This year's giant anti-corruption blockbuster "in the name of people" is in full swing. It is said that this is a TV series that dare not play fast forward when watching, for fear of missing a key line and affecting the judgment of the plot behind. I seldom watch TV series at ordinary times, but seeing friends and colleagues around me talking about how good the play is after dinner and how it shocked me aroused my curiosity strongly, and finally I couldn't help but start chasing it in the middle of the night.
Everyone has a different reaction after watching the play. Some people see making friends at different levels, some people study marriage philosophy, some people sum up the magic weapon of how to gain a foothold in officialdom according to this film, and some even wrote an article on this film called "On the Cultivation of an Official Wife".
Personally, the biggest feeling when reading in the name of people is that desire is both an opium that makes people happy and an abyss that makes people destroy.
Zhao, director of a Ministry in Beijing, took advantage of his position and embezzled as much as 200 million yuan in the past four years. When the staff of the procuratorate came to Zhao's hiding place, they found that his refrigerator, walls and bed were all covered with red hundred-dollar bills, which was simply amazing and dumbfounded. Seeing this scene, a lyric floated in my mind instantly: "... crops are everywhere, money is everywhere ...". A corrupt official in the real version of the National Energy Administration was counted by the staff after being reported to have fallen off the horse, and four money counters were burned on the spot, so it is conceivable how much cash there was.
Since they are greedy for so much money, their usual life must be luxurious, right? Not exactly. When the prosecutor came to arrest Zhao, he was sitting in a humble house, eating a bowl of squeezed noodles with relish. He has a simple and honest face and simple clothes. He usually rides an electric car to work and keeps saying that he is the son of a farmer. Where did he think he was a rich man? According to Zhao, he didn't spend so much money, and he didn't dare to spend it. But he likes to smell money. It must be full of joy to look at your money before going to bed every night.
According to Zhao, the first money he received was a 500,000 bank card. He kept the card in his pocket for a whole month and had a fierce struggle inside. In the end, desire prevailed over reason. He went to the bank and took out 500 thousand yuan one by one and brought it home. Since then, it has been out of control.
This reminds me of an old story. In the Song Dynasty, Zhang Chengya was the county magistrate of Chongyang. At that time, there were many incidents in which soldiers and non-commissioned officers invaded officers and stole property. Zhang Chengya decided to rectify this bad phenomenon. One day, when he was patrolling the yamen, he saw a small official coming out of the warehouse in a panic. Zhang Chengya stopped the little official and found a penny hidden under his turban. The deacon was caught red-handed and admitted that he stole it from the state treasury. Zhang Chengya returned to the lobby with the beadle and ordered torture. The little official said unconvinced: a penny is nothing! You can only hit me, not kill me! Zhang Chengya was furious and sentenced: a dollar a day, a thousand dollars a day, a rope sawed off, a drop of water wears away the stone. Immediately ordered the little collectors to be beheaded.
History is always strikingly similar. In ancient times, a small official was beheaded, but now Zhao has been destroyed by 500 thousand. When Zhao got the first money of accepting bribes, he fell into the desire for money. Unfortunately, no one noticed him, so he dug his own grave and put himself on the people's bench. In addition to the severe punishment of the law, there are endless regrets waiting for him.
Don't reach out, you will be caught if you reach out.
People who hold a possessive attitude towards money in everything are also possessed by money and become slaves to it.
Represented by the public security bureau chief Qi Tongwei and the political and legal committee secretary Gao. Qi Tongwei, in particular, even sold his soul in order to climb up, get promoted and get rich. He cruelly abandoned his beloved girlfriend, but chose to marry Liang Lu, who had no emotional foundation and was ten years older than himself, and proposed to Liang Lu on one knee in full view. It was because Liang Lu's father was then the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee that he was able to make a difference in his official career.
Qi Tongwei's wishful thinking is not wrong. Over the years, with the help of his father-in-law and teachers, he rose step by step and became the director of the provincial public security department at a young age. This is a position that many people envy and hate. Supposedly, it is time to meet! However, Qi Tongwei's desire for power is beyond ordinary people's imagination, and his greedy eyes are fixed on the position of vice governor. Therefore, he did not hesitate to take risks again, colluded with profiteers and lawless elements, repeatedly tried the law, deliberately murdered informed reporters, and covered up his shady criminal activities. There is a proverb in foreign countries: once a humble person comes to power, he will be more cruel than anyone else.
Just like Qi Tongwei, there is also a wily "smiling tiger". This knowledgeable law professor from Han Dong University has regarded promotion as his only ideal since he took office. His goal is to squeeze out his current working partners and become secretary of the provincial party Committee smoothly.
A person who likes power too much will do whatever it takes.
He colluded with his favorite pupil, Qi Tongwei, with officials and businessmen, ignoring the interests of the law and the people, just to satisfy his own selfish desires. He is eager for power and status, just as his student Qi Tongwei commented on him: "... teachers want boundless power. Even if you give him a golden mountain, he will turn it into strength. " What greed and ambition this is!
In the well-known story "Zheng Boke Duan" in Zuo Zhuan, Duan Guishu is Zheng's younger brother, who sealed a large city and was honored as "Uncle". It can be said that one person is above ten thousand people, but he is still not satisfied. He also wanted more fiefs and more power, challenging the monarch's bottom line again and again, causing the monarch's anger.
Therefore, if you do more injustice, you will die.
Buddhism calls "greed, anger, stupidity, slowness and doubt" the "five poisonous hearts". This greed is the source of desire. If there is greed in your heart, you will willingly be bound by it, become its slave, and even let it lead by the nose with peace of mind. In addition to sleeping at night, I am busy working from morning till night, making money, getting rich, getting promoted, pursuing all kinds of fame and fortune, and sometimes even unscrupulous, which is immoral.
Everyone is hungry for money and power. But the quantity and degree of possession must be obtained in the right way within the scope of one's own ability. If you don't understand your heart and grab it by improper means, everything you get in the world will become a burden and a shackle, and eventually you will become a camel with a load, trapped in the desert and unable to get out, either exposed to the sun or dried up. Oscar Wilde said: There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want. If you don't get what you want, there will be a pain in your heart, but if you get what you want but don't want it, it will make you suffer for a lifetime.
Desire, like sea water, always makes you thirsty. If we don't control the door of desire in time and let it open at will, it is tantamount to quenching thirst by drinking poison and bringing about self-destruction.