The author was born in the 80s of the last century, and I have retained a lot of memories of that era from the perspective of a child. The memories of childhood seem to have been selected by God, and they are all beautiful, but those seemingly ordinary and beautiful memories at that time have a lot to think about in retrospect. At that time, there were many poor people, but I felt very happy, but the society at that time was really chaotic.
Few people go out to do business, most of the families live on the fields, and the occasional person who goes out to make a living will definitely become the news of ten miles and eight villages. Because in the era of poor social security, it is very risky to go out to make a living, and it is very likely that you will not be able to get the money you have earned for a year, and you will not be able to get your home.
In today's film and television dramas, you can occasionally see the plot of rural people sewing money on their underwear, which led to the rampant road rage thieves in the eighties and nineties of the last century. I don't know how bad the law and order was in the eighties and nineties, and I don't know how happy life is now.
Firearms are commonplace
When I was seven or eight years old, I saw and touched a gun, and I am afraid that none of today's children have this experience. The gun I have seen is a native gun, and the specific name and origin are unclear. When it snows heavily in the winter in my hometown, pheasants will go to the fields to forage for food, and at this time, there will be farmers with earthen guns to shoot pheasants.
The locked pheasant is basically doomed, because the snow pheasant is slow to aim, and there are really bullets in the gun. As soon as the gunshots were heard, everyone knew that someone was hunting pheasants, and the greedy children would run out and follow the pheasant hunters. However, at that time, the relationship between the people in the village was good, and whoever caught a pheasant would stew a pot of chicken soup full of chicken soup and distribute it to the neighbors.
No one has counted how many of these guns there are in the village, and although not every household has them, they can be borrowed anywhere if needed. It's a scary thing to think about now, but fortunately, the neighborhood relationship in the author's village is relatively harmonious, and there have been no violent brawls. But other villages had heard from adults that someone had injured someone with a gun.
The gun I touched was a pistol, and the pistol belonged to a distant cousin, who was a police officer at the local police station. By chance, my cousin came to a wooded area with a few children, and he took out a pistol from his waist and let us touch them one by one.
Whether it was a village gun or a police pistol, it was not uncommon at the time, because there were many people who owned guns at that time. Although the people in our village have earthen guns, they are limited to shooting pheasants, and no one does anything harmful.
The reason why my cousin was armed with guns and ammunition during non-work hours was also because the social order at that time was very bad, and there was a possibility of fighting with bandits and hooligans at any time. The poor social order in the eighties and nineties of the last century can be seen from the peasants' possession of earthen guns and the policemen's loaded guns.
The village tyrant is indispensable
Another real-life example, which I heard from my classmates, happened in rural Henan. The village chief is the head of a village, but don't treat the village chief as a cadre, because the village chief is in charge of the village's major and minor affairs, and many policies related to the peasants must be implemented by the village head. When I was young, I didn't understand the country's policies and regulations at all, and I just heard some complaints from adults.
When they go to university, many people have a better understanding of national policies, and they don't know that their rights and interests have been violated before, and some dare not speak out when they know it.
The head of his classmate's village had been a hereditary family for as long as he could remember, and no one in their village had ever seen a ballot, so no one dared to raise any opinion on this. The family power of the village chief's family is relatively large, and if someone dares to think about the election of the village chief, some people dare to smash it at home in broad daylight.
If someone dares to go beyond the level and sue, the result will be that the people of the family will be affected. According to classmates, the village bully also forced a girl to death. At that time, the peasants had a very limited level of education, coupled with the slow flow of information, and they did not know much about the state's policies.
In the rural areas of the eighties and nineties of the last century, the vast majority of families struggled to make ends meet, but the village chief's family built a house similar to the current villa early on. Many homes in the village are not connected to electricity, and the electric fans in the village chief's house are on all night. Children want to be soldiers, apply for homesteads, etc., it is impossible to do things without money, and there are many such acts.
Road rage robbers are rampant
The village tyrant is not the worst of nature, there are more serious road tyrants, who do everything to smash and loot. Whether it is a train, a car or a bus, whether it is public or private, there is nothing that a road fighter does not dare to rob.
Their gang is premeditated, not only is there a large number of people, but also has guns and ammunition, which makes people panic for a while, and now road trips and travel friends are very common phenomena, if you put it in the eighties and nineties, these people are lambs to the slaughter.
To what extent was the road rage rampant back then, to give a few well-documented examples. A peasant in Guizhou planted explosives on the railway, blew up three carriages, and killed six people, just to take advantage of the chaos to rob the goods on the train. At that time, the prompt sound of the train about to enter the station was: Please note that XXX station has arrived, please take care of your belongings and do not get off the train casually".
Some people will be suspicious: If public order is so bad, will the government not care about it? Of course, the government will manage it, and it will do it strictly, and it has promulgated the "Decision on Severely Cracking Down on Criminal Offenses." However, there are many factors that have caused such a bad social order, and they cannot be changed overnight.
In the eighties and nineties of the last century, when the results of reform and opening up were initially revealed, people's thinking was extremely unstable, and many people could not find a way out and direction, so they had to start with stealing, robbing and stealing with quick results. In addition, the criminal investigation technology at that time was backward, and the success rate of the crime was very high.
There are also some political reasons, before the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, just like in "Latent", it planted a lot of spies on the mainland, and they never gave up their tasks, and from time to time they would attack the government, schools and other public places.
In 2020, a 20-year-old murder case was solved, and fugitive Lo Rongzhi was finally brought to justice after more than 20 years in exile. Lao Rongzhi is handsome, she was a teacher before she was not involved in the case, and her life reversal began with knowing Fa Ziying. Fa Ziying has been imprisoned for robbery, hooliganism, and intentional injury, and has been divorced, it is really unbelievable that such a person with a bad record would be favored by Lao Rongzhi.
Fa Ziying confessed after his arrest that Lao Rongzhi admired him very much for being a person who dared to fight and kill. In fact, at that time, Fa Ziying was not unreasonable, Lao Rongzhi followed Fa Ziying to the point of no return, and finally 7 people died tragically under the hands of this pair of outlaw mandarin ducks.
The sky net is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, and now that Lao Rongzhi has also fallen into the legal net, he finally gives an explanation to those who were killed. and the serial murder case of Baiyin, which was solved in 2016, also started at the end of the last century, and the case of Lao Rongzhi shows how bad the social order was at the beginning.
Brief summary:
Nowadays, with the popularization of education, people's ideological and cultural level has been generally improved, and the development of the country's economy has also provided many people with opportunities to earn a living.
Today's large-scale, premeditated vicious criminal cases rarely occur, compared with the social security environment in the eighties and nineties of the last century, people's lives are really too happy today.