Chapter 450: Cold Winter
It was darker, but Zhang Qingcang didn't say much more, he just leaned forward, let the driver Xiao Jiang turn around, and Cayenne changed directions and drove forward.
Zhang Ruiming has fallen into the thinking about the relationship between housing prices and the real economy at this time. Small cases such as environmental protection, the value of the case is small, and the impact is not large, far less than those criminal cases that have been handled in the public prosecution department, in the courtroom majestic and the defender of the quarrel, a point of evidence may affect a few years of imprisonment, and even a wonderful public prosecution statement, can determine a person's fate, and never lose, and that kind of justice is refreshing, is completely unacceptable in civil cases, so when Lu Bin asked Zhang Ruiming if he was willing to come to the municipal procuratorate civil department, he also hesitated and dissatisfied, and even looked down on the public interest litigation that he would regard as his lifelong career in the future。
However, after all these years, Zhang Ruiming realized how naïve his understanding was back then, from the drug runway case to the Nanjiang Group, to the Tianjin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry, and even the recent Quanjian pyramid scheme case, he looked back on his journey and found that the field of public interest litigation is a more cruel but more extreme path to pursue fairness and justice.
Those who hold salaries for everyone should not be stifled by the wind and snow, and the prosecutor in public interest litigation is such a role that carries the burden of moving forward for the public welfare. After facing countless difficulties and obstacles over the years, Zhang Ruiming has understood the heavy burden on his body, like the case he saw this time, on the surface, it is just a simple case of late payment of land transfer fees, but the conflict between administrative power and public welfare behind the representatives of the meeting minutes, the madness of the real estate industry, and the weakness of the real economy, these can be seen from this case of late payment of transfer money by Chen Cheng Company, and Zhang Ruiming at this time, he also wants to have a deeper understanding of the rules of the game of the entire industry, familiar with the operation of the period, and hopes to find out the key nodes after seeing the truth in this fog, bypass the rather constrainive meeting minutes, and defeat the enemy with one move.
At this time, he thought of another train of thought, raised his head and asked Zhang Qingcang: "Dad, since this place is already an ironclad interest group with banks, developers, and real estate speculation groups, then why does it necessarily squeeze the production space of some physical businesses like Uncle Wang?
The car gradually stopped driving smoothly, Zhang Qingcang looked at the dark scenery outside the window, and he sighed: "These are the questions...... Anyway, it's already in the place, so let's get out of the car and say. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the driver Xiao Jiang drove the car onto a high ground, and the rough feeling of fine gravel under the wheels was conveyed to the carriage through the rather comfortable suspension system adjusted from the Cayenne, Zhang Ruiming knew that this was a wasteland, he looked out of the window, and saw a dilapidated factory building in front of him, with broken walls and ruins, and the rusty iron door was blown by the wind, babbling back and forth, making a tooth-sore sound.
Zhang Ruiming's eyes widened like copper bells, this place was so familiar to him, but this scene was so strange and terrifying, it made his heart tremble, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
This is once the first chemical enterprise in Tianjin and Hong Kong, with an annual output value of hundreds of millions, and its products are exported to the fist group Tianjin Pharmaceutical Chemical Industry at home and abroad.
After the thunderstorm of the Jingsha River pollution case, it was Zhang Ruiming's activity that brought the owner of Tianjin Pharmaceutical Chemical Industry and Wang Yingying, the friend of the Zhang family, to justice.
However, the happy ending imagined by Zhang Ruiming at that time was the "Xinjin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry" after the state's capital injection, technological upgrading, and industrial transformation, and Wang Yingying was reformed after receiving a just trial, and finally repented and was released from prison and made a comeback.
He never imagined that it would be such a bleak ending of "broken family and death" now.
Although he knew that he was just following the guidance of justice, at this time, Zhang Ruiming's heart was punched hard by the reality of the ending. His whole body was suddenly surrounded by intense pain and emptiness, which made him speechless for a long time.
Compared with the small urn on the mourning hall of Wang Hero today, this piece of mess, the old site of Jin Pharmaceutical Chemical Industry where the four fields have returned to silence is the real "tomb" of Wang Yingying.
The car stopped at the gate of this dilapidated factory, Zhang Qingcang took the lead in getting out of the car, Zhang Ruiming was pulled by the indescribable heavy emotion of the stomach bag, he couldn't sit down steadily, almost fell out of the car, and stood up tremblingly with the car door, he reluctantly asked his father.
"Really...... Is this really the case? Why has it only been a few years since it became like this? Isn't it still in bankruptcy and liquidation? Why is it ......?"
