The Benxi Lake Coal Mine is the largest coal mine in Benxi, as early as the Russian War, after he defeated the Russians and gained control of the railway in the South Manchurian region.

In exchange for the support of Yueben, Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the Feng army, sold all the important mineral deposits in Benxi, Anshan and other mineral deposits at low prices and contracted them, or gave them to businessmen with military backgrounds for free.

These businessmen came to China to open mines and set up factories on the ground, and they did not have the slightest cowardice from outsiders, and they did not regard Chinese miners as human beings at all, and squeezed the value of workers' labor as much as possible.

As if he regarded himself as the master of this place, because the warlords of the Feng clan needed the help of the lord to resist the princes of the country, they turned a blind eye to these things, ignored them, and let the owners and merchants of the mine act as a bully and bullied the local miners.

On the road to the Benxi Coal Mine, Zhang Xinghan sat in the passenger seat of a military truck and smoked a cigarette while trying to recall the burial sites of coal mines, oil and other resources in the northeast region.

Of course, he remembered the Daqing Oilfield, but at the moment, he could not exploit the Daqing Oilfield only with his current strength.

Otherwise, once I learned of the existence of the Daqing Oilfield, it was very likely to bring immeasurable disasters to the whole of China.

The Benxi Coal Mine has considerable mineral deposits, but now it has become the private property of the businessmen who make a windfall.

The memories of his previous life flew through his mind, and Zhang Xinghan suddenly remembered an extremely important matter related to the Benxi Lake Coal Mine.

Zhang Xinghan remembered that before he was reborn, he once saw a record in a history book about the world's worst coal mine disaster so far.

In 1942, a gas explosion occurred in the Benxi Lake Coal Mine, and the owner of the mine stopped supplying air in order to preserve mineral resources.

As a result, all 1,518 Chinese miners working underground died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The number of victims in this gas explosion is the highest since the beginning of human coal mining.

In any case, he could not be allowed to continue mining in the Benxi Lake Coal Mine.

Zhang Xinghan thought of this and couldn't help clenching his fists.

By the way, there seem to be a lot of mineral deposits in Tongliao.

Zhang Xinghan tried hard to recall, and finally remembered that there was an excellent coal mine in Tongliao that could be used for his own mining.

That is the Huolinhe open-pit coal mine, which is one of the five major leaky coal mines in China in later generations, with a total mineral deposit of more than 13 billion tons, which is 9 times that of Fushun Coal Mine and 4 times that of Datong Coal Mine.

Open-pit coal mines are much more convenient than underground mining, and even if you mine 10 million tons a year, you can use them for more than a century.

However, with the current mining technology, it is already super high to be able to mine one or two million tons a year.

Some time ago, he was busy with the war in Shenyang, and Zhang Xinghan only had a general impression of the mineral deposits of various strategic resources in the northeast and northwest, and he did not have time to carefully recall and confirm.

The reason why Tongliao was chosen as the base of the garrison brigade and the Shenyang military and civilians was because he vaguely remembered that the very rich mineral resources in Tongliao could be utilized.

Now that he carefully recalls the Huolin River open-pit coal mine, Zhang Xinghan immediately germinated a new idea in his heart.

Due to the fact that the ground was covered with heavy snow, the military trucks were not moving very fast.

Suddenly, several cavalry roared from the front.

The first person is Huang Xiansheng, who personally led the cavalry first.

Zhang Xinghan was pulled back to reality by the sound of horses' hooves outside the car, and when he saw that it was Huang Xiansheng, he immediately waved his hand to signal the driver to stop.

He opened the window and poked his head out and asked, "Brother Alarm Bell, what's the situation?" ”

"Twenty miles ahead is the Benxi Lake Coal Mine, I personally waited for the scouts to reconnoitre, and I said that I don't have many troops here at all, at best, they are some lackeys raised by the owner of the mine, Han Jian, and a few retired soldiers and armed personnel." Huang Xian said.

"Well, that's good, it's easier for us to move." Zhang Xinghan nodded when he heard this, and immediately said to Huang Xian: "Brother Alarm Zhong, you give the order, when you attack the coal mine later, you must be careful not to accidentally injure the Chinese miners in the mine, and in addition, don't be in a hurry to blow up the mine mouth first, and let all the workers in the mine come up at any cost and destroy and seal the mine." Zhang Xinghan said.

"After we have eliminated myself, we should load coal and evacuate as soon as possible, saving the miners will inevitably delay our time." Huang Xiansheng was puzzled and said, "What use do you want them to do?" ”

"You will know this later, I have a lot of use for these miners, we can do without coal this time, but the miners must be taken away." Zhang Xinghan said with a firm attitude.

"Okay, I'll arrange it." Huang Xiansheng nodded, turned the horse's head and led the two subordinates to gallop away.

Ten kilometers is a distance of half an hour for the armored company and the car team if they are driving at full speed.

