May 24, 1949, located in Weixin Township, Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province. That afternoon, the villagers who had been working in the farmland for a day packed up their farm tools and prepared to return to their respective homes. Suddenly, a harsh roar came from the sky above their heads. After hearing this sound, many villagers suddenly showed a look of horror on their faces because they knew that this was the sound of propeller on a large plane.
Back then, the Japanese drove this thing and bombarded the villagers' families in their hometowns, causing the death of their families. Now, this "dead god" has once again come to their heads, making the terrifying memories that they had forgotten come to their eyes again.
Fear drove the villagers to panic and seek refuge in the ravine. When the villagers were still wondering why this "dead god" did not throw bombs, the uninvited plane actually dragged thick black smoke to the mountain stream not far away. After a while, a huge explosion came from the west! People looked in the direction where the sound came and found that this big guy had actually crashed!
What is the origin of this plane? Why did it appear in a remote village surrounded by mountains in Weixin Township?
1. The huge sound after the crash of the plane alarmed the entire Weixin Township. The villagers came to the site where the plane crashed, discussing each other about the sudden appearance of the "dead god".
When the fire on the fuselage slowly went out, some villagers who had never seen the plane dared to get closer and observe the flying big guy, to be precise, the wreckage of the "big guy". And when people walked into it, the white objects scattered on the ground around it attracted the attention of the crowd. Some brave people put their hands wrapped in a sweat cloth into the soil burned by the flames and took out a circular object with silver light.
Seeing this, everyone surrounded him. The man wiped the soil on the round object with his hands, and the four big words " Central Bank " appeared in front of everyone.
What a good guy, it turns out that these things with silver glow are real big silver round !
After a brief moment of daze, almost all the villagers present rushed towards the pile of silver balls with silver light as if they were crazy. They put the silver balls into their pockets, backpacks, and bamboo baskets in large orders. The women who were taking care of their children also took out the sacks from their homes to help their men carry the silver balls at home.
With the unremitting efforts of the villagers, the large silver balls scattered on the ground were quickly snatched away by them.
At this time, the villagers who grabbed many silver dollars hid the money falling from the sky in the most hidden place in their homes. Some people hid their money in their own cellars; some people hid it on the beams of their bedrooms; and some even hid the silver dollars directly in the dry toilet at home.
Those who have hidden their money have begun to plan their lives after they have become rich. However, at this time they still don’t know that an unprecedented disaster is approaching them!
It turned out that just as these villagers were making money in a crazy way, the news of "Silver Rounds from the Sky in Weixin Township" also reached the ears of a bandit leader named Ou Wen. This person is a famous local bully and is also the head of Weixin Township. In recent years, due to the tight war, the Kuomintang has promoted the bandits in the local area, hoping to bribe them and use their strength to resist the People's Liberation Army. Because of this, Ou Wen, who has been a bandit for life, has put on the official robe and become a village chief.
In the eyes of Ou Wen, as the village head, every grass and tree, men and women, and young people in Weixin Township are all the subjects of his village head. Since the big silver ball that fell from the sky fell on the land of Weixin Township, the money naturally has to be "temporarily kept" by him, the village head.
So, shortly after the incident, Ou Wen took his own men and rifles and forcibly took over the location of the plane crash on the grounds of "maintaining public security and protecting the scene."
After that, Ou Wen's men collected more than 10,000 yuan ocean around the crash site. If we estimate based on today's purchasing power, this more than 10,000 oceans would be worth 30,000 to 4 million yuan. However, just as Ou Wen was thinking about how to consume more than 10,000 oceans, Wu Youfeng, the head of the neighboring village, suddenly appeared in front of him. Obviously, he also wanted to make some silver dollars here.
are all bandits. Ou Weng is very clear about Wu Youfeng's thoughts, but the ocean fell into Weixin Township, which happened to be his territory. Therefore, Ou Weng said that he would not share the silver balls to Wu Youfeng and his group.
Wu Youfeng knew that he could not afford to offend Ou Wen's territory, but he couldn't swallow his cowardly air. After thinking about it, he immediately called and reported the plane crash, the drop of Yinyuan and the embezzlement of Ou Wen's silveryuan to Fenghuang County Director of the "Defense and Suppression Committee" - Chen Quzhen .
Chen Quzhen is a big man who once dominated the Xiangxi area. During the Qing Dynasty, he entered Tibet as an officer of the Qing Dynasty to fight against British invasion and pacify the Dalai Lama. Then he traveled thousands of miles and returned to the mainland for a lifetime. He used his iron fist to rule Xiangxi for more than 20 years. Therefore, people in the world call him " Xiangxi King ". After receiving the news, Chen Quzhen immediately brought more than 100 city defense team members with guns and live ammunition to Weixin Township. After seeing Chen Quzhen, Ou Wen's arrogant and domineering face immediately disappeared without a trace. At this time, he was like a dog, waving his tail in front of his master, begging his master to give it a bone.
Looking at Ou Weng who was waving his tail and begging for mercy, Chen Quzhen did not scold him too much, but just ordered him to hand over all the silver balls he picked up.
Soon, Ou Wen moved more than 10,000 oceans he had worked hard to get to Chen Quzhen. Seeing that there was only more than 10,000 oceans, Chen Quzhen's face immediately showed anger. Seeing this, Ou Weng was so scared that his legs became weak and he couldn't help but kneel on the ground.
was afraid that Chen Quzhen would take his anger, so Ou Wen also told Chen Quzhen about the people robbing the ocean. After thinking for a while, Chen Quzhen seriously gave Ou Wenhua a deadly order: Go to the people's homes to search! Search from house to house!
2. The disaster is coming
On the night of May 24, a harsh barking of dogs broke the tranquility of the night. Ou Weng took more than 100 city defense team members with guns and live ammunition, forcibly kicked open the homes of the villagers in Weixin Township, and brought the "nova" who were still dreaming back to the real world.
