Chapter 379: Riots
After entering the room, Zheng Yi found the man dead on the bed, there was a charcoal brazier next to the bed, and the doors and windows of the room were sealed with towels and duct tape. No suicide note was found at the scene, but in the pocket of the deceased's jacket, a divorce agreement and a bank notice were found.
On the notice, the bank informed the deceased that because the mortgage value of the mortgage was insufficient, he was asked to pay 3.3 million cash to the bank within a week, otherwise the bank would collect the house for auction to make up for the shortfall in the mortgage.
In 1995, he emptied his savings, took out 800,000 yuan as a down payment, and then mortgaged more than 6 million yuan from the bank to buy a house of more than 7 million yuan in Deep Water Bay. Just when Li Sheng was congratulating that he finally had his own property, the financial crisis broke out, the Xiangjiang property market collapsed, and the market value of Li Sheng's house fell to only 3 million yuan.
Li Sheng originally wanted to work hard to pay off his debts slowly, but he didn't go alone. Under the impact of the financial crisis, many companies began to lay off employees on a large scale, and Li Sheng became one of the unfortunate ones. After losing his job, Li Sheng, who has no source of income, still needs to pay more than 20,000 yuan a month.
At this time, Li Sheng received a notice from the bank, because the value of the property he mortgaged to the bank was only 3 million yuan, which was not enough to cover the debt of more than 6 million yuan, so the bank asked him to add collateral or repay the loan of more than 3 million yuan in advance, otherwise he would take his house and take it to auction.
Desperate, Li Sheng divorced his wife and took on debts alone, lit a brazier in his new home, and committed suicide by burning charcoal to end his life.
Li Sheng's suicide was like a plague, which soon infected the entire Xiangjiang society. With the news of suicide due to the collapse of housing prices, the panic in Xiangjiang society began to intensify, which led to a further decline in housing prices, and more and more people became "negative equity", and more and more people committed suicide.
According to Marx's view of political economy, overproduction is an endogenous contradiction of capitalism in general, and overproduction will inevitably lead to economic crisis, which is unavoidable. It has become a cyclical law that economic crises erupt in the capitalist world every decade or so. Economic crises can be big and small, but when they erupt, they are bound to be accompanied by a wave of bankruptcies and suicides.
The guests and spectators came from different countries, all of which have experienced economic crises, and when economic crises erupt, there will always be a wave of bankruptcies and suicides. At this time, looking at the continuous reports of suicide on the screen, they all felt their scalps tingle, like a small pebble stuffed in their hearts, which made people uncomfortable.
Bertolucci was a member of the Italian Communist Party and had a deep understanding of capitalism. He sighed deeply: "Behind every economic crisis in modern society is a systematic looting of the wealth of the poor at the bottom by the rich. After every economic crisis, the rich always get richer and the poor get poorer. ”
With the complete collapse of the Xiangjiang building, Zheng Yi's community seems to be shrouded in gloomy clouds, and the residents of the community have no joy, and they are full of sadness and sighs. Zheng Yi's family has also become negative equity, they mortgaged a house of more than 8 million, and now it is only worth more than 2 million, and they owe the bank 5 million. Fortunately, they all have jobs, their salaries are good, and the bank has no plans to take their houses, otherwise they may have to consider whether to choose suicide.
Liang Zhi is very guilty, like Xianglin's sister-in-law, it is his fault to talk all day long. Because of my own persistence, I will buy such a big house. If you hadn't bought a house or bought a smaller one, you wouldn't have had such a high debt.
Zheng Yi saw it more openly, and couldn't help comforting Liang Weaving, if it fell, it would rise, after six or seven years, when China and Britain were negotiating, there was a sharp drop in housing prices, and in the end it didn't rise again, now it has fallen, and it will definitely rise back in the future. He felt that Liang Zhi and Liang Zhi both worked and could afford the house, and the bank would not take the house, and everything would be fine.
It's just that there are very few people in Xiangjiang who are as optimistic as Zheng Yi, and the vast majority of people are in a panic. A deep resentment gathers in the Xiangjiang society, and the entire Xiangjiang society is like a pressure cooker that is constantly being heated but has no gas outlets.
At 10 p.m. on June 7, hawkers in the Portland Street area of Mong Kok illegally clashed with government officials who had come to drive them away. Cheng Yi, Li Kit and the Force were present at the scene to assist in the handling of the case at the request of the relevant departments. When Zheng Yi and his team arrived at the scene, they found a large number of people gathering on the road, some of them carrying equipment such as wooden sticks and helmets.
Zheng Yi warned the crowd to retreat to the pavement immediately, but the crowd refused to listen, and some militants armed with homemade weapons and shields collided with police officers wearing riot gear, and repeatedly threw glass bottles, flower pots, garbage cans, wooden sticks and other objects to attack the police.
After repeated warnings from the police were ineffective, they began to advance with shields and pepper spray. The gathered crowd began to use their weapons to fight back, blocking the road with debris, and priing bricks on the pavement as weapons to attack the police officers on duty, and fire prevention everywhere. Things began to escalate, and the illegal assembly quickly turned into a riot.
Zheng Yi and the others began to forcibly clear the site and use force to disperse the gathered crowd. Not to be outdone, the crowd continued to throw bricks, garbage cans, glass bottles and other hard objects at close range at the police, causing many police officers to break their heads and bleed, and even some policemen were seriously injured and unconscious.
In the process of driving away the rioters, Li Jie was scratched on the arm by the glass thrown from the crowd in order to protect Zheng Yi and had to be treated. Zheng Yi was very grateful for this, patted Li Jie on the shoulder, and told him that things may escalate further and that he should protect himself in the future.
