Chapter 10 Chapter 3 Light and Monster: The 1980s

One day a friend came to me to discuss how to avenge the shame and bring justice to two of her colleagues—her work unit sent a man and a woman to a county in Hebei Province to collect debts. The "joint defense team" who came suddenly turned to the police station in front of the station, on the grounds that they suspected that a man and a woman were sitting in a corner and whispering, and they were suspected of engaging in "prostitution transactions". Suspicion is nothing more than suspicion. How can the case be settled without a confession? How did the confession come about? --hit.

The man and woman were handcuffed and separated to extract confessions. Several defense members who were interrogating the woman surrounded her, all pretending to be pornographic, and uttering obscene language, which was unbearable to the ear.And use hands and feet to satisfy a little bit of evil psychology.In the compartment, there was a sound of wailing from the male colleague when he was beaten.The timid woman's hands were handcuffed and her body was humiliated. Hearing the sound, she trembled into a ball, and couldn't help being frightened.What to ask, what to confess.The interrogators took great interest in the details.Since they are interested, it's not okay not to answer, and it's not okay not to follow their answer.Against their will, they answered along with them, and they smiled with satisfaction.

The joint defense team heard that she was from the county, and her parents lived in a certain village. The next day, they sent someone to a certain village to inform her parents, and handed over 1,000 yuan to the guarantor.The parents came in panic, paid 700 yuan in cash, and wrote 300 yuan in IOUs before they bailed out their daughter. And her colleague, because he had no acquaintances in the local area to protect him and did not bring much cash with him, was handcuffed to the leg of the table for half a day and wrote an IOU of 1,000 yuan before he was freed. I didn't believe it, but the lover of the friend who was the deputy editor brought that colleague to my house one night.The thirty-five or six-year-old woman burst into tears without saying a few words.My friend's lover told me that the leaders of their unit were extremely indignant about this matter, and they made a promise that whoever can uphold justice and make law enforcement offenders receive due punishment, except that all expenses will be paid by the unit, and who will enjoy the honorary staff of the unit? treatment.

I saw purple and black scars of handcuffed skin on the woman's wrists.Ask her, how long has it been? Said it has been more than half a month. It has been more than half a month, and the skin marks are still so purple and black, so we can know what it must have been like at that time. She rolled up her sleeves to show me that there were marks of cigarette burns on her arms. I asked her if she took a picture? She didn't understand me. I said keep the evidence. She said she hadn't thought of that.She said that her husband was a hot-tempered man, so he borrowed a double-barreled shotgun from a friend, and tried to settle accounts with those defensemen several times, which made her worry every day, and even more worried that her husband would not cause any more disasters, and she would be responsible for what she had suffered. The abuse and humiliation, on the contrary, has become somewhat numb.

Ask her what is a "joint defense team"? She said that in the county where her parents lived, there seemed to be insufficient numbers of sheriffs and some were hired. Who are they? She said they were farmers. What kind of farmers are they? It is said that they are young farmers who do not want to farm at home, but find it hard to earn money when they go out to work. How much does it cost to be a joint defense player? According to the locals, it costs only three to five yuan a day.But there are many "bonuses". "Bonuses" are all kinds of fines.The big boss belongs to the police station, and the little boss belongs to them.Therefore, if they arrest more people and fine them more, the police station is happy and supports them.Therefore, we turn a blind eye to their actions, and sometimes even adopt an attitude of encouragement and encouragement.Because only by letting them use their own methods can they force money like "bail money".If the police do it openly, I'm afraid it will damage the image to some extent.And if they do it, even if they cause trouble, the police will come forward to mediate and mediate, and the major issue will be reduced to a minor one.

For this matter, I went to a friend of the Women's Federation, who expressed sympathy, but also expressed helplessness.I asked him if he didn't believe it?What did he say he didn't believe?However, the Women's Federation receives more letters of complaints and requests for help every day, and more petitioners it receives.Can you control everything you want?Among them, there are quite a few incidents in which the object of the prosecution is directly the public security personnel. The Women's Federation can't always play the role of representing women and sisters against the public security law?What's more, comparatively speaking, the incidents I reported on behalf of others are not serious at all.At best it is a matter of critical educational nature.Whether people have really criticized and educated, the person concerned still doesn't know.

I said that the so-called "bail money" should always be refunded to the victim, right? He said why are you so stupid? Isn't the "bail money" their bonus?Now that it is distributed, can it still be deducted from their wages? I did not give up, and represented my "client"—even though I am not a lawyer, but people found me and begged me, and invisibly, I also became their "representative"—to the Ministry of Public Security. Relevant parties in Hebei Province sent several letters, like a mud cow entering the sea, and there is no sound in the empty valley.One day two months later, when I came back from a business trip, my wife handed me a business card, which was the business card of the deputy secretary of a county party committee in Hebei Province.It was in that county that it happened.My wife said that the guest was an alumnus of my Fudan University, two years older than me, and brought some fruit when he came.

