Provincial Party Committee

Chapter 40

Now that the media is so developed, if you are not careful, you will become a national celebrity.Those so-called deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the CPPCC who were elected are also aware that their deputies are not elected by the people, but are selected internally by the leaders of the higher-level organizational departments.Especially those CPPCC members, in recent years, have become less and less likely to come from the grassroots and ordinary people. They are either rich people, stars, celebrities, or officials who have not been elected as representatives of the National People's Congress due to quota restrictions, like Wang Yiming. .The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has become a celebrity club.The meeting of the National People's Congress, because of the large number of officials, is basically nicknamed the official club by the people.

Wang Yiming used to be a deputy to the National People's Congress for one term, and that was when he was the mayor of Jiangbei City.At that time, when he was young, when he attended the meeting of the National People's Congress, he was the target of the news media.Because compared to those officials who are all in their 60s and 30s, he, a mayor in his early [-]s, is rare even in the whole country.Every time when the meeting ended, he walked out of the Great Hall of the People with the flow of people, and he would be surrounded by reporters as soon as he went down the steps of the east gate.Especially those beautiful reporters, when they saw a young mayor like him, they were all curious and tried every means to get close to him, trying to get valuable news out of his mouth.

At that time, Wang Yiming was also young and energetic. He had just arrived in Beijing from a small place, and when he was suddenly bombarded by reporters from the national media, he was still a little vain and wanted to show off.Besides, they are all in the officialdom, who doesn't want to increase their popularity and influence on a larger scale.At that time, in China's officialdom, people began to like those star officials who were graceful, handsome, energetic, humorous, and funny.Wang Yiming also consciously wants to create such an image of an official.He has this capital and this condition, why can't he give full play to his own advantages.

In his heart, Wang Yiming also wants to distinguish officials like himself from those traditional officials who are common to ordinary people and who have a bad impression.For a long time, these officials have given people the impression of a pig's head, fat head and big ears, clumsy mouth and clumsy cheeks, walking steadily, swaying; Rhetoric, lies, and empty words, they speak plausibly and spit everywhere, but when people see such a scene, they are so disgusted that they want to vomit, knowing that what he said is farting and fooling the common people.

Officials like Wang Yiming, however, give people a refreshing feeling. They are young, full of energy, good at dealing with the media, and know the importance of using the news media to build momentum for themselves.They come from the bottom and understand the actual situation and psychological needs of the people. They will not pretend to be confused, or talk nonsense and stupid words to fool people.If they don’t speak, it’s fine. Once they speak, they will definitely hit the nail on the head. They have something to say and are justified. think.

Wang Yiming's principle is that he does not touch many sensitive issues by himself because he is limited by the system and his own position. There is no way. As an official, you must obey the organization's management, but at least you can keep silent. The words of the bastard, the words of fooling people, think that the common people in the world are all mentally retarded, and they can be fooled casually. This shows that those officials have no brains at all, or they are shameless.He has forgotten the purpose of the party and has degenerated into an old fritter who is desperate for fame and fortune.

But for the matters within his own responsibilities, it is really necessary to step up and solve them. Wang Yiming no longer avoids them. When facing the camera, he still dares to tell the truth, and for the benefit of the people, he dares to speak out.

That was in the early 20s. When he was the mayor, he conducted research and believed that the tax burden on farmers across the country had reached an overwhelmed level.At that time, the focus of the country's development was almost entirely on the cities, and the countryside became a place where no one cared and no one asked.Jiangbei City is a large agricultural city, with a population of 90 million, of which more than 800 million are engaged in agricultural production.Due to poor finances, they cannot spend so much money to support so many civil servants.All over the city, counties and townships, they tried every means and cleverly set up names to search for the people's fat and people's anointing from the farmers.In some villages and towns, there are more than 700 charging items, which Jianfeng pointed out are all in the pockets of farmers.When the year is good and the weather is good, the farmers have paid miscellaneous taxes and fees, and a few of them can survive.However, once natural disasters occur frequently, some crops are almost useless, and farmers can't even get back their own investment. In order to maintain their normal operation, the villages and counties still pay nothing to the farmers. Levy less.If there is no food, you will take your cattle, cut your trees, even move your furniture, sell your things, and take what is worth it.If you resist, your confinement will be locked up, and your house will even be taken away.If you are still not convinced, you may be taken to a special place by an expropriation team composed of gangsters and hooligans. You will be beaten violently, and you may even be injured to death.

