In Jiangxi, there was such a "big tiger", who was full of benevolence, righteousness, morality, and love for the people in front of the stage, and stole more than 5 million yuan behind the scenes. When he was sentenced to death for execution in 2000, he was shot five times before he died.
He was the only vice governor of New China to be shot, Hu Changqing. In his own words: "I can go down in history, I am the highest-ranking cadre sentenced to death since the founding of the People's Republic of China." "Next, let's walk into the history of the corrupt official's step-by-step degeneration."
Hu Changqing was born on August 24, 1948 in Changde, Hunan Province, and joined the army in 1968 to serve the country, and was specially approved to join the party in 1969 with his outstanding performance in army training. After being demobilized, Hu Changqing was assigned to the Hunan Provincial Insurance Company as a deputy director. Judging from his age at this time, the position of deputy director is not very high. But it was such a meagre official position that became the beginning of his corruption.
Hu Changqing's appearance is not satisfactory, although he was born in the military camp, but after years of groping and rolling in the workplace after recovery, his figure has long been out of shape, and his hair has almost completely fallen out as he grows older. Such a small, stocky and balding man, starting from the image alone, is not suitable for politics.
However, although Hu Changqing's image is not good, his development in his career is as smooth as opening and hanging. He was first transferred to the State Administration of Taxation as director of the office, and then promoted to the post of deputy director of the State Council's Administration of Religious Affairs.
In August 1995, Hu Changqing was transferred to Jiangxi Province as an assistant to the governor, and as a high-ranking official, he was still dishonest, flattering his superiors, and speaking very beautifully to the people. After only two years in his assistant position, he was elected vice governor of Jiangxi Province.
However, the post of vice governor gave Hu Changqing not a higher political stage and a platform for better service to the people, but a treasury of his corruption. Although he did not work in Jiangxi for a long time, his jokes are still circulating among the local people.
Why is that? There are three reasons for this. First, although his image is not outstanding, there is no Face of Guotai Min'an, he is good at blowing, many times in public touting his high education after graduating from Beijing University, and also brazenly saying that Zeng Yun is the personal secretary of a high-level leader. However, after checking, people found that these were all made up by him, and even the graduation certificate of Peking University was a fake certificate bought with money.
Second, he is easy to write. His calligraphy does seem to have a little foundation, and you can see that he has indeed practiced it, but if you carefully examine the structure of each word, you can find that it is the kung fu of a three-legged cat. As for those who follow him, they are all businessmen who ask for him. Because the large shopping malls in Jiangxi Province were covered with signs written by Hu Changqing himself, the citizens of Nanchang City at that time made up such a slip of the tongue: East and West Lake, Hongcheng Up and Down Guyue Hu; South Changqing North Changqing, streets and alleys are Hu Changqing. Live a modern version of the unknowing "Zou Ji Satirizes the Prince of Na".
Third, he scolded. When he went to various provinces and cities to inspect the work, whenever the local reception staff made a slight mistake, he broke his mouth and scolded, and even whisked his sleeve away, without giving the local officials any face. During the "three stresses" period, the responsible person of the central authorities gathered the opinions of the people at the meeting to make public criticism and goodwill exhortations to his behavior, but instead of humbly accepting it after listening to it, he made a big fuss at the meeting, completely disregarding the impact it brought.
In August 1999, the World Horticultural Expo was located in Kunming, which has a special Chinese pavilion area in the garden expo, and the comprehensive pavilion area includes booths from various provinces and cities in the mainland. Among them, the booth in Jiangxi is a 20-square-meter courtyard, and the antique courtyard wall displays jingdezhen porcelain, nanfeng honey oranges, and a large area of rhododendrons planted outside the courtyard.
August 6 is the day of the Jiangxi Pavilion, and although Hu Changqing has received the transfer order to return to Beijing, he does not know what idea he is playing, and deliberately postpones the schedule of returning to Beijing again and again. To this end, he reported to the central authorities: "The opening day of the Jiangxi Pavilion of the World Expo Park was originally the work I was in charge of, and I would like to take this opportunity to draw a satisfactory end to the work in Jiangxi." Then, we will depart for Beijing. ”
On August 6, Hu Changqing, dressed in formal attire, stood in front of the Jiangxi Pavilion to preside over the opening ceremony. Although he was not tall and had a poor image, he had a good eloquence, and talked about the past and the present in his speeches, and led the audience to shout applause from time to time. Afterwards, the CCTV reporter also conducted a one-on-one interview with him.
On the morning of the 7th, after Hu Changqing attended the signing ceremony of the economic and technological project, he suddenly answered a phone call. After returning from the call, he whispered to his assistant: "I am going to Shenzhen to attend the meeting, I will not participate in the rest of the kunming, you are fully responsible." The assistant asked, "Do I need to arrange a plane or an escort for you?" Hu Changqing waved his hand, and then strode out of the venue.
In the afternoon, the central department asked Hu Changqing for talks on the development of Jiangxi, and the jiangxi provincial government officials hurriedly called him to communicate and contact him, but the other end of the mobile phone was always a mechanical female voice: "Your phone has been turned off, please dial it later." The assistant thought that Hu Changqing told him that he was going to Shenzhen to do business, so he specially contacted the Shenzhen government.
However, the answer given by Shenzhen is: I don't know. How could a big living person disappear out of thin air? In desperation, the subordinates had to go to Kunming Airport to check the list of departures and search for Hu Changqing's traces.
However, the final investigation results stunned everyone, and there was no Hu Changqing in the list of Kunming Airport departures on August 7. This anomaly immediately attracted the attention of the central high-level, who immediately decided to conduct a carpet search of various hotel ports across the country. After a few hours, there was finally a harvest.
