Chapter 577 Bloodstains

Article title: Records of work in the Stone Slab Star Domain

Published: May 4, 1014, 6th Era, Crystal Platform

Publisher: Eillie, C2-level technician of the Wells Mining Company

Status: Locked and sealed (when the AI ​​palette detects the same content and text, it will be automatically deleted and blocked from the network)

Content:

In 992, I followed my father to live in the Central Star Domain. In 998, I entered a good university. In 1003, I entered the famous Wells Mining Company. After working for two years, I applied for a job in the Northwest Star Domain. From 2006 to 2011, I worked at the Black Sea-Σ in the Stone Slab Star Domain. When my

friends and family knew that I was sent to work in the remote Northwest Star Domain, they were very nervous at first, because the living conditions here were not good and it was said that it was not stable. In fact, these five years of work were the most relaxed and comfortable days in my working life. For those of us who were sent here from the Central Star Domain, our wages would be doubled. With various subsidies, the actual wages we received might be 3-5 times that of our counterparts in the Central Star Domain.

Although we have to work overtime occasionally, the climate here is not as bad as imagined, and the workload is not much heavier than the stable central star region. Moreover, we can get three months of vacation for every month we work. Let's put it this way, I can get five times the salary for working 4 to 5 months a year. I only need to bask in the sun and blow the wind and sand. After get off work, I can only play games in the game cabin without exciting entertainment and good-looking girls. Moreover, I will be given priority in promotion. This is really profitable. Therefore, some colleagues who know the inside story will rush to come here for business trips, but those of us who arrived first will hold on tightly and find all kinds of reasons to stay here, and will not leave even if we are promoted.

We are very safe in the Gravel Star Region. When the civil war was going on, the mining area here was not destroyed. Most of it was transferred to official control. After the war, it was transferred to a series of giant companies such as "Wells" that won the civil war. Originally, 80% of the local engineers here were dismissed, leaving only a few for necessary handovers. They signed new contracts with the company and contacted people to take their families to the safe central star region. These engineers were very happy. In fact, they also diligently undertook a lot of work. We, the formal employees, just watched and applauded.

Ordinary people may not know how precious a high-quality extraordinary mine is. When it was just developed, that is, when the drill bit went down, it was all effective ore, which was the most profitable and the lowest cost. As the development progressed, the high-purity ore in the main vein became less, and only the sparse edge of the vein branch could be mined. It took a lot of effort to purify and remove impurities and mixtures. When the impurities reached a certain level and the profit became lower and lower, we had to seal the mining area.

This is the case for most mines and oil fields in the world. The amount of mining only accounts for a small part of the total reserves. Not developing the remaining part is purely for cost reasons. High-profit, low-cost mines and oil fields are important assets of the company. In this era, the old mineral companies have long transformed into asset management companies. What we have to do is to obtain high-return mines with low bids, vigorously develop them during the high-profit cycle, and when the profits fall, sell them to other non-professional companies, and then concentrate the funds on the next high-profit mine.

How to get a good mine or oil field at a low price is something that cannot be described, but in today's era, these are almost inseparable from corruption. It is almost impossible to obtain truly high-quality mines through pure market trading. Some new players in this industry can only buy mines with low profit returns after being mined by others. Therefore, it is almost impossible for latecomers to compete with our old companies in this industry.

I think this is why many new companies would rather invest heavily in new material research than to make good special materials, because under the existing rules, many nodes have been controlled and blocked by monopoly giants, just like in the past civil war, the giant enterprise alliance in the northwest region controlled the main axis gun technology of the battleship of the "Annihilation Color Six-Dimensional Crystal", which forced the coalition forces in the southeast region to develop new battleship main guns in the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region, because the mining areas that produce the "Annihilation Color Six-Dimensional Crystal" are almost all in the northwest star region and are controlled by the local giant enterprise alliance.