Such things were not uncommon in that era.Many farmers had no choice but to hang themselves.In Jiangbei City, a rural woman once appeared. After begging hard in front of the food requisition team, she drank pesticide in despair and committed suicide.After this incident was exposed by the news media, Wang Yiming went to that township and village in person to appease the villagers and understand the actual situation.

At that time, when he entered the village with his men, the farmers there felt as if they were facing an enemy. They thought that the government was arresting people on a large scale this time. I heard that the armed police had sent hundreds of people to surround the whole village, leaving no one behind. Catch them all and go to jail.Many old people and children evacuated ahead of time, and some people were afraid at night, so they slept in the crop fields for the night.

In order to dispel the doubts of the villagers, Wang Yiming took only the staff around him, and a few township cadres and village cadres from neighboring villages, and entered the village directly.At the beginning, no one dared to tell the truth, all the villagers glared at him, and from those eyes, there was a skyrocketing anger.

Wang Yiming was also born in a rural area, and he knew how to deal with farmers. He didn't put on airs, and talked homely. He quickly dispelled everyone's suspicions and began to tell him the truth.Wang Yiming listened to them carefully calculate the accounts, how much is the income per mu of land, how much is invested, and how much is the income in a good year.In a calamity year, how to tighten your belt and live your life.How many items are there in total.After careful calculation, it turned out that at that time, being a farmer was losing money for a year. After deducting various expenses, it was basically equivalent to doing nothing. It was better to abandon the wasteland and go to the city to work.As a result, large tracts of farmland in the village began to go barren, and there was no way to survive as a farmer.

Listening to what they said, Wang Yiming's eyes became moist. In the end, he couldn't hold on anymore, and burst into tears in front of the villagers.The villagers cried, and he cried too, and the whole house was full of crying.He could not have imagined that after more than ten years of reform and opening up, the peasants would live such a life.Compared with before the reform and opening up, the pressure is greater and more difficult.

Back in the city, he asked the city government office to write the materials overnight and report to the main leaders of the provincial party committee, the central government, and the State Council.The basic actual situation was reported to them in detail, and a series of effective solutions were proposed.His opinions and suggestions have been approved by the relevant leaders of the central government, and he has given instructions on the internal reference.Since then, the central government has issued a series of documents on further strengthening and emphasizing agriculture, rural areas, and farmers' lives.Reduce and exempt all kinds of arbitrary charges, and start to experiment with grain-growing subsidies in some areas.These documents and the subsequent series of policies for benefiting farmers are collectively referred to as the “Three Rural Issues” documents.

Because of this incident, Wang Yiming, together with those scholars and officials promoting China's "Sannong Work", is regarded by the media as someone who has made outstanding contributions to improving the living conditions of farmers.At the National People's Congress in the next few years, he was always the focus of the media, and he was favored by the media, and he gave a very wonderful speech.

He was in the limelight and expanded his popularity, but it also brought side effects. Many people began to envy him, the most important thing was those colleagues, those officials who were similar to him or a little older, felt that Wang Yiming brought them There was a lot of threat and pressure, fearing that Wang Yiming's official promotion would be too fast, which would reflect his own status as a vegetarian, so he created public opinion behind his back, saying that he was immature, not calm, loved to express himself, and did not understand the unspoken rules of officialdom .In order to become famous, you beat everyone to death with a stick. It seems that there are no good people in Hongdong County.

Wang Yiming didn't understand at first, he didn't care, he thought he didn't offend them, why did they treat him like this, and kept fanning the flames behind his back.Later, after a little dialing from my old father-in-law, I found out that I just violated a taboo.The so-called rafters in the early years rotted first, and I was not careful, and became a stunned young man in the officialdom, a target of public criticism.The so-called wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it is this truth.

