After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the work of cleaning up the assets of the Kuomintang bureaucracy was carried out nationwide. Shanghai, as the former seat of the concession, hides a large number of reactionary assets. Ji Nanyin was ordered to purge the assets here, but encountered unprecedented resistance. It turned out that a mysterious person, Situ Xiao, controlled a large amount of wealth of the four major families in Shanghai, and he cleverly hid these assets, and even succeeded in involving Ji Nanyin's cousin. How should Ji Nanyin deal with this cunning enemy? What kind of conspiracy is Situ Xiao hiding? Who will this fierce contest push into the abyss?
1. The shadow of the four major families in Shanghai
When it comes to the four major families in Shanghai, it reminds people of the dark corner of the old society. During the rule of the Kuomintang, these four families controlled the economic lifeline of the entire East China and even the whole country by virtue of their special relationship with the ruling authorities.
The most well-known is the family three rooms of the family portrait company, as well as the two brothers Song Ziliang and Song Ziwen of the Song dynasty. The two families have amassed significant economic power by investing in a variety of industries. He was followed by Jin Gusheng of the Jin Dynasty and Xu Gonghuan of the Xu Dynasty. The four major families used various means to exploit the common people, wantonly amassed wealth, and lived a luxurious life like a family of gatekeepers.
By the 1940s, as the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party intensified, the four major families began to plan for the future. They transferred a large amount of their family property overseas and hid a large amount of assets in the Shanghai area. On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, the four great families fled, leaving only loyal servants to guard these hidden riches.
After the liberation, the people's government was determined to completely eradicate the poor roots of the four major families in Shanghai and nationalize these ill-gotten gains. However, the long history of hidden assets, confusing clues, and the cunning methods of the four major families have slowed down the inventory.
As an excellent investigator, Ji Nanyin was assigned to Shanghai to clean up the reactionary capital left by the four major families. With her extraordinary wisdom and determination, she searched through a large number of archival materials and surveyed many suspicious locations, but she was unable to get to the heart of the hidden assets of the four major families. Just as she became more familiar with the case, a mysterious figure quietly appeared, adding a new drama to the asset inventory......
2. Ji Nanyin took over as investigator and started a difficult investigation
In 1948, Shanghai was liberated. Subsequently, the new Chinese government was determined to thoroughly clean up the vast amount of reactionary assets left by the Kuomintang bureaucracy here. This task was entrusted to the young and promising Ji Nanyin.
Ji Nanyin was born in poverty and has tasted the warmth and coldness of the old society since he was a child. She is witty, has a decent style, and has a high reputation within the party. After receiving this important task, Ji Nanyin was secretly excited, and she was determined to ruthlessly pull out the black hands of the four major families and seek justice for the people.
However, it soon became clear to her that this was not an easy task. The four major families have done everything they can to hide their assets. They built numerous basements and tunnels in the Shanghai Concession to hide their possessions in; They also installed a large number of cronies as "stewards" and used various tricks to cover up the traces of assets.
Ji Nanyin consulted a large number of archival materials and carefully sorted out clues. She found that under the noses of the four major families, there seemed to be a mysterious force operating silently, making her investigation never return. She secretly planted informants, and finally discovered a suspicious mansion - where many expensive calligraphy and paintings and personal belongings were hidden, all of which seemed to be the handiwork of the Kuomintang high-brass.
Discover the traces of the family housekeeper Boss Zhang
Ji Nanyin followed the line and finally found the owner of this mansion - a character named Boss Zhang. Boss Zhang is over the age of sixteen and was born in poverty. He started a small business in the concession, but later became involved with the four major families, and was appointed by one of them as a "housekeeper" to take care of the property hidden in Shanghai.
Boss Zhang tried all kinds of quibbles and prevarications to Ji Nanyin, and Ji Nanyin imprisoned him and interrogated him both hard and soft. At this moment, a character that Ji Nanyin never expected intervened in this matter - her cousin Lin Bingliang.
