Chapter 237: Forced confession

The steel town faces north and south, and the name of the mountain beside it is extremely simple, it is called Heti Mountain. This mountain is also the remnant of Kunlun Mountain. It stretches from Haiqing Province to Ningbei Province, stretching for more than 2,000 miles, with countless peaks and valleys. The reason for this name is that since ancient times, the rocks in the mountain are rich in heti ore, which are as red as a glance.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the limited mining tools and the desolate place, although there are abundant minerals, they were not developed. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, mining tools were much more advanced. After several years of exploration, a huge iron ore vein was indeed dug in the mountain, with a total storage volume of 6 billion tons, accounting for one-tenth of the total iron ore reserves in China. What is more valuable is that most of the other iron ore production areas in China are poor ore, while the iron ore in Steel Town is rich ore with a content of more than 50%. This is the largest open-pit bare mine in the world. It is extremely convenient to mine and has extremely important strategic value.

In order to develop and manage the iron ore of Hematite Mountain, the state has set up a steel smelting plant here, called the smelting plant. It is actually an extremely systematic and complex comprehensive factory, integrating iron ore mining, screening, and even smelting and casting. The annual steel output of the entire steel plant reaches 50 million tons, accounting for 15% of the country, and is the largest and most produced steel plant in the world.

The steel mill has a total of tens of thousands of employees. Relying on this steel mill, it has gradually developed around it in the past decade. The name of the city is the Steel Town. The entire city has a population of nearly 200,000. The core of the city is the steel mill located in the northern suburbs. With the steel mill as the center, it radiates out more than ten streets, with bars, hotels and other leisure and entertainment areas distributed on it. Then in the block, it is the family residence of the steel mill employees. The whole city is like the copper city in Lu Yao's novel "Ordinary World", which is a city developed entirely by minerals.

Along the way forward, Li Yeling and the torture veterans from the armed police treated Lin Wei very politely. This guy was also a fool. Before everyone could start to force confessions, he had already confessed everything he knew.

As the largest steel mill in the country, Steel Town is also a partner enterprise of the Logistics Department designated by Ningbei Military Region. The batch of military equipment ordered by Ningbei Military Region in Steel Town happened to expire on October 1st, so Lin Hongda, as the deputy director of the Logistics Department, led people to receive it. In fact, although this batch of military equipment is more important and requires hundreds of soldiers to escort, Lin Hongda does not need to come in person. However, his son Lin Wei was tired of staying in Anxi City. He heard that Chunhua County is rich in beautiful girls, so he begged his father to bring him here. So Lin Hongda simply brought the whole family and traveled all the way to enjoy the mountains and rivers, just to relax.

As a major general and the deputy director of the logistics department of the Ningbei Military Region, Lin Hongda came here in person. The leaders of the Iron Town naturally had to warmly receive him and hosted a banquet at Shangri-La Jinhua, a five-star hotel in the Iron Town. However, unexpectedly, at this moment, the end of the world broke out.

A huge meteorite just hit the mountain next to the mining farm behind the steel plant. While causing the mountain to collapse, it also turned many employees working in the mining farm into zombies. Fortunately, the Steel Town implemented a management system of integrated workers and civilians. There were almost no one in the entire steel town except for the employees and their families.

Since most of the employees work in closed workshops, the high temperature in the workshop hinders the transmission of the virus, and the employees' families also work far away from the towns in the mines, the speed of zombies is not fast and the number of infected people is not large.

Lin Hongda is worthy of being a regular soldier and has a very strong ability to adapt to the situation. The more than 100 elite soldiers who received and escorted military equipment he brought came in handy. With the cooperation of the staff of the Steel Town, these elite soldiers took advantage of the moment when the zombies had just mutated and had poor abilities and quickly attacked and killed all the zombies.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Hongda issued martial law orders throughout the factory, implementing military control over the entire Steel Town, and closing the main entrance and exit roads of Steel Town, allowing them to go out and not enter. After closing the Steel Town, he gathered all the people in the Steel Town together and used the original equipment in the town to investigate them. As long as someone with a slightly strange body was immediately classified as a zombie lurker, he was dragged to the barren mountains outside the town overnight for burial.

In order to save bullets, Lin Hongda even issued an order, just bury these people alive and don’t shoot them. The entire investigation process is strict and cold. Everyone, even himself and his wife and son, will be killed as long as there is abnormality in their bodies. All dangers are strangled in the cradle. Lin Hongda has keenly felt the terror of this zombie virus. As long as one person is infected, it may be transmitted to ten thousand people overnight!

