The theft occurred in 1934 in a residential building in Wuchang, Hubei Province.
The owner of this house at that time was Kong Geng, who had successively served as the provost of major generals of the Whampoa Military Academy, the chairman of the Hubei Provincial Government, and the suffragette of the National SuffrageTte.
Kong Geng's home is not self-built, its original owner is Liu Weizhen in the late Qing Dynasty, Liu Weizhen's personal experience is even more legendary than the case to be talked about today.
Liu Weizhen is a native of Hubei And his family was well-off in his early years, but because his father was a teacher in the village, he also received some education and knew some words. Originally, his plan was to first take the xiucai exam and then enter the system of the Qing Dynasty, but the plan did not change quickly.
When he was nearing his prime, he was wrapped up in the mighty Taiping Army uprising, and because he was relatively knowledgeable, he began to engage in civilian work in the Taiping Army. Later, because he stayed in the Taiping Army more steadily, and most of the people he came into contact with were people with certain identities, he actually became a close and trusted subordinate of King Chen Yucheng.
At that time, Lai Wenguang gave him the task of taking charge of all the money, food and materials belonging to his troops, so Liu Weizhen had a deep understanding of the money and materials of the Taiping Army, which laid the groundwork for his later development.
When the Taiping Army fought well in the early stages, Liu Weizhen was still loyal to the Taiping Army, but after Chen Yucheng's troops repeatedly encountered walls, Liu Weizhen had other thoughts.
Once, the Qing army besieged Anqing occupied by the Taiping Army, and Chen Yucheng wanted to indirectly rescue Anqing by occupying Huangzhou and attacking Wuchang. At the beginning of the war, Chen Yucheng used a strategy to capture Huangzhou, but his attack on Wuchang attracted a large number of Qing troops to encircle and suppress, and he had no choice but to retreat to Huangzhou, which was thickly fortified.
At this time, Liu Weizhen saw the opportunity, and he suggested to the Qing army that he could use the pretext that the Taiping Army and Chen Yucheng under his control were attacking the Qing army, and lead Chen Yucheng's troops out of Huangzhou for an ambush, and then pretended to ask Chen Yucheng for help to deceive the Huangzhou army into ambushing, and as a result, the Qing army implemented according to Liu Weizhen's plan, and indeed took Huangzhou and defeated the Taiping Army.
Because Liu Weizhen made great contributions, the Qing army appointed him to supervise the horse infantry army in Zhejiang Province, which can be described as the limelight for a while. In addition to power and fame, Liu Weizhen also reaped great benefits, and in the midst of the chaotic war, he once led people to capture De'an, where the Taiping Army was storing military salaries, looted the treasure there, and then smuggled it back to his hometown.
Later, after he was disarmed and returned to the field, he used the property he had looted over the years to earn a lot of silver money, and his life was also extremely luxurious. Later, because he also donated a large amount of gold and silver to Empress Dowager Cixi, Cixi also personally gave him a plaque of "Happy Charity and Charity", sealed him with the title of "Admiral of the Army", and rewarded him with the title of Shang Shu.
In order to protect his wealth, he once built 101 treasure caves, most of his gold and silver treasures were hidden in them, and the location of the treasure was only known to himself, and later he suddenly fell seriously ill because of excessive alcohol, and on the occasion of his death, he hurriedly told his descendants of his treasure place, but because there were too many burial places, he just finished saying the 98th, and he died.
One of the 3 treasure places that Liu Weizhen did not have time to say was in a courtyard of Kong Geng's house. However, because the gold, silver and treasure are not in the open, the Kong family did not know that they had treasures in their homes until one day.
It rained heavily that day, and the Kong family was entertaining guests in the front yard, and Peng Younan, a neighbor of the Kong family, accidentally found that there was a place in the Backyard of the Kong family that was washed by the rain, and it seemed that gold and silver had been washed out. If you change to an ordinary person, you may not be sure, but Peng Younan himself is a jewelry merchant who deals with gold and silver all day long, so he can see at a glance that those things that are suspected of gold and silver are gold and silver.
He did not inform the people of the Kong family at that time, but quickly found his own brothers, as well as a few of his usual confidants, taking advantage of the fact that the Kong family was busy in the front yard, he began to dig up the treasure in the courtyard, and after a few days of excavation, the Peng family brothers were filled with twenty boxes of gold and silver before they could stop.
After the Peng brothers dug out the gold and silver, they did not dare to delay for a moment, but immediately prepared to take the waterway to fly away, but their change on the dock in the early morning attracted the attention of an officer, this officer was Kong Geng's old department, and when he saw the Peng family brothers' boxes, they were all carried out from the direction of The Kong Geng's family, so while stopping the Peng family brothers from loading things into the ship, they ran to find a phone to find Kong Geng to inquire.
Because Kong Geng did not know that there was gold and silver in the house, he just casually sent the next person to check around, and the result was that the information returned by the next person was that there was indeed a place in the home that had been dug up, and there was a lot of gold and silver scattered around the big pit, so Kong Geng quickly asked the officer to detain the Peng brothers.
But he did not expect that the Peng family brothers had already taken advantage of the officer's telephone call, took money to smash the guards, and then spent money to let people quickly load things on the ship, and when the officers arrived, the Peng family brothers had long become shadows on the Yangtze River. Kong Geng's side only collected the scattered gold and silver, and he packed up two large baskets.
Kong Geng deduced that the Gold and Silver taken by the Peng Brothers was not in the minority, so he quickly reported the case, originally in his capacity, it should be easy to crack the case, but the Peng Family Brothers had already taken countermeasures, they hid 10 boxes of treasures in the Shanghai Concession, and then used the other half of the gold and silver to smash the relevant politicians one by one, and the Result was that the Peng Family Brothers were sentenced to only pay some gold and silver.
Kong Geng was not satisfied with this result, so he sent someone to find a stone stele, although this stone stele did not indicate the location of each treasure, but engraved the type of treasure hidden by Liu Weizhen, and showed the stronghold of the treasure hidden by Liu Weizhen, and the treasure buried in each place was roughly the same, so Kong Geng introduced what treasure he had stolen, so he sued the Peng brothers again.
The Pang brothers could not hide it, so they spent money to smash a road to Hong Kong, and finally escaped, but the Pang brothers did not become rich for the rest of their lives.
In 1941, when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, they threw a lot of bombs, and although the Peng family at that time hid in an air raid shelter, because the bombs were so powerful, the whole family was spared...
Peng's because of the intention of seeing wealth, and did unrighteous things, the result came, the root was broken in an instant, and although Liu Weizhen also had unjust deeds in that year, in his later years, Liu Weizhen in order to make up for his sins, he paid for the repair of ancient buildings near Chibi many times, including the famous Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang, in addition to donating a lot of civilian facilities and doing a lot of good deeds, so although his ending was not too good, it was much stronger than the Peng brothers.
It can be seen from this that doing more good deeds will certainly increase the blessings, and blindly calculating the organs will inevitably take Qingqing's life.