Bao Jin Fengyun
by Zhang Fegrui
About This Novel
The long documentary novel reflects what happened in 1896 AD (the 22nd year of Guangxu). The Qing government was weak and incompetent in the face of the powerful ships and artillery of the Western powers. It betrayed its sovereignty and transferred the coal mining rights in Shanxi to the British Ford Company for a period of sixty years. This monopoly and plunder of Shanxi coal fields aroused strong dissatisfaction and resistance from the people of Shanxi. First, the famous mining struggle broke out in Pingding Prefecture. In the mining struggle movement, Shanxi merchants became the mainstay of the movement and went to Beijing to petition, asking the Qing government to take back the mining rights from the British Fu Company. Under the pressure of the mining struggle movement, the British Fu Company was unable to gain a foothold in Pingding State and returned to Beijing, putting pressure on the Qing government. The Qing court allowed Shanxi's wealthy businessmen and gentry to raise 2.7 Million taels of silver to redeem the mining rights from the British Fu Company. After the victory of the mining struggle movement, Shanxi businessmen raised funds to establish Baojin Company, Shanxi's first large-scale modern coal mine. At that time, Baojin Company opened six coal mines (that is, Yangmei Group, which continues to this day) and one iron factory (Yanggang Steel) in Yangquan alone. Taiyuan, Datong, Huozhou, Lucheng, Jincheng and other places simultaneously opened eight coal mine branches using electricity and machinery (the eight major mining bureaus in Shanxi after liberation). Since then, Shanxi's modern national industry has entered the stage of history. Since its establishment, Baojin Company has gone through the late Qing Dynasty, the Beiyang Government, the Republic of China, and the reign of Yan Xishan. It has gone through many vicissitudes and written a significant page in the history of modern Chinese national industry. Most of Shanxi's modern large-scale coal enterprises were developed from the continuation of Baojin Company. Baojin Company is the cradle of Shanxi's modern national industry. Baojin culture is the beginning of modern industrial civilization in Shanxi. Yangquan is the birthplace of the mining struggle movement. The outbreak of the mining struggle gave birth to the founding of Baojin Company and the birth of Yangquan City. Baojin culture is a unique historical and cultural heritage in Yangquan and a unique cultural resource in Shanxi. The author is loyal to historical facts without sticking to historical facts. He uses the form of a documentary novel to integrate reality and art, and successfully creates the image of national heroes such as Huang Zhiyuan. This is a literary work that reflects a major theme.
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