In Handong Province, the long-standing abuses under Zhao Lichun's rule are like a huge network covered with human feelings and sophistication.
Xiao Han parachuted into Handong. When he first saw Hou Liangping violently enforcing the law at the airport, he started a storm by asking: "There is a loophole in the procedure. The person being enforced asks, is it his right, or is it obstruction of official duties?"
He interviewed Li Dakang, Gao Yuliang, and Qi Tongwei—people who had struggled, compromised, and fallen in the quagmire. He said: I am not here to hold people accountable, but to solve problems.
When Li Dakang was lonely, he gave him support; when Gao Yuliang turned around, he gave him steps; when Qi Tongwei made atonement, he gave him a chance.
In front of the military area, Lu Yuanchao guarded the gate for twenty-one years. Xiao Han said: Treat the people like life, with warmth; treat the place like work, follow the rules. So on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, military trucks drove out of the gate and went to the welfare home to peel oranges for the elderly.
This is the story of a group of people learning to believe again after the collapse of the old network.
