At the end of 1951, along with the patriotic campaign to increase production during the Period of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the unhealthy trend of corruption and waste spread wantonly in government organs in various localities, seriously endangering the development of the country. Affected by this, the central government launched a nationwide three-anti-corruption struggle against corruption, waste and bureaucracy on November 30, 1951.
However, what few people know is that as early as 2 years before the three anti-anti-struggle was launched, our party had already fired the first anti-corruption shot after taking power in Shanghai. Moreover, this anti-corruption case also contains evil elements such as using power for lust and robbing people's women.
The "Shanghai Ou Zhen Case" is also known as the "Bloody Case Caused by a Silver Dollar". It was the middle of 1949, on a normal workday, and Officer Liu and his party returned to the police station after going out to do their business. He had just pushed open the office door and was preparing to greet Ou Zhen, the only police officer on duty, when he suddenly saw a flash of silver light. Although Ou Zhen stuffed the things in his hand into the drawer with lightning speed, Lao Liu still clearly saw that Ou Zhen was holding a large shining silver dollar.
Since Yuan Shikai promulgated the "National Currency Regulations" and other policies in the name of the President in 1914, the silver dollar alias "Yuan Datou" has become the most important circulating currency in China. As the name suggests, the silver dollars are made of sterling silver, and each coin weighs six dollars and four cents and eight cents, which is almost 32 grams of sterling silver.
From today's point of view, this silver dollar is definitely not very valuable, after all, the earrings of a few dozen pieces use 925 silver needles. However, during the Republic of China period, Yuan Datou's purchasing power was quite amazing. It is reported that at that time, a silver dollar was equivalent to about 1,000 yuan, and two pieces of money could buy a bun, which was equivalent to a silver dollar to buy 500 buns.
In addition, Mr. Lu Xun spent 3765 silver dollars in 1919 to buy a 32-room courtyard in Xizhimen, Beijing. In terms of today's housing prices, this courtyard is worth at least 100 million. Even if it is equivalent to factors such as soaring house prices and currency depreciation, a silver dollar of hundreds or thousands of dollars will definitely exist.
After seeing the picture of Ou Zhen casually holding the silver dollar, Lao Liu almost dropped his jaw in shock. Because in that era, an ordinary People's Liberation Army had a silver dollar, which was actually quite abnormal.
First of all, from the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation to the early days of the founding of New China, the conditions of our party and our army have always been very difficult, and it is not an exaggeration at all to rely on millet and rifles to fight wars. Let me ask you, when it is difficult to meet even weapons and equipment, guns and ammunition, and basic material supplies, how much allowance can soldiers get?
In fact, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the PLA has always implemented the "supply system", that is, the troops have taken care of the food, clothing, shelter and transportation of PLA soldiers with certain specifications. For example, in 1933, the "Instructions" issued by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission clearly stipulated that each soldier in the Soviet zone would be given 1 kilogram of rice and 6 taels per day, and the salt and firewood and vegetable money would be added to the oil, and the ocean would be 4 points. Of course, this money is not directly distributed to the soldiers, but is uniformly handed over to the military canteen to arrange three meals a day.
Even if the "petty fee" was added to the 1933 Directive, the soldiers could receive a certain cash subsidy. However, the rules of pocket expenses are: more money is more, less money is less, and no money is not issued. Most of the time, I guess everyone guessed what it was.
Generally speaking, throughout the Republican period, the concept of fixed salary did not exist within our Party at all. Moreover, even if the allowance is issued, according to the prescribed standards, the most senior leaders such as Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Peng Dehuai only have 5 oceans per person per month. Obviously, as an ordinary cadre, the ocean in ou zhen's hands could never have been issued by the army.
Secondly, according to Lao Liu's understanding, Ou Zhen was born in rural Jiangsu, his family was poor, and he had no relatives in Shanghai. Therefore, this silver dollar naturally cannot be a patch from home.
More crucially, at that time, the party had already launched a struggle against strict organizational discipline and corruption and degeneration. Perhaps it was too tempting to turn over and be the master, and after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, some mass organizations represented by the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition floated up almost instantaneously. Some small cadres, in the name of banning the green buildings of gambling halls, go in and out of bad entertainment venues all day long, and their style of life has become more and more extravagant and lavagant. There are also many military businessmen in the North China Military Region, who want to do business and make money all day long, but they are becoming more and more slack on the battlefield.
