In 2007, a chubby ordinary guy with glasses joined the Henan TV Station City Channel, and his name was Cao Songwang.
Because of his special admiration for the "black brick kiln storm" reported by journalist Fu Zhenzhong, Cao Songwang gradually investigated related incidents with his colleagues.
After all, the clues of the black brick kiln have never been broken.
After half a month of investigation, Cao Songwang photographed a lot of material as he wished.
The footage is enough to show how mentally handicapped workers work and how many scars there are on their bodies.
But how these mentally handicapped workers were tricked into the black brick kiln, everyone is not clear.
In fact, with these materials in hand, it is enough to set off a wave of "black brick kiln storm" again,
However, just when the exhausted colleagues wanted to end it with satisfaction, Cao Songwang frequently had the helpless look of the mentally handicapped worker in his mind.
That kind of look was something he would never forget in his lifetime.
"I'm going to get the mentally handicapped workers out."
Cao Songwang's decision stunned everyone.
In the face of a large case of airtight and multi-person team operation, where should Cao Songwang, who is alone, start from?
Picking up trash, eating leftovers, lying on the road...
He was an ordinary young journalist, but he chose to take a different path.
01
In 1986, Cui Songwang was born in Luohe City, Henan Province.
After graduating from journalism at university, Cui Songwang entered Henan Television Station and became a people's livelihood investigation reporter.
The daily work is to use the camera to record the lives of the people, and after six years of practice, he became the youngest chief reporter of the City Channel.
Colleagues described him: don't die at work, shoot when you die.
One day in 2011, Cui Songwang received news,
Kiln owners and foremen of some illegal brick kilns in the province often go to the side of highways, station squares, and aid stations to lure and force people with intellectual disabilities to work in brick kilns.
In the black brick kilns, these mentally handicapped people were restricted in their freedom, beaten and scolded, starved, and severely physically and mentally devastated.
After hearing these news, Cui Songwang immediately launched a secret visit with his colleagues.
But the black brick kiln is difficult to approach, and there are always many people at the door, and they are blasted away as soon as they get closer.
In order to be able to enter the black brick kiln, Cui Songwang began to carry out a series of disguises,
First it was pretended to sell vegetables, and then it was installed as a brick kiln contractor, but none of them succeeded.
On one occasion he posed as a "fugitive from prison".
At the door of the black brick kiln, the people who caught the black brick kiln begged, saying that they were "fugitives", did not want money, and only wanted to eat food, otherwise they would not be able to survive.
The people of the black brick kiln looked up and down at Cui Songwang and asked him to take two bowls of noodles that had already smelled.
In order not to make the other party suspicious, Cui Songwang had to pretend to be hungry and swallow two large bowls without regard to the image.
But I don't know where the flaws appeared, and after he finished eating, the people of the black brick kiln demanded that he leave immediately.
In desperation, Cui Songwang could only walk away.
After walking some distance, he found that someone had been following him, and had walked nearly three kilometers before quietly leaving.
The other party's extreme vigilance led to Cui Songwang's failures again and again, but these did not make Cui Songwang give up.
After more than half a month of unremitting attempts and efforts, he finally spoke with the person in charge of the brick kiln in the name of "contract foreman".
He learned that black brick kilns generally have special people looking for targets at stations and other places.
Specially select people who appear to have intellectual disabilities, and if they encounter resistance, they will be beaten and forcibly dragged to the car to take away.
These places also have a set of means of coping with inspections:
But whenever someone came to investigate, the mentally handicapped slave workers would be immediately transferred and the inspectors would be left empty.
After collecting a lot of relevant information, Cui Songwang and colleagues found that most of them were peripheral situations.
I want to gain a deeper understanding of the black industrial chain of "intellectually retarded slave labor trading", but there are many obstacles.
Because the kiln owners of these black brick kilns are very defensive,
If there is no intermediary introduction, as long as the phone mentions the sale and purchase of mentally retarded slave workers, the other party will immediately hang up the phone, or directly deny the existence of mentally retarded slave workers.
This makes it difficult to further promote the investigation, and the most core evidence is not obtained.
How exactly do those people recruit, coerce, transport, and buy and sell people with intellectual disabilities from places such as streets, stations, and national highways?
