Chapter 299: The Anthill Effect

Something went wrong with the predecessor of Zhang Xing's department. Although this predecessor did not have any great energy to bring disaster to the country and the people, he was enough to bring down a system and a place. In the kingdom he is in charge of, he simply plays with the old-fashioned power tricks as he wants, and throws out an inexplicable thing engraved with his own mark at will, others don't understand for a while, only he knows, in the system he is in charge of, he adopts high-pressure methods, does not accept hard pouring, disobedient suppression, and simply cleans it up, and the whole system is made by him like a gloomy ghost full of murderous atmosphere. The senior leader, who had a pair of incomprehensible eyes, saw through his tricks, regarded it as child's play, and eradicated it in one fell swoop with lightning and thunder, and immediately saw the light of day, and then arranged for Zhang Xing to take office and take over this department, which became a godsend for Zhang Xing.

Ouyang Lan and Zhang Xing got together again and mentioned that Wu Wei also had some opinions on anti-corruption, which aroused Zhang Xing's curiosity and specially invited Wu Wei to talk about anti-corruption.

Wu Weidao, I have been thinking about this question intermittently for more than 40 years. At first, it was a backdoor problem, and then it was the phenomenon of the collapse of the master under the dual-track system, the loss of assets from the transformation of state-owned enterprises, and the reflection on the Cultural Revolution. On the eve of the Cultural Revolution, the controversy over the roads and doctrines that emerged around the Four Clean-up Movement in the countryside directly contributed to the occurrence of the Cultural Revolution. If we go back further, the land reform in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the transformation of national capitalist industry and commerce can all be linked and sorted out. My overall judgment on corruption is that corruption is first and foremost an economic problem. If you adjust your perspective and change your way of thinking, you will find that there is a clever way to transform and sublimate. Although corruption has become a major cancer parasitic on the social organism, the society has the function of self-purification and descaling and the spirituality of self-realization and reflection in the new generation, which has the effect of inhibiting, alleviating, alleviating and eradicating the major tumors. Now that the ecological chain of corruption has been simmered, it is difficult to remove any link alone. This is an ecological chain that is gradually formed under the influence of interests in a specific environment. Corruption is hard to eradicate, but it is definitely not impossible to eradicate. Corruption doesn't last forever. The intensive exposure of corruption incidents and the introduction of a series of anti-corruption measures are accelerating the pace of corruption withdrawing from the stage of history. Nowadays, people have generally realized that such an ecological chain is a cancer parasitic on the social organism, and they are confident that as long as there is a good doctor, a good prescription, a good medicine, and a good technique, it will be able to obtain good results. It not only eradicates the cancer, but also minimizes the toxic side effects as much as possible. At the same time, it has gradually evolved a more healthy and progressive style than the current social organism, and people do not have to use such a corrupt way that endangers both the society and their own to obtain benefits, which is not a simple replacement, but a kind of transcendence, how the society at that time will laugh at the unwisdom and unkindness of today's people.

During the land reform, a certain amount of land should also be left to the landlords so that they could support themselves. The method of redemption is adopted for the socialist transformation of national capitalist industry and commerce. In the face of such vested interest groups, it is different from the exploiting class in the past, in the process of reform and opening up. There is also the problem of redemption, which adopts the method of redemption of vested interest groups, so that they accept reforms and use their power to support the nascent economy. This is a transition from a planned system to a market system at a relatively low cost and with little risk, and a situation in which various economic sectors coexist and grow together.

This perspective immediately attracted Zhang Xing's attention.

He went on to say that corruption is common in all forms of transactions, and that transactions are voluntary, mutually beneficial to both parties, and both parties are in the process of transactions. Strive to maximize their own benefits. Is there a legitimate and reasonable demand for this? Reform and opening up have made them rich, and this has become rich, and it should not be affirmed that it is reasonable for officials to become rich. Officials also need incentives, and you don't have a legal channel to motivate them. Will he consider self-motivation, he will not do what the people ask him to do, will he find a way to motivate him to do things. In this day and age, should officials be motivated? How to motivate has become a topic that can no longer be avoided. The public advocate is still a public servant. As a result, officials are saddled with political and moral pressures that are unofficial and corrupt. In the wave of national prosperity, it has borne the economic pressure alone, artificially depressing the income of officials.

