From roadside stalls to the leader of Shandong's largest criminal syndicate, Xu Zongtao has spent decades.
Fighting for a house, shooting at a gang, chasing a gun in a car... It should have been a scene in the movie, but Xu Zongtao moved to reality.
In 2000, Jinan's multi-departmental joint action to publicly try Xu Zongtao, the momentum alarmed the whole country.
According to staff recollections, during the same period of time, five chambers of four courts held public hearings, and more than four hundred witnesses alone came.
In order to print materials for these outlaws, they actually used two copiers!
When the public prosecutor Farah files were examined, he thought that one car was enough, but the carriage was full and did not finish.
After Xu Zongtao was shot, his sinful life was put on the big screen by the director and screenwriter.
First, the stall owner was born, but the blood sucker stall owner
Regarding Xu Zongtao's evil life, we must start from the Tianqiao District of Jinan in the 1990s, facing the dividends of reform and opening up, many people came out to do small business.
Xu Zongtao also wants to start a business to support his family, so in his thirties, he buys goods from wholesalers, sells beer, snacks, and barbecues on the street... Because of serendipity, he also used to do the home appliance business.
Mixed at the bottom of society, Xu Zongtao's greedy heart soon began to swell, and he said that he had struggled for a long time, and even the short-term low income could not bear it.
Therefore, Xu Zongtao embarked on a road of no return, collecting protection fees, scrambling for territory, and forming gangs... Became a street jerk.
By 1992, Xu Zongtao had been arrested by the police and sent to prison. However, due to medical reasons, he was released on bail after one year.
After Xu Zongtao returned to society again, instead of making a bitter change, he intensified his efforts, extorting shops on the street and collecting so-called protection fees through violent means.
The territory of one street and two streets could not satisfy his greedy heart of Xu Zongtao, who recruited many idle people in society and formed a gang involved in the gang to expand the territory outward.
In the process of expansion, it is bound to offend other large and small gangs in society, so Xu Zongtao and many people have formed a vendetta, and the more they are married, the deeper they are.
This laid a deep foreshadowing for the gang shootout in the back...
Nearby shops were deeply affected, just take the example of the butcher who sold meat, who got up early and was tired and exhausted, and had not yet closed the stalls, who knew that Xu Zongtao had brought people here.
The butcher could only helplessly open the drawer and let Xu Zongtao's little brother grab the money, but after being bullied, he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
Xu Zongtao's gang, in just one year, caused five deaths, injured more than twenty people, and plundered more than 1.2 million yuan, accumulating bloody primitive capital through violent means.
But there are only so many sites in total, and the merchants complain bitterly, and they can't always pay protection fees to two criminal and evil gangs at the same time, right?
Therefore, if Xu Zongtao wants to "make a fortune" and if he wants to raise more younger brothers, he is bound to fight a bloody battle with other gangs involved in the gangs and beat other gangs out of Jinan.
In the black area of the Tianqiao District in the same period, there was a leader of the criminal and evil gang named "Yang Bin", who had long been famous.
(Xu Zongtao)
Yang Bin, the old bones of the jianghu, and xu Zongtao, this new meat, came to a collision of fate.
Here first talk about the fate of Yang Bin, he went to the local well-known feng shui mr. fortune telling, calculated the final way to die in this life, that is, the top of the head will not be next to the sky, and the soles of the feet will not be next to the ground.
When Yang Bin heard this, his heart was still beautiful, thinking that there were very few such ways of dying in the world, and he was likely to die.
But later, when Yang Bin faced the arrest of the police, because he refused to lay down his weapons and refused to tie his hands, he was killed on the spot, and his body was hung on a tree... But that's a digression.
Second, shoot bloodshed, start with fire
Back to the truth, in Jinan City, Shandong Province, Yang Bin's nickname is Wei Wei, and he has been active in the Tianqiao area for many years, and what he has done is not exaggerated in terms of evil and full of profits.
Many merchants in the Tianqiao District, when evaluating Yang Bin, said: "The evil done by this hun egg is not enough to shoot ten times!" ”
Killing people, destroying corpses, looting women... Yang Bin was not only fierce in heart, but also particularly took revenge, and if anyone offended him, he had to take revenge.
On the other hand, Xu Zongtao soon made a so-called reputation in Jinan, and the gang gradually grew and became more and more arrogant.
