The plane crashed, and the locals grabbed itBox ocean, pay a heavy price
May 24, 1949, Weixin Township, Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province. The villagers were preparing to return home after working in the fields when they suddenly heard a shrill roar. It was the sound of the propellers of large airplanes, reminiscent of the indiscriminate bombing by the Japanese in those days, which terrified the villagers.
Now, the "god of mourning" has come again, and the villagers have fled to the ravine in a hurry to take refuge. However, instead of dropping bombs, the plane dragged thick black smoke into a nearby mountain stream.
A loud ** sound came from the west, and people found the plane crashing. Why this plane appeared in this remote mountain village raises questions.
A windfall fell from the sky, and a plane crashed in Weixin Township, causing a loud noise that shocked the entire countryside. The villagers rushed to the scene and talked about this sudden "mourning god".
When the fire was extinguished, some villagers who had never seen an airplane before cautiously approached to observe the wreckage of the big flying creature. However, when they walked into the plane, they found white flowers scattered on the ground, which attracted everyone's attention.
Some bold people put their hands into the scorched earth and took out a round object that shimmered with silver light, on which were engraved the four big characters "**bank". Everyone was stunned, it turned out that these shining silver things were real big silver yuan!
After a brief moment of stunnedness, all the villagers rushed to the pile of silver dollars as if they had gone mad, and packed them into their pockets, backpacks, and bamboo baskets. The women who were at home with their babies also took out the sacks at home to help their men carry the silver yuan home.
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the villagers, these large pieces of silver yuan scattered on the ground were quickly snatched up by them.
The villagers were ecstatic to hide the silver dollars that fell from the sky in the most hidden places of their houses, and began to plan their "sudden riches" plan. Little did they know, however, that this sudden windfall would attract a group of greedy people.
The bully township chief Ou Wenwen and his subordinates, carrying rifles, forcibly took over the site of the plane crash on the pretext of "maintaining law and order and protecting the scene". They have only one goal, and that is to loot as many silver dollars as possible.
Although Ou Wenwen's greed has been revealed, Wu Youfeng, the mayor of the neighboring township, also suddenly appeared, and he also coveted the windfall. These greedy people, who only have money in their eyes, do not know that their greed has led to greater disasters.
Ou Wenwen and Wu Youfeng, who were originally bandits, knew Wu Youfeng's intentions, however, Dayang fell in Ou Wenwen's territory of Weixinxiang.
Wu Youfeng knew that he couldn't afford to provoke him on Ou Wen's territory, but he couldn't swallow this mouthful. So, he immediately dialed ** and reported the plane crash, the drop of silver yuan, and Ou Wenwen's embezzlement of silver yuan to Chen Quzhen, director of the "Prevention and Suppression Committee" of Fenghuang County.
Chen Quzhen was a big man in Xiangxi, he entered Tibet as a Qing Dynasty officer to resist British aggression, pacified **, and successfully returned to the mainland to rule Xiangxi for more than 20 years, the world respectfully called him "King of Xiangxi".
After receiving the news, Chen Quzhen immediately led more than 100 armed city defense team members to Weixin Township. Seeing Chen Quzhen, Ou Wenwen immediately restrained his arrogant and domineering face, wagging his tail and begging in front of his master like a dog.
Chen Quzhen did not severely reprimand Ou Wenwen, but only ordered him to hand over all the silver dollars he had found. Soon, Ou Wenwen moved the more than 10,000 oceans he had worked so hard to get in front of Chen Quzhen.
Seeing that there were only more than 10,000 oceans, Chen Quzhen's face immediately became serious. Ou Wenwen was afraid that Chen Quzhen would be angry, so he told him about the people robbing the silver yuan.
After thinking for a while, Chen Quzhen solemnly gave Ou Wen a death order: go to the villagers' homes and search them door to door.
Ou Wenwen and the city guards broke into the homes of the villagers and forced them to hand over the silver yuan they had picked up in the morning. Some villagers were so frightened that they handed over the silver yuan, while some "hard bones" were intimidated by Ou Wenwen's bandit nature.
He ordered his subordinates to turn these people's homes upside down, and to hand over anything of value, whether it was a drop from a plane or a silver dollar that the people already had.
The entire Restoration Township was made into chaos by Ou Wenwen and others. Chen Quzhen's order to Ou Wenwen was a "search", but what he carried out was a "raid".
