Since ancient times, people have a yearning for a better life. Nowadays, people are busy and busy every day, working all day, but also for the sake of career hard work, to earn a good family business for themselves and their families. Relying on one's own ability to create a rich and prosperous living environment is an admirable thing.
However, some people like to take shortcuts and use their special position to use some improper means to seek illegal benefits. This is not only an insult to his position, but also a huge loss to the interests of the country and the people, they are the "cancer" of society, only by completely eradicating them, can the social and economic development order be on the right track and maintain a normal state of development.
At the beginning of the founding of New China, the great man reminded the founding heroes that they must not be corrupted and knocked down by sugar-coated shells, but there will still be some people who cannot withstand the temptation and become sinners of the people, the most representative of which are Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan. As a giant greed in New China, the two embezzled a total of 17.16 billion yuan, but this is the old renminbi currency, which is equivalent to how much money today? The two of them were also heroes who had made great contributions to the development process of our party, so why did they enter the road of no return?
They used to be amazing
Liu Qingshan is a native of Anguo County, Hebei Province, born in 1914 in a poor peasant family in the local area, in order to solve the problem of food and clothing at a young age, he ran to the landlord's house to work at a young age. He also thought about why he wanted to be a poor person, didn't he have a chance to turn around?
Later, with the rise of the Workers' and Peasants' Association, he finally had the opportunity to change his life, and Liu Qingshan, who joined the trade union, became a party member at the age of 17 because of his excellent performance, and later participated in the famous Lixian Uprising. Unfortunately, this uprising ultimately failed, and he and many comrades were captured by the enemy.
The fierce enemy sent them one by one to die in front of the knife, and when it was Liu Qingshan's turn, the enemy company commander saw that he was young and moved his heart of compassion, so he let him go, and also let Liu Qingshan escape the disaster. Having escaped from the enemy, he returned to the revolutionary ranks.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the secretary of the county party committee of Dacheng County, and later became the political commissar of the Eighth Military Subdistrict in the base area of Jizhong Province, and by the eve of liberation, he had become the secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Party Committee.
Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan are both Fellow Villagers in Hebei, the two are still the same age, in 1914 he was born in a wealthy family in ShenXian County, Hebei Province, from this point of view he is much better than Liu Qingshan in his childhood.
As a student, Zhang Zishan began to be exposed to progressive ideas, and with the change of his outlook on life, he eventually embarked on the road of revolution and became a party member in 1933. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Zishan also unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy, who tortured him severely, but he never revealed his identity and persisted until he was rescued from prison.
From this it can be seen that he was a strong-willed revolutionary loyal to the Party.
It is precisely because of their excellent performance in the revolutionary years and the great trust of the organization that after the founding of New China, the two served as secretaries of the Tianjin Prefectural Party Committee and Tianjin Regional Commissioners respectively, and became the parent officials who led the people of Tianjin.
Embark on the path of corruption
Originally, the state and the people had high hopes for them, hoping that they could use their years of work experience to devote themselves to the development and construction of the Tianjin area and let people live a rich and happy life. Who knows that they use the power in their hands to embezzle and accept bribes, regardless of the lives of the common people, only let themselves live a life of food, clothing, and pleasure, and they are also very fast on the road of corruption.
The two took office on the eve of the founding of New China, in August 1949, but in the spring of 1950, they had already begun to fall. They tried their best to take advantage of the loopholes, withholding some from various sums of money and putting them in their pockets.
In addition, they also used various names to borrow money from banks, and even colluded with some profiteers to sell scarce materials and obtain huge profits from them. Their pockets are inflated, but the interests of the country and the people have suffered huge losses, resulting in the loss of 1.4 billion assets.
Using these methods, the two people received an illegal income of up to 17,162.72 million yuan, which is the first set of renminbi, equivalent to 1,716,272 yuan of the second set of renminbi.
More than a million now is not a small amount for many people, and for the beginning of the founding of the country, this is an astronomical amount. At the price of the time, the money could buy 50 million kilograms of millet, or more than 20 million kilograms of pork, or 16.7 million meters of soil cloth, if you think of the country that had just experienced the devastation of war at that time, and thousands of people who could not eat enough, you can appreciate how hateful these two people are.
There is also a real-life example that gives you a sense of the sheer amount of money they embezzle.
In June 1951, Chang Xiangyu, a Yu opera performance artist, heard the situation on the Korean front on the radio and discussed with her husband, Chen Charter, to donate a plane to the volunteer army on the front line. In order to raise money for the purchase of the plane, she sent her children to a nursery school and led the 59-member "Xiangyu Opera Society" to tour the country, spending half a year and performing a total of 178 performances, and finally scraped together enough money to buy a plane.
How much money did it raise? 1.52 billion yuan of old currency, a little calculation can be concluded, Liu Qingshan, Zhang Zishan embezzled money can buy 11 planes, there is a balance, it is really more and more infuriating.
A life of luxury
"It's not easy" to get so much money, it "should" be enjoyed. Not to mention, the two don't have to worry about others in this regard.
In September 1951, New China only built its first car, but Liu Qingshan had paid a high price a year earlier and ordered two high-end cars from Hong Kong. Zhang Zishan was not convinced, and he also managed to get five cars.
"Eat, wear, live, travel" four basic needs, "line" is finished, "live" is naturally not ambiguous, originally according to the level of their residence will not be bad. In terms of clothing, they also use high-grade fabrics, and finally when it comes to eating, it is more exquisite, especially Liu Qingshan.
Liu Qingshan himself is very fond of eating dumplings stuffed with leeks, especially in winter when it is cold outside, it is more comfortable to have a plate. Just getting fresh leeks is hard enough, but people still have requirements, Liu Qingshan directly eating leeks will feel stomach burning, uncomfortable, but dumplings also have a leek flavor.
Finally, the cooker racked his brains to think of a way, when he wrapped the dumplings, the leeks were wrapped in a long section, and the roots remained outside the skin, and after the dumplings were cooked, they were fished up and then pinched the leek roots to pull out the leeks, so that the dumplings had a leek flavor, and Liu Qingshan would not eat the leeks, which was really a good way.
From simply eating dumplings one by one, we can see how luxurious Liu Qingshan's life is, but his corrupt and extravagant life will not last long after all. During the Three Antis Campaign in 1951, their corrupt practices were finally exposed, and under hard evidence, they were finally tried and sentenced to death. In February 1952, the sinners of the two peoples were executed by firing squad.