Chapter 5 Chapter 4 The Unbalanced Balance

In this world, some things are understandable and some things are not.In the battle for the development and protection of China's mineral resources, such puzzling incidents are common and often make people confused. Zhang Liwen, director of the Mining Management Bureau of Tongguan County, Shaanxi Province, is in such a situation.It's not just him, the mere director of mine management, who fell into this situation, but the common people in Yanguan County, as well as their county magistrate and secretary of the county party committee... Zhang Liwen didn't expect that things would develop to such a complicated point.

He feels lost.In the Xiaoqinling gold mining area, which is known as China's "Golden Triangle", since Wang Kewa, the head of the illegal mining mine, was "acquitted" for several months, the central leaders such as the President, the Prime Minister, and the Chairman of the National People's Congress have approved and ordered several Ten times, the country, provinces, prefectures, and counties organized law enforcement forces for several years. After nearly a hundred rounds of encirclement and suppression, the "cornucopia" of the Republic, which had just recovered for less than a year, faced devastating plunder and robbery by tens of thousands of people...

He feels lost.More than 100 subordinates who defend the "Mineral Resources Law of the People's Republic of China" with their lives and blood day and night, are facing unprecedented challenges from those armed with long guns, short guns, kitchen knives, and slaughter knives from all directions. abuse, intimidation and bloody looting.So far, the country's mining law has in fact become a piece of waste paper. He feels lost.A case of illegal mining that cannot be clearly seen has been protracted for more than five years; Kewa, the head of the mine who robbed the country of tens of millions of yuan in gold and disturbed the peace of the Xiaoqinling area for several years, turned out to be a "lawsuit" "The winner.The Mine Management Bureau, which enforced law and protected the law, became a loser.The county party committee, the county government, and the county political and legal committee also failed together.The Public Security Bureau, the Procuratorate, and the gold mining units are covered in bruises, but the real failure is the National Mineral Resources Law.Common people ask this way: Where is the prestige of the party?What is the use of government laws?

He was truly at a loss.When they appealed to the region, the regional law enforcement department had judged them to be the losers; when they appealed to the provincial government, the highest law enforcement agency of the provincial government even made a final decision, which was the agency that issued the order to release the bully.He and the county magistrate, secretary of the county party committee, director of the political and legal committee, chief of the public security bureau, and chief prosecutor went to the government office and the provincial government to make statements and reported countless times. His legs almost broke and his tongue got blistered, but the result was still the same: let go Let's talk.

Where to say it?Is there really nowhere to seek justice and the dignity of the law in the world of the Communist Party?No, Zhang Liwen believes there is.The leaders of the county also believe that there are.The people in the Xiaoqinling area also believe that there is. So, he decided to leave the customs again and visit the capital. The capital is the only and last hope for him, the county party committee, various departments of the county government, and all the people in the Xiaoqinling area.During the six months from January to June 1994, Zhang Liwen had gone out of customs to appeal to the capital six times.

People who have met Zhang Liwen say that he is a military figure.He was originally a soldier and had 15 years of military experience.This strong man, when others pointed guns and knives at his head and neck, he didn't even droop his eyelids, but when he talked about the "Mine King Kova", he would tremble with anger and say No export... At the beginning of the year, he went to the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources alone. It was because he shed tears before he said a word, which made the mine management agency of the Republic government shocked and moved by the incident in Tongguan.

This case, which was not originally a "case", exposed not only legal issues, but also more social issues; it made people think and reflect. The first gold rock specimen in the Qinling Mountains, known as China's "Golden Triangle", was discovered in 1964.What really caught the attention of the world in Baili Qinchuan was the first excavation of the terracotta warriors and horses from Qin Shihuang's tomb in 1974, 10 years later.Known by international historians as the "seventh wonder of mankind", the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Qin Emperor made this barren loess plateau in the hinterland of China shine brightly overnight.For many years, countless archaeologists, historians, and sociologists have been unable to figure out why the tomb of China's first emperor more than 2,000 years ago was hidden at the foot of a barren rocky Lishan Mountain.

