In the winter of 1984, an old lady wearing a headscarf came to the Beijing Municipal Government in the cold wind, and the north wind ruffled her gray hair.
"Auntie, is there something you are here for?", the receptionist asked
"I'm here to donate. ”
"How much do you want to donate, and to whom?"
"2.4 billion. ”
"Huh, how much?" the receptionist looked up in surprise, thinking he had misheard.
"2.4 billion, I want to donate to the country. ”
The reception staff couldn't help but look the old man up and down, dry, thin, wearing half-worn clothes, and he really didn't look like he had a huge amount of money.
"I am atoning for my husband's sins," the old lady bowed her head.
The receptionist looked at the unattractive old lady in front of him,
Where did her money come from, and what was her husband doing to make her pay such a big price to atone for her sins?
From Geng Weifu to Zhao Biyan
The old man in front of her is named Zhao Biyan, and she is a sanitation worker in Beijing.
In the eyes of her neighbors, she is just an ordinary person, her son is blind in one eye, she works tirelessly every day, and she works tirelessly to support the lives of a dozen or so people in the family;
How is it possible for a sanitation worker to have a huge fortune of up to 2.4 billion?
After all, it was in the 80s, and the average salary per person was less than 100 yuan.
As everyone knows, her true identity is actually very "different", she is Zhao Xinbo's wife.
Who is Zhao Xinbo?
Zhao Xinbo, a native of Wanping, Hebei, was originally a Janissary of the Qing government, and was arranged to study at the provincial Tianjin Beiyang University because of his outstanding performance during his work.
After the Xinhai Revolution, he worked as an actor in the Beijing Civilization New Troupe. Because of the new education, Zhao Xinbo also had a passion for serving the country, so he joined the Kuomintang.
During one of his performances, a former Qing official concubine named "Wang Biyan" broke into his life, although she was eight years older than Zhao Xinbo, but the two fell in love and soon became husband and wife.
After marriage, in order to support her husband, "Wang Biyan" did not hesitate to use all her savings for him to study in Japan, and accompanied him to Japan.
However, the good times did not last long, and in 1921, "Wang Biyan" finally died on the operating table due to dystocia.
Zhao Xinbo was sad, but put all his mind into studying.
However, I didn't expect that fate would arrange it like this, so that the two who had no contact would intersect.
At a party, a girl met her classmate's brother Zhao Xinbo, and she couldn't help but fall in love with him when she saw his dignified appearance and extraordinary instruments.
This girl is Geng Weifu.
At that time, Geng Weifu's family conditions were superior, and her father was in business and loved her very much.
And Geng Weifu himself is also slim, sunny and bright.
Geng Weifu in his youth
As a result, she launched a passionate and active pursuit of Zhao Xinbo.
Zhao Xinbo looked at this innocent, lively and lovely woman, and couldn't help but feel joy in his heart, but he put forward a special condition.
She was asked to change her name to that of her ex-wife.
Such a harsh request is unbearable for ordinary women, however, Geng Weifu, a highly educated intellectual woman, actually agreed.
She felt that this was Zhao Xinbo's deep affection, so she even did not hesitate to cut off the relationship with her parents and threw herself into the arms of this widowed man.
Geng Weifu has since changed his name to Wang Biyan.
After the two got married, Wang Biyan went to Japan with her husband.
After giving birth to her first son Zhao Zongyang, Geng Weifu followed her husband's surname Zhao like a Japanese woman and changed her name to Zhao Biyan.
Zhao Xinbo's family of three
In 1925, Zhao Xinbo became the first Chinese student to obtain a doctorate in law from Japan.
The future is bright.
The road of traitors who fight for the tiger
In 1926, Zhao Xinbo finished his studies.
At the instigation of Kenji Dohihara, Zhao Xinbo stepped into politics after returning to China.
On the recommendation of the Japanese minister to China, he became the legal adviser of Zhang Zuolin's security headquarters in the three eastern provinces.
Not only did he fail to contribute to the motherland, but he embarked on the road of serving as a tiger.
Zhang Zuolin and Zhao Xinbo (right)
In fact, as early as when he was studying in Japan, Zhao Xinbo already had a strong pro-Japanese ideology and got acquainted with the Japanese Young Zhuang faction officers.
In August 1926, in order to strengthen his own strength, Zhang Zuolin sent Zhao Xinbo to Japan as a representative, and negotiated a loan of 5 million yuan on the condition that the Japanese were allowed to buy and sell land in China.
Zhao Xinbo's move was strongly resisted by Chinese students.
After the outbreak of the Huanggutun Incident, Zhao Xinbo survived and returned to Fengtian to establish the Northeast Law Research Association with the support of Zhang Xueliang and served as its president.
The second from the left is Zhao Xinbo
During his tenure in the Northeast, Zhao Xinbo amassed a lot of money.
Protecting the interests of the Japanese everywhere, he became a notorious pro-Japanese faction in Mukden.
In 1931, after the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, Zhao Xinbo enthusiastically devoted himself to the preparation for the establishment of the puppet Manchukuo, and even the "national name" of "Manchukuo" came from his idea.
