"Uncle Zhou, you mark the places that can be mined for me to see." Wang Weidong said.

"I'm going to send this drawing back, so I can only show it to you with my fingers. That's roughly the area. Zhou Maocai said.

As he spoke, he used his hand to draw a roughly triangular sector from the east side of the fault.

"There are 200,000 tons of coal?" Wang Weidong asked.

"The mining height is about one meter, seven or eight, and then multiplied by this area, about 200,000 tons. But of course, you can't mine all the coal, but it's no problem to mine more than 100,000 tons of coal! Zhou Maocai replied.

"How long would it take to open a roadway through a fault, and how much would it cost?" Wang Weidong asked.

When excavating coal mine roadways, the cost must be calculated according to the use of materials and labor, and Zhou Maocai, as an old technician, certainly understands.

"I have checked the information, the big barrel ditch coal mine excavation twice through this fault, in a vertical angle needs about 120 meters, the middle 60 meters is the most difficult, the scaffolding half a meter step, the top and sides are made of cement slabs, the bottom plate also needs to be crossbars to prevent the bottom plate from bulging. I have already calculated, the material cost of the entire roadway needs about 40,000 yuan, and the labor cost is calculated separately. Zhou Maocai replied.

"It takes about two months, and the labor cost is calculated by yourself, according to 20 people working in two shifts, one hundred and fifty yuan a month, and less than 10,000 yuan." Zhou Maocai continued.

This is only the cost of tunnelling for one road, not mine maintenance and other costs.

Wang Weidong felt that all the expenses for two months were included, and it would take 70,000 or 80,000 yuan. Even the township coal mine was a big expense in 85 years, no wonder Shi Guozheng was reluctant to dig this roadway, and Shi Guozheng, an uneducated person, was more afraid of throwing a large amount of money into it, but in the end he didn't see the coal.

Wang Weidong believes in technology, and now he has this money, but what he is afraid of is that if he spends tens of thousands of yuan to dig out the roadway and sees the coal, Shi Guozheng will immediately turn his face, and then he will be empty.

Wang Weidong took out 900 yuan from the savings bank of Datonggou Coal Mine the next day and sent it to Zhou Maocai's house, Zhou Maocai was thin-skinned and refused to ask for anything: "This money is owed to me by Shi Guozheng, what is the matter with you giving me?" ”

"This money is not what I gave you half a year's salary for Shi Guozheng, this is my reward for you! Just based on what you told me about the Tuanjie Coal Mine, I think the drawings you showed me were worth it! Wang Weidong said.

Immediately after Wang Weidong came to Hedong City, he took the train back to Harbin City.

The next night, Wang Weidong found Ou Xiaoyang again.

"So there are still 200,000 tons of coal in that mine?" Ou Xiaoyang asked.

"There are not so many that can be mined, but there are more than 100,000 tons, and it is more difficult to dig a 120-meter-long roadway in advance than to dig a roadway in the sand." Wang Weidong said.

"It doesn't matter, as long as there's a reward." Ou Xiaoyang said.

"It's still the old rule, one person and half, it's done! I went to dig out the roadway alone, and if Shi Guozheng saw the coal, he would definitely turn his face, and then you would come forward. But we won't be able to run a coal mine in the future. As soon as I saw the black sloping well, my heart was weak, and I couldn't do it there all the time! Wang Weidong said.

"Of course, we can't do coal all year round, as long as I see coal, I can subcontract it out at a high price! The two of us put in more than 100,000 yuan, and I am sure that 400,000 yuan will be transferred out! Ou Xiaoyang said.

The 200,000 tons of coal in the ground should have been mined in three years.

"Okay, I'll pretend to be the wrongdoer, and in a few days the two of us will go with Mr. Yao, and ask him to pretend to be a friend who lent me money, and then sign a transfer agreement with them. Of course, the final decision will be made after visiting the coal mine. Wang Weidong said.

"Okay, let's go together then!" Ou Xiaoyang nodded and said.

