Chapter 13 Chapter Eleven Difficulties in Unexplainable Things

There are too many unexplainable things in the Three Gorges immigration process, so many that the government and the departments in charge of the Three Gorges immigration work are usually helpless.However, the timetable for the construction of the Three Gorges Project set by the state was determined by the National People's Congress in the form of law, and the phenomenon of "water driving people away" must never happen. Why do people want to relocate?When you ask him to relocate, in addition to the necessary awareness, he will ask you various questions about his own interests. Only when he thinks that all the problems have been solved and he is satisfied will he agree to relocate, sign a contract with the government, and cancel the account leave.

In Fengjie, the county magistrate Chen, who was in charge of the relocation of the county seat, told me about the sufferings of the "immigrant county magistrate" for six years. "The most difficult thing to deal with is those unclear things. Some of the unclear things are reasonable and unreasonable, some are reasonable and illegal, and many things are both reasonable and legal, but the state has not yet issued relevant policies. But the immigration task issued by the superior is dead. How many people leave at any time and where they go are all monolithic, and we can’t change it even if we want to. We have to bite the bullet and deal with those messy things, and It has to be dealt with."

He cited the issues raised by the common people during the relocation of Fengjie County. For example, urban residents will be relocated. According to the physical data collected by the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Committee in the county, there are about 800 privately operated front houses in Fengjie County. The county government and immigrants The department began to plan and build according to this plan and planned to arrange corresponding stores in the new city according to the above data.But later when the county seat began to move, it was found that there were too many discrepancies.Among the immigrants, the number of privately operated storehouses more than doubled, reaching about 2,000. There is a huge difference between 800 and 2000. It is a completely different concept in a small county like Fengjie. The country's immigration policy and immigration compensation have long been stipulated, and it is not easy to change it.Similarly, the interests of the common people cannot be cut easily.Although mobilizing the people to contribute to the Three Gorges can play some role, but the legitimate interests that should be obtained will not be obtained, and the immigrants will never do it. This is also very clear.

"Re-investigate immediately!" The county magistrate issued an urgent order on behalf of the government.This is a major event related to the entire immigration process of Fengjie County and the construction of a new city. It is a major event that will affect the Three Gorges Project if it is not done properly! Comrades from the Immigration Bureau joined forces with industry and commerce, public security and other departments to start working day and night, door to door, and shop by shop to investigate and verify. It turned out that in addition to taking the opportunity to make false reports, there were indeed hundreds of shop houses that had missed registration.Then ask the immigrants why they failed to report the facts when the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission came to conduct a physical survey and statistics in 1992. Some of the reasons given by these private owners sounded like a laugh, and some really deserved sympathy.

A certain shop owner said that when the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission came to investigate the statistics, he and his wife were having a heated argument over property issues, and the wife secretly sold the shop and the real estate to others behind his back.The investigators of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission said that if you can’t produce the real estate certificate, you can only be regarded as the owner of the lease, and you are not eligible for compensation in kind for immigrants.After the shopkeeper settled the lawsuit with his wife and wanted to return the property rights, the investigation and statistics work of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission had been completed for more than half a year. Naturally, when the Three Gorges immigration began a few years later, the shopkeeper could not find his share of the house. compensation.

Another owner is more interesting: when the staff of physical survey and statistics found his home, he was busy with his own business.The second time people came to him again, he simply put a notice on the door: This house has been sold.People from the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Committee no longer registered his house according to regulations.A few days later, this gentleman came back to the city from other places to make goods. He saw the staff of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Committee busy in other shops.The Three Gorges Project has been in trouble for decades, from my grandparents to my grandchildren, it's a tortoise!I don't believe it can be built!A few years later, the National People's Congress passed a resolution, and the Three Gorges Project really started, so he panicked, knowing that the loss had become a reality.

The cases of the above two dear friends are special, right?Not special!This situation is too common in the Three Gorges reservoir area.You can't blame the common people for being unreasonable and unsophisticated.If you take a walk around the reservoir area, you will know that the debate over the years about whether the Three Gorges Project is good or not has already exhausted the people of the Three Gorges. Many people simply do not believe that they will be able to see the spectacular scene of "Gaoxia out of the Pinghu Lake" in this life. , right as it is the dream of children and grandchildren.And when they wake up from the dream, they realize that they have done wrong and missed many things.Once the government allows them to immigrate, even if they are blushing, they have to bite the bullet and go to the government.

