On the evening of August 30, 1992, military trucks full of officers and men of the armed police drove toward southern Yunnan. In order to make this plan foolproof, the convoy increased its horsepower when it first left Kunming, taking advantage of the night to race all the way. At the same moment, armed police forces from all over Yunnan also dispatched one after another, marching toward southern Yunnan in a divided and encircled manner.
At this time, more than 3,000 officers and men of the armed police on the vehicle were all loaded with guns and ammunition and were waiting in a strict position. Along the way, the warriors could always feel a sense of slaughter, lingering around them. What the combat mission was this time, they didn't know. Before getting on the bus, the chief only told them that it was a training exercise, but the soldiers could clearly feel that this exercise was different from usual times.
Officers and men of the Armed Police
After a night of driving, the convoy finally came to a halt at dawn, which is located 200 kilometers from the Border between China and Vietnam. At the same time, the U.S. spy satellite found more than 100 Chinese military vehicles, driving into the area in a mighty way, and for a time the Pentagon panicked, is it necessary for China and Vietnam to fight a big war on the border?
Pingyuan Street, located on the border between China and Vietnam
You know, the last Sino-Vietnamese border war was in 1979, and it is only a decade from now. What surprised the officers and men of the United States and our army was that the mission this time was neither to fight against Vietnam nor to be a so-called "training exercise," but to eradicate the "cancer" in this area.
He only listened to the commander's order, and shouted loudly: "No matter what the price, it is bound to eradicate the cancer in this area!" This "cancer" is exactly the "Pingyuan Street" where they are now located.
Pingyuan Street is not a street, but a town under wenshan zhuang and miao autonomous prefecture in Yunnan Province. It is this remote town with an area of only 325 square kilometers, a population of only 50,000 people, and an unknown name, but in just a few years, it has developed into an extra-legal place comparable to the Golden Triangle.
Now Pingyuan Street
Here, drug trafficking, gun trafficking and weapons are rampant, and locals regard illegal crimes as a shortcut to prosperity, and even openly provoke the police, violently oppose law enforcement, kill police officers, and constantly create violence and crime.
So why did an unknown town develop into China's version of the "Golden Triangle"? What happened to Pingyuan Street? Why do locals dare to commit such blatant crimes? What is the force behind this? With these questions in mind, check out today's article.
When it comes to the origin of the crime problem in Pingyuan Street, we must first start with its geographical location. Pingyuan Street is located at the intersection of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yanshan County and Wenshan County, and is an important transportation hub and market town to Guangxi and Vietnam.
Pingyuan Street
Because of its proximity to Vietnam and less than 200 kilometers from the Golden Triangle, the land of drugs, it is easy for Vietnamese to sell drugs to Chinese criminals, so driven by this special geographical location and interests, Pingyuan Street has become a big drug town. Countless criminals flock to it, and even this place has become a paradise for them to evade justice.
From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the 1990s, all kinds of illegal and criminal activities were rampant in Pingyuan Street, and under the lure of huge interests, drug crimes only increased and intensified, and the sale of guns, ammunition and weapons was also as casual and ordinary as buying vegetables. Smuggling, robbery and murder are not uncommon, and the local people regard the law as nothing, which can be described as lawless.
Pingyuan Street drug trading scene
In the 1980s, some people in Pingyuan Street took advantage of loopholes in the law to play the edge ball and engage in the sale of obscene pornography, knives, gold and silver. But because there were more people who later engaged in it, they couldn't make money, so these people began to steal cars and sell them.
At that time, private cars were not yet widespread, and they had the audacity to hit police cars and other official cars. Among them, the police car of a public security bureau in Yunnan was stolen by them and eventually found in Cangzhou, Hebei. If stealing a police car is not enough to show the audacity of criminals, then this can be said to be eye-opening.
At that time, the communication vehicles of the 19th Army Field Army also became the target of their theft, and finally "ransomed" them with 20,000 yuan under the negotiation of the local police. The folk customs of Pingyuan Street can be described as strong and arrogant.
