Tang Xinbao
In the prison of corrupt officials, the seven ghosts want to elect a leader, what criteria should be used?
County Magistrate Sun was anonymously reported to the Commission for Discipline Inspection because of corruption and bribery. After the county magistrate Sun learned the news, he was scared, but as a result, he had a heart attack, and as soon as the person fell, he never woke up.
The ghost of County Magistrate Sun wandered to the underworld and was imprisoned in the Corrupt Officials Prison, which was specially used to hold the ghosts of corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the underworld.
There are also six ghosts who were locked up in the same cell as County Magistrate Sun, who, like County Magistrate Sun, were also corrupt officials during their lifetimes. It's just that the official positions of these ghosts before their deaths were much smaller than those of County Magistrate Sun, and they were all sesame mung bean officials. For this reason, County Magistrate Sun looked down on these fellow inmates, and always felt that being locked in a cell with them would be a loss of his identity.
Because life in prison is so boring, after a long time, the ghosts can't stand it anymore, and they all want to find something to pass the time.
At this time, one of the demons proposed to choose a leader among the seven demons. When the ghosts heard this, they thought the idea was good and agreed with it.
But what criteria should be used? County Magistrate Sun proposed that the official position should be selected according to the size of the official position during his lifetime, and the ghost with the largest official position should be the leader. The ghosts shook their heads when they heard this, thinking it was too old-fashioned. At this time, another ghost proposed: "Why don't you do this, since everyone is a corrupt official in life, then let's just have a big competition against corruption, who is more greedy in life, the more capable he is, and the more qualified he is to be the leader, I don't know what everyone thinks?" The demons thought this method was very innovative and agreed.
So the election process began. Each ghost spoke in turn, revealing the amount of money he had embezzled during his lifetime, and the largest amount was the leader.
The first to speak was County Magistrate Sun. County Magistrate Sun thought to himself, as the head of a county, the movable property and immovable property embezzled during his lifetime also had an eight-figure figure, how could it be compared to the sesame function of that group of poor and remote people. Thinking of this, County Magistrate Sun was more confident, but he still pretended to be modest and said: "Although I am a dignified county magistrate, I am not greedy, and the total is only 10 million." ”
Unexpectedly, as soon as County Magistrate Sun's words fell, all the ghosts burst into laughter. County Magistrate Sun was blinded by laughter.
One of the ghosts laughed and coughed: "Ahem, cough, it's only 10 million, you're here to be funny." ”
"Yes!" Another ghost continued, "The dignified county magistrate is only greedy for 10 million, you really insult the name of a corrupt official!" ”
County Magistrate Sun was red-faced and bowed his head and was silent. At this time, the second ghost couldn't wait to say: "I was greedy for more than 50 million yuan when I was alive..." Some of them are greedy for 70 million, some are greedy for 80 million, and some are greedy for 100 million.
Listening to the speeches of the ghosts, County Magistrate Sun only felt a cold sweat. He never expected that among the seven ghosts, he was the least greedy, and there were pitiful few. His original sense of superiority was long gone.
Soon, the election results came out, and the winner was a ghost who was a village chief before his death, and the amount of corruption was as high as 100 million. County Magistrate Sun has the lowest status among the seven ghosts because he is the least greedy. According to the rules, ghosts with low status have to listen to those with high status. Therefore, County Magistrate Sun has become a ghost who can be called by anyone. After a while, the ghost asked him to wash his feet; After a while, the ghost asked him to carry the urinal again. Before his death, County Magistrate Sun wanted the wind to be windy and rainy, and the people around him were afraid of him, but now he was ridden by a group of sesame mung bean officials who were much smaller than himself, how could he swallow this mouthful? County Magistrate Sun wants to change the status quo, but how to change it? After thinking about it, he thought of returning to the yang world to make up for his shortcomings.
So, the county magistrate Sun found the warden of the corrupt official prison, Wuchang, hoping that impermanence could take him to see the Lord of Yama, so that he could beg the Lord of Yan to let him go back to the yang world. After hearing this, Impermanence waved his hand again and again, and said: "This is simply impossible, our Lord Hades is selfless, honest and honest, and hates corrupt officials the most, let him let you go back to the yang world, it is simply a fantasy." Take 10,000 steps back, even if you really have the ability to let Lord Hades let you go back, you won't see him anytime soon. County Magistrate Sun hurriedly asked why.