Officials must maintain a simple life as public servants, have a background of poverty among the whole people, and have the institutional guarantees provided by the subsistence supply system and the lifelong system of posts, so that they will not fall into the embarrassing situation of being overstretched. Now that the supply system and the tenure system have been broken, they continue to be kept on low wages for a long time, and once they quit their jobs, they will immediately become poor. In particular, officials are at increased occupational risk, face increased risk of accountability, and low salaries have deepened the economic pressures they face. The sense of honor and moral appeal of political status will lose its effectiveness in the face of such daily economic pressure. In the long run, it will also greatly damage their image in front of the public and undermine their credibility. Compared with those colleagues who have turned into entrepreneurs, the difference in income is dozens or even hundreds of times.

Wu Wei continued, "Our generation has just caught up with the transition from low salary to high salary, and I am fortunate to have caught up with the era of the so-called annual salary, compared with my colleagues in the past, now the income of one or two years is equivalent to their lifetime income. If I didn't have an annual salary to support me, my life would naturally be very shabby. This is the fate of the working class. In my actual work, I have found that there are some legitimate behaviors hidden behind corruption, for example, when the prescribed method of linking performance is cashed out at the end of the year, the superiors find that individuals and units with very outstanding performance will have very impressive incomes if they are cashed in according to the original method, so they break the contract, causing their subordinates to seek benefits in violation of the law. Some bribe-givers are for the benefit of enterprises or units. Some magistrates have contributed much more to the prosperity and development of their localities than entrepreneurs, and the people are particularly satisfied with living in a prosperous and suitable environment. This makes me wonder if there is a similar problem with the low salaries of officials, whose contributions are artificially underestimated, and as a result, the rate of return is overly depressed, which encourages illegal profit-making.

Now there is a sharp contradiction between anti-corruption and the protection of talents, and between anti-corruption and personal freedom. The engine of economic and social development has been damaged by different processes, and if improper anti-corruption causes economic and social development to stagnate and regress, anti-corruption is easy to be reversed. There is an urgent need to initiate a benign anti-corruption campaign and strengthen the intelligent design of anti-corruption to alleviate this super tangle. The consciousness of public servants is that with the transformation of public servants into professional public servants, the legitimate demands of the public service profession itself are respected. Low salaries no longer reflect their responsibilities, contributions, and risks. The only way to fight corruption is to distinguish it from protecting their legitimate and reasonable interests. The capitalists have been liberated from the moral pressure of exploitation, and the officials should be liberated from the moral pressure of corruption. In the fight against corruption, we must also emancipate our minds. The fight against corruption should be combined with the protection of personal freedom and the protection of qualified personnel.

We concentrate too much on the body of officials, and no official is corrupt, but in fact, there is almost no one in the workplace who is not corrupt.

Zhang Xing, who heard Wu talk about this, was surprised, such a statement was inevitably too big, he knew that Wu Wei was good at thinking, so he didn't interrupt rashly, and couldn't help but feel very curious.

