"I'd rather be ruled by the Communist Party than let Taiwan be taken away by Taiwan independence!"
As the boss of Taiwan's largest gangster bamboo gang, Chen Qili's attitude is extremely resolute.
During Chiang Ching-kuo's administration, the momentum of "Taiwan independence" did not diminish but increased. As far as the "Taiwan independence" forces are concerned, returning to the embrace of the motherland is naturally not as comfortable as guarding the island and claiming hegemony.
Of course, even in those days, not all people in Taiwan supported the absurd proposition of "Taiwan independence." Chen Qili, a former "landlubber" gangster of the "Bamboo Gang," is an anti-"Taiwan independence" person.
Chen Qili
When it comes to Chen Qili, contemporary young people may not be familiar with it. However, this does not affect the fact that Chen Qili was once the soul of the gangster forces in the entire Taiwan Province.
Then, Chen Qili became a gangster step by step, and what made the gangster boss issue a declaration that "I would rather be ruled by the Communist Party than let Taiwan be taken away by Taiwan independence"?
Hit a piece of the sky
On April 27, 1943, the Chen family in Guang'an, Sichuan Province, was happy to have Lin'er and named it "Qi Li". At this time, the Chen family did not know what kind of storm they would stir up after this child.
In 1949, at the age of 6, Chen Qili moved with his parents to Taiwan Province, and after living in Keelung for three years, the Chen family moved to Taipei instead.
For special reasons, the xenophobic behavior of the locals is obvious. Although his father was a judicial officer and had a certain status, the Chen family did not get much friendly eyes.
The Chen family's parents were very strict in teaching Chen Qili. However, such harshness did not protect Chen Qili.
During his studies, Chen Qili was often provoked and bullied by local classmates. From the beginning of the small fight, to the later whole grade, Chen Qili was regarded as a "living target", and Chen Qili's school life was not beautiful.
In order to protect himself, Chen Qili began to instinctively learn to wave his fists in response. However, it is difficult to fight with two fists and four hands, and after each failed counterattack, it is ushered in an intensified bullying.
It was a chaotic era, there were bad students in the school, there were so-called "Taibao" outside the school, Chen Qili finally "realized" after repeated self-protection failures, is not to fight fiercely, others can, why can't he?
This was certainly a dangerous and incorrect idea, but for Chen Qili, who was a teenager at the time, it was the key to determining whether he could live well in the future.
"Monofilament does not form a line, a single tree does not become a forest", although he is only 13 years old, Chen Qili still understands that there is no future for him to fight alone.
As a result, Chen Qili joined the "Neutralization Gang" that was famous in Taiwan Province. The gang boss is called Sun Depei, who is barely a character in his generation.
In order to be able to change from small transparency to backbone members, Chen Qili always rushed to the front in every "grab the turf" weapon fight. With this lifeless momentum, Chen Qili gradually gained the approval of some people.
However, for Chen Qili at that time, this was not a good thing. The emergence of a rising star has made many veteran gang members jealous.
Not surprisingly, Chen Qili suffered obvious exclusion. Chen Qili, who joined the gang in order not to be angry, naturally could not stand these injustices. As a result, Chen Qili withdrew from the Zhonghe Gang.
Fortunately, shortly after Chen Qili quit, the Zhonghe gang was imprisoned for a human life case that could not be pressed, causing the gang boss Sun Depei to be imprisoned.
Sun Depei's imprisonment has completely torn apart the Already unstable Zhonghe Gang. The forces in the gang fought endlessly, and one of them, Zhao Ning, seized some territory and manpower, and thus created the "Bamboo Gang".
Yes, the first boss of the Bamboo Gang was not Chen Qili. At that time, Chen Qili and Zhao Ning had a good personal relationship, so when Zhao Ning issued an invitation, Chen Qili did not refuse.
Don't look at the gang, the rules are no less than the regular group. Of course, if you want to have a certain position in it, you still have to rely on "strength" to speak. Whoever lays more ground and who is fierce enough will be supported by everyone.
Chen Qili's strength is obvious to all, and it can be said that Chen Qili's position in the gang at that time can basically be regarded as equal to Zhao Ningping.
After all, when he was strongly suppressed by the "Four Seas Gang", it was Chen Qili who led a group of his subordinates to fight a beautiful turnaround battle, and it was also Chen Qili who single-handedly organized the peripheral forces of the Bamboo Gang.
Time passed for many years, Chen Qili, who had a larger territory and more followers, became the new boss of the Bamboo Gang at the age of 25. And this is only the beginning of Chen Qili's legendary life.
