Official road bends

"What?" Although Li Yi could hear it clearly, he couldn't help but ask back. .

"Mayor Li, a lead-zinc mine in Beiqiang County has collapsed," Gao Tianzhen said.

The vast mountainous areas of Beiqiang County are rich in lead-zinc ore, and its associated metal "indium" is a non-renewable rare metal.Many high-tech fields such as alloys, semiconductor data transmission, flat panel display, and aerospace product manufacturing are inseparable from this metal.

With the development and growth of the western Silicon Valley, lead-zinc mining in Beiqiang County has also become a popular investment project.

Mining mining is not a trivial matter. Li Yi has conducted rigorous investigations on the qualifications and identities of investors. In addition to strong funds, he must also have a clean political background.

At present, in Beiqiang County, there are three state-owned or more than half-owned mining companies. In addition, there are three private investment companies.

These six companies were all established by Li Yi himself, with excellent qualifications, production safety and mining technology are industry-leading.

The wages of avarice is death.It is not easy to spread this saying through the ages, which shows its widespread surname.

In order to protect the ecological environment and develop lead-zinc mines in a reasonable and disciplined manner, the government has clearly stipulated that all individuals and units are prohibited from engaging in any form of private digging and secret mining. Once discovered, they must be severely punished.

However, there are always some people who are not afraid of death and take risks for money.

Seeing the booming business of the six mining companies, many people became jealous, committed crimes, organized manpower, opened mines in remote mountainous areas privately, and carried out mining work.

Li Yi opened his mouth and asked, "How about the casualties?" He walked into the office at the same time.

Gao Tianzhen said: "Only three miners were crushed inside, and the casualties are not yet known."

"Which one is it?" Li Yi asked in a deep voice.

"It's not any of the six." Gao Tianzhen said, "It's a private mine."

Li Yi said angrily: "It's another private mine! Didn't the forest law enforcement team be strengthened? What do they eat? This mine can be buried in people, so it can be seen that they have dug long enough and deep! Why didn't anyone find out beforehand? Or did you discover it but conceal it and not report it?"

Gao Tianzhen said: "It is under investigation. The cause of the accident was a landslide."

Li Yi said: "Let me go and have a look, you stay at home."

Gao Tianzhen said, "I'll go with you."

Li Yi glanced at her and nodded.

The collapsed mine is far away from the newly built country road. When the car reaches the end of the road, there is no way to enter it.

All relevant departments in the city have come, and the front rescue team has arrived at the scene of the accident.The other relevant leaders all came with Li Yi.

Li Yi and others got out of the car, and under the leadership of the guide, they rushed towards the mine.

On the originally pathless mountain road, someone has walked out of a small path.

"There is no driveway here, how did the minerals get out?" Li Yi asked the people around him.

Gao Tianzhen said: "I have learned about this. They have built a transportation channel next to the entrance of the cave. They can transport the minerals directly down the mountain."

"Oh?" Li Yi asked: "What kind of channel?"

Gao Tianzhen said: "It is a transportation pipeline built with bamboo and wood, and it is easy to transport the minerals down the mountain by taking advantage of the changes in the height of the mountain."

"It's very smart!" Li Yi said.

When he came to the scene of the accident, Li Yi saw the transportation pipeline. The pipeline was made very wide, like a slide, and a person sitting on it could slide down.

"How is the situation?" Li Yi asked the rescuers at the scene.

"Report to Mayor Li, excavators can't get through here, we can only dig manually. The progress is very slow." The comrade in charge of rescue replied.

Li Yi put his hands behind his back, paced anxiously, and gave instructions: "Mobilize all the power that can be mobilized, and rescue with all our strength! Where is the mine owner? Have you caught it?"

"As soon as the accident happened, the mine owner ran away. Director Gao has already brought people to arrest him."

"How deep is this mine? Does anyone know?" Li Yi asked.

"Mayor Li, we have asked the miners who were working outside. The three miners who were trapped were working about 1000 meters above the cave, and the place where it collapsed was the entrance of the cave. I don't know how deep it collapsed inside. .”

"Is the mine going downwards or deep?"

"It's going down in depth. I'm afraid that if it takes too long, even if the collapse fails to kill the miners, the miners will be suffocated to death."

"Quickly find a way to rescue, it must be fast!" Li Yi said in a deep voice.

"Yes! Mayor Li, we assure you that we will complete the rescue mission as soon as possible."

"Mayor Li." Gao Hu strode over, saluted Li Yi, and said, "The owner of this mine has been caught. This guy slipped so fast. When we found him, he was about to run out of the city boundary!"

"Good job, Gao Hu!" Li Yi nodded.

Gao Hu has long been promoted to deputy secretary of the municipal legal committee, and he still holds the post of director of the public security bureau.

The mine owner was brought up. The man kept his head down and bent over, not daring to look up at Li Yi.

Li Yi stared at the mine owner for a few moments and said, "It looks familiar! Who is it?"

