Chapter 23 The first narration of twenty-three Lord Lao

(also his last narration) After sitting bored for a moment that day, Mr. Lao still told Cao Nan why he wanted to "rewrite" Zhu Lei's material.He said that after getting the material, he couldn't wait to read it almost in one breath.At that moment, due to excessive anticipation and anxiety, when he opened the outer package of this material, his hands were shaking all the time, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat.All this left him completely out of breath. The title of Zhu Lei's material is "What I Know About Acting Governor Gu and Boss Rao".It focuses on the whole process of the development of the relationship between Zhu Lei himself and Gu Liyuan, from acquaintance to discord and confrontation, and also focuses on the development history of the relationship between the acting governor Gu and the famous boss Rao ; It also focuses on the analysis of the "historical roots and realistic geographical factors" why these two great figures were able to emerge and grow in the land of Taurigan, and also describes the history of the development of these two personalities.Because when Zhu Lei met them, the three of them were still "white men", so it can be said that they grew up tied together.Therefore, his analysis is not only pertinent and in place, but also provides many little-known "insiders" and "details".For example, he said that when the superiors really put the pilot project of opening border trade right after Taoligan, the leaders of the county party committee at that time had no foundation in their hearts, so they immediately called Gu Liyuan to reprimand them severely, and pushed the matter to the He dealt with it, except for the start-up capital of 5,000 yuan, he didn't even give him a separate office, and the phone was shared with other offices.That night, Gu Liyuan went to Zhu Lei's dormitory to lament the bitter experience, sighed and cried a little.Who would have imagined that Gu Liyuan, who could get a bank loan of 500 to 600 million yuan with a phone call and grant hundreds of acres of land to investors with a white note, cried in front of Zhu Lei because of that little grievance.And he really asked Zhu Lei to help him... Zhu Lei talked about the "contributions" of Gu Rao and his wife.It also objectively stated the losses and ills they "inevitably" brought to Taurigan.Seeking truth from facts, he talked about the contradictions between him and Gu, and his own shortcomings... Although this matter cannot be simply regarded as a "reporting and exposing materials"-when Zhu Lei wrote this material.Maybe his heart is not on "reporting and exposing", but just "summarizing and reviewing" before he passed away, but he can indeed find a lot of clues that can be further explored. For example, the material mentioned Gu Liyuan As the secretary of the municipal party committee and the mayor, he called the leaders of the state-owned commercial banks, wrote IOUs, and provided guarantee loans for some bosses.Another example is the issue of Rao Shangdu buying those two small villas for Gu Liyuan... and so on.All provide important evidence for further investigation of these issues.

