Provincial Party Committee

Chapter 43

If you can't eat it, you can sell it in your own supermarket and exchange it for money.So in the past few years, Erhu's life has been full of sesame blossoms. In addition to salary, he has a large amount of gray income every year.With money in hand, Erhu bought land in the county town and built a house with upstairs and downstairs, more than 300 square meters, surrounded by a large yard.This condition, in Beijing, is a villa.

From time to time, father and mother will live in the county for a few days to enjoy their son's villa and eat some good food. On this issue, Wang Yiming admits that Erhu is filial.Do more for your parents than yourself.

When he arrived at Erhu's house, Wang Yiming realized that his younger brother's family had changed a lot in recent years.Among other things, his consumption level can be seen from the empty wine bottles he drank in the yard.Those wine bottles are either Wuliangye or Moutai. At least there are hundreds of empty bottles. Although I don’t know how many of them are fake, but this level of consumption is already at the top of the pyramid in the county.The worst cigarettes smoked by Erhu are Hongtashan and so on, and they often continue in Greater China. After a year, there is no one who has 10,000+ cigarettes. It is impossible to live such a life.

Seeing his younger brother lead such a life, Wang Yiming felt mixed joy and sorrow.This result was brought about by him in the first place, without his own greeting, it would be impossible for the two tigers to live where they are today.And now this result is indeed full of risks, if one day, Erhu commits a crime and becomes a corrupt member, a prisoner, and he is also the instigator, he is the one who harmed his brother and made him embark on such a path.

But the secretary of the county party committee and the county magistrate were with him in the room, so Wang Yiming couldn't say anything, so he used his mobile phone to talk to Erhu at night.

Wang Yiming reminded his younger brother, saying: "Erhu, you are different now. You are no longer the hard-working and simple brother I used to be. You have become ostentatious. You are so particular about food and drink. Your salary is not as good as it is. At this level, if you continue like this, I'm really worried about you, if you can't control it, something will happen sooner or later."

Erhu said: "Brother, it's okay. The current society is like this. In our county, if you are not like this, people will laugh at you as a fool. If you have the right to use it, it will become invalid after the expiration date. Look at our county secretary and county magistrate. Anyone who has been working for three to five years is not a multi-millionaire. To put it bluntly, they all use their power to seek benefits for themselves. It is normal to be an official to make a fortune. It’s like this, no one will sue anyone. Look at our county. After so many years, has a county party secretary and county magistrate been imprisoned? Are they all so clean? Who doesn’t accept gifts! You can collect a few million. The top leaders of the townships and bureaus in the county don’t give them gifts unless you don’t want to do it. If you have more than [-] to [-], if you have less, you will get [-] to [-]. Dozens of units, After a year, you can figure out how much money you have. So all of them are corrupt criminals. Compared with them, I am not at all. Don't worry, I just eat and drink and spend a lot , Basically, I didn’t dare to put much in my pocket, and I couldn’t reach it and break the law.”

Wang Yiming said: "People have their own aspirations. I won't persuade you anymore, and I can't control you anymore, but I remind you, don't forget your roots. We were born in rural areas, so we don't have to worry about it. You can just take advantage of it. Big corruption Don't accept bribes, if something happens, no one can protect you, you have to suffer by yourself, why bother!"

Erhu said: "Brother, I understand, I will remember your reminder, and I will take care of myself."

Putting down the phone, Wang Yiming was overwhelmed with emotion. It seems that power can really change a person. What an honest and sincere child, in just a few years in the big dye vat of officialdom, he has transformed into this. It seems that society The influence of atmosphere is really too great.

Back in Beijing, Wang Yiming always thought of the shots of those laid-off workers in his hometown, and the life of Xiong Xiaoqiang.He was worried, anxious, and blamed himself for this huge group that no one cares about, no one asks, and disappears from the mainstream media, as if their layoffs were caused by himself.

Indeed, among the policies issued, Department S, where Wang Yiming works, is also one of the main departments.At that time, mainstream media all over China were instilling a view that reform and opening up required some people to make sacrifices, and there was no way around it.

Some economists went so far as to say: "If a generation of working class is to be sacrificed, the reform process cannot be advanced without 3000 million to 5000 million workers being laid off."

Based on such considerations, the state issued a series of policies. After making contributions to the country for many years, these laid-off workers were treated as garbage overnight and kicked out.They have become a group that no one cares about in this country. They struggle alone in society, dragging their aging bodies, no wages, no security, no idea where they will be tomorrow, and they can only die on the street when they get sick. Or at home, there are hundreds of millions of such people plus their family members. What a huge and miserable crowd!The former big brother of the working class, we have treated them like this and attacked them.

