Chapter 24: Is Anti-Corruption the Dead Party?
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———— this press conference and the trial of Ma Liubao and Chen Qimei, the major newspapers quickly went out, and several newspapers published letters of apology for the provisional political axe in East China.
Chen Qimei was defeated overnight and became a spurned existence, and the image of the East China Provisional Political Axe changed a lot in the eyes of those intellectuals.
Xia Jun's cameras for the newspapers soon arrived, and a technician was also sent to teach them how to take pictures, wash them, and so on.
Many newspapers in this era were amateurish, and some did not even have a few reporters.
Xia Jun sent invitations to the newspapers on the same day, asking the newspaper owners to come and discuss the future development of Chinese media.
In addition, Xia Jun immediately promulgated a "Public Opinion Management Regulations", which stipulated that the media should not disseminate pornographic, violent, and false information, and at the same time stipulated that the public had the right to know, and stipulated that the East China Provisional Political Axe would issue a monthly subsidy of 1 yuan to all journalists, and established a subsidy hierarchy for journalists.
There are five levels of reporters, the fifth level is the lowest, with a monthly subsidy of only 1 yuan, the fourth level reporter can get 3 yuan per month, the third level reporter can get 5 yuan per month, the second level reporter can get a subsidy of 10 yuan per month, and the first level reporter can get a subsidy of 100 yuan per month, as well as some other benefits.
How does this journalist move up the ranks?
Of course, it is measured by the number and weight of exposing illegal acts and corruption [***], as long as a corruption phenomenon is exposed, it will be promoted immediately, anyway, the first three levels are easier to raise, the second level is slightly more difficult, and the first level is only awarded to journalists who have made great contributions.
If Xia Jun wants to fight corruption, he naturally has to make full use of the power of the media, and at the same time, journalists can also monitor illegal acts.
The power of the media is very great, because they can reflect the voice of the people, so Xia Jun will set up a special 'special police bureau' to investigate and deal with corruption and illegal acts exposed by the news media, and this special police bureau will also be equipped with a supervision officer for investigation officers, and the special police bureau is also responsible for protecting the personal safety of journalists.
At the same time, the regulations stipulate that assault and retaliation against journalists will be punished with a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years, and those who commit heinous circumstances will be sentenced to death. If a journalist reports indiscriminately, his or her reporting license will be revoked and even held legally responsible.
The "Regulations on the Management of Public Opinion" give journalists a lot of privileges, and they can have many benefits after receiving their licenses, and at the same time regulate the relationship between reporters and interviewees.
First of all, it is easier to buy reporters, and it is easier on the newspaper side.
Xia Jun plans to use the equipment to invest in some newspapers, and when he becomes a shareholder, he can also strengthen his control over newspapers.
The equipment is also a means for Xia Jun to support obedient newspapers, because the equipment of all newspapers at this stage is very simple, the price of newspapers is very high, and there is not much promotion capacity.
If newspapers and periodicals want to develop, the retail price is the first consideration, when others have used advanced equipment to reduce costs, then the original high-priced newspapers and weekly magazines will naturally be ignored, so after a round of market elimination, only those obedient media will remain, and those who are disobedient will use market means to destroy them.
is clearly a servant of public opinion, and secretly is the master of public opinion, this is Xia Jun's skill in the public opinion circle.
The media meeting was held very quickly, and more than a dozen newspaper bosses were invited to Hangzhou to inform them that in the future, the newspaper law must be reviewed before it is issued, and at the same time they were given the newly drafted "Media Management Regulations" to them.
"In the future, as long as any newspaper exposes the corruption and bribery of our temporary political axe personnel in East China, a minimum reward of not less than 100 yuan will be given, and the reward will be half of the reporter and half of the newspaper, and if it is a major corruption case, we will give a higher reward." After You Zhengbin finished speaking to them, he asked everyone, "Do you have any objections?" ”
The newspaper bosses present, look at me, I look at you, Shi Liangcai was the first to speak: "We, the "Declaration", refuse to accept the news review ......"
You Zhengbin didn't wait for Shi Liang to finish speaking, and then interrupted: "Mr. Shi, our chairman said that he believes in Mr. Shi's personality, and the "Declaration" can have the privilege of not accepting review. ”
"Uh......" Shi Liangcai was a little speechless for a while, and the bosses of various newspapers also looked at Shi Liangcai, and Shi Liangcai found that he seemed to be isolated at this time.
