Considering that Zhang and Liu were anti-Japanese heroes, many people asked Chairman Mao for a lighter sentence. Chairman Mao said firmly and forcefully: "It is precisely because they have great official positions, great contributions, and great social influence that they must be

Foreword:

In November 1951, Li Kecai risked his life to expose the major corruption case of Liu Qingshan, then Secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Committee. Considering that Zhang and Liu were anti-Japanese heroes, many people asked Chairman Mao for a lighter sentence. Chairman Mao said firmly and forcefully:

"It is precisely because they have great official positions, great contributions, and great social influence that they must be dealt with. Otherwise, how can we save thousands of people like them who have gone astray."

Zhang and Liu were sentenced to death and shot on the same day. This is a typical case in the "anti-corruption, anti-waste, and anti-bureaucracy" that shocked people for a while.

Picture | Chairman Li Kecai

Found something strange

In 1950, Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh visited the Northeast. After Chairman Mao returned from the Soviet Union, he came to the Northeast to talk with Ho Chi Minh and took the opportunity to inspect the Northeast. In order to show his friendship as a landlord, Mao The chairman specifically asked the Harbin government to prepare a local special banquet to entertain Ho Chi Minh. The chairman also specifically emphasized: Just pay attention to the characteristics of the Northeast, don't be too extravagant, and put an end to extravagance and waste. However, the local government of Harbin still prepared a luxurious banquet, with the table full of delicacies, including bear paws and hazel chicken. However, due to the presence of foreign guests, although Chairman Mao did not criticize Harbin government officials on the spot, his face looked ugly throughout the whole process and he hardly moved his chopsticks.

After the banquet, he personally gave instructions to the mayor of Harbin, emphasizing again and again that the country was still in a state of poverty and poverty, and that it was necessary to be diligent and thrifty, not to be extravagant and wasteful, and not to be able to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas. Chairman Mao originally thought that the Harbin government only treated special cases under special circumstances, but as the inspection deepened, Chairman Mao was keenly aware of something strange. When the chairman arrived in Shenyang, although he had repeatedly emphasized "preparing a light meal", the banquets in Shenyang were even worse than those in Harbin, and even many local cadres were accustomed to noble ingredients such as bear paws.

Picture | Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh

The following inspections surprised Chairman Mao even more. With such serious bad habits appearing only in the Northeast region, there must be similar problems in other regions. In order to eliminate the unhealthy tendencies, Chairman Mao An order was issued overnight:

must thoroughly investigate corruption issues. According to the chairman's instructions, the central government immediately organized and launched the three-anti campaign of "anti-corruption, anti-waste, and anti-bureaucracy".

Three Anti-Movements

Chairman Mao realized that if extravagance and corruption prevailed within the party, the consequences would be serious and unimaginable. In order to suppress such bad trends, Chairman Mao ordered a nationwide self-examination and mutual examination. Since New China had just been established at that time, the roots of corruption could not be planted. If this continued, it would inevitably affect the development of the country and the happiness of the people. Chairman Mao's instructions were quickly distributed to units at all levels. From senior cadres to basic township organizations, they all received instructions, and all levels began to notify the meeting. The Party Central Committee also immediately launched an in-depth investigation. Although it was only a short year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many people who were living as corpses were found in this investigation.

Picture | Chairman Mao

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the revolutionary heroes who fought bloody battles in the past gradually deviated from the original route in the face of money, flattery and interests. They also began to use their positions to benefit private interests and take benefits from others. , the number of practices of favoritism and malpractice in is astonishing. Chairman Mao's move made all the cadres across the country sweat. They thought they could live happily for a few years, but they didn't know that behind these stupid beasts' behaviors were all abyss of hell. It is precisely because of such behavior that the superior organization will convert the amount of real estate and assets obtained through various channels and improper means during the period of employment. Those who have embezzled more than 100 million yuan are called "big tigers" "Those who embezzled more than 10 million yuan are small and medium-sized "tiger", and the title is still used today.