At that time, the top leader in the province was old Secretary Zhao.No matter how others think about him, they can only point at him behind the scenes, which cannot fundamentally threaten his development.The position of mayor is still safe.But when the old secretary Zhao was transferred to the central government and the province changed leaders, Wang Yiming clearly felt that his environment had deteriorated rapidly.No matter what to say, few people are willing to listen.Old Xiong, secretary of the municipal party committee who was working with him, was no longer so cooperative.It turned out that Wang Yiming had to personally seek advice on what cadres he wanted to promote and what policies he wanted to introduce.Now the conferences and small meetings all say that the municipal party committee is the core, and the secretary is the squad leader, who must obey organizational discipline.Whoever you tell them to hear, don't ask everyone to understand.In Jiangbei City, Wang Yiming clearly felt isolated.The several deputy mayors often went to the office of Old Xiong, secretary of the municipal party committee, to sit and report on the situation every now and then.The Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee held a meeting to study the problem, and Wang Yiming spoke. As long as Lao Xiong did not express his position, no one dared to express support for Wang Yiming's problem.

When Wang Yiming arrived at the Provincial Party Committee, the members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee who used to smile at him now had new masters. Seeing that the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee was very indifferent to Wang Yiming, they just went one by one.When Wang Yiming asked for an interview, he either said he was busy, or he justified that he was not free.

For the first time in his political life, Wang Yiming tasted the feeling of throwing stones into a well and being overwhelmed by others.This is a problem he has never encountered since he was a secretary.This was the low point of his life, but it also made him realize the cruelty of politics and the extreme shamelessness of politicians on a deeper level.Those who have experienced it will understand that these experiences are a huge wealth invisibly. They have honed Wang Yiming's will and made him more stable, experienced and mature.

Seeing that he was getting more and more uncomfortable in the position of mayor of Jiangbei, and his future future was even more uncertain, even unpredictable.If you want to open up the situation, you must jump out of this small place and go to a larger platform to play your role.Fortunately, I have a certain reputation and capital. Although my old father-in-law Yu Kaishan is still the vice chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference, he can't help much, but the old secretary Zhao has been promoted to the vice premier after all. It works.Therefore, under the continuous care of Mr. Zhao, Wang Yiming entered Beijing smoothly, and was promoted to the rank of deputy minister, and stepped onto a bigger platform.

When he was a deputy minister, his term of office as a deputy to the National People's Congress was up, catching up with the general election.Minister Lao Tian has been appointed as a representative of the National People's Congress by relevant departments, and Wang Yiming, the executive vice minister, has been assigned as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference without knowing it.

His wife, Yu Yanmei, laughed at him, saying that his position as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference was bestowed by the emperor, not elected by the people, and he didn't have to represent the interests of the people.

Wang Yiming smiled and said: "This is China's national conditions. Although I don't know who elected me, I still have to speak for the people. Because I am still a member of the Communist Party. To put it bluntly, the organization department arranged for me to be a member of the CPPCC. In the final analysis, The Communist Party serves the people, so there is nothing wrong with me speaking for the ordinary people at the bottom."

Yu Yanmei said: "I advise you to be more honest, behave yourself, say what people say, don't be in the limelight, don't go on TV, don't be a TV star, no matter how nice the words are, the common people nowadays don't believe it." , They listened to too many good things. Didn’t you see what the Internet said now? It said that the current officials are all professional actors. They specialize in news. They just don’t get paid. If you dare to break the rules and talk , Maybe in the end, you will lose your seat as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. At that time, you will not even have the right to talk nonsense."

Hearing what his wife said made sense, Wang Yiming said, "Okay, from now on, I will speak less and talk less. If it is not possible, I will also say some nonsense to make them happy. However, according to my observation, any leader who is happy , the masses may be unhappy. I have attended so many meetings, and found a phenomenon, if there is no big leader or news media present at the meeting place, everyone speaks freely, and the speeches are all meaningful, profound and specific, and each one is better than the other. It's wonderful, but once a big leader comes, the atmosphere of the meeting will change immediately. One by one, they all become trumpeters. They say nasty things and put them on TV, making people feel sick after watching them. That's all. , Everyone also smugly said, remember what you need, everyone takes what they need, everyone is happy, such a meeting does not solve any problems, it is a waste of time. After a meeting, I don’t know how many billions the country will waste. Living, Food, transportation, all kinds of expenses, all the representatives, plus the conference staff, tens of thousands, the amount of money spent is really hard to calculate. Otherwise, it is said on the Internet that this is the largest political show in the world, it is PARTY Year after year, such meetings waste money and people, so it doesn’t matter if they don’t take place.”

