Chapter 10 Chapter Three: The Long Road to Appeal——2 Feeling the Temperature Difference

On the coldest day at the end of 1993, after simple preparations, Wang Junbin, Wang Xiangdong, and Wang Hongchao carefully sorted out the collected evidence of the "Three Disorders" and hurriedly boarded the train going north. When the three of them stepped onto the platform of Beijing Railway Station for the first time, the impulse of a wronged child finally coming to the mother's arms made them extremely excited.How much they want to see the lingering Tiananmen Square and the Great Hall of the People, the majestic Monument to Heroes and the Chinese watches by the Jinshui Bridge, and the red wall of Zhongnanhai, but they know what everyone has come up with Funds for petitioning are not easy to come by, and every dime must be spent on urgent needs.

At the Letters and Calls Bureau of the State Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, they received a warm reception. They did not expect that things would go so smoothly, so they were a little flattered.The comrades at the reception listened carefully to their reports, and promised to send a special letter to the relevant departments in Anhui soon to facilitate the investigation and handling of the matter regarding the questions they raised. They have never encountered such a severe cold climate in Beijing. The cold and hard wind blowing in front of them pierced their muscles and bones, but the three of them felt like a burning stove in their hearts, My heart was steaming.

"Since we're here," Wang Hongchao said, "let's look for all the places we can, and this trip is worthwhile." So the three of them asked all the way, and then went to the Ministry of Agriculture. At the petition reception station of the Ministry of Agriculture, the three felt cordial and warm as if they had returned to their own home.The comrades at the reception station listened to the problems they reported and saw the evidence they brought, and made it clear on the spot: the actions of Baimiao Town and Wangying Village were wrong.And took the initiative to write a letter of introduction for them, asking them to go directly to a unit of the Provincial Agricultural Committee with this letter after returning to Anhui.

The comrades at the letter and visit reception station kept sending the three of them out of the gate, and even gave them a booklet of "Labor Service Management Law for Alleviating Farmers' Burden". "One sentence made the hearts of the three of them feel hot. Although, every day in Beijing, they are immersed in the incomparable excitement and excitement, the strange thing is that, at the same time as the excitement and excitement, there is also a strange kind of sadness, which emerges from the heart unprepared from time to time, ruin their good mood.At that time, the three of them couldn't explain why they had such a strange feeling. At this moment, the train was far away from Beijing, and they suddenly realized that although Beijing is good, it does not belong to them. After all, they are from Baimiao Town, Linquan County. Fate is still more in the hands of the Party Secretary of Linquan County, or even just a few people in Wangying Village, Baimiao Town.

As long as they are still within the power field of Baimiao Town, Linquan County, even if they are thousands of miles away, they cannot escape the fate of being slaughtered! After the car passed the Yellow River, the three of them seemed to have nothing to say, but none of them could fall asleep.For a whole night, they just sat there like this, seemingly not thinking about anything, listening to the sudden and heavy collision of wheels and rails under their feet, this sound, in the silent night, sounded so shocking.It was already dawn, and the three of them became dizzy and tired, but the provincial capital Hefei had already arrived.After getting out of the car, the three of them found the Office of the Leading Group for Alleviating Farmers' Burdens in Anhui Province according to the units mentioned in the introduction letter from the Ministry of Agriculture.

The comrades of the Provincial Burden Reduction Office listened to the statements of the three people, attached great importance to them, and felt that the problem was serious, and immediately wrote a letter with a very clear attitude, hoping that they would personally hand it over to the Linquan County Burden Reduction Office.When they broke up, they also sent a copy of the specific regulations made by the central government on reducing the burden on farmers compiled by themselves. When they walked out of the Agriculture Department building, the excitement and excitement that the three of them had had in Beijing once again filled their hearts.Wang Hongchao even subconsciously turned his head to look at this rather old building, feeling a surge of gratitude in his heart.

While in Hefei, they also visited the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.The comrades received by the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection also attach great importance to it, and hope that they can go back with peace of mind. They will ask about this matter. On January 25, 1994, Wang Junbin, Wang Xiangdong, and Wang Hongchao walked into the Linquan County Party Committee Office again.They showed the relevant letters from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Anhui Provincial Burden Reduction Office. This time, the people in the office did not make things difficult.Apparently, the Linquan County Party Committee at this time had already received an official letter from the Letters and Calls Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; Zhang Xide, secretary of the county Party Committee, also knew about the fact that the village representatives of Wangying Village, Baimiao Town, had sued them to Beijing.He walked out with a smile on his face, and wrote a note to the Baimiao Town Party Committee and the town government on the spot.wrote:

"People in Wangying Natural Village, Shaoying Administrative Village, petitioned for a refund of the overdrawn money. Please work hard and hurry up to return all the overdrawn money to the people." The three of them took the note from the county party secretary and looked at it carefully.Because the writing is rather scribbled, and some of the writing is not standardized, it took me a while to understand the content above.However, I am really wondering: "more money", what kind of concept is this?As the person in charge of a first-level party organization, why can't he point out the seriousness of this matter in accordance with the spirit stipulated in the party's central document, like the central government, state agencies, and the Provincial Office of Burden Reduction?Now that the town is determined to solve it, why not go through the organization's procedures, but write a blank note and hand it over to the petitioners?Besides, the "mass petitioners" have come to the county party committee again and again these days, but the county party committee just pretended to be deaf and dumb;

