Chapter 34 Chapter Thirteen

It was probably 1977. On an ordinary day, the sky was a bit cloudy, and a few drops of rain fell before going down the well in the morning. He was on the morning shift, and he went down the well before seven o'clock, and he walked to the working surface within ten minutes. eight o'clock.It was a full day off work, moving the slipper and transporting materials, so the work was not stressful.People have not fully recovered from the ten years of slack, slack, and laziness. A shift can only work for less than four hours.At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the middle shift was about to take over, and he was not yet tired, so he dug a bag of coal, carried it on his shoulder, and followed the flow of off-duty people into the alley.In the alley, I took the first tram to pick up people, got off the train and walked for a while, and came to Dajing.

At Dajingkou, he was discovered by an old director of the Provincial Coal Bureau who had just resumed work.He stared at him, first at the bag of coal on his shoulder, then at his face.Before he could understand what was going on, many strangers who had never seen him came over and surrounded him.They pointed to the coal bag and asked him many questions.At that time, how did he answer?Can't remember, really can't remember.He seemed flustered and flustered.But his answer made the old director so excited, he grabbed his hand, raised it high, and said to those unfamiliar faces: "Comrades, what is the spirit of the hero? This is the spirit of the hero! It has been ten years, We have lost many valuable things, but our best miners have kept them and persevered. This is the root of our mining management! With it, we are fully capable of building a high coal production Great Leap Forward."

Turning his face away, the old bureau chief called the party secretary Lao Qi everywhere: "Where is Lao Qi? Lao Qi—" Lao Qi squeezed over from the side. "Old Qi, you always complain that this mine is too old and cannot produce stable and high yields, but do you see how old this old miner's spirit is? With this old tradition and old spirit, there should be coal! You say this mine I don’t believe in this evil if I can mine for another ten years! Tell those engineers to search again, but if they can’t find any coal, you goug my eyes! Are the comrades from the Propaganda Department here?”

No one answered. The old bureau chief said to himself: "A few years ago, you promoted the anti-trend hero very evil. Why didn't you promote our old miner? Don't you promote this small coal bag? The coal bag is small. It weighs a thousand pounds, comrades!" After going to the well that day, Section Chief Zhang of the Propaganda Department of the mine invited him to the office and asked him to talk about the ins and outs of the matter. So he talked to Section Chief Zhang about the accident in 1956, about his responsibility, his guilt, the punishment he received, and his thoughts after the punishment.

Section Chief Zhang was shocked: "So, you carried this little coal bag for 21 years?" He nodded sheepishly. Section Chief Zhang simply calculated on a piece of waste paper, based on fifty catties of coal carried every day, five hundred catties in ten days, five thousand catties in one hundred days, more than eighteen thousand catties a year, twenty It is more than 383,000 catties a year, which is nearly 200 tons of coal. It is a considerable coal mountain when piled up! It didn't take long for Section Chief Zhang to write out the material, which was more than 30,000 words long, and the title was "A small coal bag weighs a thousand catties, cherishing coal like gold in a sea of ​​coal".The old director was dissatisfied after reading it, and ordered the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Bureau to rewrite it.The head of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Bureau personally took charge, stayed up for three whole nights, and wrote the second draft.In the end, after the old bureau chief personally finished it, it was sent to the grassroots as a document of the provincial bureau.At the same time, provincial newspapers and publications of the Ministry of Coal published his photos and a long newsletter, and the title of the newsletter was changed to: "He is the hero of the country."

In the finalized provincial documents and long-form newsletters, the accident disappeared, and no one mentioned it again. He felt terrified, as if he had done something wrong.He went to Section Chief Zhang and Lao Qi three times in a row, and told them that it wasn't worth publicizing, it wasn't worth it!He just owed the country a debt, and he paid the debt honestly. How can he not mention the accident?There's still a fortune in that file!However, he did not expect that the sum in the file was revoked after careful study by the mine party committee. "Old Wei, don't be confused. This is the need of the party's propaganda work. It is necessary to maintain the purity of advanced figures!"

Lao Qi explained. "But, but..." he still didn't understand, "but that's not the right way to calculate the coal back! In 21 years, there were thousands of off-duty work, and I was hospitalized several times due to work-related injuries, but I didn't actually carry so much coal. Don't people say we are bragging?" ... He didn't know that the machine was already running, and even if it made a mistake, it would be difficult for an individual to change its operation. The Chinese who have the habit of exercising carried out a small movement in the Heigelonggou coal mine and several provincial coal mines—the "Coal Bundle Movement". First, they called for and mobilized, and then forced everyone to go down the mine. Workers carry a bale of coal from the coal mining face and excavation head every day.Some cadres in the work area simply stipulated that those who do not carry coal to the well shall be counted as absenteeism.

He never dreamed that his honest, Chinese peasant loyalty would bring unprecedented chaos to the miners and the coal front, and bring disaster to Heigelongou! At this time, one person is awake.This person is Li Jie, the young technician back then and now a coal mining engineer at the Heigelongou Coal Mine. Li Jie shouted loudly at the mine production scheduling meeting: "No way, comrades! Wei Heizi's approach is undoubtedly valuable as a spirit, but as a means of increasing production and saving, it is stupid, extremely stupid! This year is 1977, not 1917. In 1927, we already had quite advanced means of mining and transportation. Coal trucks were parked there and the trolley drivers were dozing off. , but we advocate that workers use coal bags and use physical strength to carry them. Is it scientific? This is one; second, a person's physical strength is limited, and the eight-hour work of underground mining workers, plus running back and forth underground , that is, ten hours. If every worker has worked hard for eight hours, it is unimaginable to insist on digging out a bag of coal. Then, in order to complete the task of this bag of coal, they will work for eight hours. If you are more slack at work, it is equivalent to eating your own flesh, and the damage you suffer will be far greater than the nutrition you get; third, and most importantly, if you continue to do this, you will hurt the feelings of the workers. You fool them, they They'll fool you, too, and they'll plan your coal banks, dig your coal pillars, and destroy this mine like rats burrowing..."

Li Jie talked endlessly for two hours, but he failed to convince anyone, and almost no one stood up to support him. Li Jie wrote to the old bureau chief to state his opinion. The old bureau chief was very annoyed and wrote in his letter: "What kind of mental state is this? Can this kind of comrade who doesn't believe in the masses and the spirit of the working class as the master of the country manage the technical work of a coal mine well? This comrade has been sitting in the office for too long, he should go to the grassroots Take some exercise and breathe some fresh air brought by Comrade Wei Heizi."

History, just like this, is constantly joking with those who write history. The stalking incident more than 20 years ago, in another form, with a completely opposite ending, is once again placed between Wei Heizi and Li Jie. before. Li Jie returned to the coal mining area from the production technology department. Is this the "negation of negation" in philosophy?