Chapter Ninety-Four: Cold Water Iron Ore
Yichuan City, Linhe Province, Lengshui Iron Mine Administrative Family Area. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is a compound covering an area of several thousand acres, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small city. In fact, the city itself developed on the basis of the administrative family area of the Lengshui Iron Mine, and more than half of the residents in this city are related to the iron ore mine, either as employees of the mine or as relatives of the workers. Mayor Yichuan once claimed on a certain occasion that in Yichuan City, his speech was far less effective than that of Pan Caishan, the mine manager of the iron mine, and that when he encountered some natural and man-made disasters, he had to run to the iron mine to ask for help.
As the name suggests, the administrative family area is divided into two parts: the administrative area and the family area. The administrative area is the office location of the iron ore administrative agency and mining, transportation, warehousing, machine repair and other departments, as well as the auditorium, hospital, canteen, guest house, kindergarten, primary school, middle school and other supporting service facilities, providing the whole life cycle service from the delivery room to the grave for the iron mine workers. The family area is made up of hundreds of buildings and an almost equal number of bungalows, built from 1953 to 1981, some of which have not yet been topped out, and is a museum of contemporary residential construction.
The mining site of the cold water iron ore mine is not in the city of Yichuan, but in the mountains more than 20 kilometers away from the city. As the scale of mining continues to expand, the stope extends further afield. A number of improvised houses were built next to the mine for the workers to live temporarily. Their wives and children are all in the administrative family area, and when they take turns off, they will also return to the city to enjoy modern life.
On this day, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and the sky was cloudless. Early in the morning, Pan Caishan, the old mine manager, led a group of mine leaders and middle-level cadres to wait in front of the office building. The afternoon before yesterday, he received a telephone call from Beijing, informing him that the working group of the Metallurgical Bureau would go to the Lengshui Iron Mine to inspect the work under the leadership of Chang Min, director of the Mining Division. The train that Chang Min and his entourage took arrived in Yichuan this morning, and the car on the mine has already gone to the train station to pick up people, and it will arrive soon.
The discussion meeting on how to promote the industrial test work was held in the Metallurgical Bureau for several days, and many opinions of all kinds emerged, but none of them were reliable.
Some people believe that the key to the current problem lies in the fact that the attitude of the Metallurgical Bureau is too weak, and that it should give death orders to the mines through the Economic Commission and force them to accept them; others believe that the strong melons are not sweet, and in order to make the grassroots feel happy to carry out their work, it is best to invite the mine managers to the capital, properly solicit their opinions, see what demands they have, and then meet them as appropriate; some radicals attribute this situation to the quality of the Chinese, saying that if this matter is put to Europe, the United States, or Japan, there will be no such problem; and even the crooked building party has begun to talk about how the steamed buns in Linshui Province are delicious, and they will become a ball when they are pinched, as soon as it is released, it rises like a football......
Chang Min was able to listen patiently at first, but in the end he was shocked. She really deserved to come out of the mine, as if she had lit a cannon twist, and she gave everyone a lecture, so that an old man from the Metallurgical Bureau like Ji Ming didn't dare to talk to her. After a storm, Chang Min announced that some people would be left in the Metallurgical Bureau to continue to contact the mines, and she personally led a team to visit several key mines.
Feng Xiaochen sat down and listened, and his body couldn't help but chill for a while, from Luo Xiang Fei to Chang Min, these leaders and middle-level cadres of the Metallurgical Bureau still regarded the mine as a poisonous insect and beast.
The team led by Chang Min to the countryside included Wang Weilong, Feng Xiaochen and another mine clerk named Lu Zhidong. According to Chang Min's original idea, she didn't want to take Feng Xiaochen with her. Feng Xiaochen has no sense of existence in the eyes of some people in the Metallurgical Bureau, and only people such as Liu Yanping, Hao Yawei, and Ji Ming, who have been to Germany with him, are more familiar with him. In Chang Min's view, Feng Xiaochen is just a young man who knows a little foreign language, he has no academic qualifications, and he has no qualifications, so he somehow climbed the high branch of Luo Xiangfei and climbed the plane tree of the Metallurgical Bureau. Chang Min had a lot of slander about Luo Xiangfei stuffing Feng Xiaochen into the working group, and when it was time to choose someone to go to the mine, she naturally excluded Feng Xiaochen.
Unexpectedly, when she went to report to Luo Xiangfei the list of members of the group she had selected, Luo Xiangfei solemnly suggested that she bring Feng Xiaochen. If the number one leader of the unit specifically makes a proposal, then it can no longer be called a suggestion, but belongs to an order. No matter how strong Chang Min's temper is, after all, he is a person who has been in the agency, how can he go to fight with Luo Xiangfei. So, Feng Xiaochen took this bus and came to Yichuan together.
"Sister, you're here, we haven't seen each other for more than a year, right? ”
Seeing Chang Min and his entourage get down from the car that picked him up, Pan Caishan strode forward, stretched out two broad big hands, held Chang Min's small hands, shook them vigorously, and said warm words in his mouth.
