Chapter 12 3. Sensitive topics of that era

No matter where I am, as long as I have the opportunity, I am most willing to chat with any common people I can get in touch with.So far, even I myself don't understand why I can gain their trust to the greatest extent in the shortest period of time?Maybe it's because my clothes are too ordinary. When chatting with ordinary people, especially when they don't know each other, especially when he judges that you are definitely not a plainclothes police officer, he will tell you what is in his heart.Those words were probably only spoken by him unless he spoke the truth after drinking.This kind of conversation is more than hundreds of times!But it can be summed up in just two sentences - support reform and hate reality.Yes, it is absolutely true, at least the ordinary people I have come into contact with have reached the level of disgust and rebellion against reality.Every time I was shocked for a long time, why what I heard was completely opposite to what some officials, big and small, heard from the people?

——Do you dare to say these words to government officials? ——Why don't you dare?The head fell off, but there was a scar the size of a bowl!What's more, they may not dare to chop off my head just because I said a few truths!Then they will have a good show to watch! --What drama? ——The revolution has its own successors! —Did you really say that to them? —That’s not true. ——Still afraid? ——It’s not that I’m afraid, it’s that I’m too lazy to tell them the truth.Do they deserve to hear the truth?For example, if the common people say that there is no corruption, if they don’t want to admit it, it means that there is no such thing.Not until they have to admit it to themselves.If they don't want to punish them, no matter how loud the common people's voice is, it's tantamount to playing the piano against a cow, and there's nothing they can do.It wasn't until they themselves realized that it would be impossible not to punish them, that they would show the monkeys the two killed chickens.Now they are pretending to be stupid to each other.You say that the situation of reform is very good, and I say good, good, great!You say that corruption is an inevitable phenomenon in the process of reform, but I say that it is not only inevitable, it is just right and proper, completely in line with the characteristics of Chinese-style socialism, and promotes reform.I can even follow you and say that no corruption is not enough to achieve reform, corruption is for reform, and reform requires corruption!In fact, no one is more stupid than the other, and each other is like a mirror in their hearts.They all understand that if this continues, one day they will no longer be able to deceive each other.

——In your opinion, the reform has not brought any benefits to the common people? ——Hey, don't button your hat indiscriminately!I don't see it that way.The reform has brought some benefits to the common people.That is Lian Tan'er's right to do small business.The common people have never denied this benefit.But other than that, tell me, what benefits do the common people gain? I thought about it seriously, but couldn't think of anything "other than this" for a while. ——Brother, you have to admit anyway that the living standards of ordinary people have greatly improved.What did we eat in the past?What are you wearing?

The other party sneered. ——What are you sneering at? ——In the past 30 to 40 years, our family has grown two crops of labor force.In the past, my father earned money to support a large family by himself, but now the entire family can earn money.The improvement of our family's living standard is, in the final analysis, the result of the prosperity of my Lao Ding! I was speechless. ——Don’t think that ordinary people know little about it.The common people know a lot.Again, no one is more stupid than anyone else.Give the common people the right to practice stalls and do small business, so they can do whatever they want?So you can draw a piece of land from the ground in China and return it to yourself to speculate?You can use the country's money to start a company, and then subtly turn the country's company into your own company?Can you rely on the power of the old men to reach out and ask for "dry shares" everywhere?Empress Dowager Cixi, she was just the one who ceded land and betrayed the country back then, right?It's a good thing now, where the land is hot, they dare to ask for a piece of the country's land and sell it for nothing! ...

He said it a little cynically. He is a motorcycle maintenance master, and he looks thirty-six or seventeen years old.His shop is not big, and there are four or five motorcycles waiting to be repaired in front of the door. There are domestic and imported famous brand cars. It seems that his business is good.And he also seems quite confident in his ability, as if he advertises himself with his skilled actions all the time—don’t worry if you leave the motorcycle to me for repair, I’m the best in this line of work. That day I made an appointment with a friend to meet in front of his shop, see you soon.My friend was late for a while, and I went a little earlier. I wanted to smoke a cigarette but didn't bring a match. After asking him for a fire, he took the initiative to chat with me.

"Outsider?" He was repairing a motorcycle at the time. I say yes. "Beijing's?" I say yes. "reporter?" I laughed and asked him why he regarded me as a reporter? He said: "It looks like you don't look like a businessman, a cadre, or a teacher, but you also look like someone with a bit of culture. You are not a reporter, and you must be a writer." I admitted to him that I wrote novels. He also laughed and said, "Writers. In the past, writers were quite respectable figures in my mind. Now I think you writers are really 'smelly old nines'. It's not that others slandered you, but you are really stinky. Now The stinky stuff written by you is all over the floor! Apart from the little things between men and women, can you write anything else? In your eyes, there are only a few things left in China Can you write it?"

I am a person who usually does not blush, but I did blush at that time. He asked me if I knew the two writers who wrote "China on the Col" and "Who Will Contract China". I honestly said that I knew their names and had read those two books, but I had no chance to get acquainted with those two writers.And, secretly looked at him with admiration. He added: "When will you see those two, send me a message. If they get into trouble for writing such a book again, they will run here. Don't dare to brag about anything else, China is so big, hide it It’s not a problem to hold someone alone.”

