Chapter 79 "Pain and happiness"

On July 19, 2001, Ding Weiwen appeared in court at the People's Court of Huizhou City, Guangdong Province.He disagreed with most of the 28 criminal facts charged by the public prosecution agency, and expressed deep remorse. The court found that from May 1996 to June 2000, when Ding Weiwen was the secretary of the Puning Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, he took advantage of his position to promote, appoint and transfer the leading cadres and middle-level cadres of Puning City organs, and provided services for companies, enterprises and Others sought benefits and received huge amounts of property, totaling RMB 613,500, HKD 238,000, USD 15,000, 3 Rolex watches, and a gold necklace.In addition, he bought a high-end residence in Shantou, with a total value of 1 million yuan including decoration. For this property, he cannot explain the legal source.

The facts of the crime found in the verdict are as follows: Huang XX, former member of the Standing Committee of the Puning Municipal Party Committee and secretary of the Liusha Town Party Committee (handled in another case), in January 1997, gave Ding 500,000 yuan in order to continue to serve as Secretary of the Liusha Town Party Committee and to get Ding's support for promotion. 280,000 yuan was refunded to Huang, leaving 220,000 yuan.Afterwards, Huang XX also gave Ding a "Rolex" watch. Weng XX, the former secretary of the Party Committee of Chiwei Town, Puning City (handled in another case), repeatedly asked Ding to support him in order to join the leading group of the Municipal Party Committee. Weng XX gave Ding HK$50,000 with public funds before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1996.

Cai XX, director of Puning City Finance Bureau, once mentioned to Ding about the work of his family members and asked Ding for help.From 1997 to 1999, during the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, Cai XX gave Ding RMB 50,000 yuan five times in the name of condolences. In addition, Ding Weiwen also accepted money and goods from several leading cadres in Puning.According to statistics, as many as 16 leading cadres participated in bribery to Ding. In addition to the transaction of power and money, it was Ding Weiwen's job to coordinate and balance the relationship between subordinate units. In order to separate the interests, the functional government departments use their own powers, not to consider how to serve the society, but to become an effective weapon to restrict others.Under such circumstances, Ding Weiwen, who was supposed to be a public servant, is now engaged in paid services.

At the beginning, Ding Weiwen was quite honest, he said: During the 8 major festivals in the past 4 years, I have handed in more than 580,000 RMB, more than 80,000 Hong Kong dollars, and two to three thousand U.S. dollars nine times.Although the amount I handed in alone accounts for more than half of the total amount of red envelopes handed in by department-level cadres in Jieyang City every year according to the statistics of the Commission for Discipline Inspection, the proportion is still relatively low compared with all the red envelopes I receive, and the proportion is increasing year by year. decline.As a result, my personal illicit wealth has skyrocketed.

It is difficult for one person to break through this big net.I was deeply distressed by this, and lived with my family in a panic.I have also thought hard, but I just haven't found a correct way out for myself... During the Spring Festival of the first year of working in Puning, Ding Weiwen's handing in the red envelope became news.An old superior who retired came to talk to him specifically, saying Wei Wen, Jieyang City is so big, why do you show you Ding Weiwen?There is the secretary and the mayor on the top, and the chief of the bureau and the director on the bottom. Why do you pay so much?Do you think you are the only one with red envelopes?You don’t want to think about what role you are in Jieyang. You are not the protagonist, and you are not very important. It means that your red envelopes are not more than others. Why don’t others pay more but you pay more? It’s because everyone knows the rules and is upholding them. , and you don't understand.Now sending red envelopes has become an important source of official income, and it is also widely accepted by the officialdom, becoming a consensus. This rule is neither set by you alone, nor can you break it alone. Why do you still take the lead?If you do it by accident, everyone will forgive you. If so, it means that you deliberately violated the rules.I said that rules have never belonged to one person, but to a group; rules have always been stronger than people, and it is difficult for individual strength to fight against it.What on earth do you Ding Weiwen want to do?Do you want to be an official or want to show off?If you want to be an official, you obey it, obey it, and defend it; if you want to be in the limelight, you oppose it.But it can be said that this is a dead end. You will get collective opposition from people in the circle of rules, you will be impeached collectively, and you will be expelled from the game. …