Can the people's government ignore such "nonsense" things?No, there is no doubt about it.But take care of it. Sometimes the problem is more complicated, and the complexity has to be taken care of until it is completely taken care of.If the management is not thorough, the immigration work cannot be carried out. Among the immigrants from the Three Gorges, it should be said that the people are most worried about house demolition and grave removal. It goes without saying that people leave and demolish houses.When floods come, the reservoir area mainly clears buildings such as houses.But demolishing an old house that has been lived in for a lifetime or for several generations is not an easy task.There is an old Chinese saying, "A golden nest and a silver nest are not as good as your own grass nest."It means that no matter how wonderful, comfortable and luxurious the outside world is, it is "outside" after all, or it has little to do with the root of my life, the foundation of my culture, and the inheritance of my blood. I don't care .Especially the mountain people who have lived in one place for a long time and have never been to the outside world. Don't look at his family, which is so simple that a few people are squeezed into a thatched house and cover a quilt. How many rooms do you really want him to move to the city? In a building with one hall, he goes to restaurants to eat seafood every day, maybe he will run away within a week.When I asked some immigrants in the reservoir area why they were reluctant to leave, they often said very simply, saying that the state provided a lot of compensation, and that the new place to move to was good, but they thought it was better to stay in the old place, because they got used to it and were familiar with it. So I don't want to leave!

One habit and one familiarity contain all the life philosophies of the Chinese people, because there are living habits, the culture nurtured by the earth veins, and the genetic factors passed down from generation to generation.The more people who have not traveled far and have not received much cultural education, the more obsessed and clinging to their homeland.The longer the history of a nation, the stronger this obsession and belief. China is exactly such a nation. The common people of China are the children of the culture and tradition of such a nation.Their fascination with their homeland has actually reached the level of religious worship, even a lifelong wanderer, in the end he will come to "leaves return to their roots".Then those who have already lived on the "root", not to mention the worship and obsession with their "root".

In the early days of the Three Gorges immigration, some local governments would mobilize you to demolish the house first, or wait until you demolished the house, to ensure that the immigrants could “walk out”. Immigrant compensation issued to your country.I think the person who formulated this method at that time had a very "effective" idea: as long as the house is demolished, you have to leave if you don't want to!Therefore, I learned from the interviews that many immigrants had a lot of trouble with the immigration cadres over the demolition of houses, and at the end they changed their minds and refused to leave.

