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Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan are famous in China for being "the largest corrupt official after the founding of the People's Republic of China and being personally shot by Chairman Mao".
Generations of Chinese people know that they are synonymous with the "three antis" and the negative teaching materials of anti-corruption.
Unexpectedly, decades later, Liu Qingshan's son actually found the whistleblower Li Kecai and asked him to rehabilitate his father.
Is it possible that this well-established corruption case will be overturned?
What will Li Kecai do?
Walking in the shadow of your father
On February 10, 1952, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when every family was immersed in festivities, Liu Tieqi asked his mother Fan Yong: "Why hasn't Dad come back from a business trip?"
Fan Yongqiang held back tears and didn't dare to tell his son that his father Liu Qingshan was executed in Baoding today!
This year, Liu Tieqi was 7 years old, his younger brother Liu Tiejia was 4 years old, and the third Liu Tiebing was only a few months old.
In the past, the Liu family had unlimited scenery, and Liu Qingshan, as the secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Party Committee, used his power to call for wind and rain, and was extremely poor and extravagant.
Until the matter was revealed, all the stolen money was confiscated.
However, the state remembered that Liu Qingshan was a revolutionary hero, and decided to subsidize Liu Qingshan's eldest son and second son with 30 yuan per month for living expenses.
At that time, 30 yuan was equivalent to about 30 catties of pork or 300 catties of millet, which could basically meet the living expenses of two ordinary people.
But not long after, the family still broke up, Fan Yong soon remarried, and the mother's love gradually shifted to the son born to her new husband.
Liu Qingshan's three children and their uncle Liu Hengshan returned to their hometown of Nanzhang Village in Anguo County to live.
There are tinted glasses here, too, but it's much better than in the city.
Although the sins of the father are not as good as those of the descendants, social discrimination also objectively exists.
When Liu Tieqi grew up, his grades were very good, and he could have gone to Tsinghua University, but because of his father's relationship, he could only apply for the Beijing Petroleum Institute, and even the Petroleum Institute almost turned him away.
When the teacher of the admissions office saw his family situation, he was shocked and hurriedly reported to the school leaders, and the school discussed it all night before deciding to accept Liu Tieqi.
In 1970, Liu Tieqi graduated from university and was assigned to Fushun Petroleum No. 1 Factory, and two years later he and his childhood sweetheart Liu Jixian entered the marriage hall.
Due to Liu Tieqi's identity, this relationship did not go well.
Liu Jixian is the daughter of Liu Tieqi's uncle's neighbor, and Liu Tieqi is also a classmate, when she announced her relationship to her parents, her family did not support her at first, not to mention that Liu's father is still a grassroots cadre in Anguo County.
But Liu Jixian is very firm: "I don't believe that the 'blood theory' will rule people for a lifetime! I decided to marry him, regardless of his family background, and I was not afraid of being affected. ”
Parents had no choice but to agree to this family business, as a junior who watched him grow up, Liu Tieqi was at least a person who knew the roots.
Although Liu Qingshan is a big villain, this kid is a hardworking and honest man.
After the two got married, they successively worked in the pipeline bureau, with a stable career and both children.
On the other hand, compared with Liu Tieqi, the lives of the second and third children are more tortuous.
At the age when they should have received education, they can only stay in their hometown and work as farmers.
The second child also went to the Northeast to weave a basket and performed arts, and suffered a lot in the ice and snow.
The third child once wanted to enlist in the army, but was brushed off because of his father Liu Qingshan.
Although their father has caused them a lot of harm, the blood bond cannot be severed.
In order to commemorate Liu Qingshan, Liu Tieqi also named his son and daughter Liu Ji and Liu Yao.
And Liu Tiejia's two sons are called Liu Cen and Liu Ao.
In addition, the two sons and one daughter of the third child also have the word "mountain" in their names.
What is even more surprising is that when China later set off a wind of rehabilitation, hope suddenly ignited in the hearts of the three brothers of the Liu family.
They mustered up the courage to make a decision to ask Li Kecai, the whistleblower of the year, to come forward and overturn the case for their father.
Liu Zhang's embezzlement case
In fact, before Li Kecai appeared, no one dared to report Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan.
They are the secretary of the Tianjin Party Committee, a commissioner of the administrative department, and they are also blessed by the revolutionary deeds of the Gaoli riot and the imprisonment of the students, who dares to fight with them?
It is precisely because of this that Li Kecai is particularly rare, as an ordinary party member and cadre, and Zhang Zishan's deputy, he can not avoid the strong and stick to justice, this is a real warrior.
In 1949, Li Kecai first came to Tianjin.
At that time, he was a hot-blooded young man, full of reverence for Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan.
Gradually, however, he realized that something was wrong.
Why does Liu Qingshan always look listless and can't wake up? It doesn't look like you're sick, but it looks like a sign of long-term drug abuse......
In the face of Li Kecai's questioning, Liu Qingshan didn't bother to pretend anymore, and enjoyed drugs in front of others, where is the shadow of a revolutionary hero in his self-depraved appearance.
