Shengli Coal Mine is located in Wanshan Town, Minjiao County, and the working class who receive wages and eat commercial grain has been the envy of the peasant brothers in Hedong and Hexi villages for decades. Zhuang Qunyi, secretary of the Party branch of Hexi Village and president of Wanshan Group, still remembers what kind of sadness he paid in order to be a worker in the mine. Because of the land acquisition for coal mining in the mine, Hexi and Hedong villages have several places for mine workers every year, and everyone is fighting for these places. At that time, the commune and the brigade were in power with the Tian family, so most of the annual recruitment quotas were occupied by the Tian family. In order to fight for the right to be a worker, Zhuang Qunyi, who had been demobilized from the army, took a member surnamed Zhuang and Tian Laosan, the secretary of the brigade, to do a fight, and said something out of line in a fit of anger, but he was arrested as a typical example of a new trend in the class struggle, and Zhuang Qunyi was criticized and detained in the commune for more than half a month. After being released from the commune, Tian Laosan clearly told Zhuang Qunyi: "To be a worker, the dream of eating commercial grain, don't do it if you are surnamed Zhuang!" As long as someone in my field is the secretary of the brigade for one day, you have to give me the next day's land. Since it is the life of eating dried white taro, you have to admit it. ”

Zhuang Qunyi did not accept his fate, first went around to sue Tian Laosan, but if he couldn't win, he took a group of his brothers to the gangue mountain of Shengli Mine to pan for charcoal, which can be regarded as the earliest and most primitive township individual industry in Hexi Village. At that time, a strong laborer in the Hexi Brigade only earned eight cents a day, while a charcoal panning could earn more than two yuan a day. Three people have a charcoal pond, and no matter how bad it is, they can dig out two or three hundred catties of charcoal to sell. In just two winters, Zhuang Qunyi was the first to build a new house in Hexi Village.

This has become a new trend in the class struggle.

Tian Laosan, the secretary of the brigade, insisted that Zhuang Qunyi was the foot of the wall for digging a big socialist mine, and fought Zhuang Qunyi again, and expelled Zhuang Qunyi from the party. At that time, the rural and urban areas were eating the big pot of socialism, the economic contradictions between the townships and mines had not yet been exposed, and the leaders of the townships and mines were politically unanimous. You have destroyed his old charcoal pond on this side, and he has dug up a new charcoal pond over there; On Ganzi Mountain, you just drove away this group of people, and that group of people came up again.

Zhuang Qunyi and his peasant brothers in Hexi Village were so determined to pursue a prosperous life.

Tian Dadao in Hedong Village also came out at that time.

Tian Dadao also stole charcoal when he was panning for charcoal, but no one could do anything about him, this person was too evil, he had an ancestral martial arts, and it was said that there were thirty-six sworn brothers. Once, he was caught stealing charcoal by the mine security section, and only three days after he was released, the chief of the security section ate a stuffy stick. Later, Tian Dadao used the money obtained from selling charcoal to build a two-story small building like an earthen bunker in Hedong Village, known as the "Presidential Palace". On the other side: "Learn Daqing, learn Dazhai, how can there be a charcoal fast"; The horizontal batch is: "If you can get rich, you can do it". At that time, this went too far, and the organs of the dictatorship of the proletariat raised their iron fists, bulldozed Tian Dadao's "presidential palace" with a bulldozer, and formally arrested Tian Dadao for the current counter-revolutionary crime and sentenced him to three years in prison.

When Tian Dao was tried in public, Zhuang Qunyi was also present to be educated. Zhuang Qunyi was most impressed by the fact that Tian Dadao didn't care about anything, and when he was about to be taken to the public trial, he even asked the people from the Public Security Bureau to smoke, saying that he would not go on stage if he was not allowed to smoke. The police not only refused to give him cigarettes, but also smoked him with a belt, so he lay on the ground and cursed.

Tian Dadao's arrest and sentencing still did not dampen the enthusiasm of the peasant brothers in the two villages to make a fortune. The brigade and the mine were loosened, and there were charcoal ponds everywhere on the halfway waist of Ganzi Mountain; As soon as they grasped it tightly, the peasant brothers flocked to the gate of the mine and the coal railway, swept the coal on the road, and picked up the coal train.

This enthusiasm for a liberal economy gradually affected the families of the workers at the Victory Mine. Around the mid-seventies, many of the workers' families also went to the gangue mountain, and many large and small vegetable gardens were opened on the wasteland around the mining area. At that time, Cao Xinli had already gone to Shengli Mine to become the director of the political department. Cao Xinli said at the mine-wide cadres and workers meeting: "Our Shengli Mine is surrounded by a sea of small producers. The small producers in Hedong and Hexi villages are encroaching on the big mines of socialism and the thinking of our working class. ”

The encroachment later developed into collective looting.

