In 1999, a migrant worker named Shi Erqun could not bear the burden of life, and he actually moved his crooked mind and robbed a bank in a planned and conspiratorial manner, and the stolen money was about 2.08 million yuan.
Surprisingly, Shi Erqun not only retreated completely, but also "became invisible" for 16 years.
By the time the police found him again, Shi Erqun had transformed from a generous and simple migrant worker into a "real estate tycoon" with hundreds of millions of family fortunes. What's going on here? How did Shi Erqun step by step on the crooked road?
Stone two groups
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > migrant workers and went astray</h1>
Shi Erqun, born in 1962, lives in Shuitun Town, Henan Province, and his parents are honest and simple farmers, so the family lives on a diet and is poor and backward.
Shi Erqun is the second eldest in the family, so his parents named him "Erqun". Due to the excessive population in the family, Shi Erqun often starved and dropped out of school early.
In the early years, brothers and sisters depended on each other for their lives. However, with the eldest brother entering the army, getting married after retiring from the army, and then separating the family, the connection and emotion between the brothers and sisters have weakened a lot.
In order to make money to subsidize the family, Shi Erqun entered the society very early. After graduating from junior high school, he came to Zhengzhou alone. Because of his young age, many units were afraid of taking responsibility and were reluctant to accept him.
Therefore, Shi Erqun could only desperately do some scattered work with poor salaries, such as moving bricks and painting walls. However, he has always been diligent and down-to-earth, and soon saved a certain amount of savings.
At this time, Shi Erqun's heart was still bright and bright, and he believed that as long as he had hope and was down-to-earth, he would be able to change his life.
However, life did not take care of Shi Erqun, but instead teased him.
In 1982, taking advantage of the spring breeze of reform and opening up blowing all over the land of China, Shi Erqun relied on his long-term accumulated experience and ability to "recruit soldiers" and led several brothers with good relations to form an engineering team, became a contractor himself, and began to undertake large-scale projects.
Shi Erqun's co-workers all belong to the type of down-to-earth and hard-working, and their work never slacks off. And Shi Erqun himself is also very conscientious and responsible, in addition to eating, sleeping, the rest of the time is on the construction site to stare at the project, afraid of any accidents.
After Shi Er was netted, he once recalled helplessly: "At that time, the general environment of the society was not good, we worked hard to finish the work, but the money fell. ”
It is reported that Shi Erqun once led more than two hundred workers to complete a large project worth a total of 3 million yuan, but the partner was reluctant to pay.
Towards the end of the year, workers are waiting for this salary to go home for the New Year. In desperation, Shi Erqun bought gifts worth a total of five thousand yuan and personally came to the door to ask for wages.
Whoever admits it, the other party tries to deny the debt, only willing to pay five thousand yuan. Desperate, Shi Erqun could only borrow money from the bank in his own name and use the money to subsidize the wages of his workers.
Another time, it was also the one that completely collapsed Shi Erqun, and he could only take out a loan to take over a project without a penny. However, when the project ended, the other party refused to pay 700,000 yuan.
Things of the same nature happened one after another, And Shi Erqun couldn't bear it, and when he angrily went to ask for a debt, the other party not only was righteous, but also scolded him sharply for "getting out."
Shi Erqun later recalled and said grievously: "I was still young at that time, but I also had self-esteem and backbone, so I put up with it and left." ”
Shi Erqun's cultural attainment is not high, and his legal awareness is also weak, and he has no idea how to bring the bad guys to justice through legal means. After two incidents of being deceived, Shi Erqun's savings over the years were all hollowed out, and he even owed a bunch of debts to the bank.
In that year's Spring Festival, Shi Erqun could not even raise the 500 yuan tuition fee that his daughter had to pay for her studies.
To this end, he can only borrow money from his relatives with a thick skin, and the relatives do not say angrily: "You are doing projects in Zhengzhou, you have been working for more than ten years, you should make a lot of money, how can you still lack 500 yuan?" How did you mix it up like this? ”
These cold sarcastic words struck Shi Erqun's fragile heart deeply, causing him to completely collapse.
If in the early years, Shi Erqun was still full of enthusiasm and full of hope for work and future, then at this time his state of mind was no longer what it used to be, in addition to being disappointed in human nature, he also resented the injustice of society.
In his opinion, he has worked hard for more than ten years, and he is not ashamed of himself, he has taken over more than 50 projects before and after, and each project is taken seriously, why did he end up in such a field?