After several ups and downs
Chen Qili became the leader of the Bamboo Gang in 1968, and this year, Chiang Ching-kuo had not yet ascended to the throne.
It must be admitted that Chen Qili seems to be born with the characteristics of a team leader. In Chen Qili's hands, the Bamboo Gang was stronger than before, and the rules were clearer.
Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, faith, righteousness, harmony, peace, heaven, earth, zhi, zun, wan, ancient, evergreen, eastern, flower, dragon, phoenix, tiger, lion, etc., all of which once had the name of Tangkou.
In order to give Zhulian Bangbo a good reputation while making profits, Chen Qili established a "commercial protection" model. For a long time afterwards, this was the pattern followed by the various gangs.
Chen Qili's method undoubtedly worked at that time, without giving "protection fees", it would hit you to be afraid and hit you to give. However, once the "protection fee" is paid as required, the Bamboo Gang will really protect the safety of the other party.
Because the Bamboo Gang is fierce and does what it says, the Bamboo Gang has become the best reputation among the local gangs. With more and more people and money, the Bamboo Gang naturally sat in the position of the leader of the Taipei gang.
However, in a large gang group, there will inevitably be "outliers". Chen Ren, the name is the existence of gritted teeth mentioned by the Bamboo Gang at that time.
Chen Ren, who wanted to wash his hands in the golden basin, did something very unethical. After deciding to quit the gang, Chen Ren swept away more than 600,000 public funds in the gang and became a "traitor".
Gangs have only one way to deal with traitors, and that is to get rid of them quickly. In order to kill the chicken and scare the monkey, Chen Qili issued a must-kill order for Chen Ren.
Although Chen Ren had already applied for protection from the local police, he still did not escape the fate of the tragic death knife. For the local police, this is undoubtedly a naked provocation.
Moreover, the Bamboo Gang has been a big family for many years, and it is time to "knock and knock". Therefore, the local police quickly dispatched the police and arrested Chen Qili, the commander behind the scenes.
For Chen Qili, going to prison is not a terrible thing. After all, he had already explained the big and small matters within the gang, and key members such as Zhang Anle and Dong Guisen would guard the Jiangshan for him.
During Chen Qili's imprisonment in Green Island Prison, the Bamboo League Gang not only did not fall apart like the original Neutralization Gang, but became better and better because of the "mother gold" system.
To explain here, the so-called "mother gold" system is the system in which each church hands over a part of the proceeds to the general hall. All in all, after Chen Qili was released from prison in 1976, he was still a gangster admired by everyone.
In order to make the gang bigger and stronger, Chen Qili has been integrating the Bamboo Gang internally for the next 4 years. It was also during this period that Chen Qili and the Then Kuomintang intelligence agency became a "mutual help" relationship.
As a pawn of the Kuomintang intelligence agency to the outside world, the other side of course spared no effort to support its gang. As a result, the Bamboo Gang entered a period of barbaric growth, and by the early 1980s, there were tens of thousands of people in the Bamboo Gang.
The Bamboo Gang is firmly in the first position of the underworld in Taiwan Province, and its scope of involvement is not limited to the last means such as "protection fees". The film industry of that era was the darling of the gangsters, and the Bamboo Gang naturally did not miss this piece of fat meat.
At that time, Wang Yu and Shuai Yuefeng, famous martial arts movie stars in Taiwan Province, were the backbone members of the Bamboo Gang. The so-called "backbone members" have naturally participated in the murder case, and I will not repeat it too much here.
All the illegal trades that the gang can be involved in, the Bamboo Gang is in full swing, and the career line extends all the way to the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Central America, Africa and other places in addition to Taiwan Province and Hong Kong.
The two take what they need, are mutually beneficial, and should be harmonious. However, what I did not expect was that the Kuomintang side did not talk about martial arts and pushed Chen Qili to "block the gun."
Disdain
On October 15, 1984, on this day, in San Francisco, California, the United States, a case that shocked the world occurred - the Jiangnan case.
As mentioned earlier, before that, Chen Qili had a very close relationship with the Kuomintang forces at that time. Raising soldiers for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while, by Shuai Yuefeng, Chen Qili participated in a secret dinner.
It is not surprising that the people present in the film and television circle are not surprising, but the strange thing is that Wang Xiling, director of the Kuomintang Intelligence Bureau at that time, was also among them.
Sure enough, between pushing the cup and changing the cup, Wang Xiling said the only purpose of the meal. A man with the pen name "Jiangnan" and his real name Liu Yiliang needs to be removed.
The reason is simple, because he has published a large number of articles exposing the shady scenes of Chiang's father and son, and the Jiang family cannot tolerate him. For Chen Qili, the leader of the Tangtang Bamboo Gang, this is not a difficult task, even if this person is hiding in the United States.
