In the Name of People
Episode 40
Let me reveal something too.
It's because of the Zhaos, old chief Zhao Lichun.
Comrade Lichun is worried now,
about people using you as anti-corruption bureau chief.
Or that you become somebody's sword,
to deny the achievements of reforms in Handong!
I won't let anybody use me!
Neither will I serve any aristocracy!
Zhao Lichun is a deputy national-level official.
Our procuratorate and bureau don't have the authority over him.
But his son Zhao Ruilong doesn't have this privilege,
our bureau is investigating him right now!
It's not just Zhao Ruilong...
but Liu Xinjian too, I reckon?
Comrade Zhao Lichun's former secretary?
Correct!
Last night, we questioned Liu Xinjian!
(checkmate)
Your turn!
Liangping...
Don't you find this matter strange?
You caught Ouyang Jing, but why does it suddenly involve,
Zhao Ruilong and Liu Xinjian?
Could secretary Dakang have had a hand in this?
Please trust us!
In this case, nobody but the law can have a hand it!
Li Dakang is fine,
he never caused us any disturbance so far!
Ever since anti-corruption took off,
sloth administration has been common!
Strange things happened,
and strange things have been said!
Like "officials can hardly survive", (puns based on Chinese idioms)
"being officials is hard", (puns based on Chinese idioms)
"less action means fewer mistakes", etc. (puns based on Chinese idioms)
This Sun Liancheng is even more interesting!
Like "selfless people have no fear",
"nothing matters if you don't want promotion".
Idioms are becoming epigrams!
Chief Sha...
many officials in Jingzhou are like this.
They come and leave,
even for simple jobs, they skip or push away if they can!
If they can't procrastinate anymore, they organize a meeting.
As long as enough people nod, it gets passed!
Nowadays, it's high-pressure anti-corruption!
Nobody wants to be a target!
If you do more, then there's more chance of mistakes!
Regarding self-preservation,
they'd rather neglect work than risking themselves!
This is the mentality of many officials nowadays!
Therefore, we must enforce positive guidance.
Honesty and diligence are two sides of the same coin.
If you can't be honest, you are corrupt!
If you can't be diligent, it's a different way to be corrupt!
Party officials are people's servants!
At your post, you must do your work!
Is there nothing we can do to officials like Sun Liancheng?
I don't think so!
You must listen to both sides,
don't foster yourself a wrongful prejudice!
This Zhao Ruilong for example, is he really so bad?
I don't think he robbed by force or trickery!
The gourmet city in Luezhou is getting demolished,
the government compensated him 180 millions,
he donated everything to make a foundation!
I was very touched after hearing it!
Then your emotion is too fragile, touched by this!
Shouldn't he do it?
How much money have the Zhaos made?
How much have they polluted the lake?
OK enough, Zhao Ruilong is Zhao Ruilong.
Don't keep bringing up "the Zhaos"!
Comrade Zhao Lichun is not the bureau's responsibility!
Right, but Liu Xinjian is ours!
Liu Xinjian is a person with serious issues!
I was just gonna discuss with you about it.
Stop everything right here!
Don't involve Zhao Ruilong and Qi Tongwei!
Qi Tongwei told you explicitly,
he has stocks at Shanshui Manor!
Don't you get it?
You wanna chase your school brother till death?
Don't you forget, you are more than my mentor!
You are also the imcubent provincial political & legal secretary!
So know I'm your superior?!
You two come down for crabs!
Hurry!
I just discussed with the organization commission yesterday,
I asked this question:
faulty factory products get recalled.
So what about faulty officials promoted by us?
Do we recall them too? - Yes, we must!
Hmm...
The central asked us to be strict,
competent officials advance, average ones fall,
and bad ones eliminated!
I propose this idea:
prov. committee will recall all idle bureau-level officials;
all idle division and section-level officials,
will be recalled by local munic. committees!
And what's next?
Have them study the party stature again,
and the party's purpose of serving the people!
I have a suggestion too:
after they are done studying, demote them all, no exception!
We may consider to demote by 1 to 3 ranks.
If officials like Sun Liancheng are indifferent,
then demote them by 3 ranks, let's see if they care or not!
Chief Sha, let's make Jingzhou the first trial spot!
Good!
We start from Jingzhou to collect experience,
then we implement it province-wide!
Liangping!
Let's eat, the crab is done, come!
Prof. Wu, I...
I'll pass, I'm leaving now.