Li Kecai was shocked.
And the bigger impact was still to come, when he asked Zhang Zishan for help, the other party actually said: "It's okay, it doesn't affect anything." ”
It turned out that the two of them were the same dog, and Li Kecai's spiritual world collapsed, and the more he investigated, the more disillusioned he became.
He found that Liu and Zhang violated discipline and colluded with businessmen to do timber business, embezzled grain money for organ production, and embezzled airport construction funds.
Even the people's disaster relief food money was not spared, swallowed the money, and distributed rotten corn to the people, killing many people.
In one year, they made 17.1 billion yuan (old currency).
In that era when the monthly living expenses of ordinary people were about 20 yuan, this was really sky-high.
Liu Qingshan casually bought two imported cars for more than 300 million yuan, forcibly occupied a western-style building as an office building, and started with a dozen dishes at a meal, which was even more exaggerated than that of high-ranking Kuomintang officials.
The more Li Kecai persuaded him, the more the other party intensified, and he didn't take him as a small cadre in his eyes at all.
There was no way, he could only find the provincial leader.
Who would have expected that this trip not only failed to achieve its goal, but made itself a thorn in the side of Liu and Zhang.
It seems that the upright provincial leader is the umbrella of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan!
During that time, Liu Qingshan used pressure, intimidation and other methods to force Li Kecai to be transferred.
Li Kecai did not hesitate, not that he cared about his own future and safety, but that he did not have the confidence to win against the evil forces.
But he thought about it for a long time, and still chose to stay and fight Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan to the end.
At this time, Liu Qingshan also found that coercion was useless, so he changed it to lure.
Of course, this trick is useless to Li Kecai, who has a firm party spirit.
Zhang Zishan congratulated him on his happy son, and came to the door to give him two million yuan, and he returned it on the spot.
Seeing that Li Kecai's oil and salt did not enter, Liu Zhang and the others also stopped thinking, anyway, they were in Tianjin, and they didn't have to worry about making any splashes, so Li Kecai kept waiting to collect information and evidence.
It was not until 1950 that Chairman Mao returned from his visit to the Soviet Union and went to the northeast to inspect it, and was treated by local officials with extreme luxury.
After returning to Beijing, his old man began to brew an anti-corruption campaign.
In 1951, when the "Three Antis" movement swept the country, Li Kecai bravely stood up and publicly reported Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan.
Please rehabilitate my father
At the Third Congress of Hebei Province, in front of more than 800 delegates, it took Li Ke an hour to finish talking about the crimes of Liu and Zhang.
The audience was in an uproar, one person took the lead, and more and more people stood up to expose it, and Zhang Zishan and Liu Qing were arrested one after another.
"Lao Tzu has fought the world desperately, what if you enjoy it?" Liu and Zhang, who had no remorse, were finally severely punished by Chairman Mao's personal criticism of the "death penalty".
Some people say that they have great merit, and their sins do not lead to death.
But Chairman Mao said: "It is precisely because of the great merit and influence that we should be more determined to execute them." ”
The first shot of the founding of the country against corruption is a cadre who can only be deterred by earth-shattering.
After Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan were executed, Li Kecai did not have the pride of being a victor.
"I feel sorry for both of them, who did not fall under the guns of the enemy, but under the sacred guns of the laws of the Republic," he lamented. ”
He is even more sympathetic to the families of Liu and Zhang.
Zhang Zishan has no descendants, so Li Ke will provide some help to the three children of the Liu family from time to time.
Around the 80s, the country set off a wind of rehabilitation, and many old cases were given the opportunity to change their sentences.
One day, the three brothers of the Liu family came to visit Li Kecai to express their gratitude.
However, the trio turned around and made an embarrassing request.
"Uncle, thank you for helping us for so many years, can you please overturn the case for my father......"
Perhaps the three brothers of the Liu family don't want to continue to bear the identity of "descendants of corrupt officials", and hope that they can really raise their heads and live an ordinary life.
Clearly, Li Ke is the best candidate.
He is the whistleblower of Liu Zhang's corruption case, and at the same time, he has always maintained the style of daring to tell the truth and boldly exposing him, and his reputation is very loud.
His sentence is worth 10,000 sentences from others, as long as he is willing to say something for the case of the year, there may be hope for the case to be reversed and rehabilitated.
Li Kecai sighed heavily and rejected them, because the evidence was conclusive, this was an iron case, and there was no injustice at all.
The three brothers of the Liu family had nothing to say and never mentioned it since.
While their plight is sympathetic, compassion cannot cross the borders of the rule of law.
In fact, people only have one scale in their hearts.
With the passage of time and the development of society, everyone rarely looks at Liu Qingshan's descendants with a discriminatory eye.
Liu Tieqi was finally able to smile and say in an interview: "I am a descendant of "celebrity", but the people around me respect me very much, and I have many friends. ”
When a stranger knows who he is, some of them are curious or respectful, he will no longer feel depressed and inferior, and he will use one word to describe his life, that is, contentment.
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