"In the Name of People"
"Episode 15"
According to our initial investigation, this fire was purely coincidental.
A worker named Wang Wenge accidentally lighted the gasoline.
The clash between the demolition team and the factory defenders,
actually never involved physical contact.
Therefore both sides think they are wronged. - Yeah.
This inspector Cheng Du felt his cousin faced extreme injustice!
Is there anybody who's responsible for the incident?
Yes, Cai Chenggong.
He's mainly responsible.
He stirred up and organized the factory defenders,
using gasoline and firewall were all his ideas.
Moreover, this Cai is the legal representative of Dafeng factory.
Arrest him then. That would satisfy everybody.
We must check with the provincial procuratorate.
Their anti-corruption bureau is also watching Cai Chenggong.
I really don't understand,
why the procuratorate keeps watching Cai.
Donglai, if you can tell me, please do.
If you can't tell me then don't.
It's fine actually.
It involves an important report.
Made by Cai Chenggong? - Yes!
Right after his report,
former anti-corruption bureau chief Chen Hai, had a mysterious accident!
A man-made accident?
This... we can't tell right now.
We are investigating, but have no conclusion yet.
Let's do this, in the future,
don't report to me directly about 1/16 incident and Cai's issues.
Report to the procuratorate when you have to,
report to the provincial PD when you must.
Alright! - Hmm.
Secretary Li, you gotta make up your mind!
About what?
Vice president Ouyang Jing!
What happened between you two is no secret!
Thank you,
thank you for reminding me.
Boss Gao is really straight to the point.
Regarding your myths, I never quite understood.
But Cai is my childhood buddy since primary school, I know him well.
As I see it, the ones you know the least, are often those you know best.
This sounds philosophical.
Is boss Gao suggesting that I don't really know my childhood buddy?
Can I understand this way? - Yes sure.
There's one more thing:
I'm afraid bureau chief Hou doesn't really know me either.
Then tell me boss Gao, how should I get to know you two?
Me? You can save yourself the trouble.
But Cai Chenggong, is not honest. Full of lies.
He does have a loud mouth.
But full of lies, aren't you exaggerating now?
Bureau chief Hou, don't jump to conclusion so quickly.
I say this here:
perhaps your childhood buddy, will give you surprises nonstop!
Surprises? Nonstop too?
Right.
Pleasant surprises, or?
Maybe pleasant surprises, maybe surprise problems.
Liangping, welcome!
Welcome to the human realm from your heavenly palace!
And celebrate with the people!
If you didn't lose Ding Yizhen, I won't have gotten exiled here!
Come here and sit!
You, exiled? Who'd believe that?
I tell you, the entire Handong knows,
you came here with the imperial sword around your waist!
What imperial sword? You gave me?
I don't have such authority!
Have some tea please! - Yeah have some tea!
This rooms smells of cigar!
Little Liu, hurry up and open the ventilator!
OK!
Chief Hou, we just had a bunch of smokers here, I'm very sorry!
It's fine. - I tell you boss Gao,
our chief Hou used to be a famous chain-smoker!
For real? - I quit. Now I'm a good person.
You managed to quit? - Yeah? You gotta be determined!
My god! I admire you so much!
I tell you Liangping,
I quit 100 times, but I started 101 times.
Somebody once said:
if you can quit smoking,
then what kind of cruel heart do you have?
Seriously? You just have to control your desires!
The desires of men are not easy to control!
If everybody can control their desires easily,
then there will be fewer crimes and criminals in this world!
If that were to happen, we'd all be jobless, right?
True that!
Provincial chief, it's still early,
how about you and chief Hou visit the shooting range?
OK! - You got a shooting range? - Yeah!
Lemme tell you, small calibre guns, is after all,
one of our professions and we can never get rusty, can we?
Good, let's go!
Which way? - This way, upstairs.
Xingzhi, have you found my wife?
Yes, but she said she'll come home late tonight.
Where is she? In Jingzhou or not?
I don't know, she didn't tell me.
OK, I have dinner at home tonight.
Alright!
Old schoolmate is as good as ever!
Cut it out...
I know you are a good shot, your turn!
Monkey...
You didn't get rusty at all!
Bureau chief, have some water!
