April 25, 1946, on the streets of Shanghai. Three people in military uniform suddenly stopped a car, and the leading officer took out a red arrest warrant, stared at the people in the car, and said, "Rong Desheng is an economic traitor, please ask him to go to the bureau!" "Say drag the old man out of the car and escort him to the police car!"
The old man's son Rong Yixin fixed his eyes on it, isn't this the car of the Songhu Police Headquarters? Immediately take someone to inquire about the situation. Arriving at the Songhu Police Headquarters, Rong Yixin's questioning made the people here dumbfounded, and they hurriedly waved their hands, "Old Master Rong, how dare we move?" ”
At this time, Rong Yixin realized that his father had been kidnapped! The news of Rong Desheng's abduction immediately spread throughout Shanghai, and no one could believe that the kidnappers dared to kidnap this astonishing Shanghai rich man in broad daylight. For a time, the city was full of wind and rain, and the people's crusade against the Kuomintang continued.
When Chiang Kai-shek heard this news, he was furious. 1946 was the year he tore up the Double Ten Agreement and launched a full-scale civil war. At this juncture, there are still people pretending to be people from the Songhu Police Headquarters committing kidnapping cases, and the KmT's originally precarious credibility is now even more shaky.
What's more, this Rong Desheng is not an ordinary person. He and his brother Rong Zongjing were among the first batch of national capitalists in Shanghai. By 1946, the Rong family owned 18 spinning mills and 16 flour mills across the country. The production of flour and cotton yarn is 1/3 of the total national output, in the words of the Rong brothers, "in terms of clothing and food, they own half of China." ”
What is even more rare is that such a big person who is surprised by the storm is kind and humble, and is very loved by the people. At present, such an important person has been kidnapped, and Chiang Kai-shek is angry and scolds people! And personally ordered, "Solve the case quickly and arrest the kidnappers!" ”
The Whampoa Police Department received the order and sent Dagong Lu, a master of case solving, to investigate. According to the clues given by Rong Yixin, Lu Dagong first carefully investigated the car of the Songhu Guard Headquarters, and then inquired about the source of the "search and arrest order", but found nothing.
So Grand Duke Lu began to turn around and find the Rong family to cooperate. But the Rong family simply ignored it, as a large family they had seen too many kidnapping cases, and cooperating with the police was undoubtedly a death sentence. So the isolated Lu Dagong decided to find his own way, he applied to the telephone company, and listened to all the calls from the Rong family.
A few days later, Grand Duke Lu got the information during the surveillance that the kidnappers were trading in a downtown area with the amount of 1 million US dollars! So Grand Duke Lu went to the ambush in advance to prepare for a look, and the accident suddenly occurred. When it was time for the trade, suddenly a group of men in military uniforms and guns surrounded the street. Lu Dagong was taking a closer look, wasn't this a member of the Songhu Guard Headquarters? Isn't this a blatant grass snake?
Sure enough, the kidnappers broke the agreement, and a few days later, Grand Duke Lu got a new joint location from the surveillance and prepared for the ambush again. As a result, when they were ambushed, the people of the Songhu Guard Headquarters arrived again. The two joint tasks were mixed up, and the Rong family was anxious. Originally, the kidnappers were willing to trade sincerely, but did this police and army stir up trouble three times and twice become the intention of killing our old man?
It turned out that at that time, there was a serious division within the Kuomintang, the Rong family was a piece of fat meat, and the military and police also wanted to grab a piece of credit. But after this toss, the kidnappers never made a sound again, and no one knew whether Old Master Rong was dead or alive.
Just when everyone was very anxious, on May 30, the Shanghai Daily suddenly published a message saying that Mr. Rong had returned home and everything was safe. For a while, everyone froze, and the police did not release a message that the kidnappers had been caught? How to come back.
It turned out that the kidnappers were bent on getting rich, after two consecutive mistakes. They also changed their strategy and directly found Zhan Rongpei, a factory director under the Rong enterprise at that time. Let Zhan Rongpei send his men to the Nanjing Grand Theater and the Jing'an Temple near the tore off the socks to recruit advertisements, and they will write the address and amount of the handover after the advertisement. Zhan Rongpei did so, and he was pleasantly surprised to find that the ransom fee was reduced from the original $1 million to $500,000.
Of course, the ransom payment is not that the kidnappers are kind,but that Old Master Rong made a plan. After being kidnapped, Rong Laozi politely explained to the kidnappers that he could not come up with 1 million US dollars. Of course, the kidnappers did not believe it, or forced him to write a letter to his family, and the old man had no choice but to write a suicide note at the same time, explaining the aftermath.
The kidnappers panicked when they saw it, but instead said good words to comfort the old man. At the same time, people were sent to investigate the Rong family, after investigation, the Rong family really has no money now, on the one hand, the Anti-Japanese Resistance has just ended, the Rong family has just begun to start, on the other hand, the Rong family is mainly engaged in industry, and the money is really not much cash on the machine. So the kidnappers and the old man discussed, and finally 500,000 US dollars were sold.
This time, the old man wrote another letter to instruct his son to go to different factories to raise money. In this way, Zhan Rongpei took the 500,000 yuan to the joint site to trade, and as a result, the kidnappers missed the contract again this time, and twice in a row. It turned out that the kidnappers were still worried that the police would secretly monitor the Rong family, and after two trials, they proposed the final trading location: No. 54 Kangle Village, Fuxi Road. On May 27, Zhan Rongpei drove a car directly to the trading place to put the money away, and the next day the kidnappers called a rickshaw to Rong Laozi and sent him home as promised.
But at this point, people still don't know who the kidnappers are. Old Master Rong, who returned home, was also silent and never revealed any news. It was not until three months later that the Songhu Police Command suddenly announced that 15 kidnappers had been arrested, 8 had been shot, and the remaining seven had been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
It turned out that after Old Master Rong returned home, the Kuomintang still had not caught the prisoners. Chiang Kai-shek also sent Mao Sen to join the reconnaissance operation, this Mao Sen was a former Lieutenant Gaote and had a very good observation ability. He found that his subordinate Huang Shaoyin had suddenly bought a new car after Rong Desheng returned home and frequently went to the Wind Moon place with US dollars. So one day, Mao Sen deceived Huang Shaoyin. As a result, this Huang Shaoyin couldn't help but be frightened, and he crackled and confessed.
Fortunately, Rong Desheng was not harmed in the kidnapping. After the founding of New China, he was also elected as a member of the First National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and continued to contribute!
Reference: Documentary Republic of China Mystery Case
