After the reform and opening up, the "four major inventions" proposed by the West were widely accepted by the Chinese, and then the country began to look for the "fifth major invention". There were various theories about what the "fifth great invention" was, some people supported "hybrid rice", and some people supported "acupuncture".
However, in the 80s of the last century, the "fifth invention" really appeared. A bus driver in Northeast China invented a "fuel" made of water, which can not only replace gasoline to start a car, but also cost only one-thousandth of ordinary gasoline.
It is an innovative invention called "water to oil". In the last century.
In China in the 80s and 90s, the invention of "water into oil" caused a huge sensation, which made the bus driver, who only had a fourth-grade education, become a nationally famous figure overnight and became the focus of the era.
This bus driver attracted the attention of the whole country for his invention of "water to oil", but his life course was full of twists and turns. Wang Hongcheng came from a family with a low level of education, and he was expelled from school twice in the fourth grade of primary school, and finally had to drop out of school and return home.
While working as a carpenter and soldier at home, he still had a keen interest in knowledge, so he cut pork in exchange for a junior high school diploma. Eventually, he worked as a bus driver at the Harbin Bus Company.
In March 1984, Wang Hongcheng announced the invention"Water-based fuels"and invite the public to visit. He will"Puffing agents"Add to a beer bottle filled with water, shake gently, and let it sit for a few minutes to declare it complete.
He then lit the mouth of the bottle with a match, and the flame burst into flames. Wang Hongcheng continued"Water-based fuels"Pour into a car that is out of gas, press the accelerator, and the car starts smoothly.
This invention caused a huge sensation in the city, and the reporter also interviewed Wang Hongcheng and asked him why he thought of the invention"Water turns into oil"。
Wang Hongcheng, a farmer with a deep love for cars, has developed a strong interest in cars while raising pigs. After learning about the best of car fuels, he came up with the idea of creating a fuel that was more energy-efficient than oil.
Wang Hongcheng once had a popular science book on chemistry, reading that "water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen, hydrogen can be burned, and oxygen can support combustion", he was deeply inspired and decided to invent a way to make hydrogen and oxygen in water burn directly without decomposition.
In order to achieve this goal, Wang Hongcheng formulated a variety of potions and conducted many experiments, but all of them ended in failure. He began to feel discouraged and even thought about giving up.
However, on the evening of November 7, 1981, Wang Hongcheng, who had just gotten off work, did not go home to rest, but went straight to the experimental table. Perhaps because he was so tired, he actually fell asleep during the experiment.
This scene may be the starting point of innovation, and it is also the birth of Wang Hongcheng's concept of "turning water into oil".
Wang Hong woke up after falling asleep, accidentally knocked over the experimental table, and two bottles of liquid medicine spilled and mixed with the electrolyte, turning into a milky white liquid and burning instantly. Two years later, after continuous optimization of the formula, Wang Hongcheng invented a special "puffing agent".
Only 1 puffing agent needs to be added, and a calorific value of up to 6,000 kcal of "water-based fuel" can be produced, and the calorific value of "puffing agent" without water can be as high as 10,000 kcal.
The reporter was deeply moved by Wang Hongcheng's perseverance and wrote a long report for this purpose.
On May 17, 1984, at the invitation of the leaders of Heilongjiang Province, a leader gave Wang Hongcheng's "water to oil" performance during a field trip. The leader was deeply interested in Wang Hongcheng's performance, so he specially sent someone to invite him to Beijing, and provided him with high-end living and experimental facilities, and even the Ministry of Science and Technology provided protection.
However, after three months of experiments, Wang Hongcheng did not make any breakthroughs. Just when the staff of the Ministry of State Security became suspicious of Wang Hongcheng, he suddenly announced: "By improving the formula, I can use it now."'Puffing agents'Convert 100 tons of water into oil. ”
Subsequently, Wang Hongcheng asked the personnel of the Ministry of State Security to prepare a large swimming pool for him, add "puffing chemicals" according to a specific ratio, and turn on electricity. Soon, Wang Hongcheng announced with a serious expression: "It's done!" ”
He then took out a beer bottle, took a sample from the pool, made some vague manipulations, and finally lit the beer bottle with a match, and the flame ignited instantly.
Wang Hongcheng looked at the surprised expressions of the comrades of Guoan, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, thinking that he had succeeded. However, what he didn't expect was that when the comrades of the national security checked the bottle he used to light the fire, they found a problem.
It turned out that before the performance began, Guoan's comrades made a special mark on each beer bottle, and the beer bottle that Wang Hongcheng used to perform and the beer bottle that was sampled were not the same.
Obviously, the beer bottle was transferred by Wang Hongcheng. When comrades from the Ministry of State Security pointed out Wang Hongcheng's problem and searched for beer bottles filled with water, Wang Hongcheng, although he did not seem to be alarmed, claimed that his medicine had been stolen.