Cousin Lin Bingliang was involved and deceived
Lin Bingliang and Ji Nanyin have had a grudge for no reason since childhood. In the 40s of the last century, he started in business and became prosperous in Shanghai. He heard the news of Boss Zhang's arrest, and took the initiative to stand up for Zhang. Lin Bingliang told Ji Nanyin that Boss Zhang was his business partner, and the two of them operated in good faith and had absolutely nothing to do with reactionary property.
Ji Nanyin was deeply surprised by this. She was about to track down the relationship between Lin Bingliang and Boss Zhang, but a mysterious figure who called himself "Situ Xiao" intervened in the matter.
The mysterious figure Situ Xiao took the initiative to attack
Situ Xiao revealed that he had a real list of assets, listing all the wealth hidden in Shanghai by the four major families. In order to prove his sincerity, he took the initiative to confess that Boss Zhang was the housekeeper of a big lord's mansion, and showed Boss Zhang's account book as evidence.
Ji Nanyin has read this account book, which lists in detail the amount and details of the property that Boss Zhang is responsible for, which is indeed convincing. However, she was suspicious of this mysterious Situ Xiao......
3. Situ Xiao excavates the mystery of his life experience
Situ Xiao's impression on Ji Nanyin is very mysterious. He revealed that he had the truth about the hidden assets of the four major families in Shanghai, and took the initiative to provide key clues, but he never mentioned his identity. Ji Nanyin was not worried about this person, and decided to track down his details.
He was adopted by the Shanghai Green Gang when he was young
By interrogating Lin Bingliang, Ji Nanyin finally mastered some details about Situ Xiao. It turned out that Situ Xiao was not his real name, he was an orphan who was adopted by a green gang gate valve in Shanghai when he was a child. The Green Gang was quite powerful in the old society, and mainly engaged in some illegal activities.
Xiao Situ Xiao was gifted and intelligent, and soon showed extraordinary business acumen after growing up in the Green Gang. He keenly grasped the secret of the great wealth hidden by the four major families in Shanghai, and managed to get close to these families and become their horses.
Later, it was appreciated and cultivated by the four major families
In the 40s of the last century, the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were white-hot, and the four major families realized that there would be big changes in the future. They needed a nimble, alert person to take control of their hidden assets in Shanghai. At this time, Situ Xiao was appreciated by the four major families with his extraordinary talent.
The four major families took care of Situ Xiao, sponsored him to receive a good education, and cultivated his business and financial management skills. At the same time, they also slowly handed over the responsibility of controlling the hidden assets to Situ Xiao.
Become the core butler of the four major families
By 1949, all four major families had fled Shanghai, and only Situ Xiao, the most trusted "housekeeper", was left behind. He began to take charge of all the hidden assets of the four major families in Shanghai.
With his excellent management skills, Situ Xiao skillfully operated, integrated these assets into the people, and disguised them as normal business operations. He intentionally or unintentionally threw bait at Lin Bingliang and other businessmen to take advantage of them.
In this way, Situ Xiao became the widow of the core of the four major families after the liberation of Shanghai. He is an enigmatic figure, controlling the last family of the four major families in Shanghai, but the purpose is an unsolved mystery.
Ji Nanyin found out Situ Xiao's life experience and knew his origin well. But she still couldn't fully trust the man, because she vaguely smelled a larger conspiracy brewing......
Fourthly, the inventory process has been hindered but is gradually dawning
Although he has mastered Situ Xiao's life experience, Ji Nanyin's work to investigate the hidden assets of the four major families is still progressing hard. Situ Xiao deliberately set many traps, making her efforts fail again and again.
Situ Xiao threw out some assets to deceive
In order to win Ji Nanyin's trust, Situ Xiao took the initiative to give up and admitted that he controlled the assets in the hands of Boss Zhang. He openly poked a little sloppy, as if trying to win the trust of the new regime.
