After the founding of New China, the people of the whole country put the resumption of production and economic development in the first place. However, a stable life has spawned a group of greedy people, and some weak-willed and powerful government officials have taken advantage of the loopholes in the system and extended the hand of corruption to public assets. The embezzlement cases of Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan caused a strong shock within the party, and their warning significance is still vividly remembered.
So who are Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan? How did they get corrupted and take the road to corruption, and what was the end result?
01 The glory of the past
The environment shapes people's hearts. During the revolutionary years, Liu Qingshan was also a staunch communist fighter. He joined the revolution at a very young age, had a wealth of experience along the way, was also organized to study at a university, and was also arrested and imprisoned, but he never gave in and did not reveal even a little information to the enemy. Zhang Zishan joined the Communist Party during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and he became an excellent cadre in the hearts of the party organization because he bravely killed the enemy on the battlefield and bravely killed the enemy.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two of them were transferred to Tianjin and became colleagues. Unexpectedly, the former revolutionaries were actually enslaved by desire, their thinking was corrupt, they were alienated from the party and the people, and finally they made a big mistake. We may wonder how these two people, who had experienced hunger and cold, could be considered to have been tested for a long time, and how they had just risen to the point of falling at once.
02 Corruption background
Beginning in 1950, the mainland began to resist us aggression and aid Korea. New China was poor and white, and military spending took up most of the finances. In such an embarrassing state, the central government has chosen to delegate power to the localities, let the localities rely on themselves, develop the economy, and build independently, so the rights of local governments have also become larger.
At this time, Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, as senior officials, faced with the temptation of money, their hearts were shaken, their faith was gradually corroded, and they began to accept bribes and do things for others. However, the money came too easily, and Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan's appetite became bigger, and they were no longer satisfied with bribery, but set their sights on public funds. In particular, some people's livelihood projects, such as water conservancy, agriculture, and disaster relief funds, the two of them frantically exploited loopholes and arbitrarily amassed wealth in the protection of officials and officials.
The most shocking thing is that the two have no shame and have begun to show off their wealth without restraint. In those days, dressing in suits, wearing watches, living in bungalows, driving luxury cars, and even smoking tobacco, it looked like bureaucrats and upstarts in the late Qing Dynasty. They also said that they had had enough hard days, the country had been beaten down, and it was time to enjoy it. It can be said that there is no people, party discipline, or state in the hearts of the two, and they have completely betrayed their class and faith.
03 Shot
Pustules always have to be punctured, and Li Ke is the sword bearer. When he was transferred to Tianjin to work with Zhang and Liu, Li Kecai soon felt a little strange. It turned out that his wife was giving birth at that time, and Liu Qingshan sent someone to send a huge sum of money. Anyone could understand that this was a deliberate attempt to drag him into the water and use him for Liu Qingshan's use. Li Kecheng returned the money, and slowly he found that his colleagues began to sneer at him, and Zhang and Liu also put on small shoes for him and isolated him.
At the same time, Li Kecheng also discovered that Zhang and Liu were more corrupt and had formed a protective net of reciprocal official benefit. Li Kecai once reported the reporting materials he collected to the provincial party committee, but there was no news, and it was obvious that someone had helped them suppress it. It was not until 1951 that Li Ke withstood great pressure to expose the actions of the two of them, even if he was not an official. At the Hebei Provincial Congress, Li Kecai took the evidence and made the matter public in front of everyone.
The meeting caused an uproar, the central government and even the great people attached great importance to this matter, the investigation team members thundered action, quickly launched an investigation, the great man even personally tried the case. In order to show his determination to severely punish corruption within the party, the great man refused any intercession and resolutely sentenced Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan to death as an example.
The jealous And evil Li Kecai continued to work, serving as the first secretary in Cangzhou and the deputy secretary of the Hengshui Prefectural Committee, and fulfilled his duties all the way, retiring in 1990.
Looking back on this history, we should realize the importance of institutional anti-corruption. People's hearts are easy to change, many officials are desperate to take risks, public instruments for private use, only by putting their rights into the cage of the system and establishing and improving relevant laws can they restrain themselves from the precipice and curb the occurrence of such incidents.