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When the word "hooligans" is mentioned, most people's impressions are "breaking the law and discipline", "bullying the people", "doing many evil things", "domineering", and so on.
However, there is such a "gangster boss" in Taiwan Province.
His appearance is not noticeable, his temperament is elegant and easygoing, he has white hair, and he always has a faint smile on his face.
Those who don't know may think he's a professor on a college campus.
Zhang Anle
And he is indeed a highly educated student, which also makes him an "outlier" in the underworld.
Although he is a "gangster", he has devoted his life to the development path of peaceful reunification of the Taiwan Strait.
A "party" was even created specifically for this purpose to contribute to the great cause of national reunification.
He is the elder of the Taiwan Bamboo Union Gang, nicknamed "White Wolf" Zhang Anle.
Zhang Anle
A gifted student of Shuxiangmendi
On June 29, 2013, Songshan Airport in Taiwan Province, China, was extremely busy.
Looking around, I saw a large group of people, all wearing black suits, standing quietly in the waiting area outside the airport, waiting for someone to arrive.
That is Zhang Anle, who has been wanted by the Taiwan provincial authorities for 17 years.
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Surrounded by hundreds of Taipei City police officers on standby and reporters from dozens of news outlets, they nervously watched everything around them.
These police officers are armed with live ammunition in case of accidents at the scene.
Soon after, a passenger plane from Shanghai landed slowly.
The hatch opened, and an old man wearing a Zhongshan suit, gold wire glasses, and a smile on his face, who looked to be in his sixties, slowly walked out.
This old man is Zhang Anle.
Zhang Anle appeared at Songshan Airport
Seeing the appearance of this person, the people waiting at the scene immediately began to pour.
Reporters stepped forward and interviewed Zhang Anle with cameras and microphones.
While controlling the crowd around him, the local police stepped forward to handcuff Zhang Anle and then took him to a police car that had also been waiting for a long time.
Facing the reporter's interview, Zhang Anle said with a smile: "No matter how long I am detained, I will always come out, and I will continue to do my political public welfare work at that time." ”
With the surrounding noise and piercing sirens, the police car slowly drove away from the crowd and then disappeared from people's sight...
Zhang Anle
Why does Zhang Anle have such influence? It starts with his life experience.
In 1948, when the Kuomintang was completely defeated on the mainland, Zhang Anle was born into a scholarly family in Nanjing. His father was a grassroots Kuomintang officer, and his mother was a high school teacher.
After the outbreak of the Battle of Crossing the River, Zhang Anle, who was less than a year old, fled with his parents to Taiwan Province and has lived on this treasure island ever since.
Since both parents are intellectuals, they attach great importance to the education of their children.
Under the guidance of his parents, Zhang Anle also became a good student, and his academic performance was excellent when he was a child.
(First from right) Zhang Anle
His grades have always been at the top of his class, and he was successfully admitted to a key high school and became a gifted student.
In high school, one of Zhang's favorite subjects was history.
Listening to the teacher's talk about China's 5,000-year-old civilization in class, Zhang Anle was mesmerized, as if he was in the prosperous era of the Han and Tang dynasties.
This also made him bury the national feelings of loving the motherland and lacking the motherland in his heart since he was a child.
Zhang Anle
I thought that when I grew up, I would go to university with honors and become a history teacher and teach patriotism to the professor's students.
The uncertainty of fate always catches people off guard.
In his third year of high school, an unexpected contact made this excellent student form an indissoluble bond with the "thug".
Zhang Anle
Accidentally embarked on the road of gangsters
Like most good students, Zhang Anle usually only likes to read, and his personality is calm, quiet, and even a little introverted.
Because of this, he is sometimes bullied.
Once, Zhang Anle was robbed by a group of older children on his way home from school.
The money in his pocket was his living expenses for a week, but Zhang Anle refused to give them, so he was pushed to the ground by a group of people and severely beaten.
Zhang Anle
At that time, 3 or 4 social youths who were eating nearby saw this scene, and several people immediately rushed over to stop it.
The bad boys wanted to fight these social youths, but one of the leaders recognized the identities of several people and was so frightened that he quickly fled with the others.
Later, Zhang Anle learned that these young people were members of the Bamboo Union Gang.
Teenagers always worship the "strong", and Zhang Anle is no exception.
In the following period, Zhang Anle often went to play with these "big guys".
Zhang Anle
The members of the Bamboo Union Gang saw that Zhang Anle was smart and sensible, and was happy to play with him.
In this way, Zhang Anle has a "supporter" behind him.
Since then, no one has dared to harass him again.
In 1964, after 16-year-old Zhang Anle was admitted to high school, he officially joined the Bamboo Union Gang and became a gang member of the underworld.
Due to the popular seniority at the time, Zhang Anle was nicknamed "White Wolf" because of his "seniority" in the gang.
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This nickname stayed with him for decades. After joining the Bamboo United Gang, Zhang Anle's personality seems to be different. Due to the influence of those around him, he became brave and aggressive. He often followed gang members to fight for territory and gang fights.
I don't know if I was repressed at school for too long as a child. After being released into the underworld, Zhang Anle, who has always been calm and elegant, became very fierce in the fight.
Once, while they were fighting for a piece of land in eastern Taipei, he was stopped by patrol police. The red-eyed Zhang Anle actually launched a fierce attack on the military and police who came to stop it.
