Chapter six hundred and eighty IX: Attacking the Black Coal Kiln
A report titled Slave in the Black Coal Mine appeared in a weekly magazine on Hong Kong Island.
It's already the 21st century, and there are still slaves. This is a very attractive gimmick, and it instantly attracted a lot of attention.
More importantly, the black coal mines are still used by the disabled and mentally retarded children. These are disadvantaged groups, and they are the most sympathetic.
Immediately afterwards, foreign media also rushed to reprint reports and hype this topic.
Media such as CNN and BBC, from time to time even fabricate fake news, but also to discredit China. Now that they have finally picked up a gun, how can they easily let go of this good opportunity!
For a while, foreign media swarmed in like flies smelling blood. Even at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, foreign journalists asked questions about the black coal mine.
This can be a hornet's nest all of a sudden, not to mention the crazy hype of the foreign media, just being asked about the routine press conference of the ministry and commission, how can the leaders not pay attention to it!
In a certain conference room, the leader sat in the middle, looking at everyone with a livid face, while the participants in the conference room all lowered their heads, as if they didn't dare to show their atmosphere.
It's appalling, it's appalling! Black coal mines, slave labor, and disabled people! What is the law of the country! What is the law of heaven! The key is that this kind of thing happened under our noses! So many of us don't even know it! Dereliction of duty! We This is a serious dereliction of duty!
The leader scolded everyone for a while. After the leader finished scolding, a courageous person said: Leader, we have investigated, and the source of this news is an overseas environmental protection organization called Green Warrior.
This environmental protection agency has been funded by overseas funds for a long time, often in the name of environmental protection, making fake news, or taking it out of context to discredit our country's economic development!
The leader snorted coldly: Then the use of slave labor in this black coal mine is also fake news? It's also taken out of context? They have pictures and recordings. Do you dare to say that they are all fake?
And I heard that the local public security department has dispatched to search the black coal mine and rescued more than 70 trafficked and trafficked disabled and mentally handicapped people!
When this matter was mentioned, the person in charge of the matter rushed to report: According to the clues in the media,
We immediately locked the location of the black coal mine, and then dispatched a police force of 120 people to successfully destroy the black coal mine.
In this operation, a total of 13 suspects were arrested and 75 miners were rescued. Unfortunately, the mine owner is still at large. We have issued a warrant and are currently hunting them down.
In addition, we learned the contact information of the human traffickers gang from the arrested suspects, and then we followed the clues to destroy a human trafficker organization that specialized in trafficking the disabled, mentally handicapped and homeless, arrested six suspects, and Confiscated vans, trucks and other crime tools!
It's not enough! The leader shook his head, and then said: It's just a black coal mine that has such a serious problem, so what about other black coal mines? Will the problem be more serious?
Nowadays, the matter of this black coal mine is being paid attention at home and abroad, especially the foreign media, which has begun to make use of the topic to plaster our country, so there must be no similar incidents again!
It is illegal to open black coal mines, let alone these black coal mines have more serious illegal acts! Therefore, all black coal mines must be banned and completely eradicated, and none of them can be left behind!
Leader, I'm afraid it will not be an easy task to completely eradicate the black coal mines! This is related to the livelihood of many people. As far as I know, the funds of many villages are supported by the black coal mines. Someone persuaded.
I know, you want to say that the black coal mine has affected the interests of too many people! The leader snorted coldly, and continued; The black coal mine is a cancerous tumor, we can't feel the pain because of bleeding when we cut the cancerous tumor, Just let the cancer grow wantonly!
I don't care how many people's interests are involved and how many umbrellas there are. I only have one sentence here, that is, the stubborn disease of black coal mines, and the output of black coal mines must be normalized, and the black coal mines must not be allowed to resurface!
I have already issued a military order with my superiors to eradicate the black coal mine within three months. If I can't finish it, I will hand in my resignation letter and leave! But before I leave, I will definitely fire you all one by one!