After the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Zhao Xinbo completely fell to the Japanese, served as the puppet mayor of Fengtian City, and served as the president of the puppet Legislative Yuan.
However, the internal struggle of the puppet Manchukuo was serious, and Zhao Xinbo was corrupt many times, so he completely resigned from his official position in 1937 and went to Japan with his family.
After arriving in Tokyo, Zhao Xinbo bought a large amount of land in Tokyo in the name of his wife Zhao Biyan and hid a large number of treasures.
After that, he entrusted Japanese lawyer Yanosuke Suzuki to manage the property on his behalf.
Later, Zhao Xinbo returned to Beijing with his family.
With the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhao Xinbo was arrested by the Nationalist Government on the charge of traitor after the surrender of Japan.
Although he escaped by luck when the People's Republic of China was founded, he was still investigated.
In 1951, 61-year-old Zhao Xinbo died of a sudden illness in the detention center.
Zhao Xinbo died suddenly, and Zhao Biyan was not informed of the contact information of the Japanese property trustee, and China and Japan were in a state of hostility at that time, Zhao Biyan lost contact with the Japanese property trustee.
Due to Zhao Xinbo's traitor status, in order to avoid attracting public attention as much as possible, his wife Zhao Biyan later changed back to her original surname Geng Biyan and moved with her son.
After that, Zhao Biyan kept silent about her husband and Japanese property.
In order to live, Zhao Biyan no longer has the dignity of a rich wife, and is still working as a sanitation worker to support her family at the age of 70.
Tokyo Huge Property Case
I thought that was the end of the day.
Unexpectedly, the property left by Zhao Xinbo in Japan back then, with the take-off of the Japanese economy, the value swelled sharply and jumped to astronomical amounts.
It is estimated that the value of this wealth is as high as 3 billion yuan.
At that time, the Japanese media also reported on this incident with "27 billion yuan floating in the universe".
This incident also attracted the attention of the Overseas Chinese Association in Tokyo, Japan, which involved the property of the Chinese, and they did not dare to take it lightly, and after investigation, this person named Zhao Biyan turned out to be the wife of the traitor Zhao Xinbo.
However, because the whereabouts of "Zhao Biyan" have been unknown for 20 years, the Japanese side wants to take it into public ownership.
As soon as the news came out, some fraudsters at home and abroad went out one after another, and everyone wanted to get wealth as Zhao Biyan and his family.
Because Zhao Xinbo's son Zhao Zongyang has been blind in his right eye since he was a child, in order to defraud property, some people even ruthlessly blinded his right eye, but in the end he was recognized.
At that time, the Japanese media reported on it
In 1976, with the unremitting efforts of the Tokyo Overseas Chinese Association, Zhao Biyan was finally found in Beijing.
At that time, she learned that her husband's property in Japan was being contested.
With the help of the Overseas Chinese Association in Tokyo, she began to file an inheritance lawsuit with a Japanese court, requesting confirmation of her and her son's legal inheritance rights.
It is a huge amount of property related to the people of the mainland, and the ownership of this wealth affects the hearts of countless people.
In order to ensure that this property can be properly handled, the government attaches great importance to it, and after careful consideration, it specially appoints a professional team of lawyers to go all out to help the Zhao family mother and son claim the inheritance.
However, things didn't all go smoothly.
The loss of some key materials has made it extremely difficult to recover the heritage.
Even Yanosuke Suzuki, the agent at the time, did not recognize the identity of the Zhao family's mother and son.
But after a long period of hard work, the entire chain of evidence was finally completed bit by bit.
In the final courtroom, Zhao Biyan came to Japan in person, where she even met 5 "Zhao Biyan" from different countries and regions.
During the trial of Hong Kong impostor Li Yue, Zhao Biyan appeared in court to testify
After 8 years of trial, Zhao Biyan finally ushered in good news when she was 84 years old.
On May 15, 1984, the Tokyo Court issued a judgment finding that Zhao Biyan's mother and son were the legal heirs to this huge inheritance.
The estate, which consisted of 30 boxes of gold and silver and more than 100 Tokyo land deeds, totaled 3 billion yuan, and was returned to the Zhao family and son in full.
The mother and son of the Zhao family became the richest people in China at that time.
Zhao Biyan, who got a huge inheritance, burst into tears, and she understood that the money was a debt owed by her husband to the people.
After much thought, she decided to atone for her husband's sins and donate the money to the state.
On May 16, 1985, Zhao Biyan, accompanied by her son, successfully completed the donation procedures: 80% of the 3 billion assets under her name, a total of 2.4 billion yuan, were donated to the "Chinese Culture and Education Foundation" to support the charity of the motherland.
Zhao Biyan who is signing
After doing all this, Zhao Biyan smiled calmly, I can finally straighten my waist and be a man again.
In her later years, Zhao Biyan lived a calm and low-key life.
Because of her great contribution to the country, she continued to enjoy special medical treatment from the state in her later years and passed away peacefully in 1989.