Chapter 3 The View of Integrity and Honesty of Chinese Aborigines

Brother Guowen made a long-distance call, saying that a friend of his own runs a magazine, and asked him to invite some celebrities to write articles about the construction of a clean government, and said that Zhang Jie, Ye Nan, Xiaosheng, etc. had all written articles.With those famous people talking about clean government, I have nothing to say, because I definitely agree with their opinions.However, since I stay in the "old, young, frontier and poor" areas far away from Beijing, I can often get in touch with many of the most ordinary people. For some reason, maybe I am a frog in a well. What I think of is them, as if they represent the "national conditions" and "characteristics" better than the people in the southeast coast and the big cities in the Central Plains.I cannot say that these people are "the masses".For if I call them "the masses," their opinion becomes "the opinion of the masses."This is too serious and too political for this short essay to afford.After much deliberation, I had no choice but to call the group of people I came into contact with "indigenous people".

The views of Chinese "indigenous people" on clean government are indeed very different from those published in newspapers and magazines, and they are also quite interesting.From what I've heard, it can be roughly divided into the following categories: One category only focuses on the personal life style of leaders or officials. The so-called "life style" is because the lives of the indigenous people are very simple, so they only care about food and clothing.For example, this official usually eats very lightly and only loves to eat from his hometown. The biggest luxury is to have a bowl of braised pork and wear patched clothes. He does not love money in his life, and he does not even touch money. Even if the leader or official manages this place so that the people are poor and the prisons are everywhere, the aborigines will unanimously praise him when they comment on him. He made a mistake", not only will he forgive him, but he will still respect him very much. When he leaves office or after his death, he will be reluctant to part with his nose and tears, and miss him very much.In the hearts of the aborigines, "integrity" and "government" are separate.

Another indigenous mentality that separates "integrity" from "government" is just the opposite, only looking at "policy" and ignoring "integrity".An aborigine once said to me: "Damn! As long as this official can improve our life and economy, why would he take a 'Mercedes', even if he takes a 'Santana' (this aborigine thinks that 'Santana' is better than 'Mercedes-Benz' noble)! If he wants to be happy, we are willing to use a sedan chair to carry him to work every day. As for playing with women, there are at least 200,000 women in our county, and he plays with one a day, which is only 360 a year Five, enough for him to play with!" I was dumbfounded, and I didn't know what to say to him, because he probably didn't have the concept of "clean government" in modern politics in his head.

Aboriginal people who do not have the concept of "clean government" in their minds are very common.It has become a custom to treat guests and give gifts when doing something, just like entertaining relatives and friends when getting married and celebrating the New Year, and it has penetrated into the folks.If I objected, they would definitely look down on me, and I would become a person who doesn't understand the world.And they have absolutely no contempt for the officials who accept gifts, thinking that accepting gifts is "bribery" and not accepting gifts is "clean and honest".It was only when the officials accepted the gift but did not do anything that the natives complained a bit.If you don't believe me, you can watch some programs of CCTV's "focus interview" and some articles of so-called "legal literature". Do you know that this is breaking the law?" Didn't many prisoners answer "I don't know"?When I asked the victims, the victims didn't know where they could go to complain, and many of them didn't even know they had been victimized.This often makes me sigh that our country attaches the most importance to "political learning". For more than 40 years, the time and money spent on organized "political learning" across the country must exceed the sum of other countries in the world, but we Where did the "learned" things go?What are we "learning"? "Learning" comes and goes, and the result is that there are nearly a quarter of the country's illiterates and more legal and scientific illiterates.

What is an honest government? "have no idea!" In fact, when an official accepts a gift, it means that he is willing to do things for you, and if he does not accept a gift, it means that he is not prepared to do things for you. Everyone knows it well.Some people say that this kind of unhealthy tendencies only emerged after the reform and opening up and the market economy.But the natives don't see it that way.The aborigine who worked with me on the farm said, "Did you forget? At that time, when men joined the party, they had to treat guests and drink, and when women joined the party, they had to stick their bodies in; male 'educated youths' could not get registered permanent residence without carrying Beijing Erguotou, and female 'educated youths' 'If you don't sleep with the secretary, you can't go to university?" Tracing back to the source, this phenomenon is still a product of the "Cultural Revolution" that some people still linger on, and it is the aftertaste of "the right not to expire."As for whether it has "developed from quantitative change to qualitative change"?Please listen to the comparison of the aborigines: an aborigine said, "The price has gone up! Ten thousand yuan now is equivalent to a hundred yuan at that time. Besides, there are bitches everywhere now, find a bitch It’s better to sleep with the manager than to send your wife away!” The natives don’t think the situation is worse now, as if they are better than before.

What's more, many aborigines don't trust clean and honest officials, but feel kind to less clean and honest officials.for example.There is a municipal party secretary in a medium-sized city in Northwest China. During his seven or eight years in office, he has not settled household registration or assigned positions for his relatives and children.After retiring, the natives commented on him, but said, "He doesn't even care about his own relatives and children, will he care about our common people?!" Yes, "the family is in order to rule the country and the world", and he doesn't even have his own family. , To talk about "governing the country"?There are also aboriginals who judge whether an official accepts gifts or not to "get along with the masses" and "attitude towards the masses".There is a short story about this: a clean and honest official was serious after he took office, but his subordinates kept him at a respectful distance when they saw him, which made him very distressed. Only by accepting all the orders will the relationship be improved.Seeing that a certain official refused to accept bribes in the newspaper, and some had exact figures—"21 rejections, a total of 37,200 yuan!" The natives were very suspicious of this: "Every He counted the bribes given to him every time before returning them to the briber?" "Why didn't he arrest the briber on the spot and hand it over to the public security bureau? As a result, people bribed him again and again." "The more than 30,000 yuan is his Did you report it, or did you report it?” and so on.A relatively wealthy native self-employed chatted with me and said, "I am afraid when I hear 'clean government'!" I asked strangely, clean government is only good for you, and it is aimed at cadres, not you. What are you afraid of?He said, "If the cadres are not clean, I can still get things done with some money. If the cadres don't accept gifts, they won't do anything. For us self-employed, the loss outweighs the gain. In fact, everything I want to do It is within the scope of the law, and it is not against the law. I just want it to be done quickly and smoothly." "Two evils are the lesser", it seems that incorruptibility can improve the efficiency of work, how to explain this phenomenon ?

And so on, and so on. I thought I had some common sense in politics, and I had traveled to foreign countries, and I had a taste of some modern country's administrative norms and local customs, but I didn't know how to "educate" the indigenous people's deep-rooted habits.Sometimes I think, this is the "Chinese characteristics" and "national conditions", it is better to go with the trend and go against the trend, and I will run into walls everywhere; Go deeper.