Chapter 11 Chapter Three: The Long Road to Appeal——3 Heavens High and the Emperor Far Away

On the night of April 2, 1994, it was past eleven o'clock, which may not be too late in a city with nightlife, but in this remote Wangying, almost all the villagers turned off their lights and went to bed.Just then, a van sneaked into the village. After the car stopped quietly at the west end of the village, five people jumped out of it.It was later discovered that they were Shi Canzhou, the instructor of the Baimiao Town Police Station, policemen Wang Shukui and Zhang Fuchun, and security team members Wang Jun and Liu Kai.After they whispered to each other, the five of them went to the village in a surreptitious manner.

Their appearance immediately attracted the attention of the patrolling villagers, so they followed them from a distance.Later, it was discovered that these people were only listening to the movement at the door of several villager representatives who led the petition, and tried to push the door a few times. Shout: "A few sneaky people have come to the village!" Wang Hongchao's aunt, Li Li, was living in Wang Hongchao's home at the time. She was first awakened by the noise outside the door, and she got up from the bed in a jerk.Hearing that there were sneaky people in the village, they rushed to the room where the radio equipment was placed, turned on the switch and shouted: "Wang Ying is here to steal! All the young and old in Wang Ying, those who have a fork take a fork, and those who have a stick take a stick. Let them go!"

In the dead of night, the loudspeaker of the radio immediately woke up the whole village.Hearing that there were thieves in the village, one by one quickly got out of bed, fucked their dicks and ran out the door. The sudden sound of the horn frightened the two security guards who followed. Knowing that this secret operation had been exposed, what the villagers hated the most was the security guards who followed them in doing bad things, and called them "second devils". Once they were caught by the villagers, the public security personnel at the police station would say that they would be miserable, so the two ran away like a pair of frightened rabbits.Shi Canzhou, the instructor of the police station, heard the noise and guessed that something was wrong. He didn't even care about the car left at the head of the village.

The policemen Wang Shukui, Zhang Fuchun and the driver Zhao Canlong were finally surrounded by the villagers one by one because they could not dodge in time. The villagers shouted and asked, "Where did you come from? What do you do?" A policeman said: "We are from Wadian..." Another policeman said: "We are from... Huangling." The three people had three opinions, which naturally aroused everyone's suspicion. Wangying Village is located on the border between Anhui and Henan provinces. Wang Tianji, the principal of Wangying Primary School, lives at the west end of the village. The path outside the house is the boundary between Shenqiu County in Henan Province and Linquan County in Anhui Province. Some people say that the principal Wang’s child When I went out to urinate, I drenched the land of two provinces and two counties.In such a remote and very sensitive area, three people of unknown origin suddenly appeared, and the three of them gave three explanations, and some of them were wearing police uniforms. This must arouse the vigilance of the villagers.It is suspected that this is a group of thieves who took advantage of the "advantage" of geographical location and pretended to be policemen in the middle of the night to rob secretly.

The villagers asked everyone to show their ID to prove their identity.This time, the three of them became more and more nervous, taking advantage of the confusion, they fled.After escaping, the villagers felt that the problem was bigger, and of course they couldn't let it go, so they immediately chased after him. The three people who were desperately fleeing could not escape because they did not know the way of the villagers. At this moment, the man in the police uniform simply stopped, drew a pistol from his waist, pointed at the villagers who were chasing him and shouted viciously: "Don't move! If you chase after me again, I will shoot you!"

The villagers were startled by this sudden situation, and they all stopped. The other two people who were running wildly found that the villagers stopped, so they stopped. The villagers are so numerous that they are not afraid of gunpoint, but they are even more sure that this is a gang of thieves who rob at night.The situation is obvious: Since the "Cheng Silk Factory" lied about coming to Wangying to "contact business", why did Cheng conjure up a pistol?If it was really a policeman, why did he say he was from the "City Silk Factory"?Besides, don't you dare to reveal your identity openly?Besides, why do you want to run away, don't even want a car in such a panic?

The villagers stared at the driver and asked, "What do you guys do?" The driver hesitated to speak. The villagers no longer had doubts, they first took self-defense and went up to disarm the threat to everyone from the murder weapon in the other party's hands.They even thought that the pistol aimed at everyone must be fake, just like the police uniform.Several villagers rushed forward and knocked out the opponent's guns.Then, angry villagers beat up what they thought was a robber. The driver Zhao Canlong did not tell the truth until he had suffered a lot: "They are indeed policemen from the police station. They rented my Yizheng car, gave me ten yuan and a box of Dujiang cigarettes, and asked me to drive to arrest people."

