China's transition from poverty to wealth is inseparable from reform and opening up. Reform and opening up has led to the rapid take-off of China's economy, and countless towns, villages, and individuals have successfully taken this opportunity to become rich.
Daegu Zhuang in Tianjin is such a village that has turned around gorgeously by the spring breeze of reform and opening up. Daegu Village was also once called "One Village, One Village, One Village" together with Huaxi Village, the first village in the world, which also shows the prosperity of Daegu Village.
Daegu Village was once a very poor village, and it was eventually able to compete with Huaxi Village without the leadership of Yu Zuomin.
Yu Zuomin
Yu Zuomin became the secretary of the party branch of Daegu Zhuang in 1974, and he led Daegu Zhuang all the way to the top with his many years of experience in working outside the country. In 1990, the villagers of Daegu Already had a per capita income of $3,000, and Yu Zuomin became the well-deserved "owner" of Daegu.
However, Yu Zuomin, who became rich, did not continue to seek the welfare of the people, but was blinded by money and power. This once simple peasant eventually developed into the local emperor of the earth, and led many people in Daegu to participate in the crime.
Daegu
What kind of development did Yu Zuomin bring to Daegu? How did he get down the path of sin? What was his ultimate outcome?
Next, let's take a look at the story of Yu Zuomin.
Lead Daegu to prosperity
Yu Zuomin was born in Daegu In 1930, and the first half of his life was actually very ordinary. Having experienced the hardships of war and the joy of the founding of New China, Yu Zuomin, like every ordinary person, struggled and enjoyed in a dull life.
If there is anything different about his first half of life, it may be that he went out to work and saw ordinary people struggling in all walks of life, which made him have some sharp judgments about business opportunities in all walks of life.
In 1974, at the age of 44, Yu Zuomin returned to Daegu. He was keenly aware that perhaps something different was about to happen in this society.
After returning to Daegu, Yu Soo-min participated in the election. He was very successfully elected to the post of party branch secretary of Daegu Zhuang.
Daegu village was once a very poor village, and saline land that was not suitable for sowing, dilapidated adobe houses, and villagers who did not have hope for the future made up all of Daegu.
Yu Zuomin watched his hometown struggle in poverty and naturally wanted to do something to change the poverty of Daegu.
Yu Zuomin did not take the villagers of Daegu Zhuang to open a factory at the beginning, he knew that if he wanted to build a factory, he needed the whole village to work together, so he spent a few years to let the villagers have enough trust in him.
In 1982, Yu Zuomin felt that the time was ripe. With his keen sense of business and trust from the villagers, he opened a printing plant and an electrical appliance factory in Daegu.
The printing and electrical factories did not live up to Yu Zuomin's expectations, and soon brought the first bucket of gold to the villagers of Daegu.
Yu Zuomin was greatly encouraged, and it was not long before he was not satisfied with only two sources of income, a printing plant and an electrical appliance factory. Yu Zuomin established a head office in Daegu Village, and put the printing plant and electrical appliance factory under the name of this head office.
After obtaining sufficient funds from the printing plant and the electrical appliance factory, Yu Zuomin opened a steel mill and a pipe factory.
Since the founding of New China, heavy industry has always been a key development object in the economic field, so Yu Zuomin's steel mill and pipe factory soon became the leading enterprises in the country.
Yu Zuomin opened a factory, set up a head office, and handed over some important leadership positions to the villagers of Daegu, so in the minds of the villagers of Daegu, Yu Zuomin was the guide who led them to hope.
With Yu Zuomin taking the lead, the villagers of Daegu Zhuang are also becoming more and more motivated. In addition to Yu Zuomin's own company, there are many villagers in Daegu Zhuang who have started their own companies, and Yu Zuomin is also very supportive of this.
A large amount of wealth has freed Daegu from its former image of poverty, and they have built new houses, opened new cars, and lived a good life that they could not have imagined before.
Daegu Zhuang became rich, and Yu Zuomin's name was also played. More and more people know about this peasant entrepreneur who turned saline land into a cornucopia.
In 1987, Yu Zuomin walked out of Tianjin and became the best contemporary farmer entrepreneur in China. Yu Zuomin led Daegu Zhuang in a very beautiful turnaround battle.
Daegu's story was also reported by The New York Times, in which it trumpeted Daegu's prosperity. According to reports, daegu at that time already had 16 Mercedes-Benz cars and more than 100 imported cars. It was also during this period that Daegu's per capita income reached $3,400.
