Chapter 6 How many coal bosses are there in Shanxi?

In people's minds, Shanxi Coal Boss is the embodiment of wealth and synonymous with the rich. So, how many coal bosses are there in Shanxi? Here, we must first clarify the meaning and concept of the term "coal boss", otherwise the farmer who digs a pit on the ground with a pickaxe will become a "coal boss".So defined, the 30 million Shanxi farmers whose ancestors have faced the loess and turned their backs to the sky are all "coal bosses". The entrepreneurial experience of Wang Youcai, a coal boss worth tens of millions, can illustrate this problem quite well.

The coal boss "Wang Wanwan" is a well-known "rich man" in Yaojiazhuang. "Wang Wanwan" is really called Wang Youcai.The local people call him "Wang Wanwan", which mainly expresses people's yearning for wealth and envy for him. "His father is Wang Qingde. He is an honest man. His ancestors farmed the land for a living. His family used to be poor. Not to mention anything else, the mouse got into his house three times and left hungry." "Wang Wanwan " said a distant cousin. In 1980, as the international and domestic economic situation improved and the coal market gradually heated up, Wang Youcai, like others, began to scramble to dig holes in the mountains behind the village to find coal.

It was his luck. On this day, he dug hard in the crevices of the rocks at the foot of the mountain behind the village. It was estimated to be three or four feet deep. After eating the dry food he brought with him, he rested for a while, then got up and continued digging.Unexpectedly, as soon as he went down, the black and oily coal suddenly "popped" out in front of his eyes. However, a miracle happened! After digging, he gradually felt that things were not good: the more he dug down, the less "good coal" there was, but more and more black stones called "dry coal" by the locals.

From the definition of "coal boss", Wang Youcai at this time cannot be regarded as a "coal boss". The poor days continued. Fortunately, one year later in the autumn, with the experience of working last time, he dug out black coal at the foot of a hill near the road. There is a saying, "If a person wants to get rich, even the God of Wealth can't stop him." Because the location of the pit he dug was convenient for transportation and the quality of the coal was good, a few months later, the local boss who specialized in investment and mining came to him and talked with him about cooperative mining.

Of course, there is no need to apply for any formalities to the government for approval. A year later, he got an operating profit of 10 million yuan. "Wang Wan Wan" finally "deserves his name". Later, they had pit mouth No. 1, pit mouth No. 2, and pit mouth No. 3... This number can be extended to 10! Two years later, the two began to "separate their families". They agreed that each of the 10 coal mines would be half of each person. At this time, "Wang Wanwan", the "Golden Car" under his buttocks was replaced by a Rolls Royce worth tens of millions, and he himself put on a "outfit" worth tens of thousands of yuan, which is different from the clothes next to him. The dilapidated miners and the barren hills behind them are extremely inconsistent.In other words, the "Wang Wanwan" at this time must be regarded as a veritable "Shanxi Coal Boss".

So far, there is still no answer about the number of coal bosses in Shanxi.Even if one could get an "approximate" figure from the local government, the figure is not convincing.Because the government itself is not clear. For example, a coal boss like "Wang Wanwan", his coal mine has not been reported to the government for approval. Free "Swordsman"! If the calculation is based on the number of coal mine pits, the conclusions we draw are still inaccurate.I don't know how many bosses like "Wang Wanwan" are in the local area.It is known that in Shanxi, there are many coal bosses with more than ten coal mining pits, and to be precise, there are very few coal bosses with only one coal mining pit.