Chapter 2 The first chapter is on the way to visit the "best" deputy county cadre

This day is the first day of the Ching Ming Festival holiday.This day is also the first day of my trip to Gansu. The task is: to interview Jiao Sanniu, a deputy county-level cadre called China's "best" by netizens. Sanniu is really awesome.His name is as famous as a star, and there are hundreds of thousands of things related to him that can be searched on the Internet.There seems to be an unbelievable spectacle in the Internet age: either you will be lifted up to the sky, or you will be thrown into the 18th hell, all overnight... The subject of my interview, Jiao Sanniu, was born in Wuwei, a small western town that many people had never heard of before. After him, he suddenly became "mighty" in just a few months, big and small. Reporters from the local news media went one after another, and the rather desolate and impoverished Hexi Corridor that was shown on the CCTV news appeared frequently... No, I followed to Wuwei!

The best thing about Sanniu is his three key experiences: he was born in 1989, started working in July 2011, and became deputy county-level in January 2012. 23 years old.Only half a year of work experience.Promoted to deputy county cadre! Under the existing personnel and cadre system, Sanniu may be the youngest deputy county-level leading cadre in China.Because according to the requirements for selecting cadres and civil servant regulations promulgated by the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the state in recent years, it is absolutely impossible for him to have such a "rocket" growth at such a young age and with such a short work experience.

As a result, Sanniu became a highly anticipated star cadre overnight. 23 years old, in the eyes of today's adults, this age is still a child.And the "Master of the County" is a great official in charge of the world in the traditional Chinese concept! He, Jiao Sanniu, has superhuman abilities?Did he have ulterior motives during his career promotion, or did he have a special social background?No matter how the government repeatedly explains and clarifies some rumors in the media news, such doubts still remain in the hearts of many people—including me.Because people know that today, many things can have completely different interpretations and interpretations for the same issue at different levels, and the so-called truth may sometimes be covered up by another planned, tactic, and premeditated cover-up, thus It becomes another kind of non-truth "truth"-it is easy for the public with independent thinking to recognize and understand the problem in this way.

Then, 23-year-old Jiao Sanniu became a deputy county-level leading cadre based on only half a year's work experience, a Tsinghua University diploma, and a reason of "scarce talent shortage in the west". What is the truth? Let's put aside those cumbersome and complicated cadres and organizational procedures, and see if the 23-year-old Jiao Sanniu can really become a "deputy county-level" leading cadre?Or a "niu boy" who was "promoted" after being "promoted" because of organizational reasons or some powerful people's intervention?

As a writer, I want to find my own conclusions.Therefore, I also hope to understand and investigate the "Jiao Sanniu incident" in my own way. In fact, I prefer to say that the incident that happened to him can be understood as a "Sanniu phenomenon". Anyway, Jiao Sanniu, what you will face this time is another kind of judgment between the organization and the public, and it at least to a certain extent represents an objective, just and fair judgment that transcends extreme emotions. View. Jiao Sanniu, are you ready?And that Wuwei, are you ready?All possible flaws may be ruthlessly revealed by my pen after investigation...

Many people are waiting for my "trip to Gansu" during the Ching Ming Festival.Speaking of the Ching Ming Festival, I have more thoughts in my heart: the father who stayed in the urn at home for seven years, this year, as a son, I should have arranged for you to be buried during the Ching Ming Festival, but now it is not possible, son You have to travel far to meet Jiao Sanniu, the "best" young deputy county-level cadre who once made a lot of noise. Just because of this, you have another emotional challenge! Put aside personal intimacy.The plane has taken me to Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province.

I came to Lanzhou 30 years ago, but it was a very broken and small city in my memory.Now it has changed, and it has an atmosphere similar to that of a modern eastern city.However, only ten minutes after leaving the provincial capital, all I saw were barren hills and flying dust that were hard to see green... The west has arrived.Gansu has arrived.A strong sorrow gradually gathered in my heart: it is still very poor here.So on the way to the destination——Wuwei, there were two questions that popped up and kept entangled in my mind: If it was my child—a very outstanding graduate of a famous Beijing university, I would be reluctant to part with it. Put him to work and live in this remote, poor place without any relatives or acquaintances, and not just temporarily, maybe for a lifetime?If it were me, could I, like Jiao Sanniu and the others, have the ambition and firm determination to stay in this poor and backward west for five or ten years?

Cars speeding down the road.Two very real questions are like two hammers hitting my heart and asking my soul... I want my heart to be as strong and noble as possible before answering the above self-question. The car kept going. "That's Qilian Mountain." The accompanying comrades from the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee said, pointing to the endless mountains. Ah, this is Qilian Mountain!The yellow, bare lower half and the snowy, cloudy upper half... "The weather was fine when I left Lanzhou just now. Why is it snowing now?" The car window was suddenly wet with flying snowflakes, and I was surprised.

"It's normal. Snowstorms in April and sandstorms in May are commonplace here, and snow in midsummer, cold air..." The comrades in Gansu said lightly, and two lines of poems silently surged in my heart: Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows, the spring breeze Don't pass Yumen Pass. Going further west from Wuwei on the map is Yumen and Dunhuang. The snow is getting bigger and bigger.At this moment, the Qilian Mountains are already covered in silver, and the roads in the gaps have lost a lot of traffic. Occasionally, rural houses scattered in the snow valleys are greeted by the shaking of the cars... I feel a little tight in my chest .

