On December 9, 2021, the city of Luoyang, Henan Province, was bustling and bustling, but the antique market was cold and deserted, mentioning the "Four Brothers of the Song Clan of Luoyang", every vendor could not help but shiver.
In luoyang's antiques market, the "Four Brothers of the Song Clan of Luoyang" are notorious, and no one in the whole circle does not know their names.
Picture | Song Yanhai, the second eldest of the Song family, has been serving in the public security system
They are like a big pillar in the antique market, and all those who are engaged in this industry cannot avoid them.
For more than 20 years, these four brothers have called the wind and rain in the antique world of Luoyang, covering the sky with one hand and dominating the entire antique world. Speaking of them, these traders are jealous in their hearts.
The eldest of the four Song brothers, Song Yanbin and the third Song Yanqing, were gang members in Luoyang, and no one in the circle dared to provoke them.
And the capital that makes these two brothers so arrogant is their other two brothers, they are both policemen.
The second eldest, Song Yanhai, was once a second-level senior sheriff of the Luoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau. The fourth elder, Song Yanhong, was once a criminal police officer in the Luoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau.
They acted as an umbrella for the other two brothers, allowing them to make waves in the antique world, escaping the law again and again.
However, Skynet was restored, and it was not leaked. On December 2, 2021, the Luoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a notice publicly soliciting information on the crimes of the four brothers.
The day before the notice was issued, Song Yanhai, a second-level senior sheriff, was dismissed, and the Luoyang Public Security Bureau also restarted the collection of illegal information on the four brothers.
This time, the vendors and many citizens of the Luoyang Antique Market finally saw the hope of thoroughly investigating the four brothers.
The "paradise" of the grave robbers
In Luoyang, people call the four brothers Song Yanbin, Song Yanhai, Song Yanqing, and Song Yanhong "two red and two black".
The professional makeup of two gangster bosses, two policemen, and four brothers, even the TV series did not dare to write like this.
But the four of them did harm Luoyang for twenty years.
Luoyang, from the first dynasty of the mainland, the Xia Dynasty, there were thirteen dynasties to build a capital here, in ancient times, once rich and prosperous.
Therefore, Luoyang, as a well-known feng shui treasure land, has many emperors and generals, rich merchants and giants, who choose to take this place as the last stop of their lives and sleep here.
This also makes Luoyang a "paradise for tomb robbers", attracting a pair of greedy eyes, who are eager to dig out the objects before the owner of the tomb, and even the tools they use to steal the tomb are called "Luoyang shovels".
Dong Village of the White Horse Temple in Luoyang has become a frequent place for tomb robbers.
It is located in the northwest of Luoyang City, the southern foothills of the Mountain, where there are countless ancient tombs, there is a saying that "no lying cattle", meaning that cattle dead can not find a place to bury, because it is all human tombs.
Therefore, it always attracts a large number of tomb robbers, who carry tools to the tomb to dig up the funerary products of the ancients, and then take them to the market to sell.
To this day, there are still many farmers in the village, and they earn money not by farming, but by making Tang Sancai handicrafts.
But what they make is cast by modern craftsmanship, and they will not deliberately make old and fake, and the price ranges from two hundred to three hundred yuan.
Villagers who live here say grave robbers often come to the area, and in the 1990s, when they were at their craziest, almost all of the village's arable land was dug up by grave robbers.
When they irrigate, they will find that there are many holes in the field, which are the traces left by the tomb robbers.
The hole left by the grave robbers
Drilling into the hole, you can see some of the broken porcelain pieces left behind, but the real value of the things has long been swept away.
It is precisely because of so many stolen funerary items that Luoyang will establish a huge antique market.
The Song brothers' way to prosperity - reselling cultural relics
There are many people who make a fortune by selling cultural relics, and Song Yanbin, the eldest of the four brothers, is one of them.
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At that time, he was not a gangster boss, just a trader who walked the streets and alleys and collected old goods.
But it is true that many people make their fortunes by receiving old goods, because in the process of walking the streets, they can often contact many tomb robbers, obtain first-hand sources from them, and then sell them to the market at a high price.
In the process of collecting old goods everywhere, Song Yanbin did not forget to make good relations with his neighbors, ran to people's homes to chat, and brought up the acquisition matter again.
The Song brothers were all from Changyuan, Henan, and their father, Song Zhenzhi, was a well-known cook in Luoyang, and Song Yanbin also learned cooking skills from his father for a while.
He worked as a cook in the restaurant while collecting old goods in his spare time.
