Chapter 68: Revolutionary Guards
Lao Geda lowered his head. He had grown up following Du Hongbing. Usually, Du Hongbing looked like a listless old man, but as long as he cursed "Fuck you...", he definitely had the intention to kill.
A Red Soldier, a Red Revolutionary, a Red Guard, and the dead Red, together they were the "Revolutionary Guards". In fact they were four brothers. Their grandparents were big landlords in Changshun. They were tortured to death during the movement.
They were not beaten to death all at once; over a period of more than ten years, dozens of uncles, aunts, and uncles passed away one after another in agony.
Later, Du Hongbing and Long Hongge fled to Sanmei with their two younger brothers. They were afraid of being caught, so they changed their names. The Du Hongbing brothers stayed in Changling, while the Long Hongge brothers ran to Wangshan.
In the difficult environment, the two relied on their parents' teaching to learn to read and write. Although they had never been to school, they were considered intellectuals after all. They settled down in the production team and only said they were fleeing famine. Because they could read and write and do math, they were appointed to positions in the production team.
Then I slowly walked from the village to the township, step by step.
Therefore, the two brothers have a certain paranoid hatred for struggle, but also an infinite yearning for it. They particularly like to torture people, both physically and mentally.
With their family background and experience, they have a natural keenness in making money, so they frantically bribe officials. Because in their eyes, whoever has more money will be invincible in the struggle.
Watching those party members and cadres fall one by one under a series of sugar-coated bullets such as money, beautiful women, famous liquors, and good cigarettes, they feel satisfied and happy from the bottom of their hearts.
All criminals and social dregs became the group they exploited. In the past, in their hometown of Changshun, anyone who had participated in criticizing and denouncing members of their family had died inexplicably in recent years, either in fire or car accidents, there were always various accidents.
And so far, no one has noticed.
It can be said that these two brothers have rich experience in struggle, cunning minds, and a very accurate grasp of human greed and evil psychology.
Over the years, they have fully realized the supreme realm of "money makes the world go round" through various ways and means.
In the following days, the Sanmei County Public Security Bureau can be said to have achieved remarkable results.
The anti-gang task force headed by Yu Xiao, deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, completely eliminated various dens on both sides of the Nanchang Expressway in just three months.
According to statistics, the number of fugitive criminals captured alone exceeds one hundred, and most of them are repeat offenders, convicted of murder, robbery, drug trafficking, fraud, organized prostitution, etc.
These facts not only made Long Youqing break out in a cold sweat, but even Hu Jiao never expected that the small Sanmei County, with only three townships, would produce so many fugitives, most of whom were serious criminals. It was unimaginable how much chaos would be caused if these people had stayed in the local area.
Of course, for the public security, solving cases and arresting people is their duty, and it also indicates efficiency and results.
In mid-January 1999, the Sanmei County Public Security Bureau was commended by the Nanhu Political and Legal Committee and the Nanhu Municipal Public Security Bureau, and Long Youqing was awarded the titles of "Outstanding Public Security Cadre" and "Advanced Worker" in the political and legal system.
At the same time, nominated by Hu Jiao, recommended by the Organization Department of Sanmei County Party Committee, and approved by Nanhu Municipal Party Committee, at the newly convened enlarged meeting of Sanmei County Party Committee, Sanmei County Deputy County Mayor and Public Security Bureau Director Long Youqing and Sanmei County Party Committee Office Director Tao Shilin were added as members of the County Party Committee Standing Committee.
After Long Hongwei was transferred to the 110 Command Center of the County Public Security Bureau, in just half a month, he arrested and dealt with a group of children of cadres with backgrounds, punished them for public security violations, and sent them to prison, re-education through labor, etc. It can be said that his thundering measures completely shocked the county's gangs of hooligans and small hooligans.
Coupled with the anti-gang operations led by Yu Xiao, the public security in the entire Sanmei County has been completely transformed. Some NPC deputies and CPPCC members have praised the public security department in various forms.
However, the superficial excitement could not make Hu Jiao feel at ease. In his memory, there was always a farmer named Sun Laoer.
What kind of look is that?
Whenever it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Hu Jiao would sit alone under the desk lamp, and these eyes would inadvertently appear in his mind.
Holding the Sanmei mineral resource distribution map in hand, there are high-quality quartz sand, high-grade zinc, lead, iron, germanium, silver mines, etc., as well as high-quality coal with a calorie content of up to 9,000 kcal. The reserves rank third in the country. From the distribution map, these minerals are basically distributed in Wangshan Township, Changling Township, and Kaochuan Township, close to the Niubei Mountain Range in Changshun Province.
Although the Nanchang Expressway passes through Kaochuan Township, these three townships also built secondary roads four years ago to connect with the expressway.
However, judging from the industrial scale and fiscal revenue of the three townships, there has been no improvement in the past four years. According to the data, metal mines and coal have not yet formed a large-scale mining.