Structurally, only immediate investigations can be conducted. However, without informing anyone, Wang Hongcheng sneaked to the Beijing railway station to escape back to the northeast.
Fortunately, there have always been people from the national security around him who are secretly protecting him, and when they found out that Wang Hongcheng planned to leave without saying goodbye, they immediately appeared and "invited" him back. Soon after, Wang Hongcheng was sent to Qincheng Prison to be held.
After spending more than three months in prison, Wang Hongcheng chose to take the initiative to confess, admitting that he had manipulated beer bottles and that "water-based fuel" was a gimmick he had made.
Considering that Wang Hongben himself had admitted his mistake and that the incident had not had much impact on society, the state notified the Harbin City Public Security Bureau to take him back.
After Wang Hongcheng demonstrated the miraculous technology of "turning water into oil" in Harbin, he won the trust of the leaders of the Public Security Bureau and was recommended to a major leader of the provincial government.
The provincial leaders were very optimistic about this project after the experiment and decided to cooperate with Wang Hongcheng. However, when he was about to sign the agreement, Wang Hongcheng suddenly changed his mind, claiming that his "puffing agent" had been stolen and could not continue to cooperate.
The provincial leadership believed his explanation and did not hold him accountable. A few months later, Wang Hongcheng once again demonstrated his "water-to-oil" technology in Daqing, and the leaders of Daqing City personally formulated the "water-based fuel" and gave 400,000 yuan of sponsorship to the project, hoping that Wang Hongcheng could mass produce "puffing agents" in Daqing.
However, Wang Hongcheng found an excuse to run away before the official signing. Despite this, Wang Hongcheng's "performances" are getting more and more times, and his fame is growing.
Finally, in the summer of 1986, the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Research Institute of Petroleum Sciences received a notice to prepare for a scientific appraisal of Wang Hongcheng's "puffing agent" project.
Wang Hongcheng once brought his "puffing agent" to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and agreed to the request for scientific identification. But when the scientists of the Academy of Sciences were preparing to conduct the identification, he suddenly broke the contract and left with stolen documents and letterheads.
After that, he took the forged "Certificate of Wang Hongcheng's Invention Achievements" issued by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to deceive everywhere and defrauded a lot of investment.
Wang Hongcheng was thrown into Qincheng Prison for inventing the "water-to-oil" technology, even though he was unwilling to hand in the recipe. In order to allow him to continue to "engage in scientific research," the state invested tens of thousands of yuan in setting up a laboratory for him in prison.
However, the "water to oil" experiment carried out in prison made a senior engineer sent by ** start to believe that Wang Hongcheng really invented this technology. However, in the second experiment, Wang Hongcheng showed his feet, and it turned out that he secretly changed the glass.
After being exposed, instead of repentance, he falsely accused the engineer of "stealing his potion". The news of Wang Hongcheng's imprisonment has attracted widespread attention, and some people have even written to him to assure him that his research is "scientific, rigorous, and effective", and touted him as a "great scientist" who deserves "special treatment".
As a result, Wang Hongcheng once again swaggered out of prison.
Although he was sentenced for fraud, he continued to deceive under the guise of invention after being released from prison, and the deceived suffered heavy losses.
However, Wang Hongcheng's "fame" soared because of this, and was even touted as "China's fifth greatest invention", which attracted widespread attention across the country. In this context, many experts and scholars, university professors, and senior engineers have submitted to the Letters and Visits Office to support Wang Hongcheng's "great invention".
But not everyone was confused by his **, including Yan Guliang, who had assisted him in the experiment, and he wrote a special article exposing Wang Hongcheng's **.
However, the scientific community did not compromise on this. They cited a series of scientific evidences to prove that water and oil cannot be converted into each other, in other words, Wang Hongcheng's "water to oil" is simply a **.
In general, Wang Hongcheng's "water to oil"** has once again aroused public attention, and the resolute opposition of the scientific community has also made people see the voice of justice.
Although ** once made him famous, he will be punished due in the end.
Scientists have proved that water can be burned under certain conditions, but people are convinced of Wang's lies. In 1992, Minister of Labor Nguyen Chong Vu submitted a report to Vice Premier Zhu Rongji, arguing that if Wang Hongcheng was really capable, he would not need anyone's approval and could directly produce "water into oil", and there was no need to rely on performances to eat and drink at all.
Zhu Rongji approved the report to Liu Suinian, minister of the Ministry of Materials, and asked him to read it to leading cadres who support the "turning water into oil" and told them not to mislead the public again.
