Hankou Funeral Home, people who are collecting their ashes are lining up in long queues. You don't allow photos, saying that you need to consider the overall situation.
Shops in rows have notices for sale or transfer posted at their entrances, and you tear them off, saying that you need to consider the overall situation.
Factories one by one have to start working and then take a holiday because they have no orders. You don't allow them to publicly announce it, saying that you need to consider the overall situation.
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Don't talk to me about considering the overall situation. I quit a long time ago.
That year, I was reading the works of the famous writer Liu Xinwu.
Liu Xinwu wrote that one day, he was watching a movie in a cinema in Beijing. After the movie ended, he found a book on the seat next to him and casually put it in his pocket.
When he got home, Liu Xinwu opened the book and found a letter inside.
It was a letter from Tonghai County, Yunnan Province, saying that they had experienced an earthquake, many people had died, there was a shortage of food and medicine, but the higher authorities wanted them to consider the overall situation and not spread the news of the earthquake.
At the end of the letter, there was a long list of names, all the names of the deceased.
Liu Xinwu said that after reading the letter, he didn't move for the whole afternoon, as if he had become stiff.
The letter ended with: After you finish reading this letter, please put it back in the book and leave it in the cinema for the next person to see.
This letter, like the chicken feather letters during the war, I don't know how many people it reached, I don't know how many people saw it.
Before this, I had never heard of the earthquake in Tonghai, Yunnan.
Because of considering the overall situation, no one around me knew, and I didn't see any written information about the Tonghai earthquake.
After reading Liu Xinwu's book, I learned that there had been such a major earthquake, even earlier than the Tangshan earthquake.
Later, with the internet, I learned that this earthquake was called the "Tonghai Earthquake" and it occurred in 1970.
The earthquake caused 15,000 deaths.
After the earthquake, the higher authorities did not send the most urgently needed food and medicine to the victims, but instead sent stacks of red quotations books.
This strange thing must be unprecedented.
Because of considering the overall situation, even until today, not many people know about this earthquake.
That year, I was a journalist in Guangzhou.
There was a village called Maidi Village in Guangzhou, where almost every household had a counterfeit cigarette factory.
A box of Zhonghua cigarettes cost 5 yuan, a box of Furongwang cigarettes cost 3 yuan.
Every night, various private cars would quietly park outside the village, and boxes of counterfeit cigarettes wrapped in black plastic bags would be loaded into the cars and driven away silently.
After a month of undercover investigation in Maidi Village, I gathered a wealth of information and wrote an article.
Because of the significance of the topic, the newspaper asked me to consult the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau and obtain their permission before publishing.
The Tobacco Monopoly Bureau directly took me to the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department.
An official, holding a cigarette, calmly said to me, "Guangzhou is currently establishing a national civilized city. In order to consider the overall situation, you should not interview this kind of article in the future. If you want to publish it, you must first obtain our permission."
Because of considering the overall situation, this article was eventually published, but it went from a tens of thousands of words undercover article to a 2,000-word commendation article, praising the Tobacco Inspection Brigade for their tireless efforts, how they cracked down on counterfeit cigarettes, and how they fulfilled their duties and responsibilities.
After that, I understood what it meant to consider the overall situation.
Considering the overall situation means that I can do bad things, but you are not allowed to talk about it.
Considering the overall situation means that I can disregard your life and do things that are unreasonable.
In 1975, there was a major rainstorm in Zhumadian, Henan Province. The water level of Banqiao Dam rose rapidly, exceeding the warning line.
The danger was imminent, and if the downstream residents had been relocated, there would have been no disaster.
However, in order to consider the overall situation and take into account the impact on agricultural production, no notification was given.
On August 7th, the flood broke the dam, and the flood rushed downstream.
Countless houses were swept away by the flood.
After the disaster, in order to consider the overall situation, the number of deaths in the disaster was always treated as a top secret.
To this day, no one knows the exact number of deaths, but it is generally believed to be 200,000 people.
Many people don't even know about this disaster. In my circle of friends, when I sent a WeChat message about the collapse of Banqiao Dam in Zhumadian, some friends from Zhumadian asked, "Is it true? I have lived in Zhumadian for decades, why has no one ever mentioned it?"
The reason why no one mentions it is because of considering the overall situation.
I have experienced too many things where the overall situation was considered, and I have seen many things where the overall situation was considered.
The result of considering the overall situation is that things become worse and worse.
So many disasters, now very few people know about them; in a few decades, no one will know anymore.
It's as if they never happened. The weather is fine, and time is peaceful.
To hell with "considering the overall situation".
Don't talk to me about "considering the overall situation" anymore. I quit a long time ago.
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