Chapter 5 Chapter two

At the eastern foot of Xuefeng Mountain in southeast Hunan, in the middle reaches of the Zijiang River, lies a treasure mountain—Xianghualing Tin Mine in Hunan. The Xianghualing tin mine was once famous all over the world for its rich tin reserves, large quantity and excellent quality. ——The tin production in the past 92 years has accounted for more than one-third of the world's tin production in the same period; ——Her tin products are sold well at home and abroad, and have won the unique reputation of exemption from inspection among similar minerals; ——Her tin ore specimens are displayed in museums in many countries and regions around the world;

——She also has a Fragrant Flower Ridge Stone, which can be called an oriental treasure.It is said that the auction price of this Xianghualing stone in the United States is as high as 2 million US dollars! Before 1949, it was a dilapidated mine.After the founding of the Republic, it was able to show its prestige, and gradually built a joint enterprise with mining and refining facilities, advanced technology and strong technical force. Over the past 40 years, more than 10,000 tons of tin products have been produced, earning nearly 800 million US dollars for the country. Xikuangshan, Xikuangshan, its tin concentrate content accounts for as much as one-fifth of the country.Xianghualing Tin Mine is composed of three parts: Xianghualing, Xianghuapu and Anyuan, and Panchen County, Chenzhou is within the range.

From the day when the industrial machinery in New China was in normal operation, the Xianghualing Tin Mine has been ranked among the few large state-owned mines in the country based on its rich mineral resources.In the 1950s, 1960s, and even 1970s, any company with a state-owned prefix was not rich and mighty!Although they are local, they are directly under the leadership of the central and provincial party committees.Although it only covers a few hectares, it is an impregnable independent kingdom.The high walls and iron nets around it symbolize the inviolability of the socialist treasury.How proud all the workers were at that time. An ordinary miner could sit on an equal footing with the secretary of the commune, and a mine manager was far more imposing and airy than the county magistrate!At that time, the peasant brothers near the mine would feel flattered and excited for three days even if they were forced by the big brother to invite them to stay in the mine for a while.

In the era when the system of ownership by the whole people is unified, those who eat the imperial food will be superior.However, in the 1980s, the situation in the country changed, and the first of these changes was the peasants' new understanding of the meaning of land ownership.Contracting land and contracting production on a household basis, the days of longing for the autonomy of land use for thousands of years have finally arrived.They clapped their hands in support of the decision of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Hey, I heard that a stone on our Xianghualing can be exchanged for a hen, how about it, how about digging a few baskets?One day, Shao Sheng, a farmer in Linwu County who was grazing sheep on the hillside during the slack season, told Wang Jianzhong, a neighbor and deputy secretary of the brigade branch who went up the mountain together.

What, you want to dig into the walls of socialism?Beware the high walls crush your spine!Wang Jianzhong answered his partner who grew up with him with big eyes and small eyes. Come on, why is the wall not the wall? Our grandfather’s grandfather grew up on this land. Why should these people who eat official food occupy our mountain?Although Shao Sheng is a few years older than Wang Jianzhong, because of his poor family, he dropped out of school before finishing elementary school, and now he is already a target of literacy.He looked at the people of his age in the high walls and iron nets who were all well-dressed and well-fed, and he hated him from the bottom of his heart.Shao Sheng pointed to the barren hillsides that belonged to the mining area but had never been managed by anyone, and said:

Anyway, it's still a waste, let's go, let's see if we can dig that kind of precious lump!Wang Jianzhong was pulled and dragged by him to a barren slope on the edge of the tin mine. The two hid in the grass, picked up the shovel in fear, and dug out a few stone lumps like ants gnawing bones for a long time.Afraid of being seen by the people in the mine, they waited until the sun set in the western sky before putting the stones into baskets and quietly descending the mountain. Jianzhong, get up!get up!The next day, Wang Jianzhong, who is used to sleeping well, hadn't gotten out of bed yet!When he came over, Shao Sheng came to his home, and took out three big unity cards from his pocket, shaking them in front of Wang Jianzhong.Then I will tell you secretly, early this morning, I carried the few stones back from the mountain yesterday to the mineral purchase station in the city, and I was rewarded for this price!