In this way, by buying the cultural relics dug out of the tomb at a low price and selling them to the cultural relics dealers in the south at a high price, Song Yanbin earned his first bucket of gold, which also gave him a taste of sweetness.
Slowly, his business gradually grew, and Song Yanbin himself rarely appeared in the village again.
However, contrary to Song Yanbin's low profile, the third brother of the Song brothers, Song Yanqing, has a high-profile personality.
Song Yanqing had a disability on his leg and was very inconvenient to move, but such a person who had difficulty walking was actually a thief on the train.
He followed the eldest brother Song Yanbin to do the business of reselling cultural relics, but he still went his own way, arrogant, and let the name of the Song brothers gradually spread.
At that time, there was a tomb robber named Dong Hongjie in the village, who had a team of more than a dozen tomb robbers and reselling cultural relics, but it was not long before their team was included in the Song brothers and became the supply channel for the Song brothers.
In July 1997, when Dong Hongjie robbed the tomb, he excavated a Northern Wei sarcophagus plate with carved dragons and phoenixes, exquisite patterns and exquisite workmanship.
Dong Hongjie looked at it and knew that this stone slab was worth a lot, and at that time, an antique dealer came and wanted to buy it for 200,000 yuan.
Song Yanqing knew about this matter, directly took more than a dozen people, took the gun and went to Dong Hongjie's house, asked the other party to quit, and paid him 240,000 yuan in advance to give this sarcophagus board to Song Yanqing.
The violent acquisition has also allowed the "antique empire" of the Song brothers to continue to expand, and no one in the antique market does not know their names.
Become brothers in arms of the police
Unlike Song Yanbin and Song Yanqing, the other two brothers of the Song family took a different path.
Song Yanhai, the second eldest of the Song brothers, once worked as a disciple under Yang Shaogeng, a famous Italian boxer in Luoyang, where he practiced martial arts every day.
His school was the Academy of Drama, and he used to be an actor in the Luoyang Yu Opera Troupe, playing the role of a martial artist.
Song Yanhai has studied martial arts and has also participated in various martial arts competitions, from county to city, and finally to provincial and even national level martial arts competitions, he has repeatedly won the first place.
In 1984, Song Yanhai went to the Luoyang Police Academy, where he worked as a martial arts instructor and trained cadets.
Not long after, song Yanhai, who performed well, was appointed to form the Luoyang Police Academy Sanda Team, and he was the head coach.
Song Yanhai
Under the leadership of Song Yanhai, Luoyang Police Academy won many championships in competitions, and he was transferred to the Henan Armed Police Corps, where he served as the head coach of the fighting team.
Therefore, compared with the promotion path of ordinary police, Song Yanhai's promotion is obviously different.
He first became a martial arts actor, then a police academy instructor, and finally promoted to deputy director of the Mengjin County Public Security Bureau.
The fourth brother of the Song brothers, Song Yanhong, became a policeman like the second brother Song Yanhai, but he took a different path from the second brother.
As a businessman, he became a criminal police officer in the Luoyang City Criminal Police Detachment, and was later transferred to the anti-drug detachment established by the Luoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau.
And why Song Yanhong can change from a businessman to a criminal policeman, and what kind of cattiness is still under investigation.
Sensational cultural relics case
In 2002, the Ministry of Public Security received a whistleblower letter saying that a house in Luoyang contained more than 200 cultural relics from the Han and Tang dynasties, and that it even contained a sancai horse about 1.2 meters in height.
The owners of these cultural relics are the local Song brothers, and the number and preciousness of the cultural relics they have in their homes far exceed the Luoyang Cultural Relics Museum!
The whistleblower letter attracted the attention of the Ministry of Public Security, which was originally a place where tomb robbers were rampant, but never saw anyone who could hide so many cultural relics in their homes.
In order to investigate this extraordinarily large cultural relics case, the Ministry of Public Security set up a special investigation team for the "12.10" project.
After investigation, the special case team determined that the cultural relics criminal group headed by the two brothers, Song Yanqing and Song Yanbin, had formed a four-level system of pirates and sales networks.
The four levels are: the first level - the local villagers who robbed the tombs; the second level - the cultural relics dealers who organized these villagers; and the third level - the criminal group headed by Song Yanqing and Song Yanbin, who monopolized the entire antique market.
The fourth level of this is the cultural relics dealers from Guangdong who worked with the Song brothers, who smuggled cultural relics out of the country and auctioned them, so that the cultural logistics of these continents were scattered all over the world.