took only the cases reported to the Party Central Committee in North China. After the "Three Antis" campaign was carried out in 1950, a total of 303 corrupt officials who "were in their positions but did not seek to govern" were involved. By 1951, only in the first half of the year, , a total of 531 cadres, large and small, were punished. In Hebei Province, in September 1951, more than 100 officials were punished in just one month. Since the launch of this operation, with Chairman Mao's great attention and unanimous support from all over the country, it has achieved very good results. Among the agencies at or above the county level across the country, regardless of their position, 108,000 people have embezzled more than 1,000 yuan. The amount of money and the number of people are jaw-dropping. However, in this "Three Antis" campaign, most people embezzled more than 1,000 yuan and less than 10,000 yuan. Coupled with their self-reflection and good attitude of admitting their mistakes, three-quarters of them were ultimately exempted from punishment. , one in five officials received administrative sanctions.

Picture | The three-anti movement began, and people took to the streets to support

. But among these people, there were some big tigers. This is also one aspect of the remarkable effect of this operation. The number of "big tigers" who embezzled more than 10,000 yuan accounted for the total number of people. As much as 3.64% of the total, these people could not escape criminal punishment in the end and received corresponding punishment.

Through these simple data information, it is not difficult for us to imagine that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were people who had embezzled huge amounts of money and were sentenced to death. If Chairman Mao did not have such steel-like toughness, then these attached The "blood-sucking bug" living on the newly reborn artery of China, has no idea how serious the consequences will be. Seeing such shocking figures makes people lament the results of this operation, but also makes people feel extremely sad and can't help but sigh. Chairman Mao's decisiveness and determination.

Picture | Chairman Mao

It is precisely with Chairman Mao’s thunderous methods that the unhealthy tendencies of extravagance, waste and bureaucracy are eliminated in time, and behaviors that violate the party’s purpose are corrected in a timely manner. Only then can the party’s ruling foundation be more solid, and New China can be one step closer. Become stronger. So after the "Three Antis" movement was in full swing, things turned out as Chairman Mao had expected, and many corruption cases were discovered. The most shocking thing is that a major corruption case was discovered during the preparation stage of the "Three Antis" movement. After being reported by Zhang Zishan, then Secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Committee, and Liu Qingshan, First Deputy Secretary of the Shijiazhuang Municipal Committee, the central government quickly convened an investigation team to conduct an investigation.

A major corruption case that shocked the country

The investigation team found during the investigation that the two men had embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars on many occasions and oppressed the people. After the "People's Daily" reported the incident at that time, people across the country expressed disbelief. Because Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan were both famous heroes of the Anti-Japanese War, their names could be said to be household names during the Anti-Japanese War. Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan were both natives of Hebei and outstanding cadres among the early Communist Party members. They not only actively carried out party work, but also experienced many tests such as the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, and made great contributions to the country and the party. Liu Qingshan was born into a poor family. He worked as a laborer for wealthy merchants to support his family since he was a child. In 1931, he officially joined the Communist Party of China and followed the army throughout his life and death. On the battlefield, Liu Qingshan always takes the lead and is particularly brave.

Picture | Zhang Zishan

In 1941, Liu Qingshan, who was promoted to the county party committee secretary, worked tirelessly and ran day and night for the happiness of the people of Dacheng County , and was deeply loved by the people. During the period, he was arrested by the frenzied Kuomintang. Faced with severe torture and the test of high-ranking officials and generous salaries, Liu Qingshan never frowned once, remained silent, and did not reveal any information about the party. Zhang Zishan also came from a poor family. He lost his father when he was young and his mother was sick. The whole family relied on his brother to support him. Zhang Zishan was also very confident and was admitted to a normal school with excellent results. After the September 18th Incident, Zhang Zishan and his classmates became a member of the Anti-Japanese and National Salvation Movement and actively gave patriotic speeches.

Zhang Zishan devoted himself physically and mentally every time he gave a speech, which was very touching. For this reason, he was targeted by the Kuomintang reactionaries and unfortunately was imprisoned.In prison, Zhang Zishan, who was still a student, was determined and resisted many tortures. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, both of them had been at the forefront and killed the enemy in battle. It was precisely because of their contributions to the country and their love for the people that the people could never believe that the "officials of the common people" and "officials of their parents" in their hearts were actually He has become a corrupt official who does all kinds of evil!