Combat criminal propaganda
Because of the remote location of this area and the difficulty of governance, many people have begun to take risks and engage in drug and gun trade. Overseas heroin, marijuana, opium and other drugs are transported to Pingyuan Street in tons, and then domestic buyers pick up goods at Pingyuan Street and transport them to all parts of the country.
These people in Pingyuan Street, by providing intermediate services, make a lot of money. In that era when the per capita annual income was less than a thousand yuan, they built a million-dollar mansion, villas, small Western-style buildings are a combination of Chinese and Western, one is more beautiful than the other, one is more spectacular, and its wealth is evident.
Mansion on Pingyuan Street
In order to avoid future arrests by the police, when building these mansions, they deliberately ordered people to design a number of secret passages, secret rooms, and mezzanines in the rooms for emergency needs. It can be seen that in order to get rich, he has long been desperate to fight a "protracted war" with the police and law enforcement personnel.
In this situation of "everything is looking at money", everyone in Pingyuan Street has become crazy, almost every family has drugs, everyone is a drug dealer, and its drug flood has reached this level.
In the subsequent investigation, the police found that the drugs in 25 provinces in China all came from Pingyuan Street. In the three small places of Songmaopo Village, Molong Village and Tianxin Village in Pingyuan Street, there are 16 large drug trafficking groups, which is still just a microcosm, which shows that the drug trafficking situation in Pingyuan Street is so serious that it has reached an unimaginable point.
Drug trade
When the people of Pingyuan Street saw that there were people from other places, they would change their usual fierce spirits and pretend to be enthusiastic and ask: "Do you want goods?" Guaranteed pure, are imported from abroad of high-quality goods! ”
The "goods" mentioned here are not ordinary goods, but drugs. People in Quanpingyuan Street are basically selling this. If someone wants to get a gun, they have it here, all kinds of things to meet the needs of different people.
Zhang Ziqiang, the "gangster of the century" who once kidnapped Li Ka-shing's eldest son, once said: "Most of our weapons are purchased from Pingyuan Street, where you can basically buy any weapon you want except for fighter jets." ”
"Century Bandit" Zhang Ziqiang
Why is there such a serious sale of guns and weapons here? This is inseparable from the drug trafficking in Pingyuan Street. Because in the process of drug trade, there are huge financial benefits, in order to ensure the safety of both parties to the transaction, guns and other weapons have become their necessities.
So, in addition to drugs, guns and weapons here are also very popular. Since the 1990s, Pingyuan Street has become a major trading ground for drug and arms sales.
Firearms and ammunition investigated and punished
The important root cause of all these problems was inseparable from the Pingyuan Street cadres at that time. Even the mayor and secretary of the town have become corrupt and degenerate, and have become the protective umbrella of the evil forces.
Lin Hongen, the mayor of Pingyuan Street, said even more amazingly: "We must do everything that is prohibited by national laws, so that we can make a lot of money!" This remark had to be shocking, even the government workers were like this, Pingyuan Street became a pot of porridge, you can find the reason.
Lin Hong'en after his arrest
As a local official, Lin Hong'en not only did not set an example by punishing unhealthy tendencies and evil tendencies, but also took the lead in selling drugs with guns and drugs, bending the law for personal gain in accordance with the rights conferred by the people, committing wrongdoing and endangering one side.
His younger brother, Lin Hongquan, was caught by local law enforcement officers in Qiubei County for illegally trafficking in timber. But instead of educating his younger brother, Lin Hong'en even had a long arm to govern and went to the Qiubei County Government.
Because Qiubei County is different from Pingyuan Street, no one here knows him, and no one is willing to help him. Lin Hong'en actually cheered them up and said, "I even dare to burn the police car, what is this kind of trivial matter, don't you even have the courage to do this?" "Pingyuan Street is still like this even the leading cadres above, and the people below can imagine it."
In view of this situation in Pingyuan Street, the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee immediately issued instructions and arranged for special personnel to go to the local area, intending to solve the civil unrest here by legal means. However, as soon as the provincial staff came, they were threatened with guns by locals.
Conventional means can no longer solve the rampant crime problem here. After the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee asked the central authorities for instructions to use force against Pingyuan Street, the central authorities also agreed to this decision.
