Zhang Ruiming remembered a case he had been in contact with in Ningli County before, when Ningli had just finished the expressway, and many ordinary people liked to take shortcuts on the highway during the day and cool off on the highway at night. One day, a large truck was involved in a traffic accident and overturned on its side in the emergency lane next to it.

As the driver was bleeding and crawling out of the unrecognizable car, he saw a large crowd of nearby villagers surrounding him. He hurriedly called for help from the villagers, but received no response, and the villagers walked past him indifferently, carrying plastic bags and buckets, and began to frantically rush to load the goods dumped by the truck, the industrial salt, sodium nitrite. Not even a single one called for him to call the police, and after the people in the vicinity were full of money, the high-speed traffic police came to the scene and began to rescue the poor driver, who had been explaining to the villagers who were robbing the goods before being sent to the ambulance: These are industrial salts! They are unpalatable, poisonous, worthless, and a few dollars a ton.

However, none of the villagers who grabbed the red eye listened to him. The traffic police and the police of the reinforced police station tried again and again to stop the villagers who were looting, but they were useless because of the disparity in numbers, and even every time they stopped a villager, they were choked: "Everyone else has taken it, why can't I take it?!"

In fact, the Chinese police are often reluctant to use force, especially on highways where the situation is complicated and there are many targets.

Forced to helpless police, can only forcibly pour diesel fuel on the remaining industrial salt, to avoid further robbery, but a large amount of industrial salt has been happily moved back to the home, the police bitterly advised these salt not to eat, not to eat, but was regarded as the wind in the ear, and finally there is no way, contact the local government, mobilize civil servants at all levels in the township, one by one to persuade the harm of this industrial salt: eating will cause nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, Symptoms such as cyanosis, palpitations, drop in blood pressure, dyspnea, convulsions, coma, such as failure to rescue in time, or excessive intake, and even death due to respiratory and circulatory failure.

However, the villagers did not believe it, they stubbornly believed that these cadres were trying to trick them into handing over the salt so that they could take it back and sell it, and when the township cadres came from house to house to do the work, these villagers hid the salt in the pigsty and by the fish pond, just because they did not want to believe the warnings of others.

Two days later, there were three cases of food poisoning in nearby villages, all caused by cooking vegetables with sodium nitrite, an industrial salt.

Then the villagers who were rescued were shocked, and a complaint sued the local government and the driver to the court, but fortunately the court did not file a case in accordance with laws and regulations, but it taught a lesson to the young Zhang Ruiming at the time.

The story is far from over, the saddest thing is that after half a year, there is an old woman in the local area who died of industrial salt poisoning, she is not like those villagers before, take it back and cook directly, as soon as something happens, it will spread immediately, this lonely old man who guards the mud house on the mountainside alone, is to take back the industrial salt to pickle pickles, and wait until the winter to eat again, such a tragedy happened, and even after a long time after death, it was discovered.

It's embarrassing.

The reality is so ironic, pitiful, ignorant and greedy are still engraved in the bones of the Chinese people. After this case, Zhang Ruiming has been pondering, what can change the suffering of the masses, whether it is perfect social welfare or rapid economic living conditions?

Or neither, only the law can change people's hearts, this is Zhang Ruiming's biggest gain in Ningli in those years.

In his book On Democracy in America, Tocqueville wrote: "Laws cannot rekindle extinguished faith, but they can make men concerned about the fate of their nation." The law awakens and directs the vaguely present patriotic instinct in the hearts of men, and when this instinct is combined with thoughts, passions, and everyday habits, it becomes a conscious and enduring feeling. ”

At that time, these words became a beacon to guide Zhang Ruiming's legal path in the future.

But in light of today's petition incident, can the law really have an effect, and if Mayor Zhang hadn't agreed to Tang Zuo's request, the whole thing would not have ended because of the workers' reverence for the law, so would the law be more standardized? Or would the economic interests be more attractive? Zhang Ruiming fell into deep thought again.

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It was already 10 o'clock in the evening when Zhang Ruiming saw Jing Cailiang, and at the gate of the city government, all the employees of the Nanjiang Group had dispersed, leaving no traces, Zhang Ruiming felt a subtle sense of amnesia, and the storm that happened not long ago seemed to be just a strange and noisy dream.

Before he got out of the car, Zhang Ruiming saw a figure waiting at the gate of the municipal government compound, and when he got closer, it was Jing Cailiang, and the director of the hall unexpectedly greeted Zhang Ruiming at the door. But when he saw Jing Cailiang's stern eyes, he realized that he was too naïve.

Of course, Jing Cailiang didn't have any reprimand, for Zhang Ruiming's fruitful running today, his first sentence was not an imaginary praise, but a little intriguing.