Seeing the leader throwing such a temper tantrum, everyone has already realized that the banning of the black coal mine this time is probably going to be serious.
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Although Ergou Village is not big, there are three black coal kilns in the village.
These three black coal mines did not use slave labor, and the workers in these three black coal mines were all local farmers, and part of the so-called contracting fee was paid to the village for the coal mining money.
When news of the seizure of the black coal mines came, the three black coal mines immediately stopped working and sent the workers home.
We're starting to check the black coal mine again! The accountant in the village sighed, and continued; It is estimated that the work will be suspended for ten days and a half months, and the contract fee for this month will be reduced again.
It's not the first time this kind of thing happens every year, but it's not a gust of wind. When the gust of wind passes, it will be calm! It just happened to let the villagers rest for a few days. It is also very hard to dig coal in the coal kiln as a whole. .”
The village head paused for a moment, and then continued: This year, the contract fees for the three kilns have been collected, just to repair the roads in the village, especially the dirt road at the east end of the village, which must be repaired!
The two were chatting, and the car of the black coal mine working group drove into the village.
Where are the village cadres? the town staff yelled, and the village head and the accountant immediately went out to greet them.
The leaders of the city have come to seal up the black coal mines! I heard that there are three black coal mines in your village? This time they all have to be closed! the town staff said.
There used to be three black coal mines in our village, but they stopped working a long time ago! The village head continued to explain: A few years ago, the state wanted to ban the black coal mines! Our village responded to the call of the state, and at that time the black coal mines were shut down. It's closed!
Really? The town staff smiled coldly. He can also be regarded as a grassroots worker, how could he not know about the mining of black coal kilns in Ergou Village!
Since it's closed, let's take a look! It was the working group sent by the city who spoke this time.
No problem! The village head looked reassuring. Anyway, the black coal mine has been shut down, and there is no one in it, and he is not afraid of the working group to check on the spot.
Moreover, this kind of activity of sealing up black coal mines happens every year. When it is strict, it can be checked twice a year. The village head has long been used to it.
The village head led the working group to the location of the black coal mines. After confirming the locations of the three black coal mines, the working group took out their mobile phones and made a call.
After a while, I saw a concrete mixer truck driving slowly.
Seeing the concrete mixer truck, the village chief's face changed slightly: What is this for?
Seal up the black coal mine! The working group said, pointing to the entrance of the black coal mine, and continued, This is the place, seal the entrance of the mine!
The concrete mixer truck stopped and began to pour concrete out, intending to seal the entrance of the black coal kiln.
The village chief's face turned pale in an instant.
Previously, when the black coal kiln was seized, it was at most a seal, but now the kiln mouth was directly sealed with concrete. The strength of this seizure is completely different from before!
Among other things, it is not an easy task to open the hole sealed by concrete.
The Black Coal Mine has been shut down every year, and this time I'm afraid it's going to be serious! the village chief thought to himself.
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Banning black coal mines is carried out every year, and some counties and cities carry out activities to seal up black coal mines more than once a year.
However, black coal mines have always been banned repeatedly. One reason is that there are too many black coal mines, almost everywhere in some major coal-producing provinces, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to investigate them.
The second is because more interests are involved. The large and small vested interest groups behind the black coal mines make it difficult to completely eradicate the black coal mines. Even if the black coal mines are closed for a while, under the protection of the umbrella, they will revive.
But these are not problems, as long as the superiors are willing to make up their minds, eradicating the black coal mines is not an easy task!
The sudden action to ban black coal mines made those who originally bought coal in black coal mines have to go to regular coal mines to buy coal, and coal prices naturally ushered in a wave of sharp rises.
Coal has experienced several upsurges in the past few years, and many people have made a fortune by frying coal. Whenever the price of coal rises, a large amount of funds will pour in, and then further push up the price of coal. price.
During the previous coal price rise, those speculators had already made a lot of money. After tasting the sweetness, when the coal price rose again, the speculators flocked decisively, and many speculators even mortgaged their houses to fry coal.
