Miss Witch doesn't want to be a diva

Article title: About the work record of the Stone Shattering Star Region

Published on: May 4, 1014, the sixth era, Crystal Platform

Publisher: Eillie, C2 technician of the Wells Mining Company

Status: Locked and sealed (when the AI ​​palette detects the same content and text, it will be automatically deleted and blocked from the network)

Content:

In 992, I followed my father to live in the Central Star Region. In 998, I entered a good university. In 1003, I entered the famous Wells Mining Company. After working for two years, I applied for a job in the Northwest Star Region. From 2006 to 2011, I worked in the Black Sea-Σ in the Stone Shattering Star Region.

When my friends and family knew that I was sent to work in the remote Northwest Star Region, they were very nervous at first, because the living conditions here were not good and it was said to be unstable. In fact, these five years of work were the most relaxed and comfortable days in my working life. The wages of those of us who were sent here from the Central Star Region will be doubled, plus various subsidies, the actual wages we receive may be 3-5 times that of our counterparts in the Central Star Region.

Although we have to work overtime occasionally, the climate here is not as bad as imagined, and the workload is not much heavier than that of the stable Central Star Region. Moreover, we can get three months of vacation for every month we work. Let's put it this way, I can get five times the salary for working 4 to 5 months a year. I only need to bask in the sun and blow the wind and sand. After get off work, I can only play games in the game cabin without exciting entertainment and good-looking girls. Moreover, I will be given priority in promotion. This is really profitable. Therefore, some colleagues who know the inside story will rush to come here on business trips, but those of us who arrived first will hold on tightly and find various reasons to stay here, and will not leave even if we are promoted.

We are very safe in the Stone Breaking Star Region. When the civil war was going on, the mining area here was not destroyed. Most of it was transferred to official control. After the war, it was transferred to a series of giant companies such as "Wells" that won the civil war. Originally, 80% of the local engineers here were dismissed, leaving only a few for necessary handovers. They signed a new contract with the company and contacted people to take their families to the safe central star region. These engineers were very happy. In fact, they also diligently undertook a lot of work. We, the formal employees, just watched and applauded.

Ordinary people may not know how valuable a high-quality extraordinary mine is. When it was just developed, that is, when the drill bit went down, it was all effective ore, which was the most profitable and the lowest cost. As the development progressed, the high-purity ore in the main vein became less, and only the sparse edge of the vein branch could be mined. It took a lot of effort to purify and remove impurities and mixtures. When the impurities reached a certain level and the profit became lower and lower, we had to seal the mining area.

This is the case for most mining areas and oil fields in the world. The mining volume only accounts for a small part of the total reserves. Not developing the remaining part is purely for cost reasons. High-profit, low-cost mining areas and oil fields are important assets of the company. In this era, old mineral companies have long transformed into asset management companies. What we have to do is to obtain high-return mining areas with low bids, vigorously develop them during the high-profit cycle, and when the profits decline, sell them exclusively to other non-professional companies, and then concentrate the funds on the next high-profit mining area.

How to get a good mining area or oil field at a low price is something that cannot be described, but in today's era, these are almost inseparable from corruption. It is almost impossible to obtain truly high-quality mining areas through pure market trading. Some new players in this industry can only buy mines with low profit returns after being mined by others, so it is almost impossible for latecomers to compete with our old companies in this industry.

I think this is also why many new companies would rather invest heavily in new material research than to make good special materials, because under the existing rules, many nodes have been controlled and blocked by monopoly giants, just like in the past civil war, the giant enterprise alliance in the northwest region controlled the main axis gun technology of the battleship of the "Annihilation Color Six-Dimensional Crystal", which forced the coalition forces in the southeast region to develop new battleship main guns in the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region, because the mining areas that produce the "Annihilation Color Six-Dimensional Crystal" are almost all in the northwest star region and are controlled by the local giant enterprise alliance.