There was an immigrant named Li in a certain county. When the cadres mobilized him to relocate, he took the initiative and even helped the cadres mobilize his relatives to relocate.When it was the last week before moving out of the old house, the cadre told him, we have to demolish your house first, otherwise we won’t be able to send you the compensation.This immigrant became popular, saying that I will use my personality to promise you that I will move. Don't demolish the house first. It will not be too late for you to demolish it after we have gone far.The cadre shook his head and said: No, it’s not that we don’t trust you. A group of immigrants from neighboring villages went through all the formalities and received compensation because their houses wouldn’t be demolished. Check and see that nothing has left!Therefore, we can only demolish the houses of the immigrants first, and finally distribute the compensation to everyone. This is called "two clearing". "Clearing" the compensation fee is very simple, and there is a lot of it.But it is not so easy to "clear" the roots left by the immigrants for generations.Furthermore, the immigrants said, before we leave, even if we have one night to live, we must have a house!How can you live in us when you demolish them?Live in the open air?The cadres said, we can find a place for you, and we can also give you money.Immigrants say, it's not a question of money or not!We just want to live one more day, and we feel pain in our hearts. We don't want to see the old house passed down from our ancestors destroyed under our noses.The immigrant Lao Li insisted on his point of view, and the cadres also felt very embarrassed. The "money for demolishing the house" was set by the superiors, so no one would make any concessions in the stalemate.In the end, when the bulldozers that demolished the house rumbled to the front of Lao Li's house, he led his whole family to lie on the ground after being active for a year and refused to let the house be demolished, and said that if you have the ability, you can run over me. The practice of "demolish the house first, then leave" was later corrected. In the second phase of immigration, the demolition is generally arranged by the government after the immigrants have moved out. In the early 1980s, an immigrant in Wanzhou District built a new building on top of the old homestead through his own way of getting rich.He was the first household in the village to build a building, and the building he built was also the best, and this record was maintained until the immigration of the Three Gorges began.The farmer has always been proud of it.The cadres mobilized him to relocate. He said that the construction of the Three Gorges Project was a major national event, and I agreed to relocate.Later, the government arranged for his family to live in a new immigrant village. The new place was not bad, but it definitely lacked the advantage of the scenery he had in the previous village.The immigrant often stayed up all night because of this, and later ran back to his old house alone from his new home hundreds of miles away, and lived there for 10 months.From relocation to house demolition and warehouse clearance, there is a time lag, ranging from two to three months to a year and a half.The immigrant neither did business nor farmed in those days. Someone asked him what happened?Living in an old house without making money or food, why are you insane?The immigrant said: This house is the glory of my life, without it, my heart is very empty! It is said that after the bulldozers tore down his three-story building, the man squatted on the foundation and cried for a long time. There is another difficult task in clearing the emigration treasury, which is the disposal of the tombs. Everyone knows the truth. You ask any immigrant and they all know that in the future, the Three Gorges Reservoir must pay attention to the environment and prevent pollution.Things like dead bones and coffins should definitely be cleaned up.Besides, if we go by ourselves, we can't let our ancestors and relatives who passed away be submerged in the water! The truth is the truth, but if you really want to "digging ancestral graves" and digging tombs, there will be a lot of problems, some things even a novelist who can make up stories can't figure it out. The old man Hu Xuecheng’s son, Hu Kaiming, passed away for many years. When the cadres cleaned up the grave of the old man’s son, they encountered a great difficulty: everyone in the village knew that this happened 26 years ago. Mention it in front of the couple, otherwise it will kill someone!Back then, Hu Kaiming was the precious son of Hu Xuecheng and his wife. He was young and strong, he was a man of integrity, and he was the pillar of the Hu family. In 1975, after graduating from high school, 18-year-old Hu Kaiming was arranged by Murakami to be a private teacher, which in the eyes of Murakami was "the most promising".In that year, a coal mine was opened in the village, and strong men were needed to do the work.Because the coal mine work was hard and dangerous, the village cadres could not find anyone. The then village party secretary came to mobilize Hu Kaiming, hoping that he would take the lead and earn some money for the village.Hu Kaiming was honest, so he agreed. "Teacher Hu" has all entered the kiln, and the men in the village followed suit without any conditions, so the villagers had a happy life.But just when people hoped to get more wealth from the coal mine, one day the coal mine gas exploded suddenly.Six people were killed on the spot and many others were injured.Hu Kaiming died of excessive blood loss on the way to the hospital.Along the way, Hu Kaiming joked to his friends from time to time, saying that everyone will not die, and if they die, they will not be alone if they are buried together!After hearing the news of their son's death, Hu Xuecheng and his wife cried so hard that their hair turned white overnight.Since then, a tomb has been left on a small hill beside the river, which makes the two old people mourn forever.Although the years are passing by year by year, the two old people are gradually aging with the passage of time, and their concern for the dead soul of their son is becoming more and more unforgettable. In almost all festivals every year, they have to sweep the grave and sacrifice for their son in order to obtain a An irreplaceable comfort. Now the clearing of the warehouse has begun, and according to the regulations, the 15-year-old graves below 175 meters have to be destroyed and leveled on the spot. The villagers and cadres were helpless, knowing that discussing this matter with Hu Xuecheng and his wife would be tantamount to digging blood in the hearts of two elderly people who are dying. The cadres and the villagers discussed together and decided to implement "special treatment" for Hu Kaiming's tomb.They reburied Hu Kaiming in a place with good geomantic omen above the submerged water level, and the tomb was built higher than before.After everything was completed, the cadres and people in the village told Hu Xuecheng and his wife about the relocation of the grave.After the two old people learned about it, they rushed to the new cemetery three