There is no safety concern when working in the mining area of ​​the Gravel Star Region. We take a car from the residential base, and transfer or take a small shuttle to various work locations after arriving. There are security personnel escorting us throughout the journey. In my opinion, this escort is useless, and the company later cancelled it. After the victory of the civil war, although many armed resistance factions have emerged in the northwest star regions in the past hundred years, these small forces cannot shake the situation. Slightly larger armed forces will be specifically attacked by starships in orbit, and the entire star region is under satellite monitoring.

After the minerals are mined, they are simply separated and purified, and then transported to the space elevator in the central part by train. There they can be transferred to the star port and then sent to the central star region. This place is much safer than the prosperous areas in the star region. I remember once when I was on a business trip in the capital area, I encountered a local resistance organization carrying out a terrorist attack, and the train tracks were blown up. At least this will not happen here.

These mines and mining areas are like isolated islands in the desert, belonging to the local area and not belonging to the local area. Our supplies have nothing to do with the local star region. They are all brought directly from the central star region by the ships that transport minerals. Anyway, when we come here, the ships are empty, so it is not a loss to bring some. It

has nothing to do with life supplies, maintenance parts, security, and the security provider hired by the central star region. Personnel arrangements have nothing to do with the local area. We have our own power station for energy consumption, and the output has nothing to do with the local star region. Economically speaking, the Gravel Star Region has completely lost these mines. It neither provides large-scale high-paying jobs nor trains highly skilled personnel. I even suspect that the company does not pay taxes to the local star region government because our wages are all paid through the central star region channels. This is a great benefit for us, because future pensions and medical benefits will also be enjoyed according to the standards of the central star field.

The mines and mining areas that could have benefited tens of millions of local people have now become a small treasury for a few thousand corporate employees. Behind our high profits and high wages are the plight of countless local people. Thinking of this, I can figure out that my high income does not come entirely from my skills, but thanks to this unfair distribution and the victory of the Federation in the civil war. I now even think that it is reasonable for Wells to increase my salary by dozens of times. After all, behind me, there are tens of thousands of residents in this star field who have lost their basic security. At that time, I was just touched and didn't figure it out. Now I think I should ask, these wealth that originally belonged to the star field and the Federation, except for a small part of it that was distributed to us employees in the form of "high positions and generous salaries", where did most of the rest go.

If the Central Council does not trust the failed Northwestern Star Regions, and is unwilling to return these industrial incomes to the local star region because they cannot support the enemy, it seems reasonable. However, nearly a hundred years after the end of the civil war, we still have not handed over the taxes to the local star region government. It can be seen that the bigwigs in the Central Star Region really do not want to keep this wealth in the local area.

I think the upper echelons of the Federation have not really forgiven the Northwestern Star Regions. If the Federation wants this to become a wealthy star region, it does not even need to allocate annual aid. It only needs to transfer 20% of the income of the local mining area to the local government to make the local economy active.

This is not only happening in the mineral production industry. After the victory of the civil war, the government took over the local star region’s water source, transportation, electricity, transportation, communications, agricultural and animal husbandry markets, and imports and exports of various industries. The original local leading enterprises in these industries were split up by the parliament because they were suspected of supporting the enemy and were considered unreliable and the financiers behind the resistance armed forces.

Later, these industries were replaced by giant companies transferred from the central and southeastern regions. A large number of high-paying jobs related to basic life were not open to local people, and the profits they earned were also largely taken away, leaving only scarce leftovers, which the locals were fighting hard to grab.

I don't deny that the people in this star field have regained stability, which is much more stable than during the civil war, but what will happen to most ordinary people in the future? Many of them are not fanatics who sympathize with the losing side, and they cannot get good jobs and have no good social security. How can these people continue to live? Just like we don't pay taxes to the local area, the industries controlled by the giant companies from the central star field will not pay taxes to the local area. Sometimes I even wonder how the local star field government is maintained. If civilians cannot get protection from formal channels, they will turn to the gray area and join the resistance armed forces. Over time, the government's voice will become worse and worse, which is not good for the long-term governance of the federation.

