Chapter 19 "Heikouzi" and "Kou" all die

Liujiazhuang, a small village located on the hillside. Standing on the top of the first cave at the entrance of the village, looking south, there are endless mountains around. It is different from the strange and beautiful peaks in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not as handsome and bright as the mountains in the north. It is huge and plump. , low without losing bearing.From a distance, it looks like the belly of a pregnant woman who is about to give birth, or the forehead of a wise man. As far as the eye can see, the entire field of vision is covered by densely packed small "holes".

Looking from a distance, it looks like a tiger's mouth eating people, or a tomb where people are buried in one eye. "Heikouzi" has two meanings here. The first level is the "illegal coal mines" with various licenses and qualifications that are not fully qualified as mentioned in the domestic media and official statements. The second meaning of "Heikouzi" can be understood according to the "appellation" of the local people, which refers to the "black hole" (not a 'mine') where coal has just been dug out.But in real life, there are still many people called "Kouzi" for short.

When the local people are looking for underground coal seams, they will dig out "small holes" from the ground. This kind of "hole" that has just seen the coal seam but is not ready for large-scale mining, the local people give a conventional name, The name is "Kouzi".Most of the small and medium-sized coal mines in Shanxi come from the "kouzi" link.So from this point of view, the "mining history" of every local coal mine is the history of miners experiencing life and death "baptism" in the cracks in the underground stones. Fortunately, coal mines are not taboo about life and death. Usually, a "digger" has just died in this pit, and he will be pulled out immediately. The coal boss quickly organizes the miners to clean up the site, and then someone comes to the former miner with a pickaxe to dig coal. "Inherit the will" in situ.Then the coal boss gave the miners’ family members a sum of support according to the local “regulations” (generally, for each death caused by an accident in the pit, each family member of the dead miner can get 30,000 yuan).

The process of the emergence of "black hole" in the local area is also the process in which miners continue to sacrifice their lives for it. Going down the coal mine and digging "black holes" is extremely risky, and everyone in the local area knows this.But there is no way, this is determined by the unique natural conditions of Shanxi. Shanxi is located on the Loess Plateau. When mining coal, it is often necessary to enter the coal bed through the soft loess to find coal. If a small and medium-sized coal mine is to be mined, the distance needs to be hundreds of meters or even nearly a thousand meters (specifically referred to as "'slope type' "pit mouth" type coal mine).

In this process, there are not many pit wooden supports in the long black hole, which virtually increases the probability of miners' casualties. Before seeing the coal seam, for the coal boss, the process of "digging a hole" is very difficult. All expenses incurred in the process and the recovery of inputs are unknown. There is a saying, "If you don't see a rabbit, you don't scatter an eagle." At this moment, the coal boss's priority is his "pay" and "return".The use of pit wood supports, of course, costs money to buy, and the coal boss will naturally not pay in advance for nothing.In this way, the probability of pothole collapse is also greatly increased.

"In our place, there are 'holes' for cannibalism everywhere, and people are drilled in them all day long. Which 'holes' don't bury people? One 'hole' and one life are not enough." The local farmer said. "Of course," he said, "one 'hole' means one life may be exaggerated, but what we are facing is the cruel reality of 'mine disaster, mine disaster, no mine is not difficult'." It may not be long before the fact that "no mine is not difficult" will be staged in every coal mine, that is to say, it is only a matter of time.