There is no safety concern when working in the mining area of ​​the Broken Stone Star Region. We take a car from the residential base, and transfer or take a small shuttle to various work locations after arriving. There are security personnel escorting us throughout the journey. In my opinion, this escort is useless, and the company later cancelled it. After the victory of the civil war, although many armed resistance factions have emerged in the northwest star regions in the past hundred years, these small forces cannot shake the situation. Slightly larger armed forces will be specifically attacked by starships in orbit, and the entire star region is under satellite monitoring.

After the minerals are mined, they are simply separated and purified, and then transported to the space elevator in the middle by train, where they can be transferred to the star port and then sent to the central star field. This is much safer than the prosperous areas in the star field. I remember once when I was on a business trip in the capital area, I encountered a local resistance organization carrying out a terrorist attack, and the train tracks were blown up. At least this will not happen here.

These mines and mining areas are like isolated islands in the desert, which belong to the local area and do not belong to the local area. Our supplies have nothing to do with the local star field. They are all brought directly from the central star field by the ships that transport minerals. Anyway, the ships are empty when they come, so it is not a loss to bring some.

Life supplies have nothing to do with it, maintenance parts have nothing to do with it, security is provided by the Central Star Region Security Provider, personnel arrangements have nothing to do with the local area, we have our own power station for energy consumption, and the output has nothing to do with the local star region. Economically speaking, the Gravel Star Region has completely lost these mines. It neither provides large-scale high-paying jobs nor trains highly skilled personnel. I even suspect that the company does not pay taxes to the local star region government because our wages are all paid through the Central Star Region channel. This is a major benefit for us, because future pensions and medical benefits will also be enjoyed according to the standards of the Central Star Region.

The mines and mining areas that could have benefited tens of millions of local people have now become a small treasury for a few thousand corporate employees. Behind our high profits and high wages are the embarrassment of countless local people. Thinking of this, I can figure it out that my high income does not come entirely from my skills, but thanks to this unfair distribution and thanks to the Federation for winning the civil war at that time. I now even think that it is reasonable for Wells to increase my salary by dozens of times. After all, behind me, there are tens of thousands of local residents who have lost their basic security. At that time, I was just touched and didn't think it through. Now I think I should ask where most of the wealth that originally belonged to the star field and the Federation went, except for a small part of it that was distributed to us employees in the form of "high positions and generous salaries".

If the Central Council does not trust the failed Northwestern Star Fields and is unwilling to return these industrial incomes to the local star field because they cannot support the enemy, it seems reasonable, but when the civil war ended nearly a hundred years ago, we still did not pay taxes to the local star field government, which shows that the bigwigs in the central star field really don't want to keep this wealth in the local area.

I think the upper echelons of the Federation have never sincerely forgiven the Northwestern Star Fields. If the Federation wants this to become a wealthy star field, it doesn't even need to allocate annual aid. It only needs to transfer 20% of the income of the local mining area to the local government, which is enough to make the local economy active.

This is not just happening in the mineral production industry. After the victory of the civil war, the government took over the local star region's water source, transportation, electricity, transportation, communications, agricultural and animal husbandry markets, and imports and exports of various industries. The original local leading enterprises in these industries were split up by the parliament because they were suspected of funding the enemy and were considered unreliable and the financiers behind the resistance.

Afterwards, these industries were replaced by giant companies transferred from the central and southeast regions. A large number of high-paying jobs involving basic life were not open to local people, and the profits they earned were also largely withdrawn, leaving only scarce leftovers, which were fought over by local people.

I don't deny that the people in this star field have regained stability, which is much more stable than during the civil war, but what will happen to most ordinary people in the future? Many of them are not fanatics who sympathize with the losing side, and they cannot get good jobs and have no good social security. How can these people continue their lives? Just like we don't pay taxes to the local area, the industries controlled by the giant companies from the central star field will not pay taxes to the local area. Sometimes I even wonder how the local star field government is maintained. If civilians cannot get protection from formal channels, they will turn to the gray area and join the resistance armed forces. Over time, the government's voice will become worse and worse, which is not good for the long-term governance of the federation.

