Chapter 59: Speculation and Guilt

As I expected, Hu Zuoqiu's problem was solved two days later.

After receiving my order, Zhao Xinming immediately transferred several companies of armed police from the neighboring county town to surround the village...... This encirclement is not difficult, as long as the armed police force disperses and covers the roads and mountain roads with barbed wire and checkpoints on the periphery of the village.

There are many villagers, a total of tens of thousands of people, but they do not dare to take the armed police soldiers with submachine guns in their hands, among which the villagers did have several symbolic charges towards the armed police stationed at the outposts, but the armed police soldiers just threw a batch of tear gas and easily blocked the villagers.

It should be said that there is no great contradiction between the villagers and the armed police, and even those villagers know that since the reform and opening up, life has been getting better day by day, which means that the villagers have no reason to riot at all, and most of them are just pretending to show Hu Zuoqiu.

So the clashes weren't intense, and even the villagers' several charges didn't come close to the barbed wire fence laid by the armed police, let alone a direct clash of sorts, even if a few of them were fanning the flames.

In fact, I'm really worried that the villagers will rush up hot-headed, and if that happens, the armed police really don't know what to do.

But fortunately, those villagers are not so stupid, and those armed police with loaded guns are indeed quite scary...... At this time, the armed police were still in existence for the first time, and in the past, they were either a large number of police officers with broken pistols pinned to their waists, or they were dispatched to the army.

This is the first time that the villagers have seen this armed police, and there are tear gas, flashbangs and the like, all kinds of new things make the villagers feel empty. So naturally, I stopped insisting on it.

At this time, we announced to the villagers that the blockade of the village by the armed police is based on the principle of only allowing people to leave and not to enter. That is, you can go out at any time.

Immediately, there was a commotion among the villagers...... Everyone knows that this is a place of right and wrong now. Who wants to stay here anymore! Now, when I hear this principle of "no entry is allowed", where will anyone have the courage to adhere to it.

Of course, there's another process.

At first, the villagers were skeptical of our principle, worried that it would be a trap laid by the police, and they just waited for them to go and throw themselves into the net.

But a few brave people took advantage of the night to sneak up on the checkpoint where the armed police were stationed...... The reason why he came secretly at night was because at this time, Hu Zuoqiu had already gathered his cronies in the village to prosecute the villagers, and adopted a series of threats and measures to retaliate against those villagers who tried to leave the village.

Of course, we did not stop these villagers who sneaked over, and even at this time, we learned to use these villagers from the previous experience of the armed police using the parents of gangsters to persuade them...... The word "utilization" does not seem appropriate here. We are also sincerely for the good of the villagers.

So the public security and the armed police treated these villagers very politely, and even called them brothers, invited them to drink and smoke, and while eating and drinking, they reasoned with them, and these villagers knew in their hearts that this matter was unreasonable, and now they were attacked by the public security and armed police, where would they be able to eat, and they were defeated in a few strokes.

Then the night sky of the village soon sounded the shouts of these villagers: "Folks, what the Public Security Bureau said is true, if we go out of the village, no one will stop us, and the comrades of the Public Security Bureau will give us good food and drink!" Let's get out of the village. Don't be used by Hu Zuoqiu anymore, the Public Security Bureau only wants to investigate Hu Zuoqiu......"

Not to mention. The effect of shouting like this was really unusual, and the villagers quickly packed up their things and left the village in twos and threes.

This nonsense Qiu really wanted to stop this momentum, but at this time, the villagers couldn't stop it like a flood that burst the embankment, so they called a bunch of people to walk here and there, and blocked a few more people from that side. In less than two days, the village of tens of thousands of people was originally in a big rage, and there were only a few cronies left, and there were some elderly people who were inconvenient to go out and stay at home to take care of their families.

The rest of the matter is simple, the police just go in and pick up people.

We don't need to ask about other things, as armed police, we can already complete the task here.

At this moment, the instructor ran to me in a panic with a telegram and said: "Battalion commander, it's not good, the advanced company has been seized, and Yang Xianjin and several responsible persons of the company have been arrested!" ”

"What?" I couldn't help but be shocked when I heard this, and asked, "Yang Xianjin was arrested?" What crime was caught?! ”

At this time, I couldn't help but wonder, I have repeatedly told Yang Xianjin to be careful, to be low-key, and to act according to the country's policy, why is there still an accident now.

"Speculation is a sin!" The instructor replied.

