Antarctica is extremely rich in minerals.

In later generations, agriculture was nothing at all, and mining and animal husbandry were the main sources of output here.

Millions of tons of steel and scheelite mining a year, plus hundreds of thousands of tons of refined coal, as well as zinc, tin, copper, gold and silver, tens of thousands of tons of wool and hundreds of thousands of beef cattle, this is the main body of their output. The total population of Antarctic Island is only 500,000, and although it is at the 'end of the world', the per capita output is still beyond the reach of the rabbits of the same era.

However, unlike in the 21st century, there is no shortage of iron ore in China, and the iron ore on Antarctic Island should continue to be buried in the land here.

However, the gold and silver mines here are the targets that the exploration team of the Ministry of Mines is looking for.

The discovery of the Big Gold Mountain gave the Ministry of Mines endless confidence, and everyone firmly believed that there could not be only one gold mine where there was such a big gold mountain.

Dajinshan has made a fortune for all the people in the exploration team, and the 'welfare' of the first ten years alone is enough for some of the team members to live a safe and secure life. This gave the entire exploration team a good start and set a good example, first there was Xiangzhou Gold Mine, and then there was Nanmingzhou Gold Mine, gold stimulated countless people to go crazy to explore.

Over the mountains and mountains, they are not afraid; Deep in the mountains and old forests, they don't cry.

It's all about gold.

The people of a prospecting team in Antarctic Town, Antarctic Island, are such a group of people. The first one to be developed on Antarctic Island, they came with the team to 'work', and this time they found a small coal mine and a medium iron mine from the vicinity of Antarctic Town, but the iron content of this iron ore that does not seem to be very large is really high.

Almost no selection is required, and it can be thrown directly into the furnace.

Recently, they discovered a copper and tin mine in the mountains twenty or thirty miles away from the town of Antarctica, which is on the edge of a mountain range nearly a kilometer high. It seems that the distance is not close, but this mine is close to the Liuzhou River.

The Liuzhou River is a large river on the edge of Antarctic Town, which originates in the middle of Antarctic Island and flows southeast to finally join Antarctic Bay. Just from the map, Antarctic Bay looks like it was 'split' by this river. And because the leader of the first expedition team to discover this place was from Liuzhou, it was named Liuzhou River. The ships of Antarctic Town have been able to reach the copper and tin mine directly. Although the distance is not close, the transportation is convenient, and this mine with considerable copper and tin ore reserves still has a certain mining value.

Passos Socrates, also known as Sulla, got up in the morning and ran around the house, then washed his face with well water, and walked refreshed towards the gate of the Antarctic Town Guest House.

It is said to be a guest house, but in fact it is just an ordinary house, plus a small farmhouse courtyard. The land is not small, but it is empty.

There was no one else in the guest house, only the members of their exploration team, and ten people almost filled the entire guest house.

The yard is a piece of compacted flat land of about two or three hundred square meters, which is relatively clean and tidy. There is a well on the right-hand side, attached to the wall, and there is still a two-step-wide strip of untamed land on the left and right, planted with a few small trees and two tufts of green vegetables sprouting up. It's not eye-catching, but it makes people feel like they have a rural life.

Not far from the guest house was a stall for buying breakfast, and as long as they came back from the mountains, none of the people in the exploration team wanted to get up early to eat. However, the guest house only has food when the meal is ordered, otherwise there will only be cold steamed buns and cakes.

Although these things are not bad compared to the food that the exploration team eats when they work in the mountains, Passos is of Portuguese descent.

Moreover, he has become accustomed to pure oriental food, and his appetite cannot tolerate continuing to eat cold steamed buns and pickles when he is on vacation, and he almost always gets up in the morning and goes to have a breakfast with huhu. Then I went back to the guest house, and it was not too late to continue to catch up on sleep.

A couple of old hens are foraging in the courtyard with a large flock of chicks, and you can even hear three or four fat pigs chirping in the pigsty behind the guest house. Maybe it's time for the morning feeding, and they're all screaming loudly.

At this moment, a small middle-aged man with short hair and a pair of wooden slippers walked back with a large bucket of yellow whirring things, apparently to feed the pigs. When the visitor looked up, he saw Passos who had been washed, and a friendly smile immediately appeared on his face: "Mr. Su, good morning!" ”

"Good morning. Takeda. Passos smiled and nodded at the middle-aged man.

This one is of Japanese descent.

Just like Passos, a Japanese Chinese who has already obtained the red book. Although neither is pure Chinese, the two are talking in Chinese, which is not considered unfamiliar.