Now that the snow has slowed down, they drove for almost an hour to reach the Benxi Lake Coal Mine.

However, when they arrived, Huang Xiansheng had already commanded the cavalry to capture the mine and arrested all the mine owners and his lackeys.

As soon as Zhang Xinghan got out of the car, Shen Xingye, the deputy commander of the guard battalion, took several heavily armed guards to protect him.

Zhang Xinghan pulled the collar of his military coat and walked towards the mine.

Huang Xiansheng dismounted and greeted him: "Xinghan, the guards of these mines are all fucking cowards, our cavalry defeated them all with a charge, except for the dozen or so retired soldiers who were hacked to death, the owner of the mine and his Han lackeys totaled more than 20 people, all of whom were arrested by me, just in front." ”

"Ignore them for now, immediately notify the miners working underground to quickly ascend the shaft!" Zhang Xinghan waved his hand.

About half an hour later, more than 1,000 Chinese miners and several foremen were all lifted ashore.

When they saw that the mine was full of heavily armed Chinese cavalry, the foremen turned pale with fright, and the Chinese miners looked at each other and began to discuss.

At this time, Zhang Xinghan stepped forward and said loudly to the miners: "Brothers, we are the Shenyang Garrison Brigade, and we have come to rescue you. ”

"Shenyang Garrison Brigade? Haven't heard of it. The reaction of the miners was somewhat unexpected by Zhang Xinghan.

"Brigade, most of them are from poor families, and they can't eat enough outside to work for Yu himself, so it's useless for you to talk to them too much." Shen Xingye reminded on the side.

"Oh." Zhang Xinghan suddenly realized that he could imagine what these miners were thinking at this time, first of all, they had almost become slaves, and they didn't care about any national hatred and family hatred.

What they care about is whether they can earn wages so that they and their loved ones will have enough to eat and not starve to death.

For this reason, even if they work here, they will often be bullied and abused by themselves, and it doesn't matter.

Although they have captured this place with their troops at this moment and controlled the owner of the mine, what they think more is that your Northeast Army will have to leave sooner or later, and this coal mine will still be up to their own words.

So, even if they heard about the reputation of the garrison brigade, they did not dare to show too much intimacy.

After figuring out their thoughts, Zhang Xinghan changed his strategy and said loudly again: "Brothers miners, I know what you are afraid of, you are afraid that we will leave, and I will continue to bully you, what I want to tell you is that we are here to rescue you today, we are going to open our own coal mine, you no longer have to work for yourself and suffer, you no longer have to worry about not getting paid." ”

"Sir, are you telling the truth?" A slightly bolder middle-aged miner asked timidly.

"Really, do you see the cars outside? As long as you want, we will blow up this coal mine later, kill these black hearts of dogs, leave here by car, and go to our Chinese own coal mine, I guarantee that each of you will get a satisfactory job, you no longer have to be afraid, no longer have to worry about whether you can have enough to eat, and when the time is ripe, I can also help you bring your family to our coal mine, so that you can reunite. Zhang Xinghan responded loudly.

"Sir, to tell you the truth, we have all heard about your heroic deeds in Shenyang when you led your troops to fight me, and the brothers often talk about you in private.

In fact, we are always looking forward to our army in the northeast being able to drive away these evil black-hearted mine owners and work for the little one, and we are also forced to be helpless. Some miners who have been bullied by themselves have spoken out.

Zhang Xinghan waved his hand to signal them to be quiet: "Brothers, from today on, I, Zhang Xinghan, promise you that no one will dare to bully you from now on." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Xinghan glanced at Shen Xingye, and Shen Xingye immediately brought the fat pig-like owner of the mine like a chicken.

In the end, he is just a businessman, not a soldier, the so-called bushido spirit does not exist in him at all, he is very afraid of death, at this moment looking at these murderous people around him, he rushed to fear from his heart, the fear of death.

Zhang Xinghan turned a blind eye, took the horsewhip from Huang Xiansheng's hand, and slapped it in the face of the owner of the mine, and the owner of the mine suddenly let out a miserable howl like killing a pig.

"Brothers, today, everyone has revenge, revenge, grievances, these ordinary people who bully all of you can be beaten to death by Lao Tzu, and have a good breath of evil." Zhang Xinghan raised the horsewhip as he spoke, and two eye-catching blood-colored marks suddenly appeared on the fat face of the mine owner.

"Brothers, these dog-called Orientals, don't say anything about deducting our wages, and often beat us, if you don't say anything, beat him up as a son of a bitch."

"yes, beat her son of a bitch.

"Up, kill them."

"And their dog-legged men, even more hateful." The miners immediately rushed up excitedly, punching and kicking the owner of the mine and his foremen and lackeys, and poured all the grievances accumulated for a long time into fists and kicks on the owner of the mine and his subordinates, Han Jian.

(To be continued)