On 17 November 1998, a man named Zhang Ziqiang was sentenced to death by the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, and 20 days later he was shot.
At the moment of his fall, many rich people in Hong Kong breathed a sigh of relief, and many ordinary people also clapped their hands with joy.
Afterwards, some media interviewed Zhang Ziqiang's mother and asked: Why do you think Zhang Ziqiang became what he is today? Who hurt him?
The old lady in her 80s was silent for a long time, facing the camera, slowly said four words, and the onlookers suddenly realized and sighed.
First, the thief king who made the Hong Kong rich tremble
One day in May 1996, Li Zeju, the eldest son of the wealthy Li Ka-shing, was driving home as usual, when a van suddenly overtook him from behind and blocked his car while passing through a tunnel.
Seven or eight masked men with murder weapons came down from the van, and Li Zeju's car window was knocked open with an iron hammer by the other party.
After that, Li Zeju and the driver were dragged down, and in the face of so many masked people with murder weapons, they were stuffed into the trunk of the car without the ability to resist.
And the mastermind of this kidnapping of Li Zeju is Zhang Ziqiang.
Zhang Ziqiang immediately called Li Ka-shing and very arrogantly asked Li Ka-shing to open his home to him to negotiate.
Li Ka-shing understood that the other party was coming for money, and in order to ensure that his son would not be harmed, he did not dare to call the police.
According to what Zhang Ziqiang said, he opened the door, and Zhang Ziqiang swaggered to the door with explosives tied to him.
During the whole negotiation process, Li Ka-shing was very calm, and finally bargained for the ransom demanded by Zhang Ziqiang, Zhang Ziqiang asked Li Ka-shing to give 2 billion Hong Kong dollars, Li Ka-shing said: "2 billion is a small matter, but there is a limit to the cash withdrawal of Hong Kong banks in one day, 2 billion is estimated to take three days to withdraw all of it, and you can't wait for me for three days." ”
Then Li Ka-shing reduced the ransom to one billion, and finally in order to show his sincerity, Li Ka-shing also gave Zhang Ziqiang 40 million Hong Kong dollars in cash as a deposit, hoping that he would not hurt Li Zeju.
As soon as Zhang Ziqiang heard this, he immediately agreed, but he thought that 40 million was too unlucky, he only needed 38 million, and the next day he came to get a billion, and then sent Li Zeju back.
Zhang Ziqiang tasted the sweetness of this kidnapping of Li Zeju, and it wasn't long before he began plotting the kidnapping of another rich man in Hong Kong, Guo Bingxiang, who was already the chairman of Hong Kong's largest real estate company at the time.
Zhang Ziqiang first sent someone to follow Guo Bingxiang for a period of time, and only after knowing his daily habits and work and rest time did he start to act.
He first rented a house where he could hide Guo Bingxiang, and then kidnapped Guo Bingxiang on his way from work like Li Zeju.
However, Guo Bingxiang is a hard bone, not only did he not show a trace of weakness in front of Zhang Ziqiang, but he also dared to threaten Zhang Ziqiang: "You quickly release me, otherwise I will make you look good." ”
Zhang Ziqiang ignored him and asked Zhang Ziqiang's family for money on the phone, and Guo Bingxiang's family asked to hear Guo Bingxiang's voice before he was willing to give money, but Guo Bingxiang refused to say anything very the phone.
And the Guo family also said that they couldn't hear Guo Bingxiang's voice, they wouldn't give money, so after two days of stalemate, Zhang Ziqiang was angry, he put Guo Bingxiang in a cage, because the cage is too small, Guo Bingxiang can only curl up inside, and eat and drink Lasa can only be inside, Zhang Ziqiang only gives him green vegetables every day.
Finally, Guo Bingxiang could not bear such torture and compromised.
So, Zhang Ziqiang got another 600 million Hong Kong dollars from the Guo family.
After the news spread that the two rich people were kidnapped, the Hong Kong rich were so frightened that they replaced their cars with bulletproof cars and hired many personal bodyguards.
