On May 19, 2014, a grand funeral was held in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
It is said that the deceased was a well-known "snake mother" in the Chinese smuggling industry in the United States, worth more than 10 million.
He was once wanted by the U.S. Immigration Bureau worldwide, and when he was finally arrested, there were 10,000 blood letters asking the U.S. Immigration Bureau to release him.
In addition, at her funeral, countless big bosses who had benefited from her came to the scene.
**There are 160 Lincoln cars on the boulevard, forming a funeral queue to see them off.
In other words, where is this "snake mother" sacred? How did she achieve such a deep root?
In 1949, Zheng Cuiping was born in Shengmei Village, Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
This village has a tradition of going to the South Seas since ancient timesSince Zheng Cuiping's parents, the villagers of Shengmei Village have successively traveled overseas to earn that huge profit.
In Zheng Cuiping's generation, many young people yearn for the United States. After all, the United States was at its peak at that time, and it was a beacon country that people around the world yearn for.
Therefore, Fuzhou people, including Zheng Cuiping, have regarded getting a U.S. green card as their life dream.
It's just that to realize this dream, it was difficult for Zheng Cuiping at that time.
After all, at that time, the United States only accepted high-tech talents to immigrate to their home countries, or exchange students from prestigious universities. As for a small role like Zheng Cuiping, she is not eligible to immigrate to the United States.
However, Zheng Cuiping heard that there is another way for ordinary people to go to the United States, and that is to take the Hong Kong route. If you smuggle from Hong Kong to the United States, you can basically do it foolproof.
In this way, Zheng Cuiping came to Hong Kong with such a fiery dream.
During this time, Zheng Cuiping met her husband and had a child with him. So while doing business in Hong Kong, the young couple was looking for a way to smuggle them to the United States.
In 1979, Zheng Cuiping's husband learned that she could smuggle from Peru to the United States. So he was going to do an experiment in advance to see if he could succeed.
However, when Zheng Cuiping's husband arrived in San Francisco Bay from Peru, he was detained by U.S. immigration agents.
A few days later, USCIS staff deported him to Hong Kong. In this way, Zheng Cuiping and his wife's first smuggling plan failed.
Soon, they ushered in a second smuggling plan. In 1981, an elderly American couple came to Zheng Cuiping's shop as a guest.
During this time, the elderly couple heard the complaints of Zheng Cuiping and his wife.
The American couple listened to their meaning, as if they had been busy with the matter of smuggling over the years, but in the end, the bamboo basket was empty.
In order to alleviate the urgent needs of Zheng Cuiping and his wife, this kind-hearted American couple decided to help them smuggle into the United States.
The advice given by the American couple is,Let Zheng Cuiping pretend to be her nanny, so that she can get away with it.
On June 17, Zheng Cuiping followed the American couple to the U.S. Consulate to apply for a visa.
The visa officer asked Zheng Cuiping why she gave up a family business and went to a place where she was unfamiliar?
At this time, Zheng Cuiping said with great flattery: "As a country with an extremely superior system and an extremely free society, the United States is willing to let my children go there to receive advanced education."
The visa officer was moved by Zheng Cuiping's words, so he stamped her with a big stamp.
After coming to the United States, the first thing Zheng Cuiping did was to find local Chinese organizations. After all, only by finding your own people can you gain a foothold in this place.
If you are alone, it is almost impossible to survive. So, while walking in Chinatown, she met the local Fuqing Gang.
The Fuqing Gang is a gangster organization of Fujianese people overseasUsually under the banner of helping each other, he specializes in killing people and stealing goods.
At the beginning, the Fuqing Gang was ready to rob Zheng Cuiping, but they didn't expect Zheng Cuiping to blurt out the Fujian dialect, which directly shocked this local snake.
The leader happened to be from the same village as Zheng Cuiping, and after hearing the familiar local accent, he directly treated Zheng Cuiping as a guest.
In this way, Zheng Cuiping relied on her fellow countrymen to gain a firm foothold in the United States.
After stabilizing, Zheng Cuiping began to think about how to do a business.
After all, when you go out, it is difficult to move an inch without money, so Zheng Cuiping thinks about how to make money every day. At this time, Wen Yuhui, a fellow villager in Fuzhou, found Zheng Cuiping.