Regarding the contradiction between Yang Bin and Xu Zongtao, according to the rumors in the jianghu, there are probably three theories:
First, Xu Zongtao's personality is too arrogant, always running amok in Jinan, and Yang Bin is not accustomed to this kind of person, so he started to clean up.
Second, it is said that when Xu Zongtao first came out to mix, he was working as a horse boy under Yang Bin. The eldest brother took the younger brother to the banquet, and after drinking and getting drunk, Yang Bin angered Xu Zongtao, so he formed a liangzi.
Third, Zuo Liang, the leader of the jinan criminal and evil forces, sent Yang Bin to take a fierce hand to get rid of Xu Zongtao because he had a vendetta against Xu Zongtao.
The above three theories may be one of the reasons that triggered the life-and-death feud between the two people; it may also be that there are three reasons, so the firefight is launched.
But these are not particularly important, what is important is that between the new and old forces, there is a vicious fight between you and me.
On July 9, 1994, Yang Bin and his younger brother took advantage of the night to kill No. 59 Shunhe Street, armed with long and short guns, and rushed into Xu Zongtao's home.
Later, according to the police's speculation, Yang Bin's gang entered Xu Zongtao's home in order to take Xu Zongtao's life, but after rushing in, they did not see Xu himself.
At No. 59 Shunhe Street, there are two elderly people living inside, who are Xu Zongtao's parents.
With the sound of a gunshot, the night of Shunhe Street shattered, and Xu Zongtao and Yang Bin formed a vendetta against their father from then on.
(Image from the Internet)
It can also be seen from this that Yang Bin is like a mad dog, his teeth and claws are hard, sharp and vicious, and he is crazy and even the old man does not let go.
This bloody sea of deep vengeance made Xu Zongtao furious and vowed to seek revenge on Zuo Liang and Yang Bin.
The back wave pushes the front wave, a wave is stronger than a wave, but zuo Liang, Yang Bin, Xu Zongtao and other people turned over the waves, all of which are black waves.
Take Zuo Liang, for example, is the first black boss of the Tianqiao District, his family's things are put at the door, no one has ever dared to steal, if anyone is not inferior, he will be beaten for many years.
By 1995, Xu Zongtao's wings had hardened, and whether out of hatred or interest, he decided to do zuo liang.
On June 11, someone quietly sent information to Xu Zongtao, which read: Zuo Liang and a few horse boys were drinking in the Drunken Immortal Building.
Xu Zongtao immediately dispatched his men, carrying long and short guns and controlled knives, and rushed into the private room where Zuo Liang was located.
The surprise attack was fired, and the result was imaginable, Zuo Liang was defeated miserably.
When the killer left, the staff of the hotel quickly picked up the severed hands and feet of Zuo Liang and others, and carried Zuo Liang to the hospital for rescue.
After Zuo Liang lost his hands and feet, a doctor at a hospital in Jinan said it might be difficult to reconnect. In order to save Zuo Liang, Ma Zai invited a famous doctor from Beijing, hoping to continue the boss's hands.
Immediately afterward, the so-called Daoshang people who came to visit Zuo Liang in the hospital crowded the four floors of the inpatient department.
Since then, Xu Zongtao has completely destroyed his competitors, and the limelight is in full swing, dominating the whole region.
After reaching this step, Xu Zongtao, like many criminal and evil forces, wanted to hit the tianqiao area and extend his black hand to the whole of Jinan, and even the whole of Shandong.
Criminal groups and criminal gangs are a huge evil after a decade of difference, and after Xu Zongtao's wings are full, he immediately began to expand the strength of the gang and develop in the direction of the criminal group.
For example, in 1998, Xu Zongtao first forcibly intervened in Jinan's passenger transport industry, and then seized the territory of the Baliqiao Vegetable Wholesale Market, and the black hand of their gang grew longer and longer.
Gang shootouts, shooting at each other, sneaking up on each other, retaliating against each other's parents, sudden assassinations in the middle of the night... Similar tactics emerged one after another, and Xu Zongtao gradually gained a foothold in Jinan through bloodshed and violence.
Take Huang Yong, the group's second thug, in order to compete for the territory of the Baliqiao market, he led people to shoot at the enemy family. Just two passers-by happened to pass by, suffering from the disaster of innocence and injuring their eyeballs.
For another example, in the process of chasing a gunfight, Huang Yong drove two cars to hunt down and kill the enemy's small truck, and the two sides shot at each other continuously, and the fight was inextricable.