For this reason, Chairman Mao bluntly stated at the Meeting of the Central Committee more than once that some comrades cannot withstand the temptation of sugar-coated shells, which is a very dangerous signal and must be vigilant. It is precisely for this reason that a series of actions have been carried out within the party and the military to crack down on extravagance and rectify order. For example, Marshal Zhu De struck a blow and confiscated all kinds of "private workshops" in the North China Military Region within two months, comprehensively suppressing the distorted situation of heavy business among military personnel.
Let's go back to the main line. After seeing Ou Zhen's silver dollar of unknown origin in 1949, Lao Liu immediately thought of corruption and bribery. After all, they are located in the newly liberated Shili Yangchang Shanghai, where the rich and flashy is extremely rich, and it is possible that a young man like Ou Zhen cannot withstand the temptation. Therefore, with the concept of preferring to misunderstand a hundred and not let go of one, Lao Liu reported the matter to Liu Yongxiang, director of the Yulin Branch in Shanghai.
Soon, Liu Yongxiang sent someone to talk to Ou Zhen. However, no matter how the investigator asked Zhou Xuan, Ou Zhen refused to confess, but repeatedly said that the silver dollar was sent by a friend.
Originally, Liu Yongxiang did not attach too much importance to this matter, and even felt that even if a small cadre made some small mistakes, as long as he knew that the mistakes could be corrected and lost, he could also be lenient. However, Ou Zhen's various concealments and escapes made Liu Yongxiang suddenly realize that the truth behind this silver dollar may not be so simple.
As a result, a full-scale secret investigation of Ou Zhen began. The members of the special case team divided into two ways, one way to dig deep into Ou Zhen's life and experience, and the other way to Ou Zhen's fiancée to inquire about the side. The purpose of the task force is simple, that is, to investigate and analyze the causes, objects and scale of his corruption through a detailed understanding of Ou Zhen's life experience and social circle.
However, I don't know whether to say "serendipity" or "flying disaster", the real identity and mistakes made by this Ou Zhen are much more exaggerated than imagined. First of all, before Ou Zhen became a representative of the People's Liberation Army Army, he was a Kuomintang officer, up to the rank of company commander. Second, Ou Zhen's so-called fiancée from the countryside is the second aunt of Bi Xiaohui, director of the 21st Radio Station of the Kuomintang Air Force Command.
This is good, a silver dollar is involved in such a big case. In the face of the evidence that people have stolen and obtained, Ou Zhen is finally powerless to refute and explains the truth in detail.
Ou Zhen was born in 1924 and is indeed a native of Jiangsu. At the age of 18, he joined the "Three People's Youth League" founded by Chiang Kai-shek, and since then he has been a soldier in the Kuomintang, and has been promoting from a high-class soldier and platoon leader all the way to Du Yuming's unit as a company commander.
After the Battle of Huaihai began in late 1948, Du Yuming, then deputy commander-in-chief of Xuzhou, was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to lead 300,000 troops to the front to support Huang Baitao and Huang Wei. The final result must be known to everyone, our army won a great victory in the Battle of Huaihai, and the three major legions led by Huang Baitao, Huang Wei, and Du Yuming were completely destroyed, dead and wounded, and 320,000 national troops were taken prisoner, ou Zhen was one of them.
Friends who know something about modern history know that the three major battles of Liaoshen, Huaihai, and Pingjin were the most crucial strategic decisive battles in the Liberation War. Along with these three unprecedented victories, our army successfully annihilated more than 1.5 million Nationalist troops, almost completely destroying the core military strength of the Kuomintang, thus laying a solid foundation for national victory.
After the Battle of Huaihai, Ou Zhen fully realized that the Kuomintang had run out of oil and could not return to heaven. For the sake of his own future, after Ou Zhen was arrested, he lied to our army that he was not a Kuomintang and was forcibly arrested and kidnapped by Zhuang Ding. After being released, Ou Zhen deliberately hid his identity and changed his route to the Communist Police Academy in Jinan, Shandong Province. With rich experience in leading troops, Ou Zhen was unsurprisingly selected into the "first red police force of the CCP" formed by Li Shiying, director of the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau. He then came to Shanghai on May 26, the day before the complete liberation of Shanghai, and became a military representative of the Yulin Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau.
The so-called military deputies refer to the plenipotentiaries of the troops at the local level, who are mainly responsible for supervising and inspecting the quality of weapons and equipment in the military factories where they are stationed. Although the rank and rank of the military are not high, as a small cadre who supervises the work in the south, the military deputies are still quite ranked and respected.