Sit down and take a break. Here.
Bureau chief Hou, I never thought that you shoot so well!
I admire you.
Boss Gao tries to keep me happy. My old schoolmate is of course better!
That's different! He's the police chief, you are investigator.
To be frank, I look up to investigators more!
Chief Qi, please don't get angry!
I wont! I'm a familiar face that you already got used to,
of course you need to focus more on new faces!
Therefore, the newcomers always replace the old people.
Old schoolmate, keep envying me!
That's not about replacing old men, it's part of the profession!
The profession of police decided that most of the times,
they must face all kinds of criminals and rascals.
They may even become rascals themselves!
All the polices in the world are the same.
But chief Qi, you are of course different.
As for investigator, most of the time,
they face high-IQ crimes.
Such as economic crimes, or duty crimes.
I don't know why but in my mind,
I always feel that investigators,
have a kind of modest gentleman-ship.
Our bureau chief Hou is very gentlemanly for example.
Really? - Yeah!
Bureau chief Hou, you gotta trust me!
In my mind,
there is an independent US investigator I find unforgettable,
can you guess who?
The one who made US president Clinton cry before the public!
Investigator Ken Starr!
Back then I was still a college student.
When I saw Clinton cry before the public on TV,
do you know what I thought?
You admired Starr, right? - Wrong!
I actually hated that investigator!
Why? Is he not gentlemanly enough?
It's not about that, I just felt that he...
...was too aggressive.
Don't you pity Clinton?
He's a president after all.
Not only did he cry before the people,
also on TV he cried like a school pupil.
When I saw that, I felt terrible, it's true!
It reminded me of how my school teacher often made me cry!
Understandable. You empathized with him.
Perhaps.
Or maybe Clinton was very handsome back then!
Presidents cannot lie to the people, Starr insisted on that.
I know, the price of lying is heavy.
Clinton brought it upon himself.
This, I understood after growing up.
Therefore bureau chief Hou, I'm curious enough to ask you,
this time in Handong, who do you wanna make cry?
Or,
who do you wanna make cry first?
No matter who, he won't make you, the beauty boss Gao cry!
Right?
What are you talking about? Who do I wanna make cry? Nobody!
I prefer everybody being happy.
But even if I get to boss Gao,
boss Gao won't cry, right?
Of course I will! Not just cry, I'll cry out loud!
And when I cry,
I'll make you two cry with me together!
I won't cry with you! Find someone else!
How about you let this new face cry with you?
Old schoolmate, you sound jealous!
Bureau chief Hou, you are joking again!
When would chief Qi ever get jealous?
Chief Qi doesn't like getting jealous, right chief?
Yeah, I'm immune!
Cousin,
you wife said she'll come back very late today.
I'd still wait for her.
Let's eat together.
Hmm.
How's it going with your stuff?
Not done yet, the district totally ignores us.
We'll go appeal at the municipality tomorrow.
The district can't even take care of the kindergarten salary?
Going to municipality? Ever visited the complaints bureau?
My great secretary Li,
you don't know the situation, you are so high up.
I tell you,
meeting the devil is easy, but the minions are hard to please! (Chinese proverb)
especially the bottom-tier minions!
They kill you without consequences.
Then tell me.
I'll explain to you.
How is he? - Commissioner Zhao,
Cai's MRI shows his brain is fine,
only he claimed he's dizzy.
From the past 3 days' observations, he's fine.
Old schoolmate, I didn't know you are such a good shot!
This Shanshui Manor is good!
with food, drinks, and a shooting range, what a nice place!
If chief Hou likes here, you can come often!
We are all family!
How would I dare?
If old schoolmate didn't invite me, I won't have come! There are rules!
Seriously?
Chief Hou you can sneak in here, I make sure nobody knows!
OK, stop spooking my little school brother!
Although mentor Gao is not here,
but he takes your reception seriously.
He gave me 3 rules: 1st, don't use public money!
2nd, don't let some boss pay! 3rd, no expensive wines!
And no public vehicle! - Right!
Don't you think it's a blessing in disguise?
So you could enjoy the special beauty boss escort!
I think secretary Gao understands.
He knows we receive a procurator today,
so he specifically said to only drink "Erguotou"!
