"In the Name of People"
"Episode 10"
It's like this.
Last night, an officer of the Dalong mountain police station
saw a car of the provincial police,
leaving from the Dalong mountain scrapyard.
I reckon that Cai was in the car.
Reckon?
Is this a matter to "reckon"?
Nobody really saw him in the car after all.
Therefore I can only reckon.
Secretary Li of the municipal committee got mad after hearing this.
He insisted I personally report to chief Qi!
Donglai,
are you here to report your work to me?
You are ordered by secretary Dakang to demand I hand over an informant!
Chief Qi, listen to yourself!
How would I dare to demand you?
Both secretary Li and you are my superiors,
if the provincial PD really got Cai Chenggong, that is fine!
As long as I can give an answer when I get back!
OK, I give you an answer now.
Sergeant Liu, please check for me.
Which branch of our provincial PD last night
arrested Cai Chenggong from the Dalong mountain scrapyard.
Right. Boss Cai of Dafeng factory.
As a responsible comrade of the municipal PD "reckoned",
he was taken by a car from provincial PD.
Once you find out, tell me immediately. OK.
Chief Qi, does this mean the provincial PD didn't arrest him?
Then why did the provincial police car go to Dalong scrapyard at midnight?
Donglai, you don't know when to stop do you?
As provincial chief of police,
how should I do to satisfy you and your secretary Dakang?
So I report to secretary Li like this:
last night, a police car of our provincial PD
went to the Dalong mountain scrapyard to.... Buy parts!
To repair cars and to patrol!
Say anything you like.
If you cause trouble, then it's yours!
Even though he said so, Qi Tongwei regretted a bit.
By obeying Gao Yuliang and help Hou Liangpoing protect Cai,
he's about to rip up the face of Li Dakang.
The provincial committee will hold a staff meeting today.
It's unnecessary to upset a committee member at this time.
Comrade Liangping, comrade Changming,
the provincial committee has several requests to your procuratorate:
OK!
First of all:
from today, the anti-corruption campaign of Handong has no upper limit!
No matter who you find out, no matter which rank, you must investigate.
No exceptions!
Secondly, there is no lower limit.
We fight tigers, but also smash flies!
Although small, flies disgust people!
They spread contagions and affect social conduct!
Therefore we don't have lower limits.
Yes yes, do as I said.
Yes, now!
OK OK.
Secretary Dakang,
OK OK, go now.
What's up?
Secretary Yuliang, your area is political and legal affairs.
Please judge this for me:
the boss of Dafeng factory, Cai Chenggong is a crime suspect.
With one fire, 38 people got hurt, a serious incident!
The police can't find him! Somebody is hiding him!
You mean our provincial police chief Qi?
So secretary Yuliang is an insider!
I know a bit, political and legal affairs, you know.
It's only strange if I don't know about the huge fire of 1/16!
As I know, this Cai Chenggong is not connected to the 1/16 fire.
Before the fire, he got beaten by workers and went to hospital.
Fine. Even if he's unrelated to the fire.
Is he connected to Ding Yizhen? Did he ever bribe Ding Yizhen?
Even if he did, we must let the anti-corruption bureau investigate.
As I understood,
the anti-corruption bureau really wants to question him!
Secretary Yuliang,
did your political and legal commission order the procuratorate?
The procurators have their own system.
If they exercise their procurator authorities,
the provincial committee and I cannot interfere! Right?
Secretary Yuliang!
Let's stop talking, meeting first! Let's go!
Focus on the active crimes, the ones like Ding Yizhen,
who won't stop even after the 18th congress are prioritized!
Moreover, don't ignore past issues.
Those who are already corrupt, punish them accordingly if you have evidence.
There is no safe landing!
We don't care which clan or faction they belong.
OK, my next meeting starts.
That's all for today.
Chief Sha,
I declare this to the provincial committee on behalf of procuratorate:
In our upcoming anti-corruption tasks,
we will steadfastly follow the directive of you and the committee!
Good! See you!
See you!
Comrade Liangping,
if you have questions or problems, you can find me directly.
Thank you, chief Sha!
Hou Liangping feels this party chief got some personality.
He speaks kindly, but with principles.
He feels he can trust and depend on him.
The exceptional meeting with Sha Ruijin could be a warning to startle the corrupted.
You picked up master Chen?
The car is on the way.
