Revisiting Future Path

070 We also have democratic elections

Thinking about it carefully, although Wei's former father seldom expressed his regrets, combined with his occasional melancholy and bragging, it is obvious that he has a sorrow for the position of the village party secretary.

Perhaps the village party secretary is Wei's father's ideal.

Dad Wei went to work in the village committee after he retired from the army. He stayed in the village committee after getting married before getting married and having children before giving birth. He was older than Wei Dongsheng. Put yourself in this position and think about it, Dad Wei has dedicated the most important twenty years of his life to the village committee, and he has some obsessions with the village party secretary in his heart. Isn't it right?

Wei Dongsheng asked briefly about the general situation, and probably weaved a contour impression.

According to national policy, the villagers committee is a mass autonomous organization elected by the villagers of the administrative villages under the jurisdiction of the local township. No organization or individual may designate, appoint or replace members of the villagers committee.

Some netizens often complain that China has no votes and no elections. Wei Dongsheng feels that it is purely blind to see Taishan. The vast rural frontiers are clearly democratic elections everywhere, and they will never interfere with the will of the Labor Party.

Wei Dongsheng’s hometown is Weijiazhuang in Shigan Village, Shigan Village is an administrative village, and Weijiazhuang is a natural village under the administrative village. Influenced by the dual factors of geographical environment and historical evolution, Shigan Village has a vast jurisdiction, covering a full 15 natural villages. To participate in the election, candidates need to travel to fifteen natural villages to canvass for votes, and get the dominant votes before they can formally join the village secretary of the village committee.

Don't contemptuously say that votes are useless. At least in Shikang Village, the number of votes is the only criterion for convincing people.

If you want to earn the position of the village party secretary, you must get a sufficient number of advantages.

Of course, how to get votes is another matter.

The United States elects the president and relies on chaebols to fund campaign funds. Various promotion activities are geared towards voters. This threat theory and that policy make one's own ruling ideals go wild; however, the democratic election in Shigan Village is another simple and rude style, the ballot box Earlier, the red envelopes were exchanged for votes, and the election was justified. If you are ethical and clean, and you are not willing to bribe elections, you will attract criticism from the vast majority of villagers: "You can't even collect the money for the red envelopes. Why do we choose you!"

It is said that it is election bribery, but it is difficult for local governments to characterize it as election bribery red envelopes, because election bribery red envelopes have various aliases: "ticket money", "tea money", "lost work pay" and so on.

Wei Dongsheng vaguely remembered that one year, a certain candidate A recruited a cadre from the Xiangshan District Party Committee to help him stand, and in the name of fair and impartial supervision, hindered another candidate B's red envelope bribery. Candidate B was not afraid, and asked his nephew to pull a cart of red bricks and unload them near the ballot box. Villagers do not take red envelopes when voting, but when they leave after voting, they pick up a red brick and throw it 20 meters away. They can go to candidate B's nephew to receive the "brick removal fee". Candidate A angrily accused Candidate B of bribing the election, and Candidate Y retorted: "Look at what you said, can't my nephew ask someone to move bricks?"

The village committee election in Shigan Village is simpler and more rude.

However, red envelopes alone are not enough.

Shikang Village is a run-down village in the interior, and no one is wealthy. The current price is only 5 yuan or 10 yuan for red envelopes. Even if the rules are broken and the red envelope is increased tenfold to 100 yuan, it will be difficult to decisively influence the villagers' choices. If it is increased by a hundredfold to 1,000 yuan, it may be able to really interfere with the villagers’ choices, but the election cost is obviously too high. Chaotic battles like "moving bricks" will only occur between evenly matched opponents. If a candidate only has a red envelope and a small amount of money to rely on, he will definitely not get to the point where the "brick moving fee" is in chaos, and he will be eliminated early.

The US presidential election is part of the influence of television network advertisements and Twitter topics, and the efforts of the grassroots organizations of the Democratic and Republican parties cannot be ignored. The same goes for the election of village committees. To win the election in Shikang Village, the first step is not to yell political slogans with loud speakers, but to persuade the leaders of the natural villages. If these top figures are willing to support a certain candidate, under their lead, the villagers of the natural village will definitely become the candidate's vote warehouse.

Like Dad Wei, he is one of the leading figures in Wei's village. If Dad Wei can be persuaded to support a certain candidate, Dad Wei can persuade three-fifths of the villagers in Weijia Village to vote for the candidate. The other two-fifths of the vote depends on the encouragement of two other leading figures.

Therefore, the village committee election in Shigan Village can be simplified into three stages.

In the first stage, the leading figures in the natural villages are invited to eat, drink and have fun. If 70 to 80% of them can be dealt with, the election is basically safe.

In the second stage, if the public opinions of the leading figures in the natural villages are not unified, and they split into several camps to support their respective candidates, the candidates will begin to prepare for the ballot battle. Chaotic wars like "removal of bricks" occurred at this stage.

The third stage is fraud during the counting of votes.