Sure enough, Ji Nanyin was overjoyed when he saw this, thinking that this time he finally had the substantive clues about the hidden assets of the four major families. She checked the calligraphy and painting treasures handled by Boss Zhang, and found that there was indeed a huge amount of wealth.
However, these assets are really only the tip of the iceberg of the assets hidden by the four major families. Situ Xiao deliberately threw out this surplus money in order to cover up the existence of more assets.
Ji Nanyin saw through Situ Xiao's true face
Although Ji Nanyin is very smart, he also fell into Situ Xiao's trap. She spent a lot of energy tracking down Boss Zhang and neglected the existence of more clues. Gradually, she found that these so-called "properties" of Boss Zhang also seemed to have a lot of doubts and strangeness.
Finally, during a raid, Ji Nanyin broke through a secret den of Situ Xiao. She seized a large number of asset details and account books, confirming that the "assets" handed over by Boss Zhang before were all forged.
So, Ji Nanyin completely saw through Situ Xiao's tricks. This mysterious talent is the last putader of the four major families in Shanghai, and he controls most of the hidden assets, and what he "confessed" before was only a small cover-up.
Lin Bingliang is in a desperate situation and is in danger
At the same time, Situ Xiao secretly laid out another conspiracy - he began to use Ji Nanyin's cousin Lin Bingliang. Lin Bingliang was greedy and ferocious, and he fell into Situ Xiao's arms.
Situ Xiao deliberately threw out some bait to hide assets, so that Lin Bingliang worked tirelessly on his "business" with a brilliant future. Lin Bingliang really took the bait and injected his funds into Situ Xiao's packaging project without any doubts.
Soon, Lin Bingliang found that he had been deceived, ran out of money, and was on the verge of bankruptcy. He was annoyed and angry, and was determined to ask Ji Nanyin for help and win back a game. However, Ji Nanyin saw Lin Bingliang's ambition and greed clearly, and he was already disappointed in this relative......
5. Ji Nanyin fought wits and courage to finally suppress the four major families
After hard work, Ji Nanyin finally mastered enough clues to find out all the inside stories of Situ Xiao and the hidden assets of the four major families. She knew that in order to eradicate this stubborn disease in one fell swoop, she had to ruthlessly defeat Situ Xiao, the last black hand.
Tens of thousands of workers took part in the inventory
In the spring of 1950, Ji Nanyin organized a massive liquidation operation, mobilizing tens of thousands of workers to suppress the bandits. They thoroughly searched the area around the Shanghai Concession, and searched every basement and secret passage here, leaving no suspicious corners behind.
This is a protracted battle. The workers looted countless riches, including rare antiques, precious calligraphy and paintings. But it's far from touching the real core assets. Situ Xiao set up layers of suspicion, which made people daunting.
Lin Bingliang's treachery led to death
At this critical moment when everyone was united, Lin Bingliang reversed his word and started a two-faced trick. He saw that Situ Xiao's conspiracy was gradually revealed, and he was afraid that his investment would also be in vain, so he betrayed his trust and leaked some internal information to Situ Xiao.
When Situ Xiao learned of the situation, he was furious and decided to get rid of this spy. He ordered his killers to assassinate Lin Bingliang secretly. In order to avoid the disaster of killing, Lin Bingliang had to ask Ji Nanyin for help.
Destroy Situ Xiao and defeat the four major families
With the inside information provided by Lin Bingliang and the efforts of the workers, Ji Nanyin finally grasped the specific location of the assets hidden by the four major families. In the backyard of a seemingly ordinary house, there is an incomparably large underground vault.
After several days and nights of hard fighting, the workers finally opened the door to the vault. Brilliant gold and silver jewelry, calligraphy and painting antiques are all over it, and its value is simply incalculable. This is the ill-gotten wealth that the four families have accumulated in Shanghai for decades.
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Subsequently, people arrested Situ Xiao, and the remnants of the four major families were settled. After the liberation of Shanghai, the last cancer that New China eliminated from the decaying old society was finally removed.