Chapter 756 How Do People Commit Suicide [Subscribe]

Antarctica is extremely rich in minerals.

In the future, agriculture is nothing here, mining and animal husbandry are the main output here.

Millions of tons of steel production and scheelite mining a year, plus hundreds of thousands of tons of clean 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 Antarctica is only 500,000. Although it is at the "end of the world", the per capita output value is still beyond the reach of the rabbits of the same era.

However, unlike the 21st century, China is not short of iron ore at all, and the iron ore of Antarctica should continue to be safely buried in the land here.

It is the gold and silver mines here that are the targets that the exploration team of the Ministry of Mineral Resources is determined to pursue.

The discovery of Dajinshan gave the Ministry of Mineral Resources endless confidence. Everyone firmly believes that there cannot be only one gold mine in the place where Dajinshan appeared.

The Great Gold Mountain made the whole exploration team rich. The "benefits" of the first ten years alone were enough for some of the team members to live a stable life. This set a good start for the entire exploration team and set a perfect example. First there was the Xiangzhou Gold Mine, then the Nanmingzhou Gold Mine. Gold stimulated countless people to explore like crazy.

They were not afraid of crossing mountains and ridges; they did not cry in the deep mountains and old forests.

Everything was for gold.

The people of a prospecting team in Nanji Town, Antarctic Island were such a group of people. They came to "work" with the team when Nanji Island was first developed. They found a small coal mine and a medium-sized iron mine around Nanji Town. However, the iron content of this iron ore, which seemed to have a small reserve, was really high.

It almost did not need to be carefully selected and could be thrown directly into the ironmaking furnace.

Recently, they found a copper-tin mine in the mountains 20 to 30 miles away from Nanji Town, which was on the edge of a mountain nearly a thousand meters high. It seems that the distance is not close, but the mine is close to Liuzhou River.

Liuzhou River is a big river on the edge of Antarctic Town. It originates in the middle of Antarctic Island, flows southeastward, and finally merges into Antarctic Bay. Just looking at the map, Antarctic Bay seems to be "split" by this river. And because the captain of the expedition team of the Overseas Exploration Bureau No. 3 who first discovered this place was from Liuzhou, this place was named Liuzhou River. The ships of Antarctic Town can go straight up the river and directly reach the edge of this copper-tin mine. Although the distance is not close, transportation is convenient. This mine with a considerable reserve of copper and tin ore still has a certain mining value.

Passos Socrates, whose Chinese name is also called Sura, got up in the morning and ran around his residence, then washed his face with well water, and walked towards the gate of the Antarctic Town Guesthouse with a refreshed spirit.

This is called a guesthouse, but it is actually an ordinary residence, plus a small farmyard. The place is not small, but it is very empty.

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

The yard was a compacted flat land of about 200 to 300 square meters, which was kept relatively clean and tidy. There was a well on the right hand side, close to the wall, and there was a two-step wide uncompacted land on the left and right, with a few small trees and two rows of green vegetables. It was not eye-catching, but it gave people a sense of pastoral life.

Not far from the guesthouse was a breakfast stall. As long as they came back from the mountains, no one in the exploration team was willing to get up early to eat. But the guesthouse only had food at mealtime, otherwise there would only be cold steamed buns and pancakes.

Although these things were not bad compared to the food the exploration team ate when they worked in the mountains, Pasos was of Portuguese descent.

Even though he was used to pure oriental food, his appetite could not tolerate eating cold steamed buns and pickles during his "vacation". He almost always got up in the morning and went to have a sizzling breakfast. Then I went back to the guesthouse and continued to catch up on my sleep.

A few old hens were foraging with a large group of chicks in the courtyard, and you could even hear three or four fat pigs humming in the pigpen behind the guesthouse. Perhaps it was time for the routine morning feeding, and they were all grumbling loudly.

Just then, a short middle-aged man with short hair and a pair of wooden slippers walked to the back with a large bucket of yellow stuff and cursed, obviously to feed the pigs. The man looked up and saw Pazos, who had already washed, and immediately showed a friendly smile on his face: "Mr. Su, good morning!"

"Good morning, Takeda." Pazos also smiled and nodded at the middle-aged man.

This Japanese.

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

Sura is a pure Portuguese, born in Macau, and his family has lived in Macau for more than a hundred years. His father said that the Socrates family had not intermarried with the Chinese for three or four generations. But at the crossroads of life, his father chose to go east.

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

From now on, his son and daughter will have the surname Su.

The same is true for the Japanese in front of him. From now on, they will no longer have the surname Takeda, but only "Wu". These days, even the samurai sword has not been seen by this former volunteer warrior. Although everyone knows that Takeda's room not only has swords, but also two muskets, one long and one short.

Masao Takeda, who was bitten by a poisonous snake in Nanyang and whose vitality was severely injured, has been back to civilian life for two or three years. Of course, his character is a little restless, otherwise he would not appear in Antarctic Town at this time, but all the murderous aura in him has really dissipated.

"Did you sleep well last night?"

"Captain Liu from the dock labor camp was so happy that the construction work was completed ten days ahead of schedule. He treated his foreman to a delicious meal at the guest house. We also had two drinks and forgot to notice the impact. Really terribly sorry."

Passos smiled when he heard this. Why didn't he know about this? But no matter how loud these people are, it can't stop the sleeping bugs in their heads. After climbing out of the mountains, the entire exploration team wanted to fall asleep for three days and five nights. They were so exhausted.

"As compensation, Mr. Su doesn't have to go out for today's breakfast. He just stays at the guest house. Lao Wang cooked seafood porridge and seafood and meat buns, which are eaten with pickles. They taste really good."

Takeda enthusiastically invited Passos, and Passos agreed without hesitation.

