Feng Xiaogang's "No Thieves in the World" must be familiar to everyone, in this movie, the famous actor Ge You's "King of Thieves" Uncle Li and Andy Lau's big thief Wang Bo played many "fighting methods" on the train, which can be said to be amazing.
In the movie, Uncle Li's sentence "Uncle Li is very angry, and the consequences are very serious" has been passed down as a golden sentence to this day.
In fact, the "Uncle Li" in the movie is really a person, and this archetypal character is as good as Uncle Li in the movie, and even more arrogant.
In the 80s of the last century, he galloped through 17 provinces of China, and the theft gang with him as the "leader" once exceeded 150 people, and he was also the first person sentenced to death for theft since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
His name is Huang Tingli, and he is nicknamed "Huang Cripple" on the road.
A life that was changed by an accident
As the saying goes, "A happy life is the same, but the unfortunate have their own misfortunes".
In fact, in the first 20 years of his life, although Huang Tingli's family was poor and his life was very hard, he was also, like the vast majority of ordinary people at that time, did his duty, relying on selling labor and doing farm work in Heilongjiang to support himself, and his life was ordinary for many years.
But just when Huang Tingli thought that his life would pass like this, fate played a joke on him.
One day in 1976, Huang Tingli, as in previous years, boarded the train from Heilongjiang to his hometown in Shandong with the money earned from a year's hard work and some gifts, preparing to go home for the New Year.
At this time, the social economy was not developed, especially the railway transportation system was still quite backward, and the trains at that time were not only dirty and messy, but also the hardest hit areas of thieves and thieves from all walks of life.
Soon after Huang Tingli got on the car, he was shocked to find that the money he had put in his pocket to return to his hometown to be filial to his parents was gone, and he didn't have to think about it to know that he was remembered by a thief, and the anxious Huang Tingli didn't care about anything else, and ran back and forth in various carriages, trying to find the person who stole him.
Approaching the Chinese New Year, the train was extremely crowded, and it was very difficult to squeeze from one carriage to another, and even needed to open the window to pass, but Huang Tingli, who was anxious to lose money, couldn't take care of these, and the disaster came at this time.
Huang Tingli, who picked up the window, accidentally fell off the train, and it happened that one of his legs was directly involved in the bottom of the car, and with a heart-rending scream, Huang Tingli's leg was directly crushed by the train.
Suffering from this catastrophe, Huang Tingli's temperament changed greatly, and the once honest peasant became a resentful scoundrel.
In order to get "justice" for himself, he went to the Harbin Railway Station many times to make trouble, and the railway station was responsible for all his medical expenses and spent money to buy a prosthetic leg for him.
But Huang Tingli was not satisfied with this, because he was physically disabled and unable to work, he would go to the station every once in a while to make trouble.
Out of apology to Huang Tingli and for the sake of order at the station, Huang Tingli would get more or less monetary compensation every time he came to make trouble, which also made Huang Tingli taste the sweetness of unearned gains for the first time.
Moreover, because he often stops near the station, Huang Tingli gradually noticed a group that has been active in the station for a long time, that is, the culprit who caused him to fall off the train and become disabled in the first place - thieves.
Different from the scene in other people's imagination when enemies meet each other, Huang Tingli, who has become accustomed to getting something for nothing, not only no longer hates them, on the contrary, he also has a strong interest in the thief business.
Because he feels that stealing things to make money quickly is more than a hundred times stronger than farming at the beginning, and he has no skills after being disabled, and it is difficult for him to survive in society.
After making up his mind, he also settled in the Harbin railway station and became a member of the pickpocketing gang that had been entrenched in the station for a long time.
At this time, few people in the gang called him Huang Tingli's real name anymore, and replaced him with the nickname "Huang Cripple" on the road.
Because of stealing things and stealing well, Huang Tingli also attracted the jealousy and blows of some peers, and for a while, there was even a "thief leader" who threatened to break his other leg as long as Huang Cripple dared to steal things at the station.
Huang Tingli, who felt that he was weak, decided to go outside to find an opportunity, and somewhere, he also had an adventure.
One day, Huang Tingli aimed at a "prey" in a local market, and just as he was about to start, he met a competitor, an old man who stole the wallet first, and the technique and speed were extremely fast, and he was more powerful than Huang I don't know how many times.
Realizing that he had met a "master", Huang Natou worshipped and wanted to worship the old man as a teacher, but the old man did not agree at first, but he couldn't stand Huang Tingli's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and finally agreed to accept him as an apprentice and teach him everything.
In two years, the old thief died of illness, but at this time, Huang Tingli had learned the skill of stealing and had the confidence to return to Harbin.
The dragon slayer eventually became an evil dragon, and Huang Tingli was injured and disabled due to the theft of his property, but he eventually became the thief he hated the most.
The "Northeast Thief King" who "fights all over the world"
Back in Harbin, because of his superb stealing skills and repeated successes, Huang Cripple soon recruited a group of thieves, had his own team, and became famous as a rising star in the Harbin Railway Station theft gang.
