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Two years ago.

Henan Rural Bank collapsed, and many non-local depositors prepared to go to Henan to seek an explanation. However, when they were about to leave, they were horrified to find that their health codes had turned red.

Anyone who has experienced that era knows what it means when the health code turns red. Not only can they not go downstairs or leave the house, but they are also monitored all the time. Not to mention defending their rights, even survival becomes a problem.

Once the public opinion came out, the world was in an uproar.

Assigning red codes to innocent people at random can easily lead to exposure, with serious consequences, and they may even face dismissal from office and imprisonment.

As soon as the results of the handling of Zhengzhou's "red code incident" were announced, it attracted overwhelming doubts and criticisms. Public opinion unanimously believed that the punishment for the five relevant responsible persons was too light, and they were even suspected of being "scapegoats."

In fact, the two officials who were dealt with at the time, Feng Xianbin, executive deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee, and Zhang Linlin, secretary of the Zhengzhou Youth League Committee, had no direct working relationship with the village bank involved in the incident, and had no direct motive or interest in giving a red code to a rights defender in a financial incident.

The most likely possibility is that they are just executors rather than decision makers.

Finally, the punishment given to Feng and Zhang was that Comrade Feng Xianbin was removed from his party position and dismissed from his government post; Comrade Zhang Linlin was given a serious warning within the party and was demoted in his government post.

Thus, the sensational "red code" incident in history seems to have come to an end, and the two biggest "scapegoats" in this incident were also born.

Two years later.

Secretary Zhang Linlin returned to work at the right time and was given an important position, becoming the secretary of the Zhengzhou Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau.

Zhang Linlin's job adjustment this time should be regarded as "further use", or "re-employment": from a small unit to a large unit, from a mass organization to a government department.

Netizens have different opinions on Secretary Zhang Linlin's reuse.

Some people say that this is the process and there is no other way.

Some people say that she took the blame for the leader, and the leader must give her something in return, otherwise, who will take the blame for the leader in the future?

Someone simply summed it up in a joke: Those who carry firewood for the public should not be allowed to freeze to death in the snow; those who pave the way for freedom should not be trapped in thorns; those who take the blame for the leader should not be allowed to sink into the officialdom...

In short, the "scapegoat" of the past has finally been reused, this is a foregone conclusion. As for what happens in the future, we will talk about it later.

However, looking at China's thousands of years of "scapegoating history", there are not many "scapegoats" as lucky as Secretary Zhang Linlin. Most of them are abandoned and their fate is usually miserable.

The first "scapegoat" in history, and the one with the worst fate, was the grain officer under Prime Minister Cao Cao.

In the seventeenth chapter of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" "Yuan Gonglu raised seven armies, Cao Mengde gathered three generals", there is a famous story of "the scapegoat".

In the second year of Jian'an, Cao Cao went on an expedition against Yuan Shu. Cao's army made good progress at first, but then the two sides entered a stalemate, with Yuan's army occupying the advantage of the terrain and holding on.

Because Cao's army was large in number and had a huge demand for food, and it happened to be a bad year, there was a severe drought in the area where Cao's army was stationed, making logistical supply very difficult.

At this time, a small grain officer named Wang Hu in Cao's army saw this situation and reported it to Cao Cao. Cao Cao instructed him to change the large hu to small hu when distributing grain, which resulted in complaints from Cao's army.

Seeing the seriousness of the situation, Cao Cao beheaded Wang Hu in order to calm the public anger, and announced to the army: The reason why everyone is hungry is because the grain officer Wang Hu did bad things.

Before making up his mind to kill Wang Hu, Cao Cao called him to his side and said: "I want to borrow something from you (the head) to appease the people. You must not be stingy."

Wang Hu believed that he had done nothing wrong, but Cao Cao said, "I also know that you are innocent, but if I don't kill you, the morale of the army will change."

In this way, in order to stabilize the morale of the army and to quell the resentment, the small grain officer Wang Hu took the scapegoat.

In fact, from the moment the army's food shortage caused public resentment, Wang Hu's fate of being killed was already doomed:

If you follow Cao Cao's instructions, you will be killed; if you disobey Cao Cao's orders, you will also be killed. The only difference is that it will be sooner or later.

As for Prime Minister Cao's promise to take care of Wang Hu's wife and children, who knows? Given Prime Minister Cao's personality, it doesn't seem very reliable.

In modern history, Chiang Kai-shek also liked to create "scapegoats".

When I was a child, I watched the movie "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang". I was moved to tears by the national heroism and fearless spirit of the anti-Japanese heroes in the movie. I was also saddened by the fate of Han Fuqu, a famous scapegoat in the movie.

There are many legends about Han Fuqu among the people. He was a warlord who did many evil things. If those legends are true, it would not be unfair to kill him.

There is a classic scene in "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang".

In 1938, a meeting that could be called the "Hongmen Banquet" was being held in Kaifeng, Henan Province. The two protagonists of the meeting were Chiang Kai-shek, the then president of the Nanjing National Government, and Han Fuqu, a warlord known as the "King of Shandong".

As for the content of their negotiations, it was also very clear. Chiang Kai-shek believed that Han Fuqu should bear the responsibility for retreating without authorization and losing Shandong, but Han Fuqu expressed his dissatisfaction. He loudly asked, if he was responsible for the loss of Shandong, who should bear the responsibility for the loss of Nanjing?

This one sentence made Chiang Kai-shek furious. He cursed the other party for being shameless and quickly left the meeting room. Seeing this, Han Fuqu finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, before he could be happy for long, an arrest warrant was placed in front of him.

After seeing the contents of the arrest warrant, Han Fuqu felt extremely complicated, knowing that he would not live long.

Han Fuqu was soon executed by firing squad, becoming the first and biggest scapegoat created by President Chiang Kai-shek since the Anti-Japanese War.

Looking at history, in one sentence, it is not easy to be a scapegoat. To be a scapegoat, one must be mentally prepared to be abandoned and sacrificed at any time.

Author: Uncle who loves coffee