"In the Name of the People"
"Episode 12"
Director Qian of the finance department, you start.
How much is the settlement fee of Dafeng factory workers?
How do we solve it?
OK secretary Li.
According to our initial calculation,
the 1365 workers of Dafeng factory
must receive 45.1 millions in settlement.
But their boss Cai Chenggong is bankrupt and heavily in-debt.
Incapable of paying.
In conclusion,
45 millions.
Cai Chenggong is bankrupt, can't pay.
Shanshui Group won't pay. What to do?
It can't be solved or what?
Dafeng factory can't be dismantled or what?
Is this a problem-solving attitude?
You wanna solve it?
You can't solve it? OK let me help you!
The government pays this money, grab your share.
Since the very beginning,
from Jingzhou City Bank to Shanshui Group,
they schemed together to ruin our Dafeng Clothing Company!
They?
Who are they really, with what motives?
How did they ruin you?
Be specific!
This...
I better meet Hou Liangping, I can only tell him.
Cai Chenggong,
whatever you got, telling us is just the same.
Everything you said, we can convey to bureau chief Hou.
Have some water.
Think a bit more.
Don't touch! Put it down!
Chief Hou, I'll be honest with you.
All the young folks in the bureau will support you!
You just got here and said "no overtime",
you don't know how excited we got!
I was about to cry!
Your cry-threshold is too low!
Bring me the shredded meat!
No! We really got held up by working overtime!
Take me for example,
I, Lin Huahua, if it weren't too much overtimes and lack of social life,
how could I be together with Zhou Zheng the miser?
Be happy with what you got!
A girl who can only boil instant noodles looks down on Zhou Zheng?
Huahua, does shredded meat look like this? Hurry!
I thought you wanted oarfish! - Hurry, it's getting burned!
Sun Liancheng you tell me,
how much do you take?
Secretary Li, you decide! You say how much, and I pay!
Nonsense! I tell you to pay it all, would you?
If you pay it all, this meeting ends now!
If we pay it all, then why do we need them for?
Finance and social stability, you two offices pay the most.
Our district pays the leftovers.
I'm not complaining secretary Li, we have no more land to sell in the district!
Everything that can be sold was sold by Ding Yizhen!
We are living with tightented belt!
The next salary is in risk!
So you mean I should compensate you?
It's better if the municipality can afford that!
But, I don't dare to expect that!
Good thing you understand!
Money god, what say you?
Secretary Li, the finance dept. will try to squeeze out 15 millions.
20 millions! - Secretary Li, this...
How about the social stability fund?
But, secretary Li, we...
Shanshui Group gets rich,
we maintain stability, and pay money as well?
10 millions!
Sun Liancheng, I gave the chunks to others, you pay the rest!
Don't complain! You are the last person to complain!
This money, you have one week to collect.
If the money doesn't come, resign yourself.
I wanna withdraw my report.
OK, I withdraw. Happy now?
Cai Chenggong, you kidding with us?
What do you mean?
I wanna withdraw my report.
I already told Hou Liangping on the phone, if you wanna know,
you aks him OK? I just wanna withdraw!
Please sit down, we can talk more!
OK? Sit down first.
Let me be frank, because of your relation with Hou Liangping, he must avoid!
He can't involve in this case.
Can I sleep then?
These days I played guerrilla war with municipal PD,
hiding everywhere, I never slept well, I'm tired.
I do have the right to sleep?
Fine.
Zhou Zheng,
find a room and let boss Cai sleep.
Thanks!
Not bad, chief Hou!
Tastes good? - Hmm!
This is not even my specialty!
Where's my rice?
I forgot!
How can director Lu possibly oppress someone like you?
You ignore your superiors!
That's because you are easy-going!
Like a chef?
I didn't... - It's fine!
All the guys in my Beijing division say that!
That's just you.
If it were my deputy bureau chief Lue, I would've shut up long ago!
I'm that easy-going?
It's not about that, you are not inhuman!
Our deputy chief Lue is inhuman!
What nonsense is that?
Tell me.
How is deputy chief Lue inhuman?
I better not.
Tell me! So I get to know the situation.