A few stone lumps sold so much! Wang Jianzhong couldn't help being surprised.The next day, he also carried a few stones that he threw at the corner to the city to sell them. If they were true, the people at the buying station asked him specifically: Where did you get such a good tin concentrate?Wang Jianzhong naturally did not disclose this secret.However, he drank more ink than Shao Sheng, so he knew the value of ore to some extent.Now that things have been proven, when the stone on the mountain can be turned into money, and can be turned into big money, his orthodox heart began to tremble, and he couldn't sleep that night.

Before Shao Sheng woke up the next day, Wang Jianzhong couldn't wait to go to Shao Sheng's house and urged him to go up the mountain to dig stones.The folks in the village can't hold back the fire!The story of Shao Sheng and Wang Jianzhong going up the mountain to quarry and make a fortune was widely spread, and within a few days, all the people around Xianghualing knew about it. Mining and quarrying on the fringes.At that time, the farmers used the most primitive tools, and many people rushed to join in the fun. Until a few days later, the stones dug up by everyone were replaced with ones that could buy fish and new clothes for their wives and children. When I got the money, I was really tempted.

Let them dig it, isn't it just a little bit of sporadic ore in the corner!When someone reported the situation to the leaders of Xikuangshan at that time, the mine manager did not take it seriously.I thought to myself: Farmers, they just want to take advantage of a small advantage, but they can't make a big deal!At that time, not only the dignified commissioner-level mine leaders, but also ordinary miners dismissed it.An off-duty engineer saw a few farmers who were drenched in sweat and hadn't even mined half a piece of ore. They were lying down in the grass and smoking a stuffy cigarette. Running all over the slope like cow dung, you have to learn how to drill holes like a mouse!

This well-meaning engineer would never have imagined that his words would just destroy a tin capital and a tin mine well-known both at home and abroad. Yes, mice dig holes!Even the lowest intellect becomes a hundred times wiser when awakened.Thus, an unprecedented tunnel battle started around Xikuangshan, so whenever the sun slanted to the west, there were always crowds of people on Xianghua Ridge, and there was an endless robbery scene—there was no iron net in the depths of the crypt, no landmarks, Some are thicker and thicker tin ore; the bandits completely forget that there is an inviolable state-run kingdom ahead.What they saw was the great unity flying one by one.Nothing arouses the possessiveness of the poor more than money.Those corner and sporadic ores are no longer a place for them to be satisfied.They began to raise their legs, stepped into the iron net, and finally reached out to touch Big Brother's back...