Yu Yanmei said: "You senior cadre, why are you so unaware! Otherwise, how can you show the image of our great country! Where is the legitimacy of the ruling party? This is a political account, not an economic account. In the future, if you want to stay in the officialdom and become a high-ranking official, you must restrain your temperament and learn to tell lies. In this world, especially when you are a high-ranking official, it is impossible not to tell lies. Lin Biao once said, no You can’t accomplish great things by telling lies. Goebbels once said that a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth. Thinking about it carefully, it does make sense.”

Wang Yiming thought about what his woman said, and it was indeed of a level. This seemed to be related to her background. The children of high-ranking officials have been influenced by their ears and eyes since they were young, and they know some official rules.

During the meeting in Beijing, listening to the proposals, suggestions and speeches of those stars and celebrities that made people laugh out loud, Wang Yiming decided that he should not join in the fun. China is so big, and there is a lot missing.I don't do star performances anymore. What I need now is to firmly stabilize my position and do something practical for the people of Xijiang.For example, to introduce some funds, to promote a few big projects, I have been in Beijing for eight years, and I have a deep network of contacts, whoever I talk to, others will still give some face.

During the meeting, under Wang Yiming's arrangement, Yang Chunfeng took the cadres of the Provincial Party Committee in Beijing to visit Tianlun Group's modern, luxurious and magnificent office building on Chang'an Avenue.

Tian Lun Group is rich and powerful, and their office building is second to none even on Chang'an Avenue, where there are many large enterprises and institutions.The cost of the entire building alone cost more than a billion yuan, making it one of the most luxurious office buildings in the capital.However, this is nothing compared to the hundreds of billions of yuan in assets owned by the entire group.

In today's China, the people who live the most comfortable and beautiful lives are not government officials, but the bosses of these state-owned monopoly enterprises who hold a lot of money. Anyone who knows the inside story knows how beautiful they are. Life is like a living fairy.

In today's society where money is omnipotent in China, you are the real grandpa if you have money.

As for government officials, no matter how big an official you are, how powerful you are, and you can control hundreds of billions of funds, there is no problem with how many people you can make rich or bankrupt with a single word.You even have the right to squander, spend a lot of money, spend a lot of money, and you will be reimbursed with public funds, and you don't have to pay for it yourself.It may also be because of one of your decision-making mistakes, the country will lose astronomical wealth.

In a word, you can eat, you can spoil, you can let money go into someone's pocket, or take it out of someone's pocket; it doesn't matter if you make a poor man a rich man or a rich man a poor man.But there is one thing, if you put money in your own pocket, you are breaking the law.

Regardless of whether you are enriching your own pockets, selling your official titles, or accepting bribes, as long as your income exceeds your legal salary income, you are actually a dishonest official.When your wealth has accumulated to a certain extent, there is also a crime of unknown source of huge property.Once something happens, all your money will be turned over to the state.

Therefore, those who are high-ranking officials don't look at how beautiful they are on stage, but when they mention money, their own salary income, and then think about the income of these state-owned enterprise bosses, they immediately feel like a deflated ball, and they can't help sighing.The distribution is unfair. They are all deputy-ministerial positions. I, the governor and deputy governor of the province, work for a year, and I am not as good as others for a week.

Just like Zhao Jingtian, the chairman of the board, manages dozens of companies, including four listed companies with offices in more than a dozen countries around the world. The annual output value of the entire group is comparable to that of a backward province.As long as he wants to travel and inspect, he can run around outside all day long, even if he turns the world N times, the discipline inspection department can't control it. It's a legitimate business negotiation and investigation, in order to open up overseas markets.

(End of this chapter)