Chapter 6 Tonglu mountain peacock flying southeast

——In 1981, when the Italian artist was restoring the famous painting Spring by the famous painter Botticelli, he was surprised to find that the color on the painting was still green despite the history of more than 500 years.After testing, it is known that the pigment used by the painter at that time was malachite powder.Malachite, known as the world's first treasure, can not only be used as a wonderful coloring material for Danqing masters, but also be used for smelting and making tools and making high-end ornaments.According to China's Chinese Medicine Dictionary, malachite can also be used medicinally to "brighten eyesight and remove shade orifices".

Malachite in China is found in Daye County, Hubei Province on the south bank of the Yangtze River.There is a mountain called Tonglu here. According to scientific determination, this ancient mine with a mining history of more than 2,500 years has malachite with a copper content of more than 50% buried in its mountainside.There are records in Daye County Chronicles: From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Southern Song Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties have dug wells here to get treasures, and even the famous patriotic general Yue Fei also smelted and made weapons here. In 1966, the state spent huge sums of money to formally establish Tonglushan Malachite Busy Mountain here, directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Metallurgy.Although the Cultural Revolution did not allow people to develop more productive forces, as a mine, it has spent more than ten years of stability here.

In 1979, the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party came from Beijing. For the first time, farmers in Tonglushan, who had been eating from the people’s commune for decades, felt that they could carry vegetable baskets and bamboo baskets to work.However, the high mountain roads here are impassable, and it is impossible to imagine that Cantonese rely on doing business or engaging in government corruption.People in the mountains have their own methods. As the saying goes, they rely on mountains to eat mountains, and rely on water to eat water. The people of Tonglu Mountain thought of the malachite behind them.At the beginning, people just went to mine dumps and some places beside the road to pick up some fragmented ore, and malachite was just a few leisurely people used it as an ornamental on the table.Some well-informed person reported that the malachite on Tonglu Mountain is a rare treasure, and even foreigners are willing to pay high prices!As a result, the peasants suddenly saw a star piercing the sky in the dark night. Apart from blaming themselves for ignoring the treasure of malachite, they hurriedly repaired their shovels and tricycles, wishing they could not even spend time eating. Reluctantly ran up the mountain.

Tonglu Mountain is so big, where can we go to pick malachite?It is impossible for farmers without mining knowledge to attend mining literacy classes, and their eyes are fixed on the rumor mining workshop of the state-run mine.This open-air workshop is like a huge iron pot inlaid under the blue sky. Due to long-term mining, it is already 80 meters below sea level!Standing on the top of the mountain and looking at the bottom of the pot, you can see the strange rocks on the four walls and the cliffs going up and down, which makes people dizzy.The iron pot was quickly scraped clean, and some people sold the malachite dug here to smugglers from outside. The price per catty was as high as 20 yuan, and the price was still skyrocketing.How big is a catty of stone, not as big as a woman's fist.If you pick up such a little thing, you can earn a month's worth of dung money!It would be a fool not to do it!However, malachite is not an ordinary stone. It grows on Tonglu Mountain, but it cannot be seen by opening eyes.After walking out of the iron pot, the farmers began to think, since they couldn't find it on the ground, why not dig a hole and try it!

dig!A veteran who was born as an engineer was the first to challenge the earth. His skillful mountain-digging skills made the boys in the village admire, and what is even more admirable is that he actually dug malachite!This pioneer surnamed Li suddenly became the most powerful and richest leader among the mining people.But his lifespan is inversely proportional to his brilliant achievements. When they organized the second battle to drill the mountain belly, there was a muffled sound in the belly of the mountain, and Li Baotou and the other three accomplices never climbed out of the ground again.

People who have gone through the mining site will come to the conclusion that the spirit of advancing here is no less than that of the battlefield.If one person is buried in the ground, ten people will continue to act. Why?Just for one: dig out malachite and sell it for money!Money makes human life seem less precious all of a sudden.By the first half of 1989, 70 lives had been laid down under the beautiful malachite. There are 4 sons in my family, one died and there are 3 more!What are you afraid of?An old man who made a fortune by mining malachite told reporters in front of his own flesh and blood.

In China, a poor country, people's pursuit of gold and wealth is often not enough to describe it with only crazy words.When I heard that this old man generously gave up his humanity in the face of Kong Jue's temptation, and so magnanimously used his own flesh and blood as a bet for money and wealth, I thought that even the famous money expert Weiss Scientists and psychoanalysts Mr. Freud will be shocked! The natural wealth seemed pale and powerless under the cover of human greed. Tonglu Mountain soon fell into the vast sea of ​​miners. Production and safety have been completely devastated and suffocated. Workers cannot go to work normally, production is declining month by month, and accidents occur frequently.