Two days later, Wang Wei and Xiao Yang took Yao Qiming to Tuanjie Village.

Yao Qiming, who has been a teacher for 30 years, has a bookish image of a good old man, and to put it bluntly, he looks like a good deceitful and bulliful.

Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang told Yao Qiming that the two of them had an investment project, and by the way, they took Mr. Yao out for a walk, and asked him to be a staff officer.

In the past few days, Shi Guozheng is still very worried that Wang Weidong will never return, and now he is overjoyed to see Wang Weidong come back with two friends.

This time there were no pigs to kill in the village, so Shi Guozheng asked his daughter-in-law to go to the village to buy meat and killed another chicken.

"This Comrade Yao Qiming is a university teacher, and his father was originally a capitalist in Harbin City, and the state gave him a lot of money when the policy was restored a few years ago. In addition, the young man has little money and plans to work with me. Wang Weidong whispered to Shi Guozheng.

Shi Guozheng smiled and nodded, he didn't care if what Wang Weidong said was true or not, as long as he could come up with the money. If he doesn't take out the money, he won't suffer, as long as he takes out the money, he will earn.

During the meal, Yao Qiming sat on the main seat and looked at a large pot of chicken stewed mushroom solitary noodles and said with emotion: "It's still a farmer brother who is simple, I am very emotional after I came here, and I have more understanding of the farmers' diligence, simplicity and kindness!" ”

"Hey, what Mr. Yao said is so good! You are truly a confidant of our farmers! On behalf of all the peasant brothers in Tuanjie Village, I would like to give you a toast! Shi Guozheng said with a wine glass.

After eating, drinking, and entertaining, Shi Guozheng and Shi Dali took three people to the coal mine to inspect the site again, mainly to see the big coal pile.

Standing at the head of the well, Wang Weidong noticed that the original black inclined shaft had been lit up, and the original two inclined shafts were about ten meters away from each of the inclined shafts, and Shi Guozheng and his son may have turned off the lights in order to save electricity.

"Although the land is contracted now, there are more miscellaneous things, agricultural tax, special product tax, a lot of things to do, even having to give birth to a child, busy feet hit the back of the head, it is really impossible to get out! We are also relaxed after the transfer of insurance to you, and now the country doesn't say that it wants to be mutually beneficial? Shi Guozheng said.

Looking at the workers who were covered in darkness after ascending the shaft, Yao Qiming sighed and said: "It's really hard, it's not easy, although I know that coal mining is very hard when I read books and newspapers, but I don't have any personal experience, this time I feel too deeply!" ”

"Teacher Yao, if you can, you must help them more." Wang Weidong said.

"Definitely, definitely!" Yao Qiming said simply.

Shi Guozheng, Shi Dali's father and son were full of smiles, Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang were also full of smiles, and among the five people, only Yao Qiming was a really honest person.

Wang Weidong proposed to go underground to have a look, and Shi Dali immediately asked the workers to prepare two mine carts and then take a few people to the office to change clothes, and he had already prepared work clothes, boots and hard hats for the three people in advance.

A few people changed their clothes in the office and went to the charging room to get the miner's lamp out, and the five people climbed into the two minecarts, and the winch started and slowly put the minecarts down.

The iron wheels of the minecart rotated on the rails and made a clanging sound, and the minecart was slowing down, which should have been ordered by Shi Dali in advance, and the inclined shaft more than 100 meters long took a long time to reach the end.

Five people jumped out of the minecart, and Shi Dali led everyone forward twenty or thirty meters before they saw the water.

Shi Dali said: "This coal mine is shallow, there is no gas at all, it is a lot of water!" ”

Fifty or sixty meters further on, I saw a two-meter-wide iron gate on the side of the roadway, Shi Dali opened the iron door and heard a buzzing sound inside, and there were two transformers on the cement base.

"This is the transformer chamber, and if it stops, the pumps can't pump water out and the whole mine will be flooded." Shi Dali said.