In Zhao Village, 17 households went up to the mountain to mine and became rich this year! This year, 48 people from Lizhuang went to the mountain to mine, and everyone has become a household of 10,000 yuan, and the annual income of one person is as high as 50,000 yuan. Shaping Township organized 3 mining teams this year, generating 500,000 yuan for the collective... The 17 wealthy households in Zhao village were decorated with big red flowers by the township government, and the 48 million-dollar households in Lizhuang were set up as pacesetters and role models! Shaping Township was rated as an advanced township for poverty alleviation by the county government. Rewards, recognition, publicity: like lubricating the wheel, mining to get rich has become a household name and everyone knows it.The second year of spring sowing just started, farmers in Linwu, Chenxian, Yizhang, Guiyang, etc. threw away their hoes, replaced them with shovels, picked up their bedding, and flocked to the Xianghualing mining area in unison, like the tide, but even faster than the tide. Fierce and swift. The big brothers of the mine workers who were still talking about how beautiful they look in bell-bottom pants and how fascinated they are by listening to Teresa Teng’s songs began to feel that something was wrong.Hey, why did you come to dig a mine in the mining area?This is a state-run mine, and it is illegal to mine mines yourself!move!The big brothers thought that one or two words could coax the peasant brothers away, but in the face of the facts, the big brothers realized that their prestige was no longer!As high as it used to be.The peasant brothers ignored them at all, and continued to dig their own holes and dig their own mines. Reports calling for measures to stop farmers entering state-run mines were sent to the provincial government, the Ministry of Metallurgy, and the State Council.The superior quickly responded: It must be stopped, and offenders will be punished heavily. The Public Security Bureau and the police station drove nearly a thousand artisanal miners out of the state-run mining area like autumn leaves.But the collective remains.In order to take care of the relationship, some interests have to be left to the place. Tin Mine first made concessions. Well, you make one step and I take two steps.Both state-run and collective are owned by the state, and our mining does not break the law.superior!Wuyuan Township, Linwu County became the first one to eat crabs on Xianghualing and the pioneer who dared to challenge the state-owned mine.In one night, they set up ten mining teams and dug ten tunnels, and all the mining teams were all basic militia companies. Tin mines are tight.The mine manager at the commissioner level went down the mountain in person to invite Mixi Mixi, secretary and director of the township party committee. oops!My big mine manager!Can us bumpkins gnaw your big bones?Don't worry!Don't worry!Wide-mouthed uniform, friendly and unambiguous. The words were not speculative, and the mine manager shook his sleeves and left the table.Back at the office, I made a phone call to the Chenzhou Prefectural Party Committee and the Linwu County Party Committee. Wuyuan Township suffered a lot this time.Because the agreement reached by the Regional Metallurgical Bureau, the Linwu County Party Committee and the Xianghualing Tin Mine is to let them withdraw from the mine and guarantee that they will not resume mining below the 600-meter elevation in the future.Under high pressure, the township was forced to sign a handover agreement with the mine for the Beishan Tunnel in Wuyuan Township.lost heavily!The cadres of Wuyuan Township scolded her for a whole day after returning home.No, they can't be so cheap.Why do they take the money from the country to eat fish and meat, while we guard the golden mountain and suffer from poverty? In June 1980, Wuyuan Township held a three-level cadre meeting and made a secret decision to go to Xianghualing! That night, a group of Flying Tigers rushed up the mountain and opened the sealed hole.The next day, the reserve army entered the mountain frequently and dug a well, which was about to penetrate the ground exploration well of No. 301 mine.The Xikuangshan Mining Bureau was shocked—once the ventilation in the patio was chaotic, unexpected consequences would result.was forced to stop production immediately.The big brother, whose life was threatened, finally couldn't bear it anymore and picked up iron rods and iron rods. The peasant brothers were also prepared. When the gong sounded, nearly a thousand uncles and sisters-in-law holding butterfly heads and wooden sticks rushed up the mountain. The two sides glared at each other, and it was on the verge of breaking out.Fortunately, the provincial and local working groups rushed to seal the scene in time, and a bloody fight was avoided. In July, the Chenzhou Administrative Office held an investigation symposium in the name of the administrative office, and sent a report to the provincial government to resolve the Xianghualing mine dispute with the official document No. 121 of the administrative office. On October 24, Governor Sun Guozhi presided over the meeting in person, attended by two vice-governors Liu Fusheng and Cao Wenju, more than 20 heads of provincial party committees, departments, and bureaus, and commissioners from the Chenzhou Administrative Office to study the issue of tin mines.Unexpectedly, at which level the implementation of the meeting was not effective, the number of directors of the social-run mines increased from 10 to 33.There are as many as two thousand people mining!Governor Sun Guozhi was furious after hearing this, and it would be the same for anyone. On August 5, 1982, the provincial government held