Chapter 604: The Impact of the Emerging Plantation Industry
Bifeng Mountain is located in the southeast direction of Anxian County, the terrain is not high, the surrounding low mountains are continuous, there is no wonder, ordinary and simple, the mountain people live in peace, and the folk customs are simple. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The changes began in the seventies of the last century.
In the area of Bifeng Mountain, a large number of coal resources have been surveyed, which contain wealth, so that everyone can see the blood wolf, whether it is a state-owned coal mining company or a private coal mine owner, all dig mines here.
For more than 30 years, this place has undertaken 40% of the coal mine output in Anxian County, whether it is a large enterprise or a small mine owner, they have eaten a lot of oil from here, and the coal mining industry has also provided a large number of jobs for local residents.
However, coal resources are not inexhaustible treasures, and the consequences of frenzied excavation have obviously brought irreversible disasters to the local environment.
In addition to the environmental pollution caused by coal mining, no one knows how many mines there are around Bifeng Mountain. Under the influence of profits, many small mine owners who operate without a license have long dug up this area full of holes.
Above-ground sinkhole incidents reported in the news occur from time to time every year.
If 30 years ago, the place where the residents lived was still a village with green mountains and green waters, then now this place is no longer suitable for people to live, especially in some areas where the underground mining tunnels are extremely complex, and the strategy of relocating the residents on the ground can only be adopted.
As for the locals who were unwilling or did not relocate, after leaving the coal mine and returning to the fields, they found that the land on which their ancestors depended was no longer suitable for cultivation.
The Xigou Mine of the First Coal Mine of the Western Jin Dynasty is located in the west of Dongtou Village, which is also the area with the highest concentration of coal resources in this area. Because it is managed by the state, the environment is slightly better than in other places, but ten years ago, the resources of this mine were completely depleted, and the mine was closed and sealed to this day.
When the coal mining industry flourished, Dongtou Village relied on coal for a living, and its income was far better than farming, but with the closure of the mine, the residents of the village had to go to other places and continue to sell their labor to make a living.
Today, the current situation in the village is on the side of many rural areas in China, there are no young and strong laborers, only old and weak women and children.
Li Lihui is a rare young man in Dongtou Village, over 40 years old, and his daughter-in-law guard a few acres of thin land at home, planting corn and potatoes, and occasionally go to the county town to look for opportunities to do odd jobs.
On this day, he was lucky, as soon as he squatted down at the old bridgehead where idle odd workers gathered in Anxian County, he met someone who came to recruit workers.
The quota of ten people was almost snatched out by this group of idle and panicked men.
Fortunately, he was in a good position, and he happened to be next to the middle-aged man with the national character face, and he was counted as one.
The salary of one hundred and fifty a day is already a very generous treatment in Anxian County, which is currently in decline.
However, Li Lihui didn't expect that the place of work was actually in the Xigou Mine Cave in the west of the village.
The rusty lock in the mine couldn't be opened with a key, but Li Lihui ran back to the village, got his own big hammer, and smashed it more than ten times before he could break the lock.
The cave was pitch black, Li Lihui coughed, and a faint echo came from inside.
"Manager Wang, what are we going to do?" Li Lihui looked at the cave that didn't know the situation, rubbed his hands, and asked Wang Li'an, the person in charge next to him, in a Western Jin tone.
"Electrician Liu, you first repair the wiring and strive to get the circuit within 100 meters as soon as possible, so that we can illuminate it. Others, with searchlights, began to clean up the walls and floors inside. Wang Li'an arranged the work according to the requirements of his superiors.
Compared with subways, underground shopping malls, underground parking lots and underground equipment in other cities, the large-scale underground planting holes to be built by the First Coal Mining Group are not difficult to construct.
The underground is a ready-made mine, and after rectification, it can be reinforced according to certain standards of underground construction.
They are not in a hurry, and plan to plant breathing bubbles while building inside, and continue to expand the scope of the planting hole.
Xigou Coal Mine is on the long road to the transformation of Xigou planting hole.
The underground cavities that were originally excavated in the mine were built with thick walls, widened openings, and arranged water and electricity, and were methodically transformed into an underground environment suitable for the growth of breathing bubble plants.
At the bottom of the mine, according to the terrain, it is divided into rooms one by one, and each room is planted with this clump of breathing bubble plants.
Xigou planting cave, different from the small mine cave of only more than 100 meters leased by Yu Jing, it has a huge underground space, and it is the first time that Huaguo has used the abandoned mine cave in a real sense, turning waste into treasure, making it a new source of wealth in the resource depleted land.
Unlike non-renewable coal resources, special cropping is a sustainable development path.
As long as the plants suitable for underground cultivation are continuously exchanged from the secret realm, the cultivation and production in the Xigou Planting Cave will never stop.
Li Lihui didn't expect that this lucky recruitment would give him a stable job. The underground mine, which is still called the Xigou Mine, does not seem to have stopped construction.
He directly signed a labor and employment contract with the First Coal Mining Group of the Western Jin Dynasty, and the previously unimaginable medical insurance and social security for employees, as well as a salary of more than 4,000 per month, made his life turn earth-shattering. He also became the first batch of veteran employees of the world's largest breathing bubble planting base.
His wife, who was also employed by the No. 1 Coal Mining Group of the Western Jin Dynasty, was responsible for planting and collecting a magical plant called Breathing Bubble in the planting hole that had been built, and the salary was also very good.
For them, being able to find such a non-tiring job at their doorstep is simply like their ancestors accumulating virtue and burning incense. The combined monthly income of the husband and wife, not counting five insurances and one housing fund, is nearly 7,000 yuan, which is much better than the days when they are tired and tired of cultivating the land, and they can't earn thousands of yuan a year.
Even compared to ten years ago, when I was worried and went down to dig coal, I was much more comfortable. At that time, although the wages of coal digging were higher, the working environment was harsh and dangerous. Now the cave is brightly lit and ventilated, and although it is also underground, it is completely different from that time.
Li Lihui is a person who doesn't have a lot of ideas, and on such days, he can save a lot of pension money, renovate the old house and add two floors, so that the old parents can be cured, and he can afford the baby to go to college, and he is already content in his heart.
As the project in the abandoned old mine cave in Xigou of Dongtou Village became bigger and bigger, more and more manpower was needed, and the villagers who went out to work in the village also heard the news and rushed back to their hometown. The old village has become prosperous and lively because of the new project of this mine, as if it has returned to the time when the coal mining industry in Dongtou Village was the most developed 20 years ago.
Not only does the planting hole need manpower, but the No. 1 Coal Mining Group of the Western Jin Dynasty has also built a factory for packaging and processing this bubble on a vacant land outside Dongtou Village.
The bubbles collected from the planting holes are transported directly to this factory, where they are machined like tablets on the assembly line, packed into plates with transparent plastic and aluminum foil bases, and blisters, and then beautifully packaged and sold.
An industry drives the development of a region.
The use of abandoned mine shafts to plant breathing bubbles not only rejuvenated Dongtou Village, but also injected a shot in the arm for Anxian County, where the entire economy was in a dead end. The rulers of Anxian County can almost be ecstatic, jubilant, and celebrated, raise their hands and feet, and do their best to maintain the development of the breathing bubble planting industry.