In the process of reselling the cultural relics of Song Yanbin and The Brothers of Song Yanqing, they became involved in the nature of the underworld.
At that time, in the village of Panlongzuka in the Luoyang Shan area, there were often tomb robbers who came to "patronize", and if any villagers disobeyed, the Song brothers arrested them and locked them up in abandoned caves for beating and detention.
Once, Song Yanqing's men spent 10,000 yuan to buy a pair of plum bottles and porcelain bowls, and they ended up buying fakes.
Song Yanqing, who learned of this incident, took several thugs, armed with iron rods and kitchen knives, to arrest the seller, took him to a hotel and beat him, broke one of his legs alive, and then forced him to return the money.
Therefore, Song Yanbin and his wife and Song Yanqing became the focus of arrest, and the police began to secretly arrest the three people on January 13, 2003.
Unfortunately, by the time the police arrived, the three had already slipped away, and on January 28, the police caught Song Yanqing in Yunnan.
In Song Yanqing's home, the police found 12 third-level cultural relics and 41 general cultural relics, but this is not worth mentioning compared with the cultural relics in Song Yanbin's home.
Although Song Yanqing was arrested and sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison, he was bailed out after only 2 months and continued to go unpunished.
Song Yanbin fled to 2016 before surrendering himself, but he was not arrested.
It turned out that when they were engaged in the resale of cultural relics, the other two brothers who worked in the police station became their umbrella.
But Song Yanhai and Song Yanhong said they didn't know that their other two brothers were doing illegal things, thinking that it was ordinary business.
The Song brothers who are at large
After layers of investigation, the person who sent the news to the brothers at that time was Qu Jinhua, the leader of the anti-smuggling team of the criminal police detachment of the Luoyang City Public Security Bureau at that time.
It was also under his protection that the two brothers were so arrogant that they even killed people in order to rob cultural relics, but they were never punished.
The flagship store of Luoyang Shuixiyuan, of which Song Yanhong is the chairman
The Song brothers can make such waves, inseparable from the umbrella behind them, and the umbrella behind the umbrella.
Yes, the person who protected qu Jinhua's promotion all the way was Wang Wenhai.
At that time, Wang Wenhai was the deputy director of the Henan Provincial Supervision Department, and he single-handedly dismantled the entire "12.10" task force and let the matter go unsolved.
More than 10 core members who participated in the special case team were also transferred out of the criminal police detachment under Wang Wenhai's black hands.
Wang Wenhai, on the other hand, was promoted all the way, from deputy director of the Henan Provincial Department of Supervision to deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, and then to director of the Henan Provincial Department of Justice.
What brought the case to the surface again was that on July 14, 2021, Wang Wenhai was suspected of serious violations of discipline and law and was dismissed from his post for investigation.
With the fall of Wang Wenhai, the case of the four Song brothers was once again put on the agenda, and the Henan police set up a special "9.16" task force for this purpose.
At present, Song Yanhong, the eldest of the Song brothers, has been arrested and brought to justice, and Song Yanhai has also been dismissed from his post for investigation, and more than a dozen criminals involved in this case have also been arrested.
In November last year, Dong Hongjie, who had originally cooperated with the Song brothers, was also taken away by the police to investigate, in order to understand the information of the Song brothers and specific crimes.
After 19 years, the four Song brothers were finally arrested, but most of the members of the special case team responsible for investigating the case at that time had retired, and even one of them was no longer alive.
At that time, Zhang Jianyue was a member of the special case team, and due to Wang Wenhai's operation, he was forced to transfer out of the special case team, but he never gave up the investigation of the case, and constantly reported Wang Wenhai to the above.
Unfortunately, his report was suppressed every time, and until his death, he could not wait for the case to restart.
Today, the Song brothers no longer have the opportunity to turn around, and several retired members of the special task force have also come to the Panlong Cemetery in Luoyang, Henan Province, where their former comrade-in-arms Zhang Jianyue is buried.
They opened a pot of wine, sprinkled it on Zhang Jianyue's grave, and told him with tears in their eyes:
"Now that Wang Wenhai has finally fallen, Lao Zhang, you have knowledge under the spring and can rest in peace."
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Resources
1. Global People Magazine: "The boss is the boss of the gang, the second and fourth are the scum of the police, and the super museum of stolen cultural relics"
2. Beijing News: "The eldest was a cook, the second was a policeman, the third was a thief, and the fourth practiced martial arts" The investigation of the "black-related" case of the four brothers of the Song clan in Luoyang"