A doctor who travels through two eras

Someone in the queue immediately started to make a noise, shouting at the top of their voices:
"Hey, what's going on? If you want to buy coal, go to the back and queue up. We have been queuing since before dawn. How can you just get in when you come?"

"That's right, even if the cadres come, they have to queue up!"

"Yes, get behind me!"

Shen Guoming was wearing a large blue cotton jacket and cotton trousers, looking clean.

Lin Sanqi's cotton-padded jacket has a lot of secrets inside. The outside is made of ordinary fabric, but the filling inside is actually goose down. Who says southerners are afraid of the cold? There are two heat pads on the underwear.

The two men came by car, dressed neatly, and had a pen in their chest pocket. They were obviously people of status.

Dean Shen smiled and took out a green notebook from his briefcase:

"Everyone has misunderstood. We are here to buy coal on behalf of our company. We have no conflict with you and we will not cut in line with you."

The windows for units to buy coal are different from those for ordinary people, so President Shen said this.

As a result, someone in the crowd shouted: "Why is there no conflict? You buy dozens or hundreds of tons at a time. How much will be left for us ordinary people?"

"That's right. As leaders, you only want to keep your office warm, but why don't you think of heating the workshop?"

"It's the same in our street office factory. The workers have sores on their hands from the cold, but the factory director is sitting in the office, heating up the stove."

The crowd began to talk, expressing their dissatisfaction with the lack of heating. The people in Beijing cursed with a lot of "mother" in them.

Lin Sanqi thought, I was just praising the cadres of this era for having bottom lines, oh, I was being too sentimental, there are always a few rats ruining their reputation.

At this time, a small leader who was maintaining order in the coal yard also came over, sniffling:
"Which unit are you from?"

"Hello, comrade. We are from the Capital Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine."

"The one on Kuan Street? Oh, sorry, your hospital doesn't have an inpatient department, so the coal quota is limited. I checked, it's only 10 tons. The higher-ups said that this year the priority of coal supply should be to ensure patients, such as Union Hospital, Railway General Hospital, Coal General Hospital, etc."

Dean Shen frowned:

"What can 10 tons of coal do? Besides, who said our hospital doesn't have an inpatient department? We still have 200 inpatients in our Changping branch."

The coal yard staff smiled and shook their heads:
"You said it's the Changping branch, so the land belongs to Changping. We don't want to worry about it. Sorry!"

Dean Shen didn't argue. This was the rule at the time. It was local management. You were in charge of where you were.

The key point is that the Changping branch is a freak, a self-financing farm. The state does not even supply it with food and various bills, let alone coal.

Seeing the dean so worried, Lin Sanqi felt relieved. It's just a little coal, he could handle it!

"Uncle Shen, it's okay. The country doesn't give us coal because we have practical difficulties. I'll take care of it."

Lin Sanqi thought that he could just wait until 2014 to get coal. As long as the money was in place, he could have as much as he wanted.

The young leader of the coal mine was delighted when he heard this:

"Oh, I didn't realize you were such a capable person, but considering the coal supply situation this year, I guess you'll have to find a big, big, big leader to get a nod. If you want hundreds or thousands of tons, I'm not being mean, but I'm afraid it's as difficult as ascending to heaven."

Lin Sanqi knew that people in Beijing were straightforward, so he wasn't angry, but was a little curious:

"Comrade, what is your name?"

"Minggui, surnamed Zhou, Zhou Caizhi."

"Comrade Zhou, right? Then I'm a little curious. The newspapers said that the annual coal production before the founding of the People's Republic of China was only 4000 million tons, and it reached 3 million tons last year. The production has increased so much, even if part of it is exported, there shouldn't be such a shortage of coal, right?"

Everyone in the surrounding coal yard started laughing.

Zhou Cai laughed for a while before shaking his head helplessly:
"Comrade, how can you hospital staff know the national energy supply situation? Let me tell you, if we go by the current national demand, we will need at least 8 million tons of coal.

Because of the lack of coal, not only the heating problem of the people could not be solved, but even the locomotives could not start. Our capital was relatively good, but some remote areas had to shut down factories due to the lack of coal.

Think about it, the annual output of the country is 3 million tons, and more than half of it is exported. Facing this huge gap, can you two tell me whether our country can avoid coal shortage? So it is not that our coal yard is making things difficult for your Chinese medicine hospital, but we really can’t squeeze out the coal.”