At the time I thought he was a dangerously thoughtful man.I wanted to leave, but I couldn't.Only continue to stand there, only continue to chat with him. He wore a huge gold ring on his finger. I said, "Why don't you take it off when you repair the car?" He said indifferently that it was all right. I asked, "Is it real gold?" Unexpectedly, he became angry and snapped up: "Next, do you want to say that I wear a gold ring, I have to be grateful to the times, to so and so! Shit! I don’t appreciate anyone. I eat by my ability and earn by my ability Money, wearing a gold ring based on ability. Unlike some people’s children! Why are they? They can be, I can be! But you tell them not to rely on Lao Tzu, but rely on their own ability to survive to open a motorcycle repair Shop to try!"

I dare not talk to him anymore.I don't know what he will say next that violates the "rule of heaven".In fact, I was not afraid of anything else, and there was no one in plainclothes who might be eavesdropping, so I was afraid of something.Even if there are plainclothes, even if those words were not spoken by the other party but from me, what is there to be afraid of?Thinking about what he just said, dare to kill my head with a few words?Or send me to jail?There is actually only one thing I am afraid of, and that is - I really don't want to hear too many such remarks from the people and from the mouths of the people.Of course, I don't want to see or experience too many corruption phenomena with my own eyes.I am afraid that if I hear more and see more, it will seriously affect my overall, objective and comprehensive view of China's reality.

I know that my peers may ridicule and ridicule me - just write your novel honestly and forget it.If you are a writer, but not a member of the Politburo, what does the reality of China have to do with you?What a sense of mission! In fact, I know myself too well. I pay attention to the reality of this country, which by no means means that I have a strong sense of mission for it. However, I am a writer who has always insisted on writing reality. It is not a writer who insists on not insisting on realism, but a writer who insists on reflecting real life and the real life of the most common people called "common people".I am not only concerned with their physical state in real life, but also with their mental state, psychological state, emotional state and emotional state.

