Looking back on the past, we will not regret our wasted years, and we will not be ashamed of our inaction.
No one can be willing to live an ordinary life, so we are all in the exhaustion of their lives and pursuits, we all aspire to become admired heroes, but the world is unpredictable, different circumstances in life, will always send us into their own different paths, it is also impressive, but some people are heroes, some people are heroes.
The life of Zhou Guoxiang, the boss of the Chinese gang in the United States, can also be described as ups and downs, this is a powerful figure, one person can defeat 28 people, the FBI specially sent undercover agents to arrest him, according to the various criminal evidence of Zhou Guoxiang's life, he was actually sentenced to 2900 years.
The longest life is not more than a hundred years, and the bad things he did actually put himself into the next 30 lifetimes, what kind of character is this?
01
An unusual childhood
Zhou Guoxiang's life can be described as a lament, perhaps many people have not heard his name, but a few years ago he was still a headache for the US government, and now he remains in prison until he dies.
Born in Hong Kong in 1960, Zhou Guoxiang was not a child who made his parents and teachers worry about himself as a child.
Because he was not tall, he was often bullied by some classmates in school, that is, he suffered what we now call "school bullying", perhaps this life distorted his mind, or he was exposed to "underworld thought" elsewhere.
He began to treat those who had bullied him with his fists, and began to fight many times in school, causing trouble, which caused the teacher a headache, so he suspended him from school.
Perhaps he himself did not like school life, after his suspension, he was soon because of two different gangs fighting in the street, he went forward to pick up a kitchen knife to cut people, and the knife hit the key point, and joined the triad, knowing that he was only nine years old at the time, he had such courage and strength.
If he could play such a character trait into his own advantage, he would certainly have done something great, but perhaps the Hong Kong society at that time was already very chaotic, and the environment in which he grew up caused him to realize that "fists are the last word", and such ideas even accompanied him all his life, until his life could no longer be reversed.
02
New life
After he was dropped out of school, his parents did not want him to stay in Hong Kong at that time, and when he was 16, the family moved to San Francisco.
But what Zhou Guoxiang's parents did not expect was that not long after arriving in the local area, Zhou Guoxiang contacted the local triad organization, the ZhigongTang in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Zhi Gong Tang was established in 1848, and the Zhi Gong Tang at that time was to protect the interests of the Chinese people and shoulder the mission of saving the country, not only participated in the Penghu Reform Law, but also expressed support for the Xinhai Revolution in 1911.
With a letter of recommendation from the Hong Kong Triad, he was very successful in it, and soon he became famous.
Although he was not tall, because of his high means, fierce heart, and martial arts, he used his nickname, so that the name soon sounded in San Francisco: Shrimp Boy.
His best record was that he defeated 28 people in one solo fight, which also made him "famous" and quickly gained the favor of the helper in the triad.
Zhou Guoxiang was imprisoned three times in his life, the first time he was released after a few years in prison, but soon he committed another crime, this time he was sentenced to twenty years, but because of his good performance in prison, he was released early before twenty years, this time in 2003, after his release from prison, he said that he would change his life and become a legal citizen.
03
To the boss of the church
In 2006, the bizarre and violent death of Liang Yi, the boss of Zhigongtang, made Zhou Guoxiang the most influential figure in Zhigongtang.
Half a year later, he successfully sat in the top seat of the Zhigong Court. Although the police always suspected that the incident was committed by Zhou Guoxiang, they suffered from no evidence and could only continue to investigate.
It is said that when Zhou Guoxiang first took over the Zhigongtang, he was still able to carry forward the spirit of the Hongmen Sect, love the country and China, recruit talents, and help overseas Chinese not to be bullied and persecuted by the locals, and the Zhigongtang seems to be developing in a good direction.
If this is the case, perhaps Zhou Guoxiang will not end up like that in the end, at that time, many Chinese people came to visit, and Zhigongtang seemed to become a paradise for Chinese people, a hall for talented Chinese to show their ambitions.
But the good times were not long, I don't know whether it was easy to change, the nature was difficult, Zhou Guoxiang was accustomed to licking blood from the knife edge and doing whatever he wanted, or as he himself later said, it was the undercover agents sent by the US government and the FBI to induce and encourage him to do so. Zhou Guoxiang did not persist in such a life for long, and soon returned to the days when he was in the past.
When Zhou Guoxiang was released from prison, based on his case, the police once installed a special monitor on his feet, so that no matter where Zhou Guoxiang went, the monitor could record his footprints, so that the police could grasp his movements at all times.
But what makes the police distressed is that Zhou Guoxiang did not show any clues, but this seems to be more suspicious, in order to find evidence of Zhou Guoxiang's crime, the police sent an FBI undercover agent to Zhou Guoxiang's side, lurking for four years, until the evidence of Zhou Guoxiang's crime was completely mastered.
It turned out that Zhou Guoxiang had always sent other people to do those things that violated the law and discipline, but when he himself happened, he could stay out of the matter and take other people out to convict, no wonder he could be safe and sound.
04
The Last Judgment
In 2014, the police prosecuted Zhou Guoxiang, which lasted two years, and finally convicted Zhou Guoxiang, and finally sentenced Zhou Guoxiang to 162 crimes, including money laundering, hiring murderers, extortion, drug trafficking and so on. He debated for two hours for himself, and defended himself that these were all undercover agents sent by the FBI to tempt him, but to no avail, and finally he was sentenced to 2900 years, which is actually life imprisonment without parole.
Many people said that he deserved it, and when they heard that he finally heard his verdict, he smiled bitterly and did not say anything after all.
Many people have seen such an organization as Hongmen in martial arts novels or TV series, in fact, this organization is real in history, as early as the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Hongmen was established.
However, at that time, it was still an anti-Qing underground secret organization, formerly known as the "Hanliu" established by Yin Hongsheng, an anti-Qing person.
It also has a nickname, the Heaven and Earth Society that we have heard about in the Deer Ding, and the triad mentioned above is one of its branches.
The purpose of many gangs is to eliminate violence and help the weak and the poor at the beginning, because many of them come from poor families, and they have personally experienced or seen too many people in the upper echelons of society who either oppress the people or enrich themselves, and they gather together for the welfare of the poor and the weak.
But when they have gained too much and have a high degree of power, they are finally no longer satisfied, and they have followed the old path of those who once made them despise, and the final outcome can only make us regret.
Zhou Guoxiang may also be such a person, perhaps his goal was not to be a person who did all the bad things and killed people, but to be a hero with uneven roads.
In 2016, it is said that after his final sentence came out, he once said such a sentence: "Although I killed people and set fires, and did no evil, I have never harmed a Chinese person." ”
A mistake into a thousand ancient hatreds, and then look back for a hundred years. No matter how he debates, he cannot deny the fact that he committed a crime, and if he had not embarked on the evil road, he would certainly have been able to compose his own wonderful life!