Wen's family lives in Mulonggou, about 200 kilometers west of Mandalay. Mulonggou is hidden in deep mountains and ridges, and is still a distance from the Golden Triangle. The local transportation and economy are very backward. It is unknown on the map. The locals in Mulonggou have lived here for dozens of generations. Today, considering the villages around Mulonggou, the total population living here is only a little over 6,000.

Most people living in the Tabei region may not find Mulonggou on the map, but they must have heard of this place. For nothing else, they produce one thing for Mulonggou - gold!

The news of gold discovery in Mulonggou caused a sensation in the entire Mandalay Province. At that time, Maowen was still young, only sixteen or seventeen years old. I heard that someone found gold when he went to the mountain to collect firewood. Then almost all the villagers in Mulonggou went crazy. Everyone ran up the mountain to see where the gold was discovered. The curious Maowen and a few friends also went to see it.

When Maowen and the others went up, they could no longer see any gold, but the place where they found gold was still not damaged. Speaking of that place, it was actually not uncommon. It was just in a stream halfway up the mountain in Mulonggou. I heard that the man who found gold came here with a bundle of firewood on his back and just wanted to drink some water. The weather was very good that day, and the angle of the sunlight shone into the stream was just right. When he bent down to drink water in the stream, he found something clear under a stone in the stream.

The stream flashed brightly. At that time, the man thought it was amber. There were a lot of amber in the mountains here, and many people could often pick it up. He could sell it for a little money by taking out the amber on the ground. The man was very happy, but when he moved the stone away, what he saw in front of him was shocked. Under the stone, there was a shallow pit as bright as a mortar. At that time, the entire mortar was covered with golden sand-like things. After many years, it was washed brightly by the stream...

The man who found the gold then left Mulonggou with his family. He heard that the gold in the mulberry nest was at least 20 kilograms, which was enough for the family to have no worries about food and clothing for several lifetimes. People from Mulonggou found some golden sand near the stream, and even found rough gold nuggets. The news about gold in Mulonggou was like a wonderful-winged bird with wings, flying to all directions.

After someone found the gold nugget, Maowen heard the old man in the village say that there was a large gold mine hidden in Mulonggou...

Maowen has never attended any school since he was a child, and there is no school in Mulonggou, but Maowen is very clear about what gold is. In Maowen's simple mind, the news of Mulonggou's discovery of gold made him very excited. Between the gold in Mulonggou and the happy life of Mulonggou villages, Maowen simply drew an equal sign by Maowen. When Mulonggou found gold, people in Mulonggou could no longer be poor and could live a good life. In Maowen's view, such a thing was completely natural.

As long as Mulonggou has money, Mulonggou can build a school, and you can also go to a big city like Mandalay to see it. You can take a bus, a boat, and buy a lot of clothes...

Maowen thought all this very simply, but what happened later was not as Maowen thought.

Not long after the news of gold was discovered in Mulonggou, a strange exploration team came to Mulonggou with a large number of equipment, and the peaceful days of Mulonggou were broken. The exploration team that came to Mulonggou made holes everywhere and dug them. The sand, stone and earth were piled up by those people. After the exploration team arrived, Mulonggou, which was originally a piece of green mountains and clear water, gradually became a bit scarred after the exploration team arrived. The villagers in Mulonggou were a little dissatisfied, but when they thought of what the exploration team said to the villagers, the villagers all suppressed these dissatisfactions. The exploration team said to the villagers, "All this is for the needs of the country!" When the word "country" was mentioned, the simple Mulonggou villagers stopped talking.

Maowen still clearly remembered that on that day, some people came to Mulonggou, all of whom were in a car. The villagers in Mulonggou were gathered. Among the people who came, they all came as officials, and some officials from the State Mining Department. Those people said a lot, but Maowen didn't understand much. The only thing that Maowen had some impression of was that those people kept talking were documents issued by the Ministry of Mining, national policies, and other things, and the need to mine in Mulonggou, and the villagers in Mulonggou abide by laws and road construction...

