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In 1949, the Kuomintang banknote plane crashed in the sky over Xiangxi, and the villagers grabbed 100,000 silver dollars, but they got angry.
On the afternoon of May 24 of this year, a Kuomintang plane carrying 100,000 silver dollars crashed in Weixin Township, Fenghuang County, Hunan. A large amount of money was scattered among the people, and it was looted by nearby villagers, resulting in the destruction of villagers' homes.
Why did looting silver dollars lead to such terrible consequences, and did the large amount of money that was scattered really end up in the pockets of the villagers?
When the roar of the huge engine of the plane sounded at low altitude, the villagers of Fenghuang Restoration Township in Hunan Province looked up at the sky, looked at the thick black smoke, smelled the peculiar smell in the air, and had a trace of bad speculation in their hearts.
The plane flew so low that it wouldn't suddenly fall. Just thinking about this scene makes the villagers feel creepy.
The more fearful he was, the more he came, and it didn't take long for the plane to crash to the ground, making a deafening sound.
This day is May 24, 1949, and many villagers remember it vividly because it was the day they made a fortune.
Chinese seem to be interested in watching the excitement from ancient times to the present. After the plane crashed, they immediately left what they were doing and ran towards the location where the loud noise came from, wanting to see for themselves what the scene of the accident was like.
Some villagers have been trapped in this poor countryside all their lives, living a life facing the loess with their backs to the sky. Not to mention airplanes, in their lives, the opportunity to see cars and trains is very rare.
The crowd quickly gathered around the crash site, and in addition to the black metal wreckage and bloody severed arms, the most eye-catching thing should have been the shiny white silver dollar.
A large pile of silver dollars was scattered around, and not far away there were several wooden boxes with the words Central Bank engraved on them. It seems that this crashed plane should be a special plane of the Nationalist Government to transport gold and silver treasures.
People guessed correctly, the things on board the plane were indeed a large number of silver dollars that Chiang Kai-shek had specially taken out from the central bank.
For the Kuomintang, these things are of great use in reviving the dead.
By 1949, the Kuomintang reactionaries had been defeated, and Chiang Kai-shek's regular army had lost the ability to fight the PLA troops.
There are only two paths in front of him, one is to resist stubbornly and burn out the forces under his hands. The second is to bow his head and admit defeat, watching the People's Liberation Army defeat the country and watching the Communist Party take power.
Lao Chiang knew very well that in order to continue to fight with the Communists, expanding the number of troops was the key. In addition to catching strong men everywhere, the objects he can think of that can be wooed are the bandit forces who roam the mountains and forests everywhere and oppose the PLA.
The bandits are a group of outlaws who see money and have no justice, no feelings, and no loyalty. As long as you give enough money, you can buy people, even lives.
The most crucial step in wooing the bandits is to satisfy their ambitions. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek specially sent three officers and soldiers and an escort from the Finance Department to escort 100,000 silver dollars and deliver them completely to the bandits in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, and Guizhou.
Chiang Kai-shek overestimated his own abilities and underestimated the degree of human nature.
Looking at the wealth that was enough for him to spend his whole life, the three officers and soldiers who escorted the silver dollar had evil thoughts. They wanted to keep the money for themselves, get out of the control of the Kuomintang, and flee to a place where no one cared about it, and live their own small life.
Following Chiang Kai-shek to lick the blood on the tip of the knife was a last resort, and it was definitely not their original intention.
When the special plane carrying money flew to the border of Xiangxi, which is vast and sparsely populated, the three officers and men looked at each other and nodded. He drew his weapon and opened fire on the transport officer of the Finance Department.
They did not calculate that the spark from which the bullet hit would ignite the engine, let alone that a fire in the cabin would cause the plane to explode.
The greed of the three ended up killing everyone on the plane. Chiang Kai-shek's plan came to naught, and 100,000 silver dollars were scattered among the people, which were seen by the villagers of Weixin Township.
Everyone is a low-level peasant who is fed up with the poor life, and when they see so many white silver dollars, there is no reason not to rob them.
So what kind of changes will this pile of silver dollars fall from the sky bring to the lives of the villagers?