Xu Zongtao was notorious for his misdeeds in Shandong by relying on a group of thugs (at least 92 people) under his command, which had an extremely bad impact on society.
In order to expand the income of the criminal and evil forces, Xu Zongtao invested 20 million yuan to open the Yihua Group, wanting to launder money through legal channels, and by 1999, he had at least 70 million disposable assets, and the power was getting bigger and bigger like a snowball!
For example, Xu Zongtao has a very good friend who often goes in and out of the Wind Moon place together.
And this friend of Xu's loves to gamble money, and when playing cards in an entertainment city in Texas, he lost ninety-five thousand yuan.
The boss did not recognize the background of this person, did not know that this person was related to Xu Zongtao, so he did not return the money, so he brought disaster.
After Xu Zongtao learned of this, he sent a thug Huang Yong, along with more than a dozen of his men, to rush into the Texas Entertainment City with long and short guns.
These more than ten outlaws smashed and smashed the magnificent hall in the entertainment city, making a mess, and robbing more than 100,000 yuan of banknotes.
As soon as the casino owner inquired, he realized that he had offended Xu Zongtao, and quickly took hundreds of thousands of banknotes to bear the guilt of Jing, and wanted to come to the door to apologize.
The boss shouted three or four times, one by one, not only offering a box of cash, but also dividing up twenty percent of the casino's shares.
Xu Zongtao's personality is arrogant, he has never looked at the casino owner from beginning to end, and only said one word: Hmm.
By the end of the last century, Xu Zongtao had accumulated nearly 100 million yuan of property, which belonged to the first-class rich at that time, and ran amok in Shandong and did nothing wrong.
Three, the police shot, thunder strike
In March 1999, the Shandong police decided to completely destroy the "Xu Zongtao criminal group", so they sent four elite investigators to collect evidence of Xu Zongtao and others' violations.
After more than sixty days of in-depth investigation, the facts of the crimes committed by the main leaders of the group were basically grasped, and the investigators wrote page after page of reports, and then reported them to the leaders.
The evil group headed by Xu Zongtao formed a tower-shaped structure, and he himself specialized in managing the seven backbones under his command, while the seven backbones had different divisions of labor.
Some people are responsible for opening the Qin lou Chu Pavilion, some people are responsible for extortion and extortion of merchants, some people are responsible for collecting protection fees, and some people are specifically responsible for firefights... I even want to develop in the direction of "raising merchants with black", and there will be endless troubles after going on like this!
A number of criminal investigation experts from the Shandong police formed a special case team to formulate a plan to crack down on organized crime and study an action plan for many consecutive days in order to completely eliminate Xu Zongtao and his gang.
First of all, the first step is to capture Huang Yong, that is, to cut off the claws of Xu Zongtao's group first, but the premise is to avoid or reduce police casualties.
At that time, Huang Yong belonged to the first-class dangerous elements in Shandong, and after many years of involvement in the black market, this person wanted to set up another mountain and discussed "separating" from Xu Zongtao.
As long as the police arrest Huang Yong, they can pry open the mouth of this person, grasp Xu Zongtao's criminal and evil evidence, and find out the list of outlaws of the group.
After the plan was formulated, the special case team quietly launched an arrest operation, and it had long been known that the criminal group's network of relations was huge, so in order to avoid alarming this person, the action should be covered up and must not be publicized.
According to the information in his hands, Huang Yong had at least a dozen horse boys around him, living in a villa with a single courtyard and carrying multiple guns.
Therefore, to arrest Huang Yong, we must look for a safe opportunity and try to avoid the villa of Huang Yong's family.
On the night of May 30, 1999, the plainclothes investigators of the police sent important information to the leaders and found that Huang Yong had entered a nightclub with Ma Zai, and his attitude of shouting five and drinking six was extremely arrogant.
As a result, six policemen rushed into the nightclub with guns and grabbed twelve horse boys, but they did not catch Huang Yong.
Where did Huang Yong go? This man was extremely cunning, and after escaping from the police, he drove a small car, as if the world had evaporated.
The leaders of the public security bureau demanded that Huang Yong be captured as soon as possible, and issued a death order for this.
For many days in a row, the police searched the city where Huang Yong might appear, like a needle in a haystack, trying to find the man's hiding place.
