In the early morning of April 25, 1980, the streets of Shenyang were cold and sparse. I saw a middle-aged woman behaving like a ghost, wrapping her hands around her body, as if carrying something important in her arms.
Along the way, she looked left and right, came to the door of a bank and stopped.
Seeing that 8 o'clock in the morning was approaching, her mood became tense.
As soon as the bank opened, she took a hurried step inside.
She sat down at the counter, took out a piece of gold very carefully, and asked the bank teller to exchange it for cash.
Surprisingly, it didn't take long for the middle-aged woman to be taken away by the police and her husband.
Nineteen years ago, the truth of a gold theft case at Shenyang 615 Factory surfaced.
It turned out that the woman's name was Huang Shuzhen, and her husband was Guan Qingchang, who was kind-looking, plainly dressed, and friendly.
Relatives and friends have a good opinion of him, and even the neighbors around him respect him.
Looking through his files, there was no case, he rose all the way from an ordinary section member to the cadre level, and he was awarded the title of advanced worker of the factory.
No one expected that such a kind, honest, and excellent ordinary worker was the mastermind of this gold theft case.
He stole 800 taels of gold from the factory, and hid in the crowd for 19 years without anyone knowing!
If you want to understand the ins and outs of the whole incident, you must be clear about Guan Qingchang's work experience.
The Shenyang 615 factory, where Guan Qingchang works, is not an ordinary factory, but a mint.
He can be traced back to the Republic of China period, when it was a well-known printing factory.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the factory was transformed and began to produce circulating coins, and the amount of coins ranged from one cent to one yuan.
By the 1960s, China had suffered three years of hardship.
Due to the impact of natural disasters, the mainland's grain production is largely insufficient, and the people's lives are difficult.
At this time, New China was in the period of construction, and the domestic funds were insufficient, so it borrowed a lot of foreign debt from the Soviet Union.
But then Sino-Soviet relations changed, and the Soviet Union demanded that the mainland repay its foreign debt in a timely manner.
In order to repay this foreign debt and solve the problem of food shortages at home, China had to do everything it could to make gold.
In 1961, the state entrusted this important task to the Shenyang 615 Factory.
Factory 615 needs to be rebuilt from gold and silver collected from the private sector.
Due to the special task, in order to prevent theft, the state requires the 615 factory to carry out it confidentially.
Therefore, the factory gave gold the title of "No. 100" and the title of "No. 200" to silver.
Workers speak in private of code names, not gold or silver.
In this way, the outside world does not know that the 615 factory is manufacturing gold and silver, and its safety has been greatly improved, but who ever thought that it would be difficult to prevent "family thieves".
At that time, the equipment in the factory was not perfect, and a large amount of gold and silver lacked stacked warehouses.
In order to solve the problem of storing gold and silver, the workers in the factory built several warehouses temporarily with wooden planks.
At that time, the anti-theft equipment was very backward, there was no monitoring, only a small number of caretaker workers, so the anti-theft in the factory was very poor.
At that time, the workers in the factory were simple-minded, and few people used their brains to steal gold.
But no one expected that Guan Qingchang, who was usually honest, was worried about these gold.
At this time, Guan Qingchang was already the head of the production section, and he wanted to steal gold with many conveniences.
Moreover, in the early years, he had worked for the government, and his many years of work experience had already familiarized him with the official style, and he was good at dealing with people.
On March 18, 1961, it was a Saturday, the weather was bad, the sky was drizzling, and the factory was overcast.
In addition, the next day was Sunday, and the factory was on holiday, and many workers left as soon as they arrived at the end of the work day.
Guo Jiahui, the leader of the packaging team, is no exception, and he also wants to go home quickly after finishing his work.
Speed up the inventory of the amount of gold in the warehouse, and the gold nuggets are placed in small wooden boxes.
The wooden boxes filled with gold were piled up very neatly, and Guo Jiahui easily counted them.
Only the top box was special, containing four strips of gold, which impressed Guo Jiahui.
After counting, Guo Jiahui locked the door of the warehouse and left the factory.
No one expected that Guan Qingchang had already planned everything.
With a croissant hammer and a pair of leather gloves prepared in advance, he was careful along the way, afraid of being discovered by others.
Fortunately, in the factory at this time, most of the workers went home.
Guan Qingchang did not see a single figure along the way, and he smoothly came to the door of the warehouse.
Then, he looked around, determined that it was safe, and then used a hammer to knock open the wall of the warehouse.
After entering the warehouse, he was greeted by a wooden box containing gold, and he opened the top box and took away the two pieces of gold inside.
After stealing the gold, Guan Qingchang hurriedly hid it.
In order to create an alibi, he changed his clothes and appeared at the factory club party in a short while.