Then I tell you!
He's really inhuman!
Our director Lu have us work overtime, but we need it.
He's different.
The work he can finish in 8 hours, he drag out to 12 hours!
So leaders like old Ji and old Lin can see us work overtime everyday!
When the entire procuratorate building is dark, our bureau's lamps are still lit!
Therefore we exclaim:
deputy chief Lue,
you really are the guiding light in the darkness!
Keep exaggerating.
You studied Chinese?
How do you know? Handong-Uni, Chinese major!
We are alumni! - Really?
Then you gotta take care of me! - Hmm.
After the settlement, what's next?
Among the 1,300 workers of Dafeng,
at least 800 will be settled, right?
Yes secretary Li.
The real stockholding workers are fewer than 500.
500 are easy to handle.
The stock issues will follow legal procedures.
Sue Cai Chenggong if you need to,
Sui Shanshui Group if you need to.
The court should establish this special case ASAP!
try it, and finish it ASAP.
Court president Wang, this is your task!
OK secretary Li.
We will adhere to the law,
within the legal boundaries,
try and sentence ASAP!
Proc. director, we got a situation.
Cai Chenggong got spooked by something,
and insists on seeing Hou Liangping.
He won't talk otherwise.
What shall we do, let Hou Liangping get here?
No!
Yike listen, Hou Liangping must avoid.
Everybody is watching, if you don't let him avoid,
you give them reasons to blame us!
Overcome the obstacles and keep attacking!
I trust you!
Understood.
Today your director Lu led you guys to checkmate me.
Tell me, how's she otherwise?
I better not, I already spoke a lot today.
You even dare to talk about deputy chief Lue, why not director Lu? Tell me!
I'll talk then! - Hmm.
She's nothing but a mean and stiff old nun!
I see that you speak of your superiors with quite a nasty tongue!
I'm being honest!
But objectively speaking,
this old Lu is totally skilled at doing her job!
Ever since our chief got hit, she became even more horrible!
She really turned sorrow into violence!
Commanding girls like guys, and guys like cattle!
Chief Hou,
can I ask you something personal? You must answer me!
Ask.
Are you married or not?
My child is 10 years old!
Then it's all over!
I wanted to have you marry old Lu!
What wild fantasy is this, matching me up with old Lu?
Don't overthink, I don't do this for you.
It's for the sake of everyone,
so she won't make us do overtime.
If I do this good deed for you, the court will get me for bigamy!
No wonder why you were so helpful and cleaned my room,
it's because you planned this!
Let me ask you.
Lu Yike,
Chen Hai, aren't they both single?
Then these two... - I tried to help!
But chief Chen said no!
He has a kid, he doesn't wanna tie her down!
But his kid really is naughty!
Nicknamed "Little Leather Ball". - I know him.
He and my son Hou Haoran are "brothers-in-need".
Does Lu Yike have no feelings for Chen Hai?
Well...
that's hard to say.
Usually, they are more like brothers.
But the thing is, old Lu lacks the feminine touch!
But ever since chief Chen got hit, old Lu took it very badly.
The reason she bullied you today,
is because she's afraid you'd take our chief's spot.
I'm not taking his spot,
but Chen Hai's unfinished work...
We can't let down our guard!
At the provincial committee meeting, chief Sha Ruijin once again
brought up Dafeng factory and the 1/16 incident.
He explicitly pointed it out as a severe incident incited by corruption!
Do we have corruption here?
Do we?
Of course we do! It's only strange otherwise!
Ding Yizhen escaped!
Ding's escape,
had a huge impact among the Dafeng workers.
According to the social-stability office, they might leave the factory,
and appeal to the provincial government.
Therefore our time is very very limited!
All task groups enter the factory immediately,
don't make the workers leave!
Understood?
I emphasize once again, all the money must arrive in one week!
True, with such a huge incident, what can we do?
Let's pay to remove misfortune!
If only money can buy safety...
Dafeng factory, other than the national flag, has a new banner now,
with text bigger than the factory sign!
It says "punish corrupt officials, give us justice"!
(Punish corrupt officials, give us justice!)
