On March 2, 1951, the large playground in Xinping County was crowded.
Bang! A gunshot rang out, and the bird flipped its wings and scattered in fright, and then a figure fell.
The crowd of onlookers applauded and applauded, and the landlord who did a lot of evilLi RunzhiFinally got a just verdict.
Although he died, rumors about him intensified. YesWord broke that he hid 300 boxes** before he was arrested, intending that he could escape the arrest of the Communist Party with a huge sum of money and get away with it, but with his death, no one has found the whereabouts of the huge money.
What did Li Runzhi do to arouse everyone's resentment, and why did he have so much wealth?
Li Runzhi was born in Xinping County, Yunnan Province in 1885, ranking third. His ancestors were named "Cloud Cavalry Captain" since the Qianlong period, and the title was hereditary until his father Li Guobao.
Xinping County is a mountainous area inhabited by many ethnic groups, and the traffic is very inconvenient. After his ancestor was sent to this place, he could not take care of himself by relying on the power of the imperial court, so he began to occupy the mountains as the king, and the people on the side of the fish.
There is a saying: "Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver." ”Li Runzhi's family has accumulated a lot of family wealth after several generations of exploiting the people.
When he grew up, Li Runzhi inherited hundreds of acres of land from his father, and also controlled the military power left by his father.
Li Runzhi, who grew up under the influence of his father since he was a child, unsurprisingly became unscheming.
He is very eager for power and money, but at this time, the Qing Dynasty in China has fallen, and it is no longer the time for their family to become officials.
In order to realize his wish, he decided to join the Yunnan Gang after thinking about it in many ways, and after joining the gang, he began to contact the various gang leaders in it, and slowly his power grew stronger and stronger.
In 1927, an incident occurred that brought him to the army, and it can be said that the sleepy pillow was handed over. At this timeLong Yun, who was a warlord in Yunnan Province at the timeHe and Hu Ruoyu are fighting for the position of chairman of Yunnan Province. After a period of fighting, Long Yun was defeated, and he wrote to Li Runzhi, asking him to come to his aid.
Li Runzhi, who received the news, couldn't help but sigh with emotion"Long Yun is also a warlord who occupies one side, and if I help him win the chairmanship, then I will also be able to profit; If I hadn't gone, I might have lost the chance to climb up. ”
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Runzhi immediately urgently gathered thousands of people to form an army and went to Kunyang to support Long Yun.
With Li Runzhi joining, Long Yun quickly won the position of chairman of Yunnan Province. Afterwards, Long Yun was very grateful to Li Runzhi for saving him, and immediately incorporated Li Runzhi's team into his own army and put it inHe was named the head of the major general and was in charge of Ailao Mountain.
Li Runzhi, who was in charge of the military for the first time, couldn't wait to show his bully face, and he began to exploit the people.
Li Runzhi gathered his soldiers and went to rob the peasants' fields with guns. Faced with this scene, the peasants wailed and begged: "Officers and soldiers, please don't take our land, our family depends on this for food." ”
There are even some peasants with strong personalities who swear to the death: "I don't believe that you can cover the sky with one hand, now it's **, not the old dynasty!" ”
When listening to the subordinates report this scene, Li Runzhi said very presumptuously:"Here I am the emperor, if anyone is disobedient, I will destroy him! ”
Li Runzhi not only forcibly seized the land, but he also had to collect rent. Some peasants had no money to rent his fields, so they thought of going to the foot of the nearby mountains to clear up the wasteland and farm. He felt that the entire Ailao Mountain was his own territory, and that no matter whether it was wasteland or fields, as long as it was planted, he would pay rent.
The rent of his fields was very high, and when it was time for the grain to be harvested, the peasants had to sweat and work hard for half a year to obtain itSeventy percent of the grain is handed over。If someone's family can't hand it over, Li Runzhi will not have the slightest mercy and will kill him.
He even saw the peasants as his slaves, to be bought and sold at will. Whenever someone upsets him, he kills him to vent his anger. But all the women who look a little good are tragically killed by him.
