In the American drama "The Godfather", the first generation of godfathers resolutely did not touch drugs all their lives, were humble and courteous, acted shrewd and capable, and were good at convincing people with "reason", and had great personality charm.
Zhou Guoxiang
Because he has such a perfect personality, in the movie, he finally got to the end. But after all, a movie is a movie, a sublimation of art, not a real reality.
The real reality is that the so-called underworld gangsters basically can't escape the end of the prison. For example, Zhou Guoxiang, known as the "godfather" of the Chinese version of the United States and former president of the Wuzhou Hongmen Zhigong Church in San Francisco, was sentenced to 2,900 years in prison by a U.S. federal judge on August 4, 2016, and was not allowed to parole.
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Originally from Hong Kong, Zhou guoxiang later moved to the United States, where he was born in 1960. Zhou Guoxiang was not tall, and he was not very strong. But such a person may have been influenced by the ancient puzzle boys all over Hong Kong and joined the gang very early.
Although Zhou Guoxiang joined the underworld at that time, from his appearance observation, it was not at all obvious that he was an ancient puzzle boy. Because of the height problem, Zhou Guoxiang's grandmother gave him a nickname - "Shrimp Boy" when he was a child, and this nickname has always accompanied him throughout his life.
It is often said that a person's appearance is never the only criterion for judging a person's formal style, and even some people's personalities are just the opposite of their appearance, and Zhou Guoxiang is the most typical example.
Although Zhou Guoxiang looked thick and honest when he was a child, he was very smooth in his dealings with the world, although his height was not very tall, but he very much liked to mess around, and Zhou Guoxiang was not a person who liked to read, and often bullied other classmates at school.
And Zhou Guoxiang did not care about his expulsion at all, but felt that it was in line with his own wishes, without the control of the school, Zhou Guoxiang was more wanton and became a member of the Hong Kong underworld.
But at that time, they did not call their organization a triad, but called themselves the triad like overseas Chinese. The Triad was once a branch of the Hongmen gang formed to overthrow Qing rule.
However, with the passage of time, the slogan of "anti-Qing and restoration" has lost its meaning, and the triad has gradually evolved into a triad group composed of Chinese, which has become synonymous with gangster organizations.
After Zhou Guoxiang joined the triad and became a gang member, his violent blood gene began to burst out completely, and he quickly made his own reputation in the jianghu by relying on his fist.
At that time, Zhou Guoxiang was still very young, only a teenager, and he bragged around that he had been exposed to the underworld at the age of 8, and at the age of 9, he dared to fight with people older than himself, and when he fought, he slashed twice at the head of others...
Just when Zhou Guoxiang thought he could dominate some corner of Hong Kong, his parents immigrated to the United States with him, thinking that a change of environment might touch Zhou Guoxiang's rehabilitation.
But they did not expect that Zhou Guoxiang was more rampant in the United States than in Hong Kong, although Hong Kong and the United States are half a world apart, but the Hong Kong triad is inextricably linked to the triad of overseas Chinese.
After immigrating to the United States, Zhou Guoxiang successfully joined the overseas Chinese triad by relying on the Hong Kong triad introduction letter, and the environment in the United States did not bring much change to Zhou Guoxiang's psychology, but the freedom of the United States made Zhou Guoxiang more arrogant.
United States
Relying on his fierce means, Zhou Guoxiang soon played another piece of heaven in the Us triad. It is said that Zhou Guoxiang alone once dealt with 28 hostile gang members, and the other party could not defeat Zhou Guoxiang.
Relying on the strength of desperate Sanlang, the name of "shrimp" resounded throughout San Francisco, and then Zhou Guoxiang became more and more open in the local area. After several years of wandering, he gradually became the backbone of the local gang.
Behind the infinite scenery also means a huge price, although the gangsters and the American police are in cahoots at the time, but once things are done too badly, they will also perform the duties that a policeman should have.
According to the data, between the 1970s and the 1990s, Zhou Guoxiang went to prison at least three times, two of which were released on parole after being held for several years. The offences sentenced included armed robbery, instigation of murder and drug smuggling.
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The so-called underworld is maintained by the so-called "righteous qi", but it is not so much "righteous qi" as it is profit. Once there is no benefit, the "two ribs for the brothers" who once arrogantly and dryly at the wine table will become "insert the brothers with two knives"!
Zhou Guoxiang, who has been in the underworld for many years, naturally knows his way. In 1992, the U.S. FBI caught evidence of the crimes of Zhou Guoxiang's gang and arrested and prosecuted the leader of the gang and the members of important organizations of the gang, Zhou Guoxiang was the backbone of the gang, and naturally was among them.
U.S. FBI
This time, Zhou Guoxiang was not as lucky as the previous times, and he was convicted by the court, so he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was not allowed to parole.