Picture | Liu Qingshan

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan threw their revolutionary ideals and original mission behind them, and worked together for their own selfish desires. Once working for the people, they began to embezzle grain payments, deduct subsidies from migrant workers, and drive up grain prices in order to line their own pockets. They also distributed moldy and spoiled grain to migrant workers, resulting in the death of dozens of migrant workers. has even repeatedly stolen special funds allocated by the central government for flood control, causing delays in major water conservancy projects and substandard quality.

They were once upright, but they still used their power to defraud bank loans in the name of government production, set up and operate factories privately, and put all the profits into their own pockets. Not only that, they also ignored the law and secretly engaged in illegal operations. Knowing that tinplate and other materials were in urgent need of the country, they used their power to collude with profiteers to resell tinplate and other national materials. They even directly sent people to pretend to be the People's Liberation Army and privately Trafficking in timber.

Picture | Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan

By the time of the incident, Zhang and Liu had embezzled as much as 15.5 billion yuan of national property. Although it was old RMB, if converted into hard currency, the amount of corruption could buy a full ton at the time. gold! Such a huge amount caused a sensation throughout the country, and the Zhang and Liu cases also became a major corruption case in the history of New China. These important funds originally used to build the country were squandered by Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan. Liu Qingshan was still not satisfied after taking the bus as his own, and spent huge sums of money to buy imported American luxury cars for his own travel. In just one year, 200 million yuan of old RMB was squandered. In addition to being greedy for money, more serious problems with Zhang and Liu began to be exposed as the investigation of the case began.

Problems exposed

As early as 1950, the central government decided to establish the Tianjin Prefectural Committee and the Tianjin Region. The prefectural committee and the Tianjin Region were located in Yangliuqing Town, , more than 60 miles away from Tianjin in the southwest of Tianjin. Because the Tianjin area is located in the lower reaches of the Jiuhe River and has low-lying terrain, floods have occurred many times in history. A heavy rain in the summer of 1950 caused floods in most areas of the region, causing great losses to industrial production. The masses who had just gained liberation found themselves in an extremely difficult situation. Under such circumstances, the first thing Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan cared about after taking office was not the lives of the people, nor actively organizing production for self-rescue. Instead, they focused their main energy on government production.

Picture | Yangliuqing Town

At that time, based on the economic situation in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the central government proposed to carry out agency production, which was entirely based on disaster relief. The purpose is to make up for the financial shortcomings, improve office conditions, and stabilize the life of the agency by carrying out some agency production activities within its capabilities. As the secretaries of the prefectural committee and regional commissioners, Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan organized and carried out government production within their regions in accordance with the central call and instructions from their superiors. It should be said that they were in line with the above spirit. However, they used the name of government production to engage in corruption and bribery. Filling one's own pockets and squandering money not only violates the spirit of the central government, but also harms the interests of the broad masses of the people. It changes the "flavor," the "color," and the "tone" of the agency's production, until it falls into the quagmire of crime and cannot extricate itself. .

After Liu Qingshan took office, he made sure to talk about agency production at every meeting. Not only did he require the district level to vigorously engage in agency production, he also required all counties and towns to treat agency production as a major matter and pay close attention to it. However, agencies at all levels must pay close attention to the corresponding agencies. Great results. Under Liu Qingshan's encouragement, some counties and towns' government production was "prosperous" for a while, and government production became the central work of individual counties and towns. Some leaders devoted themselves to government production to build relationships and find ways to make money. People's funds are plundered and corruption is committed, but the disaster relief and famine relief work that is closely related to the people's livelihood is deserted and no one cares about it. Liu Qingshan himself clung to the production of the agency and made a "appearance" for his deployment.

Picture | Liu Qingshan

In the more than two years since he served as the secretary of the Tianjin Prefectural Committee, he has never been able to get down to work and do all-round work in a down-to-earth manner. From taking office to being arrested, he spent most of the time using the excuse of poor health. Treatment and recuperation. In this way, on the one hand, he can enjoy the so-called luxurious life in the city and use the money that belongs to the country and the people to eat, drink and have fun. On the other hand, he can eliminate "interference" and concentrate on the production of his organs. Seeing the "efficiency" of government production getting better day by day, and thinking about the comfortable life that is right around him and at his fingertips, Liu Qingshan felt happy: "When government production is done well, expenses and other things will be convenient." With government production, they have more "living" money in their hands, and their enjoyment is getting higher and higher.