The more coal prices rise, the more people buy coal.
Most people's thinking is to buy up or not to buy down. The more the price rises, the stronger the desire to buy, but the price falls, which will actually affect sales.
Coal, as the main energy source, can be regarded as a necessity, and the phenomenon of buying up but not buying down is even more serious.
The price of coal, like two years ago, kept going up like a rocket.
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At the headquarters of the Green Warriors, Zhao Liang knocked on the door and walked into Committee Member Wang's office.
Mr. Wang, are you looking for me? Zhao Liang said respectfully.
The reporter we sent to the mainland to cover the matter recently discovered a very good news material. The large-scale seizure of black coal mines in the mainland has led to a rise in coal prices, which has led to a substantial increase in industrial costs! Commissioner Wang said excitedly.
Seize the Black Coal Mine? Is it because we have reported the use of slave labor in the Black Coal Mine? Zhao Liang immediately asked.
I think it must be related! But what we are concerned about now is not black coal mines, but the increase in industrial costs caused by the rise in coal prices! Commissioner Wang paused, then continued:
In recent years, a lot of foreign capital has invested in the Mainland, and what they see is that the production cost in the Mainland is relatively low. Let's hype the increase in industrial costs now, which will definitely discourage many foreign investors!
Zhao Liang nodded suddenly, and Commissioner Wang handed a document to Zhao Liang, and continued, This is the trend of coal prices in the mainland in the past three months, you should make good use of these data!
Zhao Liang took the document and looked down. In the past three months, the price of coal has been rising steadily, one price per day!
In three months, the price of coal has risen so much! Wouldn't the power plant have to lose a lot of money! Zhao Liang said casually.
Yes, the power plant must lose money, but if there is a loss, there will be a profit. The price of coal keeps rising, and coal mining companies must make a lot of money! Commissioner Wang said.
Coal mining companies have made a lot of money, and Li Weidong's Dongshan Mining is among them! Thinking of this, Zhao Liang suddenly felt extremely panicked.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Thinking that he helped Li Weidong make money with one operation, Zhao Liang subconsciously slapped himself three times.
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When Li Weidong saw Zhao Jinshan, he saw Zhao Jinshan was drunk, lying on the boss chair and taking a nap.
This room smells of alcohol! How much did you drink at noon! Li Weidong said, pouring a cup of tea for Zhao Jinshan casually.
Zhao Jinshan took the teacup, drank it all, and then said: At noon, some steel factory bosses invited me to dinner, mainly to buy coal from me. Those few people can drink too much. Get me drunk.
Steel factory owner? Li Weidong frowned, and continued, Brother Zhao, in my opinion, our country's steel output is increasing, and it will be a matter of time before the steel production capacity becomes overcapacitated. The market is so big, and the production capacity is so large. But it won't be sold!
If you are a steel company in the future, if you don't have the technology to produce high value-added special steel, you will have a hard time. We also have to be careful, it is best to receive cash instead of credit, and don't be caught by those steel companies.
Don't worry about this. Now that coal is so tight, cash may not be able to buy goods! How can I do business on credit! Zhao Jinshan raised his head and asked, By the way, what do you want me to do?
Li Weidong nodded: I have to go to Thailand. Didn't my agricultural machinery factory take an order of 5 billion baht in Thailand before? Now the transaction is only half completed, and there is another moth in Thailand, and they proposed There are new additional conditions, I have to deal with it!
The transaction has already started, and additional conditions are put forward. This Thai is really untrustworthy! Zhao Jinshan snorted coldly.
People in Southeast Asia are doing business this way, just get used to it. Li Weidong sighed, and then said: I have also reflected on it. To do business with people in these poor places, it is not enough just to rely on cheap prices. It takes solid technology.
Southeast Asians are obviously not familiar with it, and doing business with them has to be kind and powerful. In this regard, really learn from the Japanese. They rely on the technology in their hands to beat those Southeast Asians to death!
