Last time we talked about the “Kunming Judge Knife Wenbing suspected of intentional homicide” case. In this case, the deputy director of the judicial division of Kunming Intermediate Court, who was pushed to her death by Jian Wenbing from a 23-story building, is central to understanding the whole story. But because of her death, this trail has become a dead end. Information about the female director on the Internet is also extremely scarce and does not constitute the puzzle of her character at all.
However, while looking through the information, I came across another female Yunnan official with a similar background: Luo Min, a former director of the Yunnan Rural Credit Union. It seems that we can get a glimpse of the former Yunnan bureaucratic ecology behind the Dao Wenbing and the female director cases from this Director Luo.
In addition to Luo Min, we also need to start with a much bigger and more “transparent” person than Luo Min: Su Hongbo from the Northeast.
Su Hongbo, who had nothing to do with Yunnan, was a man who changed all that with a dinner party. A dinner party changed all that.
During the 2003 National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, then-Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee Bai Enpei invited a leader to dinner, and met Su Hongbo, a businessman, and a group of leaders at another table. So, the two tables were combined into one. The meal was light-hearted and enjoyable. But the meal became an unexpected bonus for Bai Enpei: as a feudal official, a group of key figures in Beijing, who were normally difficult to get to know, were able to pay their respects to all the docks and really get closer just through an efficient dinner party.
This was a big favor for Su Hongbo, of course. Not only that. Bai Enpei had to look up to Su Hongbo ever since. The “energy” hidden in Su Hongbo’s long-sleeved dance at that dinner party was enough to shock the Yunnan provincial party secretary.
Yes, this dinner party became Su Hongbo’s ticket and pass for his unimpeded future in Yunnan.
Whenever Su Hongbo traveled to Kunming from Beijing on business, Bai Enpei would know in advance and would make sure that his wife, Zhang Huiqing, invited him to his home for dinner and a chat. According to Su Hongbo, no matter how big a leader Bai Enpei was with that day, he would always come home at 8:00 p.m. to have a drink and chat with him.
Bai Enpei’s attitude was Su Hongbo’s signature in Yunnan. He quickly became the most popular person in Yunnan. Qin Guangrong, then deputy secretary of Yunnan Province and later governor and secretary of Yunnan Province, also approached him, asking Cao Jianfang, then standing committee member and vice governor of Yunnan Province, to arrange a private dinner party for Su Hongbo. Qin Guangrong made sure to walk and chat with Su Hongbo every day of his stay in Kunming. Cao Jianfang, who was in charge of the reception, was very respectful to Su Hongbo and always called him “chief.
He is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, which is responsible for the reception of Su Hongbo. Su Hongbo gradually became known as “Eunuch Su” and “Eunuch Su” in Yunnan’s underground bureaucracy. The name of the “Old Buddha”. Officials flocked to him, and the looming “Su Hongbo” was worshipped like a god.
At a high-class club in the Yangzonghai scenic area of Kunming, Su Hongbo and a group of Yunnan officials and businessmen of all sizes attended a dinner hosted by Bai Enpei, the provincial party secretary. The guests and hosts were seated and chatting happily. But as they chatted, a topic annoyed Su Hongbo, who pounded the table in front of Bai Enpei and everyone else, and then left. Su Hongbo said afterwards that he didn’t think much of it at the time, because that’s how Northeasterners are. But the scene was deeply engraved in the minds of all the guests, and soon became a public “hidden legend” in Yunnan.
A local Yunnan businessman, Lin Xiangdong, recalled that after another dinner party, when everyone went to sing, Su Hongbo drank too much and “faced a deputy provincial leader, who slapped him across the face and said. ‘Get the hell away from me.’ ”
Of course, Su Hongbo is not really so stubborn that he doesn’t know how to save face for the officials. He is a benefactor. He will not give the officials a single cent of the benefits they deserve. Su Hongbo himself said he gave Qin Guangrong 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars, 100,000 U.S. dollars, and a golden mooncake in eight installments. He bought a million insurance policies for Cao Jianfang’s young grandson and wrapped up a 100,000 yuan red envelope for Cao Jianfang’s sister. He cared for the officials like a family member.