Once he gets here, take him to the guest room.
OK, chief.
Secretary Dakang,
don't get so worked up! - Am I?
Who's getting worked up?
Let's begin!
Sergeant Li, could you please try to understand me?
No matter what's said, we work for secretary Li of the municipality.
We work for the people!
Secretary Li is no exception!
Yes yes...
We all work for the people!
You are police, I'm demolitionist.
We all work for the people.
Therefore,
"fueled by beanstalks, beans are boiling. Why eagerly us you're hurting?" (Citing "the Quatrain of Seven Steps")
I didn't see that you are educated!
You even know "fueled by beanstalks, beans are boiling".
Now we don't use beanstalks, but natural gas!
Otherwise this whole pot of beans takes a day to cook!
Sergeant Li, you are the educated one!
Demolition is not acting like rascals. It must be civilized!
Yes, our company is a civilized demolition team!
You? Civilized? What methods have you not used in the past 2 years?
You must've crammed in the whole book of "36 Stratagems"!
Take the time and think about it!
Comrades, the meetings starts.
To ensure the success of today's meeting, I prepared a bit.
I went to places and did some research.
When that was done, the 1/16 incident happened.
Our Handong province, for the first time before the world,
made live-broadcast of a mass incident!
I don't know what you think, but I feel ashamed.
Quite embarrassed.
Chief Ruijin,
our Jingzhou municipal authorites must self-examine.
Before you and provincial government.
Comrade Dakang,
Not so fast with the self-examination!
This is no simple matter!
I followed on this and made a preliminary assessment.
It's neither a normal demolition dispute,
nor a normal financial dispute,
but a severely violent incident incited by official corruption!
The corruption of our officials incited and escalated the prevalent social tensions.
There is support to what I said.
Comrades from the central anti-corruption bureau in Beijing,
found in the home of a director Zhao Dehan,
over 200 millions of cash!
It involved our former Jingzhou deputy mayor,
Ding Yizhen.
So how much did the escaped Ding embezzle?
How about his accomplices?
One does not break the law without embezzlement!
Where did the shares of the Dafeng workers go?
The 1/16 incident and fire at Dafeng factory,
burned 38 people, including 2 gravely injured.
We must thoroughly investigate these!
And find the Dafeng workers, and the people, an explanation!
No matter who's involved,
no matter the rank of the officials involved!
(Handong Provincial People's Procuratorate)
Procurator director Ji,
what did chief Sha mean by "clans and factions"?
Let me explain.
These years, the officials of Handong did become complicated.
There are indeed factions and clans forming.
Which faction is yours?
Me? None of them, it's quite nice!
Therefore nobody takes me seriously.
Good! How about we two form one?
You? Liangping, you came with birthmark!
You belong to Han-Uni faction!
I just got to Handong, and became Han-Uni faction already?
Did you graduate from Handong university, institute of politics and law?
Isn't secretary Gao Yuliang your mentor?
Me, Chen Hai, Qi Tongwei
all graduated from Handong university, institute of politics and law.
Gao Yuliang was the dean of our institute!
That's it!
I tell you something.
Important posts of the politics and legal commission of Handong,
are all held by people from your institute!
Our Handong university is this strong? - Yes!
Other universities, other politics and law institutes,
their graduates do not have as much advantage as Han-Uni graduates!
That's why some gossips came out,
like "Chiang Kai-shek founded Whampoa Military Academy and made a Whampoa faction".
Secretary Gao Yuliang built a Han-Uni faction.
You mean I should quickly meet my mentor, and bow to him?
That's none of my business.
Another is called "secretary faction", led by Li Dakang,
Because he was the personal secretary of party chief Zhao Lichun.
But I heard in Beijing that Zhao promoted Gao Yuliang, not Li Dakang!
I also heard about this.
But now, chief Sha Ruijin is here.
Therefore...
I'll tell you more later.
I never thought that Handong is this complicated!
It is. But don't be afraid!
Take it like walking into a storm!
Aren't you and Chen Hai already in the storm?
I'm old, I will retire in a year. But Chen Hai got hit...
Procurator director Ji, you are not old at all!
Even if you are, your will can't falter!
I was your soldier back then!
True, even if you are old, your will cannot falter!
Yes. - No!
I was at prosecution division, you were at economic crimes division,
You were not my soldier! - It still counts as yours!
I came back to lead the charge for you!