In 1949, the Kuomintang banknote plane crashed in Xiangxi, and the villagers rushed to grab the silver dollar, but the family was ruined and killed.
Did the villagers who grabbed a large number of silver dollars really live a prosperous life from now on?
The mass strata of the old society were relatively fixed, and the peasants in the poor areas, counting up to three generations, I am afraid that the family has never seen so much white silver.
Their eyes gleamed with longing, and their faces lying in the dust and their hideous corpses could not make them fear in their excitement.
Everyone rushed into the rubble, crouched down, pulled their clothes out of a wrapped shape, and desperately picked up the silver dollars that had fallen on the ground and stuffed them into their arms.
Others immediately took off their trousers, tied up their trousers, made pockets, and put silver dollars in their pockets.
Many people are very greedy, they don't know how to stop at all, and they don't want to leave until they can't hold it.
Xingde Township, next to Weixin Township, also heard about what happened here. How could they be left behind in such a thing as picking up money, and immediately put on their backs and rushed to the accident site to rob them.
It only took half a day for all the silver dollars scattered on the ground to be "looted". Of course, these are certainly not all there is to the plane. Everyone believes that there must be more wealth buried under the soil.
Those silver dollars that have sunk into the ground cannot be dug up empty-handed, but can only be dug up with tools. The villagers who were excited about grabbing money could only go home, ready to talk about it tomorrow.
But the next day, such a good thing as digging up money will not be their turn.
Wu Youfeng, the head of Xingde Township, and Ou Wenwen, the armed leader of Weixin Township, also set their sights on the silver dollar underground.
Both of them are regarded as the head snakes of the two townships, and the faces of the people do not change their colors. Seeing them, everyone can only consciously retreat, even if they are worried in their hearts, they dare not compete with them.
Ou Wenwen is worthy of being the leader of the armed forces, in order to grab money, he made sufficient preparations, he brought a large number of people, each of whom held a gun on his mobile phone, showing a fierce expression, and had a life-and-death posture with his opponent.
In comparison, Wu Youfeng is much inferior. Whether it is the person who brought it or the guns in people's hands, the number on his side is smaller than that of Ou Wen. If the two sides really fight, he will not have any chance of winning, and he can only make wedding dresses for others for nothing.
As the so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, he can only leave with a dash of popularity, with great resentment in his heart.
After going back, the more Wu Youfeng thought about it, the more unwilling he became, even if he couldn't get a penny himself, he couldn't let his rival swallow all the silver dollars alone.
Since you won't let me get a piece of the pie, then everyone will be ruined, and no one will want to take advantage.
With such an idea, Wu Youfeng found the Fenghuang County Anti-Suppression Committee and made a complete report on the plane crash, focusing on Ou Wenwen's greed, but omitting that he also had such a greedy move.
Of course, the committee could not let the wealth of the Nationalist Government fall to the people, so it immediately dispatched a city defense brigade with professional tools to the scene, and in five or six days, dug up about 10,000 silver dollars around the plane crash site.
And Ou Wenwen was not able to stay out of the matter. The city defense brigade surrounded him and forced him to hand over all the silver dollars he had dug up immediately. He almost gritted his teeth, desperately held back his anger, and reluctantly handed over the money.
A small local armed force is not capable of contending with the entire city defense brigade. People are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.
The competition between Ou Wenwen and Wu Youfeng was actually a lose-lose situation in the end.
If Ou Wenwen can take a step back and give the other party a chance, Wu Youfeng will not stab the matter to Phoenix County. The result of excessive greed can only harm others and oneself, and no one can reap the slightest benefit.
Since Fenghuang County knows the news, Hunan Province will inevitably not be able to hide it. Soon, Hunan Provincial Chairman Cheng Qian issued an urgent order, demanding that the officers and cadres of the Hunan-Hubei border region seriously investigate the matter, block the scene as soon as possible, and avoid further outflow of property.
Of course, more importantly, they had to get all the money back from the people who robbed the silver dollars.
The wealth of the reactionaries was originally obtained by plundering the fat and ointment of the people. What is taken from the people, the Kuomintang refuses to use it for the people. We can't let the people at the bottom take advantage of it, this is their purpose.
