By further understanding Sun Zongyuan, I roughly understood the cause of the Shishan Township incident.
Because the deputy county chief in charge came to supervise the autumn harvest and autumn planting work and found that the progress of Shishan Township was slow, the county leading group issued two notices criticizing Shishan Township. In addition, the deputy county chief severely criticized the deputy township head in charge during the inspection of Shishan Township, which embarrassed the township head as well.
The township's Party Secretary happened to be studying at the regional Party school and had not returned, and he did not have the strength of Secretary Li Jianguo to handle the situation, so the township head was annoyed and took drastic measures to organize an autumn harvest and autumn planting supervision team to forcibly harvest the unharvested crops along the highway. The people who went down were not well organized, and because they thought that harvesting with sickles was too slow, they just trampled the crops flat with their feet. From a distance, it looked like harvested crop straw.
Unexpectedly, the crops of more than a dozen households that had been trampled all morning were still largely unripe. Coincidentally, a male laborer in one household had undergone surgery at the county hospital. When he heard his crops had been confiscated and trampled, he was so excited that he tore the incision open, causing a bloody discharge and forcing him to undergo another emergency surgery. Upon hearing the news, his family went to the township and the supervisory team to demand compensation for the patient's medical expenses. The supervisory team refused, and the crowd grew larger and larger.
There was also a family where an elderly man was a veteran who had participated in the Korean War. When he saw the villagers trampling on his crops, he started to make a fuss. Unexpectedly, he was pushed to the ground by the villagers' supervision team. As luck would have it, his butt was punctured by the corn stubble. He was immediately annoyed:
"I've only been injured twice in my life, once on the Korean battlefield and once on my own farm. I'm going to go to the village and sue you!"
Another family carried the veteran to the village to ask the leaders for an explanation.
That's how things came about.
Sun Zongyuan thought to himself that if in his previous life, it would be strange if three or four cadres were not dismissed when such a mass incident occurred. It was because the party discipline and national laws were not perfect that such a situation could happen.
I asked the village cadres again and learned that more than half of the fields in the village had been harvested and planted. The plot of land where the accident occurred was close to the road, the soil was fertile and there were good irrigation conditions, so the crops grew better than other plots. The only drawback was that it matured late, about a week later than wheat, and about ten days later than autumn crops. We had tried to sow and harvest earlier before, but it didn't work.
Sun Zongyu asked the village cadres to list the situations of the households involved in trampling on the land.
It involves 7 households and 18 acres of land.
After returning to the township, he reported the situation to Secretary Dong Zhenhua, then discussed it with Secretary Wang of the township party committee and came up with an opinion. Secretary Wang asked Deputy Township Chief Huang Wenhao to accompany him to handle the matter.
At noon, Sun Zongyuan, Huang Wenhao, Wang Lei and Yang Hongjun visited the veteran of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea and the patient who underwent surgery respectively, bringing some nutritional supplements and 1,000 yuan. Huang Wenhao made a deep and sincere apology to the two families on behalf of the township. Sun Zongyuan also expressed condolences to the two people on behalf of the county and said some good words.
But both families ignored them with stern faces. As soon as they left, their things and money were thrown out of the ward.
Huang Wenhao was so angry that the flesh on his face trembled.
The problem cannot be solved all at once, but the necessary attitude must be maintained.
After returning to the work area, Sun Zongyu selected six people from the village cadres and work area cadres to form two groups, one group consisting of the work area secretary and the village director, and the other group consisting of the work area director and the village secretary. They went deep into the households to understand their prayers and their family's social relations.
At 5:30 pm, both groups came back and reported:
The three villagers who were arrested by the police station for the overturned car were released. The patient who underwent surgery was required to pay 3,000 yuan in medical expenses, and the old revolutionary was required to pay 2,000 yuan. The few acres of crops in the village were compensated according to their market value, and the people who trampled on the crops were to be expelled.
Nowadays, this is not a problem.
But this was the 1980s, and this kind of treatment was not common.
The old revolutionary had a son who was discharged from the army and was working as a driver at the regional sugar and wine station. The family of the patient who had undergone surgery had no money for treatment, so his two children dropped out of school when summer vacation started and stayed at home.
Neither family has strong labor force. Some are old and some are sick. They are both poor households in the village.
He returned to the township and met with the county working group and the township party committee secretary.
The police station was called in again to seek the public security's opinions on how to deal with the matter.
"I'm not going to say who's right or wrong in this matter, but those guys who flipped the three-wheeled motorcycle into the river must be dealt with. The police can't just flip the car over and over. If they do, they won't have any deterrent effect!"
"What are the police's opinions on how to deal with these seven people?"
"At least ten days of detention. If the leaders feel it's troublesome, each person can be released after paying a 500 yuan fine. After all, they've already been in there for three days."
"How about a 2,000 yuan fine for seven people?"
"That's fine. It's not really about the money, it's just to give society some warnings."
"Okay, I understand." Sun Zongyuan shook the police station chief's hand and shook it vigorously.
After the police station left, several people discussed and arranged for the finance office to send some money to Yang Hongjun.
At 8:30 in the evening, Sun Zongyuan came to the old revolutionary's ward in the township hospital. When the old revolutionary heard that he was a leader of Honghua Township who had come to deal with his affairs, he did not refuse to let him sit down and said:
"It would be great if the cadres here were the leaders of your Honghua Township. The younger ones could go work in the factory, and people like me who don't have the ability could raise a few pigs. I heard that your pigs grow fast and sell for a high price. Is that true?"
"It's true. Our township has a partnership with a university. We have the technology and feed. The price of live pigs is 10 cents higher than the market price. We also have a meat processing plant in the township that can produce ham sausages. Do you want to raise pigs too?"
"I heard the county wants everyone to raise pigs, but in my village, only the secretary's family was given three piglets. I don't have any way to raise pigs."
"Uncle, I have a pig farm with 10,000 pigs. If you want to raise some, how about I give you a few?"
"I don't have money to buy a piglet?"
"Uncle, let me tell you this. Since you were injured this time, I'll ask the government to give you 500 yuan. You can buy four 30-pound piglets, and there'll be more than 350 yuan left to buy feed. At least enough to raise half-grown pigs. Then you can think of a way to make it through two months and grow them to 250 pounds so you can sell them."
"Village Chief Sun, you're a good person. I know the injury on my butt. It can be cured for less than 10 yuan. Just give me the money for the pigs. I'll find a way to solve the feed problem. We can't rely on the government for money."
"You are still an old revolutionary after all. That's the quality we young people should learn from."
"How are we going to release those people who were arrested by the police? Village Chief Sun, you have to be a good person."
"Uncle, let's put it this way. They were wrong to flip the car into the river. The police want to detain them for 15 days or fine them 300 yuan."
"How can that be? We can't detain them, and no one can afford a 300 yuan fine."
"Uncle, I want the police station to pay less. If they don't pay, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public in the future."
Then Sun Zongyuan told the old revolutionary his idea. The old revolutionary jumped off the bed, shook Sun Zongyuan's hand and thanked him.
The old revolutionary went home that night.
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