On February 2, 1996, a major case occurred in No. 4 Xinjiekouwai Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, which shocked the whole country. Li Peiyao, then vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, was killed in her home.
Li Peiyao is the son of General Li Jishen, a well-known democrat. In 1933, Li Jishen publicly scolded Chiang Kai-shek, announced that he would break off diplomatic relations with Chiang, and then went to Hong Kong. Soon after, Li Jishen's fifth son was born in Hong Kong, Li Peiyao.
In 1949, Li Jishen, as the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, was invited to participate in the first National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and was elected vice president. Li Peiyao went to Beijing with her father to study and graduated from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1957. For nearly 30 years after that, Li Peiyao worked at the Nanchang Aircraft Factory in Jiangxi Province, from a technician to a senior engineer step by step.
At the end of the 80s of the last century, the comrades of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee recommended Li Peiyao to study the issue of training non-party cadres. As a result, Li Peiyao, who was over half a hundred years old, began his political career and was elected as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. According to the recollections of relevant people who are familiar with Li Peiyao:
He was in his 50s at the time, but he seemed older than he really was, giving people the impression of being kind and kind. When someone greeted him during the meal, he just smiled and didn't talk much, and he seemed very uncomfortable with the staggered scene, and he was a typical intellectual.
Soon after, Li Peiyao was elected chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, and then elected vice chairman in the general election of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang. In 1989, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Labour. In 1992, he was elected chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and vice chairman of the Eighth National People's Congress. In six or seven years, Li Peiyao has grown from an ordinary engineer to a national leader.
Even after becoming a vice-national leader, Li Peiyao still maintained his true character as a worker intellectual, and when he returned to the factory to visit his colleagues in Nanchang on a business trip, the workers still affectionately called him "Master Li" when they held his hand. He once said:"I've been working with workers for 30 years and have a common language with them. ”
In life, Li Peiyao is also extremely simple, basically alone. There are neither nannies nor guards in the house. There is a guardhouse in the house, and there is also a guard. But he had the guards live in a garage dormitory, one or two hundred meters away from his house. Usually buying vegetables and cooking, Li Peiyao does it all by himself, and when he is over 60 years old, he even goes downstairs to take out the garbage by himself every day. What he didn't expect was that it was this simple living habit that would cause him to be killed.
Li Peiyao's home is a single-story two-story building, surrounded by lawns, the door of the building opens in the southeast corner, and 16 meters to the southeast is the No. 2 armed police sentry box.
On the morning of February 2, 1996, Zuo Zhijin, then deputy director of the Investigation Division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, heard the news and quickly rushed to the scene of the crime.
There were large blood stains at the scene of Li's house, and the carpet in the northeast corner of the entrance hall of the building had been lifted to reveal a heating well, in which there was a bent male corpse, with a large amount of blood flowing from his head, and the white shirt he wore on his upper body was rolled up to reveal almost his entire back, and a large amount of blood stained; The white vest worn inside was also rolled up, and he was wearing blue-gray pants underneath, pink autumn pants inside, and blue shorts inside, and gray socks on his feet, the soles of which were stained with blood and mud. This is Li Peiyao's body.
After a preliminary autopsy, Li Peiyao was cut with a kitchen knife by others, resulting in acute hemorrhagic shock and died.
It was the first time since 1949 that a state leader had been killed, and it caused a sensation and caused public concern about Beijing's security and the leader's security work.
The investigation went well, and the results quickly shattered all kinds of rumors.
A neighbor who lives south of Li's house and a nanny who lives on the northeast side confirmed that they heard a cry of "help" around 4:50 a.m. The two armed police soldiers who were on duty that night said that at around 6 o'clock, they met a soldier named Zhang Jinlong outside the door of Li Peiyao's house, and they looked down as if looking for something.
Soon, the armed police squad leader who was on duty that day confirmed that at 6:30, Zhang Jinlong had said to him: "Squad leader, I killed someone, you let me go, let me go and fly high." After that, Zhang Jinlong was about to climb out of the iron gate of the compound, and was pulled down by the squad leader and another soldier and taken to the armed police squadron headquarters.
On the way, Zhang Jinlong tried to escape over the wall again, but was chased back by two fighters. After a body search, it was found that Zhang Jinlong had a key bag and a black plastic knife handle, as well as 600 yuan. There are all kinds of indications that Zhang Jinlong, a 19-year-old senior soldier at the time, was the one who killed Li Peiyao. Zhang Jinlong, originally from Lanxi County, Heilongjiang Province, was sent to the residence of Li Peiyao and other leaders a year ago to be on duty.
