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Chapter 577 Blood stains

Article title: Records of work in the Stone Breaking Star Region
Release time: May 1014, 5, 4th Era, Crystal Platform

Posted by: Eillie, C2 technician at Wells Mining Company
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In 992, I followed my father to live in the Central Star Region. In 998, I entered a pretty good university. In 1003, I joined the famous 'Wells' mining company. After two years of work, I applied for a job in the Northwest Star Region. From 06 to 11, I worked at 'Black Sea-Σ' in the Gravel Star Region.

When my friends and family knew that I was assigned to work in the remote northwest star region, they were very nervous at first because the living conditions here were not good and it was said to be unstable. In fact, these five years of work were the most relaxing and comfortable days in my working life. For those of us who were assigned here from the central star region, our salary would be doubled, plus various subsidies, and the actual salary we received might be 3-5 times that of our counterparts in the central star region.

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 areas here were not destroyed, and most of them were transferred to official control. After the war, this place was handed over to a series of giant companies such as "Wells" that won the civil war. Originally, 80% of the local engineers here were laid off, leaving only a few for necessary handovers. They signed new contracts with the company and contacted people to bring their families to the safe central star region. These engineers were very happy. In fact, they also worked diligently to undertake a lot of work, and we formal employees only needed to watch and applaud.

Ordinary people may not know how valuable a high-quality super mine is. When it is just developed, that is, when the drill is all effective ore, it is the most profitable and the lowest cost. As the development progresses, the high-purity ore in the main vein becomes less and less, and only the sparse and marginal branches of the vein can be mined. It takes a lot of effort to purify and remove impurities and mixtures. When the impurities reach a certain level and the profit is getting lower and lower, we have to seal the mining area.

Most of the mining areas and oil fields in the world are like this. The mining volume only accounts for a small part of the total reserves. Not developing the rest is purely for cost reasons. High-profit, low-cost mining areas 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 get high-return mining areas with low bids, vigorously develop them during the high-profit cycle, and when the profits fall, sell them to other unskilled companies, and then concentrate the funds on the next high-profit mining area.

How to obtain a good mining area 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 mining areas through pure market trading. Some new players in this industry can only buy mines that have been mined and have low profit returns. Therefore, it is almost impossible for latecomers to compete with our old companies in this industry.

I think this is also the reason why many new companies would rather invest heavily in new material research than to work on special materials that are already good, because under the existing rules, many nodes have been controlled and blocked by monopoly giants, just like during the civil war in the past, when the giant enterprise alliance in the northwest region controlled the 'Annihilation Six-Dimensional Crystal' battleship central axis main gun technology, which forced the coalition forces in the southeast region to develop new battleship main guns in the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Field, because the mining areas that produce 'Annihilation Six-Dimensional Crystal' are almost all in the northwest star field 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 after arriving, we transfer to other cars or take a small shuttle to various work locations. We are escorted by security personnel throughout the journey. In my opinion, this kind of 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. The slightly larger armed forces will be attacked by the starships in orbit. The entire star region is under satellite monitoring.

After the minerals are mined, they undergo simple separation and purification, and then are transported by train to the space elevator in the middle, from where they can be transferred to the star port and then sent to the central star field. This place is much safer than the prosperous areas in the star field. I remember once on a business trip in the capital district, I encountered a local resistance organization carrying out a terrorist attack, and the train tracks were blown up. At least this would not happen here.

These mines 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 field, they are all brought directly from the central star field by ships transporting minerals. Anyway, the ships are empty when they come, so it is not a loss to bring some.

We have nothing to do with life supplies, maintenance parts, security, and hired security providers in the Central Star Region. We have our own power plants for energy consumption, and our output has nothing to do with the local star region. Economically speaking, the Gravel Star Region has completely lost these mines. It does not provide large-scale high-paying jobs, nor does it train high-tech 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 channel. This is a major benefit for us, because future pensions and medical benefits will also be enjoyed according to the Central Star Region standards.

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 understand 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 it is said that the Central Parliament does not trust the failed northwestern star regions and is unwilling to return the income from these industries to the local star regions on the grounds that they cannot aid the enemy, it seems to make sense. However, nearly a hundred years after the end of the civil war, we still have not paid the taxes to the local star region governments. This shows that the bigwigs in the central star region really do not want to keep this wealth in the local area.

