In the Name of People
Episode 17
Back then this Dafeng factory,
still couldn't abandon the pride of being state-owned-enterprise!
Not willing to work for private businesses!
Master Chen.
I remember you discussed with us all night,
to explain why our country had to reform, and our factory too.
Why the cloth merchant Cai had to be the major shareholder.
You also said that we let some people get rich first,
so they can lead us all to prosperity.
Right!
I suggest we show our hands to Zhao Donglai!
Show hands, how?
Besides, Zhao Donglai's "serious crime",
is it "1/16" or Chen Hai's accident?
Whatever it is, we put it on the table and discuss!
Not that simple.
Right now I worry about Chen Hai's safety.
Would he end up in an accident like Cai Chenggong?
Chen Hai cannot fight back at all!
We already put 24-hr total surveillance in his sickroom!
I know. I saw it the first time I visited the hospital.
We gotta be more careful.
But how? We already assigned extra people!
Zhou Zheng and his men aren't enough.
I wanna improve the safety measures for Chen Hai.
I think somebody doesn't wanna Chen Hai to wake up.
As soon as Chen Hai wakes up, they will be dead.
I get it now.
Chief Hou, your orders please!
Yike...
I know your feelings for Chen Hai.
Don't cry. If anybody is to cry, those bastards must cry first!
So happy!
Our own car is most comfortable!
Yeah, you feel comfortable, and me?
Monthly mortgages...
Not so fast!
We get our marriage certificate today, and take the money.
Then we have everything! Right, husband?
What are you doing, there's surveillance camera! - So what?!
I'm not kissing other people's husband!
Besides, today we are legally married!
Baobao, what legally married?
Don't play dumb with me!
Aren't we getting our marriage certificate now?
Without it, there's no money!
We get the certificate, the money too, but we can't marry!
Being free is best!
Zheng Shengli, you don't wanna marry me?
Baobao, it's not that.
I just think we are both young, eh? Gotta treasure our youth!
Piss off you pervert!
I'm 28 already, I can't drag on like this!
If you can't, then just leave!
But, help me fool my dad before you go!
To fool him, you said? Then let's discuss the price.
How do we split the marriage scam fee?
What's that tone for? Marriage scam?
It's my dad's money, so it's mine too.
How about this: dad gives me 200k, you get 5k.
5k? What do you think?
Pull over, I'm getting off, I quit! - Baobao, Baobao!
You are robbing while the house is on fire! (Chinese idiom)
Robbing while the house is on fire? (Chinese idiom)
It's the only fire all these years, if I don't rob now I'd be stupid!
I give you another 5k, OK?
Zheng Shengli since you are immoral, don't call me disloyal!
As a business, it must be fair.
You scam your dad over 200k, we get 100k each!
Not one penny less!
Comrade Zhang Baobao, you are fired by this company!
So long!
Stop!
Zheng Shengli, from now on I cut my ties with you!
Never try to find me!
What are you doing, acting like a kid!
Flipping your face faster than flipping a page! (Chinese slang)
Every 1-day couple has 100 days of kindness. (Chinese proverb)
We've been together for 3 years, what are you doing?
There's no kindness between us, only vengeance!
I noticed, you destroy the bridge after crossing, (Chinese idiom)
and kill the donkey that leaves the mill! (Chinese idiom)
We do business, you said?
So you can sell high, but I can't haggle?
Baobao...
Baobao! You think it's appropriate to treat this as business?
My dad said many times about where this money came from!
My mom sold breakfast for 10 years and made this saving!
You think it's OK to split this money?
How about this,
you have 30% of our company share, correct?
I increase it to 35%, I still keep 51%, OK?
35% plus 51%, equals 86%.
Who's getting the last 14%?
Didn't I promise this to my dad on his birthday?
You actually want to? I thought you were joking.
That's why you are slow! What resources does old man have?
Shares in the old Dafeng factory, now he's forming a new one.
Also as co-founder, he even invested his 30k settlement fee!