steps at a time, and cried for several hours, as if they were a few years older... According to statistics, there are more than 50,000 tombs that need to be moved in the entire Three Gorges reservoir area.The relocation and leveling process of almost every tomb is another mobilization of immigrants and difficult ideological work.An immigrant from a certain village asked the cadre to kneel in front of his dead wife's tomb for three hours because the cadres missed a bone during the relocation of his dead wife. "Do you know, what is missing is a remains! That is the soul that is pulling my heart!" the immigrant cried so much. This is the immigrant from the Three Gorges—a small scene in the "world-class problem" that we ordinary people don't know. Foreigners commented that China's Three Gorges immigration is a "world-class problem" that is hard to crack. That is understood from the superficial sense, or the conclusion drawn from the lessons of those reservoir immigrants in the past.In their view, the difficulty of the Three Gorges immigrants lies in the quantity, the weakness of China's national power, and the lack of a complete set of effective resettlement measures.Although these reasons are very direct, the Chinese themselves understand and feel the difficulty of millions of immigrants from the Three Gorges, but it is also difficult in one extremely important aspect: among today’s immigrants, some people care about the policies of the party and the state, The leaders and cadres cared enthusiastically, cared for the society in every possible way, and paid special attention to the Three Gorges Project for the world. They regarded themselves as special immigrants, and their hearts were filled with such a sense of superiority. There is an immigrant in Wushan who is known as a "national cadre". That is because after the mobilization of immigrants to move out in 1999, this person simply jumped out of the "farm gate".At first I ran to the county town to stay, then I went to Chongqing to stay, and then I went to Beijing.His whole reason is that "the country has allocated more than 40 billion in immigration funds, so each of the millions of immigrants should get 40,000 yuan. But why didn't we get this amount!" "Unfortunately", he said that there were five members of his family, and the cadres "corrupted" his family's immigration funds and only gave him 110,000 to 120,000 yuan, which made him "suffer" at least 80,000 to 90,000 yuan.People who don't know the details felt sympathetic to the immigrant after hearing this. Not only domestic compatriots believe this, individual foreign journalists use this person's words to attack our Three Gorges immigration work. Seeing someone sympathizes, and seeing foreigners "waving their flags and shouting", this person is even more proud.Later, he even dared to block the car led by the Three Gorges Construction Committee of the State Council, and even went to the Ministry of Finance to "ask for money" and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to "denounce".In the end, he was sent back to his hometown by the relevant department because he made too much noise.But he still asks the government and cadres for money. One day, the secretary of the town party committee finally "caught" this "professional petitioner" who "had not seen him for several years but only heard his voice" and asked him, "Have you ever studied the country's "Immigration Regulations?" The man shook his head.His face was a little red. The secretary told him: "The budget of the Three Gorges Project used by the state for resettlement is indeed more than 40 billion yuan, but it does not mean that the money is all for the immigrants themselves, because it also includes infrastructure construction for urban relocation and professional construction. More than a dozen types of expenses such as facility reconstruction. Do you understand this? Do you understand?" The man nodded. The secretary said, "Okay, let me ask you again: Have you ever studied the country's legal documents on family planning?" The man's face turned pale. The secretary's face also became serious, and he said: "The country allows a couple to have one child. In Chongqing, families in rural areas, especially those in mountainous areas, who lack labor force are allowed to have up to two children. How many children have you had? Three, maybe?" Is it a violation of the policy? Do you know what kind of punishment you will receive for violating the national family planning policy? Violating the family planning policy and want to obtain immigration qualifications, and want to ask the state for money, do you think it is reasonable? " The immigrant's head has been held high for several years, and now it finally hangs down. Don't think that everything will be fine if the problem of whether to go or not is solved, just wait quietly for the sound of farewell gongs and drums.Trouble is yet to come!Some immigrants have completed all the formalities, but when the immigration cadre came to the door to number and set off together, he suddenly said that he still had one thing to do and he would not leave. "What, aren't you leaving?" The immigration officer was so anxious that he was sweating, he hurriedly asked. The man answered unhurriedly: "That's right, a motorcycle I bought was detained by the county's public security bureau two days ago." "Why did you detain you?" "No license!" "You...then what are you going to do?" "There is nothing I can do. Originally, I bought this motorcycle with the compensation money from immigrants. I thought I could get rich from it!" When the immigrant said this, he pretended to be sad, but he laughed in his heart and said: Look You still let me go! The immigration cadres were really in a hurry.The matter has come to this point, as long as one immigrant does not leave, the responsibility is entirely on the cadres! "Tell me, which police station detained it?" After a while, the cadre asked in a low voice. "Chengnan Police Station." The cadre turned his head and left.The immigrant whistled and went home sound asleep.Because he understands that the fine for violating traffic rules will definitely not allow him to leave, and the new motorcycle will return to him intact. Sure enough, his wish came true that night. There are a lot of such "unreasonable competition for three-point advantage" almost every day.What is even more helpless is that some immigrants often say "I am a Three Gorges immigrant sent by General Secretary Jiang, and a guest invited by Premier Zhu" and use it to the extreme. I chatted with those Three Gorges immigrants in Guangdong and other places where they were resettled, and asked them if they really knew if they were so "special" in their daily life. An immigrant smiled and said, "Why don't you know! But outsiders don't understand why we sometimes seem unreasonable?" The immigrant pointed to his chest and said, "Here, there is a problem! We haven't Get used to the new environment, the new life. At this time, as long as something goes wrong, my heart will not be stable, and if I am not stable, some crooked ideas will appear in my actions!" I think the immigrant is right and true.Immigrants are indeed not easy, and the whole society should give them sympathy and care.