I don't know when the rural cadres of the Hexi and Hedong production brigades are not so consistent with the coal mine cadres who eat commercial grain in the Shengli Mine. The peasant brothers in the two villages went to the charcoal field in the mine again and again to grab charcoal, but the party secretaries of the brigade wearing soil-dyed urea pocket cloth clothes did not want to care. Later, the cadres of the brigade also joined forces with the backward members, and led the team to "borrow charcoal" from the mine in a carriage, and they also "borrowed" it with confidence. Tian Laosan said blatantly: "This charcoal was originally ours underground, and it is natural for us to borrow some and use it." ”

Things are so strange, Zhuang Qunyi's efforts to sweat and pan for charcoal are digging the foot of the socialist wall, and the collective coaxing is not digging the foot of the socialist wall. From the commune to the county, the local cadres openly and secretly protected Tian Laosan, which made Tian Laosan more and more emboldened, and they almost carried away the big derrick of Shengli Mine.

In this regard, Zhuang Qunyi was very unimpressed, and thought that it was too scoundrel to do this in his heart, and he always called Tian Laosan a live bandit behind his back. He also ridiculed that instead of going to the mine to grab charcoal, it was better to pull up the basic militia, pick up the gun and go directly to rob the bank. Zhuang Qunyi has never participated in this kind of robbery incident.

Zhuang Qunyi has Zhuang Qunyi's code of conduct and moral code.

In the eighties, when the reform and opening up began, the situation changed again. Small coal mines have been opened in Hexi and Hedong villages, township enterprises have come to the forefront of China's economy, and the contradictions between townships and mines have further intensified. In order to compete for underground coal resources, the lawsuit between the township and the mine has been fought all the way to the city and province. Later, after consulting the relevant provincial departments, the city made a hard and fast rule: Small coal mines in Hedong and Hexi can only mine corner coal above -180 meters above sea level, and no mining is allowed in the main mining area and deep coal fields. Tian Laosan in Hexi and Tian Dadao in Hedong didn't care about this set, and they made holes everywhere, digging out a victory mine full of holes, and even killed people for this. Once, Tian Laosan and two well chiefs went down the mine to inspect the work, and it happened that the Shengli Mine fired artillery, and the coal wall blew through, Tian Laosan died on the spot, and the two well chiefs were seriously injured......

Zhuang Qunyi became the secretary of the Hexi Village Party branch after Tian Laosan's death.

To be fair, the newly appointed Zhuang Qunyi did not want to follow Tian Laosan's path at the beginning and continue to compete for resources with Shengli Mine. However, the eight small coal mines in Hexi Village, without exception, have expanded into the hinterland of Shengli Mine, and he can no longer change this reality. He also saw that the villagers of Hedong Village, under the leadership of Tian Dadao, opened up the roadway of the big mine and dragged the old charcoal of the big mine to the mouth of his kiln, so he couldn't help it, so he also started to move. He simply asked the accountant to go down the mine with cash, counted the votes of the workers in the big mine on the spot, and set up a workers' and peasants' alliance two or three hundred meters down.

Today, the Shengli Mine is finished, and 15 small coal mines in Hedong and Hexi have surrounded and devoured the Shengli Mine. The annual output of seven small coal mines in Hedong Village has reached 500,000 tons, and that of Hexi Village has reached 400,000 tons, while the annual output of Shengli Mine is only about 200,000 tons.

With the end of the victory mine, there is also the natural superiority of the victory miners. In front of the small western-style buildings built by farmers in Hedong and Hexi, the bungalows in the workers' residential area of Wanshan Town looked so dilapidated. Last year, when Cao Xinli borrowed money from Zhuang Qunyi on behalf of Shengli Mine, Zhuang Qunyi was really emotional. Thinking that because of Tian Laosan, he didn't go to the big mine to be a worker, and he was a little lucky.

Zhuang Qunyi admitted that the peasant brothers in Hedong and Hexi villages were able to get rich because they took advantage of the Shengli mine, but Zhuang Qunyi was still able to find a balance in his heart. That is, if he doesn't take advantage of this advantage, Tian Dadao in Hedong will also take it, and others will also take it, so why doesn't he take it? Since everyone knows that state-owned assets are essentially ownerless assets, it is better for him Zhuang Qunyi to be the owner of this asset than for people like Tian Dadao to be the master, right? At least he is more benevolent than Tian Dao, and when the mine can't open the pot, he can always help the mine to some extent.

However, Zhuang Qunyi did not admit that the Shengli Mine was squeezed out by the small coal mine of the peasant brothers.

Zhuang Qunyi and Cao Xinli said that the victory mine was not so much squeezed down by whom, but rather terminally ill and poured out by itself. Zhuang Qunyi gave an example very vividly, saying that this is like going to a market to sell vegetables, we peasant brothers pick up the vegetables to sell by ourselves, and if anyone wants to take a vegetable from us without paying, we will not agree. As for you workers, you should ask someone to carry the vegetables for you to sell, and when you arrive at the market, you will see your relatives and friends and give them favors, and no matter how good the business is, you will have to make a mess.