Now you are being mean.
Procurators can only drink "Erguotou"?
What's wrong with that?
I tell you, if it weren't for those work dinners, I drink Erguotou myself.
Erguotou tastes fine!
Police chief Qi, looks who's talking!
If you drank less Erguotou,
you won't have lost your deputy governor post!
Oh? For real?
Boss Gao knows stuff!
You even know when he gets promoted!
Yeah. I also know,
what chief Sha said during this provincial meeting.
He said some local officials,
have worse qualities than average citizens!
Would chief Sha say that? - He actually did.
By saying that, he showed his determination as a leader!
It was also conveyed to the political and legal commission.
Actually I think even if chief Sha was right, that's still normal!
Why?
Now we talk behind closed doors, we talk freely.
I think, this chief Sha,
is too aggressive, just like Cheng Yaojin! (a legendary reckless Chinese hero)
Wait and you'll see his 3 axes! (Cheng Yaojin's famous move)
Besides, do the Chinese officials,
really have worse quality than the commoners? I don't believe it!
Chief, don't dismiss it like that!
I only heard the great people of China, but never,
the great officers of China or great officials of China!
Right, chief Hou?
Boss Gao you are so eloquent! I'm becoming your fanboy!
Seriously? You flatter me too much!
OK let's keep it real.
The millennia of Chinese history are written by heroes.
Qin Shihuang, Han Wudi, Tang Taizong and Song Zu. (Founding emperors of 4 great dynasties)
Maybe also Genghis Khan, right?
To be frank,
truth are often held in the hands of the few!
Where are the people at? For thousands of years,
who knows where the people have been?
Chief Qi, I'm of the people, am I not here?
Me too! I'm also one of the people!
Police chief, you are actually one as well.
We are commoners, not dynasty-founding emperors!
Don't overthink!
OK I won't argue with you two.
Boss Gao, all guests are here.
Good! Let's go!
Liangping, let's go.
How about I renact it for you?
Acting?
You are the complaints bureau receptionist, and I file complaints.
What's my role? The ugly-faced small bureaucrat?
My great secretary Li, I know the municipality has rules:
the doors must be open, the faces must be nice.
But actually, people with complaints never see their face!
You can't see their face? - Hmm.
They left their faces at home?
OK let me show you.
Comrade, can you pass me one complaints form?
What's your business huh?
It's like this. I worked for a private kindergarten,
but the government took over our kindergarten.
I'm retired now.
I should be getting governmental pension, right?
Both the province and municipality have files,
it's already settled in the other districts.
Our district is the only one not implementing it!
My leg... Mamma mia!
Every time I come back,
my legs couldn't stand the day after.
Bastards!
Xingzhi,
you mean the reception window of Guangming complaints bureau is a bit low?
Yeah, not low, unimaginably low!
Every time we go we can neither stand nor squat.
Lots of folks must spend the day after lying down!
Have some food.
If that's true, wait and see how I fix them.
Cheers little brother!
Thank you bureau chief! - Thank you!
Liangping, you sure can hold your liquor!
Yeah, I noticed bureau chief Hou has good capacity!
Here, chief Hou, another toast for you!
Boss Gao, thanks!
Police chief, thanks!
Boss Gao,
Let me introduce you the lady to your right.
She was one of the college beauties of our Handong Uni, right?
Police chief, not just "was",
isn't she still a beauty?
Of course! Just kidding. That's for sure!
But here's the thing: this school beauty,
had a crush on this gentleman for 3 years.
But he refused to talk to her!
Today, before so many alumni and classmates, I wanna ask:
what was really going on in your mind?
Why did you not reciprocate her?
Old schoolmate,
if you keep teasing me,
I'll tell your romance stories at Handong Uni!
You wanna hear? - Awesome!
My little romance is not worth mention, right?
It was already public, let's not talk about that.
Let's talk about food.
Because food is an integral part of our culture for millennia!
A shiny beacon of our culture!
"Food is the sky of the people!" (Chinese proverb)
If you don't let the people eat, that won't work!
Therefore we have "A Bite of China". (A culinary documentary from China)
Yes yes!
But what comes along with good food?
Good wine, right?
So let's all empty our glasses together!
