Chapter 12 Chapter 3: The Long Road to Appealing—4 Guilty of Petitioning

Most of the villagers in Wangying Village escaped the catastrophe by fleeing to the border of Henan Province, but no one dared to return to Wangying Village.More than a thousand villagers were displaced and could only sleep with their clothes on at night in the wild fields bordering Henan and Anhui provinces, fleeing to Henan in panic at the slightest disturbance.Even if you have the courage to sneak back to the village to look at your home, it's like being a thief.Not to mention the shortage of crops, the hard-earned property acquired over the past ten years of reform and opening up has been stolen by looters, and many farmers have suffered heavy losses.

Village representatives Wang Junbin, Wang Xiangdong, Wang Hongchao, and Wang Hongqin who fled to Shenqiu County, Henan Province finally met in Liufu Town, Shenqiu County.They discovered that spies sent by the Public Security Bureau of Linquan County, Anhui Province also carried out surveillance in this remote town in another province. The four felt that they had no choice. As representatives of the villagers, they had to report the truth of the "White Temple Incident" that happened in Linquan County, Anhui Province to the Central Committee as soon as possible. On this day, Wang Xiangdong, Wang Hongchao, and Wang Hongqin, except Wang Junbin who stayed behind, escaped the eyes of Linquan County police spies under the cover of many villagers, and got on a bus to Shenqiu County, Henan Province.The three of them rushed to Zhengzhou via Shenqiu, and then transferred to a train and went straight to Beijing.

This is the second time for Wang Xiangdong and Wang Hongchao to go to Beijing, and they are considered to be "familiar with the road". When they got off the bus, they went straight to the relief station of the Letters and Calls Bureau of the Central Office of the State Council in the Yongdingmen area.Unexpectedly, within half an hour of staying there, they were caught by police officers from the Linquan County Public Security Bureau who had already ambushed there. The reason for their public arrest was that the three snatched two "May 4" pistols and 15 rounds of bullets from the public security officers during the "April 2" counter-revolutionary riots, and were preparing to create a bigger political incident in Beijing!

The three of them protested loudly, angrily accusing the other party of being too despicable, it was a shameless frame-up, and it was a very bad revenge.However, even if they have mouths all over their bodies, everything is futile in front of law enforcement officers with complete formalities. After the three were escorted back to Anhui, they were not escorted to Linquan County, but were detained in Taihe County, the hometown of Linquan County Party Secretary Zhang Xide's hometown. Wang Hongchao still becomes very excited when he recalls the two months he was detained in Taihe County.Those days were too scary, too painful, and too scary.There, their hands were handcuffed behind their backs, and they were handcuffed like that 24 hours a day.When eating, the hands handcuffed behind the back cannot hold the bowl or grasp the chopsticks. Every meal, they can only lie on the ground like a pig or dog, stretch their necks to lick and chew; when defecating, they can only bow their waists With his back bent, he pulled down his trousers with difficulty with the hands handcuffed behind him, and it was impossible to wipe his butt; In a cold sweat.

It should be said that Wang Hongchao is no stranger to various scenes of torture and torture. He has seen them in movies, TV, or novels in the past; those who do this kind of deeds are either murderous bandits, KMT spies, or inhumane criminals. Japs or German fascists.However, he never dreamed that in a socialist country, when the sun shines brightly and the people are the masters of the country today, it is the "people's police" who commit these brutal and inhumane acts!Moreover, all of this happened in the law enforcement agencies of the Communist Party! This made him unacceptable, painful, sad and hopeless.

Yu Guangxuan, vice chairman of the CPPCC Linquan County, took the case. When he learned the truth about the "April 2" incident, especially when he learned that it happened in the capital Beijing, at the relief station of the Letters and Calls Bureau of the State Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Linquan County Public Security Bureau dared to brazenly weave lies and arrest farmers who went to petition Representative, he could no longer hold back his inner indignation, and decided to write a letter directly to General Secretary Jiang Zemin, exposing the criminal behavior of some people in the Linquan County Party Committee who refused to implement the burden reduction policy of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and brutally retaliated against the peasants.