This mystery was only solved by a coal geology expert with advanced satellite images in the midsummer of 1994 in the 1990s.It turns out that standing in the universe at an altitude of tens of thousands of meters and overlooking China, people can clearly find that the thousands of miles of Qinling Mountains is a real giant dragon-shaped map. From the perspective of the sky and topography, the tomb of Emperor Qin is just embedded in the head of this giant dragon Lishan.The emperors of all dynasties called themselves the emperor of the real dragon, and the tomb of Emperor Qin Yingzheng was built on the "head of the dragon" just right.

When the news was broadcast on the TV station, I had just visited Qinhuang's tomb during the interview.I was shocked by this discovery, but what really shocked me deep down in my heart was that I couldn’t understand such a question: the ancients more than 2,000 years ago had no airplanes, let alone spaceships. What about Baodi? I didn’t realize it until I recalled Xiao Qinling’s interview.After I understood it, I was even more amazed at the prophets of my ancestors and the glorious culture of the nation. There are two reasons for the conclusion: one is that Baili Qinchuan is a natural barrier.The winding mountains with deep valleys and high peaks have been known as the number one military site in the world since ancient times; the second is that there is inexhaustible gold hidden underground in Qinchuan, which is hundreds of miles away.The mother river of the Chinese nation - the Yellow River, in the land of Sanqin embraced by her nine bends, has the air of an emperor since ancient times, with heavenly treasures and materials, and outstanding people.According to historical records, more than 4,000 years ago, there were footprints of gold diggers along the graceful Han River, Dan River, and Jialing River.During the heydays of Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang that we are proud of, there were many gold and silver shops inside and outside Chang'an, a world-class metropolis, and exquisite gold ornaments attracted merchants from all over the world.The golden woodpecker unearthed from Fengxiang Qingong Mausoleum, the Tang Dynasty mandarin duck and lotus-petal carved gold vase unearthed in the southern suburbs of Xi'an, and hundreds of gold cultural relics all reflect the light of those glorious times.

As a precious metal and an international hard currency, the country still keeps its origin and reserves secret.It is our geological team members who are engaged in this secret work.It seems that it is no secret today that there is gold in Xiaoqinling Mountains, but people do not all know the person who discovered this golden mountain. Today we can tell you that this team with outstanding achievements is now the Sixth Geological Team of Shaanxi Province.The gold in Xiaoqinling Mountains is not the alluvial gold that people usually know that can be found in the water, but the rock gold hidden deep in the belly of the mountain and embedded in the stone. In 1964, under the personal intervention of Premier Zhou Enlai, a gold-seeking team composed of the Sixth Shaanxi Geological Team went to the Xiaoqinling area around Tongguan for general survey and survey, and became the first "Alibaba" to open the gate of this golden mountain.However, just as the gate of Jinshan was knocked open, the hurricane of the "Cultural Revolution" blew in, and Xiaoqinling was instantly submerged by bloody "rebellion" waves. Eleven years later, in 1975, Zhou Enlai, who was seriously ill and hospitalized, summoned Deng Xiaoping and General Wang Zhen who had returned to the hospital before his sickbed. "There is no hard currency in the country, so don't speak harshly!" The old man wiped the sweat from his forehead due to illness with one hand, and held a trembling fist in the other, telling his heart to his dependent Vice Premier. "Please rest assured, Prime Minister, leave the matter of gold to me!" The old general had mixed feelings and rushed to invite Ying.The pale and thin prime minister turned his gaze to Xiaoping.Xiaoping nodded lightly: "An old general with a sword that is not old and still mighty is going into battle, and he will definitely be able to catch him!"