If you were to talk about something else, Lin Sanqi wouldn't understand, but if you were to list the data like this, Lin Sanqi would be dumbfounded. "Is the gap so big? I remember that our country has quite abundant coal reserves..."

Lin Sanqi had checked the information, although he didn't remember it completely, but he vaguely remembered that coal production reached 2022 billion tons in 45, and this was under the premise that oil and natural gas accounted for half of the energy supply.

Zhou Caizhi laughed:
"Our country has abundant coal reserves. It is so abundant that our coal department will dig it out for the use of the people of the country even if it costs us our lives.

It's not just coal, let's talk about oil. I heard that an oil field was discovered in Daqing, Northeast China last year, but we don't know how much the reserves are. Didn't foreigners say that our country is poor in oil and coal? "

We are a country poor in oil and coal...

On the way back to the hospital, Lin Sanqi was in deep thought, thinking about what Zhou Caizhi had just said.

Zhou Caizhi is a coal industry worker, and he believes this statement. Apparently, in the minds of the people of the country, and even the top leaders, we are a country with very little energy.

But is this really the case?
He didn't know about the coal reserves in other provinces, but he was sure that the coal reserves in Shanxi Province alone amounted to 500 billion tons, and there was still more that had not been discovered.

Later, those coal bosses from western Shanxi would go to the capital with bags of money to buy houses, cars and gold. They were so generous. They would spend money on picking up female stars without even batting an eyelid.

If calculated based on the current annual output of 3 million tons, the coal reserves in Shanxi Province alone can be mined for more than 100 years. Looking at the whole country, there is even more coal.

The key is that many coal reserves have not yet been discovered, and perhaps there will be more in the future.

Therefore, our country is not short of coal at all. At least it was impossible to lack coal in 1960. It’s just that the country now does not know how much coal is hidden under our country.

Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi's eyes suddenly lit up:
"Uncle Shen, I have an idea!"

Dean Shen didn't care: "I know you can get coal for our hospital, even the X-ray production line. A little coal is nothing to you."

Lin Sanqi braked and shouted excitedly:
"No, Uncle Shen, I mean if I knew how much coal reserves we have in our country, or even knew which area has a lot of coal underground, and told the country, then we wouldn't be short of coal."

"you know?"

Dean Shen's expression became serious at this time:

"Xiao Qi, this is no joke. If you really knew the distribution of our country's underground coal reserves, a situation that even the country doesn't know, and you or the organization behind you knew it, do you know what this means?"

Lin Sanqi blinked, wondering why the old man was so serious: "What does it mean?"

"This means that the organization behind you has infiltrated every aspect of the country, and even knows our country's most core energy distribution map. This touches on the core interests of the country, and it is easy for the higher-ups to misunderstand that you are plotting something bad.

The higher-ups can tolerate your smuggling because what you are doing now is beneficial to the country, but if the organization behind you can easily control the domestic energy distribution, I am afraid there will be a strict investigation, and if it is found out, a group of people will be killed, which is very scary. "

"Oh my god, do you have to be so scary? I just want to make some contribution to the country."

Lin Sanqi is essentially just an intern doctor, or at most a smuggler between the two worlds. He does not have a broad vision and does not know enough about politics.

Dean Shen thought for a while and asked seriously:
"Xiao Qi, are you sure you can get the real distribution map of the national coal reserves?"

Lin Sanqi hesitated a little. He didn't want to be imprisoned in the prison and interrogated. He might be whipped with a whip soaked in salt water: "You will tell me or not, you will tell me or not!"

He came here to make a fortune, not to be arrested as a criminal.

If the consequence is that he will suffer losses, then he certainly doesn't want to be a saint. He can't even protect himself, let alone whether the country has enough coal or whether the people will freeze to death.

"I...should I say I know...or I don't know?"

"If you know that there is such a distribution map, it is very important to our country. As members of the Communist Party and state cadres, we must always keep the country and the people in mind, so we must submit it.

In this way, you can then say that your distribution map was drawn before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the data you provide should preferably be marked with the Republic of China period. At that time, we had not yet established the country, so there would be no risk in providing such data. "

Lin Sanqi thought to himself, wow, the old man is really experienced, the details that he himself didn't notice were spotted by the old man at a glance.

"Okay, Uncle Shen, I'll take a few days off and try to get information about our country's coal reserves from the organization!"

"Ah, you want to ask for leave again?" (End of this chapter)