This is exactly what Hu Jiao couldn't understand.
In addition to kickbacks of public funds, the amount of money exposed in the corruption cases includes several bribery bosses whose whereabouts have not been found so far. They are all engaged in mineral development. For example, the former county party secretary received three bribes totaling 6 million yuan, which came from private mining bosses.
And it's not just the county party secretary, other members as well. Liu Jie has personally calculated that the three mine owners who have not been found yet have bribed more than 10 million yuan to corrupt elements in Sanmei County.
However, according to the industrial survey and statistics of Sanmei County, the industrial and commercial, tax and other departments have not found any large-scale mineral development enterprises, but only a dozen individual bosses engaged in coal mining.
Hu Jiao asked auditors to check on these individual business owners. If the auditors were not deceived, the annual income of these individual business owners was only a few hundred thousand yuan, and some were even making losses.
The loss was caused by high transportation costs.
The so-called power-for-money transaction is definitely using money to exchange for corresponding power. The mining boss bribed so many cadres in the county with tens of millions of yuan. The money is seen, but what about the power?
This is not normal!
Hu Jiao has contacted the county party committee and government bordering Changshun Province. Mineral development there is in full swing and the industry is beginning to take shape, but the mine owners there have no need to bribe across provinces. With that money, they can fully support a medium-sized mineral mining company in Changshun.
There is no free lunch in the world, and tens of millions of funds will not be given away for no reason.
But Liu Jie assured Hu Jiao that based on her years of experience in disciplinary inspection work, all the corrupt officials in Sanmei had been confessed.
It seems that there is a big secret hidden in Sanmei County.
Hu Jiao pondered where the millions of bribes came from, and recalled Sun Lao Er's eyes. He lit a cigarette and checked the time. It was 9:30 in the evening. He called Long Youqing, but before he could say anything, Long Youqing asked, "Secretary, are you still not resting? Do you have any instructions?"
Hu Jiao was not happy about the great results achieved in Sanmei County's anti-gang campaign. The doubts that had been lingering in his mind made him very uneasy.
"Come to my place."
After hanging up the phone, Hu Jiao walked around the room, Wangshan Township, Changling Township, Kaochuan Township, Long Hongge, Du Hongbing, Du Lin.
Red Guards, Red Soldiers, um, plus Long Hongwei, Red Guards... Guards?
Revolutionary Guards?
He stopped and called Chen Yongzheng again, "Bring over the files of Long Hongge from Wangshan Township, Du Hongbing from Changling Township, and Du Lin from Kaochuan Township. Also, their social connections. Oh, Youqing is coming over soon. Contact him."
Half an hour later, Chen Yongzheng and Long Youqing knocked on the door, each holding a file bag.
After Hu Jiao let them in, Xiao Zhao's waiter quickly poured tea for the two of them. Hu Jiao pointed at the waiter and said, "Don't let anyone in."
After bringing the two into the study and having them sit down, Hu Jiao considered how to explain the doubts in his mind to them.
"It is said that we have made great achievements in cracking down on crime and maintaining public security, but I still have a few questions that I cannot answer and they weigh on my mind. First, the biggest source of funds for the bribes received by corrupt officials is said to be three mine owners, but the whereabouts of these three people are still unknown. How could three living people just disappear like that?
Second, the mine boss bribed the county party committee leaders with more than 10 million yuan, but the scale of coal mining in Sanmei is less than 5 million yuan a year. There is no mining company established in the county, nor any formal mining enterprises. They are all individual bosses. So why did these three so-called mine bosses bribe?
Third, when I first came to Sanmei, I went to Changling Township. I told Youqing about this. At that time, I visited a farmer named Sun Laoer. The way he looked at me and the lines he said to me were completely inconsistent. Youqing checked this matter and said that Sun Laoer's son had an accident while mining in Changshun. Maybe his son had just died, so he behaved abnormally. I thought about it seriously and it was not right. I also worked in the countryside. When someone died in the family, they would be sad, but not desperate, because Sun Laoer still had a son.
This is my question, and I need Youqing to organize trustworthy police officers to go out and investigate carefully. You can come and see. "
Hu Jiao asked the two to go to the mineral distribution map and pointed to Wangshan, Changling and Kaochuan townships. "These three townships are the main mineral distribution areas. Let's look at the transportation. The three townships are connected by secondary roads, connecting to the Nanchang Expressway. They have sufficient mining conditions and the transportation cost is not high. I have calculated that if we invest two million to mine one square kilometer of lead ore, we can recover the cost in two years according to the current market price. But there has been no foreign investment in the three townships so far, and no one is mining in the townships. This situation is very abnormal! Could it be that the cadres in the three townships are all environmentalists?"
Long Youqing has been focusing his main energy on anti-crime operations in the past period of time, investigating and verifying the deportation of prisoners with public security organs in various places, etc., and he has no time to pay attention to other things.
