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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 294

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:48:47 PM


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Early the next morning, Yang Jing got on the jeep again and went all the way west through the mountains and primitive jungles.

As Wu Qinmao said, the more than 100 kilometre road from Myitkyina to pagan is not the way for people to go. Compared with this section, the road from Mandela to Myitkyina is a two-way four lane highway.

You say this is not a road, but there is a clear boundary between the two sides of the winding and rugged road and the nearby primitive jungle, but you have to say this is a road. Who's his sister's letter.

This is clearly a long strip of rotten mud pond stepped out by elephants in the jungle!

Along the way, Yang Jing saw no less than 100 elephants. These elephants either carried huge bamboo baskets containing jadeite raw stones, or simply tied up some huge jadeite raw stones with hemp rattan and let the elephants drag them on the ground

Of course, more are Burmese locals who carry the burden.

Deep in the pagang mining area, in the mountains in the west of Kachin state, although it is bounded by Sagaing state, that area is really a primitive jungle area. If jadeite were not found in that area, it would be a no man's land.

Yang Jing's Jeep simply can't afford to run fast. The road is full of potholes except mud. If you don't pay attention to the car, you'll get stuck. From Myitkyina to pagan on the more than 170 kilometers of the road, the car has been stuck in thirteen times. If there weren't many elephants on this road, we could pull up the cars in it. Yang Jing, when they first got in, they had to go to pagan 121.

Especially when crossing the Kumen ridge, Yang Jing's liver and intestines almost came out.

Such a road makes Yang Jing really doubt how to transport the jadeite raw stones dug out from the mining area. Can it only be carried out by elephants or people?

We started at more than five in the morning and didn't arrive at the old pagan mining area until more than nine in the evening.

As soon as Yang Jing got out of the car, he almost knelt on the ground and couldn't get up again. This is really not a crime for his sister!

At present, Myanmar's Jadeite mining area is far from being compared with the mining area after the new century. In fact, even after entering the new century, the price of jadeite soars, and the major jadeite yards are still dilapidated. Here, apart from the accommodation of the mine owners and the raw jade warehouse, other places are not people's places at all.

Jadeite mine owners are billionaires, but these Billionaires will never spend their money on mining workers.

Now it's 1986, and it's even worse here. Although Yang Jing can't see anything, he can feel the dilapidation here from where he lives at night.

Yang Jing and Wu qinmao live in a bamboo building. It's the kind of bamboo building that is supported by bamboo. The floor of the house is about one and a half meters high from the ground, and then the whole room is woven with bamboo.

Living in a bamboo house is also very emotional, but if you keep several pigs under the bamboo house, there is only a layer of bamboo raft between you and the pigs. It is estimated that you won't think living in a bamboo house is emotional.

Although the bamboo building is not directly grounded, the pigs below are really unbearable. The pig hummed and didn't say. Just that smell made Yang Jing almost spit out.

Finally, Yang Jing still couldn't resist the sour taste. Regardless of the severe pain all over her body, she asked an officer to find another room for herself.

This room can't be called "house". This is a thatched house

The thatched cottage is just the thatched cottage. At least there is no sour taste, which is enough to make Yang Jing sleep safely on the bamboo bed of the thatched cottage.

After getting up the next morning, Yang Jing found that more than 95% of the houses here were such thatched huts. Like the bamboo building that I checked in for the first time last night, it is even a high-end house here. This kind of bamboo building is usually inhabited by mine owners or managers.

Of course, there are also houses built of stones in the mining area. Those houses are very large. Needless to say, they are warehouses used to hold jadeite raw stones.

Whether in the new century or in the 1980s, at the emerald farm, manpower and even human life are not worth money at all. There are tens of thousands of miners working here, even if everyone has only about 12 cents a day - even in 2016, the daily income of miners here is only $1

The only valuable stones here are those of different sizes and shapes - jadeite raw stones.

After breakfast, Yang Jing and Wu qinmao acted again. The entrance opened by Wu qinmao in damukan mining area is still a long way from laopagang mining area - Yang Jing and Wu qinmao need to ride elephants for about half a day.

The straight-line distance between damukan mining area and laopagang mining area is only about 30 kilometers, but even after the new century, there is no road between the two mining areas, only a mountain road stepped by elephants.

Therefore, Yang Jing, Wu qinmao and his entourage need to ride elephants around mountains for most of the day to get to gate. Not to mention, although it's a little slow to ride an elephant, it's really comfortable. A rattan chair is placed on the broad back of the elephant, and people sit in the rattan chair. As the elephant moves forward, the cane chair swings left and right, just like a shaking table. It is very comfortable and not bumpy at all.