For this sentence, Zhou Guoxiang was naturally unwilling to accept it, because he knew that as long as he went to prison, it meant that he was out of touch with the gang, and when he sat in prison for 20 years and then came out, there would be no place for him outside.
In order to avoid jail time, he decided to exchange "righteousness" for early freedom. In 2002, when the court tried the gang boss, Zhou Guoxiang sold the former boss with a big grin, chose to cooperate with the prosecutor to report his boss, and pointed out his boss's various crimes as a tainted witness in court.
Because of Zhou Guoxiang's testimony, the former gang boss was sentenced to imprisonment for hundreds of years. The federal court approved Zhou Guoxiang's parole application in view of Zhou Guoxiang's performance of "rehabilitation".
After Zhou Guoxiang came out, the original gang naturally would not accept him anymore, and some diehards of the original gang also said that they wanted to take revenge on Zhou Guoxiang, Zhou Guoxiang was well aware of the retaliatory ability of the underworld, so he sought the protection of other gangs for the first time, relying on years of personal resources, Zhou Guoxiang was able to join another organization - "Wuzhou Hongmen Zhigong General Hall".
Once the Wuzhou Hongmen
The so-called "Wuzhou Hongmen Zhigong General Hall" is also very background, and it has a history of 168 years in the United States. Originally, this organization was set up by the leaders of the Guangdong Triad during the Qing Dynasty to escape the capture of the Qing government and go into exile overseas.
After the establishment of the organization, it called on overseas Chinese under the banner of "hoeing the strong and helping the weak, eliminating violence and peace, and mutual assistance and mutual assistance", and the most famous of this organization was Sun Yat-sen.
In 1904, Sun Yat-sen announced in Honolulu that he would join the Zhi Gong Tang in Honolulu in order to contact overseas Chinese, accepting the position of "Hong Gong", and later the organization also gave birth to the China Zhi Gong Party.
This position was the third in this organization at that time, but with the passage of time, the overseas "Wuzhou Hongmen Zhigong General Hall" has completely evolved into a triad organization.
But even so, Zhou Guoxiang joined such a gang that has always enjoyed a very high prestige among the Chinese community, and the triad naturally did not dare to find him in trouble.
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Although Zhi Gong Tang is a triad group, unlike other gangs that rely only on fists to reason, Zhi Gong Tang has always shouldered the responsibility of a Chinese "public welfare group". Although the Zhigong Court uses violence against villain gangs, its prestige is incomparable to that of other gangs.
After Zhou Guoxiang joined the Zhi Gongtang, he immediately packed himself, as if he had completely changed a person. The three indiscriminate hooks that were done in the small gangs at that time were no longer done, and the most they did were public welfare activities.
In addition to donating money in public welfare activities, Zhou Guoxiang also personally went to many local Chinese schools to give speeches, and the speaker Zhou Guoxiang painstakingly advised young people with high energy and high hormones not to go astray.
In addition, he will tell the story of his time when he joined the gang, using his story as a failure case to warn other young people. In addition to attending lectures at the school, Zhou Guoxiang went to the community as a volunteer to help the society.
Over time, Zhou Guoxiang treated people and things very kindly, and a smile was often hung on his face, and everyone thought that zhigongtang had inspired him and made him reform.
As everyone knows, at this time, Zhou Guoxiang is just carrying a smile mask, Zhou Guoxiang has already made plans before joining the Zhigongtang, he has a new goal in life, and this goal is to sit on the dragon head throne of the Zhigongtang.
He knew that unlike other gangs, Zhigongtang could only stand at the bottom with his fists, and he was not respected in Zhigongtang. In the Zhi Gong Tang, if you want to become the leader of the dragon, the first must have prestige, and the second must have a certain strength, Zhou Guoxiang has been in the underworld for many years, and he has the strength.
But in the past, he lived by fighting and killing, so in order to change his image in everyone's mind and establish prestige, Zhou Guoxiang had to disguise himself. The original leader of Zhi Gong Tang was named Liang Yi, who held a series of social titles such as chairman of the board of trustees of the American Chinese Middle School and director of the General Association of Chinese Associations in the United States.
Zhou Guoxiang, a man of mixed origins, wanted to take him down from the surface, and it was almost impossible. Therefore, Zhou Guoxiang's psychology began to have the idea of murdering Liang Yi.
In 2006, Zhou Guoxiang arranged for gunmen to attack Liang Yi in a shop when he was unprotected, eventually causing Liang Yi to be killed after several shots in his body.
After the death of the dragon head, the Zhigongtang suddenly fell into the situation of the leaderless dragons, at this time, Zhou Guoxiang took the initiative to stand up and preside over the overall situation, and then, relying on a wave of unseemly operations, was finally successfully elected as the new Zhigongtang dragon leader.