If people,
have things on their mind,
how could they fall asleep?
I advice you, it's better to tell.
You feel secure once you speak out,
then you can fall asleep.
Cai Chenggong,
no matter who you report on,
we will ensure your anonymity!
Please trust me!
Trust us Handong procuratorate anti-corruption bureau!
Even your bureau chief got hit by a truck,
How do you know? - We had a phone call.
I wanted to report to him but we failed to meet.
Who told you he got hit? - Hou Liangping did.
You think I'm restaurant? - Mamma mia! - Packing takeaway?
Oh my! No chief Hou,
I wanna bring some back to my Zhou Zheng!
They eat boxed food all day, it's not how normal people live!
We promised before the sky to share fortune with each other.
You share your fortune, what do I eat for dinner?
You can't let your skilled cooking go to waste!
You cook something new!
Lin Huahua!
I never met any subordinate who bully their superiors like you!
Does this count as bullying superiors?
This must be superiors comforting the frontline officers!
Shall I also bring for director Lu and co.? - Hmm!
This is not enough! Let me cook some more.
Really?! Our new bureau chief is a sweet guy!
I call Zhou Zheng right now and tell them to skip the boxed food tonight!
You guys stay here and finish everything else.
Secretary Li, I still wanna report to you briefly!
I have another meeting, you get 5 minutes in my office!
OK!
What is it, speak!
Secretary Li, I mentioned it at the meeting,
I didn't say more, to avoid problems.
Speak.
I'll speak then!
Speak!
Shanshui Group's Gao Xiaoqin, what the F is she?
Seizing the precious land of Dafeng factory, she makes billions.
Why doesn't she pay these 45 millions?
And we must pay from our social stability fund?
How do I explain to the comrades of the social stability office?
How do we explain to our police officers?
If I must pay 10 millions, OK secretary Li.
Write me an IOU, otherwise I resign to you and the municipality!
I can't do this!
Lu Yike, you are out of options and Hou Liangping must show up?
I repeat once more,
his official appointment file is not yet here.
Per organizational regulations, he must avoid.
Of course if we explain with human sympathy,
Hou Liangping flew here last night from Beijing.
In any case, you gotta let him settle down and have a rest!
Proc. director, I totally understand!
But special case needs special treatment, right?
Time is running out by the minute!
We only got 24 hours, and nothing to waste!
Fine, Yike.
Let me think about it some more.
OK?
Donglai,
you can skip this 10 millions of social-stability fee.
I'll find something.
Secretary Li,
I also suggest the finance dept. and Guangming district to withhold their money!
You make it sound easy, who will pay then?
You tell me who!
Will Gao Xiaoqin and Shanshui Group pay?
If yes, would there still be a Dafeng incident?
Would things still drag on until 1/16 incident?
Who's really behind this Shanshui Group, can't we push them a bit?!
Push, how?
Donglai,
let's do it the legal way.
I hired two lawyers for the Dafeng workers.
They'll meet in court.
I'll ask the court to thoroughly check on Dafeng factory's stock issue.
I'll give the stockholding Dafeng workers a proper explanation!
Smells great!
I smelled it in the corridor already! Cooking?
Proc. director!
You wanna try?
Not this time, just had my work lunch.
Liangping, your cooking? - Of course!
Huahua never enters the kitchen, this I know!
Liangping, you come here.
I wanna know what kind of person Cai Chenggong is.
How do I put it?
Using a popular phrase,
he's "someone who lost on the starting line".
From a poor family with strict parents.
He copied off other pupils' homework and struggled until graduation.
This is his CV.
How about details?
Details often reveal somebody's personality.
Details...
He had bad grades and repeated many years,
that's how we became classmates.
He talked during class, and had the teach tape his mouth,
and stand in the corner, he cared not, made funny faces when he could.
Thick-skinned!
He was naughty during the breaks, teachers often made him write extra homework.
But before we finish class, he jumped the wall to play outside.
Fought the senior pupils,
he got beaten so he smeared them with snot.
But his dad could really beat him badly!
Sometimes hanged him on trees, broke the sticks, with bruises all over!
But he didn't care and kept being naughty at school!