This monkey Sun... (referring to "Sun Wukong" the Monkey King)
It's been more than 10 years, let's see if I can still lead you!
No matter how smart the Monkey is, he can't escape the Buddha's palm!
I'm falling into your palm again!
Let's go!
Hou Liangping,
read these for now, do some research.
Let me know if you find anything new.
OK.
Your arrival is too sudden, me and the Procuratorate didn't prepare well.
You have to make do and live in our guesthouse.
It's upstairs, I'll show you.
It's fine.
I'm only one person. I can stay anywhere.
Let's talk about the case.
Case?
Yeah, I'm about to meet a crucial informant.
Cai Chenggong of Dafeng factory.
Handong is a place of honorable revolutionary traditions.
From 1st Revolutionary War to Sino-Japan War and Liberation War,
This land is washed by the blood of countless revolutionary heroes.
Following the economic reform,
Handong, like the other provinces, made great economic strides,
and witness fast-paced changes.
As I see,
Handong today is not much different from cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
You can say we made great achievements!
Liangping,
no wonder they call you "monkey Sun"!
Because you are one!
After you got here, you wanna begin the case before sitting down!
How do you start?
Summon the person.
This informant is protected by police chief Qi.
I ask them to send him here!
Director Ji,
I really need your support!
In any case I must wait until the official files of your appointment arrive.
I tell you,
without the official file from our provincial committee,
you don't count as the anti-corruption bureau chief of Handong.
You can't start working.
I already spoke with provincial party chief Sha! You were also there!
So what if he did?
How about the other provincial secretaries? Who knows?
The due procedures need to be followed! What's the rush?
Come with me to the guesthouse, you got a suite.
It's well-equipped. I'll let...
It was due procedure last time, that made Ding escape!
Hou Liangping, what do you mean?
You really wanna count this loss on my head?
Director Ji, I'm impatient.
Chen Hai is lying there.
Cai reported on the wife of an important leader of provincial committee!
If Cai Chenggong gets killed, I would regret it my whole life!
I know better than you about its importance!
You just got here, and you are so impatient!
OK how about this,
I bring you to the bureau to meet your colleagues and say hi?
OK. The battle will begin, I can't be a general without an army!
But I gotta remind you, before the official files arrive,
given Chen Hai's situation, they may not listen to you!
But they all listen to you, right?
You tell them, the file will arrive soon!
Hello, old Lin?
Tell all section-level officials and above to gather in the meeting room.
OK.
Let's go, monkey Sun!
There are lots of successes, but also issues.
The most serious issue is the quality of our officials.
To be frank, some of our officials have far-worse quality than average citizens!
These officials totally detach from the people.
The people are dissatisfied.
The people are unhappy.
The people are uncooperative.
Don't look at me with shocked eyes!
This is a painful truth I found out during my inspections.
If we let these detached, low-quality, immoral officials,
to lead a branch or a region, what will happen?
How can these branches and regions do well? How can the people not curse at us?
Therefore we say:
the serious issue is not educating the people,
the serious issue is educating our officials!
Therefore,
it is necessary to revisit our honorable revolutionary traditions!
Master Chen,
I heard you got lots of visitors lately,
lots of people went over!
Some comrades got sharp nose, and smelled something.
It seems they know chief Sha's uncle was your reference person into the party!
They must know, words travel fast.
OK.
Master Chen, it's your turn.
Let's go!
Easy!
Let's go!
Today,
this meeting is expanded with one extra member.
An old comrade, old revolutionary.
I invited him to tell us about history and traditions.
To tell about spirit, and how to be a party member!
This old comrade,
is called Chen Yanshi.
Before retirement, he was the deputy procurator director of Handong procuratorate .
Some people dislike him,
calling him an old rock.
But the people like him!
When in trouble they find him, the people call his place the 2nd procuratorate!
Well.
Let's welcome comrade Chen Yanshi with a warm applause!
Old Lin, why so few today?
Procurator director! - Deputy bureau chief Lue, the other comrades?
All busy. (Lue Liang, deputy bureau chief)
The absent ones are working outside. (Lue Liang, deputy bureau chief)
All of you guys come over here!
Come here, all of you!
Director Ji will announce something, (Lin Jianguo, deputy director of Handong provincial procuratorate)
Let's give him an applause! (Lin Jianguo, deputy director of Handong provincial procuratorate)
We are this few, so skip it.