The election of the village committee is naturally impossible to be 100% fair and just. In order to ensure that the candidates they support get a sufficient number of votes, each counting of votes is full of fraud and anti-fraud struggles. For example, if some ballots with irregular writing are selected by competitors, they will be ignored on the spot as invalid votes. For example, the statutory ballots of certain permanent migrant workers confirm that their family supports them, and immediately sign their names as their own votes; if their family members support their competitors, they will leave home all the year round without clear evidence to show that they Because of his political views, he refused to vote for him.

The above is the chaos of the triennial village committee elections in Shikang Village.

Dad Wei spent seventeen or eighteen years in the village committee. The people in Shigan Village have a certain foundation, and he can hold the committee position without canvassing votes. But if you want to go further, it's difficult. One is that Wei Dongsheng’s family is poor and he can’t take out red envelopes to bribe the election. Second, the qualifications and prestige of other opponents are not worse than that of Wei’s father.

In the previous life, Dad Wei gave up.

In this world, Dad Wei has no family burden, but he wants to fight.

Dad Wei was a little unwilling after all.

It is better to work hard and then reluctantly accept defeat than to surrender without a fight.

As a veteran, Dad Wei still has a soldier's unyielding spirit.

The village committee election is Wei Da's ideal and Wei Da's obsession.

Wei Dongsheng sighed.

Since the village party secretary is Wei's father's ideal, then please help him.

Wei Dongsheng therefore delayed his return to Beijing and stayed at home to help Wei Dad canvass votes and persuade the leading figures in various natural villages.

This stage of split canvassing can be subdivided into small gifts and dinner invitations. Bo Li is a Bo Li in the true sense. I carry a gift equivalent to my relatives during the Spring Festival, visit the leaders of various natural villages in person, and invite him to dinner after a few days. If the top person agrees to the dinner invitation, that means they are inclined to support your appointment; if they oppose you or are more willing to support other people, they will reject your dinner invitation. Giving a small gift is a way out, leaving a buffer for others to refuse, so the gift can't be generous, but giving it a thick embarrassment for the top figures who are not willing to support you.

The human heart is the same.

The good and evil of a person never depends on whether you are abroad or at home, nor does it depend on whether you are in the city or in the countryside.

Although farmers live a simple life, they will never be pure and good. There are discriminatory chains in cities and rural areas. In the simplest and most intuitive way, the big names bully the small ones, the more sons bully the sons less, the powerful and the rich bully the powerless, the bully who can fight and fight honestly, and so on.

There is also an unexplainable unspoken rule: in the first thirty years, look at the father and respect the son, and look at the son and respect the father in the next thirty years.

Today, Dad Wei is not yet the age to "see the son and respect his father", but Wei Dongsheng already has the capital to "see the son and respect his father".

Before the vehicle started, Dad Wei looked at the female driver who was staying at home in surprise: "She stays at home, who is driving?"

Wei Dongsheng sat sideways in front of the steering wheel and said with a smile, "I."

Wei Dongsheng took a driver's license and bought a car less than two years after graduation from his previous life. In this world, Wei Dongsheng is less than eighteen years old to get a driver's license. However, there is almost no traffic supervision in the vast countryside, and no one cares if you have a driver's license. Wei Dongsheng used to pay attention to influence and safety, and rarely drove beyond his authority. However, today, in order to help Dad Wei canvass votes, Wei Dongsheng decided to drive himself and drive Dad Wei to visit the leading figures in various natural villages. This invisibly proved Dad Wei’s economic strength and Dad’s confidence in "seeing his son and respecting his father".

Dad Wei had never seen Wei Dongsheng driving, and was very surprised: "You can drive?"

Wei Dongsheng vaguely said: "I learned it in Yanjing."

Dad Wei: "Is it difficult to learn to drive?"

Wei Dongsheng: "It's just the same tool. What can be difficult. The traffic at home is inconvenient. You run around all day, or should you take a driver's license? Then I will buy you a car and you can use it at home. ."

Dad Wei reflexively refused: "What to buy, don't spend money randomly."

Wei Dongsheng: "Let's buy a cheap one, a domestic car like one hundred thousand."

Dad Wei: "More than 100,000 yuan is not expensive!"

Wei Dongsheng: "Your son's monthly salary is 20,000 yuan, and one year's salary is more than enough."

Dad Wei still refused: "You are a high school student, with such a high salary, I always feel guilty. I save all the money I earn, and if something goes wrong, I can be prepared."

Wei Dongsheng saw that Dad Wei wanted to start the long-winded mode and changed the subject in time: "Who shall we visit first?"

Dad Wei frowned and thought for a while, then hesitated to say his choice: "Go to the old branch secretary first."

Wei Dongsheng: "I don't know the way, dad, help show the way, don't walk into the canal."

Dad Wei's voice was filled with endless confidence: "Your dad has been walking this road for 18 years. Don't say that you can't go wrong if you are in the car and you just close your eyes. Don't worry!"

When we drove to the old party secretary's house, the old party secretary squatted at the door and chatted with his neighbors about trivial matters. Seeing the dusty commercial car, the old party secretary puffed out his smoke, and with curiosity, he praised it far and wide: "This car is not bad."

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