But that day, according to Mr. Lao himself, after he read it enthusiastically, it was strange that his mind was blank.I can't say what kind of taste is rushing in my heart, it's like the tablecloth on the counter of a Chinese medicine store, bitter, spicy and salty.Mixed flavors? Or is it like watching a fishing boat in the middle of the night, sitting silently for a long time, and at a loss? I don’t know where I am going... I can’t tell.strangeness. "...You know, during that period of time, I was always at the bottom of my life. Even when I was revoked the title of second-level hero model and expelled from the party, I was never at a loss. Yu Dacheng and Shou Tai asked for peace Your father's sudden change of mind has dealt me ​​a devastating blow mentally. It's not like when I was young. Although I was revoked as a second-level hero model, it made me fall from the cloud of fame to the accusation of Wanfu On the surface, that day seemed to be more sad, but it was not. At that time, I was young after all, and I also admitted that I was immature. Because I was young, I would have a long future. I think I can afford this price. Besides, what I did to myself That mistake. I still have my own views. Yes, I was really too proud at one time, and I was a little arrogant. I have offended many leaders who cannot be offended. In terms of certain disciplines and details of life, I am indeed not enough. Pay attention, making friends is too broad and unrestrained. At that time, my reputation was too great. Men and women flocked to me. I was indeed a little dizzy. But I understand one thing. It is because I did not bring any serious harm or loss to the workers. My mistakes are still in the middle of being punished or not punished, or not so serious. But the comrades who directly lead me decided to punish me , and gave the heaviest punishment. I know this is related to my personal grievances with them, and my own inability to handle interpersonal relationships. Personal grievances can change and fade as time goes by. Not good at I can learn to be good at dealing with interpersonal relationships. I am young. I have plenty of time. I am capable, and I can make new work achievements to prove everything about me. Besides, there were many comrades at that time, including many leaders, who were Those who sympathized with me secretly comforted me, encouraged me, and helped me. Even those leaders who were determined to teach me a lesson did not adopt the attitude of completely abandoning me. At least give me a chance to work, In their words, 'Make up for your mistakes', 'Get up where you fell'. In my own words, 'As long as I work, I have a future'. But this time it's different. Totally It's different. On the surface, things don't seem to cause any 'waves'. My life is business as usual. But the psychological defenses of my life have completely collapsed. This time I returned to Taurigan, I felt that I was very thoughtful. Thoughtful and meticulous. I feel that I am already very mature. All arrangements and deployments have been carefully considered, and it can be said to be watertight. I am absolutely sure to do what I want to do most in my life, but I have never been able to The big thing he accomplished was to solve a big case that not just any expert in criminal investigation could solve, and to write the most classic and wonderful stroke in his life. Then, with scars all over his body, he would call it a "glorious curtain call". What is mentioned here is 'to do something that I want to do the most in my life, but I have never been able to do it'. It does not just refer to solving a major case that has never been solved. No. What is more important is To make up for one regret in my life. Looking back on my life, I can’t say that I have done less , However, almost all of these things are done while watching other people's faces.Of course, looking back, human beings are at the current stage of history, whether it is the East or the West, whether they are surnamed capital or social, it is inevitable that some people live mainly to show their face to others, while some people, In other words, more people can only live by watching other people's faces.Of course, this has a lot to do with being an official or not.But that is not always the case today.A bicycle watcher or a community security guard is supposed to be an absolute low-level person, but he also uses the "right" to watch bicycles and guard the community to yell at people.Reporters, doctors, teachers, and critics are not officials, but if you deal with some of them, it is impossible not to give extra benefits.In other words, live this life.You have to keep your head down all over the place? It's so uncomfortable.I've always wanted to do something like this: it would allow me to do exactly what I wanted.I thought that going to Taurigan would fulfill this wish.I thought it was impossible for Ren Tong's accident to break my assumption there.But I was wrong.It was finally proved that he lived for nearly sixty years.I'm still immature, very immature.All those mutations that I should have thought of, things that I should have guarded against, I still haven't thought of, not prepared for.I was dumped by the most trustworthy people.The most frightening thing is that I have no way out.First, my age is here, and second, in order to come to Taurigan to do this job, I chose to retire, and I took off the police uniform that I shouldn't have taken off.Third, the scariest thing is still there, almost everyone is wary of me.After this incident, no matter whether it was inside the company or people of all kinds around, they all knew that I came to Taurigan to 'secretly investigate problems', and they all looked at me with strange eyes.It's like looking at a wounded lion that's still roaming the streets.They only know that lions are going to eat people, and they are all 'human', so they think I will 'eat' them.They don't know that my "lion" only eats bad people, and they must be "bad people" recognized by the law.Rao Shangdu's brilliance is that he does not confront me openly.He still takes advantage of me.Even continued to give me good treatment.But leave me alone in the crowd.I would get nowhere without the proximity and support of people - in this case.I shall remain at Reagan, and shall do nothing but be his means of earning money.This guy is very understanding.It's not like ten years ago now, you can no longer expect people to flock to you when they hear you are fighting corruption, chanting long live.There is absolutely no such thing.The anti-corruption strategy has been implemented for more than ten years.The determination cannot be said to be small, and the results cannot be said to be "brilliant". From the members of the Politburo, the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the provincial governor and secretary of the provincial party committee, down to the section chiefs, village chiefs and township chiefs.At least tens of thousands are caught every year.But because many fundamental problems have not been resolved.The phenomenon of corruption cannot be said to be more serious, but it should be said that it is still very serious.The most serious thing is.Many ordinary people have shifted their hopes from anti-corruption to following what they can get.From the corruption of administrative power.Corruption spread to the industry.Unstoppable arbitrary charges from all walks of life.The corruption of teachers, doctors, and intellectuals, as well as the unstoppable drug prices, are all obvious examples.People think in their hearts: Since you can't fight corruption, instead of watching everyone's public property being swallowed up by these few moths, it's better for us to "swallow a little bit" too.They scoop up hundreds of thousands, tens of millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of dollars. We don’t have that much ability, and we don’t have that much possibility. It’s better to get hundreds of thousands of dollars to subsidize the family than to fall into their mouths. Is it a good deal? In order to realize the "ideal" of "everyone earns a little", many people are disgusted with the "anti-corruption activists" in their units, and the kind of "horns on the head and thorns on the body", "noisy We all rest in peace' man.In the past few years, due to work, I have come into contact with several famous anti-corruption heroes in the province.They are all model figures publicly commended by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.But after contact, almost none of these people have a good life in this unit.Either it's a 'bleak evening scene', or it's particularly 'isolated' right now.