You don't eat? - Hmm.
But why, I cooked crabs for you!
I...
You are doing it out of spite!
Don't sink to his level, you still gotta eat!
I really don't...
You come and go as you please? We bought them for you!
Leave after meal!
Fine, nobody skips free meal!
That's right!
He upset you, but Prof. Wu didn't, did I?
Come!
Just like before, 3 glasses for you, 1 glass for me!
Mentor Gao, I think you are being unfair!
This time your favoritism is out of hand!
Qi Tongwei is your student, but Chen Hai and I aren't?
You can't always help Qi Tongwei!
Nonsense!
Speaking of you three, I favor you the most!
Remember when in college,
you and Chen Hai competed for student council chairman.
Could you get that post without me?
Everybody knew Chen Hai's manners and respected him!
But...
It was Prof. Wu who supported me!
My help won't be useful,
the one who decided in the end was your mentor Gao!
Speaking of which...
Liangping's biggest supporter,
is our Fangfang!
Back then, among these 3 guys,
Fangfang liked Liangping the most!
We almost took you in as our son-in-law!
All the histories, it feels like they happened yesterday!
It was all my fault!
I don't deserve Fangfang!
It's all in the past!
But Liangping, after the meal,
I'll show you something! - OK!
You must eat 3 crabs today!
OK, I'll eat, alright!
Sun Liancheng is a bastard!
This is a non-solution solution!
But you are also...
If you told me earlier, I could've told secretary Li Dakang!
But chief Chen is still in coma, lying in hospital.
We don't wanna bother you!
Yeah, don't bother me,
you bother the provincial chief instead!
Master Chen, how about this?
We can close the window and remove the spring board!
Don't, let chief Sha have a look too!
Make him come down to earth!
Chief Sha is here!
I tell you,
be honest and tell everything to chief Sha!
Explain thoroughly how Sun Liancheng mistreated you, OK?
Don't lose your voice before officials!
(singing Auld Lang Syne in Chinese)
Fangfang's voice is great!
Why did she end up studying biology in US, what a pity!
She told me more than once, she wanted to become a singer!
A nice voice won't change China, or the world!
It's best to be pragmatic! - True that...
I heard Fangfang is a famous figure now in biological research!
Of course!
Speaking of my daughter, she makes me feel proud!
She had full scholarship until finishing PhD,
she didn't trouble us or make us spend money.
I'm really proud!
Every time I think about her, I feel...
my daughter is excellent!
You heard it, Li Dakang?
Does Sun Liancheng have any sense of responsibility left?
He wants no promotion, so nothing matters!
Is he still an official of the party?!
I think it's time for him to go!
The party commissions and governments aren't pig farms!
We won't feed these lazy pigs who waste people's food!
Secretary Dakang, you must take your responsibility!
When I'm back, I'll immediately have a meeting to implement!
With Sun Liancheng as counter-example,
we'll discipline a bunch of lazy officials!
Let comrades from the court remove the seal.
Open the gate!
Laborers have the rights to do their labor!
Before Guangming district finds a new land for factory,
don't demolish this building!
Let the workers do their work in broad daylight!
In the socialist China,
laborers have their dignity!
Regarding the stocks,
we asked our legal consultants to chase after them.
Judge Chen Qingquan who's suspected of bribery,
is being investigated by our provincial procuratorate.
We must counter judicial corruption too!
Judicial corruption has the most serious consequences!
Now I'm worried that if the workers don't get their stocks back,
somebody may take extreme measures!
What have you heard, master Chen?
Somebody already spoke,
saying they'd even risk jail time,
just to separate Cai's head from his body!
Once we arrive, park the car downstairs and wait for me!
No big bro, you wait in the car, we go get him!
Right, big bro!
With your mask you look like a bad guy, let us do it!
Alright, I'll take it off!
Look!
Although Chen Qingquan and his accomplices are caught,
but the suffering and harm they inflicted are far from over!
Yeah...
The government is partially responsible!
We do our best... - Not "our best", but "must"!
Otherwise bad things will happen again!
You are right, master Chen!
Comrade Dakang...
we must prevent the escalation of local conflicts.
On one hand, we provide solid legal support to the workers.
On the other hand,
we have to tell the worker comrades,
they must solve problems the legal way!
Don't worry, we are already doing that!
Our lawyers are diligent, this matter will be resolved!
Liangping...
Speaking of which,
it was you who fulfilled her!
