Chapter 4 Chapter 1: The Martyrs - 2 Cases Surprise Central

When the villagers in the account clearing team found Ding Zuoming at the police station, Ding Zuoming was already dying.Some of them lay on Ding Zuoming's body and couldn't bear to cry, knowing that Ding Zuoming was murdered because he spoke for everyone; some rushed to report to Ding's house; If your police don’t handle the case, social security will be half as good!” Ding Zuoming's 70-year-old father, Ding Jiying, stumbled into the police station. Seeing his son's pale face, sweat rolling down his cheeks, his lips trembling, he knelt down in front of his son without saying "it hurts."

At this moment, Peng Zhizhong, the deputy director of the police station, came back to see if Ding Zuoming had been subdued.Ding Jiying heard that Peng Zhizhong was the leader of the institute, and that his son was beaten like this because he refused to pay more than 200 yuan in "medical expenses" for the deputy village head Ding Yanle, so he pleaded with Peng Zhizhong: " I apologize to Ding Yanle, I have accepted Ding Yanle's medical expenses, and I will hand over the money to you tomorrow, please let my son go!..." Peng Zhizhong didn't expect the joint defense team to attack so hard this time, and Ding Zuoming was beaten so badly. Seeing that Ding Jiying was pleading with him, he waved his hand, wishing to carry Ding Zuoming away as soon as possible.However, he still did not forget the decision he had made: "Let me make it clear, I must send the medical expenses to the police station tomorrow!"

Ding Jiying and the villagers in the audit team hurriedly sent Ding Zuoming to the township hospital for treatment. Later, because Ding Zuoming had severe abdominal pain, the doctors at the township hospital were at a loss, so they had to transfer him to Lixin County Hospital overnight for emergency treatment. At 8 a.m. the next day, Ding Zuoming was diagnosed with spleen rupture and massive hemorrhage. The hospital gave Ding Zuoming an emergency blood transfusion. However, it was too late to recover. Ding Zuoming finally stopped breathing on the operating table of the county hospital where he was rescued.

When old man Ding Jiying heard that his son had died on the operating table, he couldn't help weeping to death.He slapped the wall in agony: "Son, why are you so stupid, you are right and they have the right, why do you want to twist your arm over your thigh?..." Ding Zuoming's lover, Zhu Duofang, couldn't accept this cruel fact even more, and she cried into tears early.While crying, she shouted: "Zuo Ming, they beat you to death, why don't you recognize the two hundred dollars! Is money more expensive than life? You let go like this, leaving behind two A sick old man, three such young children, the oldest is just six years old, and the youngest is only two weeks old... How will I live in the future?"

The villagers of the auditing team standing by the side tried to persuade Ding Jiying and Zhu Duofang not to be too sad, but they couldn't help but burst into tears.He cried out in grief: "Zuo Ming, Zuo Ming, you are so smart on weekdays, why were you so stupid yesterday? Why didn't you yell when they beat you like this?" Ding Zuoming took the lead to report to the county that the burden of farmers was beaten to death at the police station. The news was like a bolt from the blue, which shocked the fathers and villagers of Jiwangchang Township! The villagers of Luying Village were angry.The flames of anger burned away the barriers they had carefully set up in their hearts, one by one walked out of the house without any scruples, and flocked to the front of Ding Yanle's farmhouse, telling Ding Yanle and his wife to get out.However, it wasn't until then that people knew that Ding Yanle had heard the news that the whole family had escaped from Luying early, and the house was already empty.

Since then, until we entered Luying, eight years have passed, and the villagers in Luying have never seen Ding Yanle's family again.Some said they went to Shanghai or Nanjing, some said they went to Hainan or Shenzhen. In short, they left their hometowns and worked outside for a living.Originally the deputy village head of Luying Village, who can stomp the ground and shake the ground, has since become a sad wanderer wandering around the world. The villagers ran to nothing at Ding Yanle's house, then turned around and rushed to the police station in a rage.It turned out that Peng Zhizhong, the formerly aggressive deputy director, and Ji Hongli, Zhao Jinxi, and Wang Jinjun, whose consciences were eaten by dogs, also went into hiding.