You call him naughty, I think he's a rascal.
Is being thick-skinned and rascal his personal character?
Right, that's what he is. - Hmm...
But nobody thought he'd accomplish something on the path of business.
If he uses this character against Lu Yike,
she'd face quite a challenge!
Hou Liangping,
looks like you really know your childhood buddy!
You finished eating? - A while ago.
OK, let's go. - Where to?
Where else? Provincial PD guesthouse,
let's meet your childhood buddy.
But I gotta avoid?
Don't say anything. I'm responsible if something happens, let's go.
Huahua, get the stuff and follow us. - OK.
Hurry, take everything! - OK.
Proc. director Ji, bureau chief Hou!
Monkey, you are finally here!
Stop calling me monkey,
I'm here to do my job, understood?
Right, doing your job.
And... Proc. director Ji, right?
Greetings!
Have you eaten yet? Eat first, we talk later.
Monkey, you are the nicest person to me!
This not my home, later when we record,
if you call me Monkey, you are finished! Remember that!
I see, I see! I remember!
Eat when it's warm, my cooking.
He's very nice to me!
That, Mon... chief Hou!
I knew you'd come to save me! - Save what?
You are informant, I'm investigator. Remember this well!
I remember! I'm an informant, I report to you!
Eat first.
I eat first!
Welcome to the Donghui Cars urban exhibition! Let me give you an overview.
We have 50 models of cars to choose from.
You could see everything on our app.
Our payment methods are diversified.
You can choose to pay upfront, or via leasing with 10% downpayment.
That's cheap! - Yes mister!
Every car model you see today, if you are interested,
you can take the car 30 min after placing order.
And this one? - You have good taste madam!
It's a new limited-edition from Donghui Cars!
You can buy it with zero downpayment, less than 4,000 monthly for 3 years only.
Then I pick it up tomorrow, nobody can touch it! - Alright!
Wait a sec, what do you buy it with?
With 4,000 monthly over 3 years?
Doesn't the old man have money?
How did you come up with that?
Delicious!
Monkey I love your cooking!
No, chief Hou!
Take your time. - I'm hungry!
Huahua, get him some water. - OK.
I'll go!
I, I'll go!
When I'm done eating, I report.
The bankruptcy of Dafeng Company is precisely due to
Jingzhou City Bank cutting our loan!
The decisive person is the chief credit manager,
vice president Ouyang Jing!
Everytime I got loan from her, I paid her some kickback,
a bank card!
Cai Chenggong, be specific!
The exact amount of bribe, time and place.
The exact amount is 2 million CNY.
I paid her 4 times, 500,000 each time, 2 millions in total.
Time is... end of February each year, I forgot the exact date.
Place... twice in her office, twice at her home.
Is Ouyang Jing's home also the home of Li Dakang?
Not her home in the municipality residential block,
but her home in the villa area, Dihao Garden!
A famous high-class villa area in Jingzhou.
Continue. Whose name is on the bank card?
My mom, but I gave Ouyang Jing the password.
She can use it to take cash or pay.
What's your mother's name? - Zhang Guihua.
Why using her name instead of yours?
I felt this is safer...
Wenge, take your time to recover,
don't think about annoying things!
it also doesn't help!
Don't talk!
I know your whole face is hurt, let's not talk.
If there is anything, talk after you recover.
Chenglan, this is 8,000 CNY.
Boss Cai sent me in secret.
Don't tell anybody!
You two gravely injured get 8,000 per person.
The others get 2,000 per person.
Remember?
Don't worry, I'll remember.
Thank you Mr. Zheng!
This is not the time to thank me.
Mr. Zheng, I wanna ask you something.
Please do tell!
I wanna borrow the tricycle of sister Er-Yun!
Why? You also wanna...
do like Shengli's mother back then,
take the tricycle to sell breakfast?
Yes.
You see,
Wenge is badly burned.
Our entire family worked at Dafeng factory.
We need to live!
Why did you ask to borrow, I give you that tricycle for free!
But you gotta remember!
Nowadays those "chengguan" are much stricter than before. ("urban management enforcers")
They confiscate your tricycle if you get caught!