Despite this, the rich people are still very afraid of the name Zhang Ziqiang, and they all hope that he can disappear into this world from now on.
Zhang Ziqiang got a lot of money from these two kidnappings, but he was not satisfied and continued to do more frightening things.
Second, the growth path of emerging defects
Zhang Ziqiang was born into a poor peasant family in Yulin, Guangxi.
In order to change the family's financial situation, Zhang Ziqiang's father smuggled the family to Hong Kong, because he had heard that he could make a lot of money as long as he arrived in Hong Kong.
However, when the family arrived in Hong Kong, they found that Hong Kong's money was not easy to earn, especially for outsiders like them, so they could only open an herbal tea shop in Yau Ma Tei, where the poor lived, and make a living from it.
After Zhang Ziqiang reached school age, his father took out all his savings to make a name for him in a nearby elementary school, although his father was not literate, but he understood that knowledge can change fate, so he put this hope on his son Zhang Ziqiang.
However, Zhang Ziqiang does not like to read, speaks in class, does not write homework, and is the first from the bottom in every exam. I didn't even finish primary school and dropped out.
12-year-old Zhang Ziqiang spends all day with a group of children who don't like to read, stealing things and extorting money together, because such money comes too easily, and Zhang Ziqiang always spends lavishly.
One day, a person who was deceived by Zhang Ziqiang came to the door, Zhang Ziqiang's father found out, very angry, and punched and kicked his son again, the mother saw her husband beat her son again, so she rushed forward to protect the short, as a result, the original father beat his son, became a husband and wife fight.
Every time he broke into trouble and someone came to look for trouble, his mother would protect him behind him, which made Zhang Ziqiang more and more fearless.
At the age of 16, Zhang Ziqiang was caught red-handed for theft and put in prison, and after being released, his father thought that he would change because of this, so he did not scold him again, but introduced him to work in a tailor shop.
It was then that he met the first woman in his life, and it was this woman who changed his fate completely.
Third, the two women in his life who led him astray
Zhang Ziqiang met a gentle and beautiful girl A Ru when he was in the tailor shop, and the two were at the age when their love began and fell in love with each other at first sight.
But Aru's father is a rich man, and her mother is a second grandmother who is raised.
When the rich man knew that his daughter was actually in love with a poor boy, he was very angry, he found Zhang Ziqiang and said to him contemptuously: "My family A Ru is so beautiful, in the future, he will marry a rich son, you look at you, a poor boy living in Yau Ma Tei, where is worthy of my daughter, if you dare to pester my daughter again, I will make you look good." ”
The words of the rich man hit Zhang Ziqiang's self-esteem greatly, that is, after this incident, he made up his mind that he must become a rich man and trample these so-called rich people under his feet.
He used the 50,000 yuan earned by the tailor's shop as a cost to "speculate on buildings" and earned several million.
But he felt that the speed of making money was too slow, and he happened to meet a character on the underworld, Hu Jishu, and from that time on, he embarked on the underworld.
The speed of getting money through improper means is very fast, which also makes his desire more and more inflated.
It was then that he met the second woman in his life, this woman, and made him go faster and faster on the way to becoming a demon.
The woman's name is Luo Yanfang, and the two met on the plane.
In later interactions, Luo Yanfang knew that Zhang Ziqiang had committed a lot of things, but she still cared about Zhang Ziqiang.
At that time, Luo Yanfang was working in Rolex Company, and when Zhang Ziqiang knew that Rolex Company was going to transport a batch of gold watches worth 35 million Hong Kong dollars to the company's headquarters, he started to rob him.
He asked Luo Yanfang to use the identity of an internal employee to find out the time and route of the car, and with the help of Luo Yanfang, Zhang Ziqiang and his accomplices successfully robbed the gold watch worth 35 million.
Although the police later found Luo Yanfang's body, Luo Yanfang was a person with a high education and a very high IQ, and the police finally found nothing.