Chen Yongzheng still has some headaches. There are too many cadres who have been dismissed in Sanmei. He has to gradually appoint and dismiss the heads of some important departments, and cooperate with Cheng Anping to carry out ideological and work style learning for cadres. In addition, the mechanism of the Organization Department itself needs to be improved. Any inspection involving deputy section-level cadres must be done with great caution.
It can be said that among Hu Jiao and the other two who came to Sanmei County, Chen Yongzheng was the one who was the most tired and suffered the most.
Long Youqing thought for a while and seemed very cautious. "Secretary, do you mean to investigate the situation in these three townships? I have checked the confession materials of the corruption case. According to their confession, more than a dozen investors came to Sanmei to discuss mineral development. In the end, the conditions of the three township governments and farmers were too high, so no cooperation intention was reached."
Hu Jiao waved his hand and said, "I know this. These investors have conducted on-site inspections, but the mineral survey experts they brought with them never entered the mountains. The distribution map I have now was produced by the Provincial Mineral Survey Bureau in the early 1980s. The previous county party committee invited experts to conduct surveys, but there was no result. It is said that the locals did not cooperate with the work."
Hu Jiao shook his head again. "Think about it. Can the surveying technology and equipment in the 1980s keep up with the precision and accuracy of today? Twenty years ago, we had already concluded that the reserves were huge. Now it is not difficult to figure out the specific distribution of reserves in detail."
Chen Yongzheng had a rough idea when he heard this. Combined with what Hu Jiao said about his visit, these three townships were probably not simple. "Professor, do you mean to adjust the teams of the three townships first?"
Hu Jiao looked at Long Youqing, "The fight against crime cannot stop. You still have to make a high-profile move on the surface, but secretly, spare some energy to focus on the mineral development of these three townships, send people there, and find out the truth! Old Chen, Du Hongbing is a cadre who was born and raised there, you should discuss with Secretary Anping and transfer him to the CPPCC as a deputy, Long Hongge, transfer him to the deputy director of the National People's Congress, Du Lin, it seems that after Hu Detu left, the Family Planning Commission has not had a successor?"
Chen Yongzheng nodded, "I've got it. Who should we send after the three of them leave?"
Hu Jiao had a headache. Others who served as county party secretaries would only worry about not being able to find someone to fill the position, but he was troubled by not being able to find anyone to fill the vacancy.
"You should discuss this with Secretary Anping, Qiu Mingqian, and Zou Kaigui, and seek Jingyuan's opinion. Youqing stay and study the materials with me."
Chen Yongzheng saw that the matter was discussed and his work came up again, so he had to go down and prepare quickly.
Shi Jingyuan has recently been working on the construction of a highway connecting the plains to Nanhu. To get rich, one must first build roads. In the northern plains of Sanmei, as long as the traffic is smooth, the farmers' income can be greatly increased within three years by simply developing agricultural vegetable planting and livestock breeding to provide for the citizens of Nanhu.
What's more, it is close to the Nanhu Lake. By developing real estate, tourism and leisure, and leaving aside those investment industries that damage the environment and ecology, these two items alone can drive the rapid growth of the county's fiscal revenue.
Transportation projects in the Sanmei Plain area are not difficult to run. As long as the planning is proper, there will be no problem in getting the projects. With Hu Jiao in charge of Sanmei, and Fatty Li Qingqing now having been promoted to the Director of the Nanhu Municipal Transportation Bureau, Shi Jingyuan is his nemesis.
So Hu Jiao asked Shi Jingyuan to come forward, and Li Qingqing could be said to have cooperated very closely. He gave people and money to Li Qingqing. As long as he could get it and the mayor approved it, he would never and dared not play tricks.
The biggest challenge for the road construction project lies at the provincial level. The Provincial Department of Transportation has agreed to the project, and the Director of Transportation, Li Qingqing, can help to build connections, while the Deputy Governor in charge of transportation has to rely on Hu Jiao to step in.
Even if everything goes well, the county finances must raise part of the funds on its own, at least two or three hundred million yuan.
The county finances can squeeze out a maximum of 50 million yuan, part of which can be solved by bank loans, and the rest is still unsettled.
Hu Jiao and Long Youqing began to study the main leaders of the three towns in the study. Surprisingly, Long Youqing actually found some problems.
Before he came, he received a call from Chen Yongzheng, asking the people in the Household Registration Section to temporarily print out the relevant materials of these three cadres.
"Secretary, look at Long Hongge. According to the household registration, he fled from other places in 1968 and settled in Wangshan Township. At that time, there were only two brothers, Long Hongwei, who was only six years old at the time. Look at Du Hongbing, who also fled to Changling Township in 1968 and had a younger brother named Du Hongming, who died of congenital heart disease when he was in junior high school."
Hu Jiao nodded. "That's right. It fits my guess. You put the last characters of these four people's names together."
Long Youqing repeated to himself several times, "Revolutionary Guards!"
