Chapter 7 Chapter 2: The wicked rule the village——3 The tragedy continues

Riot police from the Guzhen County Public Security Bureau surrounded Xiaozhangzhuang less than 20 minutes after receiving the call.Zhang Guiquan, Zhang Jiazhi, Zhang Chaowei and Zhang Yuliang who were suspected of intentional homicide immediately fell into the legal net.Only Zhang Leyi was the exception. According to the family members of the victim and witnesses present, Zhang Leyi was carrying a bag in his hand, which contained the murder weapon of their father and son. Zhang Dianfeng, the secretary of the village party committee, did not identify him, and the riot police did not know about it. This allowed Zhang Leyi to escape along a small road behind the bungalow of villager Huang Zixian.

The news of the homicide in Xiaozhangzhuang quickly spread.However, both the Guzhen County Party Committee and the County Government, and the Tangnan Township Party Committee and Township Government, all avoided the issue of farmers' demands for democratic rights and burden reduction like a scourge.On the second night after the incident, the whole Xiaozhangzhuang was still immersed in great horror and grief. Guzhen County Cable TV suddenly broadcast this "news".According to reports, a major manslaughter case occurred in Xiaozhang Village, Zhangqiao Village, Tangnan Township, this county, due to civil disputes and verbal disputes among villagers.What is shown on the screen seems to be all the "murder weapons" confiscated from the scene. In fact, they are all sickles, kitchen knives and other utensils that the public security personnel found from the victim Zhang Guiyu's home because they found nothing.

The whole one fake news! As soon as this "news" was broadcast, Xiao Zhangzhuang immediately blew up the camp. Zhang Liang, the only son of Zhang Guimao who lost his father in this murder case, Zhang Guiju who lost his two younger brothers Zhang Guiyu and Zhang Guiyue, as well as many witnesses at the scene and enraged villagers, men and women, spontaneously gathered more than 300 people to broadcast on the air. On the second morning of the TV news, I found the county cable TV station and questioned the head of the station: a criminal who had not served his sentence became the head of the village and defrauded the villagers even more. It was deployed by the county and approved by the township, but it was subjected to such inhuman retaliation. What is "wrongful killing"? Who did "wrong" kill?Who is not "wrong" to kill?What is the dispute between the victim as a village representative and Zhang Guiquan?

The director was left speechless by the question.He really didn't know that there would be so many situations in it, and the nature of the case would be so bad and serious, so he had to "confess" truthfully: This is what the county party committee leader instructed to broadcast in this way. It is impossible for a person to be resurrected after death, but there must be an explanation after death.The victim was murdered in order to protect everyone's interests and was entrusted by everyone. This tragic scene is unacceptable, and such absurd "news" is like adding fuel to the fire.

So, the angry villagers decided to meet the county party secretary. The county party committee and the county cable TV station are next to each other. Although they are two compounds, they are only separated by a wall. When the villagers poured out of the TV station compound, they realized that the street was surrounded by a sea of ​​people.Everyone saw the "news" and felt that the incident was too tragic and the murderer was too ruthless. When they heard that the villagers in Xiaozhangzhuang found the TV station for the "news", they assumed that the "news" was fraudulent.Nowadays, the market is flooded with counterfeit and shoddy products, and the credibility of all kinds of news is no longer high, especially the news of some major accidents, the authenticity of which is greatly discounted by ordinary people.So many people gathered around to make a fuss, and after a while, more than 3,000 people were surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside.

As I said earlier, the county party committee was nearby, and they had already noticed the movement. When the villagers who rushed to Xiaozhangzhuang found the county party committee, the leaders of the county party committee and the county government had long since disappeared. At noon on the second day after returning from the county, the villagers of Xiaozhangzhuang had just left their jobs when Zhang Dianfeng, the village party secretary, informed the whole village to hold a meeting in the three large tile-roofed houses that Huang Zixian had just built in Zhuangxi.It was Huang Zixian planning to use for his son's wedding. His son was working in another place, and now it was vacant, and the villagers rushed there one after another.Only when I rushed there did I know that there were people from the village.He Jingkui, deputy head of Tangnan Township, Qiu Ya, secretary of the Township Political and Legal Committee, and police officers from the police station came to "shut up".