Wen Yuhui hopes that Zheng Cuiping can help her smuggle into the United States through special channels. Due to the affection of her fellow countrymen, Zheng Cuiping could only take on this task.
She learned from the Fuqing Gang that there was an extremely complicated but safe route for smuggling from Fuzhou to Los Angeles in the United States.
At that time, many people in the Fuqing Gang came to the United States by this route.
So Zheng Cuiping received 180,000 smuggling money.
90 percent of them were handed over to the head of the Fuqing Gang, and they were asked to organize a fleet to help Wen Yuhui's family smuggle to the United States.
After finishing this vote, Zheng Cuiping suddenly realized that since you can make money by helping people smuggle, why not make this industry bigger and stronger?
Driven by this psychology, Zheng Cuiping began to conceive a grand blueprint for smuggling.
She used her connections in her hometown and Hong Kong to build a network of smuggling immigrants from Fuzhou to Los Angeles. As long as someone wants to come to the United States through this shortcut, they must pay 1$80,000 in smuggling money.
If you don't have enough money, it doesn't matter, Zheng Cuiping can help with the loan, and just repay it in installments when the time comes. If you really can't afford to pay back, you can also join Zheng Cuiping's work team, so that you can work to pay off your debts.
It can be said that Zheng Cuiping has simply done the business of smuggling to the extreme.
Relying on such a perfect retreat smuggling network, Zheng Cuiping earned the first pot of gold in her life, $4 million.
After having money, Zheng Cuiping began to think about how to use money to make money.
She saw that these Fuzhou people who were smuggled to the United States made money but couldn't send it back because they didn't know much about exchange rate issues.
That being the caseZheng Cuiping simply started the business of an underground bank.
She asked these Fuzhou villagers to put the money in her and convert it into dollars, and then send it back to China one by one, and take a 3% commission from it.
Relying on such a routine of making money with money, Zheng Cuiping's wealth once again ushered in a wave of small explosions. By 1993, she had amassed tens of millions of dollars in assets.
This year's Zheng Cuiping can be said to be infinitely beautiful. However,It was also in this year that her career began to encounter a crisis.
On February 2, 1993, a group of Zheng Cuiping's subordinates wanted to smuggle into the United States by Kenya.
At first, it was as planned, but when someone wanted to pass through a small island in Kenya, the smuggling boat suddenly had an accident and ran aground on an unnamed island.
In order to prevent these people from being starved to death,Zheng Cuiping hurriedly called Guo Liangqi, the person in charge of smuggling, to find a new boat.
Guo Liangqi got a tattered small cargo ship from Taiwan through his own private channels. When the ship arrived on the nameless island, everyone was stunned by the tattered appearance of the ship.
I saw that the cargo ship in front of me seemed to have been in operation for hundreds of yearsThe hull of the ship is rusty, let alone sitting, even if it is used to transport livestock, it is estimated that the livestock can be transported to death.
But the more than 300 people on the nameless island really can't stand the harsh living conditions on the island. So I could only pinch my nose and get on the boat.
The person in charge of stowaway is worried about making the boat look less troublesomeThe entire hull was also deliberately whitewashed with gold paint and renamed the "Golden Adventure".
In this way, the "Golden Adventure", which was full of stowaways, officially set sail.
According to the recollection of an elderly man who succeeded in smuggling later, they were all crammed into a small cabin, which often had standing water.
But they can't help itAfter all, the waves above the deck are bigger, and the slightest mistake will be photographed.
On top of that, the food in the cabins was particularly bad.
There is only a limited amount of bread and a little rice wine every day, and as for other high-calorie foods, don't even think about it.
It was in this extremely harsh environment that more than 300 smugglers survived 127 days.
On June 6, the Golden Adventure reached the high seas near New York Harbor.
On this morning, Guo Liangqi, the person in charge of smuggling, announced loudly: "America is in front of you, have you seen the Statue of Liberty?" ”
After hearing Guo Liangqi's call, many people rushed to the bow of the ship to welcome their American dream with excitement.
This time, however, their American dream is going to come to naught.
As early as two days ago, Zheng Cuiping arranged for the New York Harbor connector of the "Golden Adventure" and asked him to send a speedboat to pick up all the more than 300 people before 8 a.m. on June 6.