Those rich and powerful Party A should be in arrears of project payments at every turn, is it really a good person to be deceived? The more Shi Erqun thought about it, the more angry he became, and he could only return to his hometown first and then make plans.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="162" > buy guns on the black market and plan robberies</h1>
The huge debt and the problem of the child's schooling almost drove Shi Erqun crazy, leaving his spirit in a state of tension at all times.
In 1996, when Shi Erqun was chatting with the villagers, he accidentally learned that he could sneak a black market pistol with money, so he had a plan in his mind to scare his partners with pistols and force them to repay the loan.
When he bought a gun for the first time, Shi Erqun fell into the trap of the middleman, and he was stunned that he lost more than 100,000 yuan, and could only let his family make up for it, which also made the family that was not rich worse.
At this moment, losing his rationality, he germinated an even more terrible idea -- robbery. However, he alone could not carry out a complete robbery plan.
So he selected his co-workers who had followed him on the project in an attempt to persuade them. At first, the workers were not willing, after all, it was illegal, and if they did not pay attention, they would go to jail.
However, Shi Erqun repeated the old matter, talking about the fact that he had loaned money to pay his co-workers, which made the two co-workers both grateful and ashamed.
In addition, Shi Erqun also constantly drew big cakes and brainwashed the workers, so that they would follow him with his heart.
In addition to the two workers, Shi Erqun found two of his cousins, and the five of them planned to go to Zhengzhou to "get a big vote."
In order to realize this large-scale plan, Shi Erqun specially worked for a year, raised more than 10,000 funds, and entrusted people to buy five pistols with a unit price of 1500 yuan and steel ball ammunition in Xuchang.
When the other members of Shi Erqun's gang each got a pistol in their hands, their hearts shuddered, and when Shi Erqun said that the target of the robbery was a bank, they were even more frightened, after all, the bank was run by the state, and robbing a bank was a heinous crime.
In order to persuade the crowd, Shi Erqun specially prepared a set of statements: "What we robbed was not the money of the bank, nor the money of the people, but the black money circulating in the market." This money is already illegal, and our approach is nothing more than black eating black, which will not cause major problems. ”
In this way, the four of them were convinced of Shi Erqun and followed him astray.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="163" > obsessed with crimes many times</h1>
As for the location of the robbery, Shi Erqun chose Zhengzhou because he was deceived twice in Zhengzhou, and the city gave him a taste of the ugliness of human nature and the injustice of society, so he hated Zhengzhou.
In fact, at the beginning, Shi Erqun did not think of robbing the bank, but only targeted the large wholesale market, after all, there was a huge cash flow.
Every day at 5:00 a.m., the Shi Er group will wander around the market. In the process, Shi Erqun found a place that was easier to rob than the market and had more substantial profits - the bank.
At the end of 1997, Shi Erqun and others robbed a cash truck, they shot at the window and door of the car one after another, fortunately, the driver reacted quickly and quickly retreated, which ensured that the banknotes were intact and also made Shi Erqun's robbery plan end in failure.
In November 1998, Shi Erqun's gang robbed Zhumadian Xiyuan City Credit Union, stole more than 130,000 yuan of stolen money, injured several people, and successfully escaped. Since then, the Shi Er group, who has tasted the sweetness, has never returned on the road of robbery.
In 1999, Shi Erqun and others successively stomped on large and small banks in Zhengzhou City, and finally decided to target the Guancheng branch of Zhengzhou Cooperative Bank as a target for robbery, because this bank often had large amounts of money remitted and the geographical location was easy to escape.
In addition, through many times stepping on the stone group, it was found that the bank would not close its doors immediately after the end of work, and would always delay a little time, which was the best time to leave.
In order to facilitate hiding, Shi Erqun rented several houses in places such as North Lower Street, and each of them lived in a scattered way.
Shi Erqun's team spent more than half a year in the preparatory work, and through squatting, they explored the time of the cash truck and monitoring the replacement of memory cards.
In addition, Shi Erqun also specially prepared two hammers for smashing the counter glass, a masked cloth and a woven bag for money. Then, he made a thorough arrangement for everyone's tasks, someone was responsible for controlling the security personnel at the scene, and someone was responsible for smashing glass and grabbing money.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="164" > robbed banks and shocked the country</h1>
At about 7 p.m. on December 5, 1999, the Shi Erqun gang created one of the largest bank robberies at that time, known as the "12.5 Extraordinarily Large Armed Bank Robbery Case".
By the end of the night, most of the bank's staff had gone home from work, leaving only a few cleaning and counting workers. Just when everyone was exhausted, Shi Erqun's team rushed into the bank with guns.
