Chapter 4 border guerrilla warfare

--fight!fight!If you fight, you will advance, if you don't fight, you will retreat! The Chinese nation has created this eternal truth since the day of its origin. It seems that without struggle, there would be no era of human progress.For an inch of land, for a word, for a wink, fight!fight!The fight is turned upside down, the fight is upside down. It is human nature to love to fight. The Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is in charge of such matters, has made special statistics: In the 1950s, there were more than 30 cases of large-scale provincial-to-provincial conflicts registered with the State Council, and in the 1960s, there were more than 40 cases. There were more than 130 cases in the 1980s, and more than 800 cases in the 1980s!As for the armed battles between counties, townships, and villages, it is impossible to count them. According to the most conservative estimates, the total number of casualties in armed battles is definitely not less than five figures.

Why?For a lush forest, for a fertile farmland, for a green grassland, no, all of these are not as much as the blood shed by people for a mine!In the long and tortuous provincial boundaries, county boundaries, and township boundaries... almost a mine is a bloody battlefield! Underground treasures are buried deep in the ground and in the mountainside. Where there is no landmark, it should belong to the stateless Antarctic—anyone can occupy it, as long as you are strong.Between rich and poor, the strong always belong to the former, and how many weak people are willing to succumb to poverty?As a result, people and people, villages and villages, townships and townships, counties and counties, and provinces and provinces fought life-and-death battles for wealth.

Isn’t every war fought by mankind, apart from political and religious conquests, a fight to plunder and seize other people’s wealth?And how many times can any political and religious battle be separated from the pursuit of wealth? Mines are the most attractive objects of contention. Those township chiefs, county chiefs, and provincial governors talk about communism in meetings, but when he stands on the peak of the mine, he will suddenly become an astonishing capital. doctrine. I have met an old county magistrate who was over 50 years old. From the time when he was a basic militiaman during the land reform, to the captain of the brigade during the Great Leap Forward, and the director of the commune during the Cultural Revolution, until he became the deputy county magistrate and county magistrate in 1975. Escaping the entanglement of the mine war behind his hometown that intersects with neighboring provinces. Over the past 30 years, he has personally experienced dozens of large and small weapon fights. The black scar on the left side of his face was stabbed with an iron rod during a weapon fight. Now he still has 3 years to resign Backed up.As the last part of his administration, he wanted to put an end to his last concern: stop the fighting between the two provinces. For this reason, he made a special trip to the provincial government to find the deputy governor in charge of the economy, and proposed whether he could voluntarily abandon the controversial area. mine.No way, mines are the lifeblood of poverty alleviation for frontier residents, so we must not give up no matter what!The deputy governor had never treated the old county magistrate so harshly.Even so, the old county magistrate didn't say a word, he understood that the deputy governor had already listed the income from mining that mine in the provincial annual finance.

Mines are so important to the majestic governor of a province, so there is no need to explain to those counties, townships, and villages that rely on mines for almost their entire finances, entire industries, and entire sources of income. The mines still bleed, the mines urge to bleed... The troubled Gansu Province, which is not considered a rich province, is regarded as a superpower by the surrounding provinces in the northwest, and they are always vigilant and hostile to—— Counties A, B, C, and D in Gansu Province, located in the Qinling Mountains, are connected to Wang, Zhang, Li, and Zhao counties in Ningxia Autonomous Region.

County A and County Wang, shoulder to shoulder, back to back.An arm of the Qinling Mountains tightly connects the two counties together.However, maybe the mountains are too high, or maybe the Loess Plateau doesn't want to care too much about outside affairs. A thousand-meter-high mountain seems to be separated by two worlds.In the Renxian County on this side of the mountain, I only know that there is an autonomous region called Ningxia behind the mountain. It is said that people there wear Islamic hats on their heads.In Wang County on the other side of the mountain, no one is willing to make such a big effort to get to this place called Gansu.They are far away from the world, and many of them don't even know where the township government is, let alone another world beyond the mountains.