In the first generation of the clan, it is said that in the world, some people live their lives as faces and some live their lives as miles. Usually, officials are the face, businessmen are the lining, power is the face, and money is the lining. But in Yunnan, this seems to have been reversed by Su Hongbo, who is more than a reversal. More than reversing it, he was a man of both face and face. It’s also current events that make it so.
There are more and more rumors about Su Hongbo, and in the fickle Yunnan bureaucracy, the more real and concrete his skills and knowledge become. He recommended someone to the secretary of the provincial party committee, and the next day the secretary talked to him and told him that you had been reclassified from the vice hall.
Su Hongbo became recognized as the central figure in a secretive circle of officials in Yunnan. It is the dream of all peripheral officials, second and third tier officials, to enter this circle. In the words of the official in charge of the case, this is: “to take an antenna”.
And as many legends as there are, Su Hongbo is feared, and his business in Yunnan is carried out as smoothly as possible.
I couldn’t even find any trace of his business on the Internet. But what we do know is that Su Hongbo won the famous South Huanhu Road project in Kunming with a single greeting from Qin Guangrong. This is apparently just one of the very few that Su Hongbo has in his Yunnan interests.
In order to better understand how Su Hongbo was able to thread the needle in a treacherous Yunnan bureaucracy, it is important to note that he was not the only one who had a hand in the project. The second character in our story, Luo Min, is about to make her debut.
From the day she retired from the military, she became the secret lover of her boss, Cao Jianfang, deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Finance and later one of the central figures in Su Hongbo’s circle, for more than 10 years. With the protection of her boss, Luo Min’s career path has been a triumphant one: in six years, she went from chief of the enterprise division of the Finance Department to director of the department, and then to deputy director and director of the provincial Agricultural Credit Society.
The resume seems normal, but it shows how Cao Jianfang operates behind the scenes. The Enterprise Division is the most important hub of the Finance Department, and in this position Luo Min was able to deal with large and small business people in Yunnan Province. The Agricultural Credit Society, which Luo Min joined a few years later, was a key position for local enterprises to obtain loan approvals. Cao Jianfang’s intention was for Luo Min to open up the government and business channels in Yunnan. The price was that Luo Min became the shared lover of many private employers.
This design, of course, could not escape the eyes of the obvious. In the past few years, the company’s employees have been working on a variety of projects, including the development of a new business model for the company.
He once reported to Qin Guangrong, the provincial party secretary, that Luo Min and Cao Jianfang had an illicit relationship.
This is not something that can touch Min Luo or Cao Jianfang. Qin Guangrong told Su Hongbo about it as gossip and talk one day when he was walking and chatting with Su Hongbo.
When Su Hongbo received the news, he called Cao Jianfang as if nothing had happened and said he wanted to invite Luo Min to dinner. He also said that he didn’t know Luo well, and that it would be convenient for him to ask for help in the future. Su Hongbo, Cao Jianfang and Luo Min really set up a dinner party. Everyone knows the subtext of the dinner party: I want you to know that I know what you’ve done.
The secret is that Su Hongbo’s card is the “C” in Yunnan’s official dinner party.
The photo below is a group photo of Luo Min, Jiang Zhaogang, and Wan Renli, known as the Troika of the Agricultural Credit Society, at the third Agricultural Credit Society Council meeting. On the left is Luo Min, and in the middle is the snitch Jiang Zhaogang. The standard face is smiling and happy, the heart MMP. 2015, these three have fallen off the horse.
Of course, Luo Min is just a small man. At about the same time, Su Hongbo also fell. The two Yunnan provincial secretaries, Bai Enpei and Qin Guangrong, also fell, as did all the people at the 2003 dinner party in Beijing that brought them together.
We don’t know who was at that dinner party. ……
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