Don't worry,
I'll avoid them.
If they take the tricycle, I compensate you.
That's not what I mean.
Chenglan, I've been thinking these days.
Can we maybe organize ourselves to start anew?
Can we perhaps start a company?
That would be nice!
Mister, you are capable, you are poet.
We'll rely ourselves on you!
I need to check on the others, you take good care of Wenge!
Have a good rest!
OK.
Don't let him get agitated!
Chairman Zheng!
Let's come over here.
Chairman Zheng you are finally here! Finally!
How are you? - Badly hurt!
You see how badly hurt we are! You see!
Listen to me, we all went through great pain! - Yes yes!
Boss Cai asked me to visit you on his behalf.
Thanks, thanks!
He brought some money for you,
I distribute to you now.
Thank you!
Every injured gets 2,000 CNY.
Only 2,000? Too little!
That's too little!
Too little!
The patients need to sleep! If you need to talk, do it outside.
Don't disturb the patients! - OK OK!
Come, let's talk outside!
OK, outside!
We can't underestimate this new provincial party chief!
He invited over Chen Yanshi to lecture us.
Talking about history, tradition and spirit.
With all the talks, he quietly dismissed all the officials left by the former chief!
Isn't it fully expected?
Don't all new leaders do that?
But I didn't foresee him to dismiss us this way!
He also harshly criticized the current situation of Handong officials.
There will be major movements!
We can't live as in the old days anymore!
That would be best!
Handong should've had a makeover long ago, you went too far!
Yes. Chen Yanshi was right.
The official conduct is thoroughly rotten now.
I tried to think back,
the decay of official quality happened over the last 10 years.
These years the economy improved,
all levels of government got rich and corruption became worse.
You mean,
corruption is highly correlated with economic development?
Of course, that's true!
The government was poor, they couldn't embezzle even if they try.
What opinion is this!
Our country was so poor right after the liberation,
Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan were still corrupt!
What does it have to do with development?
I mean corruption also has historical factors.
Initially, someone proposed to purchase power with currency,
and rip up an opening on power to develop the economy.
Therefore some believe that
the rapid economic development these years,
is partially contributed by corruption!
Because corruption increased the efficiency of the government,
and broke some limits of the established norms.
Many things could receive special treatment!
Prof. Gao, this is a fallacy.
Aside from the damage of corruption on moral and humanity,
over the long-term, it's unsustainable, like drugs!
The more you take, the faster you die!
Of course I agree with your opinion!
Once the greed manifests, you can't stop it even if you try!
Before, things get done if you take money, but now?
No money, nothing gets done!
How terrible! How can it be!
You can't...
Hello?
Tongwei, your mentor Gao is here.
OK, you can come over.
Qi Tongwei.
Why do you let him come over? - He's already on the way.
I don't want him here!
Tell him to find a new master!
Back then he cried at Zhao Lichun's family grave and made everybody know it.
Even during this meeting, I had to help him explain!
He on the other hand, as the new chief arrived,
ran over to Chen Yanshi's place to dig!
I told him long ago,
Chen Yanshi was my first superior.
Also father of Chen Yang and Chen Hai who helped him.
He must show gratitude!
But he refused to listen!
Of course.
He knows Chen Yanshi upset most officials,
and was disliked by Zhao Lichun.
Of course he'd stay away from him.
And now?
He knows the relation between master Chen and Sha Ruijin,
he went over to cotton up to master Chen.
Not expecting Sha Ruijin to run into him!
Don't you find it embarrassing?
Speaking of which, don't blame the others.
What? - You gotta blame yourself,
If you became provincial party chief, he'd come to bootlick you!
Prof. Wu,
what's the point of talking like this now?
If what you reported is true, then let me ask.
Since you bribed her accordingly with each loan,
then why did she cut your loan this time? It makes no sense.
That's the thing!
I deduce, Ouyang Jing must be getting profits bigger than my kickback!
This profit may even be surprising large! That's why!
Don't deduce, state the facts!
The fact is,
I borrowed 50 millions from Shanshui Group as bridge loan,
over 6 days, with daily interest rate of 0.4%.
