Seeing Zhou Bin's confident look, Zhou Jianming immediately said, "Binbin, tell us what you are going to do."
Zhou Bin smiled and said, "We own this land in the village. The contract stipulates that everything on the land belongs to us. Logically speaking, all the coal belongs to us."
Li Nan continued, "Brother Bin, if everyone knew about this, wouldn't they fight with us for it?"
Zhou Jianming also said: "Yes, people will definitely be jealous if they see it."
Zhou Bin smiled and said, "Listen to me first. We will definitely not keep all the coal to ourselves. This is what I think. When we dig up the coal, we will provide it to all the villagers for free. This will ensure that they will have something to use in the winter and won't have to suffer from the cold."
Zhou Jianming nodded and said, "Well, this is a good idea."
Zhou Bin went on to say: "Besides that, I also want to build a small coal yard there. In addition to loose coal, I will mainly process honeycomb coal. I will let people from our village come to work and I will pay them wages, so that everyone can make money."
Li Nan said happily: "Brother Bin, this will make everyone happy."
Zhou Bin smiled and said, "It's more than that. These lands were bought for ten yuan a year. I will pay a higher rent to the village in the future, and the money can be distributed to each household in the future."
Zhou Jianming felt relieved after hearing what he said. This way, no one should have anything to say.
After several people had discussed it, Zhou Bin asked Li Nan to open the door.
Just then, Xiaohua came back from her stroll outside. She asked curiously, "Mom, what are you doing?"
Li Nan smiled and said, "I didn't do anything. You must be hungry. Mom will bring you some rice crust."
When Xiaohua heard that there would be rice crust to eat, she was so happy that she followed Li Nan into the house.
Zhou Bin went straight to Zhou Defu, ready to talk to him about this matter first.
As soon as I entered the yard, Zhou Defu was busy cooking in the kitchen.
Zhou Bin greeted with a smile: "Third Grandpa, are you busy?"
Zhou Defu looked back and found that it was Zhou Bin who came. He immediately stood up and said with a smile: "Zhou Bin is here, I will boil some water."
As he said this, he took the electric kettle, scooped the water from the pot with an iron spoon, and poured it into the kettle.
After filling the electric kettle, he took out two enamel pots, pinched some tea leaves, poured some water for Zhou Bin and himself, and brought them out.
Zhou Defu handed the water to Zhou Bin and asked with a smile: "Zhou Bin, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Zhou Bin took the enamel pot and said with a smile: "Third Grandpa, there is something I want to discuss with you."
Zhou Defu smiled and asked, "What do you want to do now?"
Zhou Bin smiled slyly and said, "Third Grandpa, let's go to your room and talk."
Zhou Defu followed him into the house with a curious look on his face, and Zhou Bin told him about the discovery of coal in the field.
Zhou Defu was so shocked that he almost dropped the enamel pot in his hand. "Zhou Bin, are you telling the truth?"
Zhou Bin nodded and smiled: "It's true, I have tested it, it is indeed coal."
Zhou Defu sighed: "My God! There really is coal in that place! How come you are so lucky! No one wanted that place originally, but you took it and planted corn and discovered coal!"
Zhou Bin chuckled: "I don't know how it happened."
Zhou Defu stopped smiling and asked seriously, "Zhou Bin, this is a big deal. What are you going to do?"
Zhou Bin told Zhou Defu all about his plan. Zhou Defu smiled and said, "Well, you are a kind-hearted person. According to the contract, they won't say anything even if you don't give it to them. This is the best solution now."
Zhou Bin asked with a smile: "Third Grandpa, do you think my method will work?"
Zhou Defu nodded and said, "I think it's okay."
Zhou Bin felt relieved when he saw that the village chief had no objection.
The two of them then discussed it and decided to call everyone to a meeting after breakfast the next morning to talk about the matter with everyone.
The next day, after breakfast, the village loudspeaker began to notify everyone to gather in front of the village committee, and every family had to come.
Everyone heard the loudspeaker shouting many times, and not knowing what had happened, they all ran to the entrance of the village committee.
Zhou Bin and his family also packed up their things and hurried to the door of the village committee.
When Zhou Bin arrived at the gate of the village committee, he found that almost all the villagers had arrived. They gathered together, chattering, and no one understood why the village chief had called everyone together.
When Zhou Defu saw Zhou Bin coming, he immediately called him over.
Everyone looked at Zhou Defu and Zhou Bin, feeling even more puzzled.
After a while, Zhou Defu saw that all the villagers had arrived, and said with a smile: "Now that everyone is here, let's have a meeting. I called everyone here today because I have an important matter to discuss with you."
Liu Junyi laughed and shouted, "Uncle Defu, if you have anything to say, just tell me now."
Zhou Defu smiled and said, "Let me tell you a good news first! This winter everyone will have coal to burn, and it's free!"
As soon as these words were uttered, the crowd was in an uproar. Winter was approaching and everyone was worried about how to survive the winter.
Basically, everyone doesn’t have a stove at home, so they can only endure the winter.
At night, we would burn the kang to keep warm, and during the day we could only lean against the wall to bask in the sun.
The whole village was filled with smoke from the heating of the kangs. Most importantly, they had to go to the wild to collect firewood and leaves. They had to go every day. If they missed a day, there would be nothing to heat the kangs at night, and the whole family would have to endure the cold.
As for using coal for heating, that is even more unthinkable. It is too expensive and no one can afford it.
Unexpectedly, the village chief gave everyone such explosive news, and everyone was stunned.
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