Anyway, from October 28, 1993 to petitioning, to January 25, 1994, the secretary of the county party committee "signed and pledged", after eighty-nine days of back and forth, I finally saw the result .When the villagers heard that Secretary Zhang Xide stated that he would "return all the overdrawn money in full", the whole village was in an uproar. It is conceivable that Han Chunsheng, Secretary of the Party Committee of Baimiao Town, and Ma Jun, Mayor of Baimiao Town, had mixed feelings when they saw Zhang Xide's "hand letter".Of course they are aware of the nature of this matter.It goes without saying that they have made trouble for the county party committee and the county government.However, after all, what the villagers got was just a white note. After careful consideration, they heard dissatisfaction from Zhang Xide's sentence "the masses petitioned for a refund of the overdrawn money", but also from the sentence "please work hard to do a good job". This sentence read the helplessness of the secretary of the county party committee.

It is obviously impossible for Baimiao Town to solve the problem of farmers' burden.At this time, the County Commission for Discipline Inspection, under the supervision of the District Commission for Discipline Inspection, also formed an investigation team and entered Baimiao Town to investigate the issue of "burden reduction" in the town and village.In fact, as long as you check, many problems are obvious.The investigation team of the County Commission for Discipline Inspection only checked the accounts of the "coordination of withdrawal and retention" at the town and village levels in 1993, and discovered the problem of more than 110,000 yuan of farmers' burden.During the self-examination of the village, the representatives of Wangying Village not only found that the financial management of the village was in disarray, but also that the expenditure of funds was extremely random, with too many inexplicable receipts. Collective funds are also very serious, and even the transfer of funds at the town and village levels is combined on one form. Only "the transfer of funds in the autumn of 1993" was found to be 47,650 Yuan, but when it came to the "transfer form", it turned out to be 33,760 yuan and 46 cents. In this sum, 13,889 yuan and 50 cents were concealed!

The vile acts of favoritism and fraud by the town and village cadres aroused great indignation among the villagers of Wangying Village. The villagers were "furious", and, during this period, two things happened that made the villagers of Wangying Village very disturbed.One is that Wang Junbin, who led the petition, had been employed by the town's land management office before, but was suddenly fired at that moment; As soon as he entered the gate of the town government, he was severely beaten by the well-prepared officials. The refund was just a feint, but the retaliation was real. The villagers of Wangying Village couldn't bear it anymore, and once again assembled a team of hundreds of people, went to the county seat, and asked Secretary Zhang to fulfill his promise to everyone. As soon as Zhang Xide saw so many villagers, and with an obvious tone of blame, he changed his face first, and never mentioned the matter of refunding the full amount of the money that increased the burden on the farmers.His words suddenly became very severe and ugly: "If you have the ability, just make a scene, I just won't deal with it for you!" Villagers asked: "Is this in line with the spirit of the central document?" Zhang Xide said angrily, "If you have the ability, you should look for it!" Zhang Xide obviously lost his patience long ago, he shouted loudly: "Just make trouble for me, the bigger the trouble, the easier it is for me to deal with it!" The villagers were helpless, so they went to the county discipline inspection committee again.Because the County Commission for Discipline Inspection once sent an investigation team, and found out many problems in the "coordination of withdrawal and retention" in Baimiao Town and Wangying Village.However, Li Shucheng, Secretary of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, heard that the subordinates were unwilling to refund the overcharged money, so he said helplessly: "I asked them to refund, but if they don't, what can I do?" The secretary in charge of the party discipline inspection work in a county felt powerless against the misconduct of the officials below; However, at this time, the representatives of the villagers in Wangying Village had already had a certain capacity to bear it, and they behaved very calmly.Wang Junbin, Wang Xiangdong, and Wang Hongchao, the three of them made perhaps the biggest determination in their lives: they must fight to the end with these people who are obsequiously violating the party's policies, and they will never give up until they achieve their goals! Not long after returning from the county, Wang Hongchao got a piece of news that was enough to make the whole village shudder. This news was revealed to him by Shi Canzhou, the instructor of the Baimiao Town Police Station. Wang Hongchao and Shi Canzhou had a good relationship in private.On March 30th of this year, Shi Canzhou pulled him aside and quietly greeted him: "Don't meddle in petitioning anymore." He also used a local dialect, telling him to "hurry up and grab your hand", It means "quickly stop"; and solemnly reminded: "I will arrest people immediately!" At that time, Wang Hongchao was shocked.He knew that instructor Shi was not joking with him, nor was he trying to scare him.He told Wang Xiangdong and Wang Junbin the news without any hesitation. Wang Junbin and Wang Xiangdong seemed suspicious after hearing this, but they had to inform the villagers immediately. For a time, Wangying Village was shrouded in an inexplicable terror. The villagers spontaneously organized patrols to prevent accidents; Wang Hongchao simply installed the village's radio speakers in his yard. Although the villagers were mentally prepared, they did not expect that the day of "arresting people" would come so soon.