This year, someone leaked an important secret to the eight counties on this side of the mountain and Wang county on the other side of the mountain: there is a large copper mine on the mountain, which can mine thousands of tons a year, and it will never be exhausted.What is copper?There is no one on this side of the mountain who doesn't know it.The washbasins they use are made of copper, the hot pot is made of copper, the saddle is made of copper, the belt buckle on the boy’s waist, the little butterfly on the girl’s skirt... 3-year-old children know that copper is yellow. baby!Without it, the plateau would be gray; without it, lamb slaw and grilled cheese would be tasteless.Copper, gold in the highlands, riches in poverty.It lures thousands of herdsmen and villages in front of and behind the mountain...

In County A, seven members of the Standing Committee made a careful decision: the Industrial Bureau, the Agricultural Bureau, and the Township Enterprise Bureau jointly established the Tongshan Development Corporation, and the deputy secretary of the economy personally served as the party secretary of the corporation. Yuan. In Wang County, the seven chief and deputy county magistrates made the final decision in the thick smoke: the county magistrate will personally grasp the development of copper mines, and strive to get one-third of the finances from Tongshan within the year! On the second day of New Year's Day, the sign of Renxian Copper Mine Development Corporation was erected high on Qinling's arms, and the sound of drums, cheers, and firecrackers continued for three days.

The day before the Spring Festival, the county magistrate of Wang County, who was only 30 years old, led a hundred bureau chiefs, township heads, village heads, technicians, and engineers to the mountain.Starting today, the fate of our Wang County will be ups and downs with this mountain!County magistrate Wang's bold words moved everyone present to tears. Facing the same mountain, in the same direction, and toward the same goal, they kept pace with them. — This mountain is ours: This mountain is ours! Look, this is the boundary set during the land reform! Look, Ma Benzhai stipulated it like this!

Let history prevail! As of now! You are unreasonable!Find your governor to reason with! You are unreasonable!Get your provincial party committee secretary here! On the mountain, there was a lively rooster fight, with the county magistrate on one side and the secretary of the county party committee on the other. withdraw!Withdraw!The county magistrate and secretary of the county party committee were full of confidence and took away the team with confidence, and went home to take their own swords. Boundaries are a legacy of history and it is important to address your county's current economic outlet!

The most important thing is to improve the economic construction of your county, and let the problems left over from history continue to be left behind! The chief executives on both sides spoke in different tones but with the same content: the mine belongs to you, if you don’t seize it, be careful I will label you as economically incompetent! The military order is like a mountain, and it will be difficult to explain to the top and bottom if the hat of the poor county that has been in poverty for decades is not taken off.The county magistrate and secretary of the county party committee deeply felt that they were forced to go to Liangshan.Copper mines are the only bets left!