Because you rejected her, she gave up her singer-dream.
And instead went to study in US!
Really, in some way, I must thank you!
Me?
Fangfang was a 2nd year high-schooler!
How could I accept her?!
I reminded Liangping back then,
Fangfang,
just had a youthful impulse!
Not impulse!
Definitely not an impulse!
I can show you something! - You got more?
Of course!
Alright, go and have a look.
I must leave first, got an errand to run.
Mentor Gao!
I... have one last question for you.
More question? - Hmm!
Ask then, I already said everything that must be said.
16 days ago, at the same place,
when I reported about Chen Qingquan,
you encouraged me to fearlessly solve it!
You asked me to remember:
our procuratorate is called "people's procuratorate",
our court is called "people's court",
our police is called "people's police"!
You told me to always think about what's best for the people!
Is this your real thought? - Of course!
Why do you even doubt?
Then I'll follow your directive!
Master of the obvious!
Come with me!
Mentor, let's go!
Send your car away, today we use mine!
Little Zhong, take a break today!
OK, secretary Gao!
Tongwei,
you told me you got things to report.
Tell me.
Let's talk after we get to Shanshui Manor.
Things already happened, one more moment won't matter.
I'm not going to the club today, tell me in the car.
But I already arranged over there!
It's because you arranged...
the more reason I shouldn't go!
Where do we go then? - Get on the ring road first.
I'll tell you when we get there.
Mentor, you are extremely cautious!
But remember I'm your student!
Having fostered a student like you...
the more reason I can't be bookish!
That's why you won't go to my place, and take my car?
Aren't you worried I might be wiretapped?
My car has anti-wiretap device!
Wanna try?
I'm impressed!
You are better than me, a police chief!
Although I was your mentor,
but over the years, you really taught me a lot!
Such as how you defend against treacherous and bad guys!
Who do you think is the treacherous man close to you?
What do you think?
Remember this violin?
When Fangfang had birthday,
you guys gave it to her together as a gift!
I remember Chen Hai suggested we buy this!
He paid almost everything too!
What a wonderful time back then!
You guys debated eloquently at our place,
with intellectual spirit and youthful passion!
Our small reading room was full of your laughters!
Unforgettable!
I often came to scrounge free meals and lessons from you!
You told us about Hai Rui, "1587, a Year of No Significance"!
You gave us youths lots of enlightenment!
“1587, a Year of No Significance”, you still have my book!
I bought a new one!
So I never returned on purpose!
BTW, let me show you something!
Have a look!
This is one of Fangfang's awarded assays!
She mentioned you guys here!
She said she admired you the most!
And liked you the most!
You can read it back home! - No no no!
When I spoke to her a few days ago,
she said she wants you to have it as a gift,
and a souvenir!
It's the best recollection for your wonderful youths!
Back then, we were so young and simple,
Most importantly, we almost became a family!
Relatedness upon closeness! (Chinese idiom)
Prof. Wu...
You've said a lot, and done a lot.
I know why you do this.
I also understand.
But you must've heard too,
lots of things happened in Handong lately!
How old are you, chairman Zheng?
Me? 59!
Let's say 60!
Lad, how old are you? - I'm 35!
35 already?
Do you have kids? - I'm planning to!
You bought stocks with your settlement fee too?
Yes I did!
You too?
Me too!
And this girl? - Me too!
You too? - Hmm!
Where are you from? - My home is near Xuzhou.
Chairman Zheng, your task is huge!
You must lead them properly!
Yeah, the responsibility is also shared by everyone!
Nowadays, everyone is enthusiastic and rushing forward!
We are all stockholders, you see!
Right, like grasshoppers on the same rope!
We stay poor, or get rich together!
With Dafeng company...
New Dafeng Company! - Right, New Dafeng!
But you must also beware of the risks,
don't think that starting a company solves everything!
You must adapt and search for markets!
Chief Sha, you know us well by now,
if there's any chance, please help us out!
Did he not help you enough today?
He even took back your factory for you!
Right! - Yeah!
You solved a big problem!
But we still need job to do!
Chief Sha you see, I saw that our provincial committee,
has a large residential area.
How many security guards do you need?
With our factory... - What do you mean?
Want me to help you sell the guard uniforms?
How would we dare!
You can tell them if it's appropriate!
Take it as helping the poor and spread some love!
Not so fast master Chen, you put me in an awkward position!
How?
Don't your security guards wear uniforms?