On this day, he used a Sunday to drive to Henan Province. At the Xincai County Post Office in Henan, he sent a long telegram to General Secretary Jiang.It took the whole family two months of living expenses to make this telegram. He reported the truth of the "April 2" incident that he had investigated in detail, and made a clear statement of his views. The comrades working at the Xincai County Post Office knew the weight of this telegram, and they knew the good intentions of traveling all the way to other provinces to send this kind of telegram.But what the telegram reflected was not something about Henan Province, let alone Xincai County, because it had nothing to do with where she was, so she could take it calmly.

Yu Guangxuan's telegram was sent to Beijing by Henan Xincai Post Office on the same day. However, Yu Guangxuan did not expect that this telegram was approved and forwarded by the party committees and governments at all levels, and finally, it was in the hands of Linquan County Party Secretary Zhang Xide. Zhang Xide was furious. He ordered the County Public Security Bureau to conduct an immediate investigation and find out the person who reported the truth about the "White Temple Incident" to the central leadership within a time limit. The police officers really took a lot of brains.Because, when Yu Guangxuan took this telegram, he had already considered the possible ending. He left a hand on the inscription of the telegram, and did not indicate his real name, but borrowed Wang Ying, who had already been arrested. Villager representative Wang Hongqin's name; although he borrowed the name, he put the words "retired cadres of Wangying Village" in front of the three words "Wang Hongqin". People have a sense of credibility, and at the same time, they feign a shot to set up a little fog and make it more difficult for those who follow the map.

The Linquan County Public Security Bureau has arrested Wang Hongqin in Beijing. He is now being held in Taihe County together with Wang Xiangdong and Wang Hongchao. It is even more impossible for him to go to Xincai County, Henan Province to send such a telegram.Therefore, although Wang Hongqin's name was written on the telegram, Wang Hongqin was excluded at first, so the public security personnel looked for clues on the "Retired Cadres of Wangying Village".However, after checking Wangying, there was no "retired cadre" found. In the end, they focused their suspicious eyes on Wang Hongzhang, a retired worker who returned to the village from an affiliated company of the county supply and marketing cooperative.

Although "retired workers" and "retired cadres" are completely different things, the Linquan County Public Security Bureau still believes that Wang Hongzhang did it.On this day, the affiliated company informed Wang Hongzhang to go back to his work unit to receive his salary. He hadn’t paid his salary for a long time. Hearing the news, Wang Hongzhang rushed to the county seat in high spirits.To prevent accidents, Wang Hongzhang was not detained in the county's detention center.However, because Wang Hongzhang didn't know what the telegram was at all, and he was beaten to pieces, he still said he didn't know.The public security officers couldn't be satisfied with such a confession, and they insisted that he was the master of boiling the donkey's head in a casserole, and the mouth was still hard after the meat was rotten, so they beat him to death.