Hu Changqing, alias "Chen Fengqi", stayed at the China Hotel in Guangzhou. Why did he leave his government service on the phone and go to Guangzhou? Why did he lie to his subordinates about going to Shenzhen for a meeting? Why did he board the plane under a pseudonym to check into the hotel? All kinds of clues seem to point to the same answer, erotic trading.
It turned out that when Hu Changqing came to Jiangxi to take up his post, his superiors considered that Hu Changqing was living alone in a foreign land, and it was inevitable that he would not be able to take care of his daily life when he was busy at work, so he arranged for him to stay at the Ganjiang Hotel, a provincial guest house. It was also here that Hu Changqing got acquainted with a waiter in the hotel, Fei Fei, who looked quite a bit. Fei Fei, who has just entered the society, admires this senior cadre, and she often chats with Hu Changqing outside of work.
Fifi is only 20 years old, tall and tall, with good features, although she works as a waiter in the hotel, her words and deeds are quite beautiful. As soon as he came and went, Hu Changqing became fascinated with this young and beautiful little girl. In this way, one figures the beauty of the other party, one figures the money and status of the other party, and two people with ghost fetuses in their hearts hit it off and became a pair of "underground lovers".
Hu Changqing can be described as dedicated to this little lover, and Fei Fei said to Hu Changqing: "I want to buy a suite." Hu Changqing immediately called a local real estate developer and asked the developer to send him a mansion in the center of the provincial capital. He also patted his chest and assured the real estate boss that in the next land auction, there must be a black box operation to help him win the land at the best price.
Fei Fei, who tasted the sweetness, became more and more greedy, and she softened and hardened Hu Changqing, hoping that Hu Changqing could transfer herself to work elsewhere. Hu Changqing was unequivocal and once again invoked his authority to transfer Fei Fei to a public institution in the provincial city.
Soon Hu Changqing received news that his superiors had transferred him to Beijing for his inauguration. Fei Fei was very scared when she heard this news, because Hu Changqing's transfer meant that her backer was gone. She kept drawing cakes for him, hoping that Hu Changqing could always stay in Jiangxi and live with herself. After receiving Hu Changqing's refusal, she cried and asked Hu Changqing to buy a suite for herself in Guangzhou and transfer herself to Guangzhou to work.
This time in the China Hotel in Guangzhou, it was the little lover Fei Fei who lived with him. The phone call that Hu Changqing received after signing on the 7th was from Fei Fei, who invited Hu Changqing to accompany her to visit the house in Guangzhou. If it were not for the sudden investigation by the central authorities, I am afraid that this hypocrite would continue to go unpunished and wantonly amass wealth in high positions.
According to an investigation by the Discipline Inspection Commission, Hu Changqing's appointment in Jiangxi in the past few years has involved a total of 90 unidentified remittances from bank accounts, involving an amount of up to 5.45 million yuan. In the past two years, he has repeatedly used the pseudonym Chen Fengqi to fly to Guangdong, Macao and other places to participate in gambling and prostitution.
On February 13, 2000, the Intermediate People's Court of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, held a trial in the case of Hu Changqing, and the indictment included bribery, bribery, and huge assets of unknown origin. Hu Changqing in the defendant's seat was pale and his lips were bruised, and he knew that he had made a big mistake and was more fierce than ji. He changed the magic of his previous judgment and respectfully answered every question raised by the judge.
At the end of each speech, Hu Changqing would bring a sentence of "thank you to the presiding judge", "thank you to the lawyer", "thank you to the prosecutor", in an attempt to use these tricks to impress the judge and the jury. One of the most comical things is that after the adjournment, Hu Changqing fell to his knees and begged for forgiveness, crying and lying on the ground begging the organization to let him go and give him a way to live.
He even said to the SWAT soldiers: "I am a calligrapher, please don't kill me, I am willing to stay here and write for you for free, every day, every day for you to write." ”
But there is an old Chinese saying that "people are doing, the sky is watching", and I think if Hu Changqing wants to evade legal responsibility, unless he can reverse time and space, let him engrave the words for the people and the country from the beginning of his career.
At 3:50 p.m. on February 15, the trial finally came to an end, and the court announced that Hu Changqing, former vice governor of Jiangxi Province, as a state functionary, had secretly used his power to engage in favoritism and fraud, demanding and accepting bribes in huge amounts, and the circumstances were particularly serious, and he would be sentenced to death according to law and deprived of political rights for life.
On March 8, Hu Changqing finished his last full meal and signed his name from the court documents with trembling. The two prison guards immediately tied him up and escorted him to the Yingshang Execution Ground in the northern suburbs of Nanchang.
Armed police fighters stood around the execution ground with steel guns in hand, meticulously maintaining order at the scene, for fear of losing half a point. This is because this is the first deputy provincial senior official to be sentenced to death since China's reform and opening up.
At 8:43, the prison cart stopped on the east side of the dirt bag at the execution site, and Hu Changqing was escorted by four judicial policemen to get out of the prison car, and he slowly knelt down in front of the bag.
At 8:46, accompanied by a gunshot, Hu Changqing's body slammed forward. Because Hu Changqing was short and bloated, the shot did not hit his heart, only to see his body writhing violently among the grass. The law enforcement officer saw the situation and immediately made up the second shot, but the stocky body in the distance was still rolling between the grass, the third shot, the fourth shot, until the fifth shot.
Hu Changqing's sinful life was completely over.
From the cattle herders in the ravines of Changde, Hunan Province, to the engineers who have taken root in the frontier, and then from the simple ordinary cadres to the corrupt officials who are full of evil. The prosperity of the city not only did not arouse his fighting spirit, but also made him greedy. What he didn't know was that as he turned his back on the people's hearts and embraced wealth step by step, he was also stepping into the abyss of death.