I announce an appointment.
Due to the current situation of bureau chief Chen Hai,
As recommended by the Supreme Procuratorate party commission,
approved by Handong provincial committee,
comrade Hou Liangping is appointed as
Handong procuratorate party commission member,
and anti-corruption bureau chief!
Let's welcome him!
Director, what about Chen Hai?
Chen Hai is injured, can't work.
But the party commission will keep his title.
Liangping, let me introduce.
This is deputy bureau chief comrade Lue Liang.
This is 1st investigative division director,
comrade Lu Yike.
Pretty lady division director, we met before!
What before?
What "pretty lady"?
Get serious!
OK, let's get serious.
Procurator director,
can you read us comrade Hou Liangping's appointment file?
It's like this, the appointment file will arrive soon.
Provincial chief Sha Ruijin already spoke to comrade Hou Liangping
on behalf of the provincial committee.
Comrade Liangping needs to work on an urgent case,
so let's make an exception this time.
Comrade Hou Liangping,
you can brief the case to everyone now.
I have a meeting with old Lin, we leave now.
You can go back to work now!
Please!
OK, go back to your work.
No time no see, every leader.
Today chief Sha gave me this chance to meet everybody.
I'm very happy.
Chief Sha asked me to tell you something.
I asked, what should I tell?
He said "tell us why you joined the party and how".
As he reminded me, lots of things appeared in my mind.
I joined the party before our troops attacked Yuncheng.
When our regimental commander mobilized us,
he said only party members are privileged to carry explosives (To make sure the person is trustworthy)
and join the spearhead squad. (To make sure the person is trustworthy)
Comrades, back then,
carrying explosives was the privilege of party members.
To get this privilege,
when our regiment arrived to Yuncheng suburb at Dajiezi mountain,
I joined the party.
I was only 15.
To join the party,
I added 2 years.
My reference person from the party, was Sha Zhenjiang,
the leader of our spearhead squad.
I volunteer to join the CPC!
I will carry out the discipline of the party!
I don't fear challenges or sacrifices!
Fight till the end for the cause of communism...
I clearly remember the day I joined the party.
It was 1945, June 8th.
We attacked Yuncheng the day after.
It was the last decisive battle of our division against the Japanese army.
Comrades, everyone follow me!
We must destroy their fortification!
Yes sir!
If I fall, the person behind me is your direction!
Chen Yanshi!
Here, squad leader!
You become the acting squad leader and keep fighting!
Yes sir!
Everyone understood?
Understood!
Forward!
Comrades, forward!
It was 10 minutes of life and death.
60 meters away from the city gate,
5 men of our spearhead squad,
fell in battle.
Among them,
was my party reference person,
Sha Zhenjiang.
He took 6 bullets,
like a sieve!
After that,
I became the acting squad leader,
picked up the explosives,
and pushed forward!
(Er Shunzi lighting up explosives)
Comrades, attack!
Reg... regimental commander...
Regimental commander,
acting leader of spearhead squad, Chen Yanshi report!
16 men of spearhead squad joined battle.
9 KIA, 7 injured.
The fallen are already removed from the battlefield.
After that battle,
the 16 soldiers of spearhead squad,
9 died,
7 got injured.
Er Shunzi,
was only 15 when he died!
He joined the party only for 1 day!
I don't know,
in our party history,
if there are members who stayed for only 1 day.
But in times of war,
comrades like Er Shunzi,
were more than a few!
Those party members who carried explosives,
they used their life and blood,
to fulfill their party oath!
2 days ago, chief Sha asked me:
you changed your age to join the party, and got that privilege,
but lost the chance to advance to minister-level posts.
Do you regret it?
I said no.
I really have no regrets.
I think about Er Shunzi,
think about my party reference person,
Sha Zhenjiang, and the comrades who fell in battle.
My life is good enough!
Really!
My life is good enough!
Therefore,
when our former provincial party chief Zhao Lichun,
asked chief Sha to apologize to me on his behalf,
I said "apologize for what"?
I just carried the explosives back then.
Do I deserve to ask for official post for this?
Besides carrying explosives was the privilege of our party members back then!
I fought to get it!
When I changed my age to join the party and got this privilege,
I never thought about coming back alive.
Let alone living until today!
I feel proud for having received this privilege in my life!