On August 26, the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee held an emergency meeting, and a strike-hard campaign was about to begin.
On August 31, just after dawn, two red lights suddenly crossed the sky, which was the signal for the action. After receiving the battle order, more than 3,000 officers and men of the armed police immediately surrounded Pingyuan Street and ran to various key points of Pingyuan Street to occupy all the passages.
Officers and men of the Armed Police who surrounded and suppressed drug dealers
The command decided to play a big game of chess and bring the criminals to an urn to catch turtles. In order to prevent criminals from escaping, armed police personnel set up checkpoints on the avenue to intercept them, sent people to patrol back and forth on the trails, and carried out high-pressure attacks in the town, occupying a favorable position and suppressing the firepower of criminals who tried to resist the escape.
In view of the danger and difficulty of this punitive action, the armed police even transferred an explosion-proof vehicle. This operation can be said to be everything in place!
The officers and men of the armed police were unstoppable all the way, and many criminals chose to surrender themselves because they could not withstand high pressure. Lin Hongyu, known as the "Female Gun King of Pingyuan Street", even voluntarily handed over more than a hundred guns when he surrendered.
Guns seized on Pingyuan Street
There is no doubt that in this strike-hard campaign, officers and men of the armed police have taken the lead. Because the number of drug traffickers in Pingyuan Street is too large, it is impossible to eradicate them all, and if it is strongly suppressed, it may cause a bad impact on the international community. After careful consideration, the command decided to adjust the strategy and use both soft and hard.
While maintaining a high-pressure posture toward Pingyuan Street, armed police officers and men were dispatched door-to-door to publicize the harm of drugs and the policy of "being frank and lenient and resisting strictness." In order to encourage more people to confess their crimes and surrender themselves, the officers and men of the armed police also promised them "meritorious atonement for their sins" and "rewards for great meritorious service", and even rewarded 10,000 yuan for those who had major meritorious performances.
The Pingyuan area is lenient in handling the voluntary surrender personnel meeting
Under this favorable condition, it is difficult for anyone to resist this "temptation", a large number of criminals have chosen to voluntarily surrender, and even many people have been exempted from prosecution because of their great achievements, and they have also retreated unharmed.
As a result, there was an endless stream of people who turned themselves in, and even called their relatives and friends to turn themselves in. Soon, the criminal forces on Pingyuan Street collapsed, and the strike-hard operation won a complete victory.
On November 18, 1992, the 81-day strike-hard campaign finally came to an end. The police arrested 854 criminals and seized nearly 1 ton of drugs, including 896 kilograms of heroin and more than 80 kilograms of opium. 964 guns, more than 40,000 bullets of various types, and many weapons with great lethality were seized, including grenades, cloud bombs, mines, etc. More than 10 million yuan of illegal money was confiscated. The phenomena exposed during this strike-hard campaign are staggering.
Captured firearms and weapons
Criminals Lin Hong'en, Wang Fanying, Ma Huichun, and drug lord Leader Sha Guozhu and 22 others were taken to the execution ground for public execution. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, criminals have been executed privately, but the public execution of these people shows that their crimes are heinous.
Caught criminals
After learning that the "Pingyuan Street Problem" had been successfully resolved, the central authorities praised the armed police officials, the Yunnan Provincial CPC Committee, the leading cadres of various localities, and the armed forces of various departments, praising: "Our soldiers fought a beautiful and hard battle on Pingyuan Street!" ”
Tranquility in the Pingyuan Street area was finally restored, and the people returned to normal life. In this crackdown, many officers and men gave their lives, such as Gao Wenliang, Pang Rubao, and Su Taide. Among those who died, the oldest was 68 years old, and the youngest was only 18 years old.
Su Taide, Pang Rubao, Gao Wenliang and Yu Mingsheng were memorial services for the four martyrs
It is precisely because of the sacrifice of these heroes that we have now a happy life. Heroes should not be forgotten, history should not be forgotten! The only thing we can do is stay away from drugs, and only then can we not let the blood of the heroes flow in vain.