"As for other newspapers, our chairman does not know that as long as you do not publish false, violent, pornographic, and inflammatory news in the future, you will also be exempted from the review process, and at the same time, we will also provide advanced printing equipment and paper at a good price to the newspapers with outstanding performance." You Zhengbin said to them, and then asked repeatedly: "Do you still have any objections?" ”
"Nope."
"No ......"
The bosses of these newspapers generally do not publish any pornographic, violent, and inflammatory news, and as long as they accept the conditions set by the East China Provisional Political Axe, then they will be able to enjoy rich benefits, so they have accepted them for a while, and of course, there are some newspapers that are not very scheming and reluctantly accepted.
If the conditions of the provisional political axe in East China were not accepted, the newspapers would not be able to distribute them in the Shanghai Public Concession, and at most they would be distributed in the French Concession, and there would be no possibility of entering Shanghai County.
Shi Liang is a special case, this person has always insisted that newspapers should not have any partisan color, and at the same time, the responsibility of the newspaper is to supervise the political axe, so Xia Jun gave him privileges.
The East China Provisional Political Axe does need supervision, and what Xia Jun needs is a clean and efficient political axe, so he is more tolerant of Shi Liangcai's declaration.
…… In the following days, Xia Jun decided on several anti-corruption measures in Hangzhou, first of all, he should adhere to the previous anti-corruption measures, that is, strict employment restrictions and real-time property monitoring, the information of his family members must be recorded in detail, and the occupation of his family members is limited to fixed income, and any unstable income occupation is not allowed to be engaged, and any changes need to be reported in person, and his property must be reported once a month.
This time Xia Jun has perfected this mechanism, all kinds of regulations are more perverted than before, there are more in-depth regulations on the employment of political axe employees and their families, these restrictions have only one purpose, that is, to limit their property to a calculable range, but such anti-corruption measures are not comprehensive enough, and political axe incumbents can still find loopholes to circumvent.
Therefore, follow-up anti-corruption measures are also needed, and Xia Jun has begun to establish a reporting system while establishing a media supervision system.
At the same time, the police will also closely protect their personal safety, and if they are still afraid of retaliation, they can also help them relocate and help arrange new jobs.
In order to smooth the reporting process, Xia Jun immediately asked the Ministry of Justice to legislate, and all those who obstruct petitioning and reporting, whether they are the principal offenders or accomplices, will be sentenced to death and have their property confiscated.
Petitions and reports were also handled by the 'Special Police Bureau', whose director, Xia Jun, was carefully selected from East China University (formerly Jianzhou University) and finally selected a student named Cao Wending from the School of Law and Political Science.
As the president of East China University, Xia Jun takes care of all the colleges, and often memorizes some courses to these colleges to teach students in person.
This student's academic performance is not the best, but he is relatively withdrawn, and his popularity in school is not good, which is why Xia Jun appointed him as the director of the 'Special Police Bureau', and his popularity is too good to sit in this position.
The special police bureau has relatively large powers, integrating police and supervision, and is applicable to public reports and cases of violations and corruption exposed by the media.
This department must be extremely efficient, as well as absolutely incorruptible.
In addition, in the legislative process of the past few days, Xia Jun has stipulated that the administrative personnel of the political axe must be open to the public, and there must be no delay when the people demand that the local finances be made public, and it is illegal to fail to make public the work after two jobs, and first of all, the officials whose work is not open for more than two days will be dismissed from their posts and will no longer be hired. The Supervisory Yuan should then immediately intervene in the investigation and arrest the corrupt persons if corruption is discovered.
For the corrupt [***] officials, Xia Jun intends to raise the butcher's knife.
Therefore, the sentencing standards for the crimes of embezzlement and bribery in the Criminal Law of the East China Provisional Political Axe have been changed.
The new standard is: Embezzlement or bribery of more than 50 yuan is punishable by death, and corruption or bribery of less than 50 yuan is equivalent to one year in prison. Embezzlement and bribery of more than 100 yuan are subject to an unconventional death penalty.
The so-called unconventional is torture, and various death methods are graded according to their cruelty and pain, for which Xia Jun also specially consulted Bai Wensheng, an expert in this area.
After Bai Wensheng became the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, one of the main directions of attack was the study of torture, for which Xia Jun also gave him a book that recorded torture in detail, which was as thick as a brick, which Xia Jun bought from the exchange platform, so he naturally didn't have time to read it, so he threw it to Bai Wensheng for research.
