Chapter 4: The Mining Revolt

The Mining Company, the sky above the head of Area 51, controls everything in Area 51. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The meaning of the existence of a mining company is the mineral resources tens of kilometers deep underground.

Mining companies need to create profits, and they need to provide the upper nobles with all kinds of ores that they only want to increase, not decrease.

In order to achieve this purpose, the mining company provides rock drills and protective clothing to miners at cost price, including high-energy batteries, electrical energy, high-strength drill bits used in rock drills, and oxygen to fill oxygen cylinders in the mine, which are basically provided free of charge.

Otherwise, it is really necessary to strictly enforce the rule of 1 kWh of electricity and 1 credit point, and the miners will not even be able to pay the lost electricity bills for the mines.

It is important to know that most of the mining areas are 2,30 kilometers deep underground, and the hardness of the rock formations here is close to that of diamond, and it takes at least half an hour of miners to extract 1 kilogram of ore from here.

In the entire 51 area, the total annual output of various ores is only 30 million tons.

This kind of output is simply an insult to the degree of scientific and technological development of the world.

Why don't companies use large mining machines to increase production, or develop mining robots that are not prone to fatigue and sacrifice instead of labor?

The reason is mainly cost.

First, the cost of manufacturing, procurement, and use of large-scale mining machinery is too high for mining companies to bear.

Second, manual labor is cheaper, or those miners are cheap, even cheaper than mining robots, which can be used as consumables, and they are completely sufficient, very easy to use.

And the only value of the miners is mining for the mining company.

Therefore, the mining company has developed a very strict price system to ensure that the miners will not starve to death and there is no way to be lazy.

But now, this price system, in the third mining area, is being impacted.

In three years, the economic loss of the mining company in hydropower alone exceeded 20 million credits.

And the most important raw ore production, in three years, plummeted by 30%.

If this trend continues, once the third mining area also achieves self-sufficiency in grain, the output of raw ore may fall.

Other mining areas, seeing this scene, will also rush to follow suit.

This is a terrible disaster for Area 51!

"Ban it, all these new things that appear in the third mining area, I will ban them! Any means can be taken!"

After reporting the situation to the general person in charge of the company, the general person in charge of District 51 said to Fang Zhihong.

"Yes, Mr. Wang!"

……

The fierce struggle between the iron family and the mining company in the third mining area officially began.

At the beginning, it was a warning, and the staff sent by the mining company asked the Tie family to release all fresh water, turn off the generator, and dismantle the greenhouse within three days, otherwise they would accept the company's punishment and sanctions!

Of course, the Tie family didn't buy it, the mining company was only in charge of the mine, so why should they be in charge of the affairs in the living area? What are they doing in the living area, and why should the company be in charge?

Area 51 is a rather loose anarchic area, the mining company is only responsible for mining affairs, as well as the supply of materials, the more than 300 underground mining areas, the company does not send personnel to manage, all mining areas, in fact, are in a state of chaos and autonomy, and most of the miners are strong and difficult to tame, the mining company, do not want to pay too high management costs, to manage these miners.

Therefore, the Tie family still went its own way, not only did not demolish these facilities as required, but increased the protection of manpower and made all the response plans.

But the arm, how can it be twisted over the thigh?

On the fourth day, the mining company only sold all kinds of materials in the store to the third mining area, all the prices increased tenfold, and canceled the supply of a large number of important materials, the third mining area immediately fell into a panic.

The brothers of the Jin family and the brothers of the wolf family did not forget to fall into the well, and took this opportunity to lead people to impact many times and smash a greenhouse of the Tie family.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming had already anticipated this situation, and while hoarding a large number of materials in advance, he also asked Tie Qiang to send people to the fourth and fifth mining areas next door to buy a large number of materials, the more the better!

After all, the E7 area can achieve partial self-sufficiency, and there is only the third mining area at present, and the prices in other mining areas are unlikely to change much, and if they also rise tenfold at the same time, it is strange that the miners do not all rebel.

After perceiving this situation, Fang Zhihong was not easy to follow, he was ruthless, and he actually raised the prices of the ten mining areas in the E7 area under his jurisdiction by 10 times, and told the miners in these ten districts on the radio: "I want you to destroy the water source of the Tiejia family in the third district, destroy their generators and greenhouses!" Kill all the people in this family, the price will fall, and the company will reduce you by another 10%!"

Hearing the news from the radio, Zhou Ming knew that if he wanted to survive, it would be impossible not to implement that plan, so he immediately said to Tie Qiang: "Now, I can only implement Plan E." ”

"Plan E?"

Tie Qiang smiled miserably on his face, and slammed his fist on the rock wall: "Company, you forced me! Since you want us to die, we won't let you have a good time!"

After speaking, Tie Qiang's family, put on thick miners' protective clothing, brought more than 50 people, holding hammers and rock drills in their hands, and on the same day, they rushed into the company store in the mine, killed the clerk, looted the materials in the store, and distributed all these materials to the onlookers outside.

