Urban Sims

Chapter 177 Mining Uprising
The mining company is the sky above Area 51, controlling everything in Area 51.

The significance of the existence of mining companies is the mineral resources tens of kilometers deep underground.

Mining companies need to create benefits, and need to provide various types of ores that only hope to increase but not decrease for the nobles at the top.

In order to achieve this goal, mining companies provide miners with rock drills and protective clothing at cost prices, including high-energy batteries for rock drills, electric energy, high-strength drill bits, and oxygen to fill oxygen cylinders when going down the mine. Basically, they are provided free of charge. .

Otherwise, it is really necessary to strictly implement the regulation of 1 credit point for 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity, and the miners can’t afford to pay the electricity consumption for the mines they dig.

You must know that most of the mining areas are 2 to 30 kilometers deep underground. The hardness of the rock formation here is close to that of diamond. It takes at least half an hour of hard work for miners to mine 1 kilogram of ore from here.

In the entire Area 51, the annual output of various ores is only 3000 million tons.

This kind of output is simply an insult to the level of technological development in this world.

Why don't companies use large-scale mining machinery to increase production, or develop mining robots that are less prone to fatigue and sacrifice, instead of humans?
The reason is mainly cost.

One, the cost of manufacturing, purchasing, and using large-scale mining machinery is too high to be unbearable for mining companies.

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

The only value of miners is to mine for mining companies.

Therefore, the mining company has formulated a very strict price system, which not only ensures that the miners will not starve to death, but also cannot be lazy.

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

In three years, the economic loss of the mining company exceeded 2000 million credits for hydropower alone.

The most important raw ore production has plummeted by 30% in three years.

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

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

This is a terrible disaster for Area 51!
"Banish, all these new things that appear in the third mining area, all of them will be banned by me! Any means can be used!"

After reporting the situation to the head of the company, the head of Area 51 said to Fang Zhihong in this way.

"Yes, Mr. Wang!"

……

The fierce struggle between the Tie family in the third mining area and the mining company has officially begun.

At the beginning, it was a warning. The staff sent by the mining company asked the Tie family to drain all the fresh water, shut down the generator, and tear down the greenhouse within three days, otherwise they would be punished and sanctioned by the company!
Of course the Tie family didn't buy it. The mining company only cares about the mine, so why should it care about the living quarters?What are they doing in the living quarters, and why should the company manage them?

Because Area 51 is a fairly loose and anarchic area, the mining company is only responsible for mining affairs and the supply of materials. The company does not send personnel to manage the more than 300 underground mining areas. All mining areas are actually in a chaotic and autonomous state. state, and most of the miners are physically tough and difficult to tame, mining companies do not want to pay too high management costs to manage these miners.

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

But the arm, how could it be twisted over the thigh?
On the fourth day, the mining company just increased the prices of all kinds of materials supplied to the third mining area in the store by ten times, and canceled the supply of a large number of important materials. The third mining area immediately fell into a panic. After feeling the sudden increase in the pressure of survival, the family of miners at home immediately distanced themselves from the Tie family with the mentality of watching the excitement, and complained all over their backs.

The Jin family brothers and the Lang family brothers did not forget to add insult to injury, and took this opportunity to lead people to attack many times and smashed a greenhouse of the Tie family.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming had anticipated this situation a long time ago. While hoarding a large amount 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 amount of materials. The more the better!

After all, the E7 area is partially self-sufficient. At present, only the third mining area is the only one. In other mining areas, prices are unlikely to change much. If they also rise tenfold at the same time, it would be strange if the miners didn’t all rebel.

After realizing this situation, Fang Zhihong was not easy to deal with. He was cruel and ruthless. He actually raised the prices of ten mining areas in the E7 area under his jurisdiction by 10 times, and told the ten mining areas in the broadcast. Miners: "I want you to destroy the water source of the Tie family in the third district, destroy their generators and greenhouses! After killing all the people in this family, the price will fall back, and the company will give you another 10% reduction!"

Hearing this news from the radio, Zhou Ming knew that if he wanted to survive, he would have to do without implementing that plan, so he immediately said to Tie Qiang: "Now that things have come to an end, we can only implement Plan E."

"Plan E?"

Tie Qiang had a miserable smile on his face, and slammed his fist hard on the rock wall: "Company, you forced me! Since you want us to die, we won't make it easier for you!"

After finishing speaking, Tie Qiang's family put on thick miners' protective clothing, took more than 50 people with them, and held hammers and rock drills in their hands. On the same day, they rushed into the company store in the mine and killed the staff. After that, the supplies in the store were looted, and all the supplies were distributed to the onlookers outside.

Not only that, after looting the company store in this mining area, this group of people continued non-stop, and in the next day or two, they took the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth and other eight or nine surrounding mining areas. The company’s stores were all looted, and all the looted supplies were distributed to the crowd, and a revolutionary declaration was issued to the crowd:

"enough!"

