Chapter 43 Section 43

The South No. 2 mining area was getting closer, the road conditions were getting worse, and the car became bumpy.Especially after entering the old coal yard of Shaft No. 5, the road surface paved with coal gangue has big pits and even small pits. Sitting in the car is like sitting on a boat. It was a revisit of the old place, and the scene outside the car window was so familiar to Ye Zijing: the tall derrick covered by the night, the sky wheel frozen in mid-air, and the still towering gray gangue hills, which were built one after another. The low bungalows in the 1950s and the sad dilapidated appearance under the dim streetlights seemed extremely heavy to Ye Zijing's eyes and heart, making her almost breathless.There is no need for any explanation or explanation of what it means to shut down the well and go bankrupt.

Everything seemed to happen just yesterday. The job assignments after graduating from high school began. The miners’ children happily put on their work clothes and walked into this large coal mine that nourished their father and brother, and also devoured their life and blood.Because she was not a miner's child, and because she was a lesbian, she and a few classmates in her class were assigned to Naner Township Government as a clerk.At that time, because I did not become a worker in a large state-owned mine, but became a petty citizen, I really felt sad.In the era of the planned economy, the concept of the two of Nan was like this, even the cadres of the town government were also in the category of small citizens.Ye Zijing remembers that when she was twenty-five years old, she married Huang Guoxiu, who was the head of the coal mining area in the No. Class team, but became the wife of a coal mining district chief.

At that time, the Naner Mine was really thriving, with an annual output of 1.5 million tons of coal, and it was a county and regiment-level unit. The department-level Naner Town Government always kept a low profile when dealing with the mine.At that time, coal miners had high political and economic status. Ye Zijing remembers that Huang Guoxiu’s salary was much higher than hers for quite a long time. In 1983, she was admitted to the University of Political Science and Law and went to school with a job , the economy is entirely supported by Huang Guoxiu.Even in the early days of reform and opening up, she worked as a grassroots prosecutor in the mining area procuratorate, and her salary and bonus were not as high as Huang Guoxiu's.

Huge changes have taken place in the past ten years. The depletion of coal resources, coupled with the adjustment of industrial structure and the process of marketization, has taken a sharp turn in history, and the workers of Nan No. 2 Mine and Nan No. 2 Mine have been ruthlessly thrown out of the normal track.Glory and dreams have become a thing of the past, and the industrial workers who once supported the economic sky of the Republic with their own backbones have become a disadvantaged group. A special difficult period has begun, and reforms and breakthroughs have also begun.It should be said that most of the party members and cadres of the South Second Mine did not give up their responsibilities. As far as Ye Zijing knew, Huang Guoxiu had put a lot of effort into this.For a while, Huang Guoxiu was the deputy mine manager in charge of the tertiary industry. He led nearly 3,000 laid-off workers to go north and south to build construction, repair railways, and even dig sewers for cities with neon lights.Later, he became the deputy secretary of the group's party committee, and Huang Guoxiu was still running around for Li Dachuan's Ark Decoration Company and some similar production self-rescue projects.But the result was tragic, and failure was doomed before hard work.The process of marketization is irreversible, and the pace of knowledge economy is unstoppable. The outdated big pot system and simple low-level labor can no longer create the glory of the past. Industrial workers must make historic sacrifices for the progress of the times and the choice of the Republic.

The progress of the times and the choice of the Republic are historical inevitability. In the context of world economic integration, it is impossible and unthinkable to go back to the road of closing the country and carrying the burden of history.However, the cost of reform should be borne by the whole society, and the country must establish a sound and reliable social security mechanism.There are many problems after the bankruptcy of the southern Changshan coalfield. Huang Guoxiu and the mining group have been actively fighting for the inclusion of unemployed workers and their poor families in the scope of the subsistence allowance. From the trial bankruptcy of the second southern mine last year to today, there is no clear result.According to the regulations, part of the subsistence allowances is paid by the state, and a part is also paid by the provinces and municipalities. If the funds for the provinces and cities are not in place, the state will not be allocated a matching part.Changshan's economy is underdeveloped and its finances are stretched. Changshan Mining Group used to be a subordinate and provincial enterprise, and never made any contribution to Changshan's local finance. Changshan City could not afford this fund.And the province has already provided 600 million yuan for the bankruptcy of the southern coalfields, and it will not be able to pay for it for a while.In this way, the problem was put on the shelf, and Huang Guoxiu was busy day and night "fighting the fire", and he was so angry that he scolded the bureaucrats behind his back.

Thinking of this, Huang Guoxiu said sullenly: "Zijing, tell me the truth, today I really hope that the workers can make group visits a success! Let Wang Changgong and the bureaucrats in the province listen to the voices of the needy people!" Ye Zijing felt inappropriate: "Hey, Lao Huang, if you talk about the province, just say the province, don't name names like that!" Huang Guoxiu snorted: "What's wrong with the roll call? I think Wang Changgong is a cold-blooded animal. I have formally reported the subsistence allowance issue to him three times on behalf of the Mining Group, and he has been babbling and showing no attitude!"