With the growth of strength, the competition with other gangs naturally became fierce, and soon, the biggest local thief leader took the initiative to come to the door, directly challenged Huang Tingli, and threatened to find an opportunity to fight, and whoever lost would get out of Harbin.
In the end, Huang Tingli and the thief leader agreed to choose a train from Harbin to Beijing, and agreed that whoever stole more things before this train arrived at Shanhaiguan would win.
After getting in the car, Huang Tingli and the thief leader showed their own powers and quickly started stealing, but after 1 day, they didn't steal a few valuable things, Huang Tingli couldn't help but be anxious, he blocked all his net worth in this gambling game and couldn't afford to lose.
Just as the car passed through Shenyang, a new passenger on the bus attracted the attention of both Huang Tingli and the thief leader, but the passenger was very vigilant, and the thief leader and his subordinates returned empty-handed several times.
It was Huang Tingli's turn to play, and I saw him wearing a shabby raincoat, seemingly casually appearing next to the "prey", sleeping at his feet, and a bulging leather bag was in his hand.
And when Huang Tingli opened his wallet, he shouted in surprise, 7,500 yuan, which was a huge amount of money in the eighties, and with Huang Tingli's success, the thief leader was defeated.
Winning this theft competition, Huang Tingli has established a reputation in the entire Harbin and even the three eastern provinces, and for a time the name of "Huang Cripple" is known to everyone, and no one knows it, and Huang Cripple not only has stealing skills, but also seems to have certain skills in leading the team.
Take the defeated thief leader as an example, when he returned to Harbin, the thief leader wanted to admit defeat and leave, but Huang Tingli was able to keep him regardless of his previous suspicions, and finally succeeded in receiving this gang of more than 20 people under his command for his use.
With this ability, Huang Cripple's thief gang quickly became bigger and stronger, and the scope of its theft no longer stopped at Harbin, but gradually expanded and extended to the three eastern provinces, which also attracted the attention of another gang of thieves crisscrossing the three eastern provinces.
The leader of this gang is known as the "Seventh Master", and has always been known for his superb theft skills, and was even once publicly promoted as the "chief scoop" of thieves in the northeast.
In the face of the provocation of Huang Tingli, a rising star, the "Seventh Master" took the initiative to compete with Huang and settle the game.
It's like when I was competing with the thieves in Harbin. The two agreed on a train as an "arena" and began the competition.
This time, Huang Cripple shot first, only to see him walking back and forth in a few carriages on crutches, and 27 bulging wallets were in hand, and even the "Seventh Master" was ashamed of himself, and since then he has given up the position of the Northeast thief's "chief scoop handle".
Huang Cripple's gang was in the limelight for a while, and the theft gangs in the entire three eastern provinces were all subservient to him, and with the addition of more and more "thieves", Huang Cripple's gang once exceeded 150 people.
With the expansion of the gang's power and the increase of thieves under its command, in order to clearly divide the sphere of influence and expand the "business", it is also to prevent the gang from grabbing each other's territory and causing internal strife.
After the transformation, the Huang Cripple gang not only had a clear hierarchy, but he also divided the gang into different groups such as "ghost team", "northbound detachment", "southbound detachment" and "westward detachment", which were led by his own henchmen and disciples.
What's even more cunning is that just like the Taoist who only knows "Huang Cripple" and does not know Huang Tingli's real name, he has given each backbone of the gang its own nickname, and everyone usually contacts and commends each other by nicknames, so that even if someone is caught by mistake, he will not be able to provide the details of other gang members.
With the expansion of power, Huang Cripple's gang also clashed with local gangs in Guangzhou, Xi'an, Zhengzhou and other places for turf, saying that the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, but Huang Cripple dared to do the opposite.
Because he believed that at that time, if there was a strong stealing technology, he would definitely be the number one in the country.
It was also with this courage and courage that he took the lead in informing the thieves gangs from all walks of life across the country that they would organize a "thief conference" in Shanghai, where peers from all walks of life competed on the same field, exchanged and learned, and decided the king of thieves in the country.
It is really a skilled person who is bold, this unprecedented "big action" in the theft industry after the founding of the People's Republic of China naturally attracted the powerful thieves from all walks of life to go to the competition, and finally, in the competition with people from all walks of life, Huang Cripple once again overwhelmed the crowd, so that the thieves in Guangdong, Shaanxi and other places were impressed.
The act of holding the National Thieves Conference in Shanghai in a grand manner made Huang Cripple stand in the national thief gang to gain a reputation, and for a time, his theft gang footprints spread to 17 provinces across the country, and there were traces of their activity on 36 railway lines throughout the country at that time.
During this period, Huang Cripple became a veritable "king of thieves" in the Northeast, and even the "head of thieves" in the country, which also fueled his arrogance and arrogance, and the theft of their gang became more and more rampant.
Boom and bust, the thief gang is destroyed
There is an old Chinese saying: "The wood is beautiful in the forest and the wind will destroy it".
The unscrupulous illegal and criminal acts of Huang Cripple, the king of thieves in the Northeast, and his gang also quickly attracted the attention of public security departments in various places.