Look at Chen Hai's residential area,
the guards' uniforms are so ugly!
Look at the uniforms from our company,
anybody who wears them looks like honor guards!
Our stuff is cheap but good!
If I help you to sell,
what if other factories ask me too?
Good point... we are not the only company facing problems.
If I use my current post,
and power to enter the market,
and interfered the market,
in principle,
isn't it also an act of corruption?
Chief Sha is right, the people hate corruption!
Therefore we all hope chief Sha stays clear from corruption!
But you know me, we know you too!
China has been feudal for thousands of years,
it's a society of relations!
Therefore it has the conditions to foster corruption, right?
I agree you should watch out for increment steps, chief Sha!
I formally withdraw my request!
Chairman Zheng is understandable!
Unlike master Chen!
What do you mean?
You are saying I'm unreasonable?
Chairman Zheng just withdrew, how about you?
Do you really withdraw?
Yeah!
Then I'll withdraw too!
I tell you, our Zheng Xipo is smart and talented!
No no...
He was union chairman, now the company boss!
He's also a poet, he writes poems!
His poems are good!
A poet too? - Just for fun!
Nah, recite that poem of yours for chief Sha and everyone!
But master Chen, you...
Don't embarrass me! - Chairman Zheng...
Secretary Dakang.
He means that we must not understand poetry!
No!
Give him an applause!
Alright!
I don't think everyone heard this, so let me recite it for you.
"Mother's Express"!
This is your only time taking the train.
Mother, as you sleep in the belly of the beast,
peaceful as a matchstick.
Her entire life, mother walked on the ground.
Her entire life...
mother lived with age carried on her back.
Her first trip with the train,
is her first time enjoying cushioned sleeping car,
as she lies peacefully, like a matchstick.
But the tip of a match is black...
while your hair is white.
This is your... first long trip!
Like... grains that never traveled far from home.
Only when they are sent to the gristmill,
can they get on the express wagon that you hauled in person.
Me, my sisters and brothers...
we accompany you on your trip.
The scenery outside is flashing by.
Mother, please raise your head and look!
What happened to you, lying like a matchstick?
The final destination is here,
with tall chimneys outside!
Chairman Zheng, it's well written!
Chief Sha, this is a poem I wrote for my mother.
When she was alive,
she never visited any city,
nor traveled by trains or cars.
When she passed away and we sent her to cremation,
it was her first time!
Mentor...
Do you think I'm a treacherous person?
I really want a thorough chat with you!
I'm really not treacherous!
I'm just a perfectly normal, average guy from the village!
You are not average, Qi Tongwei!
Now you are provincial police chief!
You almost became my proposed deputy governor!
Are you average?
Right, if chief Sha Ruijin didn't come,
if you became provincial chief, that's all possible!
Good thing I'm not provincial chief and your wish isn't fulfilled.
If you were the deputy governor,
then the people of Handong would be in hell!
At my place today,
your school brother Hou Liangping told me,
since you became provincial police chief,
you arranged jobs for all your relatives.
Haven't you gone too far with certain things?
You even made an illiterate farmer an assistant police!
To guard parking lot! Is it true?
Mentor, China is such a society of relations,
if I'm high-up, can I ignore my people back home?
That's why Liang Lu said you fooled me,
"when man achieves the Tao, even his pets go to heaven"! (Chinese proverb)
It really happened on you!
Do you wanna turn your village dogs into police hounds too?
So they can also eat governmental lunch, right?
Are you kidding, mentor Gao?
Do I look like I'm kidding?!
You totally disappointed me!
But you must know, I've always worked hard all these years!
I kept on fighting! - For what?
You talk nicely, could've said you kept climbing up!
That's also a way of fighting! - Right!
In the official court, who doesn't wanna climb?
But you can't be unscrupulous!
You can't build your happiness upon other's pain!
Get it?!
Mentor, I never built my happiness upon anybody's pain!
Especially yours!
But I have no other way!
You see,
on the night of 1/12, you asked me to report about my work.
Xiaoqin, we got a situation!
Ding Yizhen must leave ASAP, don't waste one second!
Hurry!
If I didn't give Gao Xiaoqin this emergency call,
to have her help Ding to leave in time,
Chen Hai, Ji Changming and Hou Liangping won't suffer,
but you my mentor,
you and Gao Xiaoqin will suffer!
Do you know mentor,
because I don't want you to have this pain,
I made the reckless move!