This is an unforgettable meeting.The old general lived up to his great trust, tried his best to avoid interference, and visited Henan, Shaanxi and other places in person, so an unprecedented gold hunting battle was set off in the Xiaoqinling area, so this golden mountain that had been silent for thousands of years finally opened its golden heart. The wealth of gold in the hinterland of the Xiaoqinling Mountains not only excited Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and other leaders who were the founding fathers of the Republic in Zhongnanhai at that time, but even the geological team members who were on the front line for general survey and survey were extremely surprised. Located on the southern margin of the North China Belt, and the Xiaoqinling Mountains in the south compound part of the third uplift belt of New China and the east wing of the Qi (Lian), Lv (Liang) and He (Lan) tectonic system, it belongs to the Archaean Taihua The mountains are east-west belt-shaped uplifts formed after the Luliang Movement.The crustal movement that occurred as early as the Paleo-Sinian period made the strata in this area extruded and folded into mountains.Later, through the Himalayan movement, the ground fissure occurred along the southern edge, rising in the north and sinking in the south, forming the Xunmadao Graben.In the Cenozoic Era, due to the compression, twisting and faulting between the Qinling zonal structure and the Qi, Lv, and He structures, it was finally shaped into a Chinese Guanzhong dragon that meanders for thousands of miles.The Little Qinling Mountains is a peculiar mountain range that rose up in such a magnificent crustal movement. It has high mountains and steep slopes, overlapping peaks and deep valleys, forming the nine clearly visible Wenyu, Taiyu, Xiyu and Tongyu. Juyu and hundreds of large and small ditches.After more than 20 years of difficult surveys by the geological team, these poor cuttings and bald mountains where even the birds did not want to rest more in the past are almost the same as all the valleys and valleys. There are 10,000 tons of ore with a gold grade of 10-40 grams Rich veins.There are more than 4,000 golden veins in the Little Qinling Mountains, covering dozens of counties and cities in Henan, Qin, and Shanxi provinces, forming a unique "Golden Triangle" in China. "Gold is the main pillar of the economy, and the small Qinling Mountains must contribute to the construction of the country's four modernizations." The voice from Zhongnanhai made the Qinling Mountains, which had been silent for more than a million years, boil again and again.From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, central.In the local area, there are also golden troops in military uniforms, bypassing the ravines and high slopes of loess, crossing the Shu Road that is difficult to reach the blue sky, wearing the wind and dust of Saibei, and carrying the sand of the Yangtze River at their feet, throwing themselves into this mysterious triangle from all directions. Dozens of large and medium-sized state-owned gold mines sprung up, such as Dongyu, Bangtou, Dongtongyu, etc., and their formation far surpassed the prestige of Li Zicheng when he raised the pole and raised the flag. The discovery and development of the Xiaoqinling gold mine made the Republic's international hard currency soar.Western scholars have a saying: As a permanent member of the Security Council, China can earn its voice on the forum of the United Nations, and its confidence comes from the "Golden Triangle" of the Qinling Mountains. This remark is not unreasonable in a sense. The weight of the Xiaoqinling gold mine is too heavy, so heavy that this "giant dragon" is crumbling. Perhaps the "Golden Triangle" has too many mysterious rumors, and perhaps it coincides with the emancipation of the mind.In the era of bold and pioneering reforms, from the end of the 1970s to the entire 1980s, as the mighty national gold geological team, state-owned gold mines, and national gold troops went up the mountain and set up camp, the criminals around the Qinling Mountains who were eager to see through were also salivating. ready to move. "Damn it, the Qinling Mountains belong to us, what are those who eat the imperial food doing here?" "After hundreds of lifetimes of hunger, why are outsiders robbing me of food? No, I want to get the golden lump back!" There is no need to mobilize or organize. For the hungry, smelling the fragrance is the best appeal.The mountain folks are on the move!Its determination, bravery, and firmness are like the ancestors who followed the Chuang Wang into the capital to seize the throne. It seems to have happened overnight. The Xiaoqinling state-owned gold mining area that had just been planned and constructed was submerged by the frenzy of indiscriminate mining in a blink of an eye, and almost collapsed across the board. Relevant parties provided me with such data. The three mining areas, Wenyu, Qinling, and Dongchuang, which are known as the "three golden pillars" of the Qinling mining area, had economic losses caused by private mining in the past seven or eight years: Wenyu Gold Mine: Looting and stealing 910,000 tons of ore; Qinling Gold Mine: A total of 1.68 million tons of ore were excavated by individuals or collectives; Dongchuang Gold Mine: A total of more than 800,000 tons of