Gao Hu grabbed the mine owner's head and lifted it up vigorously.

Li Yi saw the man's face clearly, and immediately sneered: "Okay! Very good! It turned out to be you, no wonder you have such courage, and you can drive here for so long without being reported! You are better than Others are decent and powerful, so the common people are naturally afraid of you and dare not report you! If this accident does not happen, you will still be able to continue to distribute your boring money!"

The mine owner was very fat, even fatter than when Li Yi saw him last time.

"Mayor Li, I was wrong, and I know I was wrong." The mine owner spoke loudly, with a tear in his voice.

Li Yi was furious, pointed at the mine owner, and said loudly: "Wang Yipang! I remember your name correctly, right? Looking at your fat body, I knew it was you! Back then, I was really blind , and personally referred you to the position of director of the Beiqiang County Government Office!"

This mine owner is Wang Yipang, the current director of the Beiqiang County Government Office. His appointment was promoted by Li Yi.

"I still remember that you have a son who knows a lot about minerals, right?" Li Yi said: "When the city appointed a mining investor, your son came to me and wanted to invest in opening a mine in the county, but I did not agree. Because the family members of party and government cadres are not allowed to do business in the area under their jurisdiction! You are so courageous that you actually played a deception. In this deep mountain ditch, you dug a mine and built a Slides, used to transport minerals! What a clever way!"

"Mayor Li, I was wrong, please, give me another chance." Wang Yipang was trembling all over, and the fat all over his body was like rolling waves.

Li Yi sneered and said: "I will give you a chance? Who will give those miners buried inside a chance? Wang Yipang, you just wait for the punishment of discipline!"

Wang Yipang's body went limp and he collapsed on the ground.

Gao Hu said: "Mayor Li, I looked at it just now, and such a digging method is not a solution. When will we have to dig?"

Li Yi said: "Can you come up with a good solution? The forklifts can't get in here."

Gao Hu said: "Then I'll call more people to help! There are several mines nearby, and their master workers must be better at digging than ours, and the speed will be much faster."

Li Yi said: "Okay, hurry up and make arrangements! The three trapped miners must be rescued."

The families of the three trapped miners gathered around the entrance of the cave, crying and wailing.

Gao Tianzhen kept calming the emotions of these family members.

Li Yi observed the mountain-shaped terrain and found that the slope of this mountain is very steep. The slide for transporting minerals is built next to the mountain. The workers dug out the minerals, put them in a bamboo dustpan, put them into the slide, and it was easy to go down the slope up.

"Where is the trapped miner?" Li Yi asked.

"About that location, where the big tree is." A miner replied.

Li Yi looked at it and said, "Is your mine going down in depth?"

"Yes."

"Then, how thick is the buried miner's cave from the outside hillside?"

"Well, this should be **."

Li Yi said: "This mountain is full of ore after all, why do you want to dig deep?"

"The boss said, it's safe and you're not afraid of being caught. He also said that the mountain is full of rocks, so it won't collapse. So, he told us to mine inside."

Li Yi said with a sneer: "It burrows into the ground like a mouse, of course it won't be seen by anyone! Hmph! Is the hole big?"

"Big, very big." The miner replied, "As big as a house."

Li Yi walked to the tree, looked at it, and then lay down on the ground, leaning against the ground, listening with his ears, as if he could hear something.

"Come here! Come and dig here!" Li Yi shouted.

The comrades who were being rescued all ran over.

Li Yi said: "This is the closest to the cave, and digging in from here can rescue the miners as quickly as possible. You can use directional blasting to blow up part of the rocks before digging forward."

Gao Tianzhen smiled and said: "Mayor Li, you still have a way. We all only know how to dig in from the hole, but we never thought of using this short method."

Because we don't know the depth, the risk factor of directional blasting is still too high, and blasting is only used in the first few meters or so, and then it is all manual excavation.

Miners from several nearby mining companies, five or no. 60 people, took turns to dig.

These miners are all professional drilling and excavation workers. Once they go into battle, they are much faster.

After drilling and digging for more than three hours, the sun was setting and it was getting dark. The miners lit torches, illuminated the lamps, and continued to work.

Suddenly, a collision sound was heard from inside.

"There are people inside! They are also digging!" The excavating miner shouted: "This is the right place!"

Li Yi said: "Dig quietly, don't hurt the people inside!"

After another half an hour of drilling and digging, a stone wall fell down with a loud crash.

After a burst of dust, a stone cave appeared.

After a while, miners from outside rushed in, and three miners who were already exhausted were carried out from inside.

Fortunately, all three miners survived!

Seeing that the man was still alive, Wang Yipang heaved a sigh of relief, and thanked God by the side.

Li Yi looked at him and said with a sneer: "Come here, throw this Wang Yipang into this mine, and let him have a taste of working in the mine!"

Wang Yipang groaned and collapsed on the ground again. (To be continued.)