Under normal circumstances, as long as a criminal is sentenced to death, there will be basically no change, and such a criminal will undoubtedly die. However, there is a death row inmate in China who is very special, this death row inmate was once a student of Zhejiang University, in order to pursue the so-called stimulation in his heart, he embarked on the road of crime. He escaped from prison several times after being caught by the police, and to the surprise that the death row inmate invented a patent before being executed, was sentenced to a suspended death sentence, and later invented several patents in prison and was sentenced to 13 years in prison. This death row inmate is Li Hongtao, the father of brushless motors.
In 1966, Li Hongtao was born in a family of intellectuals in Hubei Province, and his parents attached great importance to his education since he was a child. When he was a child, Li Hongtao was very smart and also liked to learn. At the age of 14, Li Hongtao won the second place in the National Mathematics Competition for Middle School Students. Li Hongtao also has a hobby, that is, he likes to study various machines. In 1984, Li Hongtao was admitted to the Department of Electronics of Zhejiang University with excellent results, and was assigned to Kunming after graduation.
In 1992, Li Hongtao began to embark on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes. At that time, a classmate approached Li Hongtao and offered to start a company with him, but there was no start-up capital. At this time, Li Hongtao made a risky act, he forged the bank seal of a unit at that time, and then used a fake seal to transfer the funds of the unit from the bank. In order to avoid being discovered by the other party, Li Hongtao transferred 80,000 yuan for the first time. After transferring out 80,000 yuan, Li Hongtao did not find any wind, and just when he was preparing to transfer out the second fund, he was caught by the public security officers who had already squatted in the bank.
Unexpectedly, after being arrested by the Public Security Bureau, Li Hongtao did not feel any guilt, but instead produced a sense of pleasure that he had never experienced before. On the way to the police station, Li Hongtao began to formulate a prison escape plan. After being escorted to the police station, Li Hongtao secretly uncuffed the police without paying attention, and then walked directly out of the police station. By the time the police found out, he had already escaped.
Li Hongtao firmly believes that the most dangerous place is the safest, and during the escape, he also bought some daily necessities in the supermarket, and when he returned home, he hid on the roof and watched the police arrest him. Not surprisingly, when the police searched Li Hongtao's home, they did not find Li Hongtao hidden on the roof. Li Hongtao later planned to run to Guiyang by car, but he had just learned his driver's license and did not buy a car. At this time, he hit the idea on the body of an Audi on the side of the road, Li Hongtao first pretended to chat with the Owner of the Audi, remembered the structure of the Audi car key when chatting, and when he returned home, he made a car key and drove the Audi car away.
Successfully stole the Audi car, but Li Hongtao had poor driving experience at the time, and drove into the ditch on the way to escape. Just then, a farmer discovered a car accident and rescued Li Hongtao from the car. In the days that followed, Li Hongtao stole cars several times in society to escape, and finally he hit the police car. After successfully stealing a police car, he drove the police car to Kunming, Yunnan. During this period, he also went back to school to see his extramarital girlfriend, and as soon as the two met, the police arrested Li Hongtao and sent him to the Kunming City Detention Center.
In the face of police interrogation, Li Hongtao confessed the way he fled and the stolen vehicle. In order to find out whether what Li Hongtao said was true, the police also began to investigate and collect evidence. Li Hongtao has been detained in the detention center, and three months later, the police have not completed the investigation and evidence collection. At this time, Li Hongtao, who was locked up in the detention center, also began to be a little impatient, and when he was first arrested, he told the police that if he did not convict himself after three months, he would escape from prison. At this time, Li Hongtao also began to prepare for the second escape.
At the police station, Li Hongtao persuaded two suspects, and the three of them used homemade tools to dig through the walls of the prison and successfully escaped from the interrogation center. Unexpectedly, Li Hongtao also encountered two police officers on duty at the interrogation center during his escape, but he did not panic at all and walked directly in front of the police. After the other two suspects saw the police officers, they hid in the hole and did not dare to go out. Finally, the police found that someone had escaped from prison and sounded the alarm, and Li Hongtao calmly escaped through the back door of the prison.
After successfully escaping from prison, Li Hongtao first called the policeman who handled his case and said his address. After making the call, Li Hongtao began to run away, driving the stolen car to Guangxi. Every time he escaped, Li Hongtao did not have a specific escape plan, that is, he drove on the road at will, and he did not care whether he would be caught by the police. During his escape from Guangxi, Li Hongtao was caught again by the police when he went to a garage to repair the car.
In the process of escape, Li Hongtao had only one thought in his mind, that is, to invent a "brushless motor". The reason for this idea is because Li Hongtao's major is radio, plus he has liked to study machinery since he was a child. After Li Hongtao was arrested for the third time, he made a request to the Guangzhou police to allow him to conduct experiments. But the Guangzhou police ignored him and escorted Li Hongtao to Kunming a few months later.
After being escorted to Kunming, Li Hongtao first confessed all the facts of the crime, and then asked the correctional police to let him do the experiment. Finally, after studying the institute, he agreed to Li Hongtao's request. He was also provided with a dormitory for him to experiment with. After studying for a while, Li Hongtao did not succeed, and he was once again imprisoned in his original dormitory. At this time, Li Hongtao no longer had the idea of escaping from prison, and what he thought in his heart was how to make the experiment a success. At the same time, the court also issued a punishment for Li Hongtao, who was sentenced to death for several crimes on suspicion of fraud, escape, and theft.
After being sentenced to death, Li Hongtao was also very calm, and he did not care about the court's judgment on him, what he thought was to do something meaningful. At that time, Li Hongtao told his brother outside the prison about his thoughts, hoping that his brother could help him. Later, after the detention center correctional police discovered Li Hongtao's situation, after repeated research by the leaders in the detention center, they agreed that Li Hongtao would do the second experiment, which could also meet some of his needs and purchase the necessities of the experiment. At this time, it was less than a month before Li Hongtao was executed.
In the last month, although Li Hongtao's experiments have progressed, there are still some problems that he cannot understand. At that time, the director of the First Detention Center of Kunming City personally invited several experts from the Yunnan Provincial Electric Science Research Institute to give Li Hongtao on-site guidance. Finally, under the advice of experts, Li Hongtao also knew the problem. On December 31, 1993, the day before Li Hongtao's execution, Li Hongtao's experiments were still unsuccessful that afternoon. Just when everyone gave up, Li Hongtao still did not give up. In the end, Li Hongtao really made a "brushless motor" in the laboratory.
That evening, the director of the detention center wrote a report requesting a suspension of execution and sent it to the Kunming Municipal Public Security Bureau. Subsequently, the Public Security Bureau formally submitted a request to the court in the form of a red-headed document to suspend the execution of Li Hongtao. In the following year, Li Hongtao repeatedly tested the experimental data of the brushless motor and successfully applied for a patent. In 1995, the court commuted Li Hongtao's death sentence to a two-year suspension. Later, in prison, Li Hongtao changed his death sentence from a suspended death sentence to 17 years in prison through other inventions. Later, the sentence was successfully commuted by three years. In the process of serving his sentence, Li Hongtao also planned to improve the prison management system, and finally he researched a fully computerized monitoring and management system.
In 2009, Li Hongtao was released from prison with three invention patents. Some people say that Li Hongtao is a genius, but fortunately, in the end he successfully realized what people should do in their lives. However, such a talent, when he was young, went to the road of crime, which is really a tragedy.
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