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For Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, many people may not know, in fact, they were two notorious corrupt officials in the early days of New China, in order to warn them, Chairman Mao did not be soft-hearted, and directly sentenced the two to death after combining the situation of corruption and bribery.
However, many years after Liu Qingshan's death, his three sons suddenly stood up and found Li Kecai, the person in charge of the case at the time, and asked for their father to overturn the case.
What is going on? Why did the three children make such a request? How was Liu Qingshan's crime revealed?
Please rehabilitate my father
In fact, Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan were not corrupt officials from the beginning, on the contrary, in the revolutionary years, both of them made major contributions to the revolutionary cause, and they were also outstanding meritorious people.
It's just that later the desire for profit pulled the two into the abyss, and Chairman Mao will never show mercy to this kind of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, he knows the harm of corrupt officials and corrupt officials to the country, so he personally ordered the two to be shot.
Among them, Liu Qingshan's evil deeds are more significant, and after he was shot, his family fell into the whirlpool of public opinion, especially his three sons, because of their father's evil deeds, discrimination and exclusion seem to have become commonplace for them.
Living in such an environment for a long time, they naturally suffered a lot of psychological trauma, and for a long time, his three sons were very reluctant to go to school, and even just wanted to lock themselves up at home.
The Central Committee remembered that Liu Qingshan had made great contributions to the revolution, so after he was executed, they gave special care to his three sons and gave them a subsidy of dozens of yuan every month.
Not only that, but even Li Kecai, who was in charge of the case back then, saw that the three children were really pitiful, and he couldn't bear it, and often gave the three children some extra help, such as sponsoring them to go to school, etc.
With the help, Liu Qingshan's three sons were able to grow up smoothly and have their own jobs.
But what Li Kecai didn't expect was that they actually took this opportunity to put forward the idea of overturning the case for their father, because only in this way can the three of them really raise their heads and no longer have to live an inferior life.
Li Kecai, who heard this, was both shocked and felt reasonable, after all, in the past few years, because of the influence of his father, the three brothers had not lived well.
But even so, Li Kecai resolutely refused their request, seriously saying that their father's matter had been ironcladly proven, and it was almost impossible to overturn the case.
After that, he patiently enlightened them and said that they should not care about other people's eyes, just live their own lives, and the three brothers were silent for a long time after hearing this, and then thanked Li Kecai and left, and never mentioned this matter again.
So how much of a sin did Liu Qingshan commit that would cause his three children to be treated so coldly? All of this has to start when he was secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee.
Liu Qingshan's corrupt life
During the Liberation War, Liu Qingshan was a famous hero, and he was highly admired because of his repeated miraculous achievements.
In 1949, he was transferred to Tianjin and served as the secretary of the municipal party committee.
At that time, Tianjin had just been liberated, and the economic situation was very grim, so economic development became Liu Qingshan's top priority after taking office, so during that time, Liu Qingshan had a lot of dealings with local businessmen.
Those businessmen naturally won't let go of this good opportunity to make sycophants, they often use business as an excuse to give Liu Qingshan money and gifts, Liu Qingshan can't resist these temptations at all, and it didn't take long for him to become corrupt and fall deeper and deeper.
For the so-called enjoyment, Liu Qingshan built a mansion for himself in that era when many people were starving, and spent 300 million old coins to buy two high-end cars from Hong Kong, but Liu Qingshan regarded these as "compensation" for his hard work.
Later, Liu Qingshan became even more "crazy", he reached out to the bank, made small moves behind the scenes, and embezzled all the relief funds donated to the disaster area, and finally even got "poison".
And Zhang Zishan is not a good stubble, although he has been imprisoned several times, but this did not dispel his idea of corruption, under the temptation of money, he and Liu Qingshan joined forces to make a mess of Tianjin's economy
The appearance of Li Kecai
In fact, what the two of them did at that time was not unknown to anyone, but because of the power, no one dared to stand up and say anything, until the appearance of Li Kecai completely changed the status quo.
Li Kecai was born in a rural family in Hebei Province, and then joined the army and joined the Communist Party of China.
After that, Li Kecai was transferred to Tianjin and worked with Liu Qingshan, Zhang Zishan and others.
During this time, he was in charge of logistics and finances in various places, and although he had a large amount of money and materials in his hands, he never had a crooked mind and would never tolerate corruption from anyone.
At first, Li Kecai, who had just arrived in Tianjin, admired Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, two legendary heroes, but as time passed, Li Kecai gradually realized that the true appearance of these two legendary characters was not what he imagined.
After a period of observation, Li Kecai discovered the embezzlement of the two, and when he first knew about it, Li Kecai's mood was very complicated, he couldn't believe that this legendary hero would do such a thing.
So he found Liu Qingshan to talk to, trying to persuade Liu Qingshan and let him take the initiative to admit his mistake to the central government, but what he didn't expect was that Zhang Zishan had reached the point of going mad.
Seeing that his behavior could no longer be hidden, he simply said directly: "What does it matter to you what I do? I advise you not to meddle in your affairs!"
After hearing this, Li Kecai was shocked and angry, and he was kind enough to persuade him to turn back, but he was met with a sneer.
And what disappointed Li Kecai even more was that instead of reining in, these two people intensified and moved the money from the treasury to their own accounts.
At the same time, the two also became wary of Li Kecai, in order to better protect themselves, they chose to pull Li Kecai into the water together, so when Li Kecai's wife was hospitalized, they directly took out two million and secretly put it on the table.
Li Ke was very angry when he learned about this incident, and immediately found Liu Qingshan, returned the money to him, and reported the matter to his superiors.
After Liu Qingshan learned of this, he felt that Li Kecai had become a bomb that could be detonated at any time, so he did everything possible to stumble him, trying to force Li Kecai away from Tianjin.
This also made Li Kecai completely disappointed in the two, he understood that he must not be soft on such corrupt elements, so Li Kecai finally stopped hesitating and directly sent the behavior of the two at the party congress.
Chairman Mao was very angry when he learned about this, he was very disappointed in the corruption of the two, and after careful consideration, in order to warn them, Chairman Mao immediately decided and sentenced the two of them to be shot.
epilogue
The story of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan also reminded everyone that in their work, they must resolutely guard their bottom line and serve the people wholeheartedly, otherwise they will fall into an endless abyss.
At the same time, Li Kecai also set a good example for us, in the face of corruption, he was not afraid of power and had the courage to expose it, and made positive contributions to the development of the country and society.
Resources
Through the reverberations of more than 60 years of anti-corruption, we will explore the big cases of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan-Hebei Daily
Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan Case-National History Network
New China's "First Anti-Corruption Knife" - Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan Corruption Case-Communist Party of China News Network
Footprints of the Republic - 1952: "The First Case of Anti-Corruption in the Republic" - Xinhua News Agency