When I thought about it, I understood a little bit in my heart. Later, the woman's old father died of illness in a fit of anger because of that incident.After taking care of her father's funeral, she also fell ill, so she never looked for my friend, nor me.For my part, I freed myself from a matter that was doomed to never really do her justice.I have to have this self-knowledge.In fact, the three of us finally understood something tacitly—recognize it.What if you don't recognize mere ordinary people? A deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee was inspecting the "anti-pornography" campaign in microservices. He happened to discover that a book stall in a certain place was openly selling pornographic books and periodicals. He was arrested and interrogated for interfering with market economic order.

This incident was told to me by a deputy director of the State Press and Publication Administration.Comrade Li Guowen, an old writer, was present at the time.The administrator went on to say another thing.Several comrades from the Press and Publication Administration who studied at the Party School of the Central Committee went to a certain place after obtaining the approval of the comrades in charge of the Press and Publication Administration and the Party School in order to investigate and understand the impact and occupation of the book market by pornographic books. They bought one in front of a booth selling pornographic video tapes. Not long after they left, they caught up with a woman in her thirties and asked them mysteriously if they still wanted to buy it, saying that she had many kinds.If they buy more, she can discount the wholesale price.

They said no to buy, one plate is enough. The woman said no to buy. They asked why not? The woman said that you will be punished for buying pornographic videos, and threatened that if it is serious, you will be prosecuted. Did they say that if you force us to buy it, it will be fine?Are you not afraid of being punished or put on trial?There are policemen conducting interrogation more than 100 meters ahead, how dare you do this? The woman laughed and said that they would not punish me, let alone put me on trial.If you buy more from me, I will guarantee that you will be fine and pass through smoothly.If you don't buy more of mine, you'll be in trouble today.