Sulla, a native of Portuguese origin, was born in Macau, where his family has lived for more than 100 years. According to his father, the Socratic family has not intermarried with the Chinese for three or four generations. But when that life decision was made, his father chose to go east.

So, at the age of eleven, he had a new name - Sula.

In the future, his sons and daughters will be surnamed Su.

The same is true for the Japanese in front of me, and from now on, the surname is no longer Takeda, but only 'Wu'. These days, even the katana has not been played by this former samurai. Although everyone knows that Takeda's room not only has a knife, but also two muskets, one long and one short.

Because he was bitten by a poisonous snake in Nanyang, Masao Takeda, who was seriously injured, has returned to the life of the people for two or three years. Of course, his personality is a little restless, otherwise he would not have appeared in Antarctic Town at this time, but the murderous aura on his body has really all dissipated.

"Did you sleep well last night?"

"Captain Liu of the wharf labor camp, because the construction completed the task ten days ahead of schedule, was happy, and invited his foreman to eat and drink in the guest house. We also had two drinks along and forgot to notice the impact, so I'm really sorry. ”

Passos laughed, he didn't know about it. But no matter how loud these people are, they can't match the sleeping worms in their heads. Climbing out of the mountain, the entire exploration team was eager to sleep for three days and five nights, it was too tired.

"As compensation, Mr. Su didn't have to go outside for breakfast today. Just stay in the guest house. Lao Wang boiled seafood porridge and seafood meat buns, which were eaten with pickles, which tasted really good. ”

Takeda warmly invited Passos, and Passos agreed without thinking.

It's not the same everywhere you eat, as long as it's not cold or cold.

After living in Lushan for a few years and following his parents to Nanjing, Passos is already a standard Chinese expert. And as a China expert, he will not refuse the opportunity to get closer to others.

Chinese society is a society of personal feelings.

Here, human favor is sometimes more important and precious than money. Otherwise, there would be no such saying as 'you can't find the temple gate with a pig's head'.

Although the Passos family has some connections in Nanjing and Lushan, especially in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. But for the army, his family really has nothing to do with it.

And Takeda came from the Japanese Stand Up Team. The Japanese Advance Force is not China's defense force, but no one can exclude the increasingly large Stand Force and the Security Force from the military system.

The vassal army is also an 'army'.

Of course, Passos would not have pinned his hopes on befriending Takeda, and he would also befriend the top figures of the forward team. But the relationship is accumulated and dealt with little by little.

"Mr. Su, what did you do before? I mean, before you came to Antarctica, I didn't think you were a survey team. If you don't mind, you can tell me about it. Takeda picked up a wooden spoon and scooped a spoonful of sticky pig food from the bucket, and then poured it into the stone pig trough in front of him, which immediately caused several pigs to scramble. They ate so happily that their fat ears were covered with pig food.

"After graduating from college, I worked as a teaching assistant in the school for a while," he says.

Passos's words caused Takeda to be shocked, and when his eyes looked at Passos again, he had already unconsciously taken on a color of respect.

"I was really surprised that Mr. Su turned out to be a college student." Poor his son was hung up by him with a belt, and the stick was pumped, and he could only mix with a vocational high school, and he couldn't even get into a serious high school.

"I studied geological exploration and minerals in college, then I went to the Ministry of Minerals, and then I came here." Passos's face appeared in North Korea with his face as he spoke, and he was embarrassed to look back.

Just a few years ago, he was also high-spirited, he was a college student who graduated in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he was a key talent introduced by the Ministry of Mines. At the same time, as a handsome guy in the Iberian Peninsula, Passos's appearance will not feel ugly even from a Chinese perspective.

At that time, he was like a shining star, as long as he was stable, he could always hang above the heads of all living beings.

But because of a woman, because of the spur of the moment, Passos ruined his smooth sailing future, and even almost ruined the entire Socratic family.

Because of a woman who volunteered to be a concubine for a man older than her father, Passos, who was carried away by love and jealousy, sent a letter to the Inspectorate.

A letter that does not have too much real evidence, and much of the content is fabricated out of thin air.

At that time, he was still in the Northeast, in the Jiapigou Gold Mine.

It was a very large gold mine, widely distributed, and even now, in the era of frequent explosions of large gold mines, it can be regarded as one of the most important mines in China's gold production.

When the mine was first developed, 10 labor camps were used, more than 2,000 miners, and there was a four-battalion garrison regiment in the surrounding garrison alone.

