Chapter 25 Abnormal banditry: "Alms for alms" and an interview with Bawang

This is a medium-sized coal mine in the coal-producing mountainous area in the west of Luliang. A few days ago, due to a landslide accident at the bottom of the pit, the smashed mine cart was huddled in a corner of the coal yard at the mouth of the pit. In the past few days, Li Fangsheng, the coal boss, has arranged for the families of the injured workers while organizing the workers to resume coal production. At this time, on the hillside opposite the pit mouth, two young men who were not locals judging from their clothes were holding zoom cameras and snapping shots from time to time. The next day, the same two young guys found Li Fangsheng and showed their "press card" from "China xx News", demanding to "interview" him.

"Your coal mines are producing illegally. The matter is very serious. We are going to expose some 'typical incidents'. If you don't want to be 'exposed' by us, you can just pay some 'interview fees'." Then leave a contact number. This is a typical case of fake reporters extorting coal bosses in Shanxi. It is understood that generally, "reporters" who come to Shanxi's coal-producing areas appear in the form of "two-person teams". For them, such an aspect can "embolden" each other and take care of each other, because they "know each other well" about their identities and purposes.On the other hand, the two can cover each other in the process of blackmailing the coal boss, one black and one white, one hard and the other soft, "singing double reeds" at just the right time, in short, there is only one purpose - to ask for money.

An insider said that most of the coal mine owners in this area have been "interviewed" by these two people, but what is strange is that they can succeed every time, while the coal owner is "dumb and eats coptis". Use money to eliminate disasters and seek peace. Such "bandits for alms", such "overlord interviews", faced with such "interviews", some coal bosses who have never seen the world knew that they were wrong, and had no choice but to "catch them without a fight", and obediently offered them "disaster relief money" ".

As a result, there is often such a "scene" in the local area: "Those who go into the mountains to fight noodles, drive down the mountains to drive Audis." It is a well-known fact that coal bosses are blackmailed, but it is little known that the drivers who drive coal to and from the rugged mountain roads can also "squeeze a few barrels of oil and water" in the eyes of these people. Shanxi is a major coal-producing province, and thousands of vehicles transport coal to other provinces along inter-provincial highways every day.These vehicles should be fined due to overloading, or innocent due to improper law enforcement by law enforcement officers, and there are also normal fees to be paid. It always requires a certain amount of expenses to transport a car of coal.So these fake reporters took aim at the coal delivery trucks, or threatened the "problems" of law enforcement officers in the name of "media exposure", or used fake press cards and fake cameras to deceive the parties involved, and took the opportunity to pass the coal delivery trucks.

According to insiders, according to the local "rules" to escort a carload of coal to the provincial border, the general practice is to charge hundreds or even thousands of yuan for "dart fees". However, compared with another type of "peers", the "tricks" of this type of "journalist" are simply nothing. With the passage of time, "another type of reporter" is no longer satisfied with "looking for money - discovering problems - threatening exposure - asking for money" type of "small fights", but consciously "made up their own "Some illegal periodicals are accumulating money on a large scale, and they show a tendency to be systematic, organized and large-scale.

At present, the most "powerful" method is to steal official national newspapers and periodicals without authorization, and publish and distribute publications by themselves. The titles are mostly "China xx", "xx China", "China xx Enterprise Management", "China xx Ranking List", etc. The "Guo" brand name "Dakan" that can bluff people, anyway, the bigger the name, the better, because it can "squeeze" the coal bosses and make it easier to ask for money. According to a private business owner, a fake reporter took a video camera to "photograph" his company for a long time, saying that "the problem is very serious", but he didn't say anything about the "problem", but only said that he should "report to the higher authorities" and that "Public Exposure".

These people never take the initiative to ask the other party for money, but do everything possible to let you take the initiative to send money. It must be said that this is also a kind of "realm" of fake reporters who are "sophisticated". Of course, once the relevant departments at the higher level found out, these people left immediately, chanting empty plans: Anyway, I only have one phone and one desk, so you can confiscate it as you like, and the money earned has been transferred in advance. Besides, "the mountains are high and the emperor is far away", the government management departments are beyond their reach. According to a local township propaganda cadre, they have not encountered "inspectors" in the past ten years.