If old man trades his resources to 14% of our shares,
aren't we winning big?
It sounds like a win-win situation!
Boss Zheng, you have foresight!
That's why you are slow!
Master Chen, the recent events in the factory hit us hard.
The young designers and technicians almost all left.
As a cloth factory,
if you don't know the fashion, can't design new models,
restoring this Dafeng factory, will be very difficult.
To do things, there must be hardships.
And what do you do then?
Find ways to solve it together!
This is why we meet today.
Recently, I read up chairman Mao's books again.
Chairman Mao once wrote about a village commune.
This commune started out with 3 donkey legs.
Quite impressive.
I wrote down chairman Mao's text.
Xipo, you read it for everybody.
During the commune movements of Zunhua county,
one of the communes had 23 poor households,
and only 3 donkey legs.
It was called "poor sticks commune".
Wait a sec, how could there be a 3-legged donkey?
Did chairman get it wrong?
I gotta explain.
Some youths didn't experience it, don't know how it worked.
Back then China was poor, the villages even poorer.
I remember in my hometown,
even a landlord only had 2 cows and 1 donkey.
When the party came with land reforms,
the land was split up, about 3-5 hectares per household.
How do you split the cattle? You can't cut them up!
Therefore the idea, like 3 households share 1 donkey leg.
This way, 12 households could share one entire donkey.
This commune had 23 households, but only 3 donkey legs!
How poor were they, totally penniless!
Find commissar Chen of the judicial police,
and send 3 veteran officers to the hospital in civilian clothes.
Remember, do it in secret and arm them.
Also, your men must maintain the surveillance of Chen Hai's room!
Yes madam!
Chief Hou, since Zhao Donglai wants to talk to me,
shall I ask him out, to collect information?
Don't.
Before knowing whose side he is on, I won't let you risk it.
We already lost Chen Hai, I don't wanna lose you too!
Relax, I'll be careful. - Let's counter their moves accordingly.
Since Zhao Donglai wanna date you, let's see his move first.
But as long as the murderers are free, I won't be at ease!
Therefore we must stay calm!
I listen to you.
You see this Chen Hai, dumb people have dumb lucks. (Chinese proverb)
Why would he introduce you to Zhao Donglai? Is he stupid?
You think so too?
I question his EQ!
Great minds think alike!
Either way, we need to start a new Dafeng company.
At least we can use our settlement fee as starting capital.
Of course I know that we don't have much money right now.
But compared to before the economic reform,
it's still worlds apart.
Master Chen, what you said is actually true!
It's still better than before the economic reform.
We didn't even have much to eat!
That's true.
The problem nowadays is the huge gap between rich and poor.
Alright, next up,
let comrade Xipo tell us about the new Dafeng company.
OK, let me tell everybody.
The 1/16 fire, sent 38 people to the hospital.
One of them used to be my apprentice, Wang Wenge.
When I visited Wang Wenge at the hospital,
Wenge's wife, Chenglan, asked me,
to borrow our tricycle, and sell breakfast.
Her request,
went straight to the depth of my heart.
Everybody knows that my wife Er Yun,
went out to sell breakfast on the street.
Chased by "cheng guan",
she... got killed by a bus...
It's been 15 years!
I can't let Tang Chenglan follow Er Yun's path!
Besides,
as unemployed workers,
we shouldn't burden this city!
Right.
Therefore, we can't live on like this.
We must organize ourselves.
Is this where we get married?
Yeah, I've been here before.
With whom?!
You hit me?!
I got my Harvard business school degree certificate here!
Then I'll get one too! To improve our company's standard!
Forget it, you don't need it.
Get it when we need it. It cost me a few hundreds!
Stop hitting me!
Ma Wenming, Tang Chenglan and me,
together, the 20... 21 of us,
formed this company board.
I must mention one thing:
Master Chen, not only agreed to be a shareholder,
he saw that we lack capital,
from his own pension, he invested 100k.
