Zhang Zhaohua took a hundred and ten people to the east, originally did not pass through Dong'an, Zhang Zhaohua turned around, stopped in the nursing home, this place has been deserted, a huge place that can accommodate more than a thousand people, the ruins and broken walls, the wind blows fiercely, Zhang Zhaohua can still hear the cry of pain as if moaning inside.

Picking up a handful of dirt on the ground, it was all black scorched earth, and in her hands it was as if she had caught blood and fire—and when she stood in front of Feifei's grave, she felt sorrow in her heart and couldn't help shedding tears.

When will the world be poisonous?

It seems that since the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, she has seen all the sufferings in this world, but there is no end to this suffering.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhaogezhuang Mine, Tangjiazhuang Mine, Linxi Mine, Majiagou Mine, Lujiatuo Mine, Tangshan Mine, Fangezhuang Mine and other mines were built here, covering an area of more than 670 square kilometers.

But the moment she arrived in Kaiping, she was blindfolded, Kaiping is a dirt city, almost demolished the city wall to raise horses, the outer ring of the city wall could not stop the horses at all, thousands of horses jumped in if they wanted to. This does not show the appearance of Tangshan in the memory at all, just like the current Haijin Town, which is not the Tianjin Port of later generations.

Zhang Zhaohua was not sure whether there was coal under the ground of the racecourse or coal under the surrounding people's residential areas, so he first went to the people's residential areas to see - it turned out that the people in several villages actually had mountains of coal in every household, and the coal worker master she brought was stunned when he saw it, and said: "This coal is good, it can be used after a little washing!"

They asked the people of the village to take them, and found the place where they usually dig coal, and the master coal worker looked around the big hole in the ground for a long time, and knew that this place had to dig five zhang deep to dig coal—and it was. At this time, the coal diggers relied on manpower and no machinery, so they had to dig out the treasure well first, and the soil coal mining was to use the combination of shafts and roadways, and use the principle of wheel axles to lift coal and coal diggers.

"One, two, three—" Everyone worked hard, drove a pile out next to the treasure well, and began to carry the coal in unison.

This kind of coal mine that has been excavated by people does not worry about the problem of toxic gases, and if it is not excavated, the coal mine identified by the coal worker master according to the color of the soil must be chiseled through the middle section of the large bamboo tube in advance, sharpen the end of the bamboo tube, and insert it into the coal seam, and the poisonous gas will be discharged through the bamboo tube to the air, and people can go down to dig coal with a big hoe.

"At the bottom of this treasure well, the coal seam extends in all directions," Wang Yan drilled out of the treasure well with a black head and a dirty face, and he didn't care about wiping his face, and said: "You can dig the roadway horizontally!"

Zhang Zhaohua was also wrapped in a coarse cloth and was about to go down, but when he heard this, he said, "Send the plank down!"

The roadway should be supported with wooden planks to prevent collapse and injury to people. Coal mine accidents are nothing more than poison gas explosions, roof collapses, and water permeability. Because the mining process at this time has not yet reached multi-layer mining, there will be no goaf, there will be no water permeability, and the toxic gas will be discharged in advance, and the collapse will be supported by wooden planks.

Although Zhang Zhaohua felt that there was no problem, but she wanted to go down, she was still stopped by everyone, saying that her status was precious and she couldn't take risks, Zhang Zhaohua pointed to Gao Sui, who had already gone up and down seven or eight times on the side, and said: "Why don't you talk about him!"

The people brought by Zhang Zhaohua are very useful, the women's army rolls up their sleeves and mines, and they don't lose anything compared to men, but because they can come out of the palace, they feel very novel and happy, all of them are like birds out of their cages, and when they ride horses to Kaiping along the way, it is like an outing.

"Niangniang," Bai Mao chirped and helped Zhang Zhaohua to sit in the basket: "It's dark down there, don't touch your head!"

Zhang Zhaohua opened his mouth and said, "Can I touch my head—ouch!"

As soon as she stretched out her feet, she looked at the ground attentively, but she didn't notice a stone wall on her head, and immediately hit it, and she said in pain: "This crow's mouth, wait for me to go up and clean you up!"

Zhang Zhaohua used a hoe to dig a basket of coal, she was already tired and panting, she was in the cramped space, most of her body was kneeling, sitting in the basket to stretch her waist, as soon as she came out, she said to the miners: "You guys are really hard!"

Before she finished speaking, she saw everyone laughing "coaxing", she was stunned on the spot and didn't know what was going on, and then realized that her head and face were full of black ash and scum, and when she went down, she actually forgot to tie her headscarf.

She was so tired that she gasped for a while, and then asked the coal worker, "How much does such a big briquette cost in your coal yard?"

"Sanwen," said the coal worker, "the price of this thing can't be raised." ”

"That's because you're selling to the general public. Zhang Zhaohua pointed to this coal area and said, "In the future, I will dig coal here, and you all come here, and in the future, it will be all coal yards, dig on the spot, process it on the spot, and then sell it far away." Sold to ordinary people, the price of the three pennies is not marked, and the money is mainly earned by the rich. ”

Zhang Zhaohua plans to make a kind of briquette with a special function - fragrant briquette. This kind of briquette is made more finely, and spices are added to it, so that when it is burned, it can give off the aroma, and then sell it to the dignitaries and nobles.

In the course of five or six days, Zhang Zhaohua and his entourage successively excavated 11 coal mines in Kaiping, some places were easy to dig, and some places had to use iron blade files and casings for drilling, which was really laborious, and they did not continue to dig when they dug the coal seam, because they came to explore the direction of resources, not to dig coal, if they really dug coal, they were a group of more than 100 people, even if they were exhausted, they could not finish digging the resources of a coal mine.

Zhang Zhaohua drew a topographical map of Kaiping, and found that they were always excavating in one place, so he instructed Gao Xu to take a group of people to the outer city to survey - Gao Xu had many horses there, and negotiated with the officials of the Taifu Temple who controlled the horses to corral the horses.

He took a palace man to sit on a horse, ran around, and looked down and asked the man who was already blushing, "Is it fun?"

The palace man lowered his head and couldn't speak, Gao Sui held her hand, snorted twice, and said: "The cocoons are grinding out of your hands! This is the grinding of the bow! You Zhang Niangniang are really ruthless, and you are willing to treat a girl like you as a man!"

"Hyosung," Gao Sui said to her ear, "your name is so good, the dawn star, just you shine! You really stand out in the women's army, I have noticed you a long time ago—you follow me back and come to serve me, it is better than this wind and sun, okay?"

Hyosung's face was dizzy from a pair of strong arms wrapped around his body, and he said, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to do it!

"I just ask you to go with me," Gao Sui's peach blossom eyes showed a casual look: "I ask your mother for you, and she won't give it back, you are just something she practiced on a whim when she was idle, and she will leave it behind in the future!"

Without waiting for Hyosung to speak, Gao Sui reined in his horse, half-helped her down, and gave her a veil, thoughtfully telling her not to let the black coal below stain her head.

Gao Sui carried his horse and sat next to the stagnant water, there was a new heavy rain yesterday, after a night of sedimentation, the potholes and stagnant water here became dark, but Gao Sui's eyes were darker than that, he squatted on the ground and looked at himself, no one could see anything from his face.