Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 839

At a mine outside of Marcel, huge mining units dropped from the sky and quickly deployed mining robots and refining equipment on the frozen land.

After many upgrades, the mining robots have become spider-like. Their mechanical arms are flexible and powerful, waving their constantly rotating mining heads and making a harsh roar.

These robots are peeling back layers of ice and permafrost from the mine's surface, exposing the mineral deposits buried deep below.

Then they began destructive mining, with huge drills digging deep into the rock and tearing the ore out of the ground.

These ores are not transported away directly, but are sent to the refining equipment nearby for preliminary smelting.

The refining equipment is like a small factory. The high-temperature furnace inside heats the ore, separates impurities, and finally makes it into crude metal ingots.

These ingots will be neatly stacked on the transport platform, waiting to be transported back to the floating city for secondary refining.

This is the latest improvement made by Perfect to improve mining efficiency.

She knew very well that even the roughly selected ore still took up a lot of space, and the space in the floating city was limited and could not accommodate too much unprocessed ore.

Not to mention, ore smelting on a floating city not only consumes a large amount of fuel, but also produces a large amount of slag, which not only takes up space but may also pollute the environment of the floating city.

Of course, Perfect would not allow the floating city to dump slag along the way. That would be too casual and not in line with her ultimate pursuit of efficiency and resources.

Therefore, after further improvements and upgrades, the current mining units can not only mine ore efficiently, but also carry out preliminary smelting on the mine site to turn the ore into rough metal.

In this way, the volume of materials transported back to the floating city is greatly reduced and the purity is higher. Only secondary refining is required to obtain satisfactory raw materials.

This improvement not only saves space and fuel consumption in the floating city, but also reduces the production of slag, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

At the edge of the mine, several engineers were nervously monitoring the operation of the mining unit.

There was fatigue on their faces, but their eyes sparkled with awe for technology.

"The efficiency of these mining units is amazing," an engineer exclaimed in a low voice. "Countess Brandelis is indeed the most talented alchemist in the empire. Her technology always breaks people's cognition."

"Yes," another engineer nodded, with a hint of mixed emotions in his tone, "I just don't know how many people are paying the price for such efficiency..."

Their conversation was drowned out by the roar of the mining robots, while the mines in the distance continued to be peeled off, as if the earth was silently enduring this ruthless exploitation.

Not far from them, a young miner crouched down, pressed his whole body into the snow, and peeped carefully.

He is said to be a young man, but in fact he is just a half-grown child.

He was only fourteen or fifteen years old, with a childish look on his face. His shoulders were thin and his back was slightly hunched, as if he was suffocating under the pressure of life.

However, in today's France, even such half-grown children have to bear the burden of family and society prematurely.

Economic depression and social unrest have plunged countless families into poverty and despair.

These children, who should have been studying in school and running in the sun, have to enter society early and do jobs that are enough to exhaust an adult in order to support themselves and even their families. They operate dangerous machines in factories or carry heavy goods at docks in the cold wind. Every day, their bodies and minds are suffering from unimaginable torture.

Most of them, like this child, suffer from severe malnutrition, with sallow complexions, sunken eye sockets, and skinny bodies that look as if they could be blown down by a gust of wind.

Hands and feet are often covered with frostbite, blood seeps from the cracked skin, and every step is accompanied by excruciating pain.

He also had various illnesses, such as cough, fever, and joint pain, but he had no money to treat them, so he could only endure and continue working.

For France, this is what their life has become since they lost that outrageous war.

That war not only took away countless young lives, but also plunged the entire country into the abyss of economic collapse and social unrest.

The humiliation of defeat was like a sharp knife, piercing deeply into the hearts of every Frenchman.

Where there was once prosperity and pride, now only ruins and despair remain.

Factories closed down, farmland became barren, prices soared, and hunger and cold became people's daily companions.

The arrival of the doomsday winter has turned the already terrible life into hell.

The snow and wind were raging, fuel was in short supply, and countless people were shivering in the cold wind, and some even froze to death on the streets.

France, this once glorious country, now seems to have been forgotten in the corner of the world, leaving only endless suffering and struggle.

However, for Jiang Boer who was spying on the mining unit, all of this would eventually be liquidated and repaid.

He crouched behind the cold rocks, staring closely at the Victorian mining machinery in the distance.

Those huge machines roared and greedily devoured France's land and resources, as if mocking the powerlessness and submission of this land.

But in Jiang Bo'er's eyes, whether it is these machines in front of him that are plundering the resources of the French, or everything that the Victorians have imposed on the French - plunder, oppression, and humiliation - one day they will be repaid double!
Every French person thinks so, and Jiang Bo'er is one of them who believes that repayment and settlement do not need to be restricted to 'someday'.

He joined a group of workers, some of the older members of which had participated in the French Revolution.

They were present at the revolution that overthrew the monarchy and even executed him using the guillotine that the king had invented.

The experiences of these veteran workers have infused the group with a spirit of resistance, and their presence has made the group’s convictions stronger.

At the same time, young people like Jiang Boer also joined in.

Although they had not experienced a revolution, they had lived under the oppression of the Victorians since childhood, and the seeds of resistance had already been planted in their hearts.

They have long been dissatisfied with the Victorian rule and are planning an uprising and rebellion to overthrow the Victorian brutal rule and restore the former glory of the French.

Perfecto's orders and the brutal oppression of France only served to catalyze the riot and uprising, causing it to break out earlier and more violently.

(End of this chapter)