Just when the situation was in a dilemma, Cui Songwang made a bold decision to personally play the mentally handicapped person to sneak into the black brick kiln.
In this way, while investigating the internal situation, we can rescue the trapped mentally disabled people.
In this way, Cui Songwang began his difficult process of "asking for help".
02
In order to convince the people of the black brick kiln that he was mentally handicapped, he first rolled in the mound, painted his whole body with dirty soil, and walked around the door of the black brick kiln every day.
But he thought too simply, where the people of the black brick kiln were so easy to be "deceived".
They would only look at Cui Songwang suspiciously from a distance and not come forward to talk.
This means that Cui Songwang's first attempt failed.
Only then did he realize that if he wanted to be "trusted", he had to be cruel to himself.
Cui Songwang began not to brush his teeth or wash his face, not to bathe for half a month, especially not to wash his hands or shave,
In addition to the image to be like a mentally retarded person who cannot take care of himself, the behavior should also be like,
He began to go to Zhumadian Railway Station every day to ask for food, smoke cigarettes, pick up garbage, and lie on the ground regardless of whether the ground is clean or not.
Cry for a while and laugh for a while, and passers-by will avoid him.
During this period, Cui Songwang's friends constantly advised him to enter the black brick kiln in case his identity was exposed, he was likely to be maimed or even killed...
But Cui Songwang did not give up, saying that he had prepared for the worst, even if he was disabled, he would have to complete this matter.
It may be that Cui Songwang acted too similarly, and the well-meaning people who passed by really thought that he was mentally retarded, and handed him steamed buns to eat.
After four days of wandering around, Cui Songwang finally waited for a man from a black brick kiln.
"Hey, do you have a job?"
Cui Songwang pretended to be a mentally handicapped person's eyes, looked at the gray-clad man, and did not speak.
"How old are you?"
"Twenty-two."
"Where's the house?"
"On the river."
"Which river?"
"By the river."
Although the image, expression, and language logic are infinitely close to the mentally retarded, those people are too cunning.
When the man in grey got the answer, he just watched carefully from the sidelines and did not take any further action.
The depressed Cui Songwang went home and reflected again, it turned out that his nails were too clean, and he didn't even have a thick cocoon on his hands, which may have been seen by the other party.
The next day, after Cui Songwang upgraded his image, he appeared at zhumadian railway station as usual.
Yesterday's gray-clad man was seen standing near a cool leather stall.
Cui Songwang walked directly over, picked up the half bowl of cold skin that had just been eaten, swallowed it into his mouth, drank the soup, and licked the green onions on the bowl clean.
The "recruiter" standing on the sidelines looked at it and smiled.
Cui Songwang said in a later interview that to this day, he still feels a mental obstacle when he sees Liangpi.
At 3 p.m., when Choi Songwang was sleeping on the lawn, a red taxi stopped beside him.
A man got out of the car and kicked Cui Songwang and pulled him into the car.
Finally, the people of the black brick kiln successfully "entered the set".
In the car, the "recruiter" not only promised Cui Songwang to eat and drink, but also threatened to marry his daughter-in-law.
After the interview was completed, the next day, he was sold into a black brick kiln for 500 yuan.
In Cui Songwang's words, "during the interview" he is like an animal in the bazaar, letting go of two steps, patting his ass, hitting his head and so on.
At that time he felt extremely humiliated.
At that time, he had two worries in his heart, one was that he was worried that he would cry out, and this cry was not because of fear, but because of humiliation;
The second is to worry about laughing, afraid of laughing.
Before he could rejoice in the success of his acting skills, Cui Songwang found that in this strange and dirty environment, there were many unpredictable dangers, and wave after wave was coming to him.
The mentally handicapped slave worker was going to be beaten every few minutes, and the overseer of the black brick kiln saw that Cui Songwang was wearing sports shoes, so he said to the contractor: This guy's shoes are OK, give him a pickpocket!
Cui Songwang listened, and his heart was frightened, because he hid a miniature mobile phone and a secret visiting machine in his shoes.
In a hurry, he blew a handful of snot on his shoes.
When the contractor looked at it, he felt too disgusting, so he didn't bother to do anything before driving Cui Songwang away.
Cui Songwang also escaped the disaster.
Subsequently, Cui Songwang saw a terrible scene that he had never seen in his life.