"We've had enough!"

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

"The company, the mining company, treats us as captive slaves, mining, mining, and non-stop mining, let us mine with our lives! How many wives lose their husbands every year, how many children lose their fathers, what about the company? They won't even be given a single credit point of compensation!"

"We are lucky enough to risk our lives. What is the reward in return? It is a small amount of remuneration that is only enough for us to live on. It is a life that we will starve for a day if we don't work one day under the company's careful calculation. , 6-year-old children have to go to the mine with them, and miners in their 40s who can’t do it will be 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 even as good as a piece of ore in the eyes of those in the company!"

"Who else is willing to continue to live like this? Still like us, no longer dig any mine under the ground, but use the hammer in your hand to smash the heads of those company employees, and use the rock drill in your hand to drill Open store lockers! Company, this bonanza, we had fun digging!"

"Yes, we may all die, but it's only a few years early. We prefer this way of death to dying deep underground, rather than dying of poverty and hunger!"

"Tired of this kind of life? Why are you still hesitating? Come on, come and join us! Put on your miner uniforms and go digging with us!"

Soon, the first miners joined them.

Then came the second, the third...the tenth, the 1st, the thousandth...

In just one week, as if a spark had been sprinkled on a pile of dry wood, the miners' uprising in the E7 area was as fast as a raging fire, and quickly wiped out the company power in the area in an instant.

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

But killing ten Fang Zhihongs at this time was useless. In order to quell the rebellion and not disrupt the company's production plan, "Mr. Wang" mobilized security forces from more than 20 districts and organized an encirclement and suppression team of 5000 people. All are equipped with chemical energy automatic rifles and a small amount of high-energy electric light guns, and strive to completely suppress this rebel force in a relatively short period of time.

However, three years have passed, and the rebel army has not been wiped out, but has broken the siege again and again, not only causing heavy losses to the company, but also expanding the territory controlled by the rebel army from ten mining areas to more than 100 mining areas. , The number of rebels also increased from more than a thousand at the beginning to more than [-], and they used a large number of weapons seized from the company's encirclement and suppression team to defeat the company's suppression.

Moreover, the rebels adopted guerrilla tactics in mine tunnels, and the loss of personnel was very small. Moreover, the weapons used by the company's encirclement and suppression teams, automatic rifles, were difficult to penetrate the protective clothing worn by miners, and the range of high-energy electric light guns was short. The rebels used it again and again. Familiarity with the terrain of the mine will either make the encirclement and suppression team lose their way in the mine, or they will be attacked from behind... The advantages of advanced weapons cannot be brought into play at all.

In the later period, the company sent a special force equipped with advanced detective equipment, equipped with life detectors and radar scanners, which caused great losses to the rebel army. However, this special force of hundreds of people came from other Those on secondment from the bottom area belonged to the ground troops, and they were not familiar with the underground mines, so they were quickly lost...

In the fifth year of the Great Uprising, we saw more than 300 underground mining areas, more than 200 of which were controlled by the rebels. The company’s newly appointed general manager “Mr. Long” made a decision that shocked everyone:
"Close 29 vents, leaving only 1, ask all the miners to come out from the ground, and if a miner comes up, put an 'explosive neck ring' on him, and for the rebels who did not come out, close all the vents, etc. All the rats below are dead, the mining area has become clean, and the miners are allowed to go back."

This plan can be described as vicious, because once the underground mining area loses the external oxygen supply and no longer maintains ventilation, the poisonous gas and natural gas seeping from the cracks in the rocks will soon turn the entire mining area into a dead zone that is no longer suitable for living. Within a short period of time, the humans in the underground mining area will basically all die if they are not evacuated to the ground.

No matter how thoughtful Zhou Ming's Plan E was, he never expected such a situation to happen.

This is tantamount to reshuffling the situation.

Therefore, when the top rebels panicked collectively, Zhou Ming could only advise Tie Qiang in this way:
"Now I can only dig an escape channel by myself, escape to the surface, or hide in a shallow mining area with better ventilation, and return to the ground after the company restarts the ventilation equipment."

But at this time, the rebel army, which has expanded to 10 people, plus the family members of more than 30 people, and a population of nearly 40 people consume a lot of food and fresh water every day. If they escape from the several greenhouse bases and fresh water in the living area The storage points all ran to the surface or shallow mining areas, and lost most of the power supply. The final outcome can be imagined.

The great uprising failed. Most of the rebels became slaves of the company again after being put on the 'explosive neck collar'. The few rebels who escaped to the surface or shallow mining areas, under the heavy siege of the company, failed one after another within a few years and killed.

Tie Qiang, the leader of the rebel army, was betrayed by his closest comrade-in-arms 30 years after launching the uprising. A bullet shot from behind took away his [-]-year-old life...

(End of this chapter)