The villagers lost their minds in two places, and their emotions became more and more agitated. Finally, they decided to go directly to the county. Just as the villagers of Luying Village were about to go on the road, villagers from nearby Luji, Yanzhuang, Li Yuan, Zhu Yuan, Li Lou, Guoqiao, and Changying Village also rushed over after hearing the news and joined the crowd of Luying Village in a rage. petition team. Obviously, it is not just a road camp village that is overwhelmed and life is unsustainable.The problems that Ding Zuoming reported to the county and the request to check the accounts of the village cadres also represented their interests and aspirations. Therefore, they could not stand idly by Ding Zuoming's death.What everyone tacitly said is that if they don't work together to fight, they will have the same experience as Ding Zuoming tomorrow!

As a result, the petitioning team starting from Luying instantly looked like a snowball being rolled by a huge hand in the winter.This team, surging like water, mighty and mighty, raised billows of yellow dust along the way.Among the rolling yellow dust, there are also the sounds of tractors, tricycles, agricultural vehicles, bullock carts, and rickshaw engines, horns, and bells. On February 21, 1993, the "Ding Zuoming incident" that occurred at the police station of Jiwangchang Township, Lixin County, Anhui Province is destined not to be ignored or avoided by scholars and experts who write "History of Chinese Agricultural Development" in the future, because Among the 900 million farmers in China, Ding Zuoming was the first person to be beaten to death with a stick for reflecting the burden of farmers. At the cost of his young life, he reminded people that they should not be so optimistic to ignore or avoid the changes that are taking place in rural China. very harsh reality.

At that time, the Lixin County Party Committee and the county government did not dare to be negligent, and rushed to intercept the incident, fearing that the situation would expand further, get out of control, and be used by bad guys. A region knows everything, and the news is strictly blocked.They believed that the spread of such a story would not benefit any leaders of the Lixin County Party Committee and the county government. Announcing good news but not bad news has actually become a common occurrence in China today. However, the matter was still spread. Even before the party secretary and governor of Anhui province knew about it, the case had already alarmed the central government.Many leaders of the Party Central Committee and the State Council not only learned the truth of this incident in detail, but also issued clear instructions quickly after being shocked.

It was Kong Xiangying, a reporter from the Anhui Branch of Xinhua News Agency, who brought this matter to the sky. Kong Xiangying went to Lixin County for other interview tasks. After learning about the "Ding Zuoming Incident", he was deeply shocked and saddened.At that time, he was in charge of rural reporting in the Anhui branch, so he was naturally very sensitive to all the news that happened in Anhui's agriculture. Besides, a reporter from China's top news organization would not have as many restrictions and restrictions on handling news articles as local reporters. taboo.Just relying on social responsibilities and the mission of the times, he felt that the "Ding Zuoming Incident" reflected too much "social information" in rural China today. What's more, reducing the burden on farmers has become a subject that the Party Central Committee and the State Council have paid close attention to and has already done. There is one big event clearly defined.However, a young farmer in Jiwangchang Township who was well-educated and understood the policy was beaten to death in broad daylight, just based on the party’s decision, and made legitimate demands to the party organization, and got the support of the county party committee. The people's law enforcement agency!