"Oops! crush my hands!" Chang Min exaggeratedly cried out in pain, pulled out his hand, and shook it lightly, while sneering and scolding: "Brother Pan, what are you doing, teasing me, an old woman, You are not afraid of going back at night and your sister-in-law will punish you for kneeling in the living room." ”
"Haha, it's worth it to pull my sister's little hand, and go back and kneel for a night. Pan Caishan smiled heartily, joking with Chang Min half-meat and half-vegetarian.
"Okay, come on, come on, my little sister will let you hug one and see if my sister-in-law will break your legs......" Chang Min said and leaned in front of Pan Caishan. How dare Pan Caishan really let her hug her, and hurriedly stepped back, causing a burst of laughter around.
In male-dominated units such as mines, steel mills, and construction teams, the atmosphere has always been relatively vulgar, and it is normal for men and women to make some "sexual" jokes. Chang Min went to work in the mine at the age of 18, and when she first heard the male miner say such crazy things to her, she was also red-faced and embarrassed. But within two years, if someone said this kind of thing again, she would be able to be calm and coping with it calmly.
According to the experience she taught to the young girls who came after her, if you can't withstand this kind of verbal harassment in this environment, you can't survive at all. If you want others not to make jokes about you, you have to be more vulgar than the other party, and if you are in a hurry, you might as well greet the women and men of the other party's ancestors. There have been a few times when people have known your sense of proportion and will respect you.
Chang Min did exactly that, so she was able to mix well in her original mine. After being transferred to the Metallurgical Bureau, she was surrounded by some "civilized people", so she naturally learned not to use foul language. However, when she goes down to the mines to inspect the work, she will still revert to her old ways and flirt with the leaders of these mines in order to get closer to the relationship between the two sides.
For a mine leader like Pan Caishan, it doesn't matter if he kisses and fights with his female subordinates on weekdays, and it is common to hug and hug while he is drinking, as long as he grasps the last measure, his wife will not say anything. But if Chang Min wants to rub against him, he has to run away, everyone's jokes are jokes, and the humility of the upper and lower levels still has to be figured out.
The cold water iron mine is a big mine, Pan Caishan's level is the same as Luo Xiangfei, but Chang Min is a whole level lower than him. Chang Min represents the Metallurgical Bureau, and above the Metallurgical Bureau is the Economic Commission. No matter how high Pan Caishan's level is, he is just a cadre of a subordinate enterprise, how dare he casually transgress.
After the fight, Chang Min began to introduce his attaché to Pan Caishan. Wang Weilong came out of Luo Ye, and he also met with Pan Caishan in the past, and after the two sides shook hands, Pan Caishan praised Luo Ye's level a few times, and each played a few haha. Lu Zhidong is a young clerk, and in Pan Caishan's eyes, he is also a passerby's character, and Pan Caishan said "good, good" even if he said hello.
The last person to shake Pan Caishan's hand was Feng Xiaochen, and Chang Min introduced him as a German translator in the office. Perhaps it was his unusual youth that attracted Pan Caishan's attention, and Pan Caishan actually asked him a few gossips about his family and the like, and also hypocritically asked him to guide the translation of the German materials on the mine, which could be regarded as giving him face.
After meeting with the other leaders of the mine one by one, Pan Caishan accompanied everyone to the guest house, saying that everyone had taken the train for a day and two nights, and they had worked hard, so they went to the guest house to rest and rest, and then held a banquet at noon to wash everyone's dust. A few people from the Metallurgical Bureau walked forward, and Pan Caishan and Chang Min walked in front, chatting about Chang Min's arrangements for their trip.
"Director Chang, what is your main task when you come back?" Pan Caishan asked. Chang Min didn't inform him of the purpose of the trip before he set off, so he asked.
Chang Min smiled: "I'm tired of staying in the capital, I want to come here to change the air from Mine Chief Pan, okay?"
"You are welcome at any time, Director Chang can stay as long as he wants, if you want to go out to play, I will arrange a car for you." Pan Caishan patted his chest and said, after speaking, he smiled and said: "But, you don't have to lie to me, is your director Chang the kind of person who will be idle? As soon as I saw Luo Ye's Xiao Wang just now, I understood, you are here for the dump truck thing, aren't you?"
Chang Min also smiled: "I know that I can't hide it from Mine Manager Pan, in fact, this matter is also obvious, Luo Ye's 120-ton electric wheel dump truck has been off the assembly line for two years, and the industrial test site has not yet been implemented, can Director Luo not be in a hurry? The dump truck made him very passive, so he sent a few of us to ask for help from Mine Manager Pan. If you want to say that Director Luo has been good to the cold water mine all these years, such a trivial matter, you can't bear to watch him sit on wax?"
"Look at what Director Chang said, Director Luo and your Director Chang have always taken good care of our Lengshui Mine, and my Lao Pan doesn't give anyone face, and I can't help but give you face. However, I do have some practical difficulties here......"
When Pan Caishan said this, his smile was replaced by a bitter face, making people feel that he was simply a modern version of Yang Bailao.