When we talk about the history of the Republic of China, people tend to associate it with capitalist society, but in fact there is still a big gap between the social structure of the Republic of China period and the real capitalist society, and the most important difference is that the living conditions of the capitalists in the Republic of China period are not as good as imagined.
In the Republic of China period, no matter how prominent the capitalists are, they may encounter the risk of being kidnapped at any time, the imperfection of the law and the backwardness of the police station's tools and thinking to solve cases, so that the kidnappers can act unscrupulously.
Among them, around 1946, there were many kidnappings against national capitalists in Shanghai alone, the most famous of which was the kidnapping of Rong Desheng.
As one of the most well-known industrialists in China at that time, Rong Desheng caused a great sensation after being kidnapped, and it was more than a month after he was kidnapped that he was released by the kidnappers who received the ransom.
Later, this case was solved by the Shanghai police, and the bandits were also sentenced to death, but after learning of their deaths, Rong Desheng actually did legal affairs for these people at home.
National industrialist Rong Desheng
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As a representative figure of the Rong family in Wuxi, Rong Desheng plays a pivotal role in the history of China's national industrial development.
Since the beginning of the last century, he has been committed to the development of our national industry and has achieved brilliant results. Especially in the field of cotton spinning and flour production, the Rong family became the absolute leader of China at that time.
Flour mill founded by the Rong Desheng brothers
In 1946, he earned more than 50,000 taels of gold and more than 4 million US dollars in foreign exchange income by relying only on the dividends of the two cotton spinning mills in Shanghai, Shenxin Second Factory and No. 5 Factory, which is second to none among many entrepreneurs in Shanghai.
Unlike other entrepreneurs, Rong Desheng did not put these funds into his own pockets, but used them to build more factories across the country, hoping to create employment opportunities for more compatriots.
The purpose of Rong Desheng's beginning to create a factory was also to allow more Chinese people to have a job to support their families, rong Desheng, who had experienced the oppression of imperialism and bureaucratic capitalism in feudal China, knew that life was not easy, so he did his best to serve the ordinary people, which made him have almost no liquid funds to "dot" the top level of the Kuomintang.
However, the Kuomintang officials naturally did not understand Rong Desheng's far-sightedness and great mind, and in their view Rong Desheng was "ignorant" and did not give them any benefits, which caused many jealous officials to become angry with him, so this directly contributed to the subsequent kidnapping case.
Rong's Textile Factory
On the morning of April 25, 1946, Rong Desheng, his third son Rong Yixin, and son-in-law Tang Xiongyuan finished breakfast and took a car to the headquarters office of Jiangxi Road.
As the car reached the bend in the highway, their car was suddenly stopped by a car, and three people dressed in the same manner as soldiers walked up to them and pulled out from their arms an arrest warrant stamped with the steel seal of the Third Front, claiming that Rong Desheng was an economic traitor and that he had been ordered to take him back to the bureau for investigation.
Rong Desheng was full of doubts, he did not understand what he had done wrong, just in the work of opening a branch factory, for the country's economy and the people's life efforts, how he was inexplicably charged with a traitor.
But Rong Desheng, who is already 71 years old, has never seen any kind of scene, he calmly thought about it for a while and then reacted, remembering that recently in Shanghai there are always national entrepreneurs kidnapped, they should be a group of outlaws who specialize in kidnapping national entrepreneurs.
At this time, it was too late for Rong Desheng to call for help, and a few people pulled Rong Desheng to his car, and then he flew away.
The third son, Rong Yi, was at a loss for words, and his careful son-in-law, Tang Xiongyuan, wrote down the models and license plates of the group of people who claimed to be officers.
Subsequently, the Rong family immediately communicated with the Kuomintang authorities, and they found that the so-called Third Front Had long been replaced by the Appeasement Zone, and it was not the soldiers who took Rong Desheng, but a group of prepared robbers.
This news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which caught the Rong family off guard, they were very worried about the safety of Rong Desheng's life, and they were worried that the kidnappers would make a move to harm Rong Desheng. The whole Rong family was in deep panic, and the workers of the Rong Desheng factory were also worried about the boss.
At this time, the news of the kidnapping of the famous national entrepreneur Rong Desheng was boiling over, and people paid special attention to this news, and all sectors of society hoped that the police could quickly save Rong Desheng.
Shikumen building in Shanghai
At this time, Rong Desheng was taken by the robbers to a stone warehouse gate building by the robbers several times, and then locked in a small room on the roof.
