The bottom of the mine is nothing more than regular facilities such as excavation sites, storage yards, warehouses, dormitories, and maintenance points. The bottom is very lively, forming 3 small cities. After all, the planet environment is very harsh everywhere, and the ground below the pit is not much different.
People were coming and going in the small mining town, saying hello to each other, and from time to time a few drunkards would stagger by.
Under Chu Jungui's explicit instructions, the chairman finally dismissed the large group of people and took three or five people with him. Chu Jungui was walking and looking casually in the small town when he suddenly grabbed a person and asked about his life history. A minor official next to the chairman immediately revealed his identity and asked that person to answer truthfully.
The man honestly reported his family, friends and life events. There is actually nothing to listen to in the life of this kind of low-level miner. They are all boring stories, but Chu Jungui listened very carefully and patiently from beginning to end.
After bidding farewell to the miner, Chu Jungui found another warehouse porter, asked about his life, and listened patiently. The chairman and general manager who followed were all confused and didn't understand what Chu Jungui wanted to do. In the end, they could only attribute it to rich people having many quirks.
Chu Jungui walked around various facilities and found one or two people in each facility to ask. The only different move was that he climbed into a mining machine to operate it. However, it was a 10-story behemoth, and it would take at least 100 people to operate it. Chu Jungui refused everyone's help, but he worked alone for a long time and couldn't get the big thing to move.
A quarter of an hour later, Chu Jungui finally gave up and climbed out of the mining machine. He patted the dust off his body and asked the chairman: "Why does this mining machine not have automatic operation mode and remote mode?"
The chairman suddenly became confused, but fortunately the general manager understood and quickly replied: "This equipment is second-hand. I bought a batch of it 30 years ago and it was used for more than 50 years. So it was all a hundred years ago. model. It will cost a lot more money to install automatic operation and remote control on this kind of mining machine, so we only buy the most basic version."
Chu Jungui looked at the time. After this busy period, 20 hours had passed. He then said: "Well, that's all for today's visit. Thank you for your hospitality."
The chairman of the board of directors and the senior executives of the mine were all confused and did not understand what Chu Jungui wanted to do. Even Zuo Xiaoyue, who had been doing homework all night, didn't understand.
After a while, the private starship took off and returned.
Zuo Xiaoyue was really puzzled and chased Chu Jungui to ask her doubts. Chu Jungui thought for a while and said, "I just want to see the people here."
Looking at people, looking at people for what? Zuo Xiaoyue really didn't know what was so interesting about these people. They would catch a lot of them everywhere.
Chu Jungui ignored the little girl's confusion and returned to the room to continue his work. Now was the critical moment, and he was not in the mood to take care of the little girl's mood.
He chose the Prema Mine because he wanted to verify a conjecture of his, so he didn't lie to Zuo Xiaoyue. He came here just to watch people.
There are a total of 110,000 workers in this mining base, and together with their families, a total of 300,000 people live here. Under normal circumstances, an open-pit mine cannot use so many people, not even half of them. On some of Dynasty's advanced resource stars, the number of mining companies using the latest unmanned equipment and fully automated equipment can be as low as one-twentieth of Prema.
There are also some mistakes in what the chairman and general manager said. Fully automatic and remote control systems are standard for large mining machines. Only some equipment that needs to work in special environments require customized systems. Chu Jungui checked the mining machine for a long time and finally found the automatic system and remote control system. They were turned off artificially, not not at all. These systems were hidden, but they could not be hidden from Chu Jungui's eyes.
Although the purchase and maintenance costs of using new mining machines are quite expensive, the production efficiency will be greatly improved. In the life cycle of a mining machine that lasts hundreds of years, the overall cost will be significantly lower than that of old mining machines. The management of Prema Mine refused to buy new mining machines. Instead, they insisted on buying a batch of old second-hand equipment and secretly turned off the automatic system. Similar operations can be found throughout the Prema mines. No wonder such a large mining company with such good natural conditions only makes a small profit every year and suffers losses from time to time.
The Li family holds the majority stake in the Prema mine, which is equivalent to a state-owned enterprise in the Republic. The management must have been instructed to do this by the Li family.
During the visit, Chu Jungui was very particular about the people he selected for questioning. As expected, most of them had signs of being in the army or receiving military training. By this time, Chu Jungui also understood that the hundreds of thousands of extra people in the Prema mine were actually paramilitary personnel secretly raised by the Li family. As long as they underwent short-term restorative training and were issued with appropriate equipment, You can enter the battlefield immediately.
There is a similar phenomenon on Shayun Planet. Many jobs in dangerous environments can obviously be replaced by automatic equipment, but the Li family would rather spend a lot of money to genetically enhance workers and even equip them with high-priced biochemical organs, but they still have to fill these positions with humans. Automatic machinery is only used in those environments that are too dangerous and harsh. Once these strengthened workers enter the army, they will immediately become powerful elite warriors.
Chu Jungui didn't know how many such paramilitary personnel there were. According to existing data analysis, there were at least four to five million.
Chu Jungui couldn't help but think of the concealed war 200 years ago. At that time, the Li family had just quelled the fleet rebellion, but the brutal suppression and subsequent purges caused great dissatisfaction. The Li family was experiencing external and internal troubles. The dynasty saw the opportunity and sent troops into the Sky Realm Republic in the name of pursuing the star thieves. . What followed was a three-year war, in which almost 80% of the territory of the Tianyu Republic was occupied. However, the Li family still resisted tenaciously, and soldiers were constantly replenished. After three years of brutal war, the dynasty had to withdraw its troops and granted the Li family more autonomy.
Afterwards, as the Republic of Heaven returned to the dynasty, everything about this war was sealed and could only be accessed with extremely high authority, 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 true strength of the Republic of Heaven is not limited to what is apparent on the surface. 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 o'clock in the evening to finalize the loan.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, Chu Jungui arrived at Li Youran's study on time. This time, Li Youran wore much better clothes and became much more amiable. He was no longer as serious as the first time.