The atmosphere at the meeting was suffocatingly serious.Deputy Township Chief He first selected and read several provisions of the "Criminal Law", and then announced that no petitions, no disturbances, no nonsense.Everyone is very nervous, especially the family members of the victims. They don't understand that their relatives have been killed, but the relatives who have been victimized seem to have violated the king's law and become the "four types of elements" in the past. They are not allowed to "talk and act". There will be vigilant eyes staring at you anytime and anywhere, and you will suddenly become human and ghost.

Wei Surong returned home and threw herself on the bed and cried loudly. She cried that her husband Zhang Guiyu had died for no reason, and there was no place to appeal for grievances. She cried that she had eyes and a mouth, but she could not tell the shocking scene she saw; Crying that this world is too dark, I might go crazy at some point. Next, on May 7, a provincial newspaper in Anhui published a report titled "Four villagers were killed when the village director got angry" on the second page.The article was published just at the critical moment when the Bengbu procuratorate was about to transfer the case to the city court for public prosecution, and the purpose of trying to seize the "commanding heights" of public opinion was very obvious.

The article starts with a statement that confuses right and wrong: "A deputy director of the village committee named Zhang Guiquan was extremely annoyed by his fierce words to the villagers, so he led his sons and the villagers to beat each other, resulting in the death of four villagers." Anyone who has the ability to read the Chinese language will draw the following conclusions from such statements: "Villagers' fierce words" come first, Zhang Guiquan's "extremely annoyed" comes second, and the villagers, including the ones who were killed, are the ones who caused the death. The main reason for this incident.

But careful readers will still notice: Since it is "beating each other", why are all the villagers killed?Why did this "deputy director of the village committee named Zhang Guiquan" treat his villagers so viciously, wanting to put them to death before he could do so?What exactly is the content of the villagers' "fierce words"?Why was the deputy director of the village committee so "extremely annoyed" that he dared to risk the world's displeasure by committing mass murder?These crucial contents are not mentioned in the article.Here, the villagers exercising their democratic rights and the harsh reality that the villagers are overwhelmed are all avoided.To avoid is to have ghosts.

