Chapter 13 Chapter 12 Coal Mine

"How far is it?" Liu Haizhu finally opened his mouth to speak. "Up to five kilometers." "Where are we going?" "Dayue Sigong Village." "Where is Dayue Sigong Village?" "Old Wei's place." Perhaps many people have no concept of "industrial villages". The so-called industrial villages are villages in cities formed by families of coal workers in large coal mines.For convenience, the mine will organize these coal workers scattered around the coal mine into various industrial villages.Each industrial village has about 8,000-12,000 people.The place Liu Haizhu is going to is Sigong Village.

This city was originally a wasteland, and there was not even a penny left in Chinese history.It became a city because of the discovery of coal mines at the end of the Qing Dynasty, so a large number of laborers who fled from Shandong and Hebei flooded in.Without coal mines, there would be no city. Even today, in this city with a population of nearly one million, it is difficult to find a person who has nothing to do with coal mines. Even though this city has been defined as a "resource-exhausted city" ’, but the stigma of the coal mine is still ubiquitous. In 1982, this city was not only not a resource-exhausted city, but also a major coal town under the planned economy system. Institutions, two sets of civil affairs systems, two sets of public security, two sets of health and medical institutions, two sets...all the institutions you can imagine, there are two sets in this city.One set belongs to the government, and the other belongs to the coal mine.Some people may ask, are there still two mayors in this city? !Yes, indeed not.Two mayors are not, but the power of the mine manager in the mine is basically equivalent to that of the mayor.Such a bloated and complicated organization will inevitably increase the administrative cost, which also brought a fatal blow to the city in the 1990s.

This coal mine is simply a city within a city, an independent kingdom!In this independent kingdom, there are city-states named after "gongcun" one after another.In each city-state, there are various legends.Because, from the late Qing Dynasty to the Fengtian warlords, from the Fengtian warlords to the Puppet Manchukuo, and then from the Puppet Manchukuo to New China.Over the past hundred years, there have been various turmoil, various wars, various rulers, and every family in the village can write several tomes of blood and tears history. Most of these people in the industrial village are rootless.They also have roots, but their roots may be in Shandong, and their roots may be in Hebei.In this city, none of them have roots, and most of them are single-family.

As far as these rootless miners, do you know who they were before they came here?Did you know that the seemingly kind-hearted Lao Zhang escaped after killing seven members of a family in a neighboring village before liberation?Do you know that the meek Lao Zhou used to be Ma Bian, the biggest bandit in Northeast China?Do you know that kind and kind old Mrs. Liu worked as a prostitute in Harbin for 8 years before liberation?Do you know what crimes were committed by the two brothers from the Zhang family in Shandong who came here during the famine in the 1960s? None of the above will know, and no one wants to know.Because they themselves or their parents escaped in this way, what qualifications do they have to study others?After the city's economy collapsed in the mid-1990s, the "talents" who escaped from the city were really shocking: there were famous singers all over the country, and even singers who sang in residence all over the country.There are scammers who committed shocking crimes, and there are also hooligans who work as thugs in Guangdong, Beijing and other places... In short, they are just like their parents, continuing to drift, continuing to have no roots... Only a very small number of them succeed, and even more Many people are just floating and alive.