As Zheng Yi expected, the riots in Mong Kok were like a fire, completely igniting the pent-up grievances in the Hong Kong society. Riots broke out in different parts of the river, protesters took to the streets to prevent fires, loot shops, and constantly attack the police with bricks, stones, glass bottles and other hard objects, and the whole of Xiangjiang fell into chaos.
In the days that followed, Zheng Yi and the police rushed from one place to another like honey during the honey harvesting period, and after dispersing the rioting crowd, they rushed to the next place without stopping. Zheng Yi and Li Jie were both injured in the process, but they had to go into battle with their injuries because there were riots everywhere in Xiangjiang, the police were understaffed, and the scale of the riots was constantly expanding.
On this day, Zheng Yi dragged his tired body back to his community, and it was already one o'clock in the morning. He came to the door, took out the key, and was about to open the door when he suddenly smelled a faint stench.
Zheng Yi couldn't help but shudder and turned around suddenly. It's the smell of corpses. He followed the direction from which the stench was coming and came to the door of the neighbor's house. He tapped the door hard, but there was no response in the room, as if they were all asleep. He hurried home and dialed the police station.
After receiving Zheng Yi's call to the police, the police quickly arrived. After figuring it out, they broke into the door and entered Liu Jialing's house, and Zheng Yi also walked in. The doors and windows of the room were sealed with towels and duct tape, and in the center of the living room was an iron basin with charcoal ashes inside. In the bedroom, a family of three was lying on the bed, not knowing how long it had been dead.
Zheng Yi looked at the dead family of three, and there was endless sadness in his eyes. He has seen a lot of tragedies these days, those are strangers, but now it is acquaintances who commit suicide, and the psychological impact is simply difficult to describe in words.
The audience in front of the screen is sighing, this family of three is a good person, the parents are kind to people, and they have a good relationship with the residents in the building;
It was another night, and when Zheng Yi returned home, it was already two o'clock in the morning. He took a shower in the bathroom, went to the bedroom, pulled the quilt and lay down. As soon as he lay down, Liang Zhi got into the bed, put his hands around him tightly, and rested his head on his chest. Zheng Yi kissed Liang Zhi on the head: "I'm sorry to wake you up." Liang Zhi didn't speak, and suddenly began to cry. Zheng Yi said in surprise: "Ah Zhi, what's wrong with you?" Liang Zhi didn't answer, just cried: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
Zheng Yi thought that Liang Zhi felt guilty because he had become a negative asset, and comforted him softly: "Ah Weaving, it's not your fault. The matter of buying a house is decided by us together, and what we carry together. You don't overthink it. ”
Liang Zhi cried more and more sadly, almost out of breath. Zheng Yi was useless no matter how much he comforted, and his chest was wet with her crying. After a long while, Liang Ori finally stopped crying. She began to plug Zheng Yi's mouth with a hot kiss and reached out to pull Zheng Yi's pants. Although Zheng Yi was very tired, seeing that her interest was so high, he could only go all out to cooperate.
When many viewers at the scene saw this paragraph, they felt more abrupt, and Liang Zhi's reaction was also strange. They don't understand why Xu Wangqiu is filming this scene, but they all believe that a director like Xu Wangqiu will definitely not have a bed scene for the sake of a bed scene, this scene must have a good intention, and they may understand it later.
Polanski and the other directors all saw what was happening, and they all sighed softly.
At noon on June 28, Zheng Yi and his team were notified that a large number of protesters had gathered in front of the headquarters of Huang Shilang, a major real estate developer in Xiangjiang, and clashed with the police and needed support. After Zheng Yi and the others arrived at the scene, they quickly maintained order. The protesters were not reconciled and continued to use language to provoke, saying that the police were all dogs raised by Huang Shilang, and that only by killing profiteers like Huang Shilang would there be peace in Xiangjiang.
As time went on, more and more protesters gathered outside Mr. Huang's headquarters. By 3 p.m., tens of thousands of protesters had gathered. They began attacking the police line with weapons such as iron rods, planks and bricks, and soon the police tore them apart.
Just when Zheng Yi brandished a shield and a baton to knock over a protester and wanted to call Li Jie to come over to help, he suddenly saw a protester suddenly take out a knife and stab Li Jie in the abdomen, and immediately shouted: "Be careful!"
Some viewers at the scene were frightened by this sudden scene and screamed "ah".
Li Jie didn't expect the other party to suddenly take out a knife and stab himself, but he didn't react at all, and he was stabbed twice in the abdomen. He looked in amazement at the murderer who had stabbed him, a boy of fifteen or sixteen. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, and his body went limp, and he fell to the ground.
"I'll throw your mother!" Zheng Yi rushed over like an angry lion, raised the baton in his hand, and smashed it on the young man's hand. The boy wailed, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground. Zheng Yi, who was furious, did not intend to let him go, smashed a stick on his head, and then swung it out one after another, until it was beaten into a puddle of soft mud.
Zheng Yi came to Li Jie's side and saw that Li Jie's abdomen was dyed red with a large patch, and the blood kept flowing out. He pressed Li Jie's wound hard and comforted: "Li Jie, don't worry, it's okay!" and said to the police around him: "Did you call an ambulance?"
The policeman next to him said, "I've already called, I'll come over immediately." ”
Zheng Yi saw that Li Jie's face was frighteningly white, his mouth trembled slightly, and he couldn't help but comfort: "We have already called an ambulance! The ambulance will come soon! You will be fine! Hold on! Hold on to me!"