After Zhang Jinlong was caught, he quickly confessed everything that happened that night:
On 2 February 1996, from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m., he was on duty at Sentry No. 2. Because he felt that it was not interesting to stay at the sentry post, he came downstairs to Li Peiyao's house next to him, put down his gun, took off his coat, put aside the bullet bag, kicked the window under the balcony and climbed to the second-floor balcony, took off his cotton shoes, and opened a door with socks on and entered the house.
When Zhang Jinlong was rummaging through the drawers of the desk in the living room, Li Peiyao was awakened, wearing a shirt and pants, and paced out of the bedroom with slippers. Li Peiyao was a little stunned when he saw Zhang Jinlong who was stealing things, and after relieving himself, he asked, "How did you get in, is my door unlocked?" ”
Zhang Jinlong thought that Li Peiyao must have seen that he was stealing, and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, chief, it's the first time, and I won't dare next time." As he spoke, Zhang Jinlong knelt on the ground and kept begging for mercy. Li Peiyao sat on the sofa, asked him in a calm tone what his name was, ** person, and how old he was, and after listening to the answer, he said, "You did this at the age of 19", and waved him to leave quickly.
Li Peiyao's actions seemed to Zhang Jinlong, "I suddenly felt that he was very hateful, and thought, can't I kneel down for him?" "Until he went downstairs, Zhang Jinlong was still thinking, he would definitely not be able to spare me, and he would tell our leaders about it, so it would be better to just get rid of it. While thinking, he walked to the kitchen on the first floor, took two kitchen knives, one large and one small, and stuffed them in his trouser pockets.
After walking out of the kitchen, Zhang Jinlong was afraid and didn't make up his mind to do it, and when he walked to the door of the building, he heard Li Peiyao say loudly: "You have to know the consequences." After hearing this, Zhang Jinlong was anxious, took out the smaller kitchen knife from his trouser pocket, and rushed up to fight with Li Peiyao.
Although Li Peiyao is over sixty years old, she still has a lot of strength, and in the process of fighting, she ripped off Zhang Jinlong's epaulette. While fighting for a kitchen knife, Zhang Jinlong's hand was cut. In a hurry, Zhang Jinlong waved the kitchen knife indiscriminately, and in the chaos, the knife and the knife handle were separated, and the blade flew out. After Zhang Jinlong found out, he threw away the only remaining knife handle in his hand and took out the big kitchen knife.
Li Peiyao stepped forward and snatched the big kitchen knife, slashed at Zhang Jinlong twice, and then ran to the door and shouted for help. Zhang Jinlong chased him to the ground, snatched the knife again, and slashed at his body, "At first, he struggled to resist and dodge a few times, but then I don't know how many knives he slashed, and gradually he stopped moving and stopped making a sound." ”
Zhang Jinlong's brain slowly began to sober up a little, and he knew that he had made a big mistake. He remembered that he had seen a heating well in the foyer of Li's house, so he dragged Li Peiyao over, stuffed it into the well, covered it with a manhole cover, laid out the carpet, pressed a cardboard box, and threw a kitchen knife into the heating well outside the building. After that, he took out the mop from the bathroom, wiped the blood on the ground, and threw the mop into the heating well outside the building.
After dealing with these, it was already 6 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Jinlong put on his coat back, took back the bullet bag, and then ran to the balcony of Li's house to get back his cotton shoes, but the bullet bag fell on the balcony. After the coat and cotton shoes were put on, Zhang Jinlong went to the sentry post to hand over the post. Because he was wrapped in an overcoat and the sky was not bright, the soldiers who took over the post did not see the blood stains on Zhang Jinlong's body.
After handing over the post, Zhang Jinlong went to Li's house again, found the epaulettes that had been torn off during the scuffle, washed his face, found clothes, watches, rings, necklaces, lighters and other things and put them into two empty suitcases. The person who came was the sentry who had just received the sentry, Zhang Jinlong became nervous and begged "let me go", the sentry did not let go, and then another sentry came, and the two took Zhang Jinlong back to the team site together.
Bloodstains, fingerprints, shoe prints, and footprints wearing only socks at the scene corroborated Zhang Jinlong's confession.
The reason why Zhang Jinlong chose to sneak into Li's house was because he had already noticed that Li Peiyao was the only one in the entire compound. And February 2 was not the first time he had gone in, and before that, he had climbed in the same way twice. The first time was after New Year's Day in 1996, when he remembered that he had seen a slow loris raised by the Li family, and there must be a lot of fun to do.
That day, when Zhang Jinlong entered the house, Li Peiyao was also sleeping, but she never woke up. Zhang Jinlong took a watch, a lighter, a shirt, a pair of pants, a BP machine, 20 films, and 1,950 yuan. Later, he sent the watch to his father, because he thought the black leather strap was too old, and he spent 15 yuan at a stall to exchange it for a new one.