superior!If you don't, you will always be behind.What's more, if you don't go up, it's tantamount to making others rich and poor yourself!Not worth it! On one side, the public security bureau cleared the way, and on the other side, the armed police led the way. Damn, they actually brought all the troops here. Isn't this a violation of local security regulations? The Public Security Bureau is Tuba Road, and we are the Central Army. All armed security internal security within the national border is managed by our armed police! Aim the barrel of the gun at the barrel of the gun, that won't work!After all, the county magistrate and the secretary of the county party committee still have a string in their heads. Everyone with weapons withdraws! The rest are mountain people with shovels, sticks and whips. Go!Go! Immediately, the sound of killing on the top of the mountain shook the sky, and iron weapons broke out.In order to defend their respective interests, the two sides launched a desperate struggle... As a result, 3 people were killed and 17 people were injured each.The county magistrate on one side received two fists, and the glasses of the secretary of the county party committee on the other side were smashed to pieces. Since then, the seeds of hatred have taken root and sprouted deeply in the minds of cadres and the masses in Ren and Wang counties! Sue!Sue!The General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the State Council received letters and emergency telegrams for border fights every day like snowflakes. Alas, it is too difficult, too difficult!There are 3 to 4 such incidents in an average day.We only have a few staff members in total, and these people are useless. You think, the border disputes between counties and counties, provinces and provinces, governors and governors are all entangled. Listen to you?For this kind of thing, the leaders who are not vice-ministers and above can make do to find the two sides together. Even if you do, what can you do!Award the mine to him?Or award him?Well, it was awarded to him; the governor here said: You have to find a way to reduce the prime minister's fiscal revenue target in our province's plan by the State Council!How can we have this right!Well, since that's the case, don't mind your own business!stay!The official of the General Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs shrugged and said. The county magistrate and the secretary of the company committee felt that only my seventh-rank official was in charge, so the tug-of-war in the mine resumed. By the beginning of 1989, there had been 7 county-level gun fights between A and Wang counties, with a total of 35 deaths and 151 injuries, 4 of which were disabled.The casualties were all treated favorably, or were ordered to be martyrs by Di Fu, or received a considerable pension.The copper mine, which was originally predicted to be mineable for 13 years, is now close to the dying line. County A’s total finance minister’s income from mines exceeds 100 million, and Wang County’s is slightly less than this amount, but the total losses caused by weapon fighting in A County are three times that of Wang County. Now, the two county heads and county party committee secretaries have been replaced by demobilized cadres who have commanded the army in preparation for a larger-scale war... B County and Zhang County, in the minds and visions of the people in the two counties, there is no concept of other provinces and other counties. What lies between them is only a dry ancient river. Therefore, the people are accustomed to call it That is, this side of the river and the other side of the river.The long blood relationship makes the villages and villages on both sides of the river inextricably linked.Therefore, people here are not so much crossing the river ditch as leaving the county or province, but as visiting in-laws. Difficulties are shared, and blessings are shared.For many years, they have followed this simple and peaceful foreign policy. It was in 1953 that the people in B County, Gansu Province suffered from a catastrophic natural disaster, and tens of thousands of homeless mountain people were displaced to Zhang County in Ningxia. Without saying a word, Zhang County held an emergency meeting that night, calling on the people of the county to spare a quilt and save a bowl of Baogu noodles for the suffering brothers and citizens of the county. Ten thousand homeless people warmly and warmly He spent 3 months in Zhangxian safely.Later, about 3,000 people simply fell in Zhang County.During the massacres during the Cultural Revolution, the magistrate of Zhang County was labeled as a Soviet revisionist agent by the rebels, and his wife and children were separated.Seeing that the magistrate of Zhang County was not having a good time, the people of County B knew about it, and Qiao quietly took him over and hid him for 4 years. Not to mention, between B County and Zhang County, not to mention the common people walking back and forth with each other so many times a year, even the county magistrate and the county magistrate, it is not uncommon for you to invite me to a banquet every year and festival, which is really close Such as siblings. Now, these two brothers have become the most quarrelsome enemies on the northwest border.Not for any reason, just for the coal under the ground.But the coal was too important for both this side of the river and the other side.It is said that the hidden coal mine less than 30 meters below the river can make one of the counties achieve a moderate prosperity within five years.This is undoubtedly a great temptation