The bad nature of it, the seriousness and typicality of the problem exposed, all shocked him! So he quickly changed the interview plan, and under a series of pressure and interference, went deep into Jiwangchang Township to conduct a serious investigation, and quickly wrote the truth of the incident as a "big internal reference" and sent it to the Xinhua Headquarters in Beijing.The head office also quickly published the full text of the investigative report in the "Dynamic Proof" sent to the top decision-making level of the central government. When the comrades in the General Office of the Anhui Provincial Government received a call from the Secretary-General of the State Council, Chen Junsheng, they couldn't help being stunned.Before this, neither the Fuyang Administrative Office nor the Lixin County Government had reported this matter. Besides, such an urgent call from above had never been encountered in the history of the Anhui Provincial Government Office. Chen Junsheng immediately asked: "Ding Zuoming, a young farmer in Luying Village, Jiwangchang Township, Lixin County, was persecuted to death because he reported that the peasants were overburdened. How is your handling of this matter?" I don't know this at all, so I can't answer it naturally.Over there, Chen Junsheng immediately said: "Let me know the situation at any time. Several leading comrades in the central government have approved this matter and attach great importance to it. I am here waiting for your call at any time." Then, Chen Junsheng not only left his office and residence phone numbers, but also provided his "red phone number" inside Zhongnanhai, because he was in a meeting at the time, and also provided his specific contact information during the meeting. explained. Through this series of phone numbers, the comrades in the Anhui Provincial Government Office knew the seriousness of the case. After contacting the relevant leaders, they sent the telegram to the Fuyang Prefectural Committee and the Administrative Office. Dai Wenhu, secretary of the Lixin County Party Committee, found out at this time that the incident in Jiwangchang Township was "a big blow."He knew very well that if Ding Zuoming's death had a causal relationship with the "farmers' burden", it would be a big problem. The relevant leaders of the Jiwangchang Township Party Committee and government would be held accountable, and the county party committee would not be able to get away with it.Although he has not been transferred to Lixin for a long time, only one month before and after, and many things are not well understood, it is said that what he can undertake in this matter is at best "leadership responsibility", but he received After the urgent telegram was sent, he felt the seriousness of the situation, and his thinking suddenly became complicated.First of all, he didn't want this incident to bring him any trouble, or in other words, he didn't want Lixin's incident to affect Anhui's image.Since the flood in 1991, outsiders have regarded Anhui people as "disaster victims". If the truth about Ding Zuoming's case is spread, what will the Anhui countryside be like? Such a shocking thing happened in Lixin, as the secretary of the Lixin County Party Committee, what face does he have? Of course, Dai Wenhu didn't know that not long before Ding Zuoming's case happened, in Renshou County under Mount Emei in Sichuan Province, tens of thousands of people petitioned on a large scale due to the heavy burden of farmers, and violent conflicts occurred between farmers and the police. The farmer actually set the police car on fire.This matter has already made the central leaders worry about it; soon after, people died in Anhui, so naturally they paid special attention to Anhui's handling of this matter, and did not hope that it would cause a bigger incident. Dai Wenhu, secretary of the Lixin County Party Committee, thought a lot, but in the end he adopted a method that everyone is already familiar with today: report the good news but not the bad news, and calm down the troubles.He believed that as long as Ding Zuoming's death was not related to "farmers' burden", everything else would be easy to handle. In less than twenty-four hours, the Lixin County Party Committee and the county government wrote a report to the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government: Ding Zuoming's death was purely caused by ordinary civil disputes and had nothing to do with the burden on the peasants. Dai Wenhu never imagined that his lucky "reply" ruined his bright future. The Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government saw the conclusion that "it has nothing to do with the burden of farmers", and they responded to Chen Junsheng immediately. Unexpectedly, Chen Junsheng is a meticulous person, and besides, there are so many central leaders who have approved this matter, and they are staring at this matter.When he received the conclusion made by Anhui, he suddenly became suspicious: Is the reporter of Xinhua News Agency "liing about the military situation", or is someone deceiving?What needs to be concerned, it seems, should not be the handling of this matter, but the nature of Ding Zuoming's case. Chen Junsheng handed over the question to Xinhua News Agency to answer. After Xinhua News Agency received a call from Chen Junsheng, Secretary-General of the State Council, it felt that something was wrong.Because the investigative articles written by Anhui branch reporter Kong Xiangying are very specific, those facts cannot be fabricated out of thin air sitting in the office.But for the sake of prudence, the Anhui branch was notified of the content of Chen Junsheng's