Ye Zijing knew it well, sighed and said: "This is also understandable, and it is not something that can create political achievements. People can push it away! Besides, he is not the mayor of Changshan now, and the coal is not under his feet. Well!" Huang Guoxiu then talked about the mayor Lin Yongqiang: "Lin Yongqiang is the mayor, right? He has to take care of this kind of thing, right? He is good, he lifted his foot, and kicked the coals on my instep again. I, the bankrupt secretary, should be damned." !" Ye Zijing knew Huang Guoxiu's difficulties, and wanted to echo a few words, but held back the words: After all, today is to deal with the problem, and I am so fueling the fire, I am afraid that this bankruptcy secretary will really become a worker leader up.

At this time, the car was almost at the mining department, Ye Zijing changed the topic, pointed out the car window: "Hey, Lao Huang, look, the old bungalow we lived in the past, the lights are still on, Liu Kuang Maybe he hasn't slept yet?!" Huang Guoxiu glanced out of the car window listlessly: "What is Mine Manager Liu? After we moved out, there have been two new people here, and now there is a secretary of the general branch of Jing, named Tian Changdou. Oh, this comrade is also unemployed !" Ye Zijing tentatively said, "Let's get out of the car and take a look, okay? Let's also find out about the situation by the way!"

Huang Guoxiu agreed and asked the driver to stop the car.It was also a coincidence that as soon as the car stopped, the door of Tian Changdou's house opened.Tian Changdou, a chubby middle-aged man came out to pour water from a plastic basin, and the basin of water almost splashed on Huang Guoxiu. Huang Guoxiu laughed and said, "Hey, I said Secretary Tian, ​​you welcome me like this, huh?" What Ye Zijing didn't expect was that the secretary Tian Changdou gave Huang Guoxiu a cold look: "Where is the secretary Tian here? The Jing general branch has been disbanded long ago!"

Huang Guoxiu was really able to bear the humiliation, and was not angry at all, with a sincere smile on his face: "Chang Dou, although Secretary Tian is gone, I, Chang Dou's brother, will still be there, right? Don't invite me and your sister-in-law to sit at home ah?" Tian Changdou still didn't give face, and said with a sullen face: "Brother Changdou is still here, but Brother Guoxiu is not here, so what are you talking about!" I just want to have an activity of recalling bitterness and thinking about sweetness, don’t come to my place, it’s better to go to the mine, it seems to be very lively in the mine today!” After saying that, without looking at Huang Guoxiu again, he stepped into the door There, the door slammed shut with a bang.