You don't seem to welcome me.
So what? You want a welcoming party?
Since chief Chen fell, we got busier than before.
We didn't know you'd majestically arrive.
Chief Hou,
whether we welcome or not, you still got here.
Yeah, I'm here.
Let's begin with the case then.
Let me tell you about the case.
This is the unfinished case of chief Chen before he fell.
We will keep working on it...
Sorry.
You keep talking about the case, I must leave.
Wait!
Deputy chief Lue, where are you going? I need you here!
Don't!
Chief Hou, don't you depend on me! I'm not reliable!
I might fall any day!
You gotta give us an explanation of where you go!
Of course!
You are here, I can finally go to hospital and get treatment!
Treatment? Could you explain me the situation before you go?
All the comrades know.
Talk to them! So long!
During times of war, our party comrades,
for the sovereignty of our nation and liberation of our people,
what did they fight for? The privileges of a party member!
But today,
what do some of our party comrades fight for?
Money and power! Becoming corrupted one after another!
For power and money,
they borrowed the conducts of feudal imperial courts!
They turned their unit and branch into an opium den!
Here's an example.
Because of my uncle, I call master Chen "uncle Chen".
Somebody found out I'm coming to Handong.
Master Chen benefited from this!
They heard master Chen likes to care for plants and birds in his retirement.
So they kept sending.
Only birds, they sent dozens!
Master Chen's place was full of birds' songs, so noisy!
He even had to pay for bird fodder!
What if master Chen likes pets?
I reckon they'll send him tigers, leopards, or even pandas!
What kind of conduct is this?
Who else wants to leave? Leave if you want!
Go get treated or heal your wounds.
The body is the capital of revolution! (Chinese proverb)
Nobody leaves?
So everyone here got healthy body!
Not very.
Most work while being sick.
Who's this?
Introduce yourself!
Me!
Lin Huahua, we know each other.
Yes!
I saw with my own eyes how you bullied our chief Chen!
Am I not here to find him justice?!
Chief Hou, have some water to soothe your throat! Your voice sounds hoarse.
Right, I had no time for water after I landed!
It's this year's new tea!
New tea in January?
Still the newest for this year!
Don't get too excited, certain comrades.
He's just an ACTING bureau chief.
Even if the official files arrive,
we still do whatever we gotta do.
Right!
Revolution is like giving up your life!
Once you go anti-corruption, you work overtime day and night!
Don't think the new chief releases you from overtime.
Ask him, is it possible?
I don't do overtime!
I tell you,
I hate overtime the most!
Chief Hou wansui! - What 10 thousand years? (means "10 thousand years", for hailing emperors, "banzai" in Japanese)
Since ancient times, those who wanted to live 10 thousand all died!
Division director Lu,
It seems I must prepare you some "small shoes"! (slang for deliberate bad treatment)
Great!
My feet are huge, I burst up countless small shoes!
Some of our comrades are highly ranked but wanna go even further.
He's responsible for technology, and worked 6 years as the tech bureau chief.
And 5 years as head of organizational department at municipal committee.
But our agricultural scientists and national academy scientists,
he doesn't know most of them.
They shake hands with him, he asks them:
which office are you from?
But for pretty female officials, he knows everyone of them!
Even for those who work at faraway regions, he knows their nicknames!
What kind of thing is this, comrades?
Chief Sha, this official you mentioned, I also heard of him.
Every evening he schleps a bunch of female officials to drink.
Every time a few pass out from drinking.
With very bad influence!
Can we recommend them to central government for minister posts?
Impossible! What do they think the provincial committee is?
We can assign him to guard the gate of provincial women's association!
To make use of his talent and remaining years!
To provincial women's association...
Cut the chit-chat and back to topic. We begin with the case.
Pretty lady division director,
Director Lu.
You bring some comrades to the provincial police guesthouse,
and find the informant Cai Chenggong!
Acting chief Hou, your style is rad!
Right after coming to Handong, before your seat gets warm,
you wanna rush to the provincial police guesthouse.
What are you saying?
Praising you! - OK I accept.
Chief Hou, you don't have to go yourself, we can go get him!
Yeah? - Yeah.
I got so mad at you that I forgot!
Nobody goes. I make a call and let them send him here.
Division director Lu, you look better laughing than crying.
You saw me cry? - I will make you cry someday!
It's not sure who will cry!
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