You are treacherous, yet you deny!
The facts prove that you are a treacherous type!
Did you report to me when you warned Ding?
You didn't!
Now you come and tell me, what do you want?
You are trying to trap me!
Forcing me onto your ship, right?
Mentor you misunderstand! - Misunderstand?
This mentor of yours,
is reenacting a modern story of "the farmer and the snake"!
If you put it like that, I would feel hurt!
Mentor you are not the kind farmer, and I'm not that snake!
On the night of 1/12, you hosted the meeting.
Li Dakang, Ji Changming and Chen Hai were all there.
Given the situation, how could I warn you about it?
Should I whisper into your ear while others were watching?!
Did you reveal anything to me?
Why don't you get it,
I didn't tell you because I wanted to protect you!
Otherwise we'd really end up on the same pirate ship!
If Hou Liangping didn't come,
if Hou Liangping didn't pressured us,
mentor,
I'd never let you know about these illegal activities!
And in case bad things happen,
I would shoulder them all by myself!
Liangping...
Are you really gonna keep fighting your mentor Gao?
He's not doing it for himself!
Remember last time you talked about Chen Qingquan?
He did support you!
Chen Qingquan was his favorite aide,
isn't it revealing enough?
Yeah...
But I don't know why,
as soon as I mentioned Qi Tongwei,
mentor Gao acted like this!
It's because Qi Tongwei,
is his student, his favorite lieutenant and your school brother!
But isn't Chen Hai mentor Gao's student too?!
Prof. Wu, do you know what I tolerate the least?
Brothers killing brothers!
But you don't have solid evidence on Qi Tongwei's crime!
Besides I don't believe a police chief would do that!
I can't reveal you any more intel.
But how can you really know nothing about him and Shanshui?
Prof. Wu, please don't speak.
You better talk to mentor Gao, let him reconsider.
Don't fall into Qi Tongwei's trap!
Fine...
I won't involve myself in your matters anymore.
But to tell you the truth,
your mentor Gao can't help but go with the tide!
Liangping, regarding the matters between you guys,
let's stop here today.
But next up,
I'd like to ask you something, I hope you can accept!
Tell me.
No matter what mishap awaits my family...
or what disaster...
I still hope...
that you can, on my behalf...
take good care of Fangfang!
Because she's all of my hope and sustenance!
Don't worry, I promise you!
Thank you!
Mentor,
I must be honest with you about certain things now.
Ding knows too many secrets.
If he gets caught, a big bunch of people will fall!
Other things aside,
the dividends Gao Xiaoqin paid to Ding and officials alone,
is enough to destroy the entire Han-Uni faction!
Gao Xiaoqin got the nerves!
Tell me,
everything Gao Xiaoqin did behind my back,
did she do it under my banner?
You think she needed to?
Provincial political & legal secretary, comrade Gao Yuliang,
heartily welcomes the young entrepreneur Gao Xiaoqin!
Your photos are always hanged in Shanshui Manor!
Remove them all, immediately!
Stop causing me troubles!
But I think we should leave the photos for now.
Gao Xiaoqin is in Hong Kong, it's still safe.
But if you remove the photos,
people will believe Gao Xiaoqin is in big trouble!
Otherwise why would even you stay clear off her?
Don't blame everything on Gao Xiaoqin!
OK, fine.
Qi Tongwei, don't think too high of yourself!
You must know Hou Liangping well!
He already targeted you!
He's working with Zhao Donglai to solve Chen Hai's accident,
and Liu Qingzhu's death.
Allegedly, they are close to the truth!
I know this.
That's why I'm making this crucial report to you today!
Besides...
how could you even move against Chen Hai?
I can hardly imagine!
You are the school brother of Chen Hai and Hou Liangping,
you three are like real brothers!
I told you, I have no other way!
Chief, it's bad!
Our finance manager Liu Qingzhu went crazy,
he called Chen Hai from a phone booth,
to report on us!
He already sold out you, Zhao Ruilong and Liu Xinjian!
You sure? - Yes!
I just called Zhao Ruilong, his men seized Liu Qingzhu.
They found the book too.
But the key issue is Chen Hai, your school brother!
Did Liu Qingzhu really call the anti-corruption bureau chief,
Chen Hai?
You didn't get it wrong?
Of course, Liu Qingzhu admitted himself!
Chief, the crucial thing is now you must call Chen Hai ASAP!
Otherwise we can't solve it!