And this incident also made Luo Yanfang's desire for money greater, Zhang Ziqiang was inseparable from Luo Yanfang's planning in every subsequent robbery, and two people with the same smell soon became husband and wife.
In 1991, Zhang Ziqiang planned a second robbery, this time targeting a money truck.
Luo Yanfang first mixed into the security company and got the route of the money truck.
Zhang Ziqiang and his accomplices once again succeeded in snatching 170 million yuan from the money truck, because a money carrier saw Zhang Ziqiang's appearance, and Zhang Ziqiang was quickly arrested.
In court, Zhang Ziqiang was sentenced to 18 years in prison, but Luo Yanfang was released on the spot because of insufficient evidence.
Then, Luo Yanfang began a series of riotous operations, she first shouted wrongs everywhere, lying that "Zhang Ziqiang is just a scapegoat found by the police."
Then, he invited a gold-medal lawyer to fight a lawsuit for Zhang Ziqiang.
In the end, under Luo Yanfang's treachery, coupled with the fact that the police never found the stolen money, Zhang Ziqiang was really acquitted and received eight million yuan in compensation.
Zhang Ziqiang was so proud that he walked outside the courtroom and proudly raised his hands high in a victory gesture.
It is precisely because of Luo Yanfang's cunning that Zhang Ziqiang is becoming more and more arrogant.
Fourth, embark on the road of death
At this time, Zhang Ziqiang was already addicted to robbery and fighting wits with the police, and not long after, he and his accomplice Ye Jihuan jointly planned the kidnapping of the rich man. That is, Li Ka-shing's eldest son and Guo Bingxiang.
Every time after getting money, Zhang Ziqiang's favorite thing to do is to come to Macau to gamble, he throws 100 million cash on the gambling table, every time he bets with people, he doesn't even bother to count, so he pushes the money out, because money comes easily, so even if he loses, he will not be heartbroken.
Even if he loses, he will go and grab it again.
Zhang Ziqiang set up a gang that regarded the Hong Kong police as air, ignored the law, often robbed shops on the street, and shot passing vehicles, and Zhang Ziqiang's presence has caused serious harm to the Hong Kong people.
When his accomplice was arrested, he threw petrol bombs at the prison and threatened the police to release him, and then he whimsically wanted to kidnap the chief of security.
As the saying goes, justice is belated.
In January 1998, Zhang Ziqiang came to Guangzhou to illegally buy 818 kilograms of explosives and more than 2,000 detonators, and he was preparing to cause a terrorist incident in a Hong Kong prison.
But Hong Kong had returned to the mainland in 1997, and his evil deeds had long been known by the domestic police.
All parts of Guangdong joined hands with the Hong Kong police to lay a wide net, and the explosives he bought were seized before they reached Hong Kong, and he himself was also caught.
At first, he argued that he did not understand mainland law.
Later, his wife Luo Yanfang tried to find connections to rescue her husband like last time, but in the end she failed.
On November 17, 1998, Zhang Ziqiang was sentenced to death and all his property was confiscated, and on December 6 of the same year, Zhang Ziqiang collapsed in the sound of gunfire, and he could never do evil.
Fifth, the 80-year-old lady said four words
His wife, Luo Yanfang, eventually emigrated abroad with some of Zhang's evil fortune and two sons.
Now the two sons are just ordinary office workers.
After Zhang Ziqiang was shot, when his mother was asked in front of the media why her son became like this, she replied with four words: "Gambling is like life."
The old lady thinks that her son will go down the road of crime because of good gambling, but is this really the case?
In fact, it is not so much that gambling turned Zhang Ziqiang into the bandit of the century, but that he himself harmed himself.
Zhang Ziqiang himself has a potential criminal mind and defects, coupled with his father who has only used violence to educate since he was a child, Zhang Ziqiang has no intention of remorse, and does not feel that he is at fault;
And his mother's side will only spoil him blindly and make him feel that everything he is doing is right.
His wife Luo Fangyan's maintenance of him also made him more and more proud, and finally went to the road of death.