Investigate roads, bars, hotels, cabarets... The police did not look until the afternoon of June 6, watching the sun set, two policemen were looking for a place to eat, and suddenly saw a familiar face.
Plainclothes policemen Liu Ke and Xie Shiqi carefully followed and went after the white car in which Huang Yong was riding.
Plainclothes did not dare to get too close, mainly for fear of arousing Huang Yong's suspicions, according to the initial observation of visual inspection, the white car was full of five people.
When plainclothes chased to the bustling downtown area of Tai'an, they did not continue to follow, but called the leader and said that the area where Huang Yong was hiding was basically determined.
At about 21:00 at night, two plainclothes police officers reported the situation to the arrest team in person.
The Shandong police immediately pulled up a large net of round-up and arrested Huang Yong in Tai'an, demanding that the police officers should show courage and responsibility, and not be afraid of sacrifice and dedication.
On the other hand, Huang Yong was thinking about where to hide, but he didn't know that the plainclothes police behind him had quietly followed behind.
When the white car turned around at the intersection, it was when the five people in the car were distracted, and the police suddenly rushed out and shot into the air to warn Huang Yong.
"Put your hand on your head!"
"Whoever moves me will kill me!"
Liu Ke and his colleagues roared and surrounded him, arrested Huang Yong and others on the spot, and seized a number of long and short guns, more than 200 rounds of bullets, and more than a number of controlled knives.
Looking at Xu Zongtao on the other side, he learned that Huang Yong's subordinates had been arrested, which frightened him into fleeing in a hurry, and only then did he know that it was too late to restore the legal net.
The police pursued Xu Zongtao until September 29, but they still failed to capture the leader of the group, so they were under great pressure.
In the face of doubts from all walks of life, in order to catch Xu Zongtao as soon as possible, the Shandong police used a trick of "wanting to catch the old and indulge".
The police first crossed out the names of the fugitive leaders of Xu Zongtao's criminal group on the list, posing as if they were no longer pursuing.
The public security leaders also stood up and occasionally "let go" to use blindfolding methods, which probably meant: "We don't want to arrest Xu Zongtao, mainly because Huang Yong has committed too many crimes, so we want Xu Zongtao to come out and prove that Huang Yong is a criminal guy..."
Sure enough, as soon as the public security leaders said this, Xu Zongtao quickly learned the so-called "truth" and paid an information fee for this.
Xu Zongtao was very happy, thinking that this was just a false alarm, and he dared to contact the outside world by phone. As everyone knows, after the phone is dialed out, it is immediately overheard by the police.
The police officers in charge of the pursuit can only leave work in the early hours of the morning, get up before dawn, and whoever leaks secrets punishes whom.
Under this intensity of work, many policemen's clothes are too late to change, emitting a bad smell.
At about 21:00 on December 22, the arrest team drove four ordinary cars, pretending to be ordinary citizens, and entered the Jinan Chessboard Community.
More than twenty people came, and apart from the captain, the police officers did not know who to arrest today.
As required, the car seats are all flat, the police should lie in the car as much as possible, no one is allowed to talk, no smoking, waiting for orders...
After about two hours, Xu Zongtao entered the community in a Santana car, and Ma Zai got out of the car first to see if there were any police around.
Five minutes later, Xu Zongtao got out of the car with three horse boys and was about to go upstairs when the police suddenly rushed out.
The arrest process was smooth, and Xu Zongtao did not have time to react, and he was blocked by the muzzle of the police.
Immediately afterward, the police searched Xu Zongtao's three houses and found a large amount of stolen money and guns and ammunition.
The Jinan Public Security Bureau listed Xu Zongtao's sixteen counts and handed them over to the procuratorate.
According to the recollections of jinan staff, from the summer of 2000, five courts held simultaneous public trials until the winter.
More than four hundred witnesses came, in order to print materials, used two copiers, and when the car pulled the file, it was stunned that a cart was not loaded...
On April 4, 2002, five people, including Xu Zongtao, stepped onto the execution ground step by step to meet the bullet of justice.
postscript:
From the beer stall owner to the bullet on the execution ground, Xu Zongtao spent more than a decade painting the ups and downs of the black life.
He does not want to operate legally and does not want to be a person, the law is not only the bottom line of morality, but also the thunder pool of this society.
If you have to cross the thunder pool, the road of life will only become narrower and narrower, and Xu Zongtao belongs to the typical negative teaching materials.