phone call and the opinions from the Anhui provincial newspaper. Kong Xiangying, who has always been conscientious and rigorous in interviewing and handling manuscripts on the spot, was very surprised to see the conclusions of Anhui Province's investigation into Ding Zuoming's case.He felt that such a thing should not have happened.Anhui's conclusion is undoubtedly a complete negation of the facts he has learned.Of course he can't accept it. Therefore, the Anhui branch responded firmly to the head office: In order to clarify the facts, it requested the central government to directly send personnel to investigate. A joint investigation team composed of the Law Enforcement Supervision Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Legislative Affairs Bureau of the State Council, the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate was quickly formed. They set off from Beijing without greeting the leaders at all levels of Anhui Province. They went all the way south and drove directly into Luying Village, Jiwangchang Township. The central joint investigation team rushed to the scene of the crime, which surprised the relevant leaders of the three-level party committees and governments in Fuyang District and Lixin County, Anhui Province. The investigation team first sent condolences to Ding Zuoming's family, and then met with villagers in Luying Village and held a symposium.It can be seen that the scope of the investigation team's investigation is obviously not limited to one Luying village, but has also expanded to nearby Huanglou and Yanzhuang.During the investigation, local cadres were not allowed to accompany them, and the people under investigation were given political protection. As a result, the surrounding villagers came to the door one after another to report the truth to the investigation team. As a result, news of "Bao Qingtian" and "Weifu private visit" from the capital immediately spread throughout Lixin County. On the afternoon of October 30, 2000, in an office in the Anhui Provincial Party Committee building, Wu Zhaoren, who had been the deputy director of the Provincial Agricultural Economic Commission for 17 years, accepted our interview.The corridor outside is very quiet, so quiet that we can easily distinguish the distant and near footsteps from the corridor. However, when Wu Zhaoren recalled the past that happened seven years ago when the Central Investigation Team came to Anhui , all the movement around us disappeared in our minds. We found that Wu Zhaoren, who has retired to the second line and has become a "consultant of the Anhui Provincial People's Government" and "chairman of the Anhui Agricultural Economics Association", talked about the investigation team back then as if it all happened yesterday.He said he was the one who sent the joint investigation team all the way to Beijing.He emphasized that he set foot on the same train to Beijing with the comrades of the investigation team, because he was also going to Beijing on business, which was "by the way"; but he did not evade, the provincial leaders at that time really wanted to know about these comrades What kind of situation did Lixin investigate and what opinions were formed when he went down to Lixin. Due to his work, he can still name the two members of the investigation team from the Ministry of Agriculture. They are Director Li Xiangang and Deputy Director Huang Wei of the Farmer Burden Supervision and Management Division of the Cooperative Economic Guidance Department.Huang Wei is a very capable lesbian. Li Xiangang was once the secretary of Vice Premier Jiang Chunyun.The chief and deputy directors of the Ministry of Agriculture in charge of "Supervision and Management of Farmers' Burden" went to battle together, which also shows the importance they attach to this matter. The person in charge of the joint investigation team is Director Zeng Xiaodong of the Law Enforcement Supervision Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Wu Zhaoren told us that when Zeng Xiaodong talked about the living conditions of the farmers in Lixin County, his tears flowed uncontrollably.Wu Zhaoren's impression of this detail can be said to be unforgettable.In people's imagination, law enforcement and supervision cadres have long cultivated a hard-hearted heart, but when it comes to investigating knowledge, their feelings suddenly become so fragile.He said with red eyes: "I never expected that after so many years of liberation, the peasants are still suffering so much and the burden is so heavy, and some party cadres have such a bad attitude towards the peasants..." He was crying and shaking his head. He told Wu Zhaoren: "What we actually investigated is actually more serious than the situation reported by Xinhua News Agency reporters! The entire road camp is very difficult. Only the village party secretary and a few village cadres live in tile-roofed houses. The problem is very serious at first glance. It is clear. There are two production teams in Luying, who have been selling blood for a living for several years. It is so hard that the various burdens are endless, far exceeding the central regulations, and it is unbearable. Ding Zuoming It wasn't the 'family planning issue' they talked about, but he was beaten to death just because he reflected the burden of the peasants!" The Central Commissioner was not supposed to be an excitable person, but he was stopped when he said this. Because he was too excited, his lower lip trembled involuntarily, and tears ran across his cheeks and fell on his hands. He said that when the farmers who reported the problem saw them, the first thing they could do was to kneel down, and some