But on June 5, the connector was shot dead by his own people in the internal scramble of the Fuqing Gang.
So at that time, Guo Liangqi waited left and right on the high sea, and did not wait for the arrival of the connector.
Guo Liangqi understands that if all the people cannot be evacuated before 8 o'clockWhen the time comes, the American patrols on the high seas will all have to be arrested.
In this crisis situation, Guo Liangqi decided to take a desperate gamble.
I saw him shouting at the crowd: "The U.S. Coast Guard is coming!" Jump into the sea! Whoever can swim to the other side will become a real American! ”
Many people were so frightened by Guo Liangqi that they jumped into the icy water. In this way, an extremely tragic maritime disaster occurred.
Since these people on the ship have spent more than 4 months adrift at sea, their physical strength has long been much lower than before.
Therefore, there are symptoms of weakness during swimmingSome even choked on the sea and died.
The entire sea is just like the scene of the Titanic shipwreck, tragic and spectacular.
When the U.S. Coast Guard realized that something was wrong, it rushed to the rescue with a boat. In the end, after three hours of rescue, 283 stowaways were successfully rescued ashore.
Ten stowaways drowned while swimming due to physical exhaustion.
According to a U.S. Coast Guard at the time: ".A few stowaways had just climbed to the shore and were dying
When this incident broke out, the whole United States was shocked.
Many Americans are amazed that Chinatown hides such a huge snakeheadSo he hurriedly issued a wanted warrant for Zheng Cuiping.
After Zheng Cuiping learned that the news had leaked, she hurriedly fled back to her hometown in Fuzhou.
In her hometown, she hid for 7 years.
In the past seven years, Zheng Cuiping's business has basically not stopped.
Although the "Golden Adventure" has brought a negative impact on her, it still cannot stop many people from rushing to the United States to dream of gold nuggets.
So after this,There are still a large number of Fuzhou people smuggled into the United States through Zheng Cuiping's line.
In order to make up for her previous mistakes, Zheng Cuiping was able to help those smugglers a little bit in the next smuggling process, and sometimes even helped some smugglers advance money.
Through this kind of philanthropy, Zheng Cuiping has won a good reputation in the smuggling industry, and many people even call her "kind Sister Ping".
However, it is such a "kind Sister Ping",In 2000, he was arrested by U.S. law enforcement agencies.
At that time, she and her son were working on a business in Hong Kong, and due to his carelessness, he accidentally left his visa at the airport.
After picking up this visa, the Hong Kong airport staff quickly notified the United States**.
In the end, with the joint cooperation of the United States and Hong Kong, the United States Immigration Service successfully arrested Zheng Cuiping.
But ironically, on the day Zheng Cuiping was arrested, many smugglers who had benefited from Zheng Cuiping wrote to the U.S. Immigration Bureau.
They said that if Zheng Cuiping was sentenced to prison, they would be willing to bear the prison disaster for Zheng Cuiping. It can also be seen how far-reaching Zheng Cuiping's influence in the smuggling world is.
Of course, despite the increasing number of people crying out for Zheng Cuiping, the US judiciary still sentenced Zheng Cuiping to 35 years in prison in accordance with the principle of the supremacy of law.
In the course of serving her sentence, Zheng Cuiping repeatedly appealed, but they were all rejected by the US judicial authorities. Over time, Zheng Cuiping gradually gave up defending herself.
In 2014, Zheng Cuiping died of cancer in the United States.
On the day of the funeral, 160 Lincolns saw him off at the scene, and the scene was jaw-dropping. Even some of the Americans** were surprised: ".Zheng Cuiping is simply a mainstay of Chinese immigrants
To this day, there are still many Chinese in Chinatown who still miss Zheng Cuiping.
Although her means of doing things are not very bright, the wealth she brings to people is real.
From the perspective of stowaways, Zheng Cuiping is indeed the leader in their hearts. But from a legal point of view, Zheng Cuiping's move is undoubtedly seeking money and killing people.
Of course, all of this is the choice of the stowaways. No matter how many hardships and dangers they have endured, they should bear the price.
After all, there is never a shortcut on the road of chasing wealth, the only thing is the bloody lesson.