During the War of Resistance, Li Pinxian's performance was remarkable, but in his life, there was also a huge stain.
Li Pinxian, a native of Guangxi, a giant in the Gui clan, has a status second only to Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and Huang Shaohu, and has superior military talent. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater and participated in the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Wuhan, and the Battle of Suizao.
With his battle achievements, he not only impressed Chiang Kai-shek, but also made the Japanese army awe-inspired.
Li Pinxian is famous for his combat, and his "empty salary" is also first-class.
While serving as the commander-in-chief of the 21st Group Army, Li Pinxian also concurrently served as the commander-in-chief of the guerrilla forces in the Eyu-Anhui Border Region, with jurisdiction over three columns in eastern Hubei, six columns directly under his command, and three directly subordinate brigades. At that time, the central government allocated military expenses according to the headcount, so Li Pinxian asked the staff officers to report more than 3,000 people every month.
According to a person's calculation of 12 yuan per month, coupled with the huge and complicated army, scattered garrisons, inconvenient transportation and other factors, the Ministry of Military Affairs directly allocated funds to allow Li Pinxian to purchase and solve the necessities on the spot, so that just the quilt and the military salary were two, Li Pinxian could mostly earn more than 100,000 yuan per year.
Liao Lei died, Li Pinxian took over as the chairman of Anhui Province, he immediately set up the Anhui Import and Export Goods Inspection Office, in fact, on the county traffic arteries, set up card charges. Due to the blockade of the Japanese army, some necessities such as salt, quilts, matches, and soap in the nationalist areas were in short supply, while poultry, tea, leather, hemp, and tung oil in the occupied areas were also in short supply.
Li Pinxian saw the opportunity, forbidden to sign, and made a fortune.
According to some information, the Anhui Cargo Inspection Office alone has a monthly income of up to 2.8 million, which has not been handed over or used for normal start in the province, and all of it is personally possessed by Li Pinxian.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li Pinxian was responsible for receiving the enemy's property in the Tenth Theater of Operations, and the income was even more frightening.
To give an example, everyone knows how rich Li Pinxian is!
In order to support Li Zongren's bid for vice premier, Li Pinxian used 9 truckloads of banknotes from Anhui, which are said to be as high as 10 billion yuan.
Li Pinxian's above-mentioned behavior is not uncommon within the Kuomintang, but it is only a matter of size.
He also did one thing that made people angry!
In 1938, Li Pinxian's troops were stationed in Shou County, Anhui Province, and some military and political officers, knowing that Li Pinxian loved antiques, threw themselves into his favor and told Li Pinxian that there was a tomb near Tianjia'an in ShouXian County, the tomb of King Huai of Chu.
Li Pinxian was overjoyed, so he followed the example of Sun Dianying and, in the name of military exercises, used the strength of three companies to excavate the tomb of King Huai of Chu for three months.
With the funeral goods, it can be said that every piece is a national treasure.
Along with the burial items, there is a large green emerald ball, two bronze swords with gold handles, dozens of gold and silver bowls and scoops, and some, strange and unknown antiquities.
Among them, the most precious is a large number of yin wood called "Yellow Intestine Inscription" around the coffin of King Huai of Chu. This batch of yin wood, the texture is very hard, not a sharp weapon is difficult to cut, only in the king's tomb will appear. Li Pinxian immediately smuggled the batch of yin wood back to his hometown, and then entrusted his friends to transport it to Hong Kong and sold it to the British for 500 yuan.
There was no impermeable wall, and after the news of Li Pinxian's tomb robbery came out, Song Meiling was very angry. He was not angry at robbing the tomb, but angry, Li Pinxian did not offer him treasures like Sun Dianying, and even dared to hide and not report it, it was simply a dime.
Chiang Kai-shek immediately asked Dai to investigate the matter.
Li Pinxian, after the tomb robbery, was also very nervous in his heart, after all, Sun Dianying was a lesson from the past, so he immediately took remedial measures and wrote a report to defend himself: The excavation of ancient tombs is to avoid falling into the hands of the Japanese Kou. In duplicate, one was given to Li Zongren and one to Chiang Kai-shek, accompanied by a generous gift.
What Chiang Kai-shek received was a pair of large copper bowls, a pair of large copper scoops, and a large jade ball.
What Li Zongren received was a large copper bowl, a pair of large copper scoops, and a sword.
He also gave gifts to other relevant officials in the official field, and soon the tomb robbery was quelled, and Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling tacitly refused to pursue the matter.
After Li Pinxian tasted the sweetness, he prepared to excavate another large tomb in Zhujiaji, the tomb of King Zhuang of Chu.
However, at that time, the Japanese army had begun to attack, as the commander of the group army, Li Pinxian could only temporarily abandon the plan of excavation, and later the matter was known to the Nanjing government, and finally could only be stopped.
Li Pinxian also used his identity to collect ancient calligraphy and paintings from the folk collection for a long time in the Anhui territory, and it is said that in 1942, when the Japanese army attacked Dabie Mountain, Li Pinxian's wife, just transferring antique calligraphy and paintings, was as high as 12 boxes.
There is also a folk song in Anhui that satirizes Li Pinxian: the sky is three feet high, and the ground is three feet high.
That is to say, Li Pinxian scavenged the land in Anhui, and the ground was scraped down three feet, and the sky appeared to be three feet higher.