As he said that, he hurriedly handed over the ten yuan and a pack of cigarettes in his pocket, and begged the villagers to let him go. When the villagers heard that the police were actually here to arrest people, they hurriedly asked Wang Shukui and Zhang Fuchun, and they had no choice but to confess: "We are from the Baimiao Town Police Station." When the villagers heard this, they blew up the camp: "Which one do you use to arrest petitioning representatives?" "Why are you sneaking around when arresting people?" "You are clearly from the Baimiao Police Station, why do you say you are from 'Wadaian', 'Huangling', and 'City Silk Factory'; why do you run away as soon as you are questioned?"

The two were at a loss for words when they asked. The villagers obviously wouldn't let it go: "Say!" A whispered explanation: "We are here to catch the bet." One said, "We're here on patrol." That said, it's even worse.It is obviously impossible to justify why you only look for the home of the village representative when you come to catch gambling; it is even more nonsense to say that it is "patrol".Because counting from the day of liberation, it has been 45 years, and the fathers and villagers of Wangying Village have never seen the police officers from the police station go to the countryside to patrol at any time.No patrols in the morning, no patrols in the evening, the town just "patroled" to Wangying after clearing Wangying for a little bit of overcollection that aggravated the burden on farmers?And it happened to be "patrolling" in the middle of the night by touching the door and nose of the representative's house.

The more the villagers heard it, the more angry they became: "Why don't you drive a police car on patrol?" Only then did the villagers realize that these people had drunk too much "cat urine", and they all smelled of alcohol.Many police officers in the rural police stations didn't leave much of a good impression on the masses, and some of them got along with the village bandit Road Bully, and they could do all sorts of bad things.In order to prevent the other party from doing anything wrong with alcohol, the villagers confiscated the pistols and handcuffs they brought with them.Especially after discovering four pairs of handcuffs, it was further confirmed that what the driver revealed was true: they really came to arrest the villagers' petitioning representatives with ulterior motives.The four people who want to be arrested, needless to say, are Wang Junbin, Wang Xiangdong, Wang Hongchao, and Wang Hongqin.