Let me explain.
That money is not company share, but moral support.
I don't wanna get rich. If you have losses, it's fine.
If you make money, you can pay me back.
But there's another 200k, who paid it?
That's my money.
This money was Er Yun's saving from selling breakfast,
for our son Shengli to get married.
But that lad won't marry anytime soon.
So I invested the money into the company.
So far, we are only 80k short to reach 1 million.
I think to start the new Dafeng company,
we gotta have 1 million, right?
Everybody, can we please try to collect another 80k?
Chairman Zheng,
my mom prepared me some wedding money.
Shall I talk to her and take it all out?
We still have some 100k in saving.
But my old man doesn't let me touch it.
Very few people trust our bunch of old and sick now.
Back then, nobody trusted the "poor sticks commune" either.
But chairman Mao did.
Master Chen,
as long as you trust our "poor sticks company",
we will trust in ourselves!
Right! Old Zheng even invested his son's marriage money.
What else can I say? I'll pay the remaining 80k!
Good, now we reach 1 million, we are a 1-million strong army!
This 1-million army needs a chairman of the board,
chief supervisor and CEO.
Let old Zheng be the chair, he paid the most, and led the union.
No no... - Yes yes.
As a share company, the shares decide.
Whoever invest most is the boss.
Does anyone invest more than old Zheng? No?
Then let's appoint him with an applause!
Well, I... I propose,
Ma Wenming becomes CEO.
And master Chen, chief supervisor.
No no no, I can't do, I'm old.
I'll be your consultant and advisor instead.
Master Chen we all trust you, don't decline us now!
But I have a suggestion, I say we let little Chen take the post.
This way, in our leadership we have a young man.
Me? I can't do!
I can do some tasks you give me, but this I can't.
We don't have idle leaders.
Every leader will receive tasks!
I wanna check, have you received the settlement fee?
Yes, got it this morning, about 20k.
What can you do with it? - Right, 20k only!
I wanna open a fruit shop, shall we team up, little Liu?
A good idea!
I gotta discuss with my man. - It's just a small matter!
I say we work with the old proc. director.
I heard the old proc. director also joined the new Dafeng!
Really? I haven't heard about it, is it true?
Yes he did. I heard he invested a few 100k.
Still useless!
They are just a bunch of old and sick, what can they do?
How much has old proc. director done for our factory?
Don't say it like that!
Right now our new Dafeng company is like a train,
whoever can get on get on, don't abandon the old and sick.
We give each other a hand,
get them onboard at all costs, and go forth together!
What is it called? Prosper together!
Of course, some of our old Dafeng workers are out there,
selling stuff on the street, and chased around by "cheng guan".
We'll find ways to get them onboard as well!
Master Chen, I gotta say that you are our savior after all.
So many years, you never left us.
That's right!
Master Chen, how wonderful if all party officials were like you!
Speaking candidly,
most of the party officials are still good.
Otherwise, how do we explain the great success of our economic reform?
Let's get back to the topic about shares.
After signing up, we need to hand out certificates, right?
We already bought share certificates!
We can hand them out right away!
So let's collect the money and hand out certificates!
Master Chen, number 1 certificate is yours!
You are always our number 1, right?
OK, I happily accept this number 1!
Everyone please listen,
for so many years, has old proc. director ever fooled us?
No, actually no.
Therefore, I think it's right if we work with him!
Wait, the chairman of the new Dafeng, is master Chen Yanshi?
Does it matter? Old Zheng and old Ma, they all listen to him!
Yeah! Master Chen is also an old revolutionary.
He can speak directly to the leaders. - True that.
Let's go and join them, before it's too late!
Let's go have a look! - Me too!
Little Liu, we open our fruit shop! - I'll go have a look first!
Then I'll go have a look too!
Why are you pushing against the glass?
Come in!
Everybody!
Come in!
Do you also wanna join?
Yes!
You trust this old and sick bunch?
We do!