"This is the famous Wushao Ridge in the Qilian Mountains, with an altitude of more than 3,500 meters. Writer He, are you alright?" the comrades in Gansu asked me with concern. "It's a bit uncomfortable, but I guess it's bearable. It seems to be similar to Lhasa..." I tried to keep my words to a minimum. "It will be fine after crossing this ridge." Almost everyone in the car stopped talking, and everyone seemed to be paying attention to reducing energy consumption, and at this moment, I suddenly came to a conclusion: it seems that such a place, with my body and bones, is not good enough, if there is nothing For special reasons, I don't think I would let my children come here to "live and work in peace and contentment", even for a short few months... When the inner problems came to a conclusion, it seemed that I was not so out of breath.But another new question popped up in my mind: What is the life of the people here like?

"Can you find a village by the road? I want to see it." "There is a village called Tiegui Village on the top of the mountain ahead. You can turn in and take a look at it." The comrades in Gansu were a little surprised by my sudden proposal, but after a moment of hesitation, they agreed. The mountain road in Shangtiegui Village is covered with snow, and the winding mountain road is very dangerous. "You are the second provincial and ministerial leader to go this way." The comrades from the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee said that Comrade Ouyang Jian, the deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, had also been here before me. When the villagers on the top of the mountain heard that the "big official" was coming, they braved the snow and gathered on the wheat threshing field dressed in silver. I walked into a farmhouse nearby. Except for an adobe kang, there was not much furniture in the dark room. A 14-inch black and white TV was obviously the only "high-end" decoration.The owner's surname is Xu, and he has not seen his daughter-in-law. His 15-year-old son is only in the fifth grade of elementary school. "Where's the school?" I asked the kid. "At the foot of the mountain, it takes about an hour to walk there." Lao Xu's son replied, his smile and eyes clearly told me: This is a mentally handicapped boy. "I'm his elder brother." An old man approached me and smirked in front of me. He looked about seventy years old. "How old are you?" I asked the old man. "59, I am two years older than him." The old man said shyly. "Where's your child?" I said. "He's an old bachelor." Someone interrupted, and the people in Murakami burst into laughter.Lao Xu's elder brother hid behind the crowd even more shyly. "There are still many bachelors like his age in the village. There is no drinking water on this mountain, who wants to marry here..." A man who looked like a cadre muttered, then pointed to a small leather tube on the eaves of the earthen roof, and said : "We rely on the snow to melt to eat cellar water. In summer, when the snow is gone and it doesn't rain, we can only buy water to drink..." "Buy water to drink?" It's unbelievable that such a poor place still has to buy water to drink!I suddenly thought of something that Wu Degang, Minister of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, told me when I was in Lanzhou. He said that due to severe drought in many places in Gansu, ordinary people can only spend money to buy water in summer, and the price of a square of water is far lower than Much more expensive in the city. "In some places in Dongxiang Autonomous County, people still have to buy water to drink in winter. It takes 80 yuan to buy a cup of water and it takes 20 days to eat." Minister Wu described to me this way: the water I bought was used to wash my face in the morning, and after washing The water from the face is used to wash vegetables, and then this water is reserved for washing feet at night, and the water after washing feet is finally fed to livestock. "We live in Lanzhou, and we only pay a few yuan for a square of water. Sometimes cooking, bathing and washing clothes in one night may cost several square meters of water. No one cares about it. But in mountainous areas, ordinary people dare not use water, because even I can’t wait to get a loan to afford the water…” Listening to Minister Wu’s words made me sad. The people in Tiegui Village told me that although it is not that expensive to buy water to drink when they are in a drought, no one is willing to use water for thirty or forty yuan a square. "In this area, there are still more than 80,000 mountain residents like Tiegui Village. The government is implementing a plan to move down the mountain as a whole, and it will take four to five years to complete." The local officials who came to welcome us said so. Tiegui Village already belongs to the territory of Wuwei!Oh, it turns out that Jiao Sanniu works in this area! Although I haven't met Jiao Sanniu yet, facing such a poor local situation, I have the first feeling of admiration for Jiao Sanniu, the "best deputy county-level cadre". If I were a graduate of Tsinghua University, would I be able to make the same choice as Sanniu—to come to such a poor and backward place to "live and work in peace and contentment"? If my child also chooses this path, will I agree? To be sure, most people can't do it, and they won't.Only a very few people can and will agree to such a choice.Jiao Sanniu is one of these few people, and there are also a group of Tsinghua students with the same background and identity as him. What reason do we have to blame and ridicule such people? What right do we have to make reckless comments when we don't know the truth at all, even in a tone of obvious jealousy and insult, trying to suffocate an outstanding young man by spitting bad water? Conclusions cannot be drawn too early.The reason is not so simple. The reason why the "Three Niu Incident" became a "turmoil" is because people are suspicious of one thing: Wuwei rocketed a "student baby" with only half a year's work experience into a situation that usually takes more than ten years or even longer. What is the basis for the "deputy county level" leadership position that is only possible after hard work?But at the same time, people are also asking another question: Why did Wuwei push an unlikely "student baby" to this position? Yes, why?Why?This is also what I want to answer and clarify during my trip to Gansu.