Judging from the policies left by Her Highness Emuralin, there should be a plan to transform and restore the local star field. Unfortunately, Her Highness Emuralin left too early. After her death, there was no strong leader who could boldly carry out this plan. After all, this is the losing side. If you are too good to the Northwest Star Field as a politician, you will be suspected of being the remnant of the enemy party. In order to take care of the emotions of the victorious party in the civil war and for the interests of their own forces, many seemingly incomprehensible current situations gradually became clear.

There are many political explanations for why there have always been resistance forces in the Northwest Star Regions, but in my opinion, this is because when people are forced into despair, they must fight, anyway, they will die. Rather than saying that the dissatisfaction and grudges in many Northwest Star Regions are actually driven crazy by those greedy giant companies and politicians, so they naturally have to fight.

You ask why the bigwigs in the Central Star Region are so cruel? In fact, it is not entirely. Many stars and singers in the Central Star Region are very sympathetic. They also hold many charity funding activities, but many stars and singers find it difficult to connect the poverty of these places with the shortage of resources under occupation, because these are the truths that can only be discovered after long-term investigations in person, and the Northwest Star Regions are relatively poor and backward, and they were not stable before, so few stars are willing to come.

There is no conspiracy in the poverty of the Gravel Star Region, but it is just a pure pursuit of short-term profit maximization, which regards profit as more important than long-term political gains. Many locals died, and society was numb and depressed, but what does this have to do with us who work in the "isolated" mining area? We got promotions and bonuses, what do their lives have to do with me?

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This is a self-narration record of a corporate employee about 200 years ago. At that time, after the article broke out, it aroused widespread resonance, and many local residents were excited. In the following ten years, many protests broke out in the Northwest Star Region, and dozens of super-large marches every year.

This situation improved in 1036, when the singer from the Northern Star Region, "Cangse Xinzhu" Eladeya, a goat-horned woman with silver-gray braids, was officially promoted to a "Sunrise-level" singer. She won the support of all other singers in the Northern Star Region and the votes of all orcs. Under her leadership, the political power of the Northern Star Region increased greatly. In order to check and balance the aristocratic families in the Central Star Region, she supported the political power in the Northwest region. In the proposal of the Central Parliament, the Restitution Act was passed to return the tax rights of livelihood-related industries to the local star region government.

In the next fifty years, the Northwest Star Region gradually recovered. Although it was still poorer than other star regions, it could at least survive. It was also from that time that the rebellious armed forces in the Northwest region gradually ceased and slowly entered a stable state.

However, 'Cyan Bamboo' Eladeya failed to become a 'Scorching Sun Class' singer. She died 80 years later, and then the Northwest Star Region lost its voice again. After all, their economic foundation was too poor to compete with the Central Star Region forces that occupied huge resources.

Time passed, and in the next hundred years, the Northwest Star Region also produced several singers, but these singers either gradually assimilated into the prosperous Central Star Region or did not enter the 'Moon Class' and their influence was always limited.

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In the small and dim room, Blanche sat on the chair under the projector, watching the scenes flashing on the screen. There were scenes of suppressing the resistance forces, workers wielding old weapons being burned to ashes by flamethrowers, large-scale demonstrations, flying papers, and signs held high, with lines of words written in bright red letters.

'We want to survive.' '

The disease caused by pollution has turned my child into an 'alien'. '

'Give those facilities back to us.'

On the gray screen-like photo, the crowd held their hands and stepped forward facing the fully armed guns. Many of them were covered in dust. It was hard to imagine that this was a scene from the interstellar era. The mother in the lead knelt on the ground, holding up the swaddling clothes in her hands. The child in the child had a strange appearance and one eye was crooked, which was terrifying.

The picture gradually darkened, and the bright red words in the projection also solidified like dried blood stains.

(End of this chapter)