Wang Weidong went out again and went around outside, and went to the winch room to see the people driving the winch. Walked to the two inclined shafts and looked down at the dark inclined shafts.

Halfway up the gangue mountain, a child bent down and picked up the gangue with a wire twist and put the coal mixed in the gangue into a basket beside him.

"In fact, there is no gas in this coal mine, and one inclined shaft is enough, but according to the safety regulations, two inclined shafts must be dug, which wastes a lot of money!" Shi Guozheng said regretfully.

Shi Guozheng kept urging Wang Weidong to go back to the village to rest, but Wang Weidong just didn't leave, and waited until seven or eight o'clock in the evening to see more than a dozen workers ascending the well one after another.

Originally, the mine operated two shifts, each shift had to work underground for 12 hours!

Every worker wore a cotton jacket and trousers, and the cotton exposed in the breaches was also black, except for the white eyeballs and teeth, and the rest of the place was black.

Many people's miner's lamps are dim, which is caused by working too long hours and not having enough electricity.

Everyone walked very slowly, and they didn't eat in between the ten hours of work, which was too tiring.

The rice is ready, the cabbage is boiled with potatoes, and the rice is dried with big ballast, and these people can eat it after taking a bath.

"You can go this time, right? It's dark and the road is not easy to walk. Shi Guozheng said. It's been a long time since he's been in a coal mine for this long.

On the way back to the village, Shi Guozheng was worried that Wang Weidong would see the current situation of the coal mine, especially when he saw that the ghost-like workers would be scared away, so he wanted to enlighten him.

"Weidong, coal mines are like this, it's their business to work, we don't have to go down the mine, just stay on it and get a lot of money. Those workers earn more if they do more, and if they are too lazy to look at it, let them get out! This is the truth that black claws make money and white claws spend. Shi Guozheng said.

"Can't you work three shifts?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Three shifts delay the effort! They earn a lot in two shifts, and they can earn almost 200 yuan after working 30 days a month! Now that the rural crops have been harvested, there is no all day long, how good it is to earn 200 yuan here! Not to mention those blind rookes, after a year or two, they can go back to their hometown to marry a daughter-in-law and live comfortably. Shi Guozheng replied.

"Uncle Shi came to Harbin City to find me to cooperate in the coal mine, what kind of cooperation method is it? Who has the final say after the cooperation? Wang Weidong asked.

"People who mix outside are different, and the first thing I ask is the root!" Shi Guozheng said.

He was deliberately silent for a while, as if he was thinking, and then replied: "In this way, Dali has other things to do now, the fact of the coal mine is too busy, I will let you take over completely, you pay the village 70,000 yuan a year for the contract fee, how about selling the equipment on the coal mine to you at a discount, is it cost-effective?" ”

"How much does the equipment cost for the coal mine?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Three big winks, there are a few small winches underground, plus two transformers underground, water pumps and other miscellaneous things, you give 150,000 yuan, and if you don't do these things in the future, it will be money, and you can sell them to others." Shi Guozheng replied.

"In this case, I will have to pay at least 220,000 yuan at a time, and I can't take it out at all." Wang Weidong said.

"Don't you have any friends in Harbin City, you can borrow money from them, you have also seen this coal mine, and if you operate it well after removing all kinds of costs, you will earn it back in a year or two." Shi Guozheng said.

"Uncle, 200,000 yuan is like 20 yuan in your mouth, where to borrow it." Wang Weidong said.

In the next time, the two of them stepped on the ridge and walked silently towards the village.

When he was about to walk to the village, Shi Guozheng said: "The two of us have had a lot of contact these days, I think Wei Dong is also a real person, I can rest assured that the coal mine is in your hands!" In this way, the annual contract fee of 50,000 yuan and the annual equipment usage fee of 20,000 yuan cannot be less! If you do this for a year or two, you will have money in your hands, so let's continue, and if you pay the money again, we can extend the deadline. ”

Wang Weidong bowed his head and did not speak, as if he was hesitating. Shi Guozheng felt that there was a way to subcontract the coal mine, and he added a little more force to persuade him to do it in two days.

"I'm going to go back and discuss this matter with a friend in Harbin City." Wang Weidong said.

"Okay, it's not easy for anyone to make money, of course you have to think about it. However, you must hurry, there will be no such shop in this village after that, I will wait for you for a few days, if you don't come back, I will find someone else to cooperate. Shi Guozheng said.

The next morning, Wang Weidong left Tuanjie Village after breakfast, and instead of taking the train back to Harbin City, he took a bus to the nearby Dakegou Coal Mine.

Datonggou Coal Mine is one of the eight or nine coal mines under the Hedong Mining Bureau, with an annual output of one million tons and eight or nine thousand coal miners.

When Wang Weidong arrived at the Daguogou Coal Mine, he went to the store and spent more than 30 yuan to buy canned cigarettes, alcohol, and other things.

He asked four or five people, and finally found out where Zhou Maocai lived, and then asked as he walked, until he reached the door of Zhou Maocai's house.

Zhou Maocai, who had retired, looked at the young man standing at the door with a large bag of gifts in surprise. He had worked in the Dakegou Coal Mine for thirty years, and he had never met anyone who gave him a gift.

"You are Comrade Zhou Maocai, right? My name is Wang Weidong, I am from Harbin City, and I have something to trouble you when I come to visit today. Wang Weidong said with a smile.

Zhou Maocai thought about it for a long time and didn't remember what he had to do with Harbin City.

"I'm here this time because of the Unity Coal Mine, and I want to ask you, the technical director." Wang Weidong explained.

Hearing Wang Weidong talk about Tuanjie Coal Mine, Zhou Maocai hurriedly said: "I don't have anything to do with Tuanjie Coal Mine now, you are looking for the wrong person if you look for me!" ”

Wang Weidong put the gift on the table and sat next to Zhou Maocai and said: "Someone asked me to talk about the cooperation of the Tuanjie Coal Mine, and frankly they wanted to subcontract the Tuanjie Coal Mine to me, but I didn't know anything about the Tuanjie Coal Mine, so I secretly came to you to ask about the specific situation." ”

"Is Shi Guozheng or Shi Dali looking for you? Don't say yes! If you say yes, you won't be able to get out if you get in! Now the coal mine still owes me half a year's wages, so the two of them just don't pay, I ask the two of them, they glared at me, and they beat me! There isn't much coal left in that coal mine, and if you dig into it, you're throwing it into the water, and you can't even hear a sound! Zhou Maocai hurriedly said.

"No, Shi Guozheng told me that the Tuanjie Coal Mine has underground reserves of five or six hundred thousand tons, and it has just been mined for two years, why is there no coal underground?" Wang Weidong asked puzzled.

"The underground reserves are indeed five or six hundred thousand tons, and there is nothing wrong with just two years of mining, and they have produced more than 100,000 tons of coal in two years, and their father and son do not listen to me at all. Zhou Maocai explained bitterly.