The terrifying purge lasted for three days. Three days later, the number of people in the Iron Town was only half of the previous ones. During these three days, a total of 100,000 people were killed and buried alive, including Lin Hongda's soldiers. Such a purge was undoubtedly terrifying, and the entire Iron Town was panicked, like a salmon. However, under Lin Hongda's high-pressure policy, there was no trace of zombies in the entire Iron Town, and even a trace of lurking virus was left behind.

After stabilizing the interior of Steel Town, Lin Hongda sent people everywhere to inquire about the news, but of course, he did not get any good news. Meteorite disasters broke out everywhere in the country, everywhere in the world, every corner of the earth, and zombie viruses were spreading rapidly. Countless people died of viruses, cities turned into scorched earth, and people began to flee...

After inquiring about these desperate news, Lin Hongda gave up. Anyway, for him, there was nothing wrong with the end of the world. Steel Town is located in a desolate place, with no cities around, and there are not large areas of farmland. Therefore, the daily supplies of Steel Town are purchased from outside. Because of this, the residents and shops in Steel Town usually pay great attention to the hoarding of materials.

After Lin Hongda controlled the Iron Town, all the materials in the entire Iron Town were collected and stored by him and distributed in a unified plan. These materials were enough for the remaining 100,000 people in the entire Iron Town to spend half a year. Such abundant materials storage can be said to be extremely rare.

When Lin Wei said this, Li Yeling and Liu Honggang looked at each other and saw the unconcealed greed in each other's eyes. It was enough for 100,000 people to eat and use half a year. How many of this is needed!

Lin Wei continued to say down.

Lin Hongda is indeed a very visionary and skillful person. Under his plan, the entire Steel Town instantly transformed into a city in the planned economy era.

Everyone in the Steel Town was divided into three classes. Lin Hongda's confidants and former officials of the Steel Town naturally became the first class of the entire New Steel Town. This class controls the highest power of the entire Steel Town. They occupy important positions in the newly established Steel Town's regime and become the emerging aristocratic class. Lin Hongda's family is a typical representative of this class.

The second class is the soldier class. After controlling the entire Iron Town, Lin Hongda felt deeply that his troops were insufficient. It was unrealistic to use more than 100 soldiers, although elite soldiers were elite soldiers to rule a city of 100,000. On the second day after the investigation, he issued a recruitment order, forcibly ordered all adult men aged 20-50 who had families in Iron Town to join the army. In just one day, Lin Hongda's troops had reached as many as 2,000.

With so many soldiers, of course there are not so many guns for them to use. They had to use some cold weapons at the beginning. Lin Hongda conducted systematic military training on these recruits, and the training was extremely strict. It can even be said that the new recruits had a cruel two thousand people. After a month of training, only 1,700 people survived, which means that 300 people died in the training ground. This is also the reason why these soldiers are so elite. In this month, the assembly line in the factory was transformed into a machine that can make firearms and ammunition. Although it is not so precise, the standard type 1 and 2 rifles and bullets can be mass-produced, and there are all kinds of refined steel ingots and other materials in the Steel Town. Therefore, the army of these two thousand people quickly completed the assembly.

Li Yeling took a breath of a 1,800 elite force. Unexpectedly, the strength of this Iron Town was so strong, it was a bit beyond his imagination! With such a force, people might not be able to like us, and it would only take a minute to destroy us. Looking at Liu Honggang, he looked worried. When the two looked at each other, they felt that things were a little tricky.

As for the third class, it is the working class.

These people were originally employees or family members of the Steel Town Town, and their families were incomplete during the cleaning. They ordered the killing of these people's families, so Lin Hongda was very worried about these people and did not allow them to join the army to master weapons. However, these people were not without a way out. The steel mills and all enterprises in the Steel Town were taken over to the public. These enterprises are now serving the war and have fully utilized horsepower to process weapons, firearms, cotton coats and other military supplies. The operation of these powerful enterprises also requires a huge amount of manpower.

In the new Steel Town, without a job means not getting the daily grain ration, which means starving to death. So these people became very cheap laborers, working in factories every day in exchange for only a little food that could not be starved to death. As for those elderly and weak-bodied people, unless someone is willing to raise them, they can only rely on prostitution or begging to make a living, or starve to death. Lin Hongda was not at ease, so he divided a zone in the Steel Town and drove all these people to live here, so this place soon became a slum and Red Lantern Street in the entire Steel Town.

As the refugees continued to influx during this period, the fourth class was quickly formed in the Iron Town, namely the refugee class, or the slave class. These refugees who fled from the wilderness were no greater than Liu Honggang's team. Most of them were small teams with dozens of people and hundreds of people, and were dirty all over. Some were sick, and even worse than the original third class of the Iron Town. The indigenous people of the Iron Town, including those who were bitches, looked down on these people.

