My old friend Mr. Li Jinlin has published another heavy anti-corruption work. This is the novel Voyage published by China International Culture Publishing House. I am amazed and delighted that an author over eighty can produce this literary work of more than 5, words.
Mr. Li Jinlin is not a professional writer, but a senior educator. He is not only tireless in preaching and teaching, but also extremely concerned about the national economy and people's livelihood. He is a literature lover, and writing is his second occupation. It is precisely because of his concern for the national economy and people's livelihood that he has determined the direction of his literary creation and the content of his writing. In the days after his retirement, due to his continuous cultivation, he published three novels, Surprise, Live Up to Heaven, and Love of Lakes and Mountains. Sailing is his fourth novel. The author of these four novels was lucky enough to read them one by one, and found that all his works revolved around one theme, that is, the concern for ordinary people, the condemnation of official corruption and the eulogy of justice. In my opinion, among the four works, Voyage is the most fascinating, and its social and literary value is also the highest.
what is the main body of voyage? The author has a caption in the title page:
The sea of people will sail triumphantly with the boat of Yimin.
Social life is complicated, and so is the story. That's why a midnight murder and corpse burning case led to so many things and so many people.
the most important thing is people's livelihood.
From this, we can feel that Voyage is a story of the struggle between justice and evil, and Voyage is a complicated story. "So many things" will be interpreted in the book, and "so many people" will appear in the story. The author's original intention is to pay attention to "people's livelihood issues."
The problems in Voyage include land expropriation and reconstruction, murder because of corruption, rampant evil forces, urban management and law enforcement, investment attraction, deterioration of social security, and so on. It is an urgent problem for a city to solve.
Zhao Mingsheng is the first positive figure in Voyage. He used to be a member of the Standing Committee of Lezhou Municipal Committee and deputy mayor. Because of his excellent thinking, solid style and outstanding performance, he was attached great importance by the leaders of the provincial party committee and was assigned to be the member of the Standing Committee, deputy secretary and acting mayor of the Municipal Committee in a big city with serious problems. The first chapter of this book, "The mayor-to-be was beaten", not only opened the prelude to "Sailing", but also made the first person shine.
However, Zhao Mingsheng, as a "prospective mayor", was not greeted by the crowd or applauded. He was beaten as soon as he appeared, which is the author's skill in planning the layout of the article. Because of avoiding the foreshadowing of mediocrity and getting straight to the point, the complexity of political ecology and the seriousness of the problem in big cities have been revealed at once. It reflects the author's cleverness.
the "prospective mayor" is actually the acting mayor. The place where he was beaten was on the road of the big city where he was about to take office. It was the law enforcement officers of Dazhou Urban Management Bureau who hit him. Because he didn't like the brutal law enforcement of a group of urban management law enforcement officers, Zhao Mingsheng dared to stop it regardless of what he was eager to do and how unfamiliar he was. Fierce law enforcement officers saw that this man was just an ordinary stranger, so they had no fear and slapped him and his driver, Gazi, ruthlessly. At that time, no one knew that it was the acting mayor who came to the big city to take office.
after a wave of unrest, another wave rises. After taking office, Zhao Minsheng encountered problems one after another. Apart from stopping the brutal law enforcement of urban management cadres from being beaten, new situations emerged: a fire, a man-made arson that killed two people ... What puzzled him was that the public security bureau chief Long Qingyong downplayed this vicious case and was indifferent to the deceased.
The determination to get to the bottom of the vicious case suddenly made the evil forces hidden in big cities wake up. The new mayor Zhao is a tough character, and he must be brought down or even removed quickly. As a result, Mayor Zhao has experienced many times of corrosion and wooing. After the tactics of corruption and wooing failed, he experienced many times of framing until he was in danger of being assassinated. Time and again, the contest between justice and evil was staged in big cities.
the reason why mayor Zhao can save the day is the result of his integrity and love for the people. Because of his personality charm, he won the trust and support of cadres and the masses with a sense of justice in big cities. He went deep into the grassroots and cared about the sufferings of ordinary people; He is ambitious, and he must uncover the shady activities of a few people in big cities, and he must bring the criminals to justice. Therefore, he has a lot of help. This character is an idol in the author's mind and a trustworthy good official.