Impermanence sighed and said, "Hey, it's not because the yang world has been fighting corruption recently, which has led to more and more ghosts of corrupt officials in the underworld, and the prison for corrupt officials is already full of ghosts. In order to solve this problem, Lord Yama went to Heaven to meet the Jade Emperor, and wanted to ask the Jade Emperor to allocate funds to expand the prison for corrupt officials, and he didn't know when he would be able to come back. ”
When County Magistrate Sun heard Impermanence say this, he was very disappointed, but he was unwilling, so he begged Impermanence to help him think of a way, and piled the dark coins he carried with him on Impermanence's desk. At first, Impermanence sternly refused, because the underworld is now also engaged in anti-corruption, who dares to commit crimes against the wind? But as the coins on the table piled higher and higher, Impermanence finally compromised.
Impermanence promised County Magistrate Sun that while the king of Hades was not in the underworld for the past two days, he could secretly let County Magistrate Sun go back to the yang world, but only for one day. As the saying goes, "one day underground, one year above ground", which means that County Magistrate Sun can stay in the sun for a year. As soon as the time comes, he will immediately hook back the soul of County Magistrate Sun. Because Lord Yama may return to the underworld at any time in the past two days, once he is detected, he will not be able to eat and walk around.
When County Magistrate Sun heard this, he was overjoyed, although it was only one year, it was enough for him. Soon, Impermanence found an opportunity to secretly put the ghost of County Magistrate Sun back to the yang world.
Returning to the yang world, County Magistrate Sun found that he had only become a vegetative person and had not been cremated, so County Magistrate Sun woke up. After waking up, County Magistrate Sun learned that he had been reported before and it was just a miscommunication. For this reason, County Magistrate Sun was relieved. In the following days, County Magistrate Sun changed his cautious and cautious attitude in the early stage, let go of his courage, threw off his arms, became greedy, actively solicited bribes everywhere, and racked his brains to get oil and water. Eventually, with his unremitting efforts, the amount of embezzlement by County Magistrate Sun soon reached nine figures. At the same time, because County Magistrate Sun was too unscrupulous, it didn't take long for him to be targeted by the Commission for Discipline Inspection. The moment he was taken away from the wine table, County Magistrate Sun panicked, and as a result, he had a heart attack, and he completely lost his breath, and it was exactly a year after he returned to the yang world.
Coming to the underworld again, County Magistrate Sun was quite relaxed, because in the year in the underworld, he made up for all his shortcomings, especially when he thought that he would soon be able to be ashamed in front of his fellow inmates and rebuild his dignity, he was even more excited. Soon, County Magistrate Sun came to the prison of corrupt officials. However, to his surprise, the prison that used to be full of ghosts was now empty, and the six ghosts he had been locked up with were gone. County Magistrate Sun felt very strange, so he asked a ghost in the cell next to him.
The ghost lazily said, "They've all been taken away, not only them, but a lot of ghosts have been taken away here." ”
"And where are they all taken?" County Magistrate Sun asked anxiously.
"Why, you don't know?" The ghost looked a little surprised, and then he handed a copy of the morning report of the prefecture to the county magistrate Sun, "You can see for yourself." ”
County Magistrate Sun took the newspaper and looked at it, only to see such a piece of news appearing in the most conspicuous place on it: "In view of the strengthening of anti-corruption efforts in the yang world, which directly leads to the ghost overcrowding of corrupt officials in the underworld, and the financial constraints of the heavenly court, which is unable to expand, in order to solve this problem, the king of Hades decided to deal with the ghosts in the prison as follows - those who embezzled 20 million to 50 million during their lifetime will be sent to the third layer of hell and can only be reincarnated after 20 years of labor reform; Those who embezzle 50 million to 80 million will be sent to the ninth layer of hell and reincarnated after 30 years of labor reform; Those who embezzle 80 million to 100 million will be sent to the fifteenth layer of hell and can only be reincarnated after 50 years of labor reform; Those who embezzle more than 100 million yuan will be directly sent to the eighteenth layer of hell and will never be able to turn over. ”
After seeing it, County Magistrate Sun only felt that his eyes were dark, and then he squatted on the ground with his hands on his chest, because his heart attack had occurred again.