The villagers became more and more angry, and smashed the rented car to arrest people in a hurry. This was the "April 2" incident that was later seized by the Linquan County Party Committee and did not make a fuss about it. The policeman Zhang Fuchun, who was called a "big man" by the villager Wang Laizhi, admitted annoyedly under Wang Laizhi's questioning: "Who knew that your village was prepared, who told me and Wang Shukui to drink, otherwise how could we get rid of it?" Be like this." He admitted that the wine was drunk at Wang Tianyu, a person in Wangying Village who had a special relationship with certain people in the county.What is strange is that a letter written by the villagers of Wangying Village to the "leading comrades of the Party Central Committee and the State Council" specifically pointed out that a small number of villagers were emotionally violent that night, and it was not without reason: "the villagers were in the middle of the chaos between Wang Tianyu and the village cadres." Driven by them, they swarmed up, clashes broke out, cars were smashed, people were shot, and guns were shot.” ​​Wang Tianyu was found in two key places!This may bring out the profound background of the "April 2" incident. In short, the policeman Wang Shukui and the "rented" driver Zhao Canlong fled the village one by one in embarrassment; He was the fastest, and several young peasants chased him for a long distance without catching up.Later, villager Wang Hongjun collected the guns, bullets and handcuffs left by the police and handed them to Wang Dongliang, the head of the armed forces of the town. Wang Dongliang is from Wangying and lived in the village that day.After the second watch, the villagers dispersed one after another and went home to sleep.No one could have imagined that when Zhang Xide, secretary of the county party committee, found out about this incident upon waking up, the nature of the incident changed.Although the three police officers and two police officers from the Baimiao Town Police Station have already returned to the station, and the guns, bullets, and handcuffs have all been returned to Zhao, the Linquan County Party Committee still lied about the military situation to the prefectural committee in order to "rescue the police officers and search for guns." Because of this, on the morning of April 3rd, an unprecedented bloody suppression was carried out on Wangying Village! At 10 a.m. on April 3, 1994, more than 100 police and armed policemen, in eight police cars, set off from the county town in an earth-shattering manner. There were machine guns in the car, all wearing steel helmets and bulletproof vests, holding shields and batons in their hands. Along the way, sirens wailed. Before this team with modern armed forces arrived at Wangying Village, a "preemptive" came. They used loudspeakers to warn: "People in Wangying Village must not go out!" Obviously this was not a smart move.They forgot the extremely special geographical location of Wangying Village.With this cry, the villagers of Wangying Village, with a population of more than a thousand, fled after hearing the news. It was very convenient to escape. They fled to the back of the village, which is the area under the jurisdiction of Henan Province.When the police car entered the village, the adults and children in the village had almost run away. Of course there are people who don't run away.These people are either old people, or have never participated in the petition, or just visit relatives from other provinces.They think it has nothing to do with them.There are also very few people who followed the visit, thinking that they were just "following the crowd" and nothing big would happen, so they stayed in the village and did not run away. Unexpectedly, as soon as the public security and armed police entered the village, they would beat everyone they saw, even a primary school student from another village who was away from relatives. For a while, there were punches and kicks everywhere, the sound of things being smashed, the begging of adults, the crying of children, and the noise of chickens flying dogs and pigs jumping over the wall. Wang Hongling's wife, Zhou Min, had never participated in a petition. The police rushed to arrest her. Wang Hongbin, who was in his 70s, just said angrily: "You arrest whoever is next to you; she alone Why did the lesbians not participate, why are you arresting her?" Before he finished speaking, he was hit with an electric baton in the face, blood flowed from his face immediately, and he passed out. Wang Yongchen, an old man from a five-guarantee household, was stunned. He just stood on the sidelines and did not move. Undoubtedly, the homes of the petitioning representatives became the focus of smashing.All the pots and pans in their house were smashed, and even the chimney of the stove was overturned.What is even more unbelievable is that Wang Hongchao's home was raided and he still didn't give up. He even smashed four boxes of 8,000 packs of rat poison that Wang Hongchao bought and poured them into the wheat hoard, and vigorously stirred them with a shovel. , and then left. The twelve people who were arrested on the spot on April 3 were actually mostly old people and women who had nothing to do with the petition or the so-called "April 2" incident, as well as girls from other villages visiting relatives, and students from Linxian County, Henan Province. . Regarding this absurd and bloody suppression, the working group of the Linquan County Party Committee made a big publicity in "An Open Letter to the People of Wangying Natural Village": "Secretary Qin of the Prefectural Party Committee pointed out that the feedback on the 'April 2' incident was timely, and the handling was timely. It is correct, there should be no criticism, it should be fully affirmed; the county party committee considers very carefully and handles affairs in accordance with the law." Even, it is conclusive: "In this regard, the Central Office of the State Office of Letters and Calls, the provincial and local leaders have given very sure." Seven years after this incident, we interviewed Wang Yongming.Wang Yongming is the village committee member of Wangying Village, and he is a loyal farmer who has nothing to do with the villagers' petitioning.When the police car entered the village, he was busy in the pigsty. He didn't expect to run away. Even when he saw the armed police approaching aggressively, he still felt that even if all the villagers were arrested, he would not be able to catch him. pigsty. Suddenly, an armed policeman pointed at him and asked a group of police officers, "Can this person be arrested?" A policeman answered immediately: "Take it away!" The armed policeman rushed over immediately, grabbed and shoved him and drove him into the police car. Wang Yongming had never seen such a formation before, and he was stunned.At the Baimiao Police Station, he and everyone else who was arrested were tied up with ropes, their watches disappeared, and then they were beaten for more than an hour for no reason.He saw with his own eyes that the police poured boiling water over the head of Wang Hongyan, who was arguing with them. He was terrified at that time, no matter how hard he was beaten, he didn't dare to say a word. When they were escorted to the Linquan County Detention Center, they were beaten to the ground one by one as soon as they got out of the car.Until they were exhausted, they put big shackles on each person's feet, and they had to pay for the shackles themselves. Each person paid seven yuan.The shackles weighed eight catties, and after wearing them, they forced you to run three laps in the compound, and beat you if you couldn't run. That night, they were all imprisoned in a cell. There was a hole in the ceiling of the cell. The policeman guarding it reprimanded Wang Yongming and asked Wang Yongming to stretch his hand through the hole. Wang Yongming didn't know why the police asked him to do this, but Dare not to do it, just as he stretched out his right hand out of the hole, a big leather shoe came down on his hand, which made him almost gasp in pain.But he still didn't dare to pull his hand back, for fear that it would cause even greater harm.Just like that, he didn't dare to hum, and his hand was stamped again and again in pain, until the policeman who was looking for vent didn't want to stamp any more, then he carefully withdrew his hand. Two days later, Wang Yongming was locked up with the death row inmates.The desperate condemned prisoner even regarded him as an object of venting, jumping over nervously again and again, tearing him, beating him, pulling his hair, and beating his head. He was beaten until he lay on the ground and begged bitterly, and the death row prisoner finally stopped. Wang Yongming was detained for eight days. When he was released, he was not given an "explanation" and was forced to hand over eight days' living expenses.When he walked out of the detention center, he was warned again sharply: "Don't talk nonsense when you go out!" It has been more than seven years, and Wang Yongming's feet still have clearly visible scars from the gnawing of shackles...