Li Runzhi was still a mature businessman, and he was not satisfied with squeezing the peasants' money for farming, and felt that the money was too slow, so he hit the idea elsewhere.
Li Runzhi knew that salt was an extremely important item, and the salt industry had been in the hands of the imperial court since ancient times, so he decided to start the salt industry first.
Due to the transportation problems in Ailao Mountain, the salt was transported little by little by the horse gangs that did business.
After collecting information from everywhere, Li Runzhi decided to assemble a caravan team by himself, buy salt from outside and transport it back to sell.
So in 1933,He founded the firm "Fu Cheong Lung" to operate the salt business.
He overbearing the monopoly of salt, and people who want to eat salt can only buy it from his business.
A year later, Tan Binh set up a salt transportation bureau to manage the salt business, and Li Yunzhi visited the newly appointed director, Yang Baochang, after learning about it. After meeting and talking, the two hit it off. These two people cooperated with each other to raise the ** of table salt, so as to collect tens of thousands of dollars.
Li Runzhi was also involved in a number of industries, and he made a lot of profits by transporting the tobacco and tea planted by the tough farmers to other places in a steady stream.
He also opened a mining factory and a weaving factory, and enslaved the people of Ailao Mountain to work hard for him. Li Runzhi, who had long been in the region to rule the first day, became more and more emboldened, and he also opened a silver dollar foundry, according to the recollection of insiders at the time"Li Runzhi's silver dollar foundry is half of the real and fake, and the silver dollar is doped with nearly 40% of copper. ”
By squeezing the people of Ailao Mountain, he quickly accumulated a huge amount of money. He became the richest bully in Ailao Mountain, and even came to the place under his jurisdiction, as long as the incumbent ** must give a gift to visit to take office, and the merchants who pass through here must give a gift to buy the flag of the "Fu Chang Long" firm and plant it on their heads before they can pass by.
Li Runzhi, who has all the wealth and power, has a very nourishing life, he married three wives and gave birth to six girls and two boysThere were more than a hundred servants serving them.
Every meal in his family is delicacies from the mountains and seas, and all kinds of high-end supplements can only be used as side dishes on his family's table. More than 20 dishes are placed on the table every time, which is extremely extravagant.
Li Runzhi not only eats well, but also dresses luxuriously. He was always dressed in silk and satin, as well as various fur coats.
The house he lived in was splendid, and the house occupied a huge area, not only with many rooms, but also with rockeries, ponds, and exquisite pavilions.
While he was enjoying his drunken life and dreaming of death, behind him was the blood and tears of tens of thousands of people. His exploitation made people unable to afford to eat, to go hungry, and not even to wear decent clothes.
As the Kuomintang retreated in the war, Li Runzhi felt his own crisis, so he decided to find a way back for himself.
On the one hand, he suppressed the masses by force, and on the other hand, he showed small favors to the masses.
Li Runzhi founded Runzhi Middle School, and he also vigorously called on the masses to send their children to school and reduce tuition and miscellaneous fees for them.
At that time, the masses were mostly uneducated. Li Runzhi took advantage of this, and he found a Taoist priest to declare for him: "Li Runzhi is the White Tiger Star descending to earth!" If you sleep at night, you will become a fairy tiger, and if someone wants to kill him, you will be eaten by the fairy tiger! ”
After seeing that the masses were convinced, they began to buy people's hearts again. During the holidays, he often personally ate with the workers to show his kindness. When he met the tenant's children to greet him, he also rewarded him with silver dollars.
At this time, once the War of Liberation began, it spread like a raging fire throughout China and soon reached Yunnan.
In 1947, the relevant people of our party arrived in Xinping to carry out the underground revolution, and after hearing the relevant rumors in the local area, they wanted to contact Li Runzhi.
Li Runzhi said immediately after he found out"As long as it is a person sent by the Communist Party, I will not accept it, and I will never cooperate with the Communist Party." ”
Through other means, our party members established the first underground party branch in Xinping in the capacity of Mr. Teach.