In order to impress others that he had been here, he had greeted most of the people at the party.
After 9:30 p.m., the party was over.
He returned home and suddenly remembered that the soles of his shoes had been stuck to the dirt, and in order to destroy this evidence, he had his wife replace the soles of the shoes.
The tool he used to commit the crime, the hammer, was also thrown into a dung pit by him.
Guan Qingchang and his wife Huang Shuzhen knew that sooner or later they could not hide this matter, and they had to make up a set of statements to get rid of their criminal suspicions.
Not surprisingly, the people at the factory wouldn't find out until they went to work on Mondays, so they had plenty of time to prepare.
Monday came, and the factory workers returned to their normal work rhythm.
"Number 100 was stolen," shouted a man named Happy Gui.
This immediately alarmed the leader of the packaging group, Guo Jiahui, it should be the four pieces of gold that were not sealed, Guo Jiahui thought.
She trotted all the way to the warehouse.
She found that a hole had been pried open in the wooden wall of the warehouse, and a wooden chest containing gold had been opened, and two pieces of gold inside were gone.
Things did exactly as Guan Qingchang had suspected, and when he came to work at the factory on Monday, he heard workers discussing the theft of gold.
But in order to get rid of the suspicion, he said, "The gold is not in storage, the factory monitoring is not strict, and the gold is easily stolen."
As soon as this was said, everyone present thought that his statement was very reasonable.
Guo Jiahui immediately realized the seriousness of the matter and immediately reported to the leadership.
This is a special three-year difficult period, and these two pieces of gold weighing 800 grams can solve the problem of food and clothing for many people.
From the founding of New China to the present, this is the first major gold theft case, Premier Zhou has attached great importance to it, and said that this case has a bad impact and must be investigated.
The local public security bureau quickly formed a special case team and went to the scene of the crime to investigate.
The operation mobilized almost the entire public security bureau, and the police decided to take the form of a full net and a detailed investigation, with each police officer responsible for interrogating ten workers.
After the task force arrived at the factory, it was decided to conduct a comprehensive search of the factory.
Guan Qingchang already knew that the police would search his office, so he did not hide the gold here.
Soon, the police began to search Guan Qingchang's office.
In order to facilitate the inspection, the seats in the office were emptied out, and the police carefully examined every corner and did not find any clues.
Guan Qingchang was secretly happy about this.
Immediately afterward, the factory health section asked all the workers to report all their activities within 36 hours, focusing on the activities of the night.
Guan Qingchang told the factory health department what he had prepared long ago.
He said that he left work at five o'clock, went to the bath at 6 o'clock after work to take a bath, and left the bathhouse after washing.
At half past six, I went to the factory club for a dance, and after the dance at half past nine, I returned home with my neighbors at about ten o'clock.
Guan Qingchang's set of statements is logically rigorous, and all of them have been testified, which excludes his criminal suspicions.
Finally, the results of the investigation came out and two important clues were uncovered.
One is that the tool used by the thief is a hammer, and the other is that the shoes worn by the thief that night are cloth shoes.
The task force first suspected that this was a theft by internal factory personnel.
Subsequently, everyone in the factory was screened, and they handed in their horn hammers one by one and compared their footprints.
But the suspect was never found, making the case a mystery.
Guan Qingchang successfully evaded this investigation, but the police listed three main suspects: Guo Jiahui, Gao Gaogui and Jia Qingji.
The first is Guo Jiahui, who is the leader of the packaging team, she is very clear about the basic situation of gold, and after the gold was stolen, she could not escape the blame.
But she wasn't really the thief, so when she was questioned by the police and the factory director, she gave herself everything she knew.
But they didn't believe it, and she also felt that there was bitterness that could not be said, and there was no place to claim reason.
At this time, she was a preparatory party member, and because of this incident, she was expelled from the party and removed from her position.
The second suspect is the first person to find out that the gold has been stolen , Happy Gui.
If the first person to find out that the gold was stolen should also be Guo Jiahui, not him, maybe he is a thief shouting to catch a thief.
Through a series of interrogations, the police did not ask any results, but still put Gao Gaogui and Guo Jiahui in a confinement room for three months.
The third suspected was Jia Qingji of the Factory Security Section.
Because he was so familiar with the situation in the factory, he once said in public: "This gold will not be stored in the warehouse, sooner or later it will be stolen." ”
Unfortunately, two days before the crime, he was transferred to the workshop to work and had the opportunity to touch the gold.
After the police questioned the three of them, nothing was found.
He suspected Li Yu, the director of the factory, because the factory director was also familiar with the situation of gold, and the police could not let go of a clue.
After the police searched Li Yu's office and home, they did not find half a clue.