Is it useful to trust me? I'm an employee.
You gotta trust your chairman, and your CEO!
Master Chen, let them line up and register, don't make a mess!
Alright. Attention everyone, we'll hand out share certificates.
Keep it orderly! Form a line!
Line up! Extend the line outside!
Stand outside, he's first!
Old Zheng...
I kept counting, but didn't get a number.
We must have over 200 shareholders.
And the share money, 5... 5 millions?
More than 5 millions! Take a guess!
6,270,000!
Our total share money, from 203 shareholders!
6.27 millions?
This much? - Like child's game!
Not a small number!
Old Zheng, let's not make it disappear, like last time!
Relax, it won't happen again!
Nobody is Cai Chenggong!
Cooking? Smells great!
Great poet Zheng, I'm back.
Boss Zheng is back?
Dad! (implies they got married)
What was that for?
Dad...
Marriage fee?
You little... never forgets about doing business!
Let's hurry up and eat, today we must drink!
(Wu Xinyi, former chief judge of Handong provincial 2nd court)
Proc. director Ji, any orders?
Nothing, Liangping, go hide quickly!
I'm boiling noodles, why?
Lu Yike's mom is coming, she'll annoy the hell out of you!
Why is her mom looking for me?
Hello, proc. director, hello?
Hi, old Ji.
Is the new bureau chief Hou staying in room 317 or 217?
I just went to 317, nobody lives there!
My bad, I got it wrong, I'm so sorry!
It's 217.
Old Ji, trying to trick me?
I tell you, you must help out Yike!
Old sister, I will, I definitely will!
What have you done so far? Nothing but lip-service!
Have you done anything real?
Yike's matter can't wait anymore, otherwise it's too late!
Little Leather Ball, 15 min already!
Stop playing!
If grandma and grandpa know I let you play iPad, they'd scold me!
Who would know if we both shut up? I'm beating this level.
Acting like a brat and eating your own words?
Auntie Lu, please look forward with both hands on the wheel.
The nation's future is onboard, please pay attention, OK?
OK.
I can't attend Friday's parents meeting, chief Hou'll go instead.
Him? No no no no...
Last time at school he got scolded by our teacher.
He totally made me pay back!
Auntie Lu, I beg you, don't!
Here!
Good thing you got a weakness! What's for dinner?
Burger King!
You are a growing boy,
keep eating junk food is bad for you!
I'm very sad. I need some junk food, to treat my junk mood!
You must be the new bureau chief Hou!
Yes, and you are?
Did old Ji Changming not tell you?
He didn't say I'm visiting today?
Nope...
This old Ji is so irresponsible!
Then let me introduce myself.
I'm Wu Xinyi, chief judge of the 2nd provincial court, just retired.
I'm Lu Yike's mom.
Auntie Wu!
Please come in!
OK!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5...
6 dishes and 1 soup, dad prepared such a feast today,
is it to celebrate the new Dafeng or my marriage with Baobao?
Double joy coming through the door, we celebrate both!
Dad must be celebrating our marriage foremost.
You see he can't stop smiling, reading our certificate!
Correct.
At the same time, congrats to me,
for becoming the chairman of the board for the new Dafeng!
You see, my dad is chairman of the board now! - Awesome!
Listen to yourself,
like I can never become board chair.
I tell you,
this afternoon, Dafeng company,
collected as starting capital, 6.27 millions!
How's that?
I can buy up your company with pocket money!
6.27 millions, you heard that?
I never imagined that 30 years after my birth,
I can still become a "2nd-generation-rich"!
Depends on how you see it.
I'm the chair, your uncle Ma is CEO.
Your brother Chen is chief supervisor.
Proc. director Chen Yanshi,
invested 100k and becomes senior advisor.
Wait a sec dad,
you gotta keep the 6 millions safe,
don't waste them all!
What is this, a team of handicapped, weak and sick.
How about you don't call it new Dafeng, but new trap instead?
Who talks like you, do you know how to chat or not?
