Chapter 28 Chapter VII

A docked iron dragon lies quietly on the open space at the northwest corner of Shaft No. 3, and many miners who are waiting to go down the shaft and those who have just come up the shaft are watching there.It was a novelty, and to the miners who had never seen it, it held a somewhat mysterious color.He just went to the well on the night shift, so he also ran over to see it. "What is this?" He asked a mechanical and electrical worker who was playing with an iron dragon. "This is called a scraper conveyor, also called an electric roller." "Oh. What are you doing?"

"Carrying coal!" "Hey, what does that black ox do?" He pointed to a black and stupid iron thing next to the nose and asked. The electromechanical worker laughed: "'Black Bull'? Or 'Rhubarb'! That's the explosion-proof switch that controls the slipper." "Can you open it for us to see?" "Wait a minute, test drive right away." Braving the summer sun, he waited with many curious miners for more than an hour. After the electric sled was tested, the motor roared, and the main shaft of the gearbox whirled, bringing up the sprocket of the machine head, and driving More than two hundred meters of steel chains and scrapers were set up and turned rumblingly.He was stunned, as if he had witnessed some great miracle.But he never expected that this fast-moving steel chain was so closely tied to his future and his destiny.

At that time, the "longwall coal mining method" began to be promoted nationwide. Pulling coal and pushing wooden carts, as backward forms of production, gradually withdrew from the historical stage of Chinese coal mines.The use of naked flames and animal power has been banned in mines. The long wall is the current working face. When it was first implemented, many people were very cold. First, they felt that the horizontal mining of hundreds of meters would cause a large goaf, and they were afraid of roof fall; If it is not good, there will be an accident.At that time, I had no experience in using the chute for the first time, and many accidents happened, for example, the key bar was broken for a while, and the chute was overturned for a while.At that time, most of the sleds were of type 11. There was too much coal to move them, and the small motor hummed. I had no experience in moving sleds, and sometimes a small class could not move two sleds.

This day and night, the slipper on the working surface broke again.In a flash of his brain, he ordered the workers to throw the slipper aside and transport the coal with drag baskets and wooden carts. Li Jie, a technician in the work area, stopped him: "District Chief Wei, this is not acceptable!" He twisted his neck and rolled his eyes: "Why not? As long as you can achieve a level and achieve high yields, go!" He took the lead in pulling up the coal basket on the long wall, just like he used to perform miracles in front of the military representative Liu Fang, bowing his waist and knees, his head and hands almost dropped to the ground.When encountering a low place, they lie on the ground and crawl forward.Beads of sweat oozed out of his flesh, and "Bada, Bada" fell on the damp, dark ground, into the puddles in the depression.The abandoned rope was once again deeply entangled in the flesh of his shoulder.There was no trace of pain or depression on his face.

He was even a little proud, a little proud.He felt that he was showing his strength.His two arms are so powerful, and his two knees are so firm, they grind on the cinders and gangue again and again, but they are just a little numb, but they don't hurt at all.He once climbed so hard, crawled, and created a miracle with a man's tenacity and will; now, he can still create another miracle.As a district mayor, he wants production.Liu Fang told him: The national plan is the law, and if the plan cannot be completed, it is actually a crime!He and his work area, no matter at any time or under any circumstances, cannot owe the state a catty or two of coal.This is his unshakable belief.

Driven and driven by him, more than 20 workers pulled up the drag basket, and even the technician Li Jie was caught up on the rack and climbed back and forth more than a dozen times. In the end, Xiao Lizi's shoulder was strangled with blood, and a basket of coal was pulled halfway up the road, and he couldn't pull it any more, so he cursed viciously from behind: "Damn it, push it hard! Push it hard! Use all your strength to suck it!" Come out! Grit your teeth, carry it on your shoulders, stick it out with your butt, and you have to get this basket of coal out too!" Xiao Lizi really turned around and carried the last basket of coal out with his shoulders and pedals, covered in mud and water.When the coal was poured into the small well, Xiao Lizi suddenly had a feeling that he suddenly grew ten years old!

After get off work, walking in the alley, he was very happy. He patted Xiao Lizi on the shoulder and said, "Man, that's how you made it! When you go to the kiln, the first thing you need to do is to practice your backbone. Don't believe in evil, don't be afraid of difficulties, just keep going." Arch forward, nothing is impossible!" Xiao Lizi remembered these words all his life, until he became the chief engineer later, he never forgot this proud voice.He told many people how an old miner named Wei Heizi taught him his first life lesson deep underground on the first long wall of the Heigelong Mine.

"However, this method of transportation is too backward after all! District Chief Wei, don't you feel that this is very painful?" Xiao Lizi said with emotion. "Is it bitter? It is bitter! But this is our pride, our glory!" He didn't know what to do at the time, but he remembered Liu Fang's touching words, "Digging coal is the career of heroes, bear bag , soft eggs, and caterpillars can't do it!" "District Chief Wei, you...what do you want me to say? The times are different after all!" ... The yield per unit area of ​​this class created the highest record in the whole mine, but he paid a heavy price for it.

This matter was later known by an inspection team of the Ministry of Coal, and the situation was compiled into written materials and reported to the whole country. A leading comrade of the Ministry of Coal personally wrote on the materials: "Comrade Wei Heizi and comrades like Wei Heizi have a small-scale production consciousness and a natural resistance to mechanization. They are not suitable to be the leaders and organizers of our modern large-scale coal mine production. They should not hesitate. Remove them from leadership positions in production." At this time, Liu Fang had officially stayed in the Heigegou Coal Mine as the party secretary. He was forced to go against his wish and dismissed Wei Heizi from his position and promoted Li Jie to be the head of the work area.

That year, Li Jie was only twenty-one years old. He couldn't figure it out, was depressed, and stared blankly at the table with his hands on his hair.Once, after drinking some wine, he climbed up the office building "dongdongdong" and found the secretary Liu Fang. Liu Fang hastily gave up his seat, made tea, and asked him to smoke.He didn't pick up the teacup or the cigarette, just stood there in a daze, standing in the middle of the room like an iron pillar. "Can't figure it out, can you? My comrade brother?!" "No way!" "What do you think?"

"Is the superior unreasonable? I have created a high production rate, why should I be dismissed? If you say that I am against mechanization, the son of a bitch will be against it! As long as I can produce more coal, I will not be against any kind of transformation!" Liu Fang smiled, and shallow wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes: "My comrade, sit down, let's talk slowly, come, drink some water first." He took the teacup suspiciously and listened to Liu Fang's eloquent talk.At that time, Liu Fang talked a lot, from the status quo of the Chinese working class to the grandeur of the socialist big industry; from the simple class feelings to the importance of mechanization and electrification.These topics are quite new, he has never heard of them.His brows stretched, and a convincing smile appeared on his face. In the end, Liu Fang said: "Our workers, especially the miners, evolved from peasants, and the peasants' awareness of small-scale production and other elements of feudal ideology are bound to be brought into the ranks of the working class. Therefore, For the working class to truly be the masters of the country, there is still a difficult process of overcoming themselves.” Liu Fang told him that learning culture is the first step to defeating himself. He held Liu Fang's hand emotionally, and his eyes were wet. "Old Liu, I... I will learn! I will study culture, if I don't take off my illiteracy cap, I... I won't come to see you!"