Chapter 56 Second question: Where does it come from to say that "the top governs the sky, the bottom governs the earth, and the middle governs the air"?

"Nowadays, there are more and more departments in the government that manage us. Let's put it this way, except for those who wear black sleeves on their arms for funerals, everyone who wears red sleeves has come to manage us. Except for the post office delivering letters Yes, anyone who wears a big hat has come to control us." The speaker was a Shanxi coal boss. The "management" he mentioned here can be understood as "fines" or "management fees" charged on them. "The most irritating thing is that when people stretch out their hands in front of you and ask you for money, they are still confident, and they open and close their mouths and say, 'The upper part controls the sky, the lower part controls the ground, and the middle part controls the air'."

From the coal boss's point of view, these "persons" represent "law enforcement agencies", and I have to ask them for many things.If people hint or simply ask for money, and the coal boss is deliberately "unspiritual" and "doesn't give face", isn't that asking for trouble and walking around when he can't afford it? Some departments often for their own self-interest, for the welfare of small groups of administrative corruption, not only for "five buckets of rice", and even lost their conscience and rationality. Although some coal bosses deal with others cautiously, they often offend them by accident.For example, the police station will not approve and sell explosives for you, and the industrial and commercial department will delay the issuance of licenses for you.

We all know that power without restraint and supervision will inevitably lead to corruption of power. In short, if these administrative law enforcement agencies do not act when they should act, but act indiscriminately when they should not act, then whether it is the coal industry or other industries, they can still wantonly erode our social bottom line of fairness. That is to say, if we cannot completely eradicate the soil where power and interests collude, we will not be able to fundamentally eliminate the phenomenon of turning the "enforcement economy" into a "punishment economy".