Years of unsolved unsolved cases
This is a thrilling true story, which took place in 1931 in Shanghai Provisional ***, which was the second provisional *** in the history of our Party, and was also established against the backdrop of Chiang Kai-shek's wanton suppression of our Party's revolutionary activities.
Due to financial problems, the revolutionary cause was seriously hampered, and it was temporarily impossible to operate normally. In order to be able to carry out their activities, they had to ask for help from the Soviet districts.
Despite the difficulties faced by the Soviet District ** itself, they still resolutely allocated 120 taels **, and Lin Boqu, who was the "Minister of Finance" at the time, was responsible for this matter. Seeing the pile of ** jewelry, Lin Boqu knew that it was not easy to ** in the Soviet area, just like an old man taking out a little money from a handkerchief.
This is an extremely twisty and bizarre story, which is both touching and shocking.
Mr. Lin Boqu had a large number of ** jewelry that needed to be shipped from Jiangxi to Shanghai, but considering that it might be lost or inconvenient to carry during transportation, he decided to melt it all down and make 12 gold bars weighing 10 taels.
In order to solve the problem of how to safely send 12 gold bars to Shanghai, Lin Boqu came up with an ingenious method. He first packed the gold bars into a specially made box and closed the opening with metallic tin.
However, as Chiang Kai-shek sent troops to suppress it, the atmosphere of White Terror permeated every corner of Shanghai, making it very difficult to get these funds safely to Shanghai.
But Lin Boqu has excellent strategic vision and excellent problem-solving skills. He devised a route from Jiangxi, passing through Nanping, Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Jinhua, Hangzhou, Songjiang, and finally Shanghai.
The route was tortuous, but it was able to avoid dangerous areas and ensure the safe transport of gold bars. Lin Boqu's wisdom and courage are breathtaking, and his solutions are amazing.
In order to ensure the safety of transportation, Lin Boqu has carefully designed a set of secret transportation networks. He selected 7 underground traffic officers, handed them each stroke of the word "fast", and then established a code language system between each traffic officer to ensure the safe transmission of information.
During transportation, each traffic officer has an important task on their shoulders, and they need to carry out handovers and identification according to instructions to ensure the safety of funds. In the process of completing the mission, each traffic officer showed a high sense of responsibility and professionalism, and they used their actions to protect this important fund.
In an important task, every handover needs to be handled with care, however, even then, surprises can arise. For example, from November 6, 1931, the temporary ** in Shanghai has not been able to wait for an expected amount of funds.
Although they were expected to receive it around December 6 according to the stipulated time, they did not receive it until the 22nd, after five reminders. At the same time, Deng Fa, director of the Political Security Bureau of the Soviet District, also received only 6 strokes of the word "fast", which means that there was a problem in the last link, that is, the process from Songjiang to Shanghai.
Under the shadow of the White Terror, our Party suffered many losses, but this special fund was of great importance to our Party. We decided to take a gamble and investigate by secretly infiltrating intelligence agents in the White Zone.
However, due to the secret identity of the traffic officer, the investigation could not proceed. The disappearance of this fund has had a huge impact, including the death of our party fighters, the lack of money for the cadres of the organs, the begging of the families of the martyrs, the cancellation of the general strike of the Japanese industry, and the disappearance of the army.
Since it was impossible to trace down at the time, these things had to be stopped. However, when the time came to November 1949, not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, ** issued an order to investigate the unsolved cases.
Among them, the "120 taels of ** missing case" made *** remember it for 18 years, and he specially asked *** to let him be in charge of the investigation and be sure to find out the reason. This bizarre case of missing funds is incredible.
The last traffic officer is also missing, you know, these traffic officers have been strictly investigated, they are very clear about the party organization discipline, and they also have a firm belief.
Even if they don't know that they are transporting **, even if they know, they will send it to the designated place at all costs.
When the country moves towards stability, the truth of the unsolved case can undoubtedly solve the doubts that have plagued *** for 18 years. **Ordered to supervise, everything seems inevitable. The director of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau personally selected four senior investigators: Jiang Wenzeng, Xu Liding, Xu Deshen, and Wu Hong.