Not only that, after ransacking the company shops in the mining area, this group of people also looted all the company stores in the first, second, fourth, fifth, and sixth mining areas in the surrounding areas in the next day or two, and after distributing all the materials they had grabbed to the onlookers, they also issued a revolutionary declaration to these people:

"Enough!"

"We've had enough!"

"We can't live a day like this!"

"The company, the mining company, treats us as slaves in captivity, mining, mining, non-stop mining, and makes us use our lives to mine! How many wives lose their husbands and how many children lose their fathers every year, and the company will not give them a single credit point of compensation!"

"We are fortunate to be miserable, risking our lives, what is the reward in exchange? Is it a little bit of remuneration that is only enough for us to make ends meet, it is under the careful calculation of the company, we will go hungry for a day if we don't work, 6-year-old children, have to follow the mine, miners in their 40s who can't work, are disqualified from going to the mine......"

"Slaves, we are just a group of slaves, a group of humble ants! The value of our existence is not as good as a piece of ore in the eyes of those people in the company!"

"Who else wants to continue to live like this? Or like us, no longer digging any piece of mine under the ground, but using the hammer in his hand to smash the heads of those company employees, and using the rock drill in his hand to chisel open the lockers of the store!

"Yes, we may all die, but only a few years sooner, and we prefer to die in the depths of the earth rather than die in poverty and hunger!"

"Are you tired of this life? What are you hesitating about? Come on, come and join us! Put on your miner's suit and go mining with us!"

After listening to the manifesto, soon, the first miner joined them.

Then came the second, the third...... The tenth, the hundredth, the thousandth......

In just one week, like scattering a spark on a pile of dry firewood, the miners' uprising in the E7 area quickly burned like a fire, and soon swept away the corporate forces in the area in an instant.

Fang Zhihong fled in a hurry and urgently reported the situation to his superiors, and when "Mr. Wang" learned of the situation, he scolded the waste and immediately ordered someone to drag this guy out and throw him into the mine.

In order to quell the rebellion and not disrupt the company's production plan, "Mr. Wang" mobilized more than 20 garrison forces and organized a 5,000-strong encirclement and suppression team, all equipped with chemical automatic rifles and a small number of high-energy electric guns, striving to completely suppress this rebel force in a relatively short period of time.

However, three years have passed, this rebel army, not only has not been eliminated, but has broken the encirclement and suppression again and again, not only causing heavy losses to the company, but also expanding the territory controlled by the rebels from ten mining areas to more than 100 mining areas, and the number of rebels has also increased from more than 1,000 at the beginning to more than 30,000 people, and using a large number of weapons seized from the company's encirclement and suppression team, the company has been suppressed and retreated.

The rebels used guerrilla tactics in the mines, the losses were very small, and the weapons used by the company's encirclement and suppression team, automatic rifles were difficult to penetrate the protective clothing worn by the miners, and the range of high-energy electric light guns was short.

Later, the company sent a special force equipped with advanced detective equipment, equipped with life detectors and radar scanners, which brought great losses to the rebels, but this special force of hundreds of people was seconded from other bottom areas and belonged to the ground troops, and was not familiar with the underground mines, and was soon lost......

In the fifth year of the uprising, seeing more than 300 underground mining areas, more than 200 of which had been controlled by the rebels, the company's newly appointed general director, "Mr. Long", made a decision that shocked everyone:

"Close the 29 vents, leave only one, tell all the miners to come out of the ground, come up to a miner, put an 'explosion neck ring' on him, the rebels who did not come out, close all the vents, wait until all the rats below are dead, the mining area has become clean, and then let the miners go down. ”

This plan can be described as vicious, because once the underground mining area loses the external oxygen supply and no longer maintains a state of ventilation, the poisonous gas and natural body that seeps out of the rock cracks will soon turn the entire mining area into a dead area unsuitable for human life, and if the human beings in the underground mining area are not evacuated to the surface within seven days, they will basically die.

And no matter how thoughtful Zhou Ming's plan was, he did not expect this situation to occur.

A situation that amounts to a reshuffle.

So, when the rebel high-level was collectively panicked, Zhou Ming could only give Tie Qiang advice like this:

"Now we have to dig an escape route and escape to the surface, or hide in a shallow mine with better ventilation, and then go back underground when the company restarts the ventilation equipment. ”

However, at this time, the rebel troops, which had swelled to 100,000 people, plus more than 300,000 family members, a population of nearly 400,000, and a huge amount of food and fresh water consumed every day, if they escaped from the greenhouse bases and fresh water storage points in the living area, all ran to the surface or shallow mining areas, and lost most of the power supply, the final outcome can be imagined.

The uprising failed, and most of the rebels, after being put on the 'explosion neck', became slaves of the company again, and the few rebels who fled to the surface or shallow mining areas were defeated and killed within a few years under the siege of the company.

Tie Qiang, the leader of the rebels, was betrayed by his closest comrades-in-arms ten years after launching the uprising, and a bullet from the back took his life at the age of 30......