"How did you know that the appointed lawyer of Nanjiang Group is Tang Zuo?"

Zhang Ruiming didn't dare to reveal his connection with Ye Wen, and replied: "I am an employee of the Nanjiang Group who was mobilized when I was in Sanhe Town before, and he was at the gate of the city government today, and he told me. ”

In fact, it is not wrong to say this, it is true that Wang Yuanchao was in the crowd at that time.

"Okay," Jing Cailiang glanced at him and said, "Are you ready?"

"What...... Zhang Ruiming didn't scratch his head for a while, he looked down at himself, when he squeezed into the gathered crowd in the morning, he was stained with sweat, and his hair was also messy, and he ran around all day, from the gate of the city government to the Voice of the Times magazine, and finally to the rice warehouse market, how could he still be neat and decent.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Director Well, I'm here...... Or, I'm going to replace it?"

"It's okay, let's go straight to it. ”

At the door of the conference room on the third floor, I saw that Zhang Shengjie, the mayor of Dongjiang City, was convening the emergency team of the municipal party committee to arrange the work.

"Hello Mayor Zhang. Zhang Ruiming said hello, his mood was a little complicated, today's situation is so urgent, it should be that the case of Nanjiang Group has changed again.

Zhang Shengjie did not answer, but waved his hand and motioned for the two to go to his office. The three of them walked silently and quickly to the mayor's office on the fifth floor, and Li Yong, the first secretary of the mayor on duty in the front hall, saw Zhang Shengjie personally taking the two upstairs, and hurriedly greeted him to help open the door, but Zhang Shengjie waved his hand and walked away.

This whole atmosphere, tense and weird, made Zhang Ruiming more and more flustered.

After closing the door, Zhang Shengjie sat down first and looked up something on the computer, but Jing Cailiang, the leader of the task force, did not look at Zhang Shengjie, looked down at his nose and nose, and seemed that everything in front of him had nothing to do with him.

Seeing that Jing Cailiang was like this, Zhang Shengjie broke the silence first, he turned the computer screen in front of him, and showed it to everyone to watch, the screen was a paused advertising video, Zhang Shengjie pressed the play button, the video began to play, and a middle-aged boss in front of the camera was too bright and exaggerated in the backlight, and he was sometimes thinking and contemplating, closing in close-ups, sometimes speaking generously, and introducing himself over and over again in a high tone The chemical company is the first class in the industry. In the video, the man claimed that his group is the only "ore-to-product" chemical company in the country, which can control everything from mining, sorting, water picking, processing to finally delivery to factories and shelves. It can take care of every step of the supply chain. Its high tone, its repetitive shots, and while vulgar, are indeed an impressive advertisement.

At the end of the advertisement, there is a subtitle - Nanjiang Group! Nanzhou first-class! And next to the middle-aged man there is a small subtitle - Li Jin, chairman of the board of directors of Nanjiang Group.

Zhang Ruiming didn't think that this was actually an advertisement for Nanjiang Group. But why did Zhang Shengjie show him this at this time, is it related to this case?

Unexpectedly, Mayor Zhang's question made Zhang Ruiming even more puzzled.

"Comrade Zhang Ruiming, do you usually know about stocks?"

"Report to the mayor, I don't know much, but the basic knowledge is still understood. ”

"Rationale, you know?

"I know the principle, but I don't know how to do it at all. Zhang Ruiming stated truthfully.

"Okay, then, you can now search for the stock price of Nanjiang Group. ”

Zhang Ruiming reacted suddenly, could it be that Mayor Zhang was reminding himself that the stock of the Nanjiang Group had fluctuated, and that it would have an impact on this case?

He quickly turned on his phone and searched for news about the Nanjiang Group, and was greeted by the news that Li Jin, chairman of China's Nanjiang Mining Group Holdings Co., Ltd., had been touted as an industry-leading innovator but was now struggling to keep the company afloat, and a series of major incidents exposed the group's major environmental problems two weeks ago. On Nov. 2, the mining group's Hong Kong stock price fell abruptly, causing the market value of Li Jin's stock to plummet from $16 billion to $530 million.

The picture below the news is actually the scene when Zhang Ruiming led Jing Cailiang to check the tailings water directly discharged to Minshui at the Sanhe wind flow point that day, and there is an analysis below: Why this company fell into this crisis, the reason is already very clear: At present, departments at all levels in Nanzhou Province have urgently intervened to deal with the problem of Nanjiang Group. And the story of Mr. Li's rise, a patchwork of regulatory filings, promotional materials for the Nanjiang Group, and bank disclosures suggest that the company relies heavily on debt, leaving little room for error for the chairman and his company.