The old leader spoke sincerely and sincerely, earnestly and earnestly.Ding Weiwen had no choice but to say yes.Ding Weiwen had to listen, because what the old leader said was from the bottom of his heart.The reason why the old leader spoke so brilliantly was because he himself was a loser in the officialdom.Back then, like Ding Weiwen now, he worked with the spirit of the party, took principles as the standard of life, acted impartially, established the party for the public, worked hard, and worked hard.The endowment of these excellent qualities comes from his predecessors, that is, the generation of party and government cadres who participated in the land reform work after the founding of the People's Republic of China.At that time, he had just walked out of school, still a childish student, and it was the veteran cadres who helped him step by step to become what he is today.The daughter-in-law who has been married for many years has become a mother-in-law, and he will also become a leading cadre in the future.But when he told his subordinates what was passed down by the older generation, he found that it had become a joke of history.He stuck to the tradition, not only did not bring himself the expected progress, but was regarded as unsophisticated and foolish, and those qualifications and political achievements were far inferior to his cadres, because he adjusted quickly and had a quick mind, like riding a rocket As high and gone...he becomes a loser, a lone loser.Of all his failures, the last he could tolerate was the loss of tradition.He clearly remembered those seniors, their official positions were not as big as his own, and their experiences were not as complicated as his own, but they were so happy, so natural, and so convincing when they taught the traditions to the younger generations.And today’s self, when you say this to others, they will snort out of their noses, and they will secretly laugh at you in their hearts, put away that set, and look at yourself... Therefore, He has nothing to say.Officialdom has always judged heroes by success or failure. Whoever goes up is a hero, and whoever goes down is a bear.Who would listen to a bear theory?

The old leader said, Wei Wen, I watched you grow up, and I think you are a good person, so I told you this.I don't want you to be as stupid as me, to fail like me, so I remind you.Do it yourself! Ding Weiwen could hear the blood and tears of the old leader.When a person comes to this world, the most terrible thing is to come to this world for nothing.When an old leader denies his belief, it is tantamount to denying his own life.How reluctant he was to do this, it was a heart-piercing pain.However, in the face of reality, he didn't even have the courage to speak of tradition in front of his favorite subordinates. Not only did he not dare to speak of tradition, he also had to do the opposite. The above is something he has opposed for many years!

Ding Weiwen remembered the old leader's words, but did not follow them completely.He handed over the red envelope as usual, but his thoughts softened a lot.He didn't intend to go against the rules, and he didn't intend to show off. He knew that he was weak, but even so, he didn't want to follow the rules of the officialdom. But Ding Weiwen not only failed to find a so-called correct way out, but also played the game of "painful and happy".He anesthetized his soul in the corrupt road of luxury and money, and went further and further, and has completely degenerated into a corrupt element.

Ding Weiwen's depravity and corruption became a symbol.Because of his fall, there is a play: There are no good people in Hongdong County.Even if he resisted tenaciously until the last moment, even if he fled in a desperate situation, people would still see a faint light of hope in Chaopu and Pudong.However, he gave up.To give up means to fall completely. Because Ding Weiwen and others gave up good things, the last line of defense in the two cities of Chaopu was completely defeated.Under the banner of local protectionism, the degeneration of Ding Weiwen and others has become a clown in the shadow of this banner.Due to the support and participation of the leaders of the local government, industry and commerce, taxation, foreign trade, finance, customs, banks, enterprises, billing companies, underground banks, underground printing factories, customs brokers, foreign exchange brokers, arbitrageurs, etc. are all involved in the idea of ​​equal interests Under the confused concept of right and wrong, instead of considering the issue from the perspective of the country and the law, first consider what practical benefits to oneself. "As long as there is something to earn, everything is easy to handle."Under the guidance of this idea, the distribution relationship is arranged through the "market mechanism", so that the local tax fraud crimes can be highly socialized and organized.Everyone started to dig the treasury, just like all the demons in "Journey to the West" scrambling to eat Tang's monk meat.

Therefore, we say that the root of Chaoyang's tax fraud economy lies in the greed of the people, the seriousness of local protectionism, the bad social atmosphere, and the corruption of the economic order.And these are only the secondary roots, its taproots are the party's unhealthy style, the local government's dereliction of duty, and the collective corruption of officials...