The second grade brother was very angry.

When others see this notice, they may not take it seriously. At most, they will complain that the superior is forcing public opinion and destroying customs. The smarter people will guess that the superior has invented another way to make money, but this is

In Gao Qiang's eyes, the connotation was much deeper. You must know that Mr. Gao had just visited the graves of his ancestors and had only returned to Beijing for a few days. Such an incident happened in Shannan Province, which made people think too much!

As expected, the forced cremation incident soon became a commotion.

That day's Shannan Daily newspaper first published an article, which was short but passionate. It listed the dangers of burials. It was nothing more than a billion people in the country. If everyone died and they were buried in a grave, then how many years later, fertile land would be gone.

It will turn everything into a cemetery, so I strongly request cremation. No matter if you weigh more than 100 kilograms or more than 200 kilograms, after burning, only a small urn can hold it...

That night, the Shannan Focus column aired a special topic on the extravagant expenses of funerals. It deeply discussed that with the reform and opening up, people's living standards have been improving day by day, and funerals have become more and more grand. Not to mention the noisy city people, big cars and small cars.

The traffic was blocked, and the rural areas were even disturbed by the suona team for several days. Eating and drinking on running tables was a waste of money and resources, which had a bad impact on the surrounding environment...

The next day, major newspapers in Shannan began to launch a full-scale campaign, using vivid examples to discuss that cremation is an inevitable trend of social development, frugal funerals, and frugal wedding banquets will be the fashion of the future. Echoing the notice issued by the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, the vigorous momentum

It’s so lively. Comprehensive cremation is the general trend. Anyone who dares to obstruct or respond passively is a public enemy...

After several days of commotion, the upper and lower minds were quickly unified. No matter what the people thought, civil affairs at all levels began to strictly implement the instructions from their superiors. The municipal crematorium was busy expanding, and the county level unexpectedly received emergency funding from superiors.

, the construction of crematoriums and public cemeteries was also required to be completed within a time limit. At the same time, the provincial government held a meeting and the city held a meeting. After the city held a meeting, the county held a meeting. After the county held a meeting, it organized personnel to start visiting every village, and issued a notice and mandatory order.

From now on, everyone who dies will have to go to the crematorium. If someone in that village secretly buries it, digs it out and burns it, the village chief's bonus will be deducted and the prisoner's hat will be removed...

The superiors suppressed the subordinates, and one level suppressed the other. In less than half a month, a vigorous forced cremation movement was launched!

But there are not many people who can really understand this matter, and the few who can understand this matter are all kind-hearted but stern!

It is said that all parts of the country have received notices from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but other provinces and cities just quietly require all districts and counties to have a crematorium. Only Shannan Province requires cremation for all people.

It is said that all cities in Shannan Province have issued notices from the province, but most places just turn a blind eye to secret burials. The only ones who really demand zero burials and dismissal from office if they fail to complete the task are

There is Yunan City!

It is said that Guo Jinqiu, secretary of the Yunan Municipal Party Committee, was praised by Secretary Li in public for his meritorious service in strictly implementing the orders of his superiors. Subsequently, the provincial newspaper published another article, but it was after investigation and research by relevant experts that they gave an

The data on the total area of ​​graves in the province are astonishingly huge. They even clamored that the dead people buried in the ground caused serious damage to the soil, and called on the province to order the graves to be leveled for the sake of future generations!

It is said that news came that an old man in the capital was angry, but he had nowhere to vent his anger. He was so angry that he stayed in bed for half a month...

The second brother Gao came to Beijing, and first went to visit Mr. Gao. Mr. Gao was really angry, but his health was not serious. The second brother Gao took his grandfather and chatted for a long time, but the matter of cremation and tomb leveling was brought up.

I didn't mention it at all, I just chatted with the old man about the family affairs, and waited until the uncle came back in the evening and started to murmur again.

The discussion lasted until about ten o'clock in the middle of the night, but Brother Gao didn't stay at the Xishan Villa. He quietly ran to a hotel and had a tryst with Sister Yi, who had returned to Beijing the day before. Naturally, there was a lot of trouble. At dawn, he and Sister Yi reluctantly parted ways.

, went straight to the courtyard house I bought in Beijing.

The courtyard was busy with renovations. Brother Gao was not short of money this time. He went to Las Vegas and made a profit of one or two billion. He left half of it for Han Yi's busy company and the rest.

I left everything to Gu Jianying and asked him to help take care of the decoration of the house.

In the huge courtyard, dozens of decoration workers and ancient building restoration teams have restored the front and middle courtyards to the retro style according to the requirements of Brother Gao. Everything is original. When you enter, you feel like you have traveled through time. It is just a light bulb.

Candlesticks and lanterns are made of hidden wires, and the courtyards on both sides and the backyard are modernly decorated. Once you enter the house, you feel like you have entered a unit. It is clean and simple, with sofas, telephones, LCD TVs, bathrooms, etc. all in the room.