Ye Zijing noticed that Huang Guoxiu's expression was extremely ugly the moment the gate of Tian's house was closed. Unexpectedly, when he was in embarrassment, the door opened again, and Tian Changdou's wife rushed out of the house wearing a short sweater: "Brother Huang, Mrs. Huang, don't be as knowledgeable as Changdou! This stubborn donkey came out of bankruptcy. Everyone is in a hurry! Hurry up, sit in the room! We are going to report some situations to our superiors! The second sister-in-law Wu from the former Taoist room said yesterday that we need to chat with our old brother Huang. It will be terrible if this goes on. , It’s really going to be a big mess!” Tian Changdou's wife yelled in a rough and loud voice, and the neighbors were alarmed. Many men and women gathered around. Talk at home.Tian Changdou's wife refused to work, saying that Brother Huang and Aunt Huang wanted to see the old place where they lived.Without any explanation, he dragged the couple into their dilapidated three huts. These three cottages are so familiar to Ye Zijing, they have always been called "foreign houses" and they were built by the Japanese. They were renovated twice in the 1950s and 1970s, but they have not been renovated since then.According to Tian Changdou's wife, it is now a dilapidated house.The family lived here for ten years, and their daughter Xiaojing was born here.At that time, she and Huang Guoxiu were busy with work, and Xiaojing was often placed in the homes of aunts and aunts in the neighbors after she was picked up from the mine nursery. It can be said that Xiaojing grew up under the hands of these aunts and aunts.Now, these gray-haired aunts and aunts surrounded her again, yelling "jingzi" one by one, and told her and Huang Guoxiu about their plight. According to these aunts and aunts, social security has deteriorated sharply in the past year since the Second South Mine went bankrupt, and all the thieves, robbers, and prostitutes have appeared. Only three of the forty-two families in the "Old Bungalows" have been sentenced. Four were sent to reeducation through labor; there were two other cases of suicide, one was rescued, the other was not rescued, and died in the town hospital... Just as I was talking to my aunts and aunts, a quiet young man wearing glasses rushed over after hearing the news.Ye Zijing recognized this young man at a glance, this young man was the second child of Aunt Wang's family in the back building, who had hugged Xiao Jing of their family when she was a child.The second son of the Wang family squeezed in front of them, took Huang Guoxiu's hand and shouted "Big Brother", saying that he was assigned to Nansan Mine after graduating from the University of Mining and Technology last year. Nansan Mine went bankrupt two months later, and asked Huang Guoxiu what he should do manage? Huang Guoxiu called the second son of the Wang family by his nickname, and enlightened him: "Second son, you are a college student, and you are not the same as ordinary workers who only know how to dig coal. You are also young. You must have ambition, and you should find your own way out. Well!" The second son of the Wang family couldn't figure it out, with tears in his eyes behind the lens, he kept asking Huang Guoxiu: "Brother Huang, how do you let me find my way out? The coal mines in the south are all bankrupt, so where am I going to find my way out?" Where is my way out? I went to the University of Mining and Technology, and I majored in mining. If there is no mine, what should I mine?!" Huang Guoxiu was stopped by the question, looking at the second son of the Wang family, she didn't know how to answer for a while. The second son of the Wang family became more and more excited: "Brother Huang, you are also leaders. You knew that the coal fields in the south would go bankrupt. Why did you accept me? Why did you enthusiastically encourage me to come back to the coal mines in my hometown? Isn't this irresponsible?! " Only then did Huang Guoxiu speak: "Second son, it's not that anyone is irresponsible. The bankruptcy of the No. 2 Mine in the South last year was just a pilot project. The bankruptcy of the entire coalfield in the South has not yet been decided at that time. The main reason is that the bankruptcy funds cannot be secured. According to the allocation of technical force, you were assigned to the South Third Mine. This year, the province suddenly gave 600 million yuan, all of them were bankrupt and liquidated, and the personnel were frozen. You are not alone in your situation, so there is no other way." The second son of the Wang family sighed and said: "Yes, yes, the three college students we were assigned to the southern coalfield are all unemployed now, and the payment for the bill is the least. I only took two hundred and twenty-five yuan, which is not enough for me. A semester’s worth of books! After four years of college, what’s the point of going home to nibble on my parents’ retirement pension?” He took off his glasses, wiped his tearful eyes, and said, “ The worst thing is those middle-aged comrades, there are old and young, I really don’t know how to live in the future! On the day when Nansan Mine declared bankruptcy, Mr. Chen from our engineer’s office changed his overalls and prepared to go down the mine. When I got to the mouth of the well and heard the news, I fainted on the spot at the mouth of the well!" Ye Zijing felt sore and unbearable, she couldn't help interjecting, "Second son, can you change your career?" The second son of the Wang family was overjoyed: "That's great! Sister-in-law, even if you come to your city procuratorate to check the gate!" Ye Zijing solemnly promised: "Okay, second son, your re-employment problem will be covered by sister-in-law!" At this moment, Ye Zijing and Huang Guoxiu knew that Zha Tiezhu's wife was still dead after all, and died of various complications after taking poison, which Tian Changdou's wife had inadvertently mentioned. Huang Guoxiu was very surprised, and asked in surprise: "This... When did this happen? How come I don't know?" Tian Changdou's wife said: "It happened the day before yesterday, and it passed without taking a breath! The two children were crying hoarsely, and Zha Tiezhu was imprisoned because of the fire. We neighbors helped to save him. The funeral is over!" Tears welled up in Huang Guoxiu's eyes: "You too, why didn't you say hello to me?!" Tian Changdou, who had been silent for a long time, interrupted: "What's the use of greeting you? Send a wreath, shed a few tears, what problem can be solved? It's not that any family is in trouble now, so the best way is group visits! " Huang Guoxiu frowned: "Chang Dou, even if you are not the secretary of the general branch, you are still a member of the Communist Party. At this time, you must pay attention to the influence of your words. Everyone's difficulties must be solved, and the overall situation of stability and unity must also be taken care of!" Tian Changdou laughed at himself: "So, I, a party member, didn't participate in the group visit! Secretary Huang, you'd better go to the mine auditorium and tell the workers who are going to do the group visit right now, as long as you have the guts to talk about stability and unity!" " Huang Guoxiu was enraged, and stood up: "Comrade Tian Changdou, I came here today to meet those group visiting workers! I still don't believe that the workers of the South No. 2 Mine will drive me, Huang Guoxiu, away from here!" When rushing to the mine auditorium, many workers accompanied him. The third son of the Wu family, who had been a mine rescue team member with Zha Tiezhu, also brought an iron crowbar and declared that as long as anyone dared to do anything to Secretary Huang, he would not be polite. .Huang Guoxiu forced several workers to snatch the crowbar from Wu Xiaosanzi's hand, pointed at Ye Zijing, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Little Sanzi, your sister-in-law who is the chief prosecutor is here today, be careful!" She sent you to court to sue!" Wu Xiaosan said nonchalantly, "I'm not afraid, it's better to sue, and I'll have something to eat when I go to jail!" Ye Zijing was startled, and suddenly felt that the black ground under her feet was shaking uncomfortably...