Chapter 376: Black coal kiln

Coal province, in the eastern part of the grassland, as the name suggests, this province is where coal is produced.
Coal, a black energy source buried in the ground, is a solid combustible mineral that is gradually formed by ancient plants buried in the ground and undergoing complex biochemical and physical chemical changes.
Coal is hailed as black gold and food for industry. It has been one of the main energy sources used in the human world since the eighteenth century. Even with nuclear energy, the value of coal is not as good as before, and it is still indispensable for human production and life. One of the energy sources.
For Han, since ancient times, the coal province has been the most important coal producing area.
In prehistoric times millions of years ago, this area was a vast lake, called "Datong Lake" in history. The climate here is warm, with abundant rainfall and dense forests. After crustal movement, the vast virgin forest has become a rich underground treasure: coal.
There is no clear record of when coal was used. The only thing that can be speculated is that since the Neolithic Age, coal has been mined and used from outcrops of coal seams.
The "Shui Jing Zhu" by Li Daoyuan was the first to record the spontaneous combustion of coal seams and the development and utilization of coal in this area.
At present, coal mining in the coal province is the main pillar of the Republic, accounting for more than half of the coal mining and export, supporting the construction of the motherland.
There are also important state-owned coal production bases, which are mined day and night.
In the past, no one dared to think about it, but it is different now.
The country's reform and opening up allowed some people to get rich first, so they could make money on their own.
Backing on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on water to draft water, since we rely on coal to save, of course it is coal mining!
The country encourages them. As long as you have the courage, you can borrow money from a credit union. After the money is borrowed, you can open a coal mine, dig coal, and you can sell it. If you sell it, you can make money and hire more. Workers come to dig coal.
However, this requires formal procedures.
The country’s resources cannot be mined casually. Coal mining requires approval and various procedures. Once these procedures are completed, taxes need to be paid to the state. In other words, part of the income must be given to the state.
For some people who are eager to get rich, it is absolutely unhappy to hand over to the country, so they adopted a very simple method, stealing coal!
Anyway, there are deserted mountains and ridges everywhere, few people travelled, a few people gathered together, secretly digging coal, no one knew, dig it out, sell it, and the money went directly into his own pocket.
After the first batch of coal is sold, the pockets are bulging and there is momentum. At this time, there will be another problem.
There is a serious shortage of coal diggers.
That's right, all people are eager to make money and get rich. People in this era don't have any sense of safe work. They don't know what dust pollution is, even if there is dust everywhere, they still dare to breathe and work.
However, coal mining is definitely a laborious task, and this labor intensity will make many mature laborers unbearable.
This kind of privately dug small coal kiln is almost the same as the coal kilns in the old society. There are no safety measures, no support, no ventilation equipment, and there may be a collapse at any time, or a gas explosion may occur. Happening.
At the same time, there are no railroad tracks and no trains. People rely on their own physical strength to dig out coal from the inside and then carry it out. Some tunnels are even short, and people can’t stand up straight inside and can only lie on their stomachs. Go, it's almost like a livestock.
The labor intensity is high and life is in danger. If it is not really desperate, no one is willing to work in small private coal mines.
At this time, an ancient method appeared again, the black coal kiln.
The so-called black coal kiln, the black word, can have many explanations. For example, coal is black, for example, people's hearts here are black, for example, an interest group has formed from top to bottom, and so on.
Except for the rich coal reserves, the coal province has not been injected with any vitality factor, let alone its remote counties. Surrounded by mountains, these counties have neither economic vitality nor tourism resources, and the environment is so harsh that it is difficult to survive. Such small places lack any attention and vitality. Therefore, all vices and ignorance are destined to be easier here. Breeding and sprouting, all the greed of chasing profits has intensified here, and all uncontrolled power has developed intertwined here.
It is in these valleys that are neither managed nor civilized that the worst form of labor appears, namely slaves.
These workers were all trafficked.
Under normal circumstances, the majority are people with intellectual disabilities. These people have no brains and can only be enslaved by bad people. After being sold, they will do this kind of hard work all day, until they die, they are thrown away. In the ravine, it was eaten by wild wolves without any trace.
There are also a small number of healthy people. Such people are the targets of strict supervision. They will be beaten at any time in the black coal kiln. They will be beaten to give up and run. They have been working hard. They don’t have any wages or anything. Personal freedom, once entering the black coal kiln, there is only the last ending, being drained of the last minute of flesh and blood, and then died.
In later generations, Qin Guan had heard of the existence of such black coal kilns, similar to black brick kilns, and so on. Even in the 21st century, there are still such barbarians in the 19th century, the greed and greed of evil forces. The brutality, the inaction of the local government agencies and cadres, and even the embarrassment of the evil forces, and the local villagers who regard ugly deeds as nothing and are generally silent.
Various factors are entangled, making the existence of black coal kilns a lingering ugly state.
The poor mountains and the evil waters lead to the people, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the county officials are not as good as the current ones. One by one, the black coal mines have always existed and become a cancer of society.
With the continuous progress of national civilization, there is still this barbaric existence.
Qin Guan is not the omnipotent savior. Qin Guan came to this era, originally just wanting to rely on his own ability to help the motherland become a strong man in the world, but now, Qin Guan has to do this. The small things at the grassroots level are busy.
Wu Lei was sold to the black coal mine, and Qin Guan needed to rescue Wu Lei.
They really didn't dare to kill. After all, killing pays for their lives. They are not big bad guys, but just a bunch of punks. However, what they did was still utterly conscientious. They abducted people. What awaited them must be severely punished by the law!