Seriously... can't you say something cheerful?
That's right! - Fine!
Baobao, send dad some blessings!
Dad is the sky-reaching ladder, and the wagon-pulling ox...
Only your dad is an ox, watch me!
Dad is the best in the world, (the original lyrics sings about mom)
children with dad live with great fortune...
Eat slowly.
Auntie Lu, do you think my dad can recover?
Yes, he definitely can.
Little Leather Ball, you gotta have faith.
I do!
But auntie Lu...
My mom, also stayed for a long time at hospital.
After that I no longer have a mom.
Now my dad is hospitalized, I'm scared that he...
Don't be!
Your dad will recover!
As long as you be a nice boy and study well!
Your dad feels happy for you, then he'll wake up!
He must wake up!
After my dad wakes up, will you marry him?
Do you want auntie to marry your dad?
Auntie Lu, will you always be nice to me like you do now?
Like... everlasting as the earth and sky! (Chinese idiom)
Do you even know what it means?
Auntie Lu, I'm a big boy, I know everything now!
My classmates write it on love letters!
Everlasting as the earth and sky, love you forever and ever!
How old are you, writing love letters already?
Tell the truth, have you written love letters?
Auntie Lu, if I tell you, you can't tell anybody else!
Have you had dinner yet?
You see, I made dumplings just for you!
With celery and meat!
Chief Hou, where's your vinegar?
On that table over there!
Yes, there. - I see it.
I didn't even let Yike try it, brought here as soon as it was done.
Here, eat it when it's still warm.
Here, you see, still hot.
Auntie Wu, this... I kinda feel embarrassed.
Why embarrassed?
You are Yike's superior, I'll need your help.
Auntie, don't say that. I'll do whatever I can.
Auntie is glad to hear that!
Eat it when it's warm!
Auntie Wu, I... boiled some noodles.
No worries, you can take it out and make cold noodle tomorrow.
Hurry up and eat! - OK! I'm on it!
BTW, where was I?
Did you talk about helping Lu Yike, to increase her productivity?
What productivity?
If she didn't get so productive, she won't have stayed single!
Chief Hou, I'm here today to discuss about Yike's situation.
My daughter's marriage has always made me anxious.
I get sleepless through the nights.
For her matter, I spoke a lot with old Ji.
Old Ji is my college classmate. Yike is his subordinate.
I was hoping he would help out Yike with her personal situation!
But instead, he kept playing me around and brushed me off.
He never did anything solid!
Shengli. - Hmm?
Baobao, you've been together for 3 years.
Today, you finally got the marriage certificate...
And fulfilled your mom's wish.
This first toast, is for your mom!
Here.
Dad, from now on, we''ll both love you and take care of you!
Yes dad. As you see, we married.
Regarding our marriage money...
Shengli, this...
You married today, and I'm very happy.
I make a poem for you.
OK.
Before, I wrote for both your grandma and your mom.
Today is your big day, this poem is for you!
Son... - Yes?
Don't respond, I'm composing!
Son, you have always been picky.
Among the never-ending streams of people,
Most girls are normal.
Hmm.
With normal faces, normal builds,
from normal families.
How many bear paws are out there, or swallow's nest?
Carrot or cabbage, is what's liked by the most!
What's the chance of precious horses tied to our stable?
Dad, stop.
Why can't precious horses be tied to our stable?
In my eyes, Baobao is my precious horse!
Series 7, limousine edition! (BMW in China is translated into "precious horse")
Right ,dad.
OK, please continue!
You interrupted my thoughts!
Alright, when I'm done composing, I write it down and frame it!
OK!
Boss Zheng, you see our dad is chairman now.
He must be skilled in finance?
Of course!
Which chairman doesn't know finance?
Dad, our 200k marriage money...
I found inspiration again!
Dad, wait a sec, wait.
Please sit down and control your inspiration, OK?
Dad, you can't do this.
Whenever I mention money, you get inspiration.