In order to prevent the trade of the workers and brothers from being completely smashed, and for the further development of the Wanshan Group in Hexi Village, Zhuang Qunyi has been pondering since he lent 600,000 yuan to the Shengli Mine last year. The reserves of the Shengli Mine - 220 meters are not small, and if a reasonable and legal alliance of workers and peasants can be formed to mine together, it will be beneficial to both sides. In this way, there is hope that Hexi Village will overwhelm Hedong Village and become the first 100 million yuan village in Minjiao County.

Hedong Village has always been the opponent of Hexi Village. Tian Dadao did not accept Tian Laosan back then, and now he is not convinced by Zhuang Qunyi. At the beginning of the mine, when the two villages both encroached on the Shengli mine, the family members on both sides could not sit on a bench for their own interests. In recent years, the victory mine has decayed and become no longer an opponent, and the contradictions between the two sides have become more prominent. Tian Dadao is too domineering, and he is slandered in the mine, and he is also slandered in Hexi. His two wells were mined across the border, and Zhuang Qunyi was caught right by the drawings, and he still didn't admit it, almost causing a bloody conflict. Hedong Village is close to the national highway and has convenient transportation. Hexi Village nested in it, and wanted to build a road more than 500 meters long through Hedong Village, but Tian Dadao was not allowed, and even Cheng Weiqi, secretary of the county party committee, did not come forward to get the work done. Tian Dadao did not say that he would not let Hexi Village build the road, but only said that the road was on the land of Hedong Village, and Hedong Village had to repair it by itself, but after two years, it just didn't move.

Tian Dadao is also ruthless and unrighteous to Shengli Mine, and after he shakes up, he no longer wants to interact with others, and he is always afraid that other people's poverty will touch him. He also swaggered around, declaring that as long as the national policy allows, the Hedong Village Jinlong Group will buy the Shengli Mine sooner or later. was so angry that Cao Xin immediately said, "What is a nouveau riche? Just look at the face of Murata Avenue in Hedong. ”

Tian Dadao's rudeness to Shengli Mine prompted Zhuang Qunyi to be more enthusiastic about Shengli Mine. If there is nothing to do, Zhuang Qunyi always has to run on the mine every month, and get together with Cao Xinli, secretary of the party committee, and Xiao Yuejin, the mine manager. Tian Dadao always said that he wanted to buy Shengli Mine, and Zhuang Qunyi thought that instead of Tian Dadao buying, it would be better for him Zhuang Qunyi to buy it. Of course, you can't say this, and it hurts to say it. According to Zhuang Qunyi's idea, the best way at present is to cooperate and engage in joint mining, and when the conditions are ripe in the future, it is not impossible to merge such a difficult and decaying coal mine. Therefore, when he learned that the Shengli miners were making trouble and Cao Xinli fell ill, Zhuang Qunyi sat on Santana again and rushed to the Shengli Coal Mine Hospital with a large number of nutritional products with a smile.

Cao Xinli has been discharged from the hospital.

As soon as Zhuang Qunyi's car fell, he rushed to Cao's house with a familiar car.

The car stopped at the door of Cao's house, and as soon as he got out of the door, Zhuang Qunyi heard Cao Xinli scolding angrily, and it was the young mine manager Xiao Yuejin who scolded him by name. Zhuang Qunyi hesitated suddenly, neither advanced nor retreated for a while, and stood in front of the car in a daze.

Cao Xinli's voice was very loud, not like a patient who had just been discharged from the hospital, and his voice sounded in Zhuang Qunyi's ears: "What do you do as a mine manager?" I told you again and again that I want you to be careful, but you still fell for someone else's job. What else do you have to say now? Aren't you very capable? He also said that he should not maintain the president and face the market. Is this what you face out of the market? If I want to see you, Xiao Yuejin might as well be the maintenance president! ”

Xiao Yuejin was also very popular: "Secretary Cao, you can't speak with emotion." In any case, I always got back 80,000 yuan in cash from Cao Wucheng's joint company, so that the big canteen could be opened, and the pigs could still be eaten under the water. How can you say that he lied to me? If he doesn't pay off the remaining tens of thousands of dollars within three months, I will file a lawsuit with him. ”

Cao Xinli's voice was louder: "Fart lawsuit!" What is Cao Wucheng, don't you know that I'm a father? Thousands of people have to eat every day, don't you Xiao Yuejin know? Can you afford it? When the workers make trouble, are you, the mine manager, in charge, or I, the party secretary, in charge?! You said! ”

Only then did Zhuang Qunyi dimly know that Shengli Coal Mine, which was so poor that he couldn't even eat, was deceived by Cao Wucheng of the United Company again, and he was deceived in the hands of Xiao Yuejin. The details and details of the deception were later told to Zhuang Qunyi by Xiao Yuejin. Zhuang Qunyi couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this, and said that Cao Wucheng lacked morality, and asked Xiao Yuejin, why did Cao Xinli, such an old secretary who did his duty, raise such a profiteer's son?

Naturally, this also brought an excellent opportunity to Zhuang Qunyi's dream of joint mining.