In order to prevent Rong Desheng from asking for help from the outside world, the room was airtight, not even a window, and Rong Desheng was not allowed to light the lamp at night, so Rong Desheng lived a dark and dark life every day.
However, in order to ensure the health of Rong Desheng, his three meals a day are still quite rich, and this gang has not done anything rude to him, at least his life will not be lost here, they need to live by themselves, which makes Rong Desheng's hanging heart gradually let go.
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At that time, Rong Desheng was in that small room, the only thing he needed to do was to write a letter to his family, and these kidnappers initially asked Rong Desheng's family to prepare a ransom of one million US dollars, although Rong Desheng repeatedly said that even his own family could not come up with a million US dollars in such a short period of time, but under the pressure of the kidnappers, he still did it.
Wrote a letter to his family and asked them to try their best to prepare a million dollars to redeem themselves.
The Rong family did not reply in time after receiving the letter, because there were often omissions in the process of delivering the letter at that time, so the kidnappers did not know whether the Rong family had received Rong Desheng's letter, so they asked Rong Desheng to write another letter.
At this time, Rong Desheng felt that his life was short, so he regarded this letter as his suicide note, in which he wrote the following things.
Rong Yiren, son of Rong Desheng
The first is to briefly state the process of their own entrepreneurship to their children and grandchildren, and summarize a few experiences, hoping to be able to help their future development.
The second is to clarify that the ransom required by the robbers has been reduced to half a million DOLLARs, and to advise them that if this money affects the operation of the company, then there is no need to rescue themselves, to run the company well, the company involves the lives of thousands of workers, and their interests are far more important than their own.
The third is that Rong Desheng once again reiterated the purpose of the Rong family to establish an industry, asking future generations to put the development of the country in the first place, and finally a message to his relatives, expressing his feelings of miss to them.
The robbers were deeply touched after seeing this letter, and several of them completely changed their views on Rong Desheng, they felt that the old man was indeed fundamentally different from other capitalists, and his friendship with the common people touched the robbers, and they also respected Rong Desheng, so that several people took care of him more meticulously.
As for the reason for the decline in the ransom, it was the result of Rong Desheng's struggle with the robbers, when he was detained, he always paid attention to the every move of the kidnappers next door, he found that the robbers would use books for entertainment in their free time, some people would even read some legal provisions issued by the government, he felt that the kidnappers should be able to communicate, so he took out a notebook he carried with him and prepared to communicate rationally with the kidnappers.
The contents of this notepad are the expenditure of Rong's enterprises in recent years, and the robbers found that in order to expand the production scale of enterprises and meet the employment needs of more poor people, Rong's enterprises have been unable to make ends meet in recent months, and Rong Desheng almost used his usual savings to invest in expanding the production of enterprises.
This is also the reason why Rong Desheng said that his family may not be able to come up with a million dollars.
Rong Desheng's former residence in Shanghai
After deliberation, the kidnappers decided to accept Rong Desheng's proposal to reduce the amount of the ransom to half a million US dollars, and the Rong family felt that this was an acceptable condition, so they quickly raised half a million US dollars and ransomed Rong Desheng.
Arrest warrants from the Republic of China period
Rong Desheng only returned to his mansion on the night of May 28, and Rong Desheng missed his family very much and saw his family members waiting for him at the door of his house crying bitterly and weeping.
At this time, exactly 34 days had passed since his abduction.
Although he had successfully escaped from danger, due to the huge influence of this case, the masses of the people and other national entrepreneurs denounced the government for giving Rong Desheng an explanation, and the Kuomintang authorities obviously did not want this to become a pending case, nor did they want to easily let go of Rong Desheng's fat meat, so they ordered the Shanghai police station to investigate this case.
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However, because the kidnappers have hardly made official appearances in this kidnapping case, the detection of this case has caused great difficulties.
Mao Sen, then chief of the Shanghai Police Bureau, carefully read the relevant case files and the model and license plate of the car provided by his son-in-law Tang Xiongyuan on the day of Rong Desheng's abduction, he believed that there must be officials of the Kuomintang military and police department participating in the case, otherwise there was no way to explain the original order and the source of the police car.
To this end, Mawson asked his police officers to pay more attention to the changes in his colleagues, and the sky paid off, which eventually allowed him to find a breakthrough in the case.
Shortly after Rong Desheng returned home, Huang Jintang, then the chief clerk of the Second Division of the First Appeasement District Headquarters, suddenly became generous, and he not only changed into a high-end silk shirt, but even drove a high-class car.
Every day when I go to high-class places, there are many beautiful ladies around me, and even the food has become more advanced. More importantly, many colleagues also found that in his shirt pocket, there were thick dollar bills, all of which made the scheming Mawson suspicious of him.