They are naturally somewhat unbelieving.Get in the car and drive straight ahead.Evil exists, and unbelief is impossible.As a result, the car was stopped, and the police came up and said that they saw that you bought a pornographic video just now, do you want to be fined or put on trial? No matter how unwise they are, they have to become wiser and more obedient, and they all say that we will be punished! As a result, all the more than 3,000 yuan in the pockets of several people were confiscated. Question: Someone tried to force us to buy it, why don't you ignore it? A: If you have no right to ask, don't ask.We just buy it. Later, the Press and Publication Administration sent a deputy director to negotiate with the Propaganda Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and the fine was returned. A special film crew of CCTV passed a place where two provinces border. The driver drove the long-distance bus to a restaurant and urged the passengers to get out of the car to eat.The comrades of the film crew walked in with the passengers and saw that the environment was extremely dirty, so they planned to leave and eat at the restaurant opposite which looked cleaner.When they turned around, they saw that the door of the shop was locked and guarded by sticks.How can ordinary passengers dare to show displeasure?You only have to eat what you serve, and how much you want.Figure a safe and sound.Only these few friends of our CCTV film crew insisted on leaving.In the end, without saying a few words, a few men rushed out from the back store, and beat them all over the face.One of them found the police standing outside the window and shouted for help.The policeman's face flashes through the window and disappears.After being beaten, all the money, watches, and cameras he brought with him were taken away.Among the members of the filming crew, several friends were also young people with full of vigor. They couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted together, and fought hard with the opponents.The policeman appeared again "in due course" to stop it.Instead of interrogating the thugs hired by the shopkeepers, the film crew members were taken to the police station for further interrogation.What is even more dramatic is that the outhouse is being interrogated, and the store owner in the back room is "paying tribute" to the director. The things they donate are all things plundered from the film crew or other people. Recently I heard a saying that tradition is in Taiwan, the rule of law is in Hong Kong, and corruption is in the mainland. This is of course a very extreme statement.I believe Taiwan and Hong Kong also have their own corruption.And further believe that corruption exists everywhere in this world, but in different degrees. But the truth is, the corruption that has taken place on the continent, the very fabric of our republic, has indeed reached such an extent that its encroachment on our daily lives is felt by most of us almost every month. .It is precisely because it has reached such a level that ordinary people pray for anti-corruption, hoping to clean up the body of the republic in a real sense. And another fact is -- indeed, corruption has eroded into the public security and judicial departments.Even if it cannot be said to be very serious, it can be said to be quite serious. This will inevitably make ordinary people feel depressed and pessimistic about the prospects of our republic. Ordinary ordinary people seem to be accustomed to the so-called power-for-money transactions. A friend of mine who works in a certain county party committee came to visit me and said to me——We dare not express our views casually on the situation in the whole of China.But we still know the situation in our county clearly and well.Among the cadres of the Communist Party, some of them took thousands of yuan in bribes and embezzled tens of thousands of yuan, and were punished, removed from their posts, or even sentenced to prison. Do you want to know what attitude the common people have towards them? I said, yes. He said that the common people actually sympathized with them and felt that they were scapegoats.If a few thousand yuan or ten thousand yuan is used as the sentencing standard, then every person above the deputy section chief in my county counts as one, and there is no trial, and they will be shot if they are pulled out. If one shoots the other, many will surely slip through the net. I said, according to what you say, there is no hope? There is still hope, he said.It's just that the central government is not very clear about the psychological requirements of the people, so it can't meet the ideas.For example, on the issue of power-for-money transactions, the common people see it through too much, and when they understand it, let’s trade it.Let some people get rich first? This has already been preliminarily realized.Do you still expect those who get rich first to help the common people?The common people have no power in their hands, so what benefits can it give them?Can it make them richer?can't you?But the power in the hands of the powerful can make them richer.They are not stupid, why don't they use money to trade rights?With such a transaction, the officials of the Communist Party, big and small, became rich in this transaction.Chairman Mao laid the groundwork that China is a low-wage country, and the wages of officials, big and small, are not much higher.With prices soaring, don't they feel the pressure of not having enough money? What he said left me speechless. He said again——Not long ago, I conducted a social survey in the whole county, and guess what?Forty-two percent of the people advocate the openness and socialization of bribery and bribery, and government departments at all levels should simply set up a "bribery and bribery overall arrangement planning committee" or something.From the clerks in some industries to the cadres above the department, division, and bureau, the price of bribery and bribery is clearly marked in the decree, and it is announced every day like commodity prices and stock prices.It can be divided into internal price, preferential price, market price and adjustment price.Of course, it cannot be completely marketized, and planning should be the main focus. Otherwise, it will be like rising prices every day, and the common people will not be able to bear it.The state can also draw taxes from this.The more common the phenomenon of bribery, the more astonishing the number, the greater the tax revenue of the country!Forty-two percent of the people believed that this move was in the interests of the people, and fundamentally it was a matter of convenience for the people. I said, the more I listened, the more confused I became. He said, what do you think, when the people have difficulties, even if it is a matter that some people with power should solve for them based on emotion and reason, even if it is not a problem to solve, it cannot be done without spending money. no?Common people are worthy of sympathy because sometimes money can't be done.They have already understood the truth that only by spending money can they solve difficulties smoothly, but not all of them know whose hands the money should be put into, and what kind of method is considered decent.How good is a clear price tag?When I read newspapers, watch TV, and listen to the radio, I know who to call and how much money to bring.Moreover, I am a little more confident-"Here, I'm here to offer bribes! This is two thousand yuan, a little bit, and I will solve my difficulties as soon as possible. If I accept bribes, I will not do practical things. Be careful. Committee' go!..." Otherwise, the ordinary people would not even have the courage to pay bribes to solve their own difficulties with the little money they worked so hard to save.It was so easy to see the superiors, I felt humbled and timid, and I didn't know what to do to be willing to accept bribes.Sometimes you have to turn to a third or fourth party for help. There are too many "circulation" links in power-money transactions. What can be done with one thousand yuan can be exploited by a middleman and becomes something that can only be done with two thousand yuan. My friend narrated.He spoke very calmly and calmly, and was quite confident in his own analysis. I was even more speechless for a while. He asked, why do you have nothing to say? I said, I feel that I have nothing to say, really... He said, is what I said reasonable? I said it sounded reasonable too. I asked again dumbly, didn't you just say that there is still hope?What exactly is that hope? He starts smoking.He took a few deep breaths and said as if he had thought about it a thousand times—the police, the public security, the courts, if in the end even these places become places where power and money transactions are extremely common and law enforcement and crimes are unscrupulous, then... He stopped talking. I asked in a low voice, so what? He is smoking again.Smoking that cigarette as short as possible and putting it out in the ashtray before speaking—then it's time to rebel again.As long as it is a country, it must leave some hope for the common people! After he finished speaking, he stood up and said goodbye.Before going out, he patted me on the shoulder and said - you don't go out, there are some things I don't want to tell you to scare you.If you have enough time when you are willing to go for a walk and chat among the common people, I will accompany you.You may feel that if China continues like this, the future is not as bright as some old people and young people think. My friend came to Beijing in the first half of 1993. Soon after my friend left, the Party Central Committee put forward the slogan of "anti-corruption".The news media have reported some people and events of corruption, bribery, and power for personal gain one after another, as well as a series of major national cases.CCTV's "Thousand Miles of Quality" special group, sometimes south of the great river, and sometimes north of the Great Wall, also made a lot of noise, thunder and lightning.The purge of the financial sector, led by Premier Zhu Rongji himself, made the common people all over the country break out in a cold sweat—what's the matter?The treasury is about to be emptied? ! The money in the treasury is the money of the common people. There are many Chinese people, and the sweat of ordinary people is naturally not worth a few dollars.The wages earned by ordinary people in China are almost the lowest wages on the planet.Of course, this does not mean that the value they create is also the lowest on this earth.If it is said that more than 90 percent of the economic benefits of a state-owned enterprise belong to the state, it undoubtedly means that more than 90 percent of the value created by its ordinary laborers—no, actually more than 100 percent. More than 90% of them-dedicated to the country. This money is related to their future pensions, social welfare, and whether the country facing future generations is economically reliable. But the money was used to speculate in stocks, real estate, and various speculative businesses in the name of the country.Lost, the wool comes from the sheep, just continue to raise prices.Making money and stuffing it into the pockets of some people has become an easy and convenient way for some people to get rich first. The four major families of the Chiang Dynasty did the same.Basically, they also relied on such activities to become family groups, large and small, in Chinese history.Looking at the history, the records are clear and simple.