The family provided Li Xishen with bodyguards, and was drunk by Li Xishen. He said, "The king of Yama is looking for cowards, so why be afraid?" Li Xishen walked on the street as usual, intimidating. He is usually good at national skills, and his fist and foot skills are very good. He no longer wears suits and shoes, and wears a kung fu teaching head. He wore a bulletproof vest, which had saved him several times.
On the day of the accident, he did not wear a bulletproof vest. Is it hot? Or is the vest too heavy? There is no proof of death.
1930s Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong
At noon on April 30, 1928, Wellington Street, Central. The streets are lined with shops and bustling with pedestrians. A killer wandered near the Central Theater, looking warily at the alley. Pedestrians came and went, and no one would notice him.
As usual, Li Xishen went to the Wellington Street Yu Kee Club for lunch. The club is on the third floor, and the bottom floor is number 196-198. At that time, Chinese businessmen were divided into several social circles, and the Yuji Club was an occasion for Li Xishen to gather with his friends to have fun and negotiate business.
Li Xishen inserted into Jiurufang, crossed the cross-alley, and followed the stone steps out of the alley. The killer saw clearly that Li xishen was just a person. In the past, he often traveled with Luo Yutang, the owner of Baijiali Company, who was both a business friend of Li Xishen and a brother who practiced the art of the country. This is a golden opportunity for the enemy who plotted the assassination.
Sunshine and warmth, is a rare sunny day in the rainy season. Li Xishen walked toward the club, and the killer followed closely. Lixand had gone downstairs to the club. At this time, firecrackers were being set off not far away, probably to celebrate something happy. The killer suddenly drew his pistol, and he was less than a foot away from Li Xishen.
"Boom! trumpet! trumpet! ”
Hong Kong in the 1930s
The killer fired three shots in a row, firing hits, and was obviously a professional killer. The first shot into the abdomen, Li xishen flashed: the second shot broke his shoulder; Li xishen turned around to see who the killer was, and the third bullet penetrated his neck into the back of his neck.
Because there were firecrackers, the gunshots did not sound. The pedestrians saw that Li Xishen was covered in blood and fled in a hurry. No one can see the killer. The killer dropped his pistol and quickly slipped away from the alley, crisscrossing the alleyway, even if there is a police pursuit, it is very easy to escape.
There were several Chinese businessmen eating in the club. None of them heard the gunshots, but they heard a few "help" sounds, one of which was the voice of Boss Lee, which they were very familiar with. The two guys standing at the door first flew downstairs, they saw that Boss Li was bloodied, and he struggled to support his body by pressing his hand against the wall, he saw the guy, his mouth was slightly open to say something, and then he fell down.
The Chinese merchants who followed him brushed aside the crowd of onlookers and saw Li Xishen collapsed in a pool of blood, unconscious. Li Xishen was rushed to the hospital, and finally returned to heaven and was powerless, and he was killed at the age of 49.
The police immediately went to hunt down the murderer, who had long since disappeared. At the scene of the assassination, a pistol, three empty shell casings and three live ammunition were left behind.
Hong Kong police in the 1930s
According to the investigation, no family in the vicinity set off firecrackers at noon, three places left firecracker chips, and two shop owners admitted that they had let firecrackers in the morning. Diagonally opposite the club entrance, there were several people who saw firecrackers set off, but no one saw the person who set off the firecrackers. It was exactly noon when Lisisson was shot.
Apparently, the assassination had been carefully planned, and they were familiar with The laws of Lihesson's movements, familiar with the terrain, and masked the sound of gunfire with the sound of firecrackers. After the killer succeeded, he abandoned the evidence pistol and slipped away from the crisscrossing alley.
So, who is the killer? Who was the person who plotted the assassination?
The massacre of opium giant Li Xishen's blood splashed on the streets shocked the province, Hong Kong and Macao, and all newspapers reported the tragedy on the front page or in a prominent position.
The police were ineffective. The Lee family raised the reward for the arrest of the murderer from HK$10,000 to HK$20,000. The newspapers again hyped it up.
Part of the Lee family
There are many folk versions of the cause of Lihschen's death.
The assassination was only half a month after Li Xishen won the honorary power lawsuit. Macau Opium Commissioner Luo Bao lost, but the real damage was probably Liao Jianbi, the boss of Youshengxing. However, according to the opium dealers, Liao's is only a red-eyed opium business, not a person of the underworld, and he does not have the guts. The police had investigated Liao, but there was no evidence and it was not resolved.
Fourteen years ago, Lixan confronted a gang of opium dealers. Ritchie won 98 cases of raw opium worth millions of oceans. These opium dealers are on the verge of bankruptcy, and they have a deep hatred, how can they give up? If you can't win The Lee's in law, you can't use violence? Reasoning is not leaky, so what about the evidence?
From Li Liangyi to Li Xishen, the Li family has been in the business of opium for decades. Business on the underworld will inevitably make enemies with people at sea and in the mainland. A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late. Now is the time to get started. When the police investigated, many people did not cooperate, and said that Ritchie was "damned", the time has gone through decades, the region spans several countries, where to find clues?
Many people think it was done "for the Skywalker" organization. Although the opium trade and consumption are legal, people believe that opium is a cruel drug, the opium business is regarded as a fishing squander, and opium dealers are widely spurned by society.
The opium of the Qing Dynasty in the early 20th century basically came from India
About 10 years ago, a Huizhou businessman opened an opium museum in Hong Kong. Boss Baishun lures a rich widow's only son to contract opium. The rich widow did not listen, squandered the family property left by his father, robbed him when he had no money to smoke opium, and was thrown into the classroom by the police.