With the development of the plot of the novel and the in-depth investigation of major cases, government officials (such as the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, deputy secretary, executive deputy mayor Mu Xinwen, public security bureau chief Long Qingyong, etc.) and the leading figures of the two major groups behind it (namely, You Jinda of Jinda Group Company and Cai Hongzhou of Hongzhou Group Company) emerged, thus forming the faltering of the complexity of the social environment and the story of big cities.
The opposites of justice are the leaders of two groups who claim to be the economic heroes of developing big cities, but in fact, they rob big cities of their resources. Because you Jinda and Cai Hongzhou both kept a group of thugs. These thugs do all kinds of evil, so these two groups are criminal gangs with many lives, which are the root causes of the deterioration of social security, frequent major cases and complaints from ordinary people in big cities. In Li Jinlin's novels, these bloody criminals, because of their collusion with some government officials, have greatly increased the difficulty of solving crimes, so there is a battle of wits between justice and evil, suspense, complicated and tortuous plots, and readers' interest in reading.
In the novel, Li Jinlin reveals that it is difficult for local evil forces to succeed without corrupt officials who are ill at ease. In the book, senior officials such as Mu Xinwen and Long Qingyong are typical of corrupt officials nowadays. These corrupt officials are hypocritical, morally corrupt, greedy for money, and dominate the officialdom, but they are obedient to the big bosses such as You Jinda and Cai Hongzhou. In front of the public, they are full of benevolence and morality, and they are gentlemen; Behind their backs, they are devil wears prada, thieves and prostitutes. Their two-faced faces are vivid in the book.
In the book, there are clear lines, including corrupt officials and representatives of evil forces, such as You Jinda and Cai Hongzhou. There are thugs who do evil, such as Tong Shun, Duan Huayan, Yan Ping and Wu Deli. There are also anti-corruption fighters who are upright, courageous and courageous, such as mayor Zhao Mingsheng, later party secretary Zhou Yumin, public security policemen Teng Long, Guan Hongjian, Xiong Feng, Yan Yuqing, and discipline inspection commission cadre Zhong Shan Yang Hongzheng.
The author endows his characters with personality attributes. Some are honest and some are greedy; Some are kind, some are cruel; Some are upright, aggressive, some are evil and wretched, and their hearts are dark ... These characters are not difficult to meet in our real life. Therefore, it is credible. Of course, there are also people who are neither too bad nor too bad, such as Wang Bingjun, secretary of the municipal party committee who has served in big cities for a long time. He didn't appear much, but he left a deep impression on the readers. This person is honest, and has a good popularity in big cities. He doesn't think seriously about the problems in big cities, keeps the bad guys around him quiet, and pays too much attention to their jobs. This is also a typical example in officialdom. It is natural that he was transferred from the post of party secretary.
When corrupt officials and evil forces are caught in the net, it is self-evident that people will be happy when the big cities with dark clouds come to light.
in voyage, the struggle between justice and evil is carried out through specific people and things. As a result, major cases occurred one after another, and detection and anti-detection were staged nervously and fiercely, which made the book suspenseful and interesting. The dense fog, interlocking, twists and turns of the plot, and the fascinating reading effect of this work < P > An octogenarian and a retired teacher who is not in good health, why should he tirelessly write a novel? The author thinks that the author has too much to say, too many wishes to express, and too many appeals to appeal to words. Therefore, regardless of his old age and infirmity, he has a high sense of social responsibility to enlighten the world with literature: even in today's prosperous times, with the step-by-step progress of reform and opening up, the struggle between good and evil is objective and independent of human will. As the ruling party, we must put the people in our hearts and put people's livelihood first. Only by building the party for the public and working diligently for the people can we keep the country unchanged forever. This is also an old man's feelings of home and country.
Teacher Li Jinlin wants me to give some advice on his novels. As a good friend, I can only teach others how to swim.
What is slightly insufficient in this book is that there are more politicized terms and the excavation of the inner world of the characters is shallow. However, despite its flaws, Voyage can still be classified as a masterpiece that highlights positive energy.
This article is published in June 218 in Literature Education.