ore were indiscriminately excavated by group mining. The three gold mines lost a total of nearly 3.4 million tons of ore.What does this figure indicate?Let's do the math in the usual way: In addition to gold, there are aluminum and copper contents that are more abundant than gold, which are 34% and 29% per ton respectively. Before 1940, the prices for buying gold, aluminum, and copper were 1,200 yuan/tael, 1,350 yuan/ton, and 4,520 yuan/ton, respectively. The economic value of 3.4 million tons of ore is more than 1 billion yuan.That is to say, in these three mines alone, more than 1 billion RMB flowed into private pockets!So, how much gold has flowed into private pockets in the entire Xiaoqinling area?Undoubtedly an astronomical figure. Since the early 1980s, it is no exaggeration to say that reports on the emergency of the Xiaoqinling Mountains from metallurgy, geology, non-ferrous metals and other departments as well as provinces, regions, counties, and mines can be seen almost every day in Zhongnanhai, and each report is higher than before. An urgent and shocking statement made the chairman of the Central Committee.Prime Ministers cannot wait to sit idle. "If the Little Qinling Mountains are not cured, half of the country will be in danger!" Zhongnanhai's determination can be seen. Take a look at the major arrangements made by the central government around the rectification of the "Golden Triangle" as the key object, and you can get a glimpse of the painstaking efforts of the country and leaders for everything that happened here—— In March 1986, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress unanimously passed the first "Mineral Resources Law" of the People's Republic of China, making clear regulations on gold mining.The massive mining law propaganda swept across the land of China including the Qinling area; In November 1988, the State Council held a special meeting on the implementation of protective mining of gold mineral resources in Jingxi Hotel. Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and Vice Premier Yao Yilin attended and delivered a speech in person.At the end of the year, tens of thousands of gold troops of the armed police and officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi marched to Xiaoqinling; In February 1990, the State Council held an on-site office meeting on the rectification of gold production order in the Xiaoqinling area in Sanmenxia.The State Council, State Planning Commission, Economic Commission, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Metallurgy, China Nonferrous Metals Corporation, Armed Police Gold Headquarters, and Henan.More than 200 leaders from Shaanxi and provincial governments and relevant prefectural, municipal and county governments attended the meeting, and made specific arrangements to jointly rectify group digging and ban individual village-run mine campaigns; In May 1991, the country once again held a national gold work conference in Beijing, and the renovation of Xiaoqinling was once again on the agenda.The heads of Henan and Shaanxi provinces were called into Zhongnanhai to report one by one. Let's take a look at the war situation in Tongguan, Shaanxi, the hardest hit area: This is a tragic epic. "When the rooster crows, listen to the three provinces." Tongguan, a small third-level county with a total population of less than 120,000, has a prominent reputation in the history of the Chinese nation due to its special geographical location. "According to historical records, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, more than 30 wars have occurred here.Ma Chao stabbed Cao Cao by mistake in the ancient locust tree, Anlu Mountain knocked on the gate at night, Li Zicheng was defeated in the South Plateau, and the Taiping Army broke through and returned to the division... On this 500-square-kilometer ravine at the foot of the Qinling Mountains on the side of the Yellow River, scenes and scenes Singing or weeping, or sad or heroic halberd killing and fighting, the history of the nation is condensed into a lingering smoke of gunpowder. The war has created a glorious ancient Tongguan. The war has made Gutongguan in a miserable situation for thousands of years. "Prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer!" Zhang Yanghao, a great poet of the Yuan Dynasty, sighed. After the founding of New China, the people became the masters politically.But it did not escape the poverty of life. "Three hundred and sixty-five days of getting up early and getting dark, you can't get a pair of trousers for a New Year's meal", the people's life of "one street with three lights, one loudspeaker for the whole city to listen to", the "agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, foreign oil and salt sauce" Fruit factory, buy back a car for the county magistrate, the financial income makes the well-known Guguan eclipsed. The wheel of history is rolling, giving Gutongguan a great opportunity for the right time, place and people.The driving force behind this opportunity is the witch whose element is code-named Au—gold! No one can compete with Tongguan people.Like wings stretching towards the seven valleys in Tongguan, the rivers of gold flow through the roads! No one can be richer than Tongguan people.According to the information provided, the gold reserves in the entire county are on the order of