Vol 3 Chapter 1052: look at people

The bottom of the mine is nothing more than conventional facilities such as excavations, stockpiles, warehouses and dormitories, and maintenance points. The bottom is very lively, all forming 3 small cities. After all, the planetary environment is very harsh everywhere, and the ground at the bottom of the crater is not much different.
People came and went in the mining town, greeting each other, and every now and then a few drunks staggered past.
Under the express instructions of Chu Jungui, the chairman finally dismissed the team and brought three or five people to follow. Chu Jungui was walking around and watching the small town at will, suddenly grabbed a person and asked about his life and past. A small official beside the chairman immediately revealed his identity and asked that person to answer truthfully.
The man honestly reported his family, friends, and life events. The life of such a low-level miner is actually nothing to listen to, and it is all boring stories, but Chu Jungui listened very carefully and patiently, and heard it from the beginning to the end.
Saying goodbye to the miner, Chu Jungui found another warehouse porter, also asked about his life, and listened patiently. The chairman and general manager who followed behind were all at a loss. They didn't understand what Chu Jungui wanted to do. In the end, it could only be attributed to the eccentricities of rich people.
Chu Jungui went around the various facilities, and asked one or two people in each facility. The only difference is that he personally climbed into a mining machine and wanted to operate it. However, it is a 10-story behemoth, and it takes at least 100 people to start it. Chu Jungui refused everyone's help, but he was busy for a long time by himself and couldn't make the big guy move.
A quarter of an hour later, Chu Jungui finally gave up and climbed out of the mining machine. He patted the dust on his body and asked the chairman, "Why doesn't this mining machine have an automatic operation mode and a remote mode?"
The chairman was a little confused, but fortunately the general manager understood, and quickly replied: "This equipment is second-hand. I bought a batch of them 30 years ago, and they were all used for more than 50 years. So it was a hundred years ago. This kind of mining machine will cost a lot more to install automatic operation and remote control, so we buy the most basic version.

Chu Jungui looked at the time, the circle was busy, and 20 hours had passed. He then said, "Well, that's all for today's visit. Thank you for your hospitality."
The chairman of the mine and a group of senior executives were inexplicable and did not understand what Chu Jungui wanted to do. Even Zuo Xiaoyue, who had done all night's homework, didn't understand.
After a while, the private starship took off and returned home.
Zuo Xiaoyue was really puzzled, and chased Chu Jungui to ask her doubts. Chu Jungui thought about it and said, "I just want to see the people here."
Look at people, what do people do? Zuo Xiaoyue really doesn't know what these people are good-looking, and they grab a lot of them everywhere.
Chu Jungui ignored the little girl's entanglement and returned to the room to continue his work. Now is a critical moment, and he is not in the mood to take care of the little girl's mood.
He chose the Prima mine just to verify one of his conjectures, so he didn't lie to Zuo Xiaoyue, he came here to see people coming.
There are 110,000 workers at the mining base, plus their families, a total of 300,000 people live here. Under normal circumstances, an open-pit mine can't use so many people at all, half of it can't be used. On some of Dynasty’s advanced resource stars, the number of mining companies using the latest unmanned equipment and fully automatic equipment can be as low as 1/20 of that of Prema.
There were also some errors in what the chairman and general manager said. Fully automatic and remote control systems are standard for large mining machines, and only some equipment that needs to work in special environments requires customized systems. Chu Jungui checked the mining machine for a long time, and finally found the automatic system and remote control system, which were turned off artificially, not not. These systems were all hidden, but they failed to hide from Chu Jungui's eyes.
Although the procurement and maintenance costs of new mining machines are quite expensive, the production efficiency will also be greatly improved. During the 100-year life cycle of the mining machine, the comprehensive cost will be significantly lower than that of the old mining machine. The management of the Prima mine did not buy new mining machines, but insisted on buying a batch of old and second-hand equipment, and secretly shut down the automatic system. Similar operations abound in the entire Prima mine. It is no wonder that such a large mining company, with such good natural conditions, is making small profits every year, and occasionally suffers losses.
The Li family holds the majority of the equity in the Prima Mine, which is equivalent to a state-owned enterprise in the Republic. The management must have done so at the inspiration of the Li family.
During the visit, Chu Jungui chose the subjects for questioning with particular attention, and sure enough, most of them had signs of joining the army or having received military training. By this time, it was clear to Chu Jungui that the hundreds of thousands of extra people in the Prima Mine were actually paramilitary personnel secretly raised by the Li family. Immediately enter the battlefield.
There is a similar phenomenon on the sand cloud star. Many jobs in dangerous environments can be replaced by automatic equipment, but Li Jianing would spend a lot of money on genetic enhancement of workers, and even equip them with high-priced biochemical organs, but also use people to fill these positions. Robots are only used in environments that are simply too dangerous and harsh. And once these strengthened workers enter the army, they will immediately become powerful elite soldiers.
Chu Jungui did not know how many such paramilitary personnel there are~EbookFREE.me~ According to the existing data analysis, there are four or five million at least.
Chu Jungui couldn't help but think of the war that was covered up 200 years ago. At that time, the Li family had just quelled the fleet rebellion, but the brutal suppression and subsequent purge caused great dissatisfaction. The Li family was at a time of external and internal trouble. . After a three-year war, almost 80% of the territory of the Tianyu Republic was occupied. However, the Li family still resisted stubbornly, and the soldiers continued to replenish. After three years of brutal war, the dynasty had to retreat and give the Li family more autonomy.
Afterwards, because the Tianyu Republic returned to the dynasty, everything about the war was sealed, and only a very high authority could access it, and most of the information was destroyed. After all, the role played by the dynasty at that time was not glorious.
Now it seems that the real strength of the Tianyu Republic is not limited to the point on the bright side. When it encounters another invasion, it will show its fangs.
The private spaceship returned to the capital star, and Chu Jungui was informed that Li Youran would meet with him at 8 pm to finalize the loan.
At 8:00 p.m., Chu Jungui came to Li Youran's study on time. This time, Li Youran wore more clothes, and the people became more friendly, not as serious as the first time.