At that time, the commander-in-chief in charge of the entire project was a director of the Ministry of Minerals. I'm going to be fifty years old!

Passos is usually very respectful to the commander-in-chief, but in his heart he does not take him seriously, because he is too old.

As a talent actively introduced by the Ministry of Minerals, as soon as he entered the ministry, Passos was the seventh product. When the Pijiagou gold mine was exploring, someone said that after the fact, Passos would be a six-rank official.

Wupin is a dividing line in Chen Han's officialdom, and it will definitely take time to boil up. But Passos was young, in his early twenties, and he had time that was precious to others.

And then because a woman, the daughter of a local merchant, was only seventeen years old, exactly the age of flowers.

But in the face of the bloody reality, he rejected him without hesitation, and threw himself into the arms of the commander-in-chief.

Passos was jealous, and he hated it even more, so he chose to report it, anonymously.

Passos knew that the anonymous report letter was of little use, and he had no evidence of the commander-in-chief, but there were rumors within them that the gold mining volume and estimate in Pijiagou were insufficient, and there were voices in the ministry that were dissatisfied with the commander-in-chief.

Passos chose to take a chance. If the Supervision Yuan really ignores it, then he will not do any harm, right? But what if you ignore it?

Those who are on top of the Ministry of Supervision will shed a layer of skin if they don't die.

Emperor Chen is very encouraging to report, and for this reason, he has single-handedly launched the "Whistleblowing Reward System" has been newly introduced. But the 'report' he wants is a real-name report, not a sneaky anonymous report letter. Is this kind of report letter with a very low cost really for the country, or just for infighting?

As early as more than ten years ago, when Chen Han was still in the General's Mansion, he greeted the Supervision Yuan, and when he encountered an anonymous report letter, he should not act rashly.

If you are really indignant, really dedicated to the public, and righteous and awe-inspiring, you will openly and openly sue the target object, and it doesn't matter whether you can get real evidence or not. What matters is an upright attitude!

I think that when Chen Jiajun was just developing and growing, the contradictions between various ministries gradually increased, and things like anonymous report letters began to appear internally.

Chen Ming, in the spirit of the grassroots, deliberately ordered someone to investigate at the beginning, but when anonymous report letters poured towards him like snowflakes, he had to doubt the credibility and authenticity of them.

It was only at this time that Chen Ming understood why the discipline inspection of rabbits in his previous life never took 'eight cents' seriously. I finally know what it means to 'spend eight cents and keep you busy for half a year'.

Sure enough, the anonymous report letter can only be used to tell the story when the target person has happened. That's why.

Because the effect of anonymous reporting is almost none, and at the same time, Chen Han has openly launched the "Reporting Reward System", which is because this anonymous reporting is becoming less and less. But in fact, just as Passos thought, there was really a tide of dissatisfaction with the commander-in-chief of the Pijiagou Gold Mine within the Ministry of Mines, and then this force followed the opportunity to report anonymously, pushed the boat down the river, promoted the investigation of the commander-in-chief, and really found out some unclean things under the commander-in-chief's ass.

So the position of the commander-in-chief flew, but how could the commander-in-chief under the new general let his own internal still hide the 'enemy'?

This kind of guy who makes anonymous report letters can't 'live' under the hands of any official.

This matter must be cut through the mess quickly, and it must not be tolerated.

Otherwise, if there is a first, there will be a second and a third.

If the whole phenomenon spreads in officialdom, it will be terrible for many officials.

The new commander-in-chief is a very capable strongman, and he chooses to take a one-size-fits-all approach, packing up all the suspects and motives for committing the crime, as well as the possible personnel who may commit the crime.

And everyone's end is quite bad. Even if there must be many, many innocent people involved in it.

For example, Passos came to Nanmingzhou, except for the title of senior explorer on his head, his status is completely different from the rights of ordinary exploration team leaders.

Passos's lips pursed tightly, his two fists unconsciously clenched tightly into hammers, and the veins on his forehead bulged. Although his deeds have not been revealed, even after two years, when the turmoil subsides, his father will be able to operate him back to his homeland, at least not at the end of the hellish world of Antarctic Town.

But because of the spur of the moment, his future has been ruined.

Others don't know, Passos himself knows in his heart. He successfully used 'himself' to perform a farce of 'people who don't die' that only he watched as an audience.

Two years later, even if Passos returned to the Ministry of Mines, returned to Nanjing, and even returned to become a seventh-grade or sixth-grade official, he was no longer a star on the ground, but a mortal who had fallen into the soil.