tons per capita! No one can try romance with Tongguan people.Thousands of years of fighting with gold and iron horses has enabled the descendants of Qinchuan to develop superhuman bodies and wisdom. In 1985, Tongguan was ranked among the "Ten Thousand Liang Gold Counties" in the country. In 1988, the first and only Jinwanliang village appeared in Tongguan. In 1989, Tongguan leaped to the third largest golden county in the country and became one of the "Three Golden Flowers of China" as famous as Zhaoyuan and Lingbao. Ah gold, you are so charming.You let Tongguan change everything, which is also mixed with conscience and nature.The masters of the East said that at the beginning of human beings, nature is good.Western philosophers say that the pursuit and yearning for wealth often makes good people greedy and sinful. In Tongguan's glorious process of using the natural resources of the Xiaoqinling Mountains to build a modern civilized building, those greedy people who have changed their conscience and nature have lost their humanity. In a small county with 120,000 people, as many as 130,000 people flocked to the mountain to mine gold, of which more than 80,000 people came from provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities other than Taiwan and Tibet. ——In the few years since the state-run Wenyu Mine was built, more than 10,000 cases of looting and stealing mines have been cracked and prevented, with an average of one case per day. ——The mine protection team members were ordered to stop the piracy transport team. The thieves drew their guns against the opponent's head and "slapped" twice.In the end, he threw the corpse into the ravine as if playing a game, and walked away singing "targeting song". ——The head of the mine got wind of a group of workers, peasants and soldiers, and said to the director of the police station who enforced the law, either you collect the money, and I will open the mine; or leave your wife and daughter on the mountain for my subordinates to enjoy, and you make up your own mind... Everything is so crazy, murderous and barbaric. Tongguan has created another series of records: fights, drug abuse, prostitution, road robbery, murder and bombing of houses, corruption and degeneration... It also set the highest in the country, with an average of 1 person dying every 6 days. While building one of the "Four Little Dragons" of socialism in Guanzhong, the governments and people at all levels in Tongguan paid a bloody price in the struggle to stop the group mining and fight against the mining tyrants. The first city-wide attack was in 1987.The situation at that time has developed to the county party committee.The point where the county government cannot function properly.Half of the people and half of the units below the township level in the county stopped farming, stopped going to work, and engaged in individual or family gold mining and alchemy.Stealing mines led to landslides and deaths, land grabs resulted in gun battles, cyanide pools and the poisonous poison that flowed out poisoned people... These tragedies involving human life have happened repeatedly.A team of 400 people was dispatched from the county and township levels, together with law enforcement personnel such as police and mine management teams, to go door-to-door and fight continuously for more than 60 days. Only 2,353 household cyanide ponds were destroyed and 2,353 cyanide pools were destroyed, and 2 gold smuggled were recovered. 836 grams, a fine of 630,000 yuan, and 68 arrests. This battle made the territory of Tongguan settle down for a while, and there was a gratifying scene of villagers returning to their farmland, and enterprise employees and government officials returning to their posts. "People in Tongguan are stupid. If they have money, they don't dig to grow potatoes. Haha, let's go!" At the end of autumn and winter solstice, I don't know where the wind blows. The front of the mountain and the back of the mountain all rushed to the Jingou mine hole, occupying the territory that should have been the Tongguan people themselves. In this way, before the smoke of the Daqing Mountains cleared, the black tide of gold mining in the Xiaoqinling Mountains came back again, and this time the madness and predatoryness was even worse than before. Those big signs and the sentences "emancipate the mind, The slogan "opening mines and enriching the people" is untouchable and undeniable.Under the cover of high-sounding protective umbrellas, all kinds of mining tyrants and miners have intensified and plundered Xiaoqinling gold unscrupulously, causing the mining area to completely lose control. In 1989, the central government issued the "Notice on Implementing Protective Mining of Gold Mines" in a timely manner, expressly stipulating that the policy of unlicensed mining and designated areas for state-owned and collective enterprises should be cancelled.The Manguan County Party Committee, the county government, and the mine management department have a sword in hand. On March 15, the county magistrate and secretary of the county party committee led a team to Daqing Mountain again.The battle is getting better and better. At the beginning of August, taking advantage of Governor Hou Zongbin's on-site office in Tong, the law enforcement agencies turned back in the mining area and pulled out 429 illegal