"The sages were all solitary,"
"only the drinkers left names in history." (Chinese proverb)
Right!
Two ace-students!
A toast to everyone! - Here here! - Thanks! Here!
Up until this point, isn't it time for the next program?
What is your wish?
"Let's accompany drinks with songs, in your life could you live years long?" ("Short Song Walk" by Cao Cao)
What does the police chief wanna sing? - Battle of Wits!
Not that again! Secretary Gao is not even here!
Secretary Yuliang is not here, but chief Hou is!
Me? Nah...
Police chief how about you sing "hunting tigers on the mountains"?
When my old schoolmate sings it, the entire Han-Uni shakes in awe!
Don't listen to him. I tell you,
our Handong Uni had a Beijing opera society,
he was our backbone!
I haven't heard your Beijing opera for a while, sing something for us!
No no, I haven't practiced for many years.
How about I sing a pop song,
like "The Coolest Folk Style"? (Pop song by "Phoenix Legend")
No no no, skip the folk style, chief Hou.
Police chief already spoke!
Let's hear your tunes of Beijing opera, and satisfy our ears!
Right everybody? - Good!
Let's sing "battle of wits", I'm sister A-Qing, you are Diao Deyi,
police chief sings Commander Hu, OK?
OK, let's do it! - OK!
Here!
I'll drink afterwards!
Play "battle of wits"!
Back then, (Commander Hu, a local warlord)
my warband, just started out. (Commander Hu, a local warlord)
With only dozens of men,
and a handful of guns!
Chased by Japanese army, I, lost my way.
Thanks to sister A-Qing,
who hid me in the water vat...
Cai Chenggong,
have a look at this transcript.
Once you know the lines, read them up.
Commissioner Zhao, I'm dizzy right now.
I see silhouettes and get nauseous when reading.
Can you get over it?
Just reading a few lines!
OK, I try.
Here, read.
Read now.
Bureau chief Chen?
I report.
I report on a bunch of corrupt officials.
They don't wanna me to live,
I'll give them what they deserve.
I kept a book that I'd personally...
No no no.
Talk normally, don't pretend, OK?
Talk normally.
Got it.
Bureau chief Chen,
question mark.
This woman... (Diao Deyi, a Japanese spy)
Is rather special!
Diao Deyi... (Sister A-Qing is a communist undercover agent)
What devilish intentions does he have?
This little Diao,
is not giving her any face!
This dim-wit,
is actually a wind-shielding wall!
She's neither humble nor pushy...
I report, exclamation mark.
I want...
Cai Chenggong, don't play smart with us!
Commissioner Zhao,
how dare I, Cai Chenggong, play smart with you?
But I never spoke these lines.
Never? - Never!
Then lemme ask you, did you call Chen Hai to report to him?
Yes.
The night of 1/16,
did you ask Chen Hai to meet at the scrapyard?
Yes.
I did call chief Chen Hai to report to him and meet him,
I never denied this.
But why didn't you go meet him?
I couldn't even leave the city! You put up checkpoints to catch me!
Halfway there, I saw a bunch of police before me!
I got spooked and turned back.
Commissioner Zhao, I know what you want.
You just wanna check if I'm related to chief Chen's accident!
I can tell you, I never knew about his accident!
It was Hou Liangping who later told me over the phone!
OK, let's not talk about the accident.
You read these lines again,
whether it's your voice or not, we will validate.
Here, read.
No!
You are making things up!
I never spoke these lines!
I never mentioned any book-keeping!
I never spoke anything on this paper!
Cai Chenggong, you looking for trouble?
Yeah, I'm looking for trouble! Shoot me!
Shoot you? - Yeah shoot me, my head hurts!
Headache? Don't feign death!
The doctors said you are fine!
His face is neither mad or glad!
Diao Deyi,
what devilish tricks are you playing?
Are they men of Jiang, or men of Wang? (KMT loyalists or Japanese collaborators)
I'll beat around the bush to find out about her.
I must,
watch his every expression,
to guard against him well!
Awesome!
I wanna meet Hou Liangping of anti-corruption bureau!
Cai Chenggong, neither the bureau nor Hou Liangping can save you!
Then I sue you for framing me!
Take him to the detention center, question him overnight!