for counties B and Zhang. You must not do anything that hurts face!The two secret meetings jointly held by the two counties were almost of the same caliber.That being the case, just give up the matchmaker at the bottom of the river to the other party!As soon as someone made such a proposal, there was a fierce counterattack: No, other things are easy to talk about, and we can't let this matter go.Our county!The other party also said that our county has been poor for decades, and it is time to live a more prosperous life!The hearts of the parents and officials are now pretending to be a whole county.Some of them have been county magistrates for several terms, and some of them have been in office for 30 to 40 years since the liberation. Their past and their predecessors have spent countless efforts on poverty alleviation in this county, but all because of this poverty Due to the remoteness of the mountains, it was not possible to get rid of the hat of the impoverished county.Today, it is still necessary to ask the country for more than one million relief every year.Those who are politicians don't want to carve a golden trace on their monument.Besides, the people are indeed suffering enough.The dry river, the rolling yellow sand, what else can you do except barely fill your belly? Coal mines have become a difficult place for two counties, and it is possible to change their poverty fate!Can the county magistrates not think about it! For the sake of face, the leaders of the two counties had no choice but to avoid face. They planned a grand coal mining project without telling each other, and quietly sent forces to approach Guhegou.If anyone discloses the coal mining plan in the county, he will be fined 10,000 yuan. The decision of the two counties seems to have been discussed. 10,000 yuan!The masses are almost scared out of their wits when they hear this, let alone 10,000 yuan, even 1,000 yuan, many heads of households have to sell felts and cook pots! Well, maybe some unmarried son-in-law leaked out the coal mining in his county just to please the old father-in-law on the other side of the river. Things really happened to be on this.A young man named Baghsin got off work one hour late at the coal digging team in the county that day, and it was after nine o'clock at night when he arrived at his girlfriend's house in Zhang County across the river.What are you doing? It's so late?This girl had always wondered whether the boy from County 8 was stepping on two boats, but seeing him coming so late today, she couldn't help muttering.If it wasn't for working overtime to dig coal, would I be late?Really, if you don’t believe me, go up to the river to investigate!The young man’s words happened to be heard by the future father-in-law who was the secretary of the commune next door, so he came over and asked: Are you digging coal?Well, no, no, no... The young man knew that he had leaked his secret as soon as he said it, and it was too late to keep his mouth shut. This matter quickly spread to the heads of Eighth County. These hypocrites, maybe they have been doing it for several years!But you didn't see how friendly he pretended to be on the surface, but behind his back, he did so many things that harmed others and benefited himself! County B seemed to see the true face of Zhang County for the first time.In fact, when they heard that there was coal under the boundary river, they probably did it a few days earlier than Zhang County.But because I don't know the details of the other party, so now I know and confirm according to reliable information that Zhang County is opening a coal mine, so I can't help but be shocked, because according to the current mentality of the people in 8 counties, Zhang County may have dug out a lot of Wujin under it. ! The whole county is mobilized, and Zhang County must be caught up and passed by to regain the past losses! County B quickly took countermeasures and publicly organized more than 1,000 migrant workers from six townships near the provincial border to enter the coal mining area to dig kilns and wells. Zhang County on the other side has been doing it secretly. Car coal.Right now, seeing that County B is mobilizing so many people that it is about to swallow the coal mine as its own within one day, it is of course extremely anxious.The emergency meeting held by the county party committee lasted until three o'clock in the morning. Finally, it was decided that the whole county should step up to raise funds of 5 million yuan for coal mining funds. As the backbone, drive the other six semi-mechanical coal mining teams in the county. On this basis, develop an individual coal mining team composed of 2,000 people, adopt underground and above-ground three-dimensional mining, and strive to produce more than 1 million tons of coal annually. Zhang County spared all his money.On the second day of the emergency meeting of the county party committee, the wired broadcasting began to blare: "Use coal to get rich, the slogan of patriotic fundraising is a household name, the rich give money, some people give people, the common people pooled all the money from selling eggs, but they didn't get enough." With 5 million yuan, the county party committee had no choice but to ask the county government to reduce expenditures, and rigidly apportioned the corporate donations of Li Wan. The coal mine holds the hearts of the people in the county, and the coal mine is inseparable from the industry of the whole county! Zhang County's action was a huge blow to B County, which was hit by the disaster the previous year.Before recovering its vitality, County