Driving away the miners and restoring normal order in the mine is the only way for the state-run mine to survive.Faced with the threat of death, the mine leaders, known as moderates, had no choice but to clench their fists.They made a special trip to the County Public Security Bureau and reached an agreement with the director. When the mine was in an emergency, the Public Security Bureau was dispatched immediately. Sure enough, when the mining personnel in Manshan saw the police car appearing, they fled everywhere like lost soldiers, and the state-owned mine felt a little relieved.But after a while, they found that the mice who were used to seeing cats were not timid. As soon as the villagers saw the police car returning to the city, they immediately came out of the grass and the edge of the ravine and did it right, just like hiding for a while. It's raining like rain.

The police cars of the Public Security Bureau cannot guard the mine day and night, what should we do?Set up a mine protection team to perform its duties!The Public Security Bureau and the state-run mine discussed the results and made this decision. In 1980, Tonglushan established its first armed force, and a mine guard team composed of more than 40 unemployed youths just recruited appeared on the mine.These young people, all of them full of vigor, armed with batons and wooden sticks, lined up neatly, haunting the front and back of the mountain, very similar to that.The miners didn't know what to do. When they saw a mine guard passing by, they hurriedly packed up the guy and ran home. After running away, they dared not come back for a few days.The mine guard team is not like the public security bureau, they walk around the mine 24 hours a day.

The mine protection team became a thorn in the side of the miners, especially when they saw those outsiders who brought large bundles of RMB to the village paper to buy malachite, and left Tonglu Mountain one by one in despair. He gritted his teeth with hatred for the mine guard team! If you don't get rid of the mine guard team, you won't have a chance to make a fortune! Yes, but how to remove it?They are specially dealing with us!A reform-through-labour exile who had been in business for several years and then spent several years in prison for bribery sat aside and smoked fiercely. , Everyone has some blood, scrape together 1,000 yuan, and I will cover this matter!