another office meeting of the governor, and decided that the vice governor Zhou Zheng would take the lead to organize the provincial government office, the provincial people's congress, the economic commission, the public security department, the procuratorate, the coal department, the mining bureau, the metallurgical The Ministry of Public Security, the Bureau of Township Enterprises, and the Chenzhou Administrative Office formed a joint investigation team, which lasted for more than 40 days.The peasants had never seen such power before. They obediently rolled up their blankets and went down the mountain. The big brother of the workers in the tin mine really cheered. However, the good times didn't last long.Governor Zhou Zheng and the others had left for a few months, and the army of peasants who had hibernated for a while to get rich re-entered the position one after another, and started a larger-scale looting activity.They are very clear about two facts: first, the governors may not stay here for a long time;So the return to the carbine was ten times more intense than before.When those lower-level cadres in Xiaoluotou came to manage them again, they ignored Lai Chen County at all.Zhou Ruping, the deputy county magistrate, once went up to the mountain to publicize the provincial party committee's decision to prohibit indiscriminate mining in the Xianghualing tin mine, but he was beaten badly. Whoever dares to be wordy again will end up in the same way!The miners are very arrogant. So far, private mining and state-owned mines have entered a stage of confrontation.A large number of collective and individual miners have blatantly occupied the mining areas that belong to the state-owned mines. Although there are sometimes conflicts between the two sides, the state-owned mines are still in a dominant position. In the second half of 1984, the situation changed drastically.The 61 square kilometers of Xianghualing's three mining areas have all been settled by nearby farmers.Most of the 19 townships and 5 forestry farms in Linwu County have set up non-ferrous mines in the Xianghualing tin mining area, and there have been unprecedented county-run mines.This raised the level of the storm of rushing for mines in Xikuangshan, and a critical turning point occurred. From 1984 to 1985, Xianghualing mining area, one of the Fanhualing mines, had more than 3,000 civilian miners.There are more than 30 tunnels at the mine elevation above 480 meters occupied by village, township, and county-run mines, and the positions below the mine elevation of 385 meters are also cut off by small township mines such as Maishi, and large state-owned mines are clamped down. Between 385 and 480 meters high, a three-dimensional mining situation has been formed, with a small mine on top, a large mine in the middle, and a small mine at the bottom. There are more than 600 holes, and thousands of farmers crowded there to compete for stones. Grandma, we're not going to eat dry food, let's be reasonable!The youthful young men among the state-run employees couldn't bear the fuss, so they went to the peasants' mines to argue about the three points.However, before they could open their mouths, the other party had already drawn their knives and rebuked at each other, beating several young workers so badly that they fell down.A young worker thought he was on his own side, and said that the Communist Party can make you bandits dominate.As a result, not only the mouth was torn, but also the legs were broken and disabled.More than 6,000 workers in the state-run mine were filled with righteous indignation and went on strike collectively in protest. Peasant mining teams from several townships and counties saw that the situation was not good, so they quickly withdrew from the mountain.However, the state-run mines did not take advantage of this time.Looking back, they found that a mining site had been blown up, causing a loss of about 130,000 yuan. What was even more tragic was that the water source for 6,000 people’s daily life and production water for the entire mine was cut off by the surrounding farmers. The entire mine had to stop production for 4 days. Four ambulances have to be used to carry water dozens of miles away every day to protect the lives of thousands of people. The state-run mine has really tasted the feeling of being offended! Helpless, they made the most painful concession against their will, assigning Nanjiling, Yinziling, Tieshaping, Ganxi Daqiaobei and other areas to the county and township small mines.So far, the area it has delineated is 38 square kilometers, which is 17 times as much as the mine's own production area!The most distressing thing is that the only gemstone in China and the only one in the world, discovered in 1957 by Meng Xianmin of the Institute of Mineral Raw Materials of the Ministry of Geology and others: the unparalleled origin of the Laiziling Fragrant Flower Stone was also forced to give away.Fragrant flower stones are only preserved in an area of ​​tens of square meters. In the early 1960s, the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Metallurgy, the Ministry of Public Security and the Hunan Provincial Government listed it as a national first-level protection area. They have dug up the old nest of the entire state-run mine, and it doesn't matter whether it is a national treasure or not: yes!The workers say so. Should be satisfied!Listen to what the farmers have to say: The mine was originally ours, so why say they let us?1. Do you think your weakness and concessions can be exchanged for their sympathy or tolerance?Do you think your sincerity and reluctance to part with each other can win their gratitude and respect?To hell, innocent workers!The land belongs to us!Of course the mine also