In order to ensure that nothing was lost, Chen Qili took his subordinates Wu Dun and Dong Guisen to the United States and began a squat for more than ten days.
A gunshot sounded, and Liu Yiliang, who was shot in the head, was killed on the spot. In the gang, which is not the murder countless? The three of them did not take this matter to heart, but they forgot that Liu Yiliang's identity was not simple.
As a Chinese-American, a three-faced spy, Liu Yiliang's death triggered a wide range of shocks in the Chinese circle, the United States and other forces.
A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the secret involvement of the Bamboo Gang and the Intelligence Bureau was also revealed on the surface. The fig leaf was suddenly torn off, and the credibility of the Kuomintang was once again questioned by all sides.
In order to save the image, the other party abandoned the car to protect the marshal, and pushed Chen Qili and the Zhulian gang to the front of the stage as scapegoats. Once a partner, now it has become a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh.
A huge "One Qing Project" operation was launched, gang boss Chen Qili and key member Wu Dun were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, and more than 3,000 gang members were arrested. After this battle, the Bamboo League Gang was seriously injured.
Compared with Dong Guisen, who fled to Brazil and was eventually arrested while serving his sentence in a US federal prison, he died in a gunfight, Chen Qili and Wu Dun were relatively lucky.
Although Chen Qili left a "back hand" for himself that year, it did not play much role, but Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988 gave him the opportunity to restore his freedom.
Chen Qili, who was released from prison because of the "amnesty", returned to the Bamboo Gang, and this time he was completely chilled by his former "allies". Unreliable allies are doomed to not be able to move forward side by side, and Chen Qili knows this truth better than anyone.
In addition, the reason why Chen Qili will gradually become the boss of the gang in Taiwan Province is because when he was a child, he was bullied by too many locals because he was a foreigner, so he hated "Taiwan independence" to the bone.
The skinny camel is bigger than Ma, although because of the incident, the Bamboo Gang is a little broken, but as a very influential figure in both black and white, since his release from prison, he has a lot of strength to show his kindness and want to cooperate with the Bamboo Gang.
Chen Qili, while pioneering his career and amassing wealth, observed the surrounding dynamics at any time. Chen Qili, who has already suffered losses in Taiwan, naturally has no half trust in Taiwan.
Moreover, don't look at the strength of the Bamboo Gang, but it still belongs to the foreign gangs, and the local gang "Heavenly Dao Alliance" has been trying to completely defeat it.
Therefore, Chen Qili, who received the news in advance, resolutely went to Cambodia for refuge on the eve of the anti-gang crime campaign in Taiwan Province. This choice was so wise that even though The Province of Taiwan issued a twenty-five-year warrant for his arrest, it could not actually bring him to justice.
However, among them, Chen Qili also suffered some hardships.
Although in Cambodia's view, Chen Qili is a general role of the "god of wealth", due to the combination of the "Tiandao Alliance" who fled to Cambodia in the later period and the local "Chaozhou Gang", Chen Qili was convicted of a crime and sentenced to three years.
The Taiwan side's arrest of Chen Qili has never stopped. There is only one reason why the Taiwan side hates Chen Qili so much, and that is because Chen Qili has publicly attacked the Taiwan authorities and the "Taiwan independence" forces countless times.
However, even if Chen Qili was transferred from Cambodia to Thailand for treatment because of a stroke, the Taiwanese side did not seize this "opportunity". After receiving the news, Chen Qili changed his itinerary for the first time and escaped the disaster.
"The Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party are both 'rotten apples'" and "I would rather be ruled by the Communist Party than let 'Taiwan independence' take Taiwan away." Chen Qili, who has been fighting all his life, always issued such a declaration.
Of course, Chen Qili is not a "good man," but in the face of the great right and wrong of the reunification of the motherland, Chen Qili stands on the side of true justice, which is very touching.
On October 4, 2007, Chen Qili, a Prominent Taiwanese gangster, died of illness at the age of 64. On October 18, 2007, Chen Qili's body was transported back to Taiwan to be worshiped by various gang leaders.
In order to avoid vicious incidents such as gang fighting during his funeral, more than 600 police officers supervised and controlled them on the surface alone.
On November 8, 2007, the farewell ceremony of Chen Qili's body was held in Taipei, and there were thousands of black and white people with only names, including some representatives of foreign gang forces.
"The Festival of Revelation is heavenly, and man knows loyalty from chivalry; The courtesy is lost to the wilderness, and the road is cut off and the river looks at the bamboo forest. The life of a generation of big man Chen Qili came to an end.