I think the federal top leaders have never truly forgiven the northwestern star regions. If the federation wants this to become a wealthy star region, it doesn't even need to allocate annual funding. It only needs to transfer 20% of the local mining area's income to the local government, which will be enough to revitalize the local economy.

This not only happened in the mineral production industry. After the victory of the civil war, the government took over the local star field's water sources, transportation, electricity, transportation, communications, agricultural and pastoral markets, as well as imports and exports of various industries. The original local leading companies in these industries were broken up by the parliament because they were suspected of funding the enemy at the time and were considered unreliable and the financiers behind the resistance forces.

Afterwards, all 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 siphoned away, leaving only the rare leftovers, which were fought over by local people. I don't deny that the people in this star field have regained stability, much more stable than during the civil war, but what about the majority of ordinary people in the future? Many of them are not fanatics who sympathize with the losing side, and they cannot get good jobs, nor do they have good social security. How can these people continue to live? Just like we don't pay taxes to the local area on our income, 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 passed away too early. After her death, there was no strong leader who could boldly carry out this plan. After all, this was the defeated party. If you were too kind to the Northwest Star Field as a politician, you would be suspected of being the remnant of the enemy. In order to take care of the emotions of the victorious party in the civil war and for the interests of the forces to which you belong, many seemingly incomprehensible current situations gradually became clear.

There are many political explanations for why there have always been resistance forces in the northwestern star regions, but in my opinion, this is because when people are forced into despair, they will definitely give it a try, since they will die anyway. Rather than saying that the many northwestern star regions are dissatisfied and vengeful, in my opinion, they 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? Actually, it's not entirely true. Many stars and singers in the Central Star Region are very sympathetic. They also hold many charity events, but it is difficult for many stars and singers 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. The Northwest Star Region is relatively poor and backward, and it was not stable before, so few stars are willing to come.

There is no conspiracy in the barrenness of the Stone Sector, it is just the pure pursuit of short-term profit maximization, which is more important than long-term political gains. Many locals died, and society was numb and depressed, but what does this have to do with those of us who work in the "isolated" mining area? We got promotions and bonuses, what does their life and death have to do with me?
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This is a self-narrative record of a company employee about 200 years ago. At that time, after the article was published, it aroused widespread resonance and many local residents were excited. In the following ten years, many protests broke out in the northwest star region, as well as dozens of super-large marches every year.

The situation improved in 1036, when the singer from the northern star field, 'Cangse Xinzhu' Eradiya, a goat-horned woman with silver-gray braids, was officially promoted to a 'Xiri-level' singer. She gained the support of all other singers in the northern star field, as well as the votes of all orcs. Under her leadership, the political power of the northern star field increased greatly. In order to balance the power of the aristocratic families in the central star field, she supported the political power of the northwestern region. Based on the proposal of the central parliament, a return bill was passed to return the tax rights of industries related to people's livelihood to the local star field government.

In the following fifty years, the northwestern star regions gradually recovered. Although they were still poorer than other star regions, at least they could survive. It was also from that time that the rebel armed forces in the northwestern region gradually ceased and slowly entered a stable state.

However, 'Cang Se Xin Zhu' Eladeya failed to become a 'Scorching Sun Class' singer after all. She died 80 years later, and then the northwestern star regions lost their voice again. After all, their economic foundation was too poor to compete with the central star region forces that occupied huge resources.

Time went by, and in the following hundred years or so, several singing girls emerged in the northwestern star regions. However, these singing girls either gradually assimilated into the prosperous central star region, or did not enter the "Moon Level" and their influence was always limited.

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

'We want to survive.'

'The lesions caused by the pollution have turned my children into 'alien'. '

'Give us those facilities back.'

In the gray screen-like photo, a crowd of people linked their arms and walked forward step by step facing fully armed guns. Many of them were covered in dust, and it was hard to imagine that this was a scene from the interstellar age. A mother, who was leading the group, knelt on the ground, holding up the swaddling clothes in her hands. The child in the baby's arms had a strange appearance and one of his eyes was crooked, which was frightening.

The picture gradually darkened, and the bright red words in the projection were like dried blood stains, slowly solidifying.

(End of this chapter)