belongs to us!Who said that they have no culture and do not understand theory!Once they think they are right, everything will be stubborn, indistinguishable, and unambiguous, not to mention that the road ahead of them is very clear: occupying the mine is equal to getting rich, equal to having a wife and children. , is equal to a bumper harvest of crops and small bungalows; and losing the mine is equal to returning to the impoverished world where the head is on the ground, the back is on the sky, and you can't earn a few stinky money a year. Only fools are willing to live a hard life! The impregnable Xianghualing really began to disintegrate!The sacred and inviolable myth of state-run mines has been shattered! Since the end of 1984, the Xianghualing tin mine has completely lost its independent form of state-run production.Farmers' mining teams are no longer a single township or county-run mine. Most of them are contracted by rich, powerful and powerful mining areas.Some of these mine owners were the original brigade party secretary, village head, commune director, or someone who had a direct relationship with the head of the county.Although these people don't even have the turn of a 24th-level cadre, but a majestic commissioner-level mine manager of Xikuangshan is in front of them, and they can only call it a report when they talk.What do you think is so great about your fifteenth-level cadres!He only needs to call a dozen people to disturb you until it's too late to call your mother. Let’s just talk about water: all the water used in tin mines must pass through farmers’ land.If you are rude to me today, look, Da Xia, I will cut off your water for three days, to see if your neck is still stiff!Tens of thousands of workers in Xianghualing live on the lonely mountain. Let alone a few days without water, it is just a cooking time. Do you worry if there is no water?The employees in the Xianghualing mining area have a large water tank in each family to cope with water shortages.There used to be a swimming pool in the mining area, and the boys and girls regarded it as the only place they could go in the mine in summer.However, now the water is cut off.A few bold and crazy girls in swimsuits walked out of the fence and iron gate, and ran to play in the creek and river at the bottom of the mountain, so happy!Snow-white thighs, plump breasts, giggling laughter... Thousands of men digging up and down the mountain involuntarily gathered towards the creek.They were all shirtless, with straight eyes, and the hard things almost pierced their shorts. Some simply took off their shorts and jumped naked into the creek.The girls were so scared that they almost couldn't even go back to the dormitory! Let’s talk about electricity consumption: the main power supply used in mines is the high-voltage line that passes through power plants dozens or hundreds of miles away, and there is almost no place where electricity can be separated from the operating points and production lines in each mining area.Workers need lighting, ventilation facilities, and motorized transportation lines when they go down the tunnel. Sometimes a power outage for a minute may cause a terrifying casualty accident.On this day, a team of miners dug the tunnel to the main flat hole of the state-run tunnel in the Guanpu area of ​​the mine.When the workers saw that the situation was not good, they immediately organized forces to forcibly block the mining tunnels, which angered the emperor.A few farmers brought a pack of explosives without saying hello, and there was a loud bang, and the state-run owner Pingdong suddenly turned into a collapsed chicken coop. Fortunately, the workers left work early that day, and no one was under the tunnel, but Not all of them escaped this bad luck. It was found that two workers on duty fell beside the wires like black charcoal. The farmers blew up a 6,000-volt high-voltage wire... What can't be done?As long as you don't let me mine, I will let you have no peace!The fighting philosophy of the miners is very clear and clear. One day, a few miners took a fancy to a rich ore site in the state-run tunnel, and they began to send people to send 1,000 yuan to the workers under the tunnel, hoping to bribe these workers so that they could blatantly enter the tunnel to dig tin concentrate.The workers did not want to do anything against their conscience, so they not only returned the money, but also sent people to guard the entrance of the pit day and night.The miners saw that the other party would not take the soft, so they made up their minds to seize the tunnel with a strong attack.The next day, after seeing all the workers going down the pit, they brought a large bundle of dry firewood, poured medicine, pepper, diesel oil, etc. on the firewood, struck the matches, and fumigated the workers working underground with poisonous smoke. Pulling the bellows vigorously, imitating the tone of Commander Tang in the tunnel battle, he shouted into the cave: Come out quickly 1 If you don't come out, you will all die inside!Hahaha... The workers were forced to evacuate from the underground, and as soon as they evacuated, the miners clattered and occupied the tunnel.When you want to find fault with them in turn, the situation is not like this! In November 1987, worker Xia Deqing had some quarrels with several villagers during the day because he couldn't understand this brutal behavior. In the evening, he went to the cinema in the work area to watch a movie. When he was walking to the gate, he suddenly jumped out of the darkness. A few big men came out, and they rushed at Xia Deqing like a tiger, punched, kicked, and stabbed with sticks and knives. Xia Deqing didn't even have time to snort, and fell into a pool of blood... This is good, who