Chapter 111 The coal boss "concurrently" the village head, a test for the rich to be in power

In the coal-producing mountainous area of ​​Shanxi, if you ask local farmers, who is the richest coal boss in your village?Most of them will answer in unison: "We are the village chief!" It is understood that in the local area, it is very common for coal bosses to "concurrently serve" as rural cadres. Today, this phenomenon of "the rich in power" has become the focus of discussions in all walks of life. We know that the wealthy people in China's rural areas are economically powerful. Compared with other villagers, they have relatively rich economic resources.These economic resources are not only expressed in the form of material wealth or currency, but also can be formed on this basis to form a special, political and economic "influence" of popularity.In other words, it is to play the "afterglow" of "rich sun".

In a certain sense, under the conditions of market economy, the higher the degree of people's possession of economic resources, the greater the influence they will exert in economic activities. Under such conditions, the possibility of these rich people intervening in local political life is greater.For example, in some places the coal boss "concurrently" is the village head, while in other places the coal boss acts as a "deputy to the National People's Congress".Nowadays, the development trend of the problem of rich people in rural areas in Shanxi is also becoming more and more obvious.

So, is it good or bad for the coal boss to "concurrently" be the village chief? Some people think that the wealthy rural people have certain practical advantages when they are in power.The argument is that under certain circumstances, economic factors play a decisive role in the development process of the countryside, and if these wealthy rural people are in power, on the one hand, they can use their economic "influence" to promote economic development in the countryside.On the other hand, these wealthy people often use their social resources to accelerate the "evolution" and transformation of rural society. From this we can see that "influence" is "decision power."

In addition, after the coal boss "concurrently serves" as the village head, his unique "ability to get rich" will gradually be transformed into a "ruling advantage" to lead the villagers to develop the rural economy.Under certain conditions, this new ruling thinking will promote the sound and rapid development of various undertakings in rural society, thereby maintaining the relative stability of rural social order. Of course, some people think that the power of the rich in rural areas will bring certain disadvantages and defects. This "disadvantage and defect" is mainly manifested in the following two aspects:

First of all, it exacerbated the "abnormal" concentration of various social resources in the countryside, which led to the people's "indifference" in various interest demands, and then created negative resistance among ordinary people. Construction is very disadvantageous. Under normal circumstances, a certain social group can have more "initiative" and "discourse power" in economic activities due to the possession of more economic resources. That is to say, this "initiative" and The "right to speak" will influence and control the "democratic thinking" of the entire countryside to a certain extent.At the same time, it has also led to the "weakening of the rights and interests" of those villagers who are disadvantaged in economic activities, which is also very detrimental to the democratic construction of rural politics.

Secondly, this kind of "disadvantages and defects" is mainly manifested in the fact that after some rich people "concurrently" with village chiefs, after getting political satisfaction, they relax themselves. , even to the point of unprincipled feudal paternalism.This will definitely have an absolute negative impact on the development of grassroots democratic politics.