The city defense brigade immediately moved and made great noise. The villagers, who had grabbed a lot of money on the first day of the plane accident, were now wrapped in great fear.
What awaits them?
In 1949, the villagers of Xiangxi saw the crash of the Kuomintang banknote transport plane and robbed the silver dollar, but their families were finally ruined.
Some of the villagers were well-informed, and they had already heard the news that they were about to search the villagers' homes before the city defense brigade was operational. These people packed their belongings in advance, dragged their families with them, and left the place where they had taken root for generations, and fled to unknown distant places.
For the sake of money, they gave up their stable life and wandered around in troubled times, where accidents could occur at any time and lose their lives.
In addition, there are a large number of people, they don't have time to deal with it early, and when the city defense brigade comes to the door, they have no choice but to be honest and obedient and hand over all their things.
These villagers may be greedy in the face of huge economic temptations, but in essence, they are just honest villagers, and they have never seen much of the world in their lives.
Seeing the fierce and vicious appearance of the city defense brigade, they didn't dare to hide anything at all, let alone hide the silver dollars privately. What every household hands over is basically all they pick up.
Because of the exodus, and because there must still be undiscovered silver dollars buried deep in the land, the amount handed over by the villagers does not correspond to the accounts of the Finance Department.
The city defense brigade could not make a difference to its superiors, but could only force the administrative units at the lower levels to muster a sufficient amount of silver dollars within the specified time.
The government could not resist the orders of the superiors, so it could only vent all its anger on the common people. In the end, the people at the bottom have become the biggest victims.
They received a notice that anyone who had been to the scene of the plane crash must hand over 80 silver dollars per household, not a single one. If you can't hand it over, then wait for the torture to be served.
Whether you want money or death, it is up to the villagers to choose.
The government's notice is completely difficult for the strongholders, because the villagers will be forcibly recognized by them as having been to the scene regardless of whether they have been to the scene or not. Regardless of whether or not 80 silver dollars are found, it will be considered as having been picked up enough.
It's not a joke that officials crush people to death. The powerless and powerless people have no choice but to empty all their family savings. If it is not enough, then sell the land, sell the property, and exhaust the life's work to scrape together 80 silver dollars.
Some people who had not been to the crash site thought that the order was very unfair and bravely expressed their thoughts. But what awaits them is not a fair investigation by the government, but the torture that makes people unable to survive and die.
Torture is actually an example of killing. Those who still want to use their brains and hide a part of the silver dollar privately, seeing such a situation, do not dare to be presumptuous anymore.
There are also some people who don't even have the property to sell, and they can only flee outside Xiangxi like the first batch of people who fled for their lives, taking advantage of the inattention of the city defense brigade.
Some were lucky enough not to be discovered by the reactionaries and were able to escape. But there are also people who were captured in the process of escaping and died on the eve of liberation.
In the face of the government's iron-blooded methods, the common people have no room for resistance.
Their families were ruined, they fled in all directions, and their greed paid the price. And those innocent people were also involved and became the biggest victims of this incident.
After more than 10 days of violent collection, the Anti-Suppression Committee recovered a total of more than 70,000 silver dollars. Bai Huahua's wealth was in front of them, and they were also blinded, and they were reluctant to hand it over to Hunan again.
Therefore, whenever Cheng Qian asked about the matter, the statement given by the anti-suppression committee was always: "The search is still ongoing, and the silver dollars have not yet been collected, please wait for a while." ”
waited and waited, and waited for the day when the People's Liberation Army attacked Hunan and Xiangxi was liberated. The remnants of the reactionaries fled for their lives like lost dogs, and the leaders of the anti-suppression committee, such as Yu Zikun, the captain of the city defense brigade, and others, flew away with silver dollars.
They are the worst intermediaries, concealing information from their superiors and maliciously oppressing the people from below. In the end, all the money went into their own pockets.
Greed is an integral part of human nature, the deepest desire of the human heart. Sometimes it can make a glorious life, and sometimes it can drag people into the muddy abyss.
Reason is a good thing, it can remind people to control their desires, control greed, and what is lost because of small things, and they are eaten by human nature because of small things.
A group like Yu Zikun, who knows that greed harms others, but still doesn't know how to restrain himself, will definitely pay the price in the end.
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