How dare you make irresponsible remarks on Caimin's illegal behavior!They earn wages and live on royal food. If you show some color, they will leave you alone!A mine owner who occupied 6 state-run tunnels told me proudly.What he said was true. The psychology of the workers was: Can you manage it?The mines belong to the state anyway, if they like to steal or steal, let them go!I just need a lot of salary and bonus a month. Facing these hungry and insatiable wolves, the well-meaning mine workers never thought that this would further encourage the wolves to push forward.Having said that, surrounded by wolves all over the mountains and plains, unless you have thousands of troops in your hands, don't even try to speak straight.Chen Qiang, a national model worker and mine manager of Xianghualing, used to never lower his voice when speaking in front of so many big leaders in provincial meetings. Now, he only employs five bodyguards around him.Whenever he entertains guests at home, he always asks the police from the Public Security Department of the Mining Bureau to go around the house and check it several times carefully, only to use the mine detector.It sounds like a joke, but it is very common in Xianghualing!One of the means miners use to get revenge on mine workers and cadres is to sneak in where you live: put a pack of dynamite.Then, like blowing up a bunker, it will make your flesh and blood fly all over the place, with the sound of death! What is cruel, what is barbaric, the miners are sitting on the stone at the entrance of the hole, while holding stacks of banknotes, while chewing dried stewed vegetables, they will be very serious when you say this: Mao Runzhi Mao Zedong, Wasn't He Huzi and He Long also like this when he fought the world in Hunan?What is this called?Yes, called mountain guerrilla warfare!Ha ha ha, a hundred battles and a hundred victories! When a great truth is used by a group of demons to knock on the holy door, God will not be ashamed.Karl Marx said so. The Xianghualing Mine has become one of the most famous mines in the country for indiscriminate and indiscriminate mining. None of the leaders of the State Council who are in charge of the central work is ignorant of what happened here, and almost all of them have given instructions time and time again. Called at the top of the mountain: There are countless office meetings of governors.The Chenzhou Administrative Office was cruel and dismissed the two county magistrates in Chen County and Linwu County, but the situation here has never improved.Instead, things went from bad to worse.These are a few scenes that the author collected in the Xianghualing Mine. Heyechong Mining Area: A narrow section less than 4 meters long and about 300 meters wide, where more than 2,000 miners gathered like a honeycomb, opened 13 openings, built 203 sand washing sheds, and installed 113 mining equipment Taiwan, built 346 sand washing tanks.Miners are pretty much head to head and ass to ass.A sweaty miner raised his head, cursed and said: What's wrong, I ate sweet potatoes for lunch, but my mouth was full of salt.The one next to him pursed his lips in joy.It turned out that all the beads of sweat from his body fell into the mouth of this fellow, can it not be salty?The people on the mine said to me with a wry smile: Don't let me describe it with dense words!He introduced that since 1984, only this ditch has lost more than 110,000 tons of tin ore.Now it is the third time they have dug three feet into the ground, and I am worried that in two years, this important successor area for tin production during the eighth and fifth period of the tin mine will be completely destroyed.This is obvious!The comrades in the mine said affirmatively. Xianghuapu work area: This is the tungsten, lead and zinc production area of ​​the entire tin mine, and it is the fist of the whole mine to generate income.But now that the fist has been broken, there will be no shortage of 3,000 farmers occupying this precious land every day. Even 20 meters away from the mine owner's hoisting shaft, there are people who put up a signboard to dig here. Well mining.About 500 to 600 guerrillas guarded the transportation line of the state-run tunnel day and night. Once they saw a locomotive carrying ore on the transportation line passing a few hundred meters, they rushed forward and snatched all the ore on the locomotive. until.This errand saves trouble and has high benefits, so although the employees have repeatedly taken measures, they have had little effect.To do this, they had to start and stop working... Anyuan Work Area: The hardest-hit area in the mine. On May 22nd and 24th, 1987, 20 miners died due to a large area of ​​mine ice leakage caused by miners digging through the roof of the hole.In the death list, the youngest is a 15-year-old girl.So far, the work area has never had a chance to regain its glory.In the year of the accident, it only took 6 months to drain water and clean the roadway, and the economic loss was about 500,000 yuan, which means that 210,000 yuan worth of ore was shot and stolen every hour. Not long ago, the state-run mine said in a report to the Central Ministry of Metallurgy: more than half of the energy of the leaders of our enterprises is used to deal with indiscriminate mining.Employees complain, superiors complain, but we can't figure it out!Can't figure out what?I can't figure out why, the state-run mine has become like this!I can't figure out that there are so many people doing evil in the world of the Communist Party!I can't figure out why the laws of the country don't work here. We feel distressed that Xianghualing has become like this. Let's think of a way. Can there be a Monkey King to save it!On the black and white paper, dripping tears...