In Hong Kong, a thief of the century known as "Monopoly", who has planned and kidnapped Li Zeju, the eldest son of Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, and Kwok Bingxiang, a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, and successfully obtained a ransom of hundreds of millions of yuan. In modern times, many directors have used him as prototypes to shoot many film and television drama works, and the media has called him the "Thief King of the Century".
(Zhang Ziqiang's old photo)
This person is Zhang Ziqiang, and the amount of his criminal proceeds has even been selected into the Guinness Book of Records.
Zhang Ziqiang was born in Guangxi in 1955, and when he was very young, he came to Hong Kong with his father because of the "wave of escape from Hong Kong" at that time. After zhang ziqiang's family came to Hong Kong, they had neither money nor a craft to make ends meet, and his father could only rely on a little knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine in his hometown to open a herbal tea shop in Yau Ma Tei to make ends meet.
At that time, Yau Ma Tei was a relatively chaotic area, and from time to time there would be a situation of underworld firefights. Zhang Ziqiang has also been affected by the environment since he was a child, and has been mixing with small hooligans on the street all day.
In order to avoid Zhang Ziqiang going astray, Zhang Ziqiang's father first asked him to help in the herbal tea shop, and then sent him to a tailor shop as an apprentice, hoping that he would learn a skill and eat in the future.
However, Zhang Ziqiang developed a strong rebellious psychology towards his father, not only disobeyingly, but also later joined the underworld. When he was only 12 years old, he was arrested in the police station, went to jail for the first time at the age of 16, and left countless criminal records in the police station at a young age.
After a period of mixing in the underworld, Zhang Ziqiang was not satisfied with the ordinary life of Gu Qiuzai. In his view, selling drugs and engaging in pornography is not only tiring, but also completely unable to make money. If you want to do it, you have to do it big.
(Film based on Zhang Ziqiang)
On July 12, 1991, Zhang Ziqiang planned to rob an armored cash truck at Kai Tak Airport for 160 million Hong Kong dollars, after which Zhang Ziqiang was arrested by the police. However, his wife, Luo Yanfang, used the stolen money to fight a lawsuit against her husband, and in the end, Zhang Ziqiang was acquitted, and the Hong Kong authorities also compensated him with a large amount of money.
This ridiculous thing made Zhang Ziqiang more and more inflated, ordinary cash trucks could no longer get into his eyes, and he needed to do something more exciting.
In 1996, Zhang Ziqiang locked in Hong Kong's super-rich Li Ka-shing. On May 23, Zhang Ziqiang, together with Ye Jihuan's criminal group, and a group of six people carrying a large number of firearms forced the car of Li Ka-shing's eldest son, Li Zeju, to stop. They sent Mr. Lee to an abandoned chicken farm and asked the driver to go back and bring a message to Mr. Li, asking him to prepare 2 billion Hong Kong dollars to redeem him.
Just as Li Ka-shing was thinking about how to deal with this matter, Zhang Ziqiang came to Li Ka-shing's home the next day with a big swing, carrying a large amount of high explosives on his body and coercing Li Ka-shing to conduct a secret conversation.
In the end, Zhang Ziqiang successfully extorted HK$1.038 million. As the main force with the most efforts, he received nearly 450 million yuan. Zhang Ziqiang released Li Zeju as soon as possible after the incident. Although he behaved extremely morally, he actually told other wealthy businessmen in Hong Kong that as long as they broke their wealth, they could avoid disasters, and he zhang Ziqiang was absolutely trustworthy.
(Old photo by Li Ka-shing)
In 1997, Zhang Ziqiang repeated his trick and kidnapped Kwok Ping-hsiang, the second richest businessman in Hong Kong. He asked Mr. Kwok to call his family and similarly demanded HK$2 billion. At first, Guo Bingxiang was unwilling to cooperate, and Zhang Ziqiang began to tell Guo Bingxiang the story of Li Ka-shing and expressed how moral he was. In the end, after many negotiations between the two sides, Zhang Ziqiang successfully extorted 600 million Hong Kong dollars, and he owned half of it.
In the same year, he planned to kidnap Macau billionaire Ho Hung-sin, but the matter was eventually discovered by the police, and Zhang Ziqiang did not succeed.
After the loss, Zhang Ziqiang purchased 800 kilograms of high explosives and wanted to regroup. However, his plan has not yet been implemented, 800 kilograms of explosives were found by the police, and Zhang Ziqiang once again lost his hand.
After a series of failed plans, Zhang Ziqiang felt that he had been firmly targeted by the Hong Kong police. In desperation, he wanted to return to the mainland and continue his career.
On January 25, 1998, Zhang Ziqiang was arrested by the mainland police at the Jiangmenwai Hai Bridge. In November 1998, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court tried Zhang Ziqiang and his gang, and Zhang Ziqiang was sentenced to death.
This time, Zhang Ziqiang thought about his experience of winning a lawsuit after being arrested in 1991, and he demanded to return to Hong Kong for a retrial on the grounds that his crimes were all committed in Hong Kong and that the mainland courts had no right to try him.
However, Hong Kong was returned to The Motherland in 1998, and the judiciary of both places unanimously determined that the judgment was in force. Skynet was restored without leakage, and the "Thief King of the Century" could not escape the punishment of the law in the end.
(Reference: "Hong Kong Gangster Record")