As a result, an irreconcilable struggle between justice and evil, civilization and brutality, progress and subversion was distorted into a war of words among gangsters, a "mutual beating" of ignorance. "The death of four villagers" seems to be the only one to blame. The villagers of Xiaozhangzhuang were angered again! Of course, it is impossible for the editors of the newspaper to go to the scene to investigate and verify the manuscripts to be edited and distributed every day, explaining that there is nothing wrong with the procedure of their adoption of this manuscript, and the official seal of the procuratorate is stamped on the manuscript, so they did not do it and there is no need to do it. After further verification, it will be published. The situation before us is clear: this happened in the spring of 1998, not in the spring of 1993 when the "Ding Zuoming Incident" happened in Luying Village, Jiwangchang Township, Lixin County. Don't increase the burden on the peasants, and the problem now is that Zhang Guiquan of Xiaozhangzhuang is not only not the deputy director of the village committee in the general sense, he is actually a criminal who became a village cadre before his sentence was completed. This matter is complicated enough Well, his problem is far from just extorting money from the villagers and actually killing people!In this regard, the central government has clearly stipulated that anyone who died of one person or more than six people petitioned collectively due to the burden of farmers must report to the central government. Zhang Guiquan and his son did not kill one person, but caused four deaths and one injury. The seriousness is sensational!Whether it is Guzhen county party secretary or county magistrate, or Bengbu city party secretary or mayor, it is difficult to accept this fact, let alone face it squarely.Maybe they don't lack conscience or courage, but the almost harsh reality before them is not only too sudden, but also too cruel, and it doesn't even leave them with more choices. The story of the "Ding Zuoming incident" that shocked the central government is impossible for anyone to forget it so quickly. Therefore, everyone is very aware of the risks and costs of assuming this responsibility.They are obviously unwilling to bear such risks and costs. Of course, the families of the victims are the ones who cannot accept this fact the most.On this day, Zhang Liang and Wei Surong, the family members of the victim, mustered up their courage again to find the county party committee, and finally met the secretary of the county party committee. When the account was cleared and was murdered, the secretary suddenly became furious: "Who said it was cleared? Then the whole county is clearing the account, why didn't you kill others and only you?" The victim's family was stunned. According to the secretary of the county party committee, if a girl from a family was raped by a thug and wanted to complain, wouldn’t everyone be able to sternly ask her: There are so many young and beautiful women in the world, why did they rape you when they didn’t rape anyone else?Is this still human? The three representatives of the masses who checked the accounts were killed, and the remaining nine representatives were naturally very sad, but the work of checking the accounts in Xiaozhangzhuang did not stop, but the investigation became more determined and more serious. It should be said that the arrest of Zhang Guiquan and his son brought great convenience to the work of checking the accounts, and many economic problems of the village cadres soon surfaced the tip of the iceberg.There is no doubt that Zhang Guiquan is not the only one who has the problem of Xiaozhang Village. The village party secretary, the director of the village committee and the village accountant cannot be so clean. They are afraid of and resist this liquidation. After all, the work was uniformly deployed by the county government, and the township government decided to set up Xiaozhangzhuang's account clearing team. Although they hated, feared, and panicked all day long, they would not be as foolish as Zhang Guiquan to kill people.It didn't take long for them to discover that the party committees and governments at the county and township levels were silent on the matter of clearing accounts, and they were trying their best to cover up the truth about the murder of Zhang Guiquan and his son, so they became more courageous again. The account clearing team found out that in 1997 Xiaozhang Village collected 60 catties more than each person collected in grain collection, which was obviously a violation of the state policy. Said: "That's right, I called Jia. I want to add and I want to use it, so don't ask about it." The attitude is very arrogant. After clearing the accounts, four village cadres had privately distributed the land sale price of 2,600 yuan, and Zhang Dianfeng actually took 6,000 yuan from the land sale price.The village representative approached Zhang Dianfeng, and Zhang Dianfeng said calmly: "I know what happened, it's just a worry fee." When asked whether he should take the money, he was justified: "I will take it, it has my purpose!" At another meeting for clearing the accounts, the village representative asked Zhang Fengzhi, director of the village committee: "The rice watering fee of 4,000 yuan in Xiaozhangzhuang has already been paid, why is the watering fee of 4,000 yuan deducted from the land sale price of our village?" Zhang Fengzhi was furious, and the meeting failed to settle the accounts, so they broke up unhappy. Soon rumors spread in the village: Xiaozhangzhuang's financial accounts were settled, and Zhang Guiquan was "not corrupt," and "Zhang Guiquan's financial problems were not found out, and the county still has to arrest a few of the remaining nine settlement representatives!" Then, Zhang Guiquan's fourth son, Zhang Simao, arrogantly threatened: "This Zhuangzi will not stop for long, and a few lives must be paid for!" A gust of bloody wind blew through Xiaozhangzhuang, making it hard to breathe. Zhang Jiayu, a member of the Communist Party, is a tough guy. He was the one who actively reported the problem of increasing the burden on farmers in the village;Zhang Guiquan and his son hated him deeply. After Zhang Guiquan and his son put down the four of them, Zhang Chaowei, Zhang Guiquan's sixth son, yelled, "Go to Zhang Jiayu's house and kill him!" Fortunately, Zhang Jiayu went out of the village to call the police, and If you are not at home, you will survive death.But now, Zhang Jiayu discovered that he was still in danger.At the door of his house and on the ground, there are often people secretly watching and watching. The influence of Zhang Guiquan's family power still exists, and Zhang Leyi is still at large. Facing a fugitive who is equally murderous and a murderer who will suddenly appear at some time, the villagers, especially the victim's family, cannot sit back and relax.Zhang Guiyu and Zhang Guiyue's 70-year-old mother burst into tears when she mentioned this incident. She lost her two sons in one morning, and her grandson was chopped up. However, there are indications that this nightmare is far from over.She said with a frightened expression: "No one dares to go out at night, and they dare not look after the peanuts in the field during the daytime!"