Wu Wei also said, I have studied the internal control of banks. In view of the insider's crime, it is believed that if the insider works the case, it must be a manifestation of the management crisis, and the employee has no sense of loyalty to the bank, so he puts forward the three noes, that is, strive to make the bank employees do not want to, can't, and dare not commit the crime. Some people say that bank employees are inevitably tempted to handle flowing money every day, and it is inevitable that they will not get their shoes wet when they walk by the river. I use the Mint as an example. According to the logic that cases will inevitably occur when handling money, the probability of a case being filed by an institution that proposes to make money will be higher. In fact, there are very few cases in the mint, and the reason is simple. There is strict martial law in force. If similar controls were applied to banks, the case would be eliminated, but it would be costly and, more importantly, more important. Employees who work under military control will also lose their personal freedom. Now the same applies to the anti-corruption principle. So that officials do not want to, can't, dare not be corrupt. Officials are to be loyal to the organization they serve, and the organization will not treat them badly. Naturally, they will not go against the requirements of the organization, and they will not be moved by corruption, and only in this way can a good interaction be formed. The organization should be considerate of their situation and requirements. This is what I am talking about, officials have been transformed from public servants in the traditional sense to civil servants, with a salaried system and a tenure system. At the national level, we should establish and improve anti-corruption laws and improve supervision and punishment mechanisms so that they cannot and dare not be corrupt.

The construction of the dam, people will pay attention to the magnificent and huge volume with an appreciative eye, ignoring the anthill effect of the so-called thousands of miles of embankment destroyed in the anthill, and the complicated supervision and control system established for violations of rules and disciplines is so ingenious but it is difficult to stop people's criminal behavior. The reason is that the professional power possessed by a professional in the workplace today is endogenous, that is to say, he should have that power when he engages in that kind of occupation, which makes any professional person more or less have the right to control the professional activities he is engaged in, which can also be called partial control rights, and it is difficult for people outside the professional activities to have a completely and highly transparent pre-event control of the process of professional activities. Unless outsiders are willing to spend very expensive energy and time to achieve precise and nuanced control over the professional activities of professionals, especially if professionals deliberately conceal the truth in order to achieve selfish interests, the cost of external control will be further increased. Generally speaking, reasonable form does not ensure that the content is reasonable, and reasonable form may mask unreasonable content. By the extension of financial activities, those chapters, certificates, cards, tickets, tables and other carriers involved in money activities, in the process of transaction use, are often endowed with the characteristics of non-causality, that is, the processing behavior of the latter link does not have to investigate the authenticity and reliability of the processing results of the previous link, if people carry out anti-counterfeiting treatment on those carriers, they will not have to consider the authenticity and reliability of the previous link behavior, so that after a reasonable procedure to wash away the traces of the source, some bad behaviors will be normalized through reasonable business proceduresAs long as the offender can use his wisdom to skillfully cut into a certain link in the whole procedure, the program itself will cover up the illegal content, and the terrible anthill effect will occur. The design of this prevention system is perfect and exquisite, but this system is a combination of countless link details, and it is operated by specific people, people will slip and take a nap, because they are too familiar to become boring and appear careless, so it will be full of a large number of vulnerable and weak links, easy to be used and broken by criminals. According to traditional values, as long as it is not for personal interests, but for the interests of groups and units, the beneficiaries of a large number of ultra vires and illegal transactions are often collectives and units, rather than individual individuals, and they can confidently engage in illegal transactions and correspondingly relieve their moral guilt. This is the social, ideological, and cultural root cause of corruption, which has been repeatedly prohibited.

Formulate a national anti-corruption law and rely on a sound state mechanism to fight corruption. In the past, it was against the private use of public vehicles, and it did not rise to the level of law. If it rises to the law, the public security department can act as a law enforcement agency and use ready-made monitoring resources, which is very convenient and can ensure that the prohibition of private use of public vehicles is normalized. With the Anti-Corruption Law, whistleblowers do not have to go through the internal petition and reporting methods, check or not, and how to screen and deal with them after investigation, it is easy to be operated in the dark, and they can directly complain to the court, and after the court accepts it, a complete set of procedures of the public procuratorate and law will be initiated.

Wu Wei suddenly laughed as he spoke. Zhang Xing looked at him inexplicably.

Wu Wei said with a smile, the reason why corruption is so strict is only because it has not been taken seriously in the past, development is the last word, development is the overwhelming political task, and performance comes first.

When Zhang Xing heard this, he immediately felt extremely relaxed. (To be continued......)