"Speculation is a sin?" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, although I had heard the word speculatively, but I didn't know what this crime was.

"That's pretty much it...... Illegal reselling! The instructor explained, but the look on his face didn't seem like even he knew what the sin was all about.

In fact, this is not surprising, firstly, because our troops have been separated from the peaceful society for too long and are not well informed, especially our synthetic battalions, which can be said to be basically busy training in the army or busy fighting, and it is common for them not to go home for several years, so of course they are only half-aware of some things about the peaceful society.

Second, because the state does not clearly define what the crime of "speculation is", even in a peaceful society, people do not know much about how to define this crime.

I later learned that this was the case......

China's economic system was originally a planned economy, and in the planned economy, all the funds were distributed according to the plan and rationing, but after the reform and opening up, there have been some changes in this system.

Needless to say, what has changed is the emergence of a market economy.

There would be no problem if the whole country pursued a market economy in one fell swoop, but the problem was that only some localities practiced a market economy...... This kind of policy is correct in the general direction, because China is a big country, and it is impossible to implement any new policy in the whole country as soon as the mind is hot, otherwise, there will be no turning back if there is a problem. This is what we know as a "special economic zone", that is, opening up some cities as a pilot first.

In fact, at this time, the non-special economic zone has also implemented a part of the market economy, for example, an enterprise, after the production of products has completed the planned tasks, the part that exceeds the plan can be sold at the market price.

This leads to a new problem: At this time, China has two systems, the "planned economy" and the "market economy," that is, the dual-track system.

The planned economy even stipulates the price, while the price of the market economy is determined by the supply and demand relationship of the market, that is, we often say that "scarce things are expensive".

This directly leads to the fact that there are two prices for the exact same product, and the market price is twice or more than the national unified price.

As a result, some officials, who have the means and connections, do everything possible to use such means as "going through the back door" and "approving strips" to obtain a large number of products at the state's unified price, and then resell them at a high price in the market.

Of course, the consequences of this are very bad, the most direct impact is the abnormal rise in prices, and the stricter is the indirect impact, because the people also participate in the ranks of hoarding goods because of the soaring prices...... This is understandable, this rice, salt and other necessities of life are all at a price a day, so of course the people want to buy more or at least to ensure that the price will not be affected during this time.

As a result, this further disrupted the market order, and even caused a certain panic among the common people, believing that it was better than the previous planned economy.

The government was also caught off guard by this phenomenon...... For decades, the implementation of a planned economy would have led to so many and such big problems as soon as it was opened up, so in a panic in July '79, it was generally stipulated that "speculation was reversed".

However, if the law is only a general provision without defining the scope of the crime in detail, there will be a very strict problem, which is like the "crime of hooliganism", no matter what can be used to cover this crime, and the same is true of the crime of "speculation". (Note: The crimes of speculation, hooliganism, and dereliction of duty are known as the three major pocket sins of this era, which means that anything can be put into it.) Historically, it was not until September 87 that there was a relatively clearly defined "Interim Regulations on the Administrative Punishment of Speculation", and it was not until 97 that the crime of speculation was abolished)

And now Yang Xianjin is detained for the crime of "speculation", which is really like, our advanced wholesale company is indeed buying from other places and then selling to self-employed people, but we have not bribed or approved the planned products, basically just run errands for self-employed people and then we will earn some travel expenses or something, and what kind of speculative crime has we committed!

"Battalion commander!" At this time, Zhao Jingping shouted at me with a microphone a few meters away: "Phone, Zheng Jiayi called!" ”

I walked to the phone in a few steps and picked up the microphone, and then I heard Zheng Jiayi's cry from the microphone: "Battalion commander, the advanced company is finished, our provincial and county companies have all been blocked, several people have been arrested, and Mr. Yang has also been arrested!" ”

"All the companies in the provincial and county towns have been blocked? When was this? I asked.

"Just this morning!" Zheng Jiayi replied: "I finally took the time to make this call, I can't say more......"

"The shops in both places were closed in the morning?"

"Yes!" Zheng Jiayi replied a little nervously: "Battalion commander, I can't say for too long, someone is following me, it may be from the Public Security Bureau, save us!" ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, I felt that this matter would not be so simple, you must know that information is very closed in this era, even the public security bureau...... I have a deep understanding of this, and we used the Public Security Bureau to find the mother and son for a long time.

So how can there be such a phenomenon of companies in provincial and county towns being blocked at the same time?! (To be continued......)