Jiang Wenzeng served as the team leader, but he was confused when he opened the file. This is not a dossier, but a briefing. The four of them quickly grasped the key point, and their eyes fell on the three words Lin Boqu.
They decided to go to Beijing to learn more about the situation from Lin Boqu, then the secretary general of the **people**. During the conversation with Lin Boqu, they got a useful piece of information, the first traffic officer from Ruijin was surnamed Qin, and although Lin Boqu did not know his full name, he knew that he had worked as a guard under Gao Zili.
Gao Zili was a native of Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, and served as the political commissar and secretary of the Military Commission of the Red Third Army, and the political commissar and commander of the 15th Army of the Red Fifth Army, and died of illness in January 1950.
Jiang Wenzeng and his team were very lucky, because if they went late, they might not be able to meet Gao Zili. Gao Zili was very familiar with his guards, and he told Jiang Wenzeng that he often called him Xiao Qin, his countryman, and now served as the deputy division commander of the 13th Corps in Nanning, Guangxi.
He is a former underground traffic officer who is now the deputy division commander of the 13th Corps in Nanning, Guangxi, so it is not difficult to find such a figure. Then, Jiang Wenzeng and his team happily went to Nanning and met with Deputy Division Commander Qin Pu.
When they asked him about the time when he delivered supplies to Nanping, Qin Pu remembered it vividly, because this was the only time he had taken on such a task. It wasn't until Jiang Wenzeng's arrival that he knew that what he had sent back then turned out to be 120 taels**.
They chatted for a long time, and Qin Pu began to tell the events of that year.
Liu Zhichun and the joint traffic officer completed the handover task at the Hanyuan Hotel, and Liu Zhichun successfully handed over the voucher to his superiors. After Liu Zhichun was liberated in Hangzhou, he found the Military Management Committee and told about the events of that year.
The Military Management Committee made a record of this matter, so when Jiang Wenzeng and others came to look for clues, they found Liu Zhichun as soon as possible. Jiang Wenzeng and others went to the Hanyuan Hotel to look for clues, but they did not find any trace of the traffic officer.
They also investigated all the hotels in Songjiang, but they didn't find any clues either. Despite this, Jiang Wenzeng did not give up, and he decided to ask all the residents of Songjiang if they remembered that a stranger had borrowed it.
Upon questioning, they did not get any useful clues. Finally, they visited Du Fuming, who told them that there was a special guest house for the officers' relatives and friends, and that they could only stay if they were introduced by the officers.
So, they went to the guest house to look for clues.
This guest house keeps more detailed information about its guests than a hostel. It records the identity of every resident, even the military. Jiang Wenzeng and the others only need to find out the guests who are not soldiers.
After reviewing the records from 1 to 5 December 1931, they found that only three people had been accommodated in the guest house. One of them was a couple, and it could not have been a traffic officer, and the other was named Liang Bichun, and his introducer was a battalion commander.
Since Liang Bichun was an employee of this battalion commander's uncle, he was introduced to the guest house. Jiang Wenzeng firmly believes that this person is the person they are looking for. Of course, this is just his guess, and as the team leader, he needs to be careful and try to be foolproof.
So, he decided to find the battalion commander's uncle Guo Beichang first, if Liang Bichun was his employee, then Guo Beichang must remember him. Guo Beichang used to open a pharmacy with the signboard "Xiangdeyuan Chinese Medicine".
However, they found out that Guo Beichang had died as early as 1941. In desperation, they could only ask some elderly people nearby. Luckily, they asked for the results.
An old man in his sixtieth year said that there was indeed a pharmacist surnamed Liang in the "Xiangdeyuan Chinese Medicine" before, and he grabbed the medicine quickly and accurately, without a trace of error. The old man's medicine was all caught by Liang Yaogong, but then he was gone.
It is also said that Liang Bi is purely upright, his skills are all public, and his apprentices are now working in the "Xiangdeyuan Chinese Medicine". Guo Beichang attaches great importance to him, because he knows medicine very well, and sometimes Liang Bichun is responsible for purchasing drugs.