The original job positions were basically occupied. Before the factory was expanded, these people had no chance to work. In the Steel Town, no work means no food, and starvation means death. Therefore, these people became an unstable factor in the city, and it happened to happen that Lin Hongda had to build the wall of the Steel Town in order to defend against the large groups of zombies outside the city, so these people had a good meal. As for women and children who could not do work, they would be voluntarily sold to others as slaves, except for standing on the street as prostitutes.

That's why some wealthy families in the first and second classes of Steel Town also had many male and female slaves in the homes. For example, Lin Wei's follower Lin An, bought it from the slave market.

After hearing Lin Wei's description, Li Yeling closed his eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief.

As Lin Hongda's son, Lin Wei, the biggest dandy and yamen in the entire Iron Town, know a lot of things, and almost all of them were said. From Lin Hongda's actions, it can be seen that this person is definitely a talented and ambitious person! The internal affairs are handled in an orderly manner. The entire Iron Town has turned into a large factory and a large barracks. Everyone has their own work to do, and everyone will not starve to death with only work. The entire Iron Town has become an extremely huge machine, and everyone in the town is a small part on this machine.

From this point of view, Lin Hongda’s ambition is definitely not something that can be trapped in a mere steel town!

The elite troops of two thousand people, tens of thousands of workers, powerful weapons manufacturing capabilities, and tens of millions of tons of steel, can such a giant be afforded by himself?

After pondering for a while, Li Yeling's eyes suddenly opened, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Lin Hongda's notice is indeed nothing to say, almost impeccable, but it has one of the biggest weaknesses. He is a soldier. A soldier is strong and tough, tenacious and unyielding, ruthless and domineering. These are all advantages and are very suitable for survival and development in this troubled times. Domineering in troubled times is the truth. But Lin Hongda is also wrong in being a soldier. He turned the Iron Town into a large barracks and turned everyone into slaves, servants, and subordinates of the Lin family. He is too strict and oppressed too ruthless!"

Li Yeling has survived for so long in the end of the world and has gradually accumulated some experience. In the end of the world, there is actually no need to worry about high-pressure rule. As long as you have two things in your hands: food and guns! As long as these two things are in your hands, you will never have to be afraid of others' rebellion. Even if you kill all these people, as long as you have food that can make people live in the end of the world, there will be a large number of people coming to join you.

In Li Yeling's opinion, Lin Hongda was too busy with control, and there was no need. The entire Steel Town had been oppressed by him and became a powder barrel, and only a little bit of Mars would explode.

Moreover, Li Yeling didn't believe that Lin Hongda was the one who covered the sky in this steel town!

Li Yeling picked up the wine glass placed on the table, took a sip, then leaned over to Lin Wei's mouth, and smiled: "Westbrook, Maotai in 1955, was there a state banquet with Premier Zhou back then. How about you? Do you want to drink it?"

With a gurgle, Lin Wei's throat twitched clearly, and a coveting gaze appeared in his eyes.

Li Yeling chuckled, stepped back with a kick, sat on the sofa, crossed his legs, and said, "If you want to drink, I will shine all the things you know left and right!"

Lin Wei said in a panic: "I said everything! I didn't hide it at all. What else do you want me to say?"

Li Yeling grinned: "When you talked about the two thousand troops just now, your eyes obviously became dodging and your voice was a little trembling, which means you have a ghost in your heart! Also, besides your father Lin Hongda, what other forces are there in Steel Town? Why don't you say it? Well, Master Lin, don't force me to move!"

Lin Wei was frightened by his fierce eyes and suddenly felt a trembling in his heart. He looked at the two armed police officers next to him with bloody whips in their hands, and the corners of his mouth were sagging, and he almost cried. He had tears in his eyes and shouted: "Don't hit, don't hit, I said, isn't it okay?"

"Actually what I said just now is wrong. The soldiers in Iron Town are not only two thousand, but three thousand and three hundred. However, these people are not completely in the hands of my father..."

Through Lin Wei's new description, Li Yeling has a new understanding of the entire Iron Town structure.

It turns out that Steel Town is really not the only one who can dominate Lin Hongda.

The establishment of Steel Town has typical Chinese officialdom characteristics. As China's largest steel enterprise, the director of the steel factory also serves as the secretary of the factory's party committee. At the same time, this is also the mayor and the secretary of the town party committee of the town. Although the name of the town party committee secretary has a town, since he is also the secretary of the China No. 1 Steel Factory directly under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, his level has reached the level of the department. In other words, this big brother of the steel factory is on the same level as the general prefecture-level municipal party committee secretary.

The factory director of this term is Xu Shouyi, with a very rustic name, but this middle-aged man with a strong local atmosphere is a character that is not easy to mess with. He has already taken the position of the largest factory manager in China at the age of 40. He is definitely young and promising, not much worse than Lin Hongda.
Chapter completed!