After Bai Wensheng received this task from Xia Jun, he quickly filled in the form that Xia Jun gave him, embezzled 50~100 yuan and was shot, more than 100 yuan ~ 200 yuan of peeling, between 200~500 yuan, increase the number of peeling times every 100, according to Bai Wensheng's explanation, bury people in the ground, cut the scalp and pour mercury, people will drill out, a complete skin will be peeled off, and it will not die after peeling off, and it can be peeled again, up to 5 times.
If you see more than 500 ~ 1000 yuan, you will directly Ling Chi, and if you exceed 1000 yuan, you will be able to design the 'Seven Days of Hell' designed by Bai Wensheng, all kinds of torture will be tortured for seven days, and then pushed to Ling Chi for a few days.
Xia Jun was satisfied with the form filled in by Bai Wensheng, and then filled in this form into the "East China Provisional Political Axe Criminal Law", on the day of the revision, the people in the Ministry of Justice because they felt that it was too cruel and had no reason to oppose it, so they were collectively silent and did not express any opinions, but according to Xia Jun's intentions, these punishment standards were added to the "Criminal Law", Xia Jun has absolute authority in the party, as well as within the East China Provisional Political Axe, and the only person who can question it is Li Shijing.
This kind of punishment only applies to the incumbents of the political axe, not to the members of the local township self-government council, which is also the only provision in the entire criminal law that contains torture.
In later generations, so many corrupt officials in that deformed society were born of poor punishment, and they couldn't die if they were found out anyway, and if they went in, they would be protected, and they would be directly commuted if they behad well in prison for a few years, or they would come out after a few months. Some of those who have a backstage have been found to be corrupt, but they are just dismissed from office and transferred to other places to take office. So much so that they all developed to the point of being greedy, and even after the media reported it, no one cared about it.
In fact, under the high-pressure legal policy, it is enough to deter most officials.
For the township autonomous council, Xia Jun relaxed the punishment, mainly because the local involvement is too great, if such a desperate policy is used now, then there will be more torture, so the maximum corruption case of the local autonomous council is only shot, but the embezzlement of 50 yuan will be shot, and the cordon is still not relaxed.
At the same time, political prisoners who are corrupt and accept bribes will also affect their families to a certain extent, for example, they cannot buy affordable housing, cannot live in low-rent housing, cannot enjoy free medical care policies, and their children and grandchildren will not be hired by political officials for three generations, and banks will not give them any loans.
Under these policies, Xia Jun has formed an absolute legal deterrent to the personnel of the East China Provisional Political Axe, and at the same time, there is a system of property monitoring, a public system, public reporting, media supervision, and random inspections by the Supervision Yuan, forming a three-dimensional and comprehensive anti-corruption method.
This large-scale legislation, with a large number of people involved, quickly leaked the news, which immediately caused panic among some political axe incumbents.
In the past few years, dozens of administrative staff have submitted resignation letters, but Xia Jun has not approved them. Of course, some of them took advantage of the chaotic period of this territory expansion to become corrupt.
However, there are also many incumbents who are not corrupt who resign for various reasons, some are afraid that they will be framed in the future, and some feel that they do not have the courage to embezzle under such a policy.
Seeing more and more resignation letters, Xia Jun couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Is it true that anti-corruption is equal to the death of the party?
But not fighting corruption is tantamount to destroying the country.
The contradiction made Xia Jun confused for the first time.
As soon as he got up in the morning, Xia Jun sat on the lakeside outside the villa basking in the sun, and the thick stack of resignation letters on the table was waiting for him to approve.
To approve or not to approve?
Xia Jun was thinking about it, when Mei'er walked over, only to see her holding a stack of letters in her hand, "Uncle, the Administration Department has sent another stack of resignation letters." ”
Xia Jun was silent, Mei'er sat on the side, and said to him: "If you continue like this, everyone will be gone." ”
"Children don't understand!" Xia Jun said to her depressedly, Mei'er's cheeks bulged, she was obviously seventeen years old!
Li Shijing walked out with breakfast, put breakfast on the table, sat down and picked up the resignation letters on the table, looked at the names on the envelopes one by one, looked very worried, and said to Xia Jun for a long time: "Husband, you are too anxious this time." ”
"There is a benefit in a hurry." Xia Jun shook his head and sighed, "If you don't cut the mess quickly at this time, it will be more difficult to treat in the future, and it will be difficult to start at that time." ”
"How so?" Mei'er asked puzzled.
(To be continued)