You beat me into confession!
Beat you to confession?
Easy!
Xingzhi,
put down your stuff, call you cousin-in-law and remind her!
Here here, thanks everyone! You got a bright future!
You are too kind! I gotta thank you for last time!
OK Thanks!
You guys keep talking, I got a call.
Xingzhi.
At what time do you come back?
Tell your cousin, I'll be back today.
But it'll be late,
I got a wine party here.
I talk to her!
Hey! Are you at Dihao Garden again?
Li Dakang, what you wanna say?
Can I not come here? This is professional business.
I don't care if it's professional, I ask you to come back now!
We must somehow settle this matter between us!
Look at the time!
Cousin...
How about you go get some sleep,
when she's back I tell you?
A "battle of wits" was sung vibrantly.
Hou Liangping got an even deeper impression of Gao Xiaoqin.
So many political and legal officials were her guests.
This woman, is indeed special.
This water pond of Handong,
is a bottomless abyss.
Our old schoolmate invited me over today, we spoke of you.
You really should've seen me singing "battle of wits" with them.
These people are not a simple bunch!
What do you think about my little schoolmate?
A sharp lad!
But chief Qi, I think you made a mistake today!
What mistake? - Smoking cigar.
Your little schoolmate is very observant of details.
What's wrong with smoking cigar? You make a huge fuss!
The central government announced the 8 regulations!
Don't send yourself to the gunpoint!
Smoke less in the future!
Hmm, true that.
OK, I'll be careful.
You could really learn something from your little buddy!
What's that, quit smoking?
I really can't.
A man who can quit smoking, how ruthless he must be!
Men who avoid tobacco,
can kill without blinking!
What do you mean?
Your little schoolmate can kill without blinking?
Yeah, without blinking!
Gao Xiaoqing sang the part of sister A-Qing really well!
She's like the sister A-Qing of Handong!
Her demeanor and spirit,
really don't look like the boss of an enterprise!
If you were awake, you'd be able to help me analyze!
This Hou Liangping... I don't know how to put it.
I think he emanates a heroic aura!
When he sang Diao Deyi, he had none of the character's eccentricity.
But more like...
Have you seen Zhu Shimao's comedy sketch,
called IJA... (Imperial Japanese Army)
"IJA wants me to send you a message!"
Right, that comedy sketch!
No matter how he acts, he doesn't look like a bad guy, right?
I tell you, he really has an exterior full of sunray and youthful spirit!
Or a face full of righteousness!
And his interior?
Hou Liangping comes with the imperial sword this time.
Don't look at me!
What does his sword have to do with me?
This sword of his, can decapitate a bunch of heads in Handong.
Cousin, have some tea!
Xingzhi, have a seat.
Let's talk about your stuff.
My stuff? A small matter, don't mention it.
Small enough to make you file complaints!
Lemme ask you,
if your pension gets sorted out, how much more would you get?
If there is a raise,
per month I'll get 1,000 more!
You call it "small matter"? This is a big matter!
Some officials put the benefits of the people as small matters,
delay them if they can, and avoid them at all costs.
It indirectly creates lots of tensions.
Right! Like if they don't create tension, they'd have nothing to do!
Lemme remind you:
don't be naive and charge forward every time!
Filing complaints is not revolution,
even if it is, we need to strategize.
I won't.
I won't charge in head-on, I just follow and participate!
Run as soon as things go wrong.
I know, I'm not naive.
You didn't tell them you are my cousin?
How would I dare, you want me to make trouble?
Good. Have you met the police?
Yes! They came on the district government reception day.
But they don't dare to hit us.
You see, we are a bunch of old people, how would they dare?
Pushing us out of zone with riot shields, is the most they can do.
Why would the police come on district government reception day?
Who do they fear?
You ask me, I ask who?
You are municipal secretary, how about you go and ask them?
My cousin-in-law is back!
I make tea for you.
OK... I want pure water!
OK.
How come I heard,
that you wanted to introduce Lu Yike to Zhao Donglai?
How is Zhao Donglai as a person?
Are you dumb?
Do you have no idea about Lu Yike's feelings for you?
You see, staying up this late,
no wonder you have no boyfriend!
So what? So many married couples in this world,
shall we give them medals for being married?