Reform Reform, what a beautiful word it used to be, has now become synonymous with terror.In the name of reform, how many people have become victims of this era. Men rely on selling their labor power, and women rely on selling their bodies to earn a living.They sacrificed their dignity and health to survive.It's not fair, it's just so unfair.

Any reform is actually a redistribution of interests.In this reform, the powerful and the rich have used the power capital in their hands to openly use the name of reform to maximize their own interests.Like Zhao Jingtian, the annual income is several million, which is still legal, and the illegal gray income is not known how much.Not counting these, he can spend the country's money as he wants, and he can also use public funds to reimburse him in the name of job consumption, or the biggest fund now is public funds.Ordinary workers earn tens of thousands of yuan a year.Compared with these executives, it is simply a heaven and an underground.

This is robbery, blatantly using power to rob, and robbing the public wealth accumulated by the country for decades, thus creating Chinese billionaires in the shortest period of time.In this process, the society rapidly divides. Ordinary workers become proletarians with nothing, while officials, factory directors and managers become successful people in this society.

Wang Yiming introspected, and felt that he was a participant in this gluttonous feast, a beneficiary, and his monthly salary was over 200, which was nothing in Beijing, but a high-ranking official like himself had job expenses, and could be reimbursed for eating, drinking, whoring and gambling People, you want to spend money, there is a long line of people who pay for you.Although the houses I live in are not villas, the ministerial buildings given by the state are all [-] square meters. In Beijing, they are already considered luxury houses.My family, like my younger brother Erhu, grew from a poor teacher to the principal of a key middle school. Although the official is not big, his position is important. Every day, people come to the house to give gifts. After a year, I don’t know how much gray income they have. Those who lose the benefits, in short, belong to the vested interests.

After much deliberation, Wang Yiming felt a deep sense of guilt. After all, he was born in a peasant family. After all these years of struggling in the officialdom, his vigor has not been completely worn away. He has a natural sense of guilt towards the disadvantaged. Feelings.Originally, without the support of Mr. Zhao back then, Wang Yiming would still be Wang Yiming, maybe he is still a small employee now, being called around by others, to be a director is already remarkable.At any time, he never forgot that he was a farmer's boy, and if he hadn't been admitted to university, he would be among the migrant workers traveling north and south.Although he has now become a high-ranking official and a person with vested interests, his conscience is still there, and his nature is hard to change.In the words of Mr. Zhao, even he has a conscience and has not forgotten his roots.

As a result, at the National People's Congress that year, Wang Yiming couldn't hold back anymore.At that time, although Wang Yiming was transferred to Beijing and became a deputy minister, his status as a deputy to the National People's Congress was still there. He still belonged to the National People's Congress in his hometown of Qingjiang Province.

That morning, according to the agenda of the meeting, a major central leadership comrade was going to participate in the discussion of the Qingjiang Provincial Delegation.According to the notice, everyone had breakfast early, packed up, and put on the neatest clothes before the meeting started, especially those comrades of ethnic minorities, who wore their own national costumes, and the lesbians, one by one, Dress up like you're going to a costume show.They knew that CCTV and the provincial TV station would definitely record the video, and then the people of the whole country would see the footage. This was a great opportunity for everyone to show their faces.

The day before, the secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Lao Lu, made a special statement that all people should not talk indiscriminately at that time, and must obey orders and listen to commands. Let him leave a good impression on our Qingjiang Province.Now he is the top leader in the province, he has the final say.

Of course, he mainly said these words to the comrades in the province. Those people worked under him. He said that whoever was dismissed as an official would be finished immediately. He was the top leader in the province and said what he said.But for Wang Yiming, he has no binding force. Wang Yiming doesn't have to look at his face to speak. He is the deputy director of the Central Organization Department. If Lao Lu's words are conveyed to his ears, they can only arouse him. Greater unhappiness, or resentment.

From the bottom of his heart, Wang Yiming didn't like this old Lu either. His speech was fake, and there were a lot of official phrases. The level is not even a little bit poor, and Wang Yiming also doubts how the organization employs people and how such a person is promoted to such an important position.

But when I think about it carefully, I understand that people like Lao Lu are good at pondering the minds of their superiors. He just says what the superiors like, and he can make superficial articles. He is also good at eloquence. Not only can he fool a large number of ordinary people, even the big leaders of the central government have not had any intimate contact with him. Just based on the first impression, many people will be fooled.

This may also be one of the reasons for his prosperous official career.

Wang Yiming is a person who has seen the world. He has been with the old secretary Zhao for many years, and has a keen insight into people. The long-term ups and downs of the officialdom also gave him a sensitive intuition. He can understand a person's every move and subconscious Screen information in action and make your own judgments.