"And looking at the experience of the 'corrupt' who have been locked up and killed, there is a very important commonality, they are almost all 'made' by the people around them. Most of these people started They are not that arrogant, not that greedy, and some are even more honest and diligent. But as soon as they take up leadership positions, almost all of them bow their proud heads to them, and almost all of them bow their heads in front of them. discarded (as if automatically discarded) the inherent dignity of the human being. Almost all people in front of them became only able to say 'yes yes yes', 'yes yes yes'. There are many cases that some Corrupt officials embezzle and occupy tens of millions of public funds. In the process, as long as an accountant, cashier, chief or deputy chief of the financial section, or some other party says nothing at one link, the tens of millions There will be no 'churn'. But without exception, almost none of the subordinates say the word 'no' that the rules and regulations allow them to say when they should say no. How can so many people nod and bow their heads? How do the rich and powerful dare to say the word 'no' that should be said? How did this phenomenon come about? How can thousands of ordinary people dare to say 'no' in front of officials? This is another quite It is an important issue that must be investigated. What I want to say now is that all people do not say 'no', so they create batch after batch of corrupt officials. The word 'no' depends solely on the discipline inspection committee system People say that it is not enough, it is not enough.

"I haven't studied history systematically. I just dabbled in some relevant materials in my work over the years. For thousands of years, we have said that the feudal society was corrupt. In fact, if you look through the historical materials, you can find out that those we use as 'dictatorship' In a word, all dynasties and dynasties have made great efforts to promote anti-corruption work. The determination, heavy punishment, and vicious methods are beyond what our contemporary people can imagine, or even be able to do. Accepted. For example, whoever wants to take bribes and pervert the law not only kills your own head, but also kills the whole family, implicating the nine clans. That is really to kill a person without children and grandchildren. The sky is dark, the ghosts are crying and the wolf is howling. When you kill yourself, it is not a one-shot solution. ．The knife must be cut from the inside of the thigh, bit by bit, and piece by piece. If you don’t cut up to 3,000 knives, you will die, and the executioner will have to bear criminal responsibility. So much. Did they stop the corruption? No. Why? I've been thinking about this 'why' all these months in Taurrigan. It really gives me a headache sometimes. Nausea.

"We all 'yearn' for corruption. We all 'envy' corruption. We succumb to the power of corrupt elements. Corruption arises and grows under our instigation, retreat, and nourishment. In fact, we are 'manufacturing' corruption. "...we are putting a lot of effort into catching the problematic 'Gu Liyuan' and 'Rao Shangdu', but how can you handle the fact that people are constantly making things. Batch after batch. In various ways. Manufacture. And quietly, intentionally or unintentionally, it is produced on oneself and others like quicksilver pouring on the ground and spring breeze spawning weeds = the problem now is not how to deal with those problematic 'Gu Liyuan' and 'Rao Shangdu'. That's easy. Catch. Ten or eight, 11 million or 10 million, as many as we are used to saying, 'resolutely investigate and deal with whoever is involved': but the problem now is to deal with those numbers. There are also countless 'makers' or instigators, protectors...do you have a solution?