Using our entire company stock as collateral.
You mean if 6 days later,
Jingzhou City Bank give you the loan as previously,
Dafeng factory would've paid back the loan from Shanshui Group, correct?
Right, that's what went wrong!
Ouyang Jing suddenly changed her mind and cut our loan!
Then we could no longer pay back this usury loan from Shanshui Group!
This usury loan grew from 50 to 60, 70 and 80 millions.
3 months later,
Jingzhou intermediate court, based on the loan contract,
ruled us to surrender our stocks to Shanshui Group!
This forced Dafeng Company into a corner!
I ask you,
which law did Ouyang Jing break by refusing the loan?
As the vice president of Jingzhou City Bank,
is she authorized to issue and refuse loans?
Sure, she has this authority.
I report on her because she took my 2 millions of bribes!
I report on this!
Has he ever considered if others accept his "loyalty"?
How could his small tricks escaped the watchful eye of Chen Yanshi?
He thinks he's smart, and everybody else stupid.
After all, what this world lacks least is smart people!
But what the world lacks most,
is loyal people!
Here you go again...
Ouyang Jing didn't approve Jingzhou City Bank to issue you loans.
Why not ask the other banks?
ICBC, Bank of China, these big state banks,
and other joint-equity banks, like CMB and CMBC.
You can find many!
But Monkey, I tell you...
Chief Hou, I tell you.
You don't know about the banks in Jingzhou.
The state banks and joint-equity banks don't lend to private enterprise like mine.
I could only borrow from Jingzhou City Bank and Handong rural credit union.
Why don't you ask rural credit union?
I did!
Rural credit union already approved us 60 millions! It was already signed!
That's when Ouyang Jing made a call and had them withdraw.
Saying their risk-manager didn't approve.
Are you sure it's Ouyang Jing who called?
I'm sure!
Ouyang Jing called the 1st-in-command of Handong rural credit union,
secretary and president, Chen Tianhe! You can ask him!
Mentor...
Is this new party chief trying to form a Sha-clan?
What Sha-clan?
What are you talking about?
Don't hide this from me. I heard everything after the meeting.
Other than an outsider Hou Liangping,
all the local officials got frozen on their current posts!
You are well-informed!
Thank you mentor!
Given the situation, you faced the pressure and spoke boldly in my defense!
Secretary Dakang went too far!
I normally act very carefully and watch his face,
almost worshipping him like my dad!
Yet he backstabbed... - Stop it!
You think I haven't lost enough of my old face?
Chief Hou, director Lu,
I already determined this Ouyang Jing,
collaborated with Shanshui Group to ruin our Dafeng Company!
This is not by deduction, the events afterwards showed,
Gao Xiaoqin's Shanshui Group took our company share and took our land.
They knew the city-planning, knew the land of our company,
would become high-class residential area!
Tha'ts the result, not necessarily the truth.
Director Lu, let him continue.
The truth is about Guangmingfeng-project! Everybody knows!
I know, my factory workers know!
The workers thought with the project, their stocks will become valuable.
Nobody thought Shanshui Group would set us up!
Actually, between companies, exchange of money
and transactions as bridge loans are perfectly normal!
I was being careless and ruined it for my workers.
I just talked to Prof. Wu about you.
How innocent you were at the school!
How did you become like this?
I told you to not visit Chen Yanshi, but you still did.
Working like a gardener. You don't have to explain.
Master Chen told me nothing, nor to chief Sha.
You had yourself running into chief Sha Ruijin, right?
You think it's funny?
Mentor, on this matter, I hope you still understand me.
I'm too eager to advance.
Too eager?
Then why do you shout "Sha-clan" and talk nonsense?
Tell me,
do you really wanna have a Sha-clan so you can join right away?
Mentor you misunderstand... - What do I misunderstand?!
Don't talk nonsense, never say things that ruin unity!
Especially if it's about party chief Sha!
A party member must have party qualities, leaders must have humanity.
I tell you,
the new party chief is arriving perfectly on time!
Handong's party, political and social conduct need to change!
Without change, the people will be cursing at us!
True...