"What's the taboo about this, if you want to listen to it, I'll take advantage of the wine to break with you."

Yan Jinshui nodded and said, "I am a farmer, and my grades were not bad when I was in junior high school, so I originally hoped to be admitted to the secondary school." My dad is a coal digger, my brother is also a coal digger, there was a mine collapse in 88, the grandfather and son buried in it, my brother died, my dad was disabled, and the total loss of my family was 1,200 yuan. ”

"And then you dropped out of school?"

Although Chang Xian's face was sad, he didn't have much emotion.

It's numb, because that's how coal miners live.

He didn't want to ask, and it was pointless to ask about the nature of the coal mine where Yan Jinshui's father and brother worked.

In these years, even in large state-run mines, the safety situation of workers is not optimistic.

Let's put it this way, "Ordinary World" is still a bit artistic.

Units such as coal mines have mortality indicators, and as long as they do not exceed the standard, they are well managed.

Is security management hard?

In fact, it is not difficult, as long as you realize that "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall".

Where the leadership is, there is security.

The safety management of foreigners is relatively strict, like McDonald's, every day before the opening of the store manager is the first sip of water and eats the first hamburger.

The meaning is very simple, if you don't do a good job of security, you will kill the leader first.

In the past, we were also in line with international standards, requiring that there must be a deputy mine manager or above under the leadership of the mine every day.

However it was useless.

In one night, there were a bunch of assistant mine managers in the coal mine, with brackets behind them, enjoying the treatment of deputy mine managers.

……

Yan Jinshui is really unlucky.

It's not that Chang Xian hasn't seen bad luck, but it's really rare to be unlucky enough to be like Yan Jinshui.

At that time, it was relatively late to study in the countryside, and Yan Jinshui was 17 years old and still in junior high school.

It's easy to graduate in just half a year, and when I encounter the pillars of the family, I am dead and disabled, and Lao Yan's leg surgery costs money.

17-year-old Yan Jinshui had no choice but to leave his textbooks behind to prop up his dilapidated home.

But what could he do?

I could only dig coal, and in the well where my father and brother were buried, I dug shovel after shovel, and I dug it until 91 years.

And then......

The well in which he was digging coal also collapsed.

Although he did not die, Yan Jinshui was too frightened to dig coal anymore, so he went home and planted the land for a year.

In 92, it was popular to go to the sea, and Yan Jinshui saw from the newspaper that many people went to the Special Economic Zone, so he also went south with more than 5,000 yuan.

What will be the result of a rural baby who has never been out of the house doing business in Shencheng?

In this way, the young Yan Jinshui was cheated out of all his money and begged all the way back to his hometown.

From Shencheng to Jin Province, it is thousands of miles, and it is really a small strong person who did not starve to death on the road.

"You're too ...... too"

Listening to Yan Jinshui's complaints, Chang Xian couldn't help laughing, shook his head and said, "You are really unlucky." ”

"At that time, I was stupid, I had never seen the world, and I deserved to be deceived."

Yan Jinshui also laughed.

"No way, in the winter of '92, I started digging coal again. At that time, the price of coal went up, and so did the wages of miners, and I could earn more than 100 a month, which was higher than the salary of our civil servants there. ”

As soon as he tilted his head, all the wine in the glass poured into his throat, and he was still smiling, but there was endless bitterness hidden in his smile.

"But you can't dig like this, my dad is crippled, my mother is not in good health, and I have a sister who is not married, if I die one day, I am light, what will they do?"

Chang Xian nodded, didn't speak, just leaned over and touched the cup.

Where is heaven? I don't know.

But compared to Yan Jinshui, his poor but warm home is heaven.

"What to do? Find a way to find a way! ”

"In 93, I heard that running a big car could make money, so I borrowed some, and gave gifts to find a loan from the credit union in the town, bought a second-hand Dajiefang, and drove myself to pull coal outside the province."

Yan Jinshui continued to tell the past.

"At that time, the price of coal in the coal-producing areas of Jin Province was very cheap, only 30 yuan per ton, which was not as expensive as the radishes. The price of coal in other provinces is higher, and I can make a lot of money by engaging in transportation and changing hands. If nothing else, I'm probably still running a sports car right now. ”

"Moths again?"

The chopsticks in Chang Xian's hand stopped and asked very cooperatively.

"This time I was specially robbed, not only for money but also for life, I was slashed three times in the back, jumped into the ravine and they didn't chase me."

Yan Jinshui put down the cup, lit a cigarette, leaned back in the chair, and said with a smile: "This is the third time that you should not die." But my liberation cart is gone, and I don't even dare to call the police because I am also doing illegal business. I don't have any permits, not even a driver's license. ”

"When was that? It's '97. ”

"And then?"

Chang Xian also lit a cigarette, and it was rare for a coal boss to say "the birth of a coal boss" at the wine table, if Zheng Mang was there, he would be happy to shout five and six.

"Later?"

Unconsciously, Yan Jinshui drank four or five taels of water and said: "I went home to recuperate for nearly two months, and spent 200,000 yuan to contract the coal mine in the village. ”

"At that time, the price of coal was very unstable, sometimes it went up, sometimes it fell, and being a coal boss was no different from gambling. Some people made money by contracting coal mines, but the coal mine in our village changed four bosses before and after, and all of them lost money. ”

"In 98, the first year I contracted a coal mine, I happened to encounter a sharp drop in coal prices, and I lost a full 160,000 yuan and owed a lot of foreign debts. But I had no choice but to do it. ”

Yan Jinshui put down his chopsticks and said, "There is really no way to go, only to carry it to death, ready to carry it until the dead ball is pulled down." ”

Chang Xian felt that Pingyao beef was not very good, so he turned around and ate a chopstick of green vegetables, and said: "That can't be helped, force majeure, it happened to be the Asian financial crisis at that time." ”

"If you don't die, it's really a blessing."

Yan Jinshui smiled bitterly: "In 01, my good days finally came, and the price of coal doubled compared to when I first contracted." ”

The two wine glasses touched each other, and Chang smiled idly: "After decades of mold, it is finally transferred, and it is worth boring." ”

The two of them leaned their necks and did one and ate two bites of food.

As often said, Yan Jinshui is finally running in time.

Due to the frequent occurrence of mining disasters, the next major reorganization of coal mines in Shanxi Province was carried out, and all coal mines with insufficient safety equipment were banned.

Yan Jinshui was ruthless, took out all the money he had earned before, and finally passed the approval, and repaid the loan to update the safety equipment.

At that time, there were small mines in many rural areas of Jin Province, and the profits were not high in the past few years, and there were a large number of mines that were going to die and not live.

Yan Jinshui really dared to think and dare to do it, mortgaged his coal mine to the bank, and contracted the coal mines of four villages in one go.

You must know that although the price of coal rose at that time, the prospect was not very clear, so no one grabbed him at all.

In 02, suddenly coal became popular, and people from other places came to Jin Province to buy coal.

What did you say about the situation at that time?

One word to describe it is "exaggeration".

How exaggerated is it?

In order to ensure that they got the goods, the coal buyers did not even sign the contract or make an IOU, and directly stuffed tens of millions of coal purchases into Yan Jinshui's hands.

200 pieces of coal per ton will rise to 300 yuan in a year!

All of a sudden, Yan Jinshui became a millionaire, and all the bank loans were paid off.

Suddenly, Yan Jinshui became a multimillionaire again, and the small coal mines in his hands also expanded to seven.