of them were old men with gray hair and hobbled steps.He felt a shock he had never experienced in his life.Just imagine, if it wasn't for the great misery and long-term depression, how could an old man who has experienced all the vicissitudes of life touch the ground on his knees in spite of humiliation and embarrassment, and give this great gift to an investigator who can be his own son and grandson? Aren't these all often talked about by us, saying that they are Chinese farmers who have turned over and become the masters of the country?Their bent spines and distorted souls caused everyone in the joint investigation team to fall into long-term contemplation while being surprised. Ding Zuoming's death has undoubtedly attracted unprecedented attention from the central government.On the 26th day after Ding Zuoming's tragic death, that is, on March 19, 1993, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the "Urgent Notice on Reducing Farmers' Burdens"; On June 20, the State Council held a national working conference on reducing farmers' burdens in Beijing.After that, only one month later, on July 22, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the "Notice on the Review and Handling of Projects Involving Farmers' Burden", which will involve compulsory apportionment of farmers' burden There are as many as 122 items that have been canceled, suspended, modified, or resolutely corrected regarding items related to ride-hailing charges! In such a short period of time, not only was an emergency notice issued in response to the burden on farmers, but also a series of corresponding measures were taken out so quickly, and a national work conference was held. Never before in the history of the year! In order to maintain the dignity of the law, protect citizens' personal rights from infringement, and severely crack down on criminals who endanger public order, the Intermediate People's Court of Fuyang District, Anhui Province, publicly heard the "Ding Zuoming Incident" in Lixin County on July 2 of the same year. "The six criminals who are legally responsible.Sentenced Wang Jinjun to death and deprived of political rights for life; Zhao Jinxi was sentenced to life imprisonment, Ji Hongli was sentenced to 15 years, Peng Zhizhong was sentenced to 12 years, and Zhu Chuanji was sentenced to 7 years. At the same time, in order to strictly enforce party and political discipline, the Fuyang Prefectural Committee and the Administrative Office had made the following decisions before this: to give Lixin County Party Secretary Dai Wenhu a warning within the party; Li Kunfu, secretary of the township party committee, was given a serious warning within the party; Kang Zichang, deputy secretary of the township party committee and head of the township, was placed on probation in the party and removed from all posts inside and outside the party; Ren Kaicai, deputy secretary of the township party committee, was dismissed from his post.He also asked the people of the whole region to better supervise the cadres to conscientiously implement the party's policies, and ordered all counties (cities) to take further measures to effectively reduce the burden on farmers. Happy! In early spring and February of 2001, we walked into Ding Zuoming's home.We found that a family of six, because of the loss of Ding Zuoming, the main labor force, was like a broken beam in a building. Although the local government exempted the agricultural tax for this unfortunate family, life was still very difficult.We noticed that the couplets pasted on the gate were clearly not written on red paper. The couplets were pale and pale purple. It can be seen that they have not yet come out of the great grief. The old man Ding Jiying was too old to be able to restrain himself because of his frailty and sickness. When he recalled the scene of that year, he still burst into tears.He took out the past "judgment" and the receipt issued by the district court and told us that the incidental civil compensation judged in the "judgment" in black and white has not been fulfilled so far. In their predicament, they paid an astronomical execution fee to them, but after seven years, there is no news of the compensation awarded at that time. Ding Zuoming's mother, Ding Lushi, is now paralyzed in bed. She eats, drinks, and sleeps on the bed. She is miserable.Ding Zuoming's wife, Zhu Duofang, broke her right arm when she went out to pull fertilizer, and she was basically unable to do heavy work.The three children are exempted from paying tuition and miscellaneous fees by being taken care of by the school. However, Ding Yan, 14, and Ding Wei, 12, still dropped out of school and had to help their mother do some farm work within their ability at home. burden. When we left Luying Village, we went to Ding Zuoming's cemetery.The reality that Yin and Yang are separated makes it impossible for us to have a dialogue with him, but we still silently pray that such a tragedy will never happen again. Ding Zuoming shocked the central government with the fall of his young life, so that 900 million peasants finally had a sword to protect themselves. Originally, we thought he was the first martyr, and he should be the last.However, when we approached Xiaozhang Village, Zhangqiao Village, Tangnan Township, Guzhen County, we realized that Ding Zuoming's tragedy was not over yet.Not only is it still going on, but the bloody disaster that happened in Xiaozhangzhuang is even more shocking because of its bad nature; the bloody scene is so bloody that it is unbelievable.It happened in the fifth year after the "Ding Zuoming Incident", and after the central government had issued repeated orders...