Chapter 134: The Wound Called "History".
Man can only observe the world through his eyes, and no matter how we turn, we can only see a small side of life.
Life, on the other hand, is complex and three-dimensional, intertwined with countless people and experiences.
Therefore, if we do not participate in the times ourselves, there will always be things that we don't know that exist in the dark.
It is not until you inadvertently glance at the truth hidden under the shiny surface that you will find that there are wounds called "history" that are bloody waiting to heal.
Believe it or not, but before the rise of the Lichong power plant, the city's energy industry was terrifying.
Pokémon can help humans explore mineral veins, find oil fields, open tunnels, and even some elves like mantle rocks and gangsters live underground by nature.
In this way, the exact location of oil, coal, natural gas, these resources does not need to be explored with great effort, as long as you catch one or two Pokémon that live underground, they will become the trainer's most loyal guide.
Therefore, with the opening of Lichong City thirty years ago, people immediately discovered this fossil treasure deep underground. All of a sudden, privately run energy companies sprung up all over the city.
This period was later called the golden age of the energy industry in Lichong City.
INTERVIEWER I myself was certainly not a witness to that time, I had only spent three years at the Lichong Power Plant, and I was told about these things by my senior colleagues.
And the reason why they called the years of the city's foundation the Golden Age was because it was not long before darkness fell.
After the rise of private energy companies that have taken root everywhere, the market demand for energy has begun to oversupply, and companies have fallen into a vicious circle of comparison and involution-of course, involution of external customers and friends, frantically increasing production capacity and driving down unit prices; In order to chase profits, the basic salary is cut, the treatment is deducted, and the daily overtime is required.
Employees who were "leave kings" were fired the day after they were late for work, and there were "over-active apes" from all over the city competing to enter the industry, which was the fastest growing city in the area at the time.
When I joined the Lip Chung Power Plant, it was the end of this era, and the market environment was gradually improving – or worse.
Because as the major fossil companies intensively cultivated this one-third of the land, the energy stock of Liyong City began to waver, and gradually some people realized that such exhaustive exploitation would cause the crisis - in short, for various reasons, the price of energy began to rise.
Just when the price of energy is rising and enterprises are ushering in the biggest dividends, in order to cope with the future energy crisis, official institutions represented by the alliance have also taken action and have introduced policies to limit production capacity.
The environmental protection bill, which has now established the common sense of the energy industry in Yongshi, was also introduced during that period.
However, the policy that was supposed to have an immediate effect was like the "jumping" skill used by King Carp, and it didn't work out anything.
Whenever an ambitious coalition official comes to power and wants to touch the energy pie, he finds that any policy adopted will be counterproductive.
As soon as the alliance's proposal to limit production got the news, fuel prices began to soar the next day, and gas stations became more crowded than luxury stores.
It is ironic that almost all energy companies stopped work en masse to express their disgust and opposition to the environmental protection bill, which was called a bad law by the people of the time, and many workers were encouraged to take to the streets to cry out for the capitalists who were beating them out.
Yes, detective, you're right.
An important reason for the failure of these decrees is that after a long period of competition in the energy industry, several monopolies with enough strength to swallow up the rest of their peers have long since emerged, and the few remaining monopolies have formed an industry alliance.
This is the final evolution of private enterprises - they have unified their power and discourse power, forming a force that competes with the elven alliance of the sky-high champions, and the alliance officials sent from above can only hinder them everywhere no matter how much they want to do it.
But just as the Dark Ages were evolving into the Age of Monopoly, a power plant appeared to change all that.
Remember the despicable campaign against environmental protection laws mentioned above? At that time, there was only one fledgling energy company in the entire city that was clearly opposed to the movement – the Lap Chung Power Plant, founded by Mr. William.
The director believes that the alliance's insight into the future of Lichong City is completely correct. There is another fundamental reason for the embarrassing situation of inaccessible policies - that is, the irreplaceability of fossil energy.
Why can the old monopoly alliance control the economy and people's hearts and minds of Liyong City? It's because they have the most effective way to make money in the region, and they won't lose money until they run out of energy in a hundred years!
Like black oil being pushed into a tank by a hydraulic pump, even the most sober-minded people have to move their feet in the direction of the flow of wealth.
If the energy monopoly alliance is allowed to call for the wind and rain, the fossil energy stock in Lichong may be able to support another ten years, or even decades, but it will definitely not last for the predicted 100 years, because human dependence on energy is increasing day by day.
And what about after that? What happens to cities when they run out of energy? As we continue to extract blood from the earth and emit exhaust gases into the sky, what kind of chicken feathers will we leave to future generations?
The power plant was built to change the landscape of today's city, and Director William decided to fundamentally change the energy industry in the twilight of the day – by using a new type of energy, as you see it today.
Wind power, hydro energy, solar energy, electricity produced by Pokémon, heat energy generated by the use of tricks - these are the new energy sources that herald the future, as long as the problem of collection and storage is solved, these are the perfect energy sources that are renewable, low polluting and low cost!
That's what Director William announced to us at the time: "Why do you want to ask for resources from the bones of ancient creatures? There is still an endless amount of energy in nature waiting to be explored! Our cause may not be prominent for a while, but it will always be there! ”
I only worked at the Lichong Power Plant for three years, and I entered the factory to take care of Pokémon for the factory manager. But I have witnessed first-hand how the plant has struggled from its start-up to becoming the largest energy company in Lap Chung before it exploded...... And, of course, its demise.
We develop technology, increase output value, solve engineering problems, fight with monopolies, and cooperate with alliance officials...... Reducing the cost of electricity stage by stage, taking away the pricing power of energy from fossil companies.
During this period, the director of the factory also paid special attention to the treatment of employees, treating people with integrity, clear rewards and punishments, and generous salaries and benefits.
I thought it was a ploy by the plant director to snatch talent from the Energy Alliance, but this is not the case at all! Until the power plant became the largest energy enterprise in Lichong City, completely replacing the ecological niche of the energy monopoly organization, Mr. Factory Director still did not deduct even a little bit of employee treatment! As always, salaries and subsidies will be increased in line with the company's earnings.
Even the suggestion that I leave the development plant and engage in orchestra activities was put forward by the factory director. He told me not to have to worry about the future, if the music road didn't work, I might as well go back to the factory, where there was always a vacant position as a nurturing consultant......
I assure you with this punk soul in my body that the Lichong Power Plant and its founder, Mr. William, are undoubtedly the heroes of the city!
When 100 years from now, when your children and grandchildren see the still blue sky and thriving economy of Lap Chung, they will be immensely grateful to the honest and far-sighted director of the power plant, and they will lament the explosion a hundred years ago.