The widow was disillusioned and committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea. It was night, the opium store was stolen, and the boss was seriously injured. The masked man put a banner on the door that read "For Skywalker."
The owner of the opium factory reported the crime to the police, and after the police sent someone to investigate, they ignored it. In fact, the Hong Kong government and the police have always perfunctorily investigated and handled such cases, for fear of arousing public indignation. Laws protecting the legitimate rights and interests of opium dealers are often in a weak state.
Several Governors of Hong Kong have expressed their bitterness in playing an embarrassing role, knowing that the import and export of this narcotic stimulant is used to poison people, and for the sake of the Revenue of the Hong Kong Government, it can be maintained in the form of a law.
Boss Baishun did not dare to stay in Hong Kong, and hid back in his hometown in Huizhou and never showed up again. Other tobacco shop owners dare not induce teenagers to smoke opium, but the more they volunteer, the better.
As a result, many believe that Lixisan was assassinated by the righteous men of the "For the Celestial Path" organization.
The opium trade in the early 20th century
Although the person who opened the tobacco house is abominable, he is only an accomplice. The real culprit is the Big Smoker. Li Xishen is not the largest tobacco dealer in Hong Kong and Macao, but he is the most famous tobacco dealer.
At that time, the people of Hong Kong hated Li Xishen, and someone compiled an oil poem, and the first word of the poem was Li Xishen's "Li". Oil poems are widely circulated in Hong Kong and Kowloon, and are well known to everyone: "Profit has harmed people, the poor and the rich are deceived, gods hate ghosts, and the streets are known and heard." ”
Some people believe that Ritchie's death is karma. Buddhist saying: Accumulate good results to get good results, and do evil to get bad results. In the cycle of birth and death, those who do evil will be sent to eighteen levels of hell after death.
Li Xishen's body was placed in the Lee Garden Mountain House and surrounded by ice cubes. His two sons and two daughters are studying abroad, and they are on their way to the funeral. Since the people are dead, many Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong go to mourn. The South China Stadium, which was funded and chaired by Lee Hysan, lowered its flag to half-mast to mourn Lee Hessan.
Lihesson's funeral was extremely solemn and the tomb was extremely luxurious.
Li Xishen's death was still the talk of the Hong Kong people after tea and dinner until before the war. It can be seen that the impact of Lee's death is great.
Lee Ming-tser, a member of the famous "Lee Hysan Family" in Hong Kong, China. His father, Lee Hysan, was a famous entrepreneur in Hong Kong, China, and he was the eldest son of Lee Hysan.
The cause of Lihesson's death remains a mystery to this day.
Li Xishen passed down seven sons and seven daughters, born of one wife and three concubines.
Li Xishen had already made a will before his death to arrange the distribution of property. It can be seen that he has a premonition of his own death.
After Lixen's death, the family stopped the opium business. He left behind a property that I am afraid that future generations will not be able to eat for a lifetime.
It is not a golden mountain and a silver mountain, but a barren mountain.
This barren mountain is called Goose Head Mountain, which was originally the land of Jardine Foreign Firm. Due to its high terrain, Etou Mountain has never been developed, with only two rooms of Jardine Matheson & Co.
Knowing that Hong Kong's future land price would be scarce, Lee spent a huge amount of HK$3.8 million in 1923 to buy the Goose Head Mountain from Jardine Matheson. This huge amount of money is equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars today, which was astronomical at the time. In today's view, cheap is equal to free gifts. It is not the plot of a property, but an entire block can be built.
This barren mountain made the Lee family a real estate magnate after the war. Li Xishen, who was fishing for the wrong door, was extremely far-sighted.
Now Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Lixisan set up a real estate company in that year, Hysan Real Estate. He wanted to raz the barren mountains to the ground several times, but he had no choice but to give up the project so much that he had to give up temporarily. He built the Liyuan Mountain Playground on the mountain, and he was given the title of the owner of the Liyuan Mountain.
After the war reclamation, the soil and stone of Lee Garden Hill were sold to the reclamation company. Real estate developers are competing to buy land from Hysan Real Estate to build properties. Many of these properties are self-built for Hysan Land.
Lixen also did a very far-sighted thing: he spared no capital in the education of his children. When his children were toddlers, he hired tutors to teach them English and Chinese; when they were older, they were sent to noble colleges to attend primary and secondary schools, and even stayed in foreign countries.
The Ritchie brothers attach great importance to the cultivation of offspring. Most of their descendants have learned and achieved success in business and politics. The most influential of these are:
Li Xishen's eldest son, Li Mingze. He went to England at the age of 12 to attend secondary school and was later admitted to the engineering department of Oxford University. After returning to Hong Kong, he worked as a teacher (engineer) and took care of the family business. Li Mingze was a patriot who devoted himself to China's anti-war activities during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and knew many CCP figures, who later became high-ranking officials of the Republic.
Lee Ming-tak served on several committees under the Hong Kong government, and he was a member of the Two Bureaus and was awarded the Order of The Crown. He is the President of the family company Hysan Land and a director of numerous companies.
Guangzhou Garden Hotel
Lee Ming-tse is a Prominent Figure in Hong Kong and is extremely well-known. Mainlanders are probably unfamiliar with him. However, people who are familiar with Guangzhou must know the five-star garden hotel, which is Li Mingze's investment masterpiece. In 1980, the foundation stone of the Garden Hotel was laid, and Yang Shangkun and other Chinese leaders attended the groundbreaking ceremony.
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