Daegu's wealth far exceeded that of most of the region at that time, and because of its booming development momentum and unattainable per capita income, Daegu Wasong was known as the "first village in the world".
Yu Zuomin not only has a good vision in business, but also has countless praises in interpersonal communication. Most people think that Yu Zuomin is a person who can speak the Truth and dare to think and do.
Yu Zuomin is praised every day from all over the world, and the villagers of Daegu see him as an incomparable idol in their hearts.
Countless pursuits and praises gradually confused Yu Zuomin, and he began to enjoy the joy and satisfaction brought to him by these pursuits, and the idea of first wanting to contribute to his hometown and lead the villagers to a better place was gradually lost in the vortex of desire.
Indulge in the vortex of money power
In 1990, Yu Zuomin's cousin led a group of people to beat up the director of the Daegu Furniture Factory in order to give up on his daughter, but Yu Zuomin's cousin refused to give up. He found Yu Zuomin and hoped that Yu Zuomin could help him "punish" the factory director's family.
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Yu Zuomin agreed to his cousin's request. He sent a group of men to arrest the father of the furniture factory director and take him to the street to be openly beaten. No matter how much the factory director's father pleaded, the gang did not let him go. The factory director's father was eventually beaten to death in the street. I just wanted to vent my anger, but I ended up losing a human life.
At this time, Yu Zuomin had been overwhelmed by honor and money power, and had lost his basic morality, he had long forgotten his original intention, and he was full of thoughts about how to make himself more authoritative, how to make himself harvest more money and power.
After the death of the person, Yu Zuomin did not restrain in the slightest. Instead of taking the initiative to report the crime, he also tried in vain to let those who beat people escape the punishment of the law.
Thankfully, Yu Zuomin did not succeed. The police caught the killer and handed down a fair verdict.
Yu Zuomin was put on trial
After the verdict, Yu Zuomin still did not have the slightest remorse, but believed that the judicial organs did not give him face.
In retaliation for the verdict of the judicial authorities, Yu Zuomin led the villagers of Daegu Zhuang to hold demonstrations, protests and other activities, and also used his power to remove the factory director's family from work and monitor his entire family.
Because they were really overwhelmed, the factory director's family finally had no choice but to leave the homeland where they had lived for decades.
Yu Zuomin himself lost his heart, and the villagers of DaeguZhuang, who idolized him, gradually lost their basic respect for the law and morality under his leadership.
In 1992, 27 trainees from Beijing were led by the class teacher to Daegu Zhuang for an inspection. During the inspection, the trainees and the female manager of the store had an argument. Without saying a word, the female manager called the security guard, and the security guard also indiscriminately controlled the 27 trainees together.
The class teacher and the class leader try to negotiate with Yu Zuomin, but Yu Zuomin asks them to admit that they are drinking and fighting.
Yu Zuomin (right-sided glasses wearer)
Faced with such an untrue crime, the class teacher and the class leader naturally refused to agree, so Yu Zuomin called a group of people to fight the class leader.
During this period, Yu Zuomin repeatedly tried to get the class teacher and the class leader to confess, but they were refused, so the one-sided beating lasted for 7 hours.
At this time, Daegu Village was no longer the village that was poor but simple. The villagers regarded Yu Zuomin's words as "holy wills" and "laws", and they also chose to obey Yu Zuomin's illegal actions one by one.
The former servant of the people has long since disappeared and is replaced by a hypocrite who, under the guise of being a "servant of the people," actually acts fiercely, arrogantly, and disregards the law and morality.
The number of people who pursue praise is increasing, and Yu Zuomin also begins to feel dissatisfied with everything he has. He also wanted more money and rights, so he took the initiative to take another step towards the center of the whirlpool.
Yu Zuomin (third from left)
In November 1992, Lee Fung Jeong, the general manager of Daegu Zhuang Huada Group, died.
BGI Group is a company focused on agricultural production and operation, and is not under the direct jurisdiction of Yu Zuomin.
Yu Zuomin originally supported many villagers to start their own companies in order to promote the development of Daegu Zhuang, but Yu Zuomin, who was eroded by desire, had completely forgotten his original idea and was only bent on taking money and power into his own hands, so he took advantage of Lee Fengzheng's death to start devouring the BGI Group.
Yu Zuomin's style of acting is still arrogant. He "invited" several leaders of the BGI Group to the conference room of his headquarters and forced them to confess to false accusations like those trainees from Beijing.