Brother, as long as you can drive those boys away, let alone 1,000, even 10,000, we are willing!Several miners pulled out their pockets one after another. With 1,000 yuan, the prisoner released from the labor reform did not go to the mine protection team, but went to the iron buddies, Zhao Changfu, an employee of the provincial geological team who also participated in the mine robbing. Brother Zhao, now a mining team has been set up in the mine, which has blocked all our brothers' sources of income.Now there is a way to make the mine guard team not affect our fortune! any solution?In the past few days, Zhao Changfu is also struggling with this matter!The few salaries of the geological team are all given to the wife who supports the family in the countryside, which is not enough.Hearing that mining malachite made a lot of money, he hid the truth from the team leader and got in with the malachite-digging army.But after a few days of working in the pit, the mine protection team appeared, and of course Zhao Changfu was very annoyed!Now seeing that the iron buddies have brilliant moves, they can't help pricking up their ears. As the saying goes, when you hunt a bird, you must hunt the leader bird.We have to make a curtain on the leader of the mine protection team, Chen Shili.This brother took out 1,000 yuan and handed it to Zhao Changfu, saying: It is suitable for you to go to this matter. I am famous outside, and people will be suspicious! After Zhao Changfu got this plan, he dragged Qichi: the big man Chen Shili to a small tavern.Here, a sumptuous feast has already been prepared.Although Chen Shili is the captain of the mine guard, it was a coincidence that Lu Zi ran into Qian's eye.In the past, he was an ordinary worker who worked hard, who took him seriously?Seeing such a generous gift from Zhao Changfu now, he was already in high spirits.Zhao Changfu took the opportunity to stuff a few more Ashimas, and Chen Shili was overjoyed. Captain Chen, now you are a powerful nobleman!When guarding the mine, can you make it easier for our brothers?Zhao Changfu began to explore the truth. Well?Ah, it's easy to talk about it, we are the leader for the first time, and we have the right not to use it, isn't it expired?Hahaha, with a pheasant leg in his mouth, Chen Shili said in a three-point alcoholic and three-point bullish way: You don't have to be afraid if I'm here in Tonglu Mountain. I'll let you know if there's any situation at that time! Zhao Changfu and others never dreamed that the matter would be handled so smoothly, and then they sent money and goods to Chen Shili.The captain of the mine guard actually became the captain of the miner guard.The soul of a key person corroded, causing the entire Tonglushan mine to fall into disaster again. The swarms of miners boarded the mine again.The boys who guarded the mine didn’t know that their captain had already become a traitor, so they felt that the captain took special care of them during this time. They went around the mountain twice a day, and sometimes it was over after one lap. At night, they were not on duty at all.The mine guard team are full-blooded and active and aggressive boys. Seeing the miners doing whatever they want under their noses, they feel too shameful, so sometimes they scratch their tongues in twos and threes without waiting for the captain to order them to patrol.The boys didn't know that the captain had betrayed them, so when they went to the hill, they were surrounded by the miners, disarmed and beat them.One day, Wang Jinqiang, an unemployed young man and member of the mine protection team, saw a group of miners lingering on the mountain, so he rushed over. Unexpectedly, a farmer named Ke Huaping struck him on the head with a pole... An 18-year-old boy Just like that, he fell into a pool of blood and became disabled for life. This time it doesn't matter, the team leader Chen Shili not only refused to defend Wang Jinqiang, but also said that it was because he didn't obey the order. A heroic mine protection team member traded his reputation and most of his life for a crime of violating discipline. When the parents of the mine protection team members heard what happened to Wang Jinqiang, they went to the mine one after another to take their sons home. Within a few days, more than 40 newly recruited mine protection team members left without saying goodbye. The miners speeded up the progress of mining malachite amidst the frantic monuments. At this time, they began to understand that if they want to survive for a long time, they must form a group, so that they can effectively resist the organized armed forces from the mine.Farmers are no longer what they were from a few years ago!The stragglers have gone, and they have formed a tight organization known only within themselves, such as production groups, logistics groups, transportation groups, intelligence groups, etc., through natural villages, families, or self-alliances.These organizations are very strict and have their own responsibilities, with a strict division of labor.If there is a problem in any link, you will be fined, and if you are serious, you will be expelled from Tonglu Mountain.There are also extremely close links between groups and small mines. Tonglushan Mine is located only 5 kilometers west of Daye County, with convenient transportation. Peasants who steal malachite are often caught by the public security officers who suddenly get on and off the supervisor's car and put them in jail.To counter this move, the miners organized a pool of money, and Teller's intelligence officers were equipped with brand new motorcycles.The intelligence personnel rode motorcycles and set up 3 relay stations on the 5-kilometer-long line.As soon as the car at the gate of the Public Security Bureau and the criminal police moved, they drove the speeding motorcycle to the mountain to report the situation in advance to avoid losses.Later, the Public Security Bureau discovered this problem and took a tough measure, banning motorcycles from being driven on the road from the county town to the mine. The miners panicked for a while, what should we do?However, it was not overnight, and he laughed cheerfully again.The next day, the intelligence officers no longer rode motorcycles, but each wore a small and convenient walkie-talkie.Holding this small and exquisite foreign gadget in their hands, they said that the inventor should be given a ton of malachite as a reward. The miners have walkie-talkies, which can be said to be a shotgun change. Not only do they no longer need to drive motorcycles like crazy, but Providing information and intelligence at night brings great convenience. 