So Mao Sen pretended to talk to him casually about the case, but he did not expect that Huang Jintang immediately showed a panicked look, and his words were even more fragmented, and he did not know what to do.
Mawson
Ginger is still old spicy, and Huang Jintang's bizarre reaction further validates Mawson's idea, so he says:
I have already grasped the evidence related to your abduction case with Rong Desheng, if you say it now, it can be dealt with internally, if you don't say it now, until the day the case is really solved, it will be difficult to handle, and you will be sent to military court.
After Huang Jintang heard these words, he thought that his actions were exposed, and he was intimidated by Mao Sen in terms of momentum and words, and his courage was frightened, when he said the ins and outs of the matter.
It turned out that this case was the idea of two gang leaders in Shanghai, namely Luo Wenqing, the leader of the Pudong Gang, and Yuan Zhongshu, the leader of the Shengxian Gang. The two coveted the Rong family's wealth and found him and several other officials working in the government to plan the kidnapping.
After obtaining the confession, the Shanghai police immediately sent someone to arrest all the people involved in the case and recovered a ransom of nearly 200,000 US dollars.
Image of the Republic of China police
After a brief trial, the gang confessed to the abduction, and in the end the eight main perpetrators were executed by shooting, and the rest of the prisoners were also sentenced to different sentences.
It is reasonable to say that Rong Desheng should be happy about this at this time, and the person who imprisoned himself for more than thirty days and stole half a million US dollars was finally arrested.
Instead of being happy, he set up a spiritual hall in his home for the eight executed people and invited a mage to do great things for them, and people were greatly puzzled by Rong Desheng's actions and did not understand why Rong Desheng wanted to do things to his kidnappers.
In fact, this is most likely because Rong Desheng felt that these kidnappers actually did not deserve to die, and it was not bad for him, they did not do any rude behavior to Rong Desheng for more than thirty days, nor did they have an embarrassment to him, in addition to the dark room where they lived, they and Rong Desheng were also happy and harmonious, and perhaps Rong Desheng's heart had long since resented that they had kidnapped themselves.
So why should they not die for their sins?
It was because there were more people in society than they were greedy at that time. At that time, although the Shanghai police recovered a ransom of $200,000, the money did not return to the hands of the Rong family, but became a bounty for Mao Sen and other heroes who solved the case.
It is said that at that time, the money was not even enough for these police officials to share, and Rong Desheng had to raise another 100,000 US dollars from the market to send to the police station, which made these people completely satisfied. After receiving the money, Mawson did not make any contribution to the police, let alone the country and the people.
Cars from the Republic of China period
Mawson bought a sedan for his superiors, which also made him highly praised by the Nationalist government, and he himself received a large bonus from Chiang Kai-shek.
In addition to these "heroes", many social groups have found Rong Desheng in the name of doing charity and asked him to take money to fund his own development. The reason is that on the day of Rong Desheng's release, he once said that he "took back the extortion balance and donated it to charity."
Although the Rong family explained that their ransom balance has been handed over to the police station, but these groups still do not spare, in desperation, the Rong family had to break the money and eliminate the disaster, although the amount of this fund has no official record, but it is not a small amount, which also makes Rong Desheng issue a sigh of "even if it is difficult to go to the Golden Grotto".
Statue of Rong Desheng
It can be seen that compared with the robbers, Mao Sen and others and these groups in the name of charity are more terrible existences, they take advantage of the fire to rob, more unreasonable, and even can stand on the moral high ground to accuse you, which makes Rong Desheng tired of coping, and even feel that the robbers are more cute than them, which commemorates them at home.
From the story of Rong Desheng's abduction, it is not difficult for us to see how difficult it was to do business in the old society, and how many pressures and obstacles need to be overcome. Even if he becomes a big industrialist, like Rong Desheng, he still can't avoid being kidnapped and endangering his personal safety.
And the backward Republic of China government and police, cracking the case is not for the victims, just to enrich themselves, on the surface it seems that they are the heroes of solving the case, in fact, they are just blood-sucking worms attached to The body of Rong Desheng, if they do not meet their needs, they will stand on the moral high ground to condemn you, it is really unreasonable.
When the image of a government in the minds of entrepreneurs is no better than that of robbers, it is self-evident how corrupt it really is, and they are not far from their own doom.
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This article about the relevant content of the Rong Desheng kidnapping case, with reference to the "Strange Case of the Republic of China: The Truth of the Rong Desheng Kidnapping Case"