Chapter 444: When Countryfolk Meet Countryfolk, A Shot Rings Out from Behind
Dusk was the time when the miners in the mining district finished their shifts one after another and headed home.
The Southeast Mining District practically had no night shifts; these mines were like the last remnants of toothpaste at the bottom of the tube, liable to be completely dug out any day now. The various mine owners were gradually losing interest in managing the place, and being able to mine for even one more day meant one more day of profit.
An adult, able-bodied male miner worked hard all day, dug out the ore, and handed it over to the underlings of the major mine owner. Although, as immigrants, the price these miners sold their labor for was much lower than that of the commoners of Mingdu, and they still had to hand over a hefty cut on top of that, they could still manage to keep a considerable income.
Soul tools were the foundation upon which the Sun Moon Empire was built, and as a link in the upper echelons of the soul tool industry chain, the treatment of the profession of mining was correspondingly somewhat higher than that of other commoner professions, enough to attract immigrants from foreign lands to gather here.
Such earnings held little attraction for the commoners of Mingdu, who for the most part looked down on this long-dilapidated mining district. Going to other major mining districts to do the same work fetched wages much higher than here. As time passed, the main force of miners in the Southeast Mining District became immigrants from Star Luo and Tianhun.
Their relatives gathered around the mining district, forming a migrant community.
At this moment, at the intersection of one of the few relatively wide streets