mining teams and concentrators in one fell swoop, arresting and interrogating 46 people. Destroyed more than 800 sets (pools) of gold extractors. It was a fierce battle of hand to hand, life and death.This is a repeated, endless tug-of-war. The "Mineral Resources Law of the People's Republic of China" stipulates that all mineral rights on the land of China (including the jurisdictional sea areas) are state-owned, and state-owned, collective, and individual mining rights must be approved by the geological and mineral management department above the county level and issued a mining license. , in order to engage in planned mining at the designated location, except for this, any unit and other functional departments of the government have no right to issue mining licenses.However, there are too many problems in China, and the law often appears powerless in the face of these problems! A Western philosopher once used cotton wool and a hammer to describe the relationship between my country's current situation and the law.The hammer has always been hard and firm, but when it hits the cotton wool, all the hardness and firmness will disappear in the slightest.However, the author believes that this is not the saddest fate of Chinese law. What is really sad is that Chinese law itself does not have the attribute above everything else.In many cases, it can emit a crisp echo of "dong dong", and in many cases it is bounced back by a head-on blow from a harder and more solid wall.The problems reflected in the mining rights of mineral resources can quite illustrate this point. The signboard of the Industrial Bureau of a certain county has a white background and a black space, prominently hanging at the gate facing the street.However, in this remote mountainous county, its functions are almost in vain.There are less than 50 large and small enterprises under its jurisdiction in the whole county, and all of them are small factories that produce outdated tractor accessories or household coal stoves.The establishment of the Industry Bureau has also been reduced from 35 to 21 people.What to do?If you want to survive, you have to find a way!Fortunately, there is no unparalleled road, and the provincial geological team discovered tin mines on several mountains in this county.However, the state has not yet had time to design the blueprint for the construction of state-owned mines. Local rural farmers, shop workers, government officials, and even school teachers and students have already gone to the mountains to grab the mines. "Mine mining is an industrial job, and it should belong to us!" The industrial bureau sent the report to the county government, and at the same time attached a "relief" report for the bureau's permanent staff. "You can't let us go hungry!" A red-headed document in the county, the industrial bureau that no one cared about in the past suddenly changed, and it was as strong as a bull: "To go to the mountain to mine, you must come to our bureau to get a license!" Suddenly, the industrial bureau was full of people. , very busy.The number of personnel has risen from 21 to 35 and 42, and the treatment has doubled. The Bureau of Industry is like this, the Bureau of Commerce, the Bureau of Finance, the Taxation Bureau, the Bureau of Agriculture, the Public Security Bureau... can't it be like this?You can do this in your county, but can’t it be done in my township or village?Therefore, the mining license is like a park ticket, which can be "sold and sold" by anyone; therefore, the law is like soap foam, always illusory... I asked the Mining Management Bureau, which is in charge of mineral development rights.The chief didn't dare to answer me loudly, and quietly pointed to the tax bureau next to his gate, saying: "I am the law enforcement officer, and I am the only one who has the power to issue mining licenses. That's true. But they have their own ways to deal with you. .They came to your door every day, telling you that you have to pay this tax and that tax, and you have to pay a fine of tens of thousands, or you will see it in court. Issuing a part of the mining license... The matter is as simple as that, on the same piece of land, my method is to follow the line drawn by others..." You do not allow the Public Security Bureau to issue a certificate?Well, we will not be responsible for any order in the mine.Murder and arson, can your Mine Management Bureau handle it?Surrender!It's easy to say, let's delegate power, and we will take care of the rest!The mine order will be resolved within three days! You do not allow the Food Bureau to issue a certificate?It doesn't matter.However, the supply of rations and canteens in your unit has not been sufficient for the past few months, so please find your own solution.You can skip eating for one day, and chew instant noodles for two days, but you can't just boil it like this for ten or eight days.Surrender!It's easy to say, we will deliver your rations tomorrow. then-- OK, post!In the east, west, north, south, beautiful mining licenses with red stamps flying all over the sky. OK, post!A piece of 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 100 yuan, 1,000 yuan... You make money by mining, I make money by issuing certificates, and common prosperity, true communism! The result was a happy one.As for the Mineral Resources Law, it has become a dead letter.