No one imposed this on me, let alone tried to force me, it was entirely my own choice, a willing choice.Only when my pen is used to reflect the life or living conditions of ordinary people in reality, I feel that writing has some meaning after all.It is worthwhile to boil your own hard work and consume your own body.Regardless of the extent to which the reality that I pay attention to, feel, and touch is real reality. I may stand today and write what I predict may happen next year and the year after, but I will never, never, spread out the manuscript, smoke a cigarette, and concentrate on weaving a story from long ago. Even if I made up my mind, after writing the first line, I would definitely jump up and ask - what's wrong with me?Why should I do this?What's the point?Although, I fully understand how safe it is to write "once upon a time".Because it is almost only in this way that a contemporary Chinese writer can act as a writer without having inevitable conflicts, conflicts and collisions with the contemporary era, especially with the contemporary masters.And, no doubt, while the degree of democracy has been looser (I feel so, I believe it is, I hope I feel right), but in the collision, as you can imagine, the end is very bad The wonderful one must be the writer himself. As a writer like me who asks for trouble and can’t change my creative intentions, since the concern for reality has completely become the driving force for my creation, I certainly hope that I can also ask myself to be true to what I pay attention to and feel. The more objective and comprehensive the better can be understood, the more comprehensive the better can be grasped on the whole. Since I am willing to write about ordinary people, how can I not get close to them in the widest possible way?The common people I mentioned actually include almost the vast majority of people in China—workers, farmers, small traders, small cadres, and small intellectuals. The word "common people" used to refer to the class of the emperor, royal family, and court officials.In Kyoto, "common people" used to be a collective term for people who went to the Golden Temple every day to wait for court, big businessmen, and big officials.In places, such as a county, it is a collective term for people other than the county magistrate, people around the county magistrate, celebrities and wealthy gentry in the county. Fundamentally speaking, my problem lies in my closeness and contact with ordinary people, as well as my understanding and understanding of them. Mao Zedong once compared the common people, especially the common people in China, to "the vast ocean".The meaning of the original words in his quotations is that no matter the army from any country, if they dare to risk the world's disgrace and invade China, they will be drowned in the vast ocean of Chinese people . My personal feeling is that in 1993, before Zhu Rongji turned against the tide and effectively cleaned up the chaotic situation in China's financial sector, before Jiang Zemin proposed anti-corruption in the name of the Party Central Committee, and before the Ministry of Public Security issued regulations to strictly control the police, Before the "IOUs" in the hands of Chinese farmers can be cashed out, before the real estate development boom, stock boom, and special zone development boom are cleaned up, if you really go for a walk among ordinary people, especially those in the north instead of the south Go for a walk, if they see you as someone they can trust, if they don't suspect that you are being bought by the powerful or bought by money, if they are outspoken to you that they are holding back and want to say or even shout Then, no matter whether you are an official, a writer, or a reporter, no matter how high you stand, how far you see, how objectively and comprehensively you understand the reality of China, and how accurate your overall understanding is, Your views, your cognitions, your viewpoints, and your thoughts will be shattered to pieces in an instant.Even if you think you are a very rational, very calm person who is not affected by any external emotions.Unless you are fundamentally an insensitive person, or a ruffian in disguise, while listening to their words, you say to yourself in your heart--corruption is none of my business, ugliness is none of my business, buddy is just playing with you Nah. I used to be afraid of that kind of "ocean" from the bottom of my heart. Because, after all, I am a pious supporter of reform and opening up.Moreover, Zeng thought he was an optimistic enough reform and opening up believer. The "Help" article tells the common people that there is no other way but to bear it.Only increase the mental capacity. What if the common people are unwilling? ——That is the fault of the common people, the common people are not good, the common people are not cute, the common people are too delicate. The "helping" article seems to deduce a natural logic - if people can't or don't even want to bear corruption, won't supporting reform become a lie and empty talk? You can't help but suspect that they are inextricably linked directly or indirectly to corruption, and they are specialized writers who have been hired to defend corruption. During the "Cultural Revolution", Jiang Qing said something about how literary and art workers should "correctly" reflect real life-we don't deny that socialism also has some dark sides.If you really see it and feel it, then go and capitalize on the light more consciously and passionately.According to the logic of this "standard-bearer", light inspires people, and people will no longer pay attention to darkness. Isn't darkness the same as non-existence? For a period of time, some people who were qualified to represent the people understood and avoided the word "corruption".It seems that if you talk about it, you are not a sincere reformer.In fact, I am afraid that if I talk too much, I will be deprived of the qualification to represent the people.Mao Zedong also forbade people to talk about the "Cultural Revolution" in his later years.So when he was alive, no one dared to talk about it, from inside the party to outside the party, from officials to the people.Not only did he dare not talk about it, but in the year of his death, three months before his death, concerts were held all over the country, singing "The Cultural Revolution is as good as it is, as it is!" What impressed me most was the concert in Shanghai Yes, the eight words "The Cultural Revolution is good" were sung repeatedly for a few minutes, and then they simply yelled at the top of their voices.It was like a quarrel with an invisible enemy camp.It can be said that Mao Zedong died amidst the singing and shouting of "the Cultural Revolution is good".Even if Mao Zedong was as great and as prestigious as Mao Zedong, didn't the people of the whole country completely deny the "Cultural Revolution" as soon as he died? Its characteristic is that the whole party and the people of the whole country tell lies, and use lies to deceive Mao Zedong until his death. There were only two truths in the ten years of the "Cultural Revolution" that are worthy of special mention by historians.Once, a few veterans came up against the case and spoke the truth against political corruption within the party. As a result, they were designated as "February Countercurrent".Another time, the "Fourth Five-Year Incident" in Tiananmen Square, which was triggered by the commemoration of Premier Zhou, was beaten with a big stick and designated as a "counter-revolutionary incident." This time, the Party Central Committee proposed to carry out anti-corruption, so from the central government to the localities, from the Communist Party to the democratic parties, it seems that they dare to speak out about corruption.Because this is called "implementing the tasks of the central government", it will not be classified as the opposite of the reformists because of this, and it will not be suspected of intentionally ruining the good situation of reform. We have so many deputies to the National People's Congress and so many members of the CPPCC. Previously, we ordinary people rarely saw or heard any representative or member of the CPPCC on TV, radio, or in newspapers. Words of corruption.What we can hear or see is almost always a statement of how much they support reform.Their mission seems to represent the common people only at this point.Now it seems that the ban has been lifted and speeches are allowed, so it seems that corruption does exist. I remember one time during the National People’s Congress, I went to visit a friend who was a representative of a certain province. In his room, I somehow talked about corruption.There was no one else in the room, just the two of us.I didn't realize how loud my voice was, but his face turned pale with fright, he fidgeted in panic, and begged me again and again: "Keep your voice down, keep your voice down, can you please keep your voice down!" Say my voice is not too loud.He said, "Not too old? Let's stop talking about this, stop talking about this!" He winked at me, as if someone was bugging me outside the door. Of course, we cannot deny the positive, important, and huge role played by the National People's Congress and the CPPCC in the country's current situation and future, but the voices calling for the punishment of corruption should be recognized first and foremost by those respectable people who have the courage to plead for the people in the press issued.No matter how much the common people have been complaining about the same malpractices in the press for a long time. The term "power-for-money transaction" first undisputedly came from the people, then gradually resorted to articles, and then it was talked about by our general secretary to the whole party, and it has become an open topic today.Otherwise, it will be nothing but the angry words of the common people forever. The common people's intuition is clear-some people don't like to listen to the topic of corruption, and they will be unhappy if they hear it, and they will think that they are deliberately destroying the scenery of reform.So the common people didn't bother to discuss it later, and showed a very confusing silence.People suffer in silence.Bearing the almost absurd rise in prices, and the rampant and unscrupulous corruption.Isn't it just asking the common people to accept it all?Then show you a little psychological endurance.Even today, the topic that ordinary people think is the most boring is probably the topic of "corruption".The real thought in the hearts of the common people seems to be to go forward with corruption.