B was obviously unable to do what Zhang County did.The sound of the rumbling coal mining machinery on the other side of the river was obviously psychologically unbearable to the people of County B. Grandma, that machine has to do our work for a month in one day. Does this make us get rich again after meeting the King of Hades? Pooh!Listening to the sound of that machine is like listening to funeral music, I can't sleep well if I don't smash it! Coal mining and excavating machines have become the object of hatred in the hearts of people in County B. On a windy and dark night, on the coal mining site in Zhang County, a dozen black shadows suddenly appeared and disappeared. After that, I didn't know what was dawdling. After a while, the black shadow left the scene quickly. Maybe a few seconds, maybe a few minutes later, I only heard a few loud noises suddenly on the coal mining site in Zhang County, and the coal mining excavators The well machine and several staff members who were on duty at the side were lifted for a long time, and then fell to pieces... There is no need to detect it. People from Zhang County saw the scene of the explosion and knew that it was a good thing done by people from San County who had no conscience.According to estimates by relevant parties, the direct economic loss caused by this in Zhang County amounted to 2 million yuan.This does not include the pensions and burial expenses of the five dead and injured. Due to the tragedy, two professional well-digging teams invited from Datong and Baotou withdrew to their units ahead of schedule, and coal mining in Zhang County was paralyzed from then on.When this bad news spread to the people of the whole county, angry people poured into the county government indiscriminately, demanding that the county magistrate and secretary of the county party committee return the shares they had raised. What's the use of finding the magistrate!It's all immoral things done by the people of county B, so we should settle the score with them!I don’t know who reminded me, so hundreds of bloody men and those women and children who were murdered and lost their fathers and husbands raised their whips, shovels, and foreign shovels and crossed the boundary river to meet the coal miners on the territory of County B. Just hit, and smashed the coal wells that had been dug and those that hadn't been dug... In a dark fight, 27 people were killed and injured in 3 counties, and 70 coal wells were destroyed.The people of Zhang County reported their hatred, but they also dropped three corpses. After the war, in order to eradicate each other, counties B and Zhang first conducted education to draw a clear line in their critical villages.All of a sudden, those villagers with three relatives and six relatives on the other side of the river made a statement in blood, resolutely vowing not to regard the people on the other side of the river as relatives or friends.During this period, at least a hundred pairs of passionately in love with men and women were ruthlessly separated.A young man in the Erte team was beaten and disabled in public by the leader of the team because he did not want to disconnect from a girl on the other side of Ke.Thousands of years of national jealousy have been revived. For the first time, the boundary river with a long history of friendship has become a chasm between people on both sides of the river... Border patrols armed with guns and prison posts with searchlights all appear on both sides of the boundary river. People who enter and exit need to hold passports issued by their respective county governments. Even if they are visiting relatives or grazing on the opposite bank, they must go through customs inspection. At this point, it seems that the two sides should restrain themselves!no.This situation of enemy fighting on the ground stimulated the underground warfare even more.Now, people are beginning to focus on the tunnels of coal mines.Digging coal across the border, grabbing food from other people's bowls first, smart people think of going together.However, this seemingly clever, but actually stupid approach has not benefited either party.People from 8 counties rushing to Zhangxian County, in order to dig more quickly, desperately swallowed good coal seams and threw them aside when they saw poor coal seams, resulting in a coal mine recovery rate of only 2 jin!Cause a lot of waste and mess.At the same time, people from Zhang County who entered County B also adopted the mining method of taking the rich and eliminating the poor. Within two years, this coal mine with medium-sized reserves was destroyed. B and Zhang counties spent a lot of manpower and material resources In the end, no one took advantage of anything. Hmph, we can't get rich, and neither can they!The cadres of three counties and Zhang county, who spent 5 million and 6.3 million yuan respectively, told me over strong tea that their faces exuded the luster of victory like Ah Q. The situation in County C and Li County, and County D and Zhao County is even worse. Because these two places are located in areas where grasslands and coal mines coexist, there are constant, brutal and frightening fighting all year round.In summer, herdsmen fought bloody battles for the lush grassland on the ground; in winter, the two sides began to fight for underground coal mining. In May 1985, a herdsman from C County was driving his flock. He had just set foot on the grass when a team of riders from Li County rushed up. The flock was immediately dispersed and the herdsman was stabbed to death. , the riders disemboweled the corpse, took out all