After the goal was achieved, Zhou Guoxiang, who had been disguised for a long time, finally revealed his original form, and privately used the prestige and strength of the Zhigongtang itself to start engaging in the old business of the underground underworld gangs.
Because Zhi Gongtang has access to almost all powerful Chinese, zhou Guoxiang has become acquainted with Yu Yinliang, a Chinese political star and former California senator.
The two men met and hated each other late, and the illegal activities were even more prosperous, and Zhou Guoxiang relied on Yu Yinliang's identity and connections to start smuggling arms again. The reason why Yu Yinliang admires Zhou Guoxiang is mainly because they are also passers-by.
Yu Yinliang
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Just when Zhou Guoxiang was full of wind and water and was full of pride, he did not know that at this time, the FBI had already targeted him and Yu Yinliang's illegal and disorderly behavior, and even sent undercover agents to the Zhi Gongtang in order to get evidence.
In the end, the gangster who pretended to be an Italian downtrodden and fled to the United States successfully entered the Zhigong court. The FBI also gave the operation a name— "Operation White."
The undercover has spent five years in an effort to please Zhou Guoxiang, and after years of getting along, the FBI has successfully gained Zhou Guoxiang's trust, and this undercover agent has been very generous, spending millions of dollars just to entertain Zhou Guoxiang and his accomplices in high-end hotels and bars in five years.
In order to curry favor with Zhou Guoxiang, the FBI can be said to do everything to the extreme, and in the end, the FBI successfully grasped the conclusive evidence of Zhou Guoxiang's crime. When the time was ripe, the FBI began to close the net, and Zhou Guoxiang and Yu Yinliang finally fell into the FBI's legal net.
In 2014, police arrested Zhou Guoxiang and Yu Yinliang on suspicion of unlicensed gun possession, murder, and illegal arms smuggling. The most notable of these are the 2006 shooting of Liang Yi and the murder of Jiang Da'an in 2013.
Jiang Da'an was also a member of the Zhi Gong Party, and he was killed only because he posed a threat to Zhou Guoxiang's position and authority in the Zhi Gong Court.
In the face of the charges, Zhou Guoxiang said that the police charges had nothing to do with him, and even before the verdict was pronounced, Zhou Guoxiang passionately defended himself in court, spending a total of two hours before and after.
In his defense, he insisted that he had been framed, and that the crimes in the court were all the lies of the prosecutor and the prejudice of the judge, and at the same time, he also criticized his lawyer as a clueless bastard, and Zhou Guoxiang even said at one point that he wanted to mention it.
In the end, the court put undercover witnesses in court to publicly accuse Zhou Guoxiang, although this caught Zhou Guoxiang by surprise, but he quickly calmed down, denied the evidence provided by the undercover agent, and asked the court to investigate the identity of the undercover.
However, the court ignored Zhou Guoxiang's resistance and finally found him guilty when Zhou Guoxiang died without admitting guilt. For such a verdict, Zhou Guoxiang said:
"Convicting me is the biggest failure of the American justice system, and don't expect me to apologize to those victims because I didn't commit a crime at all, and the court didn't catch the real killer, and I regret that." I'm not the one you're looking for. ”
However, Zhou Guoxiang's rebuttal obviously did not affect the court's judgment, Zhou Guoxiang's 162-count charges were declared, and he was subsequently sentenced to 2900 years in prison and not allowed to parole, thus dooming Zhou Guoxiang to live in prison for the rest of his life.
In addition to Zhou Guoqiang's name as a Chinese gang leader, he is most famous for a sentence circulating on the Internet, which is said to be said by Zhou Guoxiang himself: Although I kill people and set fires to no evil, I have never hurt a Chinese.
This sentence is very touching to hear, if it is true, then, although Zhou Guoxiang is a gangster, he is also a reckless hero.
However, whether this sentence was said by Zhou Guoxiang or not, it was only a beautiful lie after all. The reason could not be simpler, at the very least, the opponent zhou Guoxiang hired to kill in the process of taking office was a Chinese.
What's more, in the process of operating a gang, whether it is extortion, money laundering, drug smuggling or trafficking in stolen tobacco and alcohol, without exception, it is impossible to do without illegal and criminal acts. And how could Zhou Guoxiang, who is mainly active in Chinatown, not affect the Chinese?
Chinatown, USA
In fact, although due to Many reasons such as Hong Kong films and martial arts novels, many people always wishfully give Chinese overseas gangsters all kinds of chivalrous colors.
But in fact, these gangster organizations, which are essentially bullying soft and afraid of hard, not only do not have much chivalrous spirit for the Chinese ethnic group, but because the Chinese are generally weak overseas, they prefer to "nest horizontally" and bully their own people the most. What is the face of such a gang organization that it "has never hurt the Chinese"?