Yu Zuomin arranged his conference room as an "interrogation room", with video equipment, batons, leather whips and other tools. Yu Zuomin had long been prepared to make them confess to the "crime" at all costs.
At the end of November, when the cold wind was raging, Yu Zuomin asked several leaders who had been "invited" by him to take off their shirts and be "interrogated." These leaders refused to admit Yu Zuomin'an's accusations against them, and Yu Zuomin sent thugs to punch and kick them as before.
Such "interrogations" lasted from the end of November to mid-December. During this time, the leaders of the BGI Group, which he controlled, were locked up in the daegu conference room, and from time to time they had to be beaten by Yu Zuomin's thugs.
On December 13, a leader of the Huada Group named Wei Fuhe was almost out of breath under the beating of Yu Zuomin and others, and Yu Zuomin and the others felt a little panic at this time, so they sent Wei Fuhe to the hospital, but the doctors failed to save Wei Fuhe's life.
The 26-year-old, after seven hours of beatings and flogging, finally survived the cold winter.
Yu Zuomin took the initiative to call the police, but he described Wei Fuhe's death as an accident that was impulsively killed by a group of unknown people because of the investigation of economic problems.
Yu Zuomin thought that he could escape the law as successfully as before, but this time, he finally lifted the stone and dropped it on his own feet.
Increasingly rampant and finally caught in the net
The police arrived in Daegu soon after receiving Yu Zuomin's report.
Yu Zuomin and others had already rushed out a fake confession before the police arrived, and the confession was that Wei Fuhe admitted his financial problems, but the police did not rely on this false evidence alone to believe Yu Zuomin's words.
The police conducted an autopsy on Wei Fuhe, and the autopsy results did not match the process described by Yu Zuomin and others, so the suspicion of Yu Zuomin and others suddenly increased.
On the evening of December 15, the police came to Daegu again to further investigate the case. Yu Zuomin is worried that his crime will be discovered by the police, and on the other hand, he feels that the police "do not give themselves face". Therefore, the villagers were ordered to detain all the police who came to investigate in Daegu.
It was not until the mayor of Tianjin intervened that Yu Zuomin released several policemen from Daegu.
From the end of 1992 to February 1993, Yu Zuomin confronted the police. During this period, Yu Zuomin incited the villagers of Daegu Village, causing the villagers to have a great distrust of the police, and even almost developed into violence at one point.
The villagers of Daegu were deceived by Yu Zuomin into believing that the police had come to sabotage their cause, so they attacked the police like crazy, even to the point of strikes, strikes, and armed intimidation of the police.
In order not to affect the ordinary villagers in Daegu, the police had to retreat again and again, but Yu Zuomin was proud to believe that he had forced the police to retreat.
Daegu Zhuang is Yu Zuomin's strongest fortress, and as long as he does not leave Daegu Village, it will be difficult for the police to break through the layers of protection of the villagers of Daegu Village to arrest Yu Zuomin.
Things have reached this point, and the police can only collect more facts about Yu Zuomin's crime through other channels.
Yu Zuomin's behavior over the years has been too rampant and has not been restrained in the slightest, so the police have obtained a lot of evidence of Yu Zuomin's crimes during the investigation and visit. This evidence finally made Yu Zuomin give up resistance.
On April 15, 1993, Yu Zuomin was arrested by the police, as were other Daegu villagers involved in the crime.
Because the evidence was conclusive, Yu Zuomin's verdict was quickly determined. He was sentenced to a total of twenty years in prison.
Yu Zuomin's treatment in prison was not bad, and later because of heart problems, Yu Zuomin was also sent to a nursing home, and his wife also accompanied and cared for him in the nursing home. In 1997, Yu Zuomin's mother died, and the judicial department also agreed to Yu Zuomin's return home visit.
However, perhaps because of the collapse of the psychological defense line, Yu Zuomin realized his crimes over the years, and in the early morning of October 3, 1999, he swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills, and finally died of ineffective rescue.
Yu Zuomin (the one in white in the middle)
Originally an ordinary farmer, Yu Zuomin used his sense of business to lead Daegu on an enviable road to riches, but as his ambitions swelled, he also made the villagers of Daegu zhuang a helper for his crimes. He was a nobleman of Daegu and a sinner of Daegu.
People always have to face countless choices and temptations in their lives, and how to stick to their hearts is an eternal issue that everyone has to face in this life.