Judging from the policies left by Her Highness Emuralin, there should be a plan to transform and restore the local star field. Unfortunately, Her Highness Emuralin left too early. After her death, there was no strong leader who could boldly carry out this plan. After all, this is the losing side. If you are too good to the Northwest Star Field as a politician, you will be suspected of being the remnants of the enemy party. In order to take care of the emotions of the victorious party in the civil war and for the interests of their own forces, many seemingly incomprehensible current situations gradually became clear.

There are many political explanations for why there have always been resistance forces in the Northwest Star Regions, but in my opinion, this is because when people are forced into despair, they must fight, anyway, they will die anyway. Rather than saying that the dissatisfaction and grudges in many Northwest Star Regions are actually driven crazy by those greedy giant companies and politicians, they naturally have to fight.

You ask why the bigwigs in the Central Star Region are so cruel? In fact, it is not entirely. Many stars and singers in the Central Star Region are very sympathetic. They also hold many charity funding activities, but many stars and singers find it difficult to connect the poverty of these places with the shortage of resources under occupation, because these are the truths that can only be discovered after long-term investigations in person, and the Northwest Star Regions are relatively poor and backward, and they were not stable before, so few stars are willing to come.

There is no conspiracy in the poverty of the Gravel Star Region, but it is just a pure pursuit of short-term profit maximization, which regards profit as more important than long-term political gains. Many locals died, and society was numb and depressed, but what does this have to do with us who work in the "isolated" mining area? We got promotions and bonuses, what do their lives have to do with me?

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This is a self-narrated record of a corporate employee about 200 years ago. At that time, after the article was exposed, it aroused widespread resonance, and many local residents were excited. In the following ten years, many protests broke out in the northwest star region, and dozens of super-large marches were held every year.

This situation improved in 1036, when the singer from the northern star region, ‘Cangse Xinzhu’ Eradia, a goat-horned woman with silver-gray braids, was officially promoted to the ‘Sunrise-level’ singer. She won the support of all other singers in the northern star region and the votes of all orcs. Under her leadership, the political power of the northern star region increased greatly. In order to check and balance the aristocratic families in the central star region, she supported the political power in the northwest region. In the proposal of the central parliament, the return bill was passed to return the tax rights of industries related to people's livelihood to the local star region government.

In the next fifty years, the northwestern star regions gradually recovered. Although they were still poor compared to other star regions, they could at least survive. It was also from that time that the rebel armed forces in the northwest region gradually stopped and slowly entered a stable state.

However, ‘Cyan Bamboo’ Eladeya failed to become a ‘Scorching Sun Class’ singer. She died 80 years later, and then the Northwest Star Regions lost their voice again. After all, their economic foundation was too poor to compete with the Central Star Region forces that occupied huge resources.

Time passed, and in the following 100 years, the Northwest Star Regions also produced several singers, but these singers either gradually assimilated into the prosperous Central Star Region or did not enter the ‘Moon Class’ and their influence was always limited.

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In the small and dim room, Blanche sat in the chair under the projector, watching the scenes flashing on the screen, including scenes of suppressing the resistance armed forces, workers wielding old weapons being burned to ashes by flamethrowers, and scenes of large-scale parades, flying papers, and held-up signs with lines of text written in bright red words.

‘We want to survive.’

‘The lesions caused by pollution have made my children ‘alien’.’

‘Give those facilities back to us. ’

In the gray screen-like photo, a crowd of people held hands and walked forward step by step facing the fully armed guns. Many of them were covered in dust. It was hard to imagine that this was a scene from the interstellar era. The mother in the lead knelt on the ground, holding up the swaddling clothes in her hands. The child in the child had a strange appearance and one eye was crooked, which was terrifying.

The picture gradually darkened, and the bright red words in the projection also slowly solidified like dried blood stains.