Chapter 2280
The letter Mr. Truman left behind created an irreconcilable conflict between Pelius and Lin Qi.
Moreover, before his death, Mr. Truman had been devoted to purifying the military.
The military was considered an independent institution, but in reality, it was anything but independent.
The military had its own factories, its own production workshops, and held considerable shares in the Military Industrial Group.
It also maintained close ties with certain major capital interest groups, providing those enterprises with a degree of military assistance.
For example, it dispatched warships to escort the Naval Group!
Ultimately, their reason for doing so came down to profit.
The pay of federal servicemen was not particularly high. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that, apart from the financial sector, wages in every industry in the Federation were not particularly high. They were all calculated according to the standards of the Minimum Wage Law.
Even at the rank of general, they earned only a little over two thousand dollars a month.
Obviously, it was impossible to say that this was not enough. They did not need to spend extra money on food, clothing, housing, or transportation, so those two thousand dollars were pure income.
But saying that two thousand dollars was enough was complete bullshit!
People living in this world needed social connections. A federal general could not socialize with a homeless person by the roadside.
The people they socialized with were either servicemen of equal rank or major capitalists in society.
The income of generals who held military authority was lower than that of a capitalist. This left many officers feeling more or less unbalanced.
They protected their country. They sacrificed and devoted themselves. Yet people far behind the front lines stood above them when it came to wealth! On top