At this time, there were only five people in the hall, four people were counting the money, and the remaining one was a security guard, just like Shi Erqun's idea.
Then, according to the original plan, the five people first smashed the glass cabinet with a hammer, and then loaded the money to escape. In just five minutes, Shi Erqun's gang robbed 2.08 million yuan and successfully escaped.
During this time, only one security guard resisted, and was hit by a pistol and fell to the ground, seriously injured. The four staff members heard the gunshots, first pulled the sirens, and then immediately fell down, fearing that they would be hit by bullets.
After Hearing the alarm, Shi Erqun was anxious and hurriedly said to the other members: "The police are coming soon, hurry up and install money, don't take a small amount!" Then, a staff member just looked at Shi Erqun and was beaten to the point of bloodshed.
In the end, the case ended with The Shi Erqun gang snatching away 2.08 million yuan and injuring two bank employees.
After the outbreak of the "12.5 bank robbery case", the people of the whole country were shocked. The police immediately set up a special team, and experts in the field of criminal investigation also rushed to Zhengzhou to assist in the investigation.
However, the memory card monitored by the bank during the robbery was being replaced and the appearance of the gangster was not recorded. In addition, the gangsters left only bloody hammers, pistols and canvas bags, which can only be preliminarily confirmed that the gangsters are from Zhengzhou, and it is impossible to know who they are.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="165" > wives and concubines, and the family is rich</h1>
After committing the crime, Shi Erqun was worried about the exposure of many people, so he first ordered the other four to flee back to their hometown, while he continued to stay in Zhengzhou to collect the stolen money. He burned a small amount of scrap coins and rushed them into the sewers, and extracted 1 million of them to be deposited in the Agricultural Bank and Construction Bank of Zhengzhou.
Then, Shi Erqun took the remaining more than one million back to his hometown and deposited it in the banks of three cities in batches. A month later, five members of Shi'er's gang fled to Yunnan to take shelter.
After half a month, the five people returned to Zhumadian to share the stolen goods, Shi Erqun took the big head, and the remaining four people each received 250,000 yuan in the stolen money.
Later, the five developed separately and promised not to tell anyone about it, and if anyone asked, they said that it was money made through smuggling.
In 2000, Shi Erqun used 400,000 stolen funds to purchase four acres of land in his hometown and built a six-story building of more than 3,000 square meters through loans.
In 2004, due to difficulties in capital turnover, Shi Erqun took Yu Quanhui and Li Fuli to rob the bank again. This time, only Shi Erqun retreated completely, and the other two were arrested, but they did not confess to Shi Erqun.
When Shi Erqun was the vice president of the Shuitun Town Chamber of Commerce
Out of guilt, Shi Erqun took care of their families as much as possible, and after his release from prison, he also generously helped them buy real estate and car properties.
In 2006, Shi Erqun scraped together 6 million yuan to start a real estate company. Since then, his business has become bigger and bigger, and he can earn twenty or thirty million a year. When the business is booming, you can earn tens of millions a month.
Then, the real estate industry was hot, and Shi Erqun took the opportunity to establish seven companies such as hotels, trade and logistics companies.
After being arrested, Shi Erqun was still complacent: "From 2005 to now, I have paid a tax of 100 million to the government. If I hadn't been caught, I would have made 1.5 billion by the time I was 58. ”
In the process of Shi Erqun's crazy moneymaking, he also married four wives and had 12 children. In addition, these four wives can also live happily in the same villa and "serve" the Shi Er group together.
Villa of the Stone Two Group
Shi Erqun seemed to be living like a feudal landlord class, and no one knew that he had committed such a vicious act.
In the eyes of outsiders, he sits on the family wealth, strictly educates his children, never defaults on the wages of workers, and is a good father and boss. In addition, he often donated money to the disaster area, spent a lot of money to build hope primary school, and is a well-deserved philanthropist.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="166" > conclusion</h1>
However, the police never forgot the "12.5 bank robbery". On October 21, 2015, Shi Erqun was arrested by the police at the construction site of Hope Primary School, and through fingerprint verification, he was identified as a criminal member of the bank robbery at that time.
In this way, the 16-year-long mystery finally came to an end. After being arrested, Shi Erqun slept soundly, because he no longer had to live with a heart hanging.
According to the crimes committed by Shi Erqun, he was sentenced to a minimum of more than 10 years in prison, and the 7 companies under his name were paralyzed.
Throughout Shi Erqun's life, he was pitiful and pathetic, his family was poor, so he went to society and was deceived, and then he went astray and made a big mistake.
However, the stolen wealth was not destined to last long, and in the end he was punished as he deserved.