03
The mentally handicapped slave workers are treated here every day, saying that they eat noodle soup, but in fact there is no noodles at all, that is, boiled water.
Every day I have to be beaten, punched in the face, nodded my head... Slap, pump with a belt, or even take a wet brick and pat it directly on the head.
They often pick up and fight what they have at hand, they don't treat people at all, and everyone is full of scars.
Sometimes the thugs were in a bad mood and beat the slave workers' private parts, which made Cui Songwang feel very afraid.
Seeing such a tragic situation of the slave workers, Cui Songwang's determination to help the slave workers escape the tiger's mouth was even stronger.
That night, Cui Songwang, who was beaten and worked for a day, believed that the video evidence had been collected enough, and decided to take advantage of the night to escape.
Who knew that it was harder for the black brick kiln to escape than to come in.
At night, when he went to sleep, he was tied up by a rope, and if he secretly grinded the rope and was found by the beater, it would be a severe beating.
After a period of time, Cui Songwang failed to escape several times, making him aware of the danger.
Even he had a slight worry about whether he would really not be able to get out alive.
It can be seen how terrible the black brick kiln is, even normal people can't escape, let alone people with intellectual disabilities.
But one night, the machinery and equipment of the brick kiln suddenly had some malfunctions, and all the slave workers were forced to stop working.
Cui Songwang realized that now might be a good opportunity to escape.
Therefore, Cui Songwang applied to the overseer to drink water,
On weekdays, such a request will inevitably be slapped twice, but because of the suspension of work that day, the overseer also agreed to Cui Songwang's application.
At this time, the surrounding area was pitch black, and after secretly contacting colleagues to answer by taking the opportunity to drink water, Cui Songwang began to instinctively run in the opposite direction of the brick kiln.
Not long after the run, there was a faint sound of motorcycles and dogs barking in the distance, apparently the thugs of the black brick kiln chased out.
At this moment, Cui Songwang's inner fear reached its extreme.
One stumbled, fell into a large pit for taking soil and burning bricks, climbed up and did not run two steps, and fell into a large pit,
After barely getting up, Cui Songwang found that both of his feet were sprained.
At this time, he couldn't care about any pain, and continued to run hard.
Further back, Cui Songwang, who was in excruciating pain, could only kneel on one leg and climb on one leg.
After wading through a river with a sneak camera, Cui Songwang, who had escaped for 3 hours, finally met his colleagues.
After experiencing the "black three hours", Cui Songwang could no longer control his emotions, fell into the arms of his colleagues and cried bitterly, repeating in his mouth: Brother, it is good to meet.
Cui Songwang, who escaped, said: In a place like the black brick kiln, a strong and intelligent person like me is so difficult to run, how can a mentally disabled worker run? It is necessary to quickly make the program and attract the attention of society.
In September 2011, Cui Songwang and his colleagues worked hard to produce a month-long series of programs " Mentally Handicapped Slave Workers".
After "Mentally Handicapped Slave Worker" was broadcast on Henan Tv, it immediately caused great repercussions.
According to the clues provided by the secret visit, Cui Songwang assisted the police in arresting all eight black brick kiln owners and recruiters.
More than thirty mentally handicapped slave workers who had been detained were successfully rescued.
Cui Songwang was therefore nominated for the 50 Chinese Charms of the Year and was elected as the 2011 Chinese Justice Figure.
Someone asked him if, after this undercover secret visit, he was not worried about being hated and retaliated against in his life.
Cui Songwang said calmly, standing in the sun, fearless.
As he said, in the decade that followed, Choi Song-wang was still on the front lines of news investigation.
He often risked his life to visit some factories or small workshops that made and sold counterfeits, and he never left the dangerous and loving post.
Today, the former lad has become a father of two children, occasionally sharing his daily life on social platforms.
It can be seen that he not only loves his work, but also loves life, and will insist on morning running every day, fading the youth of youth and more mature light.
The comments section often appears praising his heroic voice at that time,
Cui Songwang only responded indifferently: Ten years have passed, thank you Jun Youji, the past is not enough to rely on, and the name is not enough.
The so-called good life is because someone carries the weight for us,
Thank you for the existence of such a silent civilian hero, who uses his own strength to gather into light and illuminate our lives.