Jiang Wenzeng and others then found other pharmacists, one of whom even took out a photo of him and Liang Bichun**. He has always kept this **, because he was brought into this line by Liang Bichun.
With **, Jiang Wenzeng and others went to Hangzhou again and found Liu Zhichun. Liu Zhichun recognized Liang Bichun at a glance and said that he was the person who connected with him back then. The truth is getting closer and closer, Jiang Wenzeng did not relax his vigilance, but paid close attention to every detail and never let go of any clues.
At this time, they also began to speculate whether Liang Bichun found ** by himself and swallowed it alone.
Liang Bichun has disappeared since he left the guest house on December 1, raising doubts about whether he did it intentionally. Now the only way to find him is through his family. The four of them went to Jiading, hoping to find Liang Bichun's hometown.
They learned wisely and went directly to the police station, on the one hand, to check Liang Bichun's family, and on the other hand, to check the local pharmacy owner, after all, Liang Bichun was born as a pharmacist. After investigation, they found Liang Bichun's master Lu Jifu, whose first-hand skills were learned from Lu Jifu, the owner of "Jifutang".
learned that Liang Bichun had a wife and gave birth to three children, living in Nandingmen, and later his wife moved away with the children. Lu Jifu said that Liang Bichun's wife's maiden home is in Huangdu Qianqiu Bridge.
So the four of them went to Huangdu Town and found the file of Liang Bichun's wife. Through conversations with neighbors in the village, they learned that Liang Bichun had taken his wife and children to the town of Yangjing in Pudong, Shanghai.
In Shanghai, where household registration was strictly managed, they found Liang Bichun's home, who had changed his name to Shen Jigu and was a watchmaker. After finding Liang Bichun, the four did not come to the door to inquire directly, but directly summoned him to the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Liang Bichun was accepted as a member of our party because of his intelligence, carefulness, and frank and upright character. After a long period of incubation, he received an important mission. At that time, the superior did not disclose the specific content of the task, but only told him, "People take the goods, and the goods are lost", in order to express the importance of the task and the urgency of life and death.
Liang Bichun did not relax in the slightest, he took the initiative to contact his boss and asked to be introduced to live in the guest house of the security regiment to ensure the safety of the goods. Because hotels are often woken up in the middle of the night, there are various risks, and the Kuomintang will often check various hotels and restaurants.
Liang Bichun said in the interrogation room that when he got the goods, he felt its heavy weight, and deduced that it might be ** and other valuables inside.
He said that if it weren't for the urgency, there wouldn't be such a complicated handover. At that time, Shanghai was in urgent need of a fund. He followed the instructions of his superiors, took the waterway, and bought a ticket to Shanghai.
After getting off the boat, Liang Bichun wanted to deliver things to the designated place as soon as possible, so he called a rickshaw. It was this rickshaw that brought him into a situation from which there was no turning back.
As soon as he stepped into the car, he didn't go far before he was knocked out by a group of people. When he woke up, he found himself lying in a hotel bed. He immediately looked for the little thing, but it was gone.
Now that the goods are gone, life is in danger. He thought about calling the police, but under the White Terror, who would dare to call the police? Even if he explains it to his superiors, he may not be believed and may even be seen as a traitor.
What's more, his family still needs him to feed. After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to go into hiding. However, Liang Bichun believes that this mission has not been completed, and he has disappeared again, and he may be found one day, and then he will not be able to clear his suspicion.
Therefore, he asked the owner of the "Caojiadu Hotel" for a certificate to prove how he came to the hotel.
After Liang Bichun disappeared, he first lived in a dilapidated temple in Yangjing Town for two years, and then changed his name and surname to engage in the business of repairing clocks and watches, until he made a little money in 1942, and then began to search for his lost wife and children, and finally brought them all to Yangjing Town, Shanghai.
In order to verify Liang Bichun's words, Jiang Wenzeng and others found the owner of the "Caojiadu Hotel" according to his description, and after inquiry, the statements of the boss and employees were almost consistent with Liang Bichun's description.