Zhang Qingcang lit a cigarette and said to Zhang Ruiming at the old site of Jinyao Chemical Industry, which was as silent as a cemetery at night: "Hey, in fact, after your Uncle Wang went in, as soon as the case was decided, the factory would not work, and it would basically not work, Zhang Shengjie tossed for a while, and also used a lot of methods, but the general environment forced it, how could it not be saved, so it is like this, directly bankrupt and liquidated, and he didn't even bother to go for a fake reorganization." ”
Zhang Ruiming looked at his father, he finally figured out what the emotions that were pestering him now at this time, it was self-blame, strong self-blame, and he even began to wonder if the self who insisted in the court at that time and sent Wang Yingying into it through the criminal public interest lawsuit was not right.
“…… Isn't there a way to get a loan, to renovate?"
Faced with his son's question, Zhang Qingcang just pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled deeply in the dim light.
"What did you forget what you said in the car?......? When everyone finds that only real estate is easy to make money and quick to make money, talent and capital will only flow into real estate in a steady stream. Then the resources continue to flow out of the rest of the economy, while the costs outside continue to increase, making it more difficult to make money. When a large listed company works hard for a year's profits, it is better to sell a house, of course, no one wants to do business...... Aren't you also very clear that in this environment, except for real estate, most of everything is lost, and the real economy is just worse. Your Uncle Wang is down today, this is not to blame him, really, I think this is his life. ”
Zhang Qingcang spit out a good-looking smoke ring, and Zhang Ruiming in front of him still looked at everything in front of him with a dejected face, just like he knew, compared to sitting up, let his son see the cruelty in this real business world, so that he can see the reality clearly.
What his father said was quite sonorous and powerful, Zhang Ruiming didn't even have the mood to nod at this time, he was still slumped there, looking at everything in front of him, when he thought that all this was caused by himself, Wang Yingying, Tianjin Pharmaceutical Chemical, thousands of employees, and the family behind it were all because of his own actions, and fell into such a field, how could he be happy.
"Stand up! Look at you like that!" Zhang Qingcang helped Zhang Ruiming up, he saw the pain in Zhang Ruiming's heart, thought for a moment, and tried to comfort him.
"Now I can answer the topic you just had, indeed, as you said, with the big profits of these real estate bosses, there are some downstream industries that can follow a piece of the pie, but later, only real estate is left in the country, and all other economies are struggling under the real estate squeeze, and at this time, the real estate has changed from promoting economic development to the death of the real economy. And this reason is not unusual, you should also know, combined with what I told you earlier, the local governments under the tax sharing system, if you think about it, if you are the mayor, you have arrived in a new place, there are many indicators and pressures on the top, and there are countless civil servants, career editors, and operations and urban construction that can point to you for dinner. There are a lot of bottomless pits waiting for you to fill in the municipal government, and a big city with a complex political status like Tianjin and Hong Kong still has to bear a considerable amount of financial transfer expenditures, and the bulk of the tax has long been pumped by the national tax, and you have to invigorate the economy, and you only have so much money on hand, what should you do? If you think about it, you can only develop real estate to make money quickly, pat the land, and the income will be stable in a year, with GDP, indicators, and political achievements, and even the income will go into your own city pocket. In the development of the real economy, not to mention the amount of money invested, even the bulk of the tax revenue must be handed over to the central government. How do you choose? Even a fool knows which one to focus on!"
Zhang Ruiming's heart crossed Zhang Shengjie's deep face, he understood that a rational strongman like Zhang Shengjie, political achievements are his life, if he can't get the economy of Tianjin and Hong Kong up as soon as possible, he will never give up, and in this context, Zhang Shengjie will make such a choice, he is not surprised.
“…… To tell you the truth, the case you handled, standing in your position, is indeed the right thing to do, it's just ...... Forget it, anyway, it's like this now, it's not something you can control, Tianjin Pharmaceutical Chemical will not fall at that time, it will also fall today, or tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, in short, under the current system, if you want to change the thinking mode of the whole place, it is impossible, so, this is also the final outcome of your Uncle Wang. You don't have to blame yourself too much. ”
Zhang Qingcang's tone softened a lot, and Zhang Ruiming's mood also improved a little with his father's explanation, he stood up and looked at everything in front of him with feeling.
He knew that his father didn't want to excuse Wang Yingying, he just felt sad, if a star entrepreneur like Wang Yingying with strong business ability and conscientious distractions, although he took some detours and made mistakes, he was finally a very capable one, but he finally came to this point, how many real enterprises can survive this economic winter.