Most people just drift along together.
Looks like you don't have strong sense of marriage.
I don't mean that, what I mean is, you see,
they say women like me are "platinum leftover", how free!
You are happy, but your parents aren't.
Look at how they named you,
"Yike", which means "OK fine", they are helpless about you!
OK fine, is already fine!
You don't know my previous name!
Which is?
Could it be "leftover"? Lu Duoyu?
Even worse! Lu Buyu, means getting leftover at every step!
I guess your parents wanted a boy!
Yeah, I have two big sisters.
Even the 3rd-born is a girl, my parents were going nuts.
So they didn't appreciate me that much.
During school, my little uncle said:
"what's wrong with girls, aren't they just fine?"
My little uncle changed my name to Lu Yike.
So your little uncle is educated!
A primary school teacher?
You don't know?
Use your imagination! One more chance!
Middle-school teacher?
University professor! Yours too!
He taught me? You kidding?
Isn't Gao Yuliang your professor, did he not teach you and Chen Hai?!
Secretary Gao Yuliang is your little uncle?!
Yeah. I graduated from University of Politics and Law,
I count as a relative to your Han-Uni faction!
Looks like I must get to know you again!
No need. I seldom visit him.
Mom told me not to.
Now you know to obey and please your mom?
She's my real mother! I can't make her unhappy, right?
She has opinions about secretary Gao.
She dares to have opinions against her superior?
Old lady feels this is unjust.
She worked her whole life in the legal sector,
and retired at the division director level.
You see, even with rising passions for revolution,
suddenly, the heroine lost her battlefield. (Chinese idiom)
Therefore she seeks everyone's help, including Lin Huahua,
to help you find dates!
She already treat this as her life-long profession!
It's really killing me!
You gotta watch out, someday she'll get you!
If she comes, I'll give her a warm reception and make you happy!
Don't!!!
Once you are warm, she will advance further!
She'll annoy the hell out of you.
Really?
Didn't Chen Hai wanna introduce Zhao Donglai to you?
Do you know him? - Not well.
But I heard he has a glib tongue.
That's fine, but you must find out,
if he's a man of Jiang or a man of Wang!
No matter if Zhao Donglai is man of Jiang or Wang, I'm not interested.
But there's something, chief Hou, I must report to you.
We just found out that Ouyang Jing has her personal passport,
and she already got a multi-entry visa to USA!
She can leave any minute!
Isn't she a division-level official? According to the rules,
she can't have personal passport.
She's the wife of Li Dakang, the municipal secretary! Who can stop her?
Does she have relatives in US?
Yes, her daughter with Li Dakang, Li Jiajia.
She studied abroad since high-school.
She now lives in L.A.
I'd find you even if you didn't find me.
We need to settle the matters between us.
I've decided.
I'll retire early and move to Los Angeles.
I've heard. - Who told you?
Who else?
Xingzhi, are you spying for your cousin?
You didn't say I can't tell him!
This divorce contract is very important to you, no?
Yes, very important to me.
I can't be a "naked official" with both wife and kids abroad!
I can neither have my daughter to move back, nor stop you from leaving.
This is my best option.
I know. Once you become a "naked official" you must resign.
There won't be a "Sha-Li duo" with you as governor,
you can't even keep your current provincial and municipal posts!
You like your titles too much!
Ouyang Jing,
I treasure this career granted me by the people and the party!
Stop talking big!
Will the earth and the reforms stop without you?
Are you really hoping that I step down?
Yes!
I look forward to that day!
I actually heard this procurator Hou,
is ready to make Li Dakang's wife Ouyang Jing, cry first.
If that happens, Li Dakang's governor post will be in danger...
Where did you hear it from?
Chief Qi, where I get my info from is none of your concern!
At this moment, it's good that somebody pokes Li Dakang!
Or he'd start plotting against our Shanshui Group!
What now?
Boss Zhang told me,
Li Dakang ordered,
to have us Shanshui Group reimburse the settlement fee.
Otherwise our land will be put up for auction again!
Isn't it annoying?
As I see it, you shouldn't get mad.
1/16 had a very bad social impact, and you made lots of money.
As I see it, you gotta pay whenever you gotta pay!