Yang Bo looked at the clothes he was wearing. Their style was similar to that of Aquamarine Empire nobles. Most of the Federation's big shots came from warlord backgrounds; without some military force in the Federation, they could forget about holding on to their wealth.
That was why they lacked cultural refinement. Back on the Home Star, the Federation had been a United Emirates. This United Emirates consisted of one ethnic group, but that group was divided into several factions based on religion and race.
In its early days, the Emirates had consisted of many countries, and they had all been very poor. Later, oil was discovered. Oil had been the primary energy source on the Home Star, so under the interference of the other major powers, the various Emirates nations fell into war.
Eventually, those countries realized this would not do. They had so much oil, so why were they still so poor? The money from selling oil was not even enough to buy weapons.
So those countries formed the United Emirates in an attempt to monopolize energy.
It was also because of technological development. The other great powers no longer needed oil as their primary energy source, allowing the United Emirates to form successfully.
Riding the last glimmer of oil's glory as an energy source, the United Emirates invested heavily in science and technology and eventually became one of the three interstellar giants.
From the moment it was founded, the United Emirates had been plagued by mutual friction, all because of land.
Since oil lay underground, the more land one controlled, the more money one could claim.
And even within the same oil field, half might belong to one side and half to another. The two sides often quarreled—if you pumped more oil, I pumped less.
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