During his last year as mayor of Jiangbei City, Wang Yiming knew from Lao Lu's lukewarm expression towards him and his hypocritical handshake that he and such a person couldn't urinate in the same pot.He was indifferent to Wang Yiming, and when other officials saw it, they were doubly indifferent to Wang Yiming, adding insult to injury. These were the words that Wang Yiming understood most deeply during that time.

Of course, Wang Yiming didn't listen to him and insisted on telling the truth in front of the central leadership, not for the purpose of confronting him, not giving him face, and avenging himself.

Wang Yiming felt that although he was not elected by the people, he basically had nothing to do with the people. Even if he didn't speak up, he had nothing to say.But I am still a person with a conscience, and I cannot speak out against my conscience. I am still a member of the Communist Party and a senior cadre, and I have the responsibility to advocate for the interests of the people.

Now that I have this status, this opportunity, and I know the real situation at the grassroots level, why can't I speak for the common people? It's because this representative of the National People's Congress can't do it, and I am worthy of my conscience, and I can be regarded as fulfilling my mission.The most important thing is that his nature is like this. What he has seen, heard, and thought for so long has made him unable to hold back anymore. He wants to shoot, he wants to speak, and no one will let him speak. The result can only be counterproductive.

At [-] o'clock in the morning, the leading comrades of the Central Committee came, and everyone lined up to welcome them. First, they took group photos, took pictures, and the TV station made news, and there was thunderous applause.Before the symposium started, the leading comrades of the Central Committee deliberately walked around the venue and shook hands with everyone. The atmosphere was warm and peaceful, and everyone was smiling.

When it was time for the symposium, everyone spoke one by one according to the order arranged in advance, from high to low. Although everyone's speeches were impassioned, they all praised the correct leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and then reported that their departments had achieved great achievements. Achievements, and then look to the future, full of confidence.

The leading comrades of the central government kept nodding, and at first they wrote it down in their own notebooks, but later, seeing that everyone said the same thing, they didn’t bother to remember, and just looked at everyone with kind and kind eyes, and kept nodding. , At the end, I couldn't bear it anymore, and interjected in the middle: "Comrades, I know what you mean, so I won't say any praises. I came here to hear the opinions of the grassroots, and let the comrades from the grassroots Let’s make a speech. It’s best to talk about some practical issues for the Politburo’s decision-making. It’s a waste of time to sing praises like this. We are representatives of the people. Speak, but also listen, so that we can make fewer mistakes and no mistakes in our work.”

After he finished speaking, he still looked at everyone with a smile, waiting for everyone to speak, but the people in the entire venue had accepted the order of Secretary Lu the day before, and no one was allowed to speak indiscriminately without arrangement. The rehearsal suddenly lost its effect, and the original order could not be carried out, so everyone had to look at each other, giggling, and no one dared to speak first, because they were not mentally prepared, let alone what to say.The entire conference room seemed to be filled with a group of people with low IQs. Everyone looked like Maitreya Buddha, smiling silly, you look at me, I look at you.This is the true level of our people's representatives participating in and discussing state affairs, which makes people dumbfounded.

The leaders of the central government glanced over, swept over, and looked at whose face they all looked like Maitreya Buddha. Some simply didn't dare to face it. When they saw the leader's gaze coming over, they immediately pretended to bow their heads and write. , On the notebook in front of him, draw a few words randomly, the purpose is to escape and dare not speak.

At that time, Wang Yiming's seat was just opposite to the leader of the Central Committee. His eyes were firm and confident. He smiled and looked at the leader of the Central Committee. , with a knowing smile.

The central leadership felt that this young man had a different temperament from others, so he stretched out his hand and said, "Would you like to talk?"

Wang Yiming nodded, pressed the microphone switch in front of him, and said, "Since everyone is so humble, and the leader called my name again, I will take the liberty to say a few words!"

In fact, Wang Yiming and this central leader have never met so closely.This great leader is the main cadre of reform and opening up, focusing on the economy. He was a striking figure in China and even on the world stage in those years.He is famous for his daring to think, dare to speak, and dare to act, and he is recognized as a strong man.There are so many deputy ministers like Wang Yiming in the capital, and they are inconspicuous in front of such a real big man.

When Wang Yiming spoke, he saw that Lao Lu tilted his head and introduced something to the central leadership.It turned out that the leaders of the central government asked Lao Lu what this Wang Yiming did.

Lao Lu introduced that this is the vice minister of Department S. He turned out to be the mayor of Jiangbei City, Qingjiang Province. He is the secretary of Vice Premier Zhao.

The central leaders heard that Wang Yiming was from Mr. Zhao's secretary, and immediately wrote down Wang Yiming's name in his notebook.For Mr. Zhao, he has quite high prestige in China's political arena. Although he has left his post now, his influence is still there.So his secretary will naturally be looked up to.

(End of this chapter)