Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan really didn’t understand.

The two men watched as Kang Tian used the crossed hemp ropes to draw on the fine sand ground with lime and cinnabar.

After a long time.

Kangtian finally stopped.

However, without any explanation, he went into the Xu-shaped cave again with the vinegar jar. He used his steps as a ruler, passed the prisoners, and walked to the sixth lane. He dug out a small stone from the wall near the Ji-shaped cave and threw it into the vinegar jar. Then he went to the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh lanes, dug out a small stone and threw it into another vinegar jar.

Afterwards, he went to Renzi Cave and used the same method to dig out a stone and throw it into the vinegar jar.

After arranging the vinegar jars in order, he picked up the bamboo tube and went back into the Xu and Ren holes. After another round of tinkering that neither Chen Shao nor Gu Feiyan could understand, he came out very satisfied. After observing the conditions of all the vinegar jars one by one, he stood in front of the sand table again, picked up the lime and drew two circles, one large and one small. He pointed to the blank area between the two circles and said, "You can start now. Start digging along this area. Dig until here..."

When pointing to the inner circle, Kang Tian suddenly stopped, turned to look at Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan, and said belatedly: "I forgot to explain it to the two adults."

Chen Shao said tolerantly: "It's okay, it's the same if you explain it now."

Kang Tian nodded and said "OK", then pointed to the circles he had marked with cinnabar, and then pointed to the middle area where all the circles were connected, and explained one by one: "These circles are the locations where the iron mine collapsed, and the area connected by the circles is the entire range of the collapse."

When he was about to explain the principle of such measurement to them, he was interrupted by Chen Shao: "You don't need to explain to us how to rescue the people first. You should arrange the people first, and explain how to dig and how deep to dig. It's better to explain it clearly. After arranging the people, it won't be too late to explain it to us later."

Kang Tian agreed again.

The mining of iron ore is implemented under three-level management, from high to low: chief mine supervisor, mine supervisor, and foreman.

Among them, foremen are divided into team leaders and technical leaders.

The iron mine adopts a two-shift work system, day and night.

There is a team leader and a technical leader in each hole, and the two teams have a total of twenty team leaders and twenty technical leaders.

The team leader is mainly responsible for supervising the miners' discipline and recording working hours; the technical leader is mainly responsible for guiding technical operations such as support and drainage.

When it comes to understanding the mines, no one knows them better than the technical chief.

Regardless of whether they were working the day shift or the night shift, and regardless of their identities, everyone was waiting in the open space outside the iron mine.

Kangtian went to the open space and called twenty technical leaders to the sand table. After explaining to them what could be dug, what could not be dug and the precautions for digging, he designated an area of ​​responsibility for each person.

Kang Tian was just an ordinary miner before, but now he has become the one who commands them. Although the technical leaders feel strange, they dare not question it. After finding out the location of the area they are responsible for, they left one after another, and then took their miners to the area they are responsible for.

After the rescue started, Kang Tian did not stop there. After briefly explaining the principles of various markings on the sand table to Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan, he hurriedly directed the remaining miners to take the white pigeons and wormwood and regularly observe the ventilation conditions at the rescue hole. If everything was satisfactory, the miners were arranged to dig three meters inward, set up a set of support frames, backfill gravel to reinforce the side walls, and then use bamboo to build ventilation ducts based on the air flow speed measured by chicken feathers.

While busy with all these, he also did not forget to adjust the speed and direction of digging the rescue channel at any time.

Even if Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan didn't understand, they knew that he was indeed capable when they saw the rescue work becoming more and more orderly under his command.

Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan are both the kind of people who know how to trust their employees.

Seeing him like this, he officially delegated his power as commander-in-chief.

Kang Tian did not disappoint the two people's expectations. As time went by, the rescue work progressed faster and more smoothly.

In less than two hours, news came from the locations corresponding to the seventh and eighth lanes of Wuzidong. Soon after, news of corpses being dug up also came from the lanes of Renzidong one after another.

It's not good news though.

But Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan had already prepared themselves mentally.

First of all, the collapse had already occurred for five or six days.

Secondly, according to Yang Yi's account, the mine had been leaking water two months ago. Water seepage in the mine means there is a risk of collapse. Under the coercion of Chief Mine Supervisor Yang Dechang and Supervisor Song Baotian, the miners had to risk their lives to continue mining in the mine even though they were unwilling or afraid. Day after day, the mine did not collapse, and people's common sense would gradually relax their vigilance. However, the collapse only takes a moment, and in this moment, even those who are always vigilant can hardly make perfect preparations.

Therefore, all that was dug out were corpses. Although Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan were sad, they were not surprised.

Chen Shao still had doubts about how the iron mine collapsed, so she took great pains to deal with the bodies.

Divide the elite soldiers into groups of three.

A team of three people was responsible for stuffing the ear canal and nasal cavity of each corpse with a mixture of atractylodes, cloves and peppercorns, and stuffing the mouth with a cotton ball soaked in cinnabar water; two people were responsible for injecting high-concentration brine into the abdominal cavity through the navel, and then applying Glauber's salt powder after suturing. Later, the three people worked together to sprinkle saltpeter lime one inch thick on the surface of the corpse, then wrapped it with waxed linen, and carried it on a bamboo frame to the depths of the rest of the mine covered with charcoal ash.

Afterwards, each body was numbered and the location where the body was found, its height, clothing, etc. were recorded according to the number to facilitate the subsequent identification of its name, age and place of origin.

Xu Guang had no experience in dissecting bodies from mining accidents.

After seeing the elite soldiers becoming increasingly proficient in handling corpses, Chen Shao took him to dissect three corpses.

The lung lobes of all three bodies had bright red spots and black deposits.

Bright red spots are typical of carbon monoxide poisoning; black deposits are typical of dust asphyxiation.

In other words, these three bodies were not crushed or killed by the collapsed iron mine, but died of suffocation due to the carbon monoxide produced when the lighting torches or the broken supports were ignited in the confined space and the huge dust produced by the collapse blocked their mouths and noses.

Look at the broken bones on the three bodies.

After the vinegar steaming method, it was revealed that the bone fractures on the three bodies were parallel fractures, which were caused by collapse and compression.

In summary, these three people all died of natural causes caused by iron mine collapse.

After handing the remaining bodies to Xu Guang, Chen Shao cleaned them up and returned to the rescue sites of Wuzidong and Renzidong.

Although the autopsy results showed nothing unusual, Chen Shao's intuition told him that there must be other reasons for the collapse.

really.

Half an hour later.

Kang Tian hurriedly found Chen Shao, his face was unusually serious: "Sir, there is a special discovery in Xinzi Cave!"