Suspecting that Li Yu hid the gold in his mother's grave, the police decided to investigate the place, but still no clues were found.
Such a clueless search by the police has injured a large number of unrelated people.
Just then, because the veteran stood up and said, "I stole the gold, you arrest me!" ”
However, this veteran soldier who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea should not have done this.
After the police investigation, it really had nothing to do with him, the police tried to search to no avail, and this theft case was finally closed.
Guan Qingchang was able to evade this investigation, already in the accident.
Because of his own high psychological quality, he lied once in his early years.
He was able to work in this factory because he hid a history that he had served in the guard of the puppet government.
In the self-identification column, he wrote the four words "loyal and honest" without any face.
But in the end, the matter he concealed was known to the leader.
In view of his good performance, serious work, and hard work, the leaders did not dismiss him and gave him a chance to reform himself.
In this way, he deceived others into trusting him, but he did not hold a grateful heart and become a man again, but embarked on a criminal path.
He has long known the importance of money since he was a child, and he has always had a strong desire for money.
These three difficult years have strengthened his desires and made him understand a truth, as long as he has money, he can survive all difficulties.
Therefore, he has long had a covetous heart for the gold in the factory.
In the early years, he planned to let his wife Huang Shuzhen steal the gold.
But his wife, Huang Shuzhen, is known for her love of wealth, and her neighbors have praised Huang Shuzhen for living a life.
The wife was so frugal that she couldn't bear to throw away the sticks on the popsicles, but took them home as firewood.
The couple are people who love money as much as life, and the so-called smell is similar, of course, for Guan Qingchang's idea, Huang Shuzhen agrees very much.
Huang Shuzhen works in the electrolysis workshop, limited by the work, she can only take some gold products, such as gold earrings, without others noticing.
Guan Qingchang, watching his wife steal the gold products from home, his mood became very happy, but at the same time he was dissatisfied.
The amount of gold is too small to be worth much money, and if Huang Shuzhen keeps stealing, she will one day be discovered by others.
He had to think of another way to steal more gold.
A bold idea arose, and he determined to steal the sealed gold nuggets from the warehouse.
But every day someone counts the amount of gold, and the people in the factory always come and go, and he must make a careful plan to ensure that the crime is successful.
In order for the theft to proceed without fail, he must investigate the location of the nuggets in advance.
The day before the crime, he sent his wife to the warehouse to explore the basic situation of gold and confirm whether there was gold in the warehouse.
With his authority, it should be easy to get in and out of the warehouse, but why did he send his wife there?
Guan Qingchang's mind was very meticulous, he knew that he usually did not go in and out of the warehouse, and if he rushed to go, it would definitely arouse people's suspicions.
And the wife is a woman, if he goes to the workshop of the packaging group and chats with the co-workers, this is a very normal thing and will not attract attention.
Huang Shuzhen, with her own ingenuity, soon found out that the warehouse did store gold.
After returning home, he told her husband Guan Qingchang the important news.
Guan Qingchang identified the crime and chose to stay at the factory on Saturday night after work.
That day, he took a croissant hammer and a pair of gloves from home, took them to his office, and hid them.
After work, as usual, he went to the elm bath of the factory to take a bath, and in order to create an alibi, he greeted his co-workers.
After taking a shower, he quickly returned to the office, took his crime tools, put on his raincoat and came to the scene of the crime.
Immediately after that, the scene described above appeared, and seeing this, everyone could not help but sigh that his psychological quality was too strong and his crime skills were high.
After escaping the disaster, Guan Qingchang put the gold in the chimney, but he was afraid of being found by the neighbors, so he took it out, wrapped it in wooden planks, and made a cabinet mat.
However, he was discovered by his father, who told him the truth under questioning, but his father did not report him.
Because the purity of this gold is too high, Guan Qingchang has not dared to take the gold and spend it, and it is not the same thing to always hide the gold and not spend it.
He tried to chemically reduce the purity of gold, but he never succeeded.
In 1980, the price of gold began to rise, and the gold in his hands was worth a lot of money, about 360,000 or so.
At this time, 19 years after the theft, he thought it was safe, and he decided to go to the bank with his wife, which led to the scene at the beginning of the article.
After Guan Qingchang was arrested, the court sentenced him to life imprisonment.
He performed well in prison, and in the end, his sentence was reduced to fixed-term imprisonment and he was successfully released from prison.
After he was released from prison, he made a living selling milk and embarked on a normal path again!
Just as the so-called Skynet is restored, negligence is not leaked, crimes have been committed, late arrival will be punished, and things that are not allowed by law must not be done.
Finally, the author would like to say that a gentleman loves money and has a way!
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