In Zhengzhou, Henan In the 90s of the last century, when Song Liugen was mentioned, there was almost no local who did not know that this triad element who had been "in Henan" for ten years used his "ability" to lead his subordinates to commit countless evil deeds.
Bullying, fighting, monopolizing the market... Pile by pile, every crime is difficult to describe, but of all his evil deeds, the most incredible thing is that he once led his younger brother to eliminate some of the gangster forces in Zhejiang across provinces.
Of course, Song Liugen, who has committed many evils, also knows that he has committed a terrible crime, in order to hide his eyes and ears and bleach his identity, he also took the initiative to "wash his hands in the golden basin", opened a company, started a business, and in the 90s, his assets exceeded 100 million.
The first bucket of "gold"
"We are all afraid of him, afraid of his retaliation." This is what an ordinary merchant in Zhengzhou said in an interview with reporters after Song Liugen's arrest, which shows the "power" of Song Liugen in that year.
Arrested Song Liugen
Born in 1963, Song Liugen had a good childhood, living in Xuchang, Henan Province, he received education with the support of his parents from an early age, although he only studied until he graduated from high school, he could already be called a cultural person in that era, and he could also get the opportunity to assign jobs.
At the age of 18, the young Song Liugen entered the Zhengzhou National Cotton Fifth Factory to work, which was completely an iron rice bowl at that time, how many people dreamed of getting a job, in the first days, Song Liugen worked very seriously.
However, with the rise of the wave of reform and opening up, the local economy has achieved rapid development, and some outlaws have taken advantage of this spring wind to start the business of selling the resources of state-owned enterprises, including friends whom Song Liugen knows.
For the sake of the so-called "brotherly righteousness", Song Liugen took the initiative to cover up the crime of his friend, and later, when the friend incident occurred, he was also sentenced for committing the crime of harboring, and his work was immediately lost.
A few years later, Song Liugen was released after completing his sentence, and at this time, he not only did not learn the lesson of his friends breaking the law, but in order to seek huge profits, he gradually embarked on a criminal road that was more than enough.
In the spring of 1993, Song Liugen, who had been mixed in the Youai Road Cloth Wholesale Market in Zhengzhou for more than a year, became acquainted with the local leaders of the small gangsters, Ma Xianzhou, Hao Hongshan and others, because he had served a prison sentence, he quickly became the "boss" of everyone, which was also the prototype of the underworld gang he led later.
Song Liugen found that the wholesale of cloth was very profitable and very profitable, so he had a sudden idea and started the idea of monopoly, and after having the idea, Song Liugen said that he would do it.
In the summer of that year, he took his men with sticks to threaten and intimidate the merchants who bought and sold fabrics in the wholesale market, and forced them to evacuate, and in less than a month, the place became his world.
Market merchants at the time
After monopolizing the cloth wholesale business, Song Liugen earned more than 20,000 yuan in just three months, which was a lot of wealth at the time, seeing that the profit was so much, his ambition was extremely inflated, and he started the idea of the cloth consignment market, in his view, taking down the consignment market, you can achieve a one-stop monopoly operation, at that time, the money is not in hand.
But not all businessmen will be frightened by Song Liugen's prestige, and just when he was ready to launch an "attack" on the consignment market, he did not expect to encounter obstacles at the beginning.
This person is a cloth shipper known as "Clown" (real name Feng Shuangting), over the years, through the continuous accumulation of wealth, the business has become bigger and bigger, and has become the leader of the local cloth consignment industry.
"Clown" found that Song Liugen had an idea about cloth consignment, and suddenly he was angry, such a profitable business, he did not want outsiders to share a piece of the pie, so, under the polite consultation of Song Liugen several times, "Clown" has been very tough, and he also has a triad background, he feels that Song Liugen is just bullying soft and afraid of hard.
When Song Liugen saw him toasting and not eating the penalty wine, he was immediately murderous, and a plan of revenge immediately appeared in his mind.
It was on the evening of August 23, 1993, the path outside the family courtyard of the Fifth Factory on Zhengzhou West Railway Station Road was empty, the surrounding area was unusually quiet, and it was not long before the "clown" couple came over, which was the place they had to go home from work.
Only to hear a gunshot, the unprepared "clown" fell in a pool of blood, before dying, he did not even see the shadow of the murderer, and then his wife was also hit by a bullet, seriously injured.
It turned out that this was a plan that Song Liugen had already made, and through many days of tracking, he found that the "clown" couple would pass by here every night, so he ambushed the gunman nearby, and after the incident, Song Liugen seemed very happy.
However, although Song Liugen did not leak, at that time, the clear-eyed people felt that this incident was his doing, and the relatives of the "clown" immediately reported him to the police station, and the police arrested him.
But Song Liugen's veto was his own doing, there was no camera at the time, and the police could not find evidence, and finally had to acquit him.
In this way, song Liugen seized the cloth consignment market not long after his release from prison, and with the end of a murder case, his life officially began to "develop".
"The Godfather of the Underworld", inter-provincial action
In April 1995, the Youai Road Cloth Wholesale Market was demolished, and the original market was transferred to the Textile World near West Railway Station Road, which was the largest cloth and textile wholesale market in Henan at that time, and also one of the top ten cloth wholesale markets in the country, with a considerable scale.
With the first pot of gold, Song Liugen naturally would not give up this opportunity to "get rich", and after a brief discussion with his subordinates, he transferred his business to the textile world.
After coming here, Song Liugen continued the previous "business model", that is, continued to rely on violence to seize the wholesale market and the consignment market, but his tentacles were not limited to a corner of Zhengzhou.