Ou Wenwen's subordinates took money when they saw it, beat people when they saw them, and even tied up the common people who dared to contradict them and sent them to prison. Overnight, they copied tens of thousands of oceans from people's homes.
The people of Weixin Township thought that this was the end of the matter, but they never imagined that a greater catastrophe was yet to come.
At the end of May 1949, Chen Quzhen, director of the Fenghuang County "Anti-Suppression Committee", suddenly received a letter from Cheng Qian, chairman of Hunan Province. Cheng Qian told him that an American Flying Tigers transport plane that had crashed in Weixin Township was loaded with a total of 50 boxes of silver yuan totaling 100,000 yuan!
Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek had personally ordered Mao Renfeng to investigate the matter with full powers, so he must recover all the silver yuan, otherwise there would be a great disaster. Chen Quzhen realized the seriousness of the problem, he had already recovered six or seven of them, what should be done with the remaining holes?
In the end, he could only put this burden on the people of Weixin Township. Because in his eyes, these Diao people must not have handed over all the silver yuan. Early the next morning, Weixin Township in Fenghuang County issued a new policy, requiring every household to hand over 80 yuan within the specified time limit!
Otherwise, you will be in jail! This harsh government is more terrible than a tiger, you know, Weixin Township is a remote small village, the people here have basically lived on agriculture for generations, and the economic conditions are not good, this time they have to hand over 80 oceans, isn't it because they have the magic to turn stone into gold?
As soon as the new policy of Fenghuang County came out, many villagers in Weixin Township fled the village overnight, although they knew that they would have to live a life of exile after leaving here, but even so, it was much better than handing over 80 silver yuan.
In the past, the village was very lively, with hundreds of families living there, but overnight it almost became a "** young and middle-aged people almost all fled, leaving only the elderly behind."
In order to make up the arrears, Chen Quzhen even adopted an almost brutal policy. Why are the people so desperate to recover this mere 100,000 oceans? It's all about a crashed American plane.
In 1949, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was violent, and the Kuomintang army was defeated again and again. In order to confront the PLA, the KMT's top brass targeted the bandits in Xiangxi, trying to buy their hearts with money to make them join the Kuomintang army.
So, Chiang Kai-shek scraped together 100,000 yuan from the ** Finance Bureau, intending to use this transport plane borrowed from the Flying Tigers to deliver it safely and quickly. However, the greed of human nature made this transportation plan go wrong.
On the same day, the plane flew from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to Zhijiang Airport in Huaihua City, Hunan, and in addition to two US military pilots and 50 boxes of silver yuan, it also carried three armed escort soldiers, one ** staff member, and two family members.
When the plane flew over Fenghuang County, the armed escort personnel on the plane suddenly took out their pistols, killed the *** in charge of supervision and his family, and threatened the pilot to immediately force land the plane in the area of Fenghuang County, in an attempt to embezzle 100,000 yuan.
However, what they didn't expect was that the pistol was too powerful, and after firing at close range, the projectile did not stop moving after penetrating the head of ***, but penetrated the fuselage of the aircraft again, hitting the propeller that was spinning at high speed, and the aircraft engine hit by the bullet immediately rose into smoke and lost power, which directly led to the loss of control of the aircraft and finally fell into the mountain stream of Weixin Township.
After this incident, the Finance Department could not scrape together another 100,000 yuan to fill the hole in a short period of time, so Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to be fully responsible for the investigation of the incident, and ordered the local leaders in Hunan to recover all the money.
During the investigation of the accident, investigators from the Secrecy Bureau examined the wreckage of the plane and the surrounding environment and found that a body had been shot in the head at close range before death.
Subsequently, Mao Renfeng and others combined the evidence collected at the scene and repeatedly deliberated to come to the cause of the accident mentioned above, and made a conclusion for the incident. And the interesting thing is that Chen Quzhen, who recovered more than 80,000 yuan, did not hand over all the money to the people after that, and the chairman of Hunan Province urged him to pay the money many times, but he was always prevaricated by him for various reasons, because Chen Quzhen knew very well at that time that the Kuomintang was already at the end of its power, and the fall of Chiang Kai-shek was already an inevitable result, so why didn't he put these tens of thousands of yuan into his pocket?
Shortly after the crash, Chen Quzhen led his men to launch an uprising in Hunan. Although he died in 1952, he did not reveal the whereabouts of the 80,000 yuan to the outside world until his death.
I am afraid that no one knows where this illegal proceeds are going and by whom.