inside information?

To give the simplest example, in the medical field, two life-extending operations have been successfully completed recently, and the "life-extending medical" technology, which has been announced to extend the patient's effective life expectancy to 130 years, is currently exclusive to the powerful. In the next 20 to 30 years, ordinary people can only dream of life-extending medical services except for waiting in long queues and paying more than tens of millions of dollars.

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