The wing room on one side of the courtyard has also been converted into a garage, which is convenient and safe for entry and exit. Gu Jianying was very happy when she saw it. She only regretted that she would have bought a house to live in if she had known this. Unfortunately, this courtyard house is not that easy to buy.

It's only been a year since I arrived. One square meter has already increased by a thousand dollars, let alone one as big as Brother Gao. I'm afraid there won't be many units available in the whole capital, and no one who lives there will be willing to sell it.

The second brother Gao casually took a look at the decoration effect and went straight into the backyard. The decoration was started here first, and now the project has been basically completed. The second brother Gao sat on the big sofa and greeted brother Gu Jianying and chatted for a long time.

After waiting for half an hour, I heard someone shouting outside the door, but it was Mr. Han Yihan who arrived.

Miss Han is now a very distinguished eldest sister among a group of children. She is in charge of several major businesses of Qiangfei Company, but she does not have everything covered. The two following her are Gao Wenting, a powerful eldest sister, and Qu

Xinyu's sister, Qu Xuan, has now resigned from her official position and followed her to the sea. They help Han Yi share several domestic businesses. After more than half a year of training, she is basically in charge of her own business.

"Haha. Boss Gao has really made a fortune. Look at the place where he lives. It's much better than the old man's place." Han Yi said with a smile, and quickly rolled her eyes at Brother Gao without saying a word. But there was that look in his eyes.

How could the tenderness and sweetness be concealed from the second brother Gao?

Brother Gao Er chuckled and said: "How can we compare? The old man has police and medical staff there, and the central leaders come to ask him how he is every now and then. Can we, an upstart, compare with him?"

Everyone laughed. Gao Wenting and Qu Xuan also praised the beautiful house. Naturally, Brother Gao immediately invited him: "The place is big and there are many houses. I don't often stay in the capital. If you like it, you can come and stay."

Gu Jianxiong, who was in charge of the decoration supervision, smiled and said: "I have already moved in..."

Everyone responded with a roar, and the three beauties all made reservations to come and stay for two days after the decoration was completed. After a while, everyone sat down on the sofa. After adjusting their mood, they talked about business.

The six of them muttered for a long time until they had dinner together again at noon.

I was thinking of going to Xinsiyu Film and Television Company in the afternoon, but I didn’t know that I received a call from the district while eating. I couldn’t explain the hotel. Brother Gao asked Gu Jianying to take him to the airport, and returned to Yunan that day...

It was calm for several days.

Compulsory cremation is being implemented in an orderly manner. Crematoria have been built in various provinces, cities and counties. Many places have officially begun to implement provincial regulations. Compulsory cremation has been implemented quite smoothly in cities. Most urban residents do not have cemeteries at all.

You said buying a cemetery to bury people. That’s not a question of money. The key is that a cemetery is different from other things. Who among Chinese people who pay attention to Feng Shui would be willing to bury unrelated people in their own village?

Besides, encouraging cremation has been implemented for decades, and urban residents are quite tolerant of whether it is compulsory or not.

However, this matter is not easy to handle in rural areas. The traditional concept of burial has lasted for thousands of years. When you think of cremation, you think of the term "crushing ashes" to express hatred. Who would want to let their parents and elders

No bones left? The most critical issue is that cremation charges a fee. It costs several hundred to burn an individual. It is also mandatory to buy an urn. The cheapest one costs three to five hundred. There is only one cremation in the county.

The urn must be taken dozens of miles away, and relatives and neighbors at home must also go with them. Chartering a car for this round trip costs several hundred. Then to take the urn back home, you have to dig a hole and buy a coffin.

Burying a person is simply an extra step of cremation, costing several thousand dollars more. For rural people who depend on the sky for food, this huge expense is not a small sum.

Therefore, the custom in rural areas of Yunan is to hold funerals in the morning, but now all funerals are secretly buried at night, without blowing the trumpet or setting off cannons. As soon as relatives and neighbors are notified, the deceased will be buried on the same day. The provincial civil affairs people find out and they will forcefully arrest the person.

He went to the crematorium so much that the children of those whose family members were working outside the country couldn't wait to come back. This caused outrage and resentment, and the Civil Affairs Bureau became the target of everyone's reviling.

The Civil Affairs Bureau does not have enough manpower, how can it guard so many rural areas? It is no wonder that there are frequent recruitments. Temporary workers are recruited to form a commando team, and they go to the countryside to see where there are dead people. In addition, there are rewards for reporting people. Reporting someone is dead.

The bonus for burial is 200 yuan. As expected, a lot of information has been collected. In order to control the situation, some people braved the public anger to dig up the grave and dig up the grave. They took it to the crematorium and burned it to ashes again. The ashes will not be given to your family. You have to

After paying the cremation fee and the fine of 3,500 for the urn, it will be returned to you for reburial.

The people are angry, but they can only hold it in. This is an eternal truth that the people do not fight with the officials. Even if they faint from anger, they can only borrow money and pay fines in tears - although people are burned to ashes, they cannot give up.