In the action of seizing the market, Song Liugen directly gave such an order to his subordinates: "The next first step is to do whatever it takes to get rid of all competitors and form a monopoly." ”
Therefore, in the following period of time, successive tragic cases were displayed in front of many ordinary merchants: in 1995, three people in a certain consignment department in Zhengzhou, Keqiao, Zhejiang, were cut down, and a few months later, the Henan Xinxiang consignment department was destroyed, and after a few months, the employees of the Henan Luoyang consignment department were violently beaten by many people...
Just a few years later, Song Liugen almost monopolized the cloth freight and consignment market in Henan, and all the or merchants who dared to grab business with him were either dead or disabled, and he also won the name of godfather of the underworld in Zhengzhou.
With the growth of his power, the land of a province in Henan can no longer be satisfied with Song Liugen's over-inflated ambitions, and in order to seize the supply of goods, he even made the deployment of "inter-provincial combat".
At the beginning of October 1998, the Zhejiang Keqiao to Zhengzhou Highway Consignment Department under the control of Song Liugen and the Zhejiang Keqiao Railway Consignment Department controlled by Ma Qingbo, the leader of the Zhejiang underworld, had a dispute over the issue of the source of goods, and neither side would give in.
Song Liugen was very angry at the situation, because before this, no gang dared to confront himself so openly like this, and in order to solve the problem once and for all, he made a decision that seemed very arrogant to others: to take people to Zhejiang.
Because he was not familiar with the situation of the underworld in Zhejiang, in order to ensure the smooth operation, in mid-October, Song Liugen made preparations, this time he carefully selected the backbone of his hands, equipped with some guns, and was personally led by him, you know, since taking down the textile world, he has not appeared in person for a long time.
Song Liugen
At about 12:00 noon on October 21, hundreds of people on both sides engaged in a fierce armed struggle by the river next to the old public security bureau in Keqiao, Zhejiang, and finally Song Liugen's men soon occupied an absolute advantage because they were fully prepared.
Zhejiang gang leader Ma Qingbo was shot with more than twenty knives in his body and fell in a pool of blood, and another brother who was responsible for protecting him was also seriously injured, Ma Qingbo's men fell and scattered, and Song Liugen won the final victory.
The feat of "a strong dragon overpowering the snake on the ground" greatly shocked the gangster forces in several provinces along the way, and for some time after that, no one dared to disobey Song Liugen, and his reputation reached a new peak.
"Wash your hands in the golden basin", justice has come
Since Song Liugen committed the first murder in 1993, he has committed more than 200 crimes, too many ordinary merchants have been bullied by him, and he has dozens of blood debts on his hands.
Of course, Song Liugen also knew that his behavior was illegal, and he was also afraid of being arrested by the police, in order to cover up his unseemly behavior as much as possible, he decided to set up a company to gradually normalize his and his subordinates, so as to put on the cloak of legality for his criminal behavior.
At the end of October 1998, after the elimination of Ma Qingbo's forces, Song Liugen and his confidants Ma Xianzhou, Hao Hongshan and others formally established a "venture freight company" in Zhengzhou, and immediately began the operation of "corporatization", at which point, Song Liugen became the boss behind the company.
Since 1999, under the maintenance of Song Liugen and his subordinates, the venture freight company has frantically squeezed its peers to ensure a monopoly position, and at the same time, it has taken the initiative to lower the price of goods and make high profits.
At that time, the freight of the state-run railway from Guangzhou to Zhengzhou was 0.23 yuan per kilogram, and the company's contracted freight under the control of Song Liugen actually reached 0.7 yuan, which was nearly three times higher than that of the state-run, which led to a great increase in the operating costs of many ordinary merchants and further aggravated their bankruptcy.
Under the operation of Song Liugen, the Zhengzhou Textile Market has gradually changed from a cornucopia in the eyes of domestic merchants to a place that no one cares about, and the number of merchants here has also been more than three times lower than before, causing great economic losses to the textile trading market.
Although Song Liugen packaged himself as a successful businessman, his men could not change the image of the previous for a while, and caused trouble everywhere, and in 2003, the Zhengzhou police learned of his various bad deeds from his men.
As a result, the police immediately set up a special investigation team for the "Song Liugen Gang" to conduct a comprehensive investigation of him and the company he managed, and in August of that year, Song Liugen, who had been at large for ten years, was finally arrested by the police according to law.
However, at this time, Song Liugen still intended to resist to the end in the face of police questioning, and he refused to admit the crime he had committed as he had last time he was arrested, and his arrogance was very arrogant, but this time the police had full evidence, and he was not allowed to make any prevarication in the face of the truth.
In the face of overwhelming evidence, Song Liugen finally bowed his head, and he confessed to the judge all his crimes, including killing 15 people, injuring and maiming more than 100 people, and illegally seizing more than 200 million yuan of social wealth, which had a very bad impact on society.
At 8:30 a.m. on April 25, 2005, the Intermediate People's Court of Xuchang City, Henan Province, rendered a final judgment on Song Liugen and his gang in accordance with the law, that is, the main offender, Song Liugen, was sentenced to death on eight counts, including organizing and leading a mafia and intentional homicide, and was immediately executed, deprived of political rights for life, and the tyrant Song Liugen was duly punished.
It is worth mentioning that on the eve of Song Liugen's death sentence, there are still many ordinary merchants in Zhengzhou who dare not come forward to accept the reporter's interview, because they are afraid of Song Liugen's retaliation, until Song Liugen was shot, these merchants completely relaxed their hearts, which shows the harm caused by Song Liugen's forces to the people.
Nowadays, with the continuous improvement of the mainland's legal system and the launching of special actions to crack down on criminal syndicates and evil forces, the vast majority of the triad groups that ran amok in those years have been swept away, and people's lives have been effectively guaranteed.