In just half a year, he turned from a prisoner of war of the Nationalist army to a small cadre of the People's Liberation Army, and Ou Zhen's whitewashing efficiency was amazing. As mentioned earlier, some PLA fighters who are in full swing may be shaken and take the wrong path because they cannot resist the temptation. Not to mention that he had been crawling and fighting in the Kuomintang for a long time, and he was accustomed to seeing Ou Zhen fighting for power and money.
Perhaps it is because he feels that he has washed all white, and is still heavily used, and will no longer be suspected of turning the old bottom, Ou Zhen just arrived in Shanghai not long ago, the whole person floated.
The first task of Li Shiying's troops in Shanghai was to search and liquidate the weapons left behind by the Kuomintang, and this is the origin of Ou Zhen's silver dollar.
On June 8, Ou Zhen was ordered to go to the home of Bi Xiaohui, commander of the 21st Army of the Kuomintang Air Command, to search for illegal weapons. Like many high-ranking officers, Bi Xiaohui fled to the island of Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek early on, and there were only two female dependents left in the family, one was Bi Xiaohui's original wife, and the other was the second aunt, Zhu Shi.
After indicating their intentions, the public security bureau commissioners who were accompanying them entered the house and searched through the boxes and cabinets, but Ou Zhen kept wandering in the hall and kept looking at Zhu Shilai. As soon as Fang Cai pushed open the door, Ou Zhen was instantly attracted by the young and beautiful, graceful Zhu Shi.
Due to the rampant Japanese army, Ou Zhen lived a life of licking blood with the tip of his knife for many years and precarious. In the era of common early marriage and early childbearing, when he was more than half fifty years old, he was stunned that he did not marry a wife and have children. Usually in the military, looking at the simple, hot-blooded, single-minded revolutionary female comrades-in-arms did not feel anything, this suddenly saw a beautiful girl dressed in a cheongsam, full of charm, Ou Zhen was simply fascinated.
During the day, because of comrades, Ou Zhen did not dare to behave too explicitly, but at night he was exposed. Ou Zhen thought to himself, an abandoned concubine who defeated the fleeing national army, would not be able to capture herself by her own identity. Moreover, to be able to climb up to yourself, it is still a blessing for Zhu's family.
With this twisted idea, late that night, Ou Zhen ran towards Bifu. After seeing Zhu Shi, Ou Zhen immediately put on a high-toe appearance, saying one sentence after another of threats, this problem on your body is quite serious, if it were not for me to say two kind words for you, you may not know how to move.
After all, Zhu Shi was just a young and weak girl who did not care about the world, and after being threatened by Ou Zhen with three words and two words, she immediately took out 4 silver dollars in a hurry, thinking of taking money to eliminate the disaster.
This Ou Zhen saw Zhu Shi's reaction and was immediately happy. He put his arms around Zhu Shi, put on a smile of licking the dog, and said, The Kuomintang has lost, Bi Xiaohui abandoned you and ran away, don't you necessarily want to live for him for a lifetime? Not only that, Ou Zhen also sweetly promised that he would be good to Zhu Shi for a lifetime and marry her as a proper wife. In the face of Ou Zhen's coercion and inducement, Zhu Shi struggled for a while, but still gave in.
In this way, Ou Zhen applied for a separate residence on the grounds that his rural fiancée came to Shanghai, and then began the life of Jinwu Zangjiao. Until the 4 silver dollars that Zhu bribed were completely exposed.
Deceiving the central authorities, disguising identities, accepting bribes, and occupying people's women, Ou Zhen's bad behavior was exposed, which instantly triggered public anger. After all the investigation was revealed, Li Shiying personally wrote down the verdict and submitted it to Marshal Chen Yi, then mayor of Shanghai. After clearly understanding Ou Zhen's shameful behavior, Mayor Chen Yi did not hesitate to write down four big words: Agree to shoot.
In this way, on August 14, 1949, Ou Zhen was executed at the Shanghai execution ground for "insulting military reputation and undermining discipline.". Stories about his evil were also published on the front page of the Liberation Daily, spreading throughout the country and serving as a warning to the people of the whole country.
Suddenly, 72 years have passed since our party fired its first anti-corruption gunshots. Over the past many years, the CPC Central Committee has not stopped the pace of the three anti-struggles and is committed to creating a clean and positive political environment for the people of the whole country. In this article, I would like to pay tribute to those government officials who are honest and honest, strict and self-disciplined, and serve the country and the people.