The ashes have to be buried in the soil and a monument built. It’s always a thought.

More than a month after the policy was implemented, everything seems to be going smoothly, and the forced cremation has basically been successful. Although there is some public outrage, the overall situation is that everything is stable. Some people in the province are complacent and have begun to publicly solicit public opinion on whether the peace process should be carried out again.

grave movement.

The matter of soliciting public opinion has caused a stir of public opinion in newspapers and media. Countless experts have jumped out to talk about the impact of abundant burials on social progress. They predict that if burials are not banned, our province will have no arable land in a few years, and hundreds of millions of people will be killed.

What do people eat?

After several days of clamoring, it seemed that the general trend was to level the tomb. From the provincial party committee to the common people, everyone was united in thinking that this matter should be feasible. The Provincial Department of Civil Affairs announced that a public vote of experts and mass representatives would be held in three days, but everyone knew it.

This kind of thing is just a formality, just like soliciting public opinions on whether electricity bills should be increased or food prices should be increased. All experts are paid. Mass representatives also have subsidies. If you agree, you agree. If you disagree, it doesn't matter.

If you don't agree, the voting result must be that the majority agrees, and a small number of people have reservations, making it look like it is true.

Just when I thought the grave-leveling movement was about to take place, a sudden news shocked the upper management - someone was dead!

It's normal for people to die, but the way this person died is a bit hard to explain.

But it is a county in Yunan. There is an old couple in a small mountain village. They have been married for more than fifty years and have three sons and two daughters. The old man is seventy-eight and in good health. He goes to the fields to weed with a hoe every day. He is tired from work this day.

After drinking a bowl of cold water, she suddenly ran out of breath and cried to the death.

Naturally, the family knew that they were clamoring for compulsory cremation recently, but the rural people still secretly buried him. The father who died at noon that day cut down a large tung tree in the afternoon and made a thin-skinned coffin. He took it to his field and dug a hole in the middle of the night.

, the villagers helped and buried it.

But there was a bachelor in the neighboring village who was very poor. He heard about this and wanted to earn the 200 yuan reporting fee. He made a call to the Civil Affairs Bureau, and two bread trucks and a crematorium came early the next morning.

The person carrying the manure rake and shovel in the funeral car did not bother to notify the family members and just threw away the new soil and new grave. If the coffin could not be pulled out, he pried it open. He threw the old man into the car and prepared to leave, but

Unexpectedly, when the village heard the news, they all rushed out.

You must know that the old man's fairness and prestige in the village are not small. After he died, his grave was dug up, which really made people angry. When the old lady saw that the old man was dug up again, she cried out without saying anything.

When the Civil Affairs Bureau officers saw this situation, they were just worried. If they dared to stay any longer, they would drag the dead person away with just one chapter of the fine notice.

But how could this old man, three sons and two daughters agree? On weekdays, he had five or six people from all over the country. Not to mention the dead father, he just said that the living family had to save face, so let’s take the car.

He refused to let them go, but the people in the Civil Affairs Bureau were all temporary workers, and they were not very good at fighting in the county. They would push people away when they were cursing, but they didn't want to anger the old man's youngest son.

"I-cao-your ancestor" was followed by another slap, knocking the temporary worker staggering. A group of colleagues came up together with shovels. Unfortunately, this completely ignited the anger of the villagers.

A hundred men, old and young, plus mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, were scolded and beaten. The Civil Affairs Bureau gang was beaten until their heads were covered with blood and they hid in the car without daring to get out. They called the police and the county bureau leaders took it seriously and sent the security brigade directly.

, the Criminal Investigation Brigade and the police station's cooperation, dozens of policemen rushed over to arrest people and stop the riot. However, they did not want to scare the old lady who had just woken up when the police arrived. She hugged the old lady who had just walked out of the funeral car.

The smelly old man who had been kidnapped started crying, but he said that if you die, you will die, but you have sinned for a whole village of living people. After crying three times, he suddenly shut up. When he confronted the police,

When the villagers thought about it, they found that the old man had already died while holding him in his arms...

The news spread to the county, frightening the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau so much that his legs went weak on the spot. The county secretary dropped his teacup to the ground and reported it to the city. Guo Jinqiu's eyes darkened. He was afraid that something had happened, and he ordered a blockade.

news, and quickly reported it to Secretary Li...

After blocking the news and appeasing the family members, the county magistrate and the civil affairs director personally came forward and specially approved the burial of the old couple, and even had to pay compensation to the three sons and two daughters. After all the good words and threats, the family of three were finally buried.

Guo Jinqiu breathed a sigh of relief after being reassured and reported the good news to Secretary Li. He just put down the phone and took a sip of tea. When he turned on the computer, he saw a line of large characters slowly flowing in the news scrolling window of Qiang Fei's desktop system -

—Yunan forced cremation, dug graves, and a 70-year-old woman died on the spot...
To be continued...