When the time came to the Spring Festival of 1984, when the central and local governments were in full swing to carry out the "strike hard" campaign, the Huang Cripple, who did not know how to rein in, led the gang to do another earth-shattering event in Xinxiang, Henan.
In March of this year, on a bus from Beijing to Lanzhou, the vice principal of a technical school in Xinxiang, Henan Province, was carrying a leather bag that had purchased teaching equipment for the school, and the 6,000 yuan and 500 US dollars, as well as foreign exchange passbooks, were missing.
In a carriage adjacent to the theft, the owner of a flour mill was also stolen, and the modus operandi was very similar, 2,900 yuan of public funds were stolen. This series of thefts took place on the same train, and the social impact can be said to be very bad.
Some people even said that this was the worst pickpocketing case that had occurred since the founding of New China, and the largest amount of money was lost.
Needless to say, I believe everyone can guess that the initiator of this case is the Huang Lame theft gang, which stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and after the occurrence of this sensational case across the country, it directly alarmed the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Public Security assigned that the public security in Harbin, Henan and other places will be serious this time.
Soon, despite the vigilance and anti-reconnaissance awareness of Huang Cripple's gang, the Harbin police made significant progress, and in a special operation against the Harbin railway station, the police obtained a "roster" from the criminals.
This roster lists 74 strange names such as Huang Cripple, Sanmao, Wolf Dog, Wife Langba, Bajie, and White Mouse.
Although the names are all "nicknames", through the surprise interrogation of the arrested suspects, a middle-level pickpocket of the Huang Cripple gang still confessed important information to the police, although the Huang Cripple usually does not show up easily, but he knows the hiding place of the gang's "second leader" Li Yufang.
It is precisely by relying on the testimony of this "tainted witness" that the crazy yellow lame theft gang also quickly ushered in the "end times".
Soon, Li Yufang, the "second leader" of the gang, was arrested, and the other 12 backbone members of the gang were also successfully arrested one after another with the cooperation of public security throughout the country.
With the arrest of the backbone of each "detachment" one after another, the "thief empire" that Huang Cripple was once proud of quickly collapsed and scattered.
But what is a headache for the police is that Huang Cripple hides himself very well, even the backbone of the team basically can't provide any valuable clues, and Huang has been at large.
Some of the backbone of the theft gang who were caught even threatened to the police in prison: "It is even more difficult to catch the yellow cripple than to ascend to the sky."
By chance, the police got an important information when interrogating a thief who had been a follower of Huang Cripple, although Huang Cripple's name was unknown, he had married a wife during the crime in Shandong, and it seemed that he was pregnant with a child.
Taking this as a starting point, the police began to investigate along the railway line where the yellow cripple gang once operated, but there was still no clue after many days.
Just when the police were at a loss, a policeman named Sha Yuanzhang accidentally found a breakthrough in the mouth of a hostel worker next to Jinan Railway Station.
According to this employee, about 1 year ago, a traveler surnamed Huang often stayed in their hostel, and he got along with a waiter named Xiaoling in their hostel.
According to the record on the identity information of the hotel, the police knew the real name of Huang Cripple for the first time - Huang Tingli.
Subsequently, with the help of the hostel staff, the police finally found the girl named Xiaoling at the house of Huang Tingli's third aunt, who had already given birth at that time and was "confined" at Huang Tingli's third aunt's house.
When asked about Huang Tingli's situation, Xiao Ling, who is Huang Tingli's daughter-in-law, really didn't know anything, and when the police told him that Huang Tingli might be the mastermind behind the pickpocketing case that shocked the whole country, she screamed in surprise on the spot.
After learning that the pillow person who slept with her day and night turned out to be the Northeast Thief King, Xiao Ling was deeply frightened and voluntarily cooperated with the police to arrest Huang Tingli.
In April 1984, Huang Cripple, who had disappeared for a long time, finally couldn't help but miss the child, took the initiative to contact Xiao Lingzi, and agreed to go to Weifang to see the child.
After getting the news in advance, the police laid a net at Weifang Railway Station, and finally, on April 9, shortly after walking out of the station, the once "famous" thief leader was finally caught.
After being arrested, in the face of police interrogation, Huang Tingli once resisted stubbornly, refused to explain any problems, and reprimanded the police for indiscriminately arresting people for violating the law, but when the police listed the accumulated crimes committed by his theft gang over the years and put them in front of Huang, he finally pleaded guilty and surrendered to the law.
In the end, this once glorious thief leader was sentenced to death by the Harbin Intermediate People's Court, which is also the first case of theft sentenced to death since the founding of the People's Republic of China, which shows the seriousness and harm of Huang Tingli's crimes over the years.
One thought becomes a Buddha, and one thought falls into a demon.
Huang Tingli was just an ordinary peasant in the first half of his life, and he had been living cautiously, but after encountering misfortune, he finally went astray because he couldn't let go of the resentment in his heart, and finally ended up in prison, and even lost his life, which has to make people feel embarrassed.
And the once dominant generation of Northeast thieves also ended miserably.