As a result, the military and police were seriously injured, and Zhang Anle was arrested and detained for a full year.
Zhang Anle
Seeing that his originally cultured and hardworking son has now become a rogue, Zhang Anle's parents can't accept it.
They immediately went through the formalities for the transfer of their son and ordered Zhang Anle not to have any more dealings with the Bamboo Union Gang.
So, more than two years later, Zhang Anle returned to school and temporarily said goodbye to the gangster road.
Although he has been in the underworld for almost two years, the clever Zhang Anle still maintains good grades in cultural classes.
Zhang Anle
Two years later, with his excellent performance in the provincial unified examination, he was successfully admitted to Tamkang College of Arts and Sciences (Tamkang University), where he studied his favorite history subject.
Stepping into the university campus, looking back on the past is like a dream.
Zhang Anle also plans to continue his studies and leave the underworld as planned.
But the appearance of a person broke his mind again.
Zhang Anle
Become friends with "Duck Boss" and become a veteran of the Bamboo United Gang
It is said that people cannot save themselves in the world. Even after entering the university, Zhang Anle was not able to completely break away from the Bamboo Union Gang.
At that time, many of the students in Taiwanese schools had gangster backgrounds.
When he clashes with his classmates, Zhang still contacts former gang members to help him ease his anger.
In the process of taking the lead in resolving the dispute, Zhang Anle met another important figure of the Bamboo United Gang, Chen Qili, nicknamed "Duck Boss".
Zhang Anle and Chen Qili
Like Zhang Anle, Chen Qili is also a resourceful member of the Bamboo United Gang. The two hit it off and became good friends.
In 1970, the Chen Ren incident caused an uproar.
Chen Qili and his brothers, believed to be behind the scenes, were also arrested and imprisoned in 1972.
Since the organization was leaderless, many older brothers suggested to Zhang Anle to reorganize the Bamboo United Gang.
Chen Qili was captured by the police
Zhang Anle is calm, resourceful, easy-going and loyal. Very popular with the Bamboo United Gang.
Under his leadership, the Bamboo Union Gang gradually recovered from the chaotic infighting, preventing other gangs from taking advantage of the situation to occupy their territory. Since then, Zhang Anle has become a respected veteran figure in the Bamboo Union Gang.
Zhang Anle attended Chen Qili's funeral
He studied in the United States and cared about the mainland
In 1975, Zhang Anle and a friend went to the United States to open a restaurant.
He later studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Stanford University, where he has lived ever since.
The affairs of the Bamboo Union Gang were also handled by Zhang Anle's good brother Chen Qili.
Despite being in the depths of the United States, Zhang Anle has always been close to his motherland. Especially in his youth, his desire for the Motherland did not diminish in the slightest.
During his time abroad, he always used the concept of the reunification of the motherland.
Zhang Anle supported the reunification of the motherland
Moreover, at that time, many international students in the United States returned to China to participate in construction activities, and Zhang Anle always regarded this as an opportunity to return to China.
However, just as Zhang Anle was preparing everything, another very important thing happened.
What shocked the United States was the "Jiangnan incident."
In order to save Chen Qili, a good brother who was used by Zhang in this case, Zhang Anle acted as a key witness in the case.
As a result, he was forcibly detained by the United States.
This stay lasted another decade.
Victim of the "Jiangnan Incident": writer Liu Yiliang
In 1996, after ten years of detention by the United States and one year by the Taiwan provincial authorities, Zhang Anle was finally able to return to the mainland of his motherland.
When he was looking forward to buying a ticket to fly across the Taiwan Strait and set foot on the mainland of the motherland, Zhang Anle burst into tears.
At this moment, he not only fulfilled his wish for more than ten years, but also fulfilled their decades-old wish on behalf of his parents.
After experiencing the rapid development of Chinese mainland reform and opening up in Guangdong, Shanghai and other regions, Zhang Anle immediately decided to contribute to the economic prosperity of the motherland with his own strength.
Zhang Anle
He used his savings to start the Arbitrage Group.
It has a number of factories in Shenzhen, Jiangmen, Dongguan and Nanchang, Jiangxi, covering sports equipment and electronics industries.
Later, he took the lead in founding the "China Grand Alliance Party".
It also became the first province in Taiwan to "advocate reunification."
Zhang Anle
On May 9, 2004, Zhang Anle led about 20 Taiwan patriots to the 72nd Martyrs' Cemetery in Huanghuagang, Guangzhou, to pay tribute to the martyrs and vowed to form an alliance to defend China's Taiwan.
It aims to encourage Taiwan's patriots to unite and emulate the spirit of martyrdom and jointly resist the increasingly widespread "separatist" forces on the island.
On October 25, 2005, Zhang Anle announced that the 113th political party in Taiwan Province, the Taiwan Province Grand Alliance for Defending China, was officially renamed the "China Reunification Promotion Party". He also reiterated the mission of the "China Reunification Promotion Party," which is to promote "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems" in Taiwan Province and promote the return of Taiwan Province to the motherland as soon as possible.
Zhang Anle
Over the past two decades, Chang has been fighting Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in order to defend this ideal.
He openly criticized some DPP politicians.
Under his influence, Taiwan Province gave birth to many patriots who yearned for reunification.
This has played an important role in further strengthening cross-strait relations.
Although he is a "dazzling middleman", he has a big heart.
Zhang Anle's legendary life can be admired.