After the officials left, Mulonggou began a vigorous road construction project. Those officials said that they wanted to promote the economic development of Mulonggou and so on. Many local villagers gathered to build simple roads in Mulonggou. Although everyone had no wages to get, they even had to bring their own food, but I heard that

Many people went there to build roads, and Maowen also went there. Although it was a little weak at that time, he could not even lift the stones, so he could only use a dustpan to lift the soil.

The road construction work was very tiring, but Maowen was excited and felt that he had seen the dawn of a new life. Many Mulonggou villagers had the same idea as Maowen at that time, and they had hope in their hearts. No matter how hard or tiring the work they were, they didn’t feel bitter or tired.

Thinking about it now, Maowen only feels stupid...

After the simple road was repaired, many things could be transported in. There were more strangers in Mulonggou, and some people started mining. The mountain where gold was found and the large area around were surrounded by people who started mining. From then on, the villagers of Mulonggou could no longer find any gold or firewood on the mountain, and Mulonggou had completely lost the tranquility of the past.

The first conflict between Mulonggou villagers and those who started the mine was four months after the mine was started.

In order to start a mine, those people dig wells and set off firecrackers in Mulonggou all day long, which made the villagers of Mulonggou uneasy, but at least they could still live a good life. The villagers of Mulonggou endured it...

In order to mine, the vegetation on the mountains around Mulonggou was destroyed. The originally green hills have now gradually turned into large areas of exposed gray-yellow, and deep ravines scattered in the mountains like scars. Originally, the villagers of Mulonggou could still hunt on nearby mountains, but now, even birds are rarely seen on the surrounding mountains. Thinking of the repeated advice of the officials and the documents and other things that those people were talking about, the villagers of Mulonggou still held back...

When the villagers in a village in Mulonggou one day found that the village where they lived for generations could no longer live, the villagers in that village could no longer bear it.

In order to facilitate and save costs, the miners poured out the waste mines and earth and rocks from the mines at will, piled up more and more. Finally, one night, due to heavy rain, the earth and rocks pouring down from the mountain slid down and rushed out of the mountainside. The houses of several families near the foot of the mountain were buried in a village at the foot of the mountain. Because it was at night, the people of those families were sleeping at home and had no defense at all. They never thought that such a thing would happen in Mulonggou. All the people of those families were buried alive, and they all lived and could not even dig out...

The whole mountain village was angry. The hundreds of people in the mountain village blocked the highway on the next day and were preparing to ask for an explanation. Before the miners could stand up, several officials from the government came to the government rushed over and quickly appeased the angry crowd. When the people in the mountain village asked for the officials to explain, the officials finally told the truth. Now the mining company is a foreign company, holding some documents on it. With the support of the Ministry of Mining, the affairs of foreign companies are not under the government's control. They have no choice but to coordinate as much as possible. The people in the village are very dissatisfied, but when a large number of military and police officers who came from outside entered Mulonggou with sticks, shields and guns, no matter how dissatisfied the people, they can no longer be tough.

Maowen didn't know the coordination process between those officials and those who started the mine, but later he heard from the adults that it seemed that the people who started the mine compensated the village with a little money like beggars, and then it was left unresolved. However, the only benefit of this matter was to let all the people in Mulonggou know who was opening gold mines on the mountain. Then there was news from some unknown place, saying that the foreign company had a great background in the capital, and did not pay a penny when taking the Mulonggou gold mine. Even the taxes that the company should pay were completely exempted from various preferential policies and reasons for foreign investment, and even the local government could not afford it.

Think about the foreign company that doesn’t even know its name! Think about the people who always talk about the country and the hard work of building roads by themselves. Everyone in Mulonggou feels that they have been deceived, Japanese ***…

Until now, Maowen couldn't understand why a foreign company could take down such a big mountain and a big gold mine in Mulonggou without paying a penny. Don't those officials know that the things in the belly of this mountain are real gold, gold! That's not a stone. Why do you give these gold from Mulonggou to foreigners for free? Why do you want those foreigners and foreign companies to be powerful in Mulonggou? I heard that the money earned by that foreign company from Mulonggou to open a gold mine in Mulonggou is enough to run a school, but Mulonggou, where the gold mine was discovered, still has no school. Why is this...

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