On January 19, 1993, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Materials jointly issued a circular demanding that the publicity and reporting on Wang Hongcheng and his research project be stopped. However, Wang Hongcheng did not stop there, and he decided to sue Liu Suinian, the minister of materials, and Tao Siju, the minister of public security, to the Beijing Intermediate People's Court, claiming that the two ministers had violated his right to reputation, and demanding that the court immediately remove them from their posts.
However, the court did not accept his vexatious complaint. Wang Hongcheng did not stop there, and he went to the Xicheng District People's Court in Beijing to sue Yan Guliang, also claiming that he had violated his right to reputation.
However, because Wang Hongcheng's "scientific research achievements" had not been scientifically evaluated, the court did not accept his lawsuit. As a result, Wang Hongcheng appealed to the Beijing Intermediate People's Court, but it was quickly rejected by the Intermediate People's Court.
Although Wang's prosecution failed, his propaganda strategy has been successful. He created an extruder known as "Hongcheng Fuel", which consists of soap, the surfactant OP-10, and potassium permanganate (or spinach water).
When this bulking agent was introduced, the city of Harbin announced that it would replace all No. 67 buses with this fuel, which triggered enthusiastic cheers from Harbin citizens.
However, unfortunately, this "fuel" not only does not save fuel, but on the contrary, it corrodes the engine. In just a few months, the engines of more than a dozen buses running on "Hongcheng fuel" were corroded.
Although a notice has been issued to stop promoting Wang Hongcheng, Harbin buses still insist on using his "Hongcheng fuel". However, the news **'s support for Wang Hongcheng has not diminished, and even made a documentary for him, and many companies have also cooperated with him to buy his "Hongcheng fuel".
However, these people all ended up losing a lot of money and losing all their money. Wang Hongcheng took this opportunity to earn nearly 400 million yuan in illegal income, bought Audi, Santana, Jiefang trucks, two vans, and also bought a villa with a garage in Dalian, a farm compound on Harbin Airport Road, and even prepared a new residence for his concubine.
In order to combat the anti-science and pseudo-scientific phenomena that are widespread in China, on December 14, 1994, the Xinhua News Agency issued the "Several Opinions of the Communist Party of China on Strengthening the Popularization of Science and Technology", stressing the need to actively strengthen the work of popularizing science and wage a resolute struggle against all kinds of anti-science and pseudo-scientific phenomena.
In the spring of 1995, 41 members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) from the scientific community submitted the much-talked-about "Proposal 0787" at the Third Session of the Eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), severely condemning Wang Hongcheng and his "water-to-oil" project.
A journalist with good professional ethics conducted an in-depth investigation of Wang Hongcheng, discovered some facts about Wang Hongcheng's economic crimes, and wrote a report entitled "Water to Oil and Economic Fraud".
After learning of this, He Zuoxiu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a nuclear physicist, believed that this manuscript should be submitted to *** immediately to avoid affecting ***'s treatment plan for Wang Hongcheng.
In the course of the investigation, He Zuoxiu discovered that Wang Hongcheng had prepared fake passports and exchanged a large amount of US dollars, and that his wife and children had not been seen in public for several days, showing obvious signs of fleeing abroad.
In order to stop this behavior, He Zuoxiu, Guo Zhengyi and other scientists jointly compiled an emergency report, which was submitted to *** and *** together with "Water to Oil and Economic Fraud".
** and *** attached great importance to this report and issued a directive on December 7, 1995, requesting the Ministry of Public Security to immediately open a case for investigation. As a result of these efforts, Wang Hongcheng, who assumed the pseudonym "Ding Shan", was successfully controlled by the public security organs on December 31, 1995.
Water turns into oil"On January 3, 1996, the Ministry of Public Security secretly ordered the Heilongjiang Provincial Public Security Department to investigate and punish Wang Hongcheng"Water turns into oil"Economic fraud.
More than 3 months later,"9614"The special case group had a large amount of evidence of Wang Hongcheng's crime, and the Harbin City People's Procuratorate approved his arrest. On 23 October 1997, the Harbin Intermediate People's Court convicted Wang Hongcheng of producing and selling counterfeit and shoddy products, and sentenced him to 10 years in prison and two years in deprivation of political rights.
Wang Hongcheng appealed, but the Heilongjiang Provincial High Court ultimately upheld the original verdict.
On November 28, Wang Hongcheng, who had committed many evils, officially began his prison career. Wang Hongcheng's power is inseparable from the social atmosphere behind it. At that time, some pseudo-experts vigorously advocated pseudo-scientific and anti-scientific concepts under the banner of "science, tradition, and innovation", and deceived many people.
Fortunately, this unhealthy trend has been curbed in time, and today, although pseudoscience and anti-science still exist, it is difficult to cause large-scale impact. After being released from prison, Wang Hongcheng could only choose to remain incognito and could no longer continue his fraudulent acts.