the viscera, and hung the corpse on a tree trunk on the border with a rope, in order to warn the people of C County: If you enter the grass again, you will end up in the same way. How can the people of C County swallow this breath? On that day, more than 300 people were organized, holding shotguns, leading hounds, and riding black horses, roaring towards the yurts of the herdsmen in Li County. All the riders’ homes in Li County were confiscated. Burning it all out was not enough to relieve their hatred. Seeing that several coals in Li County were still running, they threw a pack of explosives into the well. The people of County C never imagined that the fire not only completely burned the coal mines in Li County, but the underground fire quickly spread into the territory of County C itself. They intended to curb the spread of the underground fire to their treasure cave, but it was too late. The fire not only burned down several coal mines, but in the second year they found that the grassland that the people of the two counties were proud of and coveted was no longer there. A blade of grass grows, leaving behind a scorched wasteland. Some people say that people who are too poor cannot get treasures, and some people say that treasures should not grow in poor places.Neither of these two old sayings has a second sentence, nor does it explain why.When we pick up a few horrific incidents of large-scale weapon fights that occurred in mines in contemporary my country, it seems that we can fully explain and answer the above two sentences.According to the survey results of the national mineral management department, there are more than 230 large and medium-sized mines that can be mined on the provincial boundaries of more than 52,000 kilometers in my country.Among them are rare metal mines and non-metal mines that belong to the national and even world-class reserves.Regardless of whether these mines are state-run production mines that have long been the lifeline of the national economy, or prospective mines that have not yet been included in the national mining plan, there are serious bilateral competition for mines and looting to varying degrees.Because the border mine is located in a special area, this kind of mass grabbing and competing for mines is more crazy and brutal than the general folk mining style. It is usually organized large-scale plunder and destruction, accompanied by bloody big fights. Yours is Mine, you don't have it, I want it!If I don't, neither should you. This seems to be the common psychological feature of all frontier mine fights. According to an authoritative mine management expert, there are more than 3,000 mines, large and small, located on provincial and county boundaries across the country, and 80% of these mines are mines with disputes and serious disputes.The destructiveness of border mines is unmatched by any mine. About ten medium-sized or larger mines in the country are depleted or eliminated every year, causing direct economic losses of more than 200 million yuan.Some people estimate that in another 20 years, more than half of the mines at the provincial and county boundaries in our country will become waste mines. This alarm cannot but be said to be severe. Some people pointed out that this kind of thing should not happen in socialist China. To achieve common prosperity and carry forward the communist style is our ultimate goal and morality. Why do we still have to rob mines, compete for mines, and even go through bloody massacres!Why, this seemingly simple but actually extremely difficult question, perhaps no one can answer it and solve it well. Among the Chinese government, Cui Naifu, the Minister of Civil Affairs who has the highest power of explanation and solution, has such a profound question. experience. Minister Cui has been in power for less than three years, and he has come to Weishan Lake three times in a row, not for anything else, but to solve the dispute between Shandong and Jiangsu provinces for 30 years since 1959.In the 1950s, a well-meaning geologist struggled for five or six years to do something for the elders and brothers in his hometown of Weishan Lake, and finally submitted a success report to the central government. Coal fields and coal seams are of the first class, with 5 billion tons of mining reserves.It doesn't matter if you don't report it, this report has alarmed the governors of the two provinces, and since then the endless scolding and quarrels between the two provinces have begun.The lake is vast, who is the coal field under the water allocated to?how to rowWhere is the boundary?This really stumped Minister Choi.He visited the lake area many times in person to inspect the situation, investigate people's sentiments, solicit opinions, and preside over the meetings of the leaders of the two provinces. It is too important, but the energy is too tight!Even if you can draw a half of the township to other places, you can go out, but the coal fields can't let them! This is probably one of the difficult incidents that Minister Cui encountered, and this kind of incident occurs almost at the borders of all provinces and regions in the country. Some provinces have different mining disputes between provinces.Negotiations at the top cannot solve the problem, and the only choice for the bottom is to argue with each other. The result of the competition is a see-saw-like big fight and bloodshed... Great rivers and mountains, precious resources, when it is caught in this barbaric and bloody plunder and In the retaliatory gun robbery, the fate is not difficult to imagine. Alas!Fair mine—weep you forever.