Li Runzhi feared that the local masses would overthrow his dynasty in Ailao Mountain under the leadership of the Communist Party.
He began to order that the masses should not be allowed to participate in the revolution, and at that time some people wanted to secretly go to the Communist Party to expose his viciousness.
After Li Runzhi heard the report, he was very angry and ordered his subordinates to arrest the man. Then he killed him and hung him at the gate of the city, and gathered the crowd together.
"In the future, if anyone secretly contacts the Communist Party, then this is the end! ”Li Runzhi shouted loudly.
The crowd below was greatly intimidated, they wanted to **, but the soldiers nearby were all holding guns, and people could only endure numbly.
In 1948, the battle between our party and the Kuomintang also reached a white-hot situation.
At this time, Lu Guofan, the commander of Yunnan Provincial Security, went to Li Runzhi's territory and was warmly received by Li Runzhi.
Li Runzhi said it bluntly at the wine table"I am a staunch supporter of the Kuomintang, and now that Xin'an has been infiltrated by the forces of the Communist Party, we must immediately drive them out." ”
Subsequently, Li Runzhi's follower Lu Guofan inspected Maoboxshan, Mojiang and other places, hoping to drive away those teachers from other places, with the intention of cutting off our party's revolutionary cause.
Li Runzhi has always been a prestige, until the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated, he still did not give up.
He began to do it in the name of the revolutionHe led his subordinates to conquer the rest of Xin'an County, and as a result, he took Xin'an County under his control.
Li Runzhi was very greedy, and he watched his territory grow larger and larger, and he wanted to lead his subordinates to continue to occupy the three county towns around Xinping.
After seeing that the landlords who had done evil in the areas liberated by the Communist Party did not end well, Li Runzhi felt a deep crisis.
He felt that it would be difficult for him to contend with the Communist Party on his own. And so he didContact the landlords in other areas and work together"**
Until 1949, when the battle between our party and Chiang Kai-shek came to an end, Chiang Kai-shek was not reconciled to the result of his defeat, so he decided to occupy Yunnan, intending to rebuild the "Chiang dynasty" again. ”
After being co-opted by the Kuomintang, Li Runzhi joined them without thinking.
On September 16, 1949, with the support of the Kuomintang, Li Runzhi officially established the "** Self-Defense Volunteer Army", with 3,000 subordinates in his army.
On October 20, after conspiring with the Kuomintang, Li Runzhi commanded the "** Self-Defense Volunteer Army" to attack the garrison of our army, but it was unsuccessful.
Unwilling, Li Runzhi attacked again two months later, but because Li Runzhi's army was too strong, we could only retreat.
Li Runzhi, who had won the battle, no longer suppressed himself and began to oppress the masses at a deeper level.
It wasn't until 1950 that Li Runzhi's good days finally came to an end.
China sent the People's Liberation Army to Xinping to quell the bandits, and the people of the army saw the local masses and actively did a good job in the ideological education of the masses, and the masses began to bravely resist Li Runzhi's atrocities.
On April 22, our army and Li Runzhi's rebels launched a fierce battle, and Li Runzhi's army was extremely heavy and immediately fled.
Li Runzhi knew that his current behavior was to block the car with his mantis arm, and he couldn't do anything he couldHe had the idea of running away.
He decided to go to Kunming to hide for a while, and before leaving he put his own300 boxes of ** were buried, intending to wait for the news of the Communist Party's arrest of him to pass, he secretly came back and carried a huge amount of money away from home.
However, his idea still failed, and he was arrested by our country's public security bureau when he was about to escape that night.
In 1951, after many investigations, the Xinping Court began to try Li Runzhi. Under the blood and tears of the local people, the court sentenced Li Runzhi to be executed in the large playground.
On the day of the execution, the masses of Xin'an County poured in from all directions, all with hatred and hatred in their eyes, and Li Runzhi, who was full of evil.
After seeing Li Runzhi fall, they all said happily: "The sky has eyes, Li Runzhi is finally dead!" ”