It doesn’t matter where you eat it, as long as it’s not cold or cold.

After living in Lushan for several years and then moving to Nanjing with his parents, Passos is already a standard China hand. As a China expert, I will not refuse the opportunity to get closer to others.

Chinese society is an emotional society.

Here, human kindness 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 when it comes to the military, his family really has nothing to do with it.

Takeda was born in the Japanese team. The Japanese Stand-Up Team is not considered China's national defense force, but no one can exclude the increasingly large Stand-Up Team and security teams from the military system.

The vassal army is also an ‘army’.

Of course, Passos would not hope that just because he had made friends with Takeda, he would also make friends with the upper echelons of the Jinjin team. But relationships are built up and managed little by little.

"Mr. Su, what did you do before? I mean before you came to Antarctic Town, I didn't think you were from an exploration team. If you don't mind, you can tell me." Takeda picked up a handful of wood He took a spoonful of sticky pig food from the bucket and poured it into the stone pig trough in front of him, which immediately caused several pigs to rush for it. They were eating so happily that their fat ears were covered with pig food.

"After graduating from college, I worked as a teaching assistant at the school."

Passos' words shocked Takeda, and when he looked at Passos again, his eyes were already filled with respect unconsciously.

"It really surprises me that Mr. Su is actually a college student." Unfortunately, his son was hung up with a belt and beaten with a stick. He could only get into a vocational high school and could not even pass the entrance examination to a serious high school.

"I studied geology and mineral exploration in college, then went to the Ministry of Mines, and then came here." As Passos spoke, his own North Korea appeared on his face, with a look of regret.

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

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

But because of a woman and a momentary impulse, Passos ruined his smooth future and even almost destroyed the entire Socrates family.

Passos, overwhelmed by love and jealousy, sent a letter to the Control Council because of a woman who volunteered to be a concubine to a man older than her father.

A letter without too much real evidence, and many of the contents are made up out of thin air.

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

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

When this gold mine was first developed, ten labor camps and more than 2,000 miners were used. The surrounding guard force alone included a four-battalion garrison regiment.

At that time, the overall commander in charge of the entire project was a fourth-grade director of the Ministry of Mines. He's almost 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 introduced by the Ministry of Mines on its own initiative, Pasos was ranked seventh grade as soon as he entered the ministry. When the Pijiagou gold mine was being explored, someone said that Passos would be a sixth-grade official after the event was completed.

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

Then because of a woman, the daughter of a local businessman, she was only seventeen years old, the age of flowers.

But in the face of the bloody reality, she rejected him without hesitation and threw herself 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 anonymous whistle-blowing letters were of little use. He had no evidence of the commander-in-chief, but there had long been rumors within them that the gold mining volume in Pijiagou was less than expected, and there were voices in the department that were dissatisfied with the commander-in-chief.

Passos chose to take a chance. If the Supervisory Council really ignored it, then he would not be harmed, right? But what if they paid attention?

Those who were pushed by the Supervisory Council would be skinned alive if they didn't die.

Emperor Chen encouraged reporting very much, and for this reason, he personally launched the "Reporting Reward System". But the "report" he wanted was 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 internal fighting?

As early as more than ten years ago, when Chen Han was still the General's Mansion, he had called on the Supervisory Council not to act rashly when encountering anonymous reports.

If you are really indignant, really dedicated to the public, and righteous, just report the target to the superior openly. It doesn't matter whether you can produce real evidence or not. What matters is the open attitude!

When the Chen family army was just growing and growing, the conflicts between the various departments gradually increased, and anonymous reports began to appear internally.

Chen Ming, with the heart of a grassroots, had specially ordered people to investigate at the beginning, but when anonymous reports came to him like snowflakes, he had to doubt the credibility and authenticity of them.

At this time, Chen Ming finally understood why the discipline inspection of the rabbit in his previous life never took "eight cents" seriously. He finally knew what "spending eight cents will keep you busy for half a year" meant.

Anonymous reports can really only be used when the target object is in trouble. This is the reason.

Because the effect of anonymous reports is almost zero, and Chen Han has openly launched the "Report Reward System", the number of anonymous reports is getting less and less. But the fact is just as Pasos thought, there is really a trend of dissatisfaction with the "chief commander of the Pijiagou Gold Mine" in the Ministry of Mineral Resources, and then this force took the opportunity of anonymous reports to push the investigation of the chief commander, and really found out some dirty things under the commander's ass.

So the position of the commander-in-chief was lost, but how could the new commander-in-chief allow the "enemy" to be hidden in his own internal?

This kind of guy who writes anonymous reports will not "survive" under the hands of any official.

This matter must be cut with a sharp knife and must not be tolerated.

Otherwise, there will be a second and a third.

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

The new commander-in-chief is a very capable iron-fisted figure. He chose to cut it off with one size fits all and send away all the suspects and motives, as well as those who may have committed the crime.

And everyone's end is quite bad. Even though there must be many innocent people implicated in this.

For example, Paso came to Nanmingzhou. In addition to the title of a senior explorer on his head, his identity and the rights of the captain of an ordinary exploration team are completely the same.

Paso's lips were tightly pursed, and his two fists were unconsciously clenched into hammers, and veins on his forehead bulged. Although his deeds were not exposed, even after two years, when the storm subsided, his father could still bring him back to his homeland, at least he would no longer be at the end of the hellish world of Antarctic Town.

But because of his impulse at the time, his future was ruined.

Others did not know, but Pazos knew it in his heart. He successfully performed a farce of "If you don't commit suicide, you won't die" with only himself as the audience.

Two years later, even if Pazos returned to the Ministry of Mines, returned to Nanjing, and even became a seventh- or sixth-rank official again, he was no longer a star high above, but a mortal who fell into the mud.