Jiang Wenzeng contrasted Liang's account with his own findings, arguing that Liang's words were credible because his wife had only been taken to Shanghai nine years later.
However, the case still reached a bottleneck, because Liang Bichun did not see the person who knocked him unconscious, and although the hostel staff had seen the two young men, their memory of them was blurred.
Just when the case is at an impasse, a staff member at the hostel with a good memory offers a key clue. He remembered that the license plate number of the rickshaw at that time was 300169, which was a very easy number to remember, and there should be no mistake.
They chose to believe the employee because the license plates at the time were all recorded, with 30 for 1930 and 0169 for the 169th plate.
At that time, there were not many rickshaws in Shanghai, and they only appeared in some high-end hotels, hostels or docks.
Through in-depth investigation, we found the real owner of the rickshaw, Cao Shenglin. However, he claimed that in 1931 he never lent the car to others and never pulled a guest.
Because the car was his personal car, and he also hired a coachman. We found the driver, who also confirmed Cao Shenglin's claim. However, the trail seems to have been broken.
Therefore, we can only look for the old criminal police in Shanghai to see if they have any clues. However, since 18 years have passed, the old detectives may have forgotten about it.
So, we decided to take a different approach. Since this is a robbery, the robbers certainly won't do it just once. They may be re-arrested and put in jail.
So, we broadcast in Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison and asked if anyone knew about the 1931 Caojiadu robbery. If someone reports it, it will be considered a major meritorious service and may be released early.
The emperor lives up to his wishes, and he really responds to that old saying. Some of the prisoners knew about this because a prisoner named Feng Anbao said it. He said that in 1931, when he was only 15 years old, he had a cousin named Ji Jiagui, who often came to his house to play.
Feng Anbao's father runs a machine repair shop, so there is a rickshaw at home, and Ji Jiagui often pulls it to play, and also lets his playmates Agu and Xiao Ke play together. Later, Feng Anbao wanted to study, and Ji Jiagui didn't come to his house often, but he took the rickshaw out to play and tried to pull people.
The strange thing is that his cousin Ji Jiagui rarely came to his house to play after that, and I heard from my parents that he opened a store called "Ji Jia Huan Nan Goods Store" around the City God Temple, and the business was quite good.
Feng Anbao wanted to reduce his sentence, but he felt that his cousin also played rickshaws during that time, and he didn't come to his house to play for no reason, which is likely to be related to this unsolved case. After listening, Jiang Wenzeng asked Feng Anbao if he remembered his license number, and Feng Anbao replied: "Then I must remember, 300196." ”
When Jiang Wenzeng heard it, this was only one number different from what the staff of the hotel said, and they recorded 96 as 69. Subsequently, the "Jijia Huannan Store" was quickly found, and under the search of the police, a box was found, and Liang Bichun looked at it, which was exactly the same as that of the year.
Under Jiang Wenzeng's interrogation, Ji Jiagui confessed that the other two were his companions, Agu and Xiao Ke. And the motive for the crime was just to open a store, and I was thinking about robbing a few more times to raise money, but I didn't expect to commit the crime for the first time, so I got 120 taels **, which scared me.
Because Ji Jiagui just wanted to rob the money, and he didn't mean to hurt anyone, so he asked Agu and Xiao Ke to send Liang Bichun to the hostel. The three of them each shared 40 taels of **, and each did his own business.
In Ji Jiagui's place, Jiang Wenzeng did not find the remaining **, but found more than a dozen pieces of **jewelry and 20 taels** from Agu and Xiaoke. It is mentioned that Xiao Ke is already dead, and after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, he joined the Kuomintang army and died in the battle against Japan.
Through the trial, on November 18, 1950, Ji Jiagui and Liu Agu were sentenced to death and immediately executed; Liang Bichun was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was released within days and died in 1959. Feng Anbao, who was reported, was imprisoned for being ** because of his heart, but he never admitted that he was **.
After investigation, it was learned that the woman was so annoyed that she falsely accused Feng Anbao**, and then testified for him, and was finally acquitted. So far, in 1931, the "120 taels of ** missing case" was finally solved, which also solved the knot of ***.