What is the specific content of devil metal?

Devil's Metal is the work of the famous Bolivian novelist Cespedes (1904 ~), published in 1946.

The story outline of this novel is as follows:

Cenonomantai is an illegitimate child and grew up as a priest with his uncle. He grew up in Garasa, a small valley village in Cochabamba; There is a river near the village, which is the only way between the industrial town of Oruro and Cochabamba. One day, a team of mules and horses carrying machines came from Oruro, led by an employee in Bosseur's shop. People call him Rigo. Rigo accidentally dropped his master's gold box into the river. Cenonomantai helped him salvage gold.

10 years later, Haumonte came to Oruro and happened to meet Mr. Rigo who threw gold into the river. He introduced Haumonte to work in a shop run by Austrian Bosseur. This shop deals in machinery, various appliances and miscellaneous goods, which are often sent to Cochabamba mine for sale, and then ore powder is transported back to Oruro for sale. In this shop, Haumonte works under Ramos, but he doesn't want to work there all his life.

At this time, a Spaniard named Jose talked to him about mining. It suddenly occurred to him that an Indian, Vazipondo, had told him that a glittering ore had been discovered in San Juan del Mo Ye. Soon, Vazipondo came to the store again and wanted to repay the debt owed to Ramos with tin ore powder. Ou Mengtai moved his heart at will. He had a brainwave and came up with an idea: he promised to pay off 200 pesos owed to Ramos for Vazipondo and give him another 20 ~ 30 pesos. He told Vazipondo not to mention tin ore powder to Ramos.

Ou Mengtai led five coolies to the scene with explosives, fuses, food and tools. That mine was abandoned centuries ago when people were looking for silver. Although there is no silver mine there, there is a vein of tin mine with bones buried in it. The content of tin ore is very high, and the pure mineral powder without water can reach 40% ~ 60%. Omontai transports mineral powder to Oruro for sale.

The mining industry in Haumonte has gradually developed. He hired Swiss engineers, bought the "Chile Machine Factory" and set up a management office with more than 100 workers. He built a house for himself in the mining area. Oruro put up the signboard of "Omontai Mining Company". The price of tin ore powder keeps rising, from 20 pesos to 40 pesos per load; He can mine 80,000 tons a year. Haumonte became a millionaire. He appreciates this magical word very much. The number of workers is increasing and the amount of exploitation is also increasing. Tin ore powder turned into gold in Omontai's hands, and Bolivia's domestic banks could never save it. He keeps gold in banks in Chile, Paris and London. "Metal goddess is very loyal to him. More and more milk is squeezed from the huge stone breasts of the goddess San Juan Delyemo. "

After Ou Mengtai made his fortune, he went back to his hometown to visit relatives, bought a manor for his uncles and brothers, and let them go abroad for sightseeing.

Omontai's influence is expanding to North America, Western Europe and the Far East. He lives in Paris with his wife and three children. He lived in Brazil with a coffee planter who turned coffee into diamonds, in Argentina with a herder who turned his pasture into cattle and sheep leather everywhere, in Cuba with a sugarcane planter who couldn't run with a flying horse for 24 hours ... Even in Paris, he still didn't forget how to rob it. He wrote and telegraphed to Estrada, the main manager, many times, demanding that the mining speed should be accelerated, the price of champagne in small enterprises should be raised, and shochu should be sold to alcohol instead of workers. He went to London to visit the smelter, which was filled with bags of mineral powder with his name on it. At that time, during the First World War, Germany blocked the Atlantic passage, and the United States began to smelt Haumonte's ore powder in order to reserve tin. The bronze medal in front of his Paris office building reads:

Senon Omonte

Paris-London-new york-Santiago

After 12, he returned to Bolivia with an annual output of 1 10,000 tons.

Ou Mengtai bought mining stocks in Malaya Bay and Dutch Indonesia through agents in London, Amsterdam and Shanghai, and set up a head office, which made him a "millionaire" in the Far East. His hand has been extended to all parts of the world and to all economic fields.

After the outbreak of World War II, Haumonte's mining industry began to decline because of poor minerals and workers' strike. After Hitler occupied France, he fled France and went to new york via Spain. News of the wave of Bolivian workers' strikes and the victory of the nationalist revolution reached the United States, which plunged Haumonte into panic and anxiety.

In order to climb to the top of the wealth pyramid, on the one hand, Haumonte tried his best to cheat, bribe and collude with competitors at home and abroad to push them down the pyramid; On the other hand, they extort money from the broad masses of workers, exploit them in every way, and put them at the bottom of the pyramid regardless of their lives.

As we said earlier, the Indians will use the discovered tin mine to pay off their debts to Ramos. Haumonte bribed lawyers and occupied 5 hectares of land that should have belonged to Ramos vein. He also bought guns and seized other people's territory by force.

At the other end of the mountain is a "progressive company" jointly run by France and Chile. In order to crush Haumonte, the company opened a hotel nearby at a low price, so as to attract miners in Haumonte, bribe them and take away the ore powder halfway. Ou Mengtai planned with the manager and ordered people to blow up the hotel.

Ou Mengtai hired many lawyers to advise him. They said that mining "is not only about pickaxes and hammers, but also should be influenced by money". We should see that "Progressive Company" has "foreigners' support" in La Paz. Therefore, Ou Mengtai, while concluding a relationship with the government, paid money to bribe the election, created chaos during the election, took the opportunity to play tricks and stuffed his agent into the parliament.

Haumonte skillfully handled the Bolivian political situation, tried every means to find the background-foreign monopoly capital "backing", and then set up a joint stock limited company. This makes the government have to respect him and dare not impose high taxes on him. On the other hand, if the government dares to levy high taxes on him, he will not lend money to the government and then support the opposition, but he will not collapse because of the collapse of the government, and will even become the mainstay of the next government.

Haumonte put countless workers, women and children at the bottom of his pyramid. On one side of the silver bridge, there is also a white bone bridge. Miners work like mules and horses. The young son took over from his dead father, pushing a bucket car and transporting ore. After layers of exploitation, the miners got little. The company pays the contractor 100 pesos per meter of excavation, while they pay the foreman 50 pesos, and the foreman pays the digger 10 pesos, which is only 1 pesos in the hands of coolies. There is a lack of labor protection in the mine, and accidents happen one after another. Sometimes, hanging cans will fall and kill workers. Tin mine is a silent and bloody god, opening its jaws and devouring workers. "Its huge jaw often chews the worker ants into pieces", "To the cemetery, to the Cross Village".

Influenced by Bolshevik propaganda, miners often rebelled and struggled, demanding higher wages and better working conditions, although they were constantly suppressed by Ou Mengtai, who colluded with government forces. They smashed the doors and windows of the store, demonstrated in front of the mining management office, and shouted down the robbers and down the manager.