On April 2, Wang Hongbin, who was beaten with an electric baton until his face was bleeding because he spoke a fair word for his brother-in-law Zhou Min, is still lying on the bed; now Wang Hongzhang has been arrested for no reason; Wang Hongzhang is Wang Hongling's brother who cut off his head without changing his neck, and Zhou Min is his wife. When she was locked up in the detention center, she was handcuffed with eight catties and tortured.All these incidents, one after another, all happened around Wang Hongling, so that Wang Hongling, who just wanted to live in peace and contentment, finally took the case! Before that, Wang Hongling had been working in a copper pipe factory in Liufu Town, Shenqiu County, Henan Province, earning more than 1,000 yuan a month. Brothers and fathers in Yingcun seek justice!On June 18 of this year, he cooperated with the village representative Wang Junbin to break through the many hidden cards set up by Linquan County inside and outside the province, and led 56 villagers to Beijing successfully. Wangying Village went to Beijing to appeal collectively this time, which aroused huge repercussions in the entire Linquan County, and Zhang Xide, secretary of the county party committee, felt panicked.The first thing he thought of was still not how to appease the strong dissatisfaction of the villagers in Wangying Village over the overwhelmed burden. Obviously, he still believed that high pressure or even suppression was the most effective way to stop petitioning. Therefore, he sent a county party committee work team composed of more than 100 cadres, and drove into Wangying Village in a mighty manner.So many people went there at once, and the living expenses, tobacco and alcohol expenses were all apportioned by the local cadres and the masses, which made the already very difficult Wangying villagers even worse.The work team members, who were full of food and drink, drove a propaganda car with tweeters around the village like they did during the "Cultural Revolution", making everyone in Wangying feel insecure, even the people in neighboring provinces. Can't live a quiet life. At the same time, the Linquan County Public Security Bureau printed the "Notice on Urging Criminals such as Wang Junbin to Surrender" as a leaflet and posted it everywhere.Not only did they urge Wang Junbin and others to surrender, but they also sternly "warned Wang Junbin and other criminals' family members and relatives", as if "one person's crime will affect the whole family". Then the County Commission for Discipline Inspection made the "Decision on Expulsion of Wang Junbin from the Party". Not long after, the county party committee again dispatched more than 200 people in more than 30 large and small motor vehicles to surround Wangying Village, threatening to hold a meeting of 10,000 people and to arrest the petitioners.The drought that year was very severe. At the critical moment of drought relief, the villagers of Wangying who returned to the village one after another in fear had to flee in all directions, resulting in almost no harvest of more than a thousand acres of corn. Next, the Linquan County Court publicly tried Wang Xiangdong and Wang Hongchao.On the day of the trial, although the county court had taken careful precautions in advance, there were armed bailiffs everywhere inside and outside the court. When the villagers of Wangying Village heard that the county was going to try their petitioning representatives, they all stood up one by one. Six or seven hundred people.When the prosecutor read out the "criminal facts" of Wang Xiangdong and Wang Hongchao, the villagers shook their fists angrily and shouted, in total disregard of court discipline: "You are falsely accusing and framing!" "They were wronged!" "We demand release!" "Resolutely punish the real murderers who suppress the masses!" Chaos in court. This kind of "court bombing" scene has never happened in the history of Linquan County, and the judges and bailiffs have all become at a loss.The people are not afraid of death, so why are they afraid of death?The bailiffs with guns and ammunition were afraid that the situation would further intensify, so they had to evacuate quickly.The presiding judge had no choice but to announce an adjournment midway. In fact, the judges are very clear that it is not only these "court bombing" farmers who are flouting the law.The people's court is the national judicial organ in our country, and only the people's court has the power to determine the nature of any criminal or civil case. Case"; the "Notice on Urging Wang Junbin and other criminals to surrender themselves" posted by the County Public Security Bureau everywhere called it "beating, smashing and looting", and even mentioned the height of "reactionary propaganda wantonly"; the County Commission for Discipline Inspection made In the "Decision on Expulsion of Wang Junbin's Party Membership" issued by the National People's Congress, it is also clearly defined as "the crime of robbery has been constituted".It is obvious that the working group of the county party committee, the county public security bureau, and the county discipline inspection committee each determined the nature of the "criminal" before the county court formally tried it. This in itself is an illegal act that ignores the law. If the Linquan County Court did not charge the caught petitioning representatives with a two-year sentence, it would be difficult for the Linquan County Party Committee at that time.Therefore, the county court did not reopen the trial after the adjournment, but on December 1 of this year, Wang Xiangdong was sentenced to two years in prison for "obstructing public affairs" and Wang Hongchao was sentenced to one year in prison for the same crime. two years.As for what kind of "official affairs" the two "interrupted" on earth, the verdict is even more difficult for people to understand than the heavenly scriptures.