3 Modern science and technology provide barbarians with tools of civilization, and these civilized tools in turn aggravate and stimulate the crazy behavior of barbarians.As Thomas said, something advanced is sometimes better than nothing, because once it is used by the laggards to serve the laggards, things are worse.Isn't that what happened on Tonglu Mountain?The public security department was exhausted because of this, but the majestic state machine was led by the noses of the villagers on the mountain. Who could bear this feeling? , It was actually an idea from the Public Security Bureau's own people.It turned out that after the miners defeated the first armed force in the state-run mine, when the other party did not adopt new tactics, the target of the struggle was placed on the Public Security Bureau.After all, the Public Security Bureau is not easy to deal with. If they want to arrest you, they will arrest you.As a result, several highly intelligent people among the miners devised one after another plan to disintegrate the police force.Naturally, it was Qian who cleared the way again. Those police officers wearing the National Emblem Peijiang collar badge stood very mighty on the street, but they were not so proud when they returned home.If you want color TV but no color TV, you need ice reeds and no refrigerator, you live on a few dead wages, your wife’s nagging, your neighbor’s lukewarm ridicule, your child’s frowning face after returning, even those who stand upright will tremble What's more, some are pioneers who pursue wealth and vanity, and miners are all targeting these people, and such targets are accurate!Haha, the Public Security Bureau is not ours yet!The miner was so happy that he secretly laughed on the sidelines. One summer night in 1987, the County Public Security Bureau received an emergency call from the mine and immediately dispatched a criminal police team.In the middle of the journey, a string of colorful fireballs suddenly rose from the mine shrouded in night.It's not a year or a festival, what are you doing with this thing?The boys in the police car were puzzled. When they arrived not far from the mine, fireballs burst into the sky from all sides, like festive fireworks.An arrested mine thief confessed that setting off colorful ball tubes was a means of reporting thugs at night, and the number of colored balls released depended on the number of police officers who came, so that countermeasures could be taken quickly.This plan was not offered by Zhuge Liang, but by someone from your Public Security Bureau! It is said that the director got sick because of this! After the iron fist of the dictatorship of the proletariat failed, the state-owned mine had no choice but to organize a second mine protection team. The mine leader swore that he would not be an official unless the thousand barbaric malachite miners were driven down the mountain.For this reason, the mine specially selected 100 strong and strong warriors from among the workers. All of them were demobilized soldiers or police officers. Middle-level cadres are its leaders.That formation is indeed 10 times stronger than the first mine protection team!Unexpectedly, although the second mine guard team leader is quite old and capable, he suffers from the same disease as the first team leader Chen Shili - poverty.The bribery expert Zhao Changfu did three things, five times, five times, and two times, and he was dragged into the water within a few days... One day, hundreds of pirates poured into the state-run open mining workshop, intending to steal malachite. 80 mine protection team members rushed there, but when they appeared in the food mining workshop, they were surrounded by miners who were more than five times the number.The two armies faced each other, and the power was very different. The members of the mine protection team were frightened by the large number of miners, and their faces turned pale. Although the boys knew that they were on the legal and just side, they had to be honest and self-conscious about the situation in front of them. Give up your majestic scolding and rough panting... Not only will all your weapons be confiscated, but your ears will be filled with shame: What a hero, let's go home to the mother-in-law with some leftover strength! Meddle in your own business, next time you meet me, I will make you guys drink urine soup! Hahaha, look at those bears, they are all arrogant and pretentious, but they are all soft bastards of Baichang Yehu! Naturally, the mine guards didn't know that they were betrayed by their captain.Established armed forces three times and lost to the miners three times. The leaders of the state-owned mines did not know that there were moles in their own camp.The mine leaders are under pressure from various parties. As one of the large non-ferrous metal mines in the country, the annual planning and tasks of the superiors are undoubtedly a matter of iron nails.However, the pressure caused by hundreds of looters on the mine has now developed to a level that far exceeds the annual planned tasks of the entire mine against the superior. There is no choice but to take a step back and the other side to take a step forward.They had to take tougher measures.Order the bulldozers to push down all the mine-stealing roads dug by the rat-hole peasants! Winter!The bulldozing airport is very lively.When I got closer, it turned out that the huge bulldozer hadn't started, but the windshields worth more than 2,000 yuan had been smashed to pieces. Remove the fuel tank!It is best to saw off the oil pipe on the engine, and the insurance can no longer be moved!Someone hid in the dark grass and made a gesture. The miners were inspired, so everything was wiped out, and more than a dozen temporary bulldozers were all paralyzed... After checking, it was none other than the idea of ​​the bulldozer himself. The bulldozer driver was called to the factory director's office: How can you do such a thing that eats inside and outside? Don't do it, what should I do if I don't do it?I don't want the bulldozer operator to ask the mine manager plausibly: We have been working for the mine for decades, but we don't have a salary for one level, so that's fine, I don't argue.However, now the mine has been unable to complete the tasks for years, and the wages cannot be paid. There are 6 members of my family, including the old and the young, what should I give them to eat?It's the holidays, people from a village, they go to the mine to dig malachite to make a fortune, eat fish and meat, and delicacies from mountains and seas!But what about my family?Working class, a bowl of winter melon soup is not bad for you, you punish me!I let them destroy the bulldozer, and I also took a few packs of cigarettes and a few catties of meat from them.Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooth... The mine manager didn't speak for a long time, his tears were rolling in his eyes. Let's go. Go to the accounting office tomorrow to receive 50 yuan of hardship subsidy. He handed the bulldozer driver a towel to wipe his tears, and said. Since 1983, the folk mining has been like the sky before a thunderstorm, which has long been shrouded in layers of dark clouds. The state-run mines, which had already had a sharp decline in tasks, have increasingly encountered malachite mined halfway.A few strands of silver were added to the head of the mine leader, but he still couldn't explain it.In the spring of this year, the mine leader came to Shenzhen, which is thousands of miles away from Tonglu Mountain, for a meeting.Naturally, the head of the Tonglushan Mine, who lived in the mountains, became interested in the kaleidoscope that appeared in Shenzhen, a world of flowers and flowers in China.No, but the host asked him, how many reserves of malachite are there in Tonglu Mountain? Has your state-run mine also engaged in contracting and has the right to directly negotiate and sell it?The people in the mountains did not understand what the host meant. The state-run mines were directly for the fulfillment of national tasks, and it was impossible to export them by themselves. However, almost every month we seize three or five cases of malachite smuggling vehicles from your Tonglu Mountain.said the police chief.It was made by local farmers.The mountain people blurted out this.The director shook his head: On the contrary, people and vehicles are enough for your mine! Another incredible fact.The mine leader went back to the mine to investigate, and found that there were several drivers in the mine who were traveling to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and none of them was secretly doing this kind of business.It was later discovered that not only drivers were engaged in this type of business, but also tunnel workers, department staff, and even middle- and upper-level cadres... Facing the mass mining and scrambling of black clouds overwhelming the city, and the internal mechanism like a fishnet, the mine leader looked at Nanyao from a distance and cried out: Tonglu Mountain is really a peacock flying southeast! Not frustrated, just a bit frustrated; not sad, just sad.According to the information held by the public security department, more than 100 tons of national treasure malachite flow into overseas and illegal markets from Tonglu Mountain through Shenzhen, Yizhou and other places every year. There are many reasons for the peacocks flying southeast in Tonglu Mountain, but the main reason is still the illegal digging of the masses and the tasteless imperial grain.In order to solve internal problems, the state-run mine has severely punished the employees and cadres who participated in the mine and were dragged into the water more than once, and even stopped production time and time again for rectification, but with little effect.Living in a state-owned mine surrounded by crowds of wind and waves of money is like an isolated island in the middle of the sea. It seems a bit of a daydream to resist the salty sea water from all sides. The isolated island is powerless, is it possible that the sea has never been contained?no.It should be said that the local governments at all levels in Tonglushanxin have also put in a lot of effort.That year, the Guoshao Mine was cornered and sent a letter of ten thousand words directly to the Prime Minister of the national government. Serious investigation!A decree!With the three orders, China Central Television, People's Daily, and Xinhua News Agency's internal references have exerted heavy pressure on the county government where Tonglu Mountain is located no less than 10 times.The farmers in Tonglu Mountain are bandits and bandits, and the county government where Tonglu Mountain is located is a thief's mansion and a bandit's mansion. They have been scolded like this more than once.The conscience of heaven and earth, Daye county government is probably the county with the most grandpas among the counties in the world.In 1984 alone, the head of the County Public Security Bureau personally led a thousand police officers to Tonglu Mountain to protect the mine 21 times.The Rong county magistrate who was in charge of worker-peasant relations used to be a water conservancy engineer. At that time, he commanded thousands of troops on water conservancy construction sites, and he never planned strategies.However, after he took up this new position, he fell into the mire like an old cow. It doesn't matter if he sits on the mountain and suffers a little bit of hardship for many years. No, several times he wanted to report his resignation as a seventh-rank adjutant. What the magistrates of the county can't bear the most is the fake medicine incident that caused a sensation in the whole country in 1987.The thing is like this, in order to make the people in the mountainous areas rich as soon as possible, the county has fostered a group of sulfuric acid that can have great economic benefits in a relatively short period of time?copper factory.The wind blew so hard that in just one or two years, copper sulfate factories sprung up in villages and villages throughout the county, and even households sprung up hundreds of them.The magistrates of the county forgot that the raw material used in the copper sulfate factory is malachite. As a result, the above investigation found that the peasants here picked malachite, and the cancer was caused by the county government encouraging farmers to set up a copper sulfate factory.This crime is not too big or too small, and the county government naturally has to be punished, and it has been very busy for a while to ban malachite mining.Within a year of this incident, the counterfeit medicine incident caused a sensation all over the country. Daye was famous in Kyushu, and the county magistrates were of course the culprit.Is not it?Without malachite, can the pesticides we produce be authentic?If it weren't for the county's ban on mining malachite, we wouldn't have made a fuss about fake characters.If you are guilty, go to the county magistrate! So say the farmers. Who is the magistrate looking for?God, Tonglushan.Go mourn yourself!