There was a wooden board in the corner of the transformer room, and an old man was lying on it, who was the old man who was driven down the well by Shi Guozheng when Wang Weidong came here that day.

On that day, Lao Changtou left his post and ran to the well to drink water, and was just seen by Shi Guozheng, who came to the coal mine.

Lao Changtou saw Shi Guozheng and his son go down the well, as if he saw Lord Yama, and hurriedly got up, not knowing what to say.

Shi Dali didn't know what happened that day, and said: "He looks at transformers here, although his life is easy, but he can't do it." ”

A few people came out of the transformer chamber and continued to walk, five pillars of miner's lights swaying in the dark tunnel.

Walking forward for another fifty meters, the roadway suddenly turned, and Shi Dali held a miner's lamp and shook it on the roadway wall.

"When I dug here, I found that the coal seam had suddenly disappeared, so the roadway turned a corner." Shi Dali said.

Wang Weidong carefully looked at the turn of the roadway, this should be the fault that Zhou Maocai said, and if you dig more than 100 meters further, you should be able to see coal again.

"Look at the coal on both sides of this roadway!" Shi vigorously shook the miner's lamp and said.

The roadway is more than two meters high, with a semi-dome, a bottom and a top, and a coal seam of seven or eight meters thick in the middle of the side of the roadway.

If people who don't know the truth really think that Shi Dali is right, but Wang Weidong knows that the coal on both sides of the roadway only protects the coal pillars, and most of the coal in this coal mine is either mined or pressed behind the goaf, and there is no way to mine it.

Further forward is the slope of more than ten degrees, the middle of the slope is laid with simple rails, the coal mine pipe is called going up the mountain.

The slope doesn't seem to be big, but a few people are a little out of breath after walking for a while, especially Shi Dali, a big fat man.

"Why can't you see a worker?" Wang Weidong asked.

"You see that the workers who ascended the well are the last batch, today I give the workers a holiday, how hard it is to do such heavy work, I will let them take a day off and still work!" Shi Dali said thoughtfully.

"Well done, well done!" Yao Qiming said.

Another hundred meters up, I saw a winch, and the rollers were wrapped with wire ropes.

Shi Dali used a miner's lamp to shine forward, and a few meters above the slope is the mining area, and there are several shovels and picks near the mining area.

"Okay, this working face has come to an end, look at how our coal mine is, it is still very promising!" Shi Guozheng said.

"Not bad, not bad!" Yao Qiming, who had no worries, nodded and said.

Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang also nodded pretendedly.

Ou Xiaoyang also sighed and said: "Oh, I just have less money, if I have more money, I will cover it alone!" ”

"You can all cooperate, everyone earns money, and everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high!" Shi Guozheng said.

"Let's go back, I already had them prepare the meal when I came down, and it should be about the same by now." Shi Dali said. He was obese and hadn't gone down the well for a long time, and this time he went down the well and climbed up and down so far, sweat soaked his work clothes.

After Shengjing finished eating, Wang Weidong told Shi Guozheng behind his back that the three of them would go to the bank in Hedong City to see if the money had been transferred to the bank account, and they would rush back the next day.

After sending the three people away, Shi Guozheng and his son sat in the office of the coal mine.

"It's not that difficult to deceive them with these three kills." Shi Dali said.

"It's better to be careful, I'm going to arrange for someone to keep an eye on them when they return to the coal mine, and tell me immediately in the village if there's anything going on." Shi Guozheng instructed.

"What are you afraid of, the coal mine is on our territory, we won't lose if they don't pay for it, if they come up with the money, we will make it." Shi Dali said indifferently.

After Wang Weidong and the three arrived in Hedong City, Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang first sent Yao Qiming on the train back to Harbin City, and Yao Qiming said to Wang Weidong and Ou Xiaoyang when they parted: "Those shearers are really hard, it would be great if you could help them!" ”

"Teacher Yao, don't worry, the two of us will do what you say!" Wang Weidong said.