That time, Li Peiyao didn't make a noise, so no one knew, and I didn't hear anyone pursue it afterwards. Later, he climbed in again while standing guard and stole the Sony Walkman, the matching small speaker, and other small things.
During the investigation, Zhang Jinlong's growth background was also **: he dropped out of school before finishing his second year of junior high school, and was punished by the public security organs for stealing bicycles twice in February and March 1994. His father was a worker in the Third Bureau of the North Railway in Changzhi City, and after leaving his job without pay in 1989, he sold dog meat at the farmers' market, and had a criminal record of wounding people with a knife.
Six days after Li Peiyao was killed, a masked gangster armed with a Type 56 automatic rifle ransacked a cash truck parked in front of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in broad daylight, shot and killed two bank staff members, killed and injured one, and robbed more than 1 million yuan. In just a few months, there were two more bank robberies with guns, both of which were committed by Lu Xianzhou. At the end of March 1996, the Bai Baoshan case occurred again.
This series of vicious cases not only put a lot of pressure on the police, but also caused dissatisfaction in society. From April 1996 to February 1997, China carried out its second "strike hard" campaign. This was the largest concentrated crackdown on a nationwide scale after the first "strike hard" campaign in 1983The focus of the crackdown is on serious violent crimes such as homicide, robbery, and other serious violent crimes, hooliganism, gun-related crimes, drug crimes, hooligan and evil force crimes, and crimes of a high nature.
Looking at the whole country, the focus of the "strike hard" campaign varies from place to place
Beijing's "strike hard" campaign has had a bad impact and has not been solved for a long time; Shanghai and Henan have "cracked hard" on rampant crimes, Shanxi has "cracked down" on gangs and evil forces, Guangdong has "cracked down" on drug-related criminal syndicates, and Guangxi and Qinghai have "cracked down" on the manufacture and sale of guns and narcotics. A large number of criminals who have committed many evils have fallen into the legal net, and the masses of the people applaud.
The Tangshan City Public Security Bureau cracked the case in three days and arrested six criminals, including Xu Bin and Zhao Yong, a criminal gang formed by Xu Bin and Zhao Yong in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, who robbed and hijacked three taxis in a row and injured the driver.
The Pinglu County Public Security Bureau in Shanxi Province smashed a gang of hooligans and evil forces headed by village cadres, and the leaders of this gang were Pei Anjun, former village party secretary and village head, Zhao Lijia, deputy secretary, and Zhao Yongan, deputy village head and security director. These people gathered a group of local hooligans, claiming to be **Rong and Du Yuesheng of Changle Town, doing all kinds of evil, beating the masses and women.
The Zhengzhou Railway Public Security Department smashed a huge criminal gang of theft, robbery, and murder on the southern line of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. This gang was headed by Luo Chuncheng, Zhao Xiangfa, and Bai Haishan, who were from Henan, and they joined forces with more than 20 outrageous criminals from northeastern China to wantonly steal and rob passengers' property on the train.
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's Arong Banner Public Security Bureau seized an extraordinarily large criminal gang of gun manufacturers and traffickers formed by Chi Haiku and others, and seized 49 double-barreled small-caliber guns, gunpowder guns, and more than 100 rounds of ammunition that had been remodeled from starting guns.
The Liuyang City Public Security Bureau in Hunan Province has cracked a 14-member extraordinarily large theft gang headed by Zhang Chuping, who traveled by plane to 14 cities and counties in eight provinces, committing more than 140 thefts.
The Jiangxi Provincial Public Security Department organized more than 200 cadres and policemen to conduct a concentrated search and arrest of water bandits and boat tyrants in the waters of the Ganjiang River in Fengcheng City, and after three hours of fighting, 35 water bandits and boat tyrants were arrested. During the battle, Ge Shizeng, director of the Fengcheng Water Public Security Bureau, and Li Yuandan, a police officer, were wounded.
More than 90,000 criminal gangs have been smashed and more than 420,000 gang members have been arrested, and more than 30,000 lawbreakers and criminals have voluntarily surrendered to the public security organs or confessed their crimes in prison prisons under the pressure of the "strike hard" campaign. However, the public security people's police also paid a heavy price: in the three months after the "strike hard" campaign began, 75 people's policemen were killed and more than 2,800 were injured, of whom 266 were seriously injured.
In a special historical period, the "strike hard" campaign has done a good job in improving public order and creating a better environment for social progress. Nowadays, with the continuous improvement of criminal investigation technology and the strengthening of firearms control, China's social security has become a global model.