Although Liu Qingshan did not stay in Yangliu Town for long, when he lived here, he always made a small stove by himself, cooking for him alone; The place where he lives in Tianjin is No. 18 Machang Road The courtyard was a high-end residential area before the liberation of Tianjin, known as "Liu Mansion".

Picture | Tianjin Racecourse Road

When he set out for Tianjin, he also took away the only old American jeep owned by the prefectural committee. Soon he used 360 million yuan in assets to purchase two luxury cars from Hong Kong, one of which It became his special car, and he often visited high-end restaurants and singing clubs. He spends money like water and money. Not only is he extravagant and wasteful, but he also often gives away large amounts of money as favors. Zhang Zishan is not inferior to Liu Qingshan in terms of life corruption.

Moreover, when Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan were in office, they simply turned the Tianjin area into an "independent kingdom", violating laws and disciplines and doing whatever they wanted. They have always adopted an extremely opposed attitude towards intra-party democracy, turning the party committee system into a paternalistic system. They do not bring major issues to the party committee for discussion, make decisions without authorization, act arbitrarily, cancel democracy, and act only on their own.

picture | American old jeep

Their various perverse behaviors will naturally be criticized and opposed by some loyal Communist Party members and upright government workers, so these people become a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh, and they must be eliminated quickly and take measures To deal with people's cadres in the same way as to deal with hostile elements. Zhang Zishan strongly advocated that in the Tianjin area, there can only be "one leader" and "one head" in the party. Someone wrote a letter to Hebei Province to complain about Zhang Zishan. Not only was the indictment seized by them, but the Organization Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee would also investigate this matter. Letters of complaint. After

found the whistleblower, they were arbitrarily detained by them, and all those who were like them and cheated together were aggressively recruited. This is the organizational principle of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan - Those who rebel against us will perish, bully the superiors and suppress the subordinates, Acting arbitrarily, forming cliques for personal gain, and colluding with others to commit adultery. Such evil deeds are unforgivable.

Picture | Front row, middle left, Liu Qingshan, right, Zishan

The Dongchuang incident happened

It was not until Li Kecai came to Tianjin as deputy commissioner that he was able to expose the crimes of the two men. Li Kecai, who had just taken office, discovered that Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan had brought the Tianjin area to It made him very angry, but because Tianjin City was under the administration of Hebei Province at the time, Li Kecai found a suitable opportunity to secretly report the two crimes to a leader in Hebei Province, trying to report them to the higher authorities. Make their crimes public. However, what Li Kecai didn't expect was that just two days after he reported it, Zhang Zishan sent two million as a congratulatory gift. At that time, Li Kecai's wife had just given birth.

This made Li Kecai realize the seriousness of the problem. He guessed that Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan should have used money and various means to corrupt some senior leaders. Seeing that Li Kecai had not been bribed, the two wanted to find a way The government wants to run Li Kecai away. But before the two men could take action, Liu Qingshan received the transfer order. The following year, Li Kecai seized the hard-won opportunity of the central government's three-anti movement and successfully reported the affairs of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan.

Picture | Li Kecai

And North China Bureau got the news and quickly made the decision to arrest them. After arresting the two, after investigation and making a judgment, Liu Qingshan was sentenced to death, and Zhang Zishan was sentenced to suspended death.. However, after receiving the news of the verdict, Chairman Mao thought for a while and ordered that the two men be sentenced to death and executed immediately. Looking back at the lives of Liu and Zhang is embarrassing enough.

Conclusion:

Although the death of Liu and Zhang played a great deterrent effect on party cadres, it also ensured the integrity of the country for thirty years. After the party's style became clearer, the people became more convinced of the Communist Party. However, the three-anti movement is not the end of anti-corruption, but the beginning. In the decades that followed, our party has never wavered in its determination to serve the people, nor has it stopped its fight against corruption. This anti-corruption campaign commanded by Chairman Mao also reminds future party members to maintain their advanced nature and purity at all times. Do not do anything that harms the country or the people, otherwise you will be punished by law.