Are you a chairman? - Come here.
Shengli, sit down, and my daughter-in-law.
Today,
I wanted to tell you this.
The 200k money prepared for your marriage,
I invested in shares.
Dad, what do you mean?
You bought your chairman post with my 200k?
I...
Dad, didn't you say those 200k is ear-marked for our marriage?
Yes...
Dad, my mom left the money for me!
Your mom actually wanted me to buy shares!
Dad, what do you mean? You are a party member!
Party members believe in communism!
Don't tell me some feudal superstitions,
like "spirits appear in the dream", I don't buy that!
You mom did come to me in my dream!
In my dream she told me:
Old Zheng, at such a crucial moment,
since people trust you,
you should give all you got and run with them!
It's perfectly fine to like girls with grades.
But why don't you tell her?
Because your grades are bad, you are unconfident?
Therefore, to study well beats anything!
Got it!
I wanna visit my dad! - Hmm!
Next week, auntie Huahua will take you.
And the parents meeting, which auntie will go?
As long as you do well,
I promise that chief Hou won't come, OK?
But I can't be sure of that!
Who called himself a big boy? Still can't control yourself?
OK, I'll try.
I'm back, grandpa!
Back?
Uncle and auntie! - Please come in!
It's fine. You two gotta review his homework later on.
It's done at the procurator office.
Auntie Zhao reviewed with me.
Did you correct the error as Ms Wang told you?
I have her contact info!
What a hassle!
How about you move into the school dorm?
I won't!
Why not?
My dad will get well soon!
I'm 5th grader already!
Right, Little Leather Ball is 5th grader already.
His school is right next to our procuratorate.
Our comrades help out, he should graduate soon.
Everyday you pick him up, it must be lots of work for you!
Yeah. - No it's fine.
Little Leather Ball gets along very well with everybody, right?
Yes, I'm now part of the procuratorate, anti-corruption bureau!
You too?
How about this, we two move to Hai-zi's place.
So we move closer to them, it's better for everyone.
Hmm, good! - Let's do it then!
We'll move over some day! - OK, let's say so!
I'll leave now. - You can stay! - No I'm good, thanks.
Have you had dinner? - Yes!
Have more! - No no no...
Stop pouring, auntie Wu.
I'm full! I'm really full!
Have some more! - I can't take anymore!
You see, you are here by yourself.
Your wife and kid aren't here, it must be tough!
Yeah, this is part of our job.
What's that nonsense?
Procurators can't get married and have kids like normal people?
Me and Yike's dad, I'm a judge, he's in the military.
We stayed busy our whole life, but still raised 3 excellent daughters!
Especially Yike!
Auntie Wu, I share your opinion.
I just recalled, in Chen Hai's annual work plan,
he specifically mentioned to solve Yike's marriage issue.
You see, Chen Hai is being responsible, he even planned it!
Unlike old Ji, kept brushing me off!
He even said I want arranged marriage, I don't!
But Yike is getting old, and so busy.
She spends day and night solving cases, delayed everything!
You see, who else should I find, if not Yike's superiors?
Do you agree? - Totally, totally!
As superiors, we are responsible.
To be frank,
Chen Hai is actually a good man.
Too bad he got hit by a truck.
Auntie Wu, what you just said, have you told Chen Hai?
I did, via old Ji.
Old Ji even had a proper chat with Chen Hai.
He boasted to me, saying he invited Chen Hai for dinner,
and cost him a bottle of "Wuliangye"! (expensive Chinese liquor)
What did Chen Hai say?
Chen Hai got drunk that day, he told old Ji the truth.
He said he has a kid, and doesn't wanna drag Yike down.
On the other hand, he doesn't wanna fail his son.
He cares for them both, it's a dilemma.
He also said they work in the same office,
given the work relationship, it's inappropriate.
These are no excuses!
If two people like each other, these are nothing!
Exactly!
Auntie Wu, does Lu Yike have feelings for Chen Hai?