"Who are we? "We are ordinary people, ordinary people. "Maybe we did something else. But, did it work? "I keep asking myself is what we're doing working?" Speaking of this, Master Lao had a particularly weird look on his face, which often appeared on the faces of people who were particularly stubborn, even stubborn to the point of paranoia.Their eyes were glazed, but extremely determined and intense.Cao Nan said, at that moment.In a daze, Da felt that she didn't know the uncle Lao in front of her at all, and she suddenly felt a little scared. At this time, Shao Changshui asked, you have said so much, but you still haven't explained clearly why he falsified and forged Zhu Lei's materials?

Cao Nan said, I didn't really understand it at the time.It was only later that he realized that everything we did was actually invalid labor.Since it is invalid labor, there is no need to be so serious.You don't have to pay a huge price for this, or even spend your whole life as a price to pay.He felt that if the materials written by Vice Mayor Zhu were handed over intact, it would probably have extremely bad side effects on Vice Mayor Zhu himself and me, and we would have to spend our lives as the price. ... Shao Changshui asked, is it that serious? Besides, Zhu Lei has already been sentenced to death.Why is he still alive?

Cao Nan said that he felt that, based on his experience, the question of the deputy mayor would repeat itself.It would not be so simple to kill him.In other words, he still has the possibility of changing his sentence.As long as he gets a reprieve, he can not only save his life, but also have the hope of getting out of prison and returning to social life.But if his material were to be handed over untouched, that possibility and that hope would probably be dashed. Shao Changshui asked, why? Cao Nan said that Uncle Lao felt that the material written by Deputy Mayor Zhu was, on the whole, a "review and summary" rather than a "reporting and exposing" material.However, his raw materials still provide a lot of clues, which can allow people to further explore and verify the problems of Governor Gu and Rao Shangdu.If the problem was limited to Gu Herao, it might be easier.It's actually likely to extend to some others.This "some other people" is hard to say.If they knew that Zhu Lei was involving more people in this case, do you think they would just sit and wait? In this way, Zhu Lei would be dead.And people like me, who were passively involved in this matter, who more or less knew something about the situation, I am afraid they will not let it go.

Shao Changshui said, is it too pessimistic for Mr. Lao to judge the situation in this way?After all, our society is still sunny and good people are in power. Cao Nan said that he never denied what you said. Generally speaking, our society is indeed sunny and good people rule.But in a certain corner, in a certain part, did the sun shine on it all? You see, wasn’t he himself murdered later? When his accident happened, where was the sun? What about the good guys? Where did they all go? Shao Changshui said, so he wants to revise Zhu Lei's material? Cao Nan said, yes.He felt that by asking Zhu Lei to criticize and self-criticize in the material, and express some well-known but meaningless emotions, everyone felt that he was no longer a threat to anyone.I don't want to "threat" anyone anymore, so maybe he can really live again.

Shao Changshui asked Cao Nan, do you think this is his real idea? Cao Nan said that during the years of contact with me.There is one thing about him that is particularly reassuring, and that is sincerity.Whatever is in his heart, he said what he said.So, I believe this is what he really thinks. If you say, this is Lord Lao's real thought, if you say.At that stage, he had indeed "admitted defeat" mentally and did not want to continue his previous efforts.He has really been "indulging" in "eating, drinking and having fun", and has "turned to" the boss with all his heart. He has no intention of "secret investigation" at all, and the whole person has become a little neurotic. People are no longer a threat.So. Where does the word "murder" come from? He has no "harm" to others, so why do people harm him? Could it be that what killed him was really just a traffic accident without any intention of harming him? ?

Shao Changshui asked Commander Zhao these questions: Zhao Wuliu didn't say anything.After a while, just say, your conversation with Cao Nan.Is there a recording? Shao Changshui said, yes.Zhao Wuliu said, leave the recording, I want to listen carefully. That night, Cao Nan did not return to his residence on Wharf Street.Out of safety considerations and with the doctor's consent, Shao Changshui took her to No. 88, Longwan Road.When she left the hospital, she was equipped with necessary anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, pain-relieving, sedatives, and corresponding cotton wool and bandages; she was given a single room in the empty No. 5 building.do this.I also hope that she has a relatively private space, calm down and think about it carefully.See what else can be provided.After arranging all this, he went back to his dormitory in the second building.He felt a little uneasy: Commander Zhao wanted to listen to the recording of the conversation again. Could it be that he sensed some clues that Shao Changshui didn't sense from the report just now?