Chapter III: The Shanxi Nest Case (1)

After Yuan Keren, Ruan Yiyong, Feng Jiayu, and Duan Honggang became the commissioners of the Anti-Corruption, in order to train them, Tan Sitong, the chief of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, sent them to Shanxi to inspect the team, and Zhang Zuolin, deputy director of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, personally led the team.

The inspection system is an intra-party supervision system of the Baath Party founded by President Song Xiaofei, and the General Administration of Integrity has established a special inspection agency to supervise the local Baath Party leadership and its members in accordance with relevant regulations, deter local officials, and accept "complaints" from the people.

The inspection system is not the first of Song Xiaofei's creation, it has existed since ancient times and is known as the supervision system. China attached great importance to the supervision of the power of local officials during the Warring States period and established a supervision system. It was during this period that the system and name of the Ombudsman began. After the Qin Dynasty, China implemented the county system, and set up a supervisor in the county. By the Han Dynasty, the supervision system had gradually formed, and the central government had the Yushitai as the supervisory organ, and the prefect of the Yushitai was called the Yushidafu. By the Tang Dynasty, the supervision system and institutions had been finalized, and the Tang Dynasty set up ten supervision areas, and the emperor sent the emperor to supervise the imperial history to inspect the place. When it came to the Ming Dynasty, it was a period when the imperial history was developed, and it was called the Imperial Inspectorate. The imperial history patrol is based on the locality, whether it is fixed or not, at least half a year. After "replying", it is necessary to report in detail. The Qing Dynasty largely continued the Ming Dynasty system. The main task of the ancient Chinese supervision system was to maintain the integrity of the bureaucracy and impeach corrupt officials. Taking the Ming Dynasty as an example, the Wanli Emperor was not in the court for several decades, the bureaucratic team could still be maintained, and the local people did not dare to do evil, and the supervision system played a great role.

Zhang Zuolin, Yuan Keren, Ruan Yiyong and others took the train to Taiyuan, and Ding Baoquan, secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, personally greeted them at the Taiyuan Railway Station. Lu Zhongqi, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Taiyuan Municipal Party Committee, and Ling Congjun, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and mayor of Taiyuan, were also accompanying the station.

In addition to Yuan Keren, Ruan Yiyong, Feng Jiayu, and Duan Honggang, the new batch of anti-corruption commissioners also included Sheng Aiyi. She is the seventh lady of Prime Minister Sheng Xuanhuai, and she was born earlier than she in history. Sheng Aiyi has always had a crush on Ruan Yiyong, but Ruan Yiyong has always hated the Sheng family because her brother Sheng Laosi robbed his first love Sun Yonghui. Sheng Aiyi disguised herself as a man at this time, under the pseudonym Shen Qi, she never revealed her identity, and went to Taiyuan with Ruan Yiyong and others.

I saw a large number of Jinguan coming to pick up the station. Zhang Zuolin's face was serious, and he said to Ding Baoquan, secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee, who came to pick up the station: "This time I came down to inspect, and the president has special instructions. No special reception shall be given at the local level, and it is sufficient to do official business. Secretary Ding brought a team of officials to the train station, which made it difficult for us. ”

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, at this time. A young secretary wearing glasses next to Zhao Daiwen, deputy mayor of Taiyuan City, stood up calmly and said: "I have also heard of this. It's just that the commissioners have been in the dust all the way, and the people of Shanxi have always been simple and kind, and they are kind, and we want to do their best on behalf of the landlords. ”

Zhang Zuolin glanced at the alert young secretary, who looked elegant and like a scholar, and asked Zhao Daiwen: "Who is this?" ”

Zhao Daiwen smiled and said, "This is my student Yan Xishan, the juniors don't understand the rules, and I hope the adults will forgive me." ”

Zhang Zuolin laughed. He said, "It's nothing, you can arrange a quiet office space for us." We pay for the house ourselves, which is also our office system. I said ugly ahead, if there is any corruption in Shanxi, we will be ruthless and investigate to the end. ”

"I will give it my full support." Ding Baoquan nodded and said, "In the evening, we will prepare a little banquet to entertain you." ”

Therefore, Ding Baoquan arranged Zhang Zuolin's office location in the Qiaojia Hotel in Taiyuan, which was originally an old-fashioned garden house covering an area of more than three acres, with three floors, red roof and yellow walls, and the interior decoration is very exquisite, and there are exquisite carvings wherever there are wooden decorations. There is a beautiful inner corridor in the south of the ground floor of the small building, which protrudes in the middle. The two sides converge to the north, and the two milky white marble columns, one on the left and one on the right, are very elegant. Looking out from the inner porch, you can see a wide and flat grass with casual parasols, small bamboo chairs and bamboo benches, and a basketball court.

Most of the anti-corruption commissioners such as Yuan Keren followed Zhang Zuolin to Qiao's hotel, but only Ruan Yiyong was disgusted by the official reception, so he left by himself at Taiyuan Railway Station and wandered around the square of Taiyuan Railway Station, and Sheng Aiyi also followed.

In the square, Nguyen Ngai Dung met Su Jianjun, who was looking for a lost child. He was holding a sign looking for his sons, Su Jinduo and Su Jinpeng. They took a train from their home to Qingdao during the Lunar New Year holiday, and then they disappeared.

Ruan Yiyong stepped forward to inquire, and Su Jianjun told Ruan that they had been cheated out of money when they bought their return tickets, and that on a cold winter night, a woman provided them with a warm hiding place and a meal, and gave them a chance to earn enough money to pay their fares by selling fruit for her.

Then, they were stuffed into a minibus, along with a few children, and taken to a black brick kiln in Shanxi, where they were forced to make bricks. A few days later, he and another 16-year-old boy escaped.

They say that some children and many adults in the black brick kilns are forced to work in brutal conditions. In the brick kilns of Shanxi Province, they do not have enough clothes to wear, no wages, and only steamed buns and water to eat.

In some cases, some parents have banded together to try to rescue their children, not counting on local governments, which sometimes collude with brick kiln operators to take their children out of newly closed brick kilns and resell them to other factories. Forced labor and child labor are illegal in China, but some local government officials don't care.

Zhang Xiaoying, 37, also said she had visited more than 100 brick factories in Shanxi province to find her 15-year-old son, who disappeared in January. "You just can't believe what you're seeing," she said. Some of the children who work in these places are at most fourteen or fifteen years old. She said the local police were reluctant to lend a hand. Outside one factory, she said, they even demanded bribes.

Like countless black brick kilns, Wang Bingbing's brick kiln lives on a hillside outside Caosheng Village. Even a villager surnamed Duan in the village of Santiaogou, just a stone's throw away from the kiln, admits that he has never been into a brick kiln – the wolf dogs there are intimidating. Every day, you can only feel the busyness of the machine sound coming from the kiln factory at 5 o'clock in the morning and the lights that are still not extinguished at 10 o'clock in the evening.

Nguyen Ngai Dung couldn't believe his ears, could what they said be the truth? (To be continued......)