Yang Jing even slept in the rattan chair

As for the big box unloaded from the jeep Yang Jing took, it was placed on the elephant's back together with Yang Jing.

In the afternoon, the team composed of eight elephants and more than 50 miners arrived at damukan mining area. The entrance opened by Wu qinmao is located on the edge of hangba entrance. It is a land with a length of 2.3 kilometers, a width of 1.7 kilometers and an area of almost 4 square kilometers.

To the north of the entrance is the winding main channel of Wulu River, and there is a tributary of Wulu River in the entrance.

This area is relatively flat. There are numerous large pits on the ground. Countless miners are climbing up and down in the pit and moving stones with muddy water out of the pit.

This was the first time Yang Jing saw the scene of the excavation of jadeite raw stone. Although the scene was spectacular, Yang Jing couldn't bear to watch it again after watching it for a while.

The main reason is that the miners are really a little too miserable. They are ragged and worse dressed than beggars. Some miners even wear a crotch cloth and are covered with yellow mud

In addition to these miners, many naked children are also helping adults carry some small jadeite raw stones.

In the past, I heard that the miners digging jadeite were so hard, but I didn't see it with my own eyes. Now, after finally seeing how these bitter miners dig jadeite raw stones, Yang Jing really couldn't bear it.

It seems that Wu qinmao, the big boss, can't bear it. On one side, Wu qinmao said, "boss, the workers here are like this. They can be said to rely on mining for a living for generations. Although these workers don't earn much money, compared with those who can't dig mines, they at least have a stable income."

As he spoke, Wu qinmao pointed to those more distant openings and said: "These sites are connected. In damukan mining area, there are forty or fifty thousand miners digging. The miners' income is basically the same, which is tacitly understood by the mine owners of each site. As newcomers, we naturally can't break this default rule, otherwise, the mine owners of those sites will have a hard time with us."

Yang Jing nodded silently, looked at it for a while, and then asked, "how are the workers eating?"

Wu qinmao whispered, "it's no problem. Although the miners at each site get almost the same salary, the food at our site is still very good. At least we can make the workers full, which is better than many sites."

After a pause, Wu qinmao continued: "Boss, you've also passed the way here, and you can see the situation here. Therefore, all materials here, whether food, clothing or use, need to be pulled in from the outside. Now there are more than 3800 people digging in our farm. Therefore, I specially formed a transportation team composed of more than 100 people and 50 elephants to transport grain , they go back and forth between Changkou and mogang every day, and pull food and some necessary materials from mogang to Changkou. "

Yang Jing asked, "how much money has been needed for workers' wages and food and drink expenses over the past year?"

"It's not much money. It's good for the workers here to have enough to eat. Taking into account their wages, plus meals and other expenses, they spent less than $2 million in more than a year. Among them, security costs account for nearly half."

Hearing this figure, Yang Jing felt a little uncomfortable. Almost 4000 people, even those who eat with a salary, spend only $1 million a year. The living standard here is really too low.

You know, Wu qinmao's salary alone is a million dollars a year. This guy's salary is the top of the hard work of nearly 4000 people a year.

However, Yang Jing knows that there is no way. As Wu qinmao said just now, it is like this here. These miners have come here for almost generations. Especially in the old pagang mining area, it is more cruel than here.

It is said that diamonds in Africa are blood diamonds. In fact, Jadeites in Myanmar are similar to those blood diamonds.

But Yang Jing is powerless to change the situation here. This circle has been formed for a long time. It can't be easily changed by one or two people. Moreover, if you rashly change the rules here, it may be counterproductive.

The workers here are used to this, or they have completely adapted to this kind of exploitation.

It's sad, but there's no way to change it.

Yang Jing can only feel sorry for these workers silently in her heart. However, if you let Yang Jing give up the present scene because of this regret, he will certainly not do so. This is not Huaxia, and these workers are not Huaxia people, so Yang Jing will not give up the scene because of her own pity.

"Lao Wu, send more people and elephants to bring more food and meat every day. I can't change the current situation here, but I can make the workers under my hand eat better!"

Wu qinmao put his hands together and said, "boss, it's very kind of you. I thank you for these workers."

Yang Jing waved his hand and said, "where is our warehouse? I'll go and have a look first."

Under the leadership of Wu qinmao, Yang Jing came to a well guarded area. There are some big houses built with heavy stones in this area. Needless to say, this is the warehouse containing jadeite raw stones





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