These people held the rifles in their hands and pressed the heads of the "novas" and forced them to hand over all the silver balls they picked up in the morning. Some timid villagers, seeing this scene, immediately found silver circles from the cellar or on the beams and handed them over to them. Some of the "hard bones" who are bold and hard-mouthed, never admit that they participated in the morning's "gold rush" activity.
When he met such a person, Ou Wen's banditry was immediately revealed, and his subordinates turned their homes into a clear way, taking away all valuable things, and whether they picked them up from the plane or the people's homes, they were all handed over.
For a moment, the entire Weixin Township was in chaos by Ou Wen and others. Chen Quzhen gave Ou Wen to "search", but Ou Wen executed the "home search". These people, regardless of whether they are involved in the "gold hunt", take money when they see it or beat people when they see it. When they meet ordinary people who dare to contradict them, they simply tie them up and sent them to prison.
Finally, after a night of "tracing the house", Ou Wenhua confiscated a lot of oceans from the people's homes, a total of tens of thousands of yuan. The people of Weixin Township thought that this matter would end with the handover of tens of thousands of oceans, but what they never expected was that they would have to go through a greater disaster soon afterwards.
At the end of May 1949, Chen Quzhen, director of the "Defense and Suppression Committee" of Fenghuang County, suddenly received a call from Hunan Provincial Chairman Cheng Qian. Cheng Qian told him that the plane falling in Weixin Township was transport aircraft of the American Flying Tigers . It carried not ammunition or supplies, but a total of fifty boxes of silver dollars totaling 100,000 yuan! In addition, Cheng Qian also told him that the plane crash had already alarmed Chiang Kai-shek. The chairman personally ordered Mao Renfeng to fully investigate the matter, so he must recover all the silver yuan, otherwise a disaster will come!
At this time, Chen Quzhen finally realized the seriousness of the problem, a total of 100,000 yuan, but now he has only recovered six or seven out of them. How should he fill the remaining holes? Chen Quzhen thought about this matter, but in the end, he could only put this burden on the people of Weixin Township. Because in Chen Quzhen's eyes, these troublemakers must have not handed over all the silver dollars.
At the morning of the next morning, Weixin Township in Fenghuang County introduced a new policy, requiring every household to pay 80 yuan within the prescribed time limit! Otherwise, there will be a prison disaster!
It is said that harsh policies are more powerful than tigers, but this new policy in Fenghuang County is simply more terrifying than tigers! You should know that Weixin Township is a remote small village. The people here have basically made a living by farming for generations. The economic conditions are not good. Thank you for the harvest that can be sold for a few oceans, even if they have to pay 80 oceans at once. Do you think that they can all make the spells that make stones into gold?
As soon as the new policy of Fenghuang County was released, many villagers from Weixin Township fled the village overnight. Although they knew that they would live a displaced life after leaving here, even so, it was much better than paying 80 silver dollars.
It seems that overnight, the Weixin Village, which once lived with hundreds of families, almost became a "ghost village" where no one lived. The young and middle-aged people in the village basically escaped, and those who stayed were basically elderly people. The lively scene of Weixin Village has never returned.
Finally, under Chen Quzhen's almost brutal policy, Fenghuang County had collected more than 80,000 silver dollars. Although there was still a certain gap from the number of 100,000, at least Chen Quzhen could make a difference to his superiors.
is also strange. Why did the wealthy National Government so urgently recover this mere 100,000 oceans? Why did this American plane transporting the ocean crash?
3. The mystery of the plane crash
1949, the PLA's counterattack became increasingly fierce, and the Kuomintang army was defeated again and again, and its rule over the mainland region had become shaky. In order to continue to resist the People's Liberation Army, the top Kuomintang leaders set their sights on the bandits in the western Hunan area and tried to use money to buy their loyalty and let them join the Kuomintang army sequence.
So, Chiang Kai-shek specially pieced together 100,000 yuan from the Central Finance Bureau to buy the hearts of these bandits. In order to allow the 100,000 yuan ocean to arrive in western Hunan quickly and safely, Chiang Kai-shek borrowed a transport aircraft from the American Flying Tigers to be responsible for the transportation of the silver rounds. Unexpectedly, this transportation plan, which should have been foolproof, was a mistake due to human greed.
On the same day, the transport plane flew from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to Zhijiang Airport in Huaihua City, Hunan Province. In addition to two US pilots and fifty boxes of silver dollars, the plane also carried three armed escort soldiers, one government staff member and two of his family members.
When the plane passed over Fenghuang County, the armed escort personnel on the plane suddenly took out their pistols and shot dead the government official in charge of supervision and his family, and threatened the pilot to immediately force the plane to land in the area of Fenghuang County, attempting to embezzle 100,000 yuan in the ocean.
What they did not expect was that because the pistol was too powerful, after the close-range shot, the projectile did not stop moving after piercing the head of the government officials. Instead, it penetrated the fuselage of the plane again, hitting the propeller that was rotating at high speed. The engine of the plane was hit by the bullet immediately burst out of smoke, and then it lost power, causing the plane to lose control and eventually fell into the mountain stream of Weixin Township.
After this incident, the Central Finance Office of the National Government was unable to raise another 100,000 yuan to fill the hole in a short period of time. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Mao Renfeng to be fully responsible for the investigation of the incident, and ordered local leaders in Hunan to recover all the money.
During the accident investigation, investigators from Confidential Bureau inspected the aircraft's wreckage and surrounding environment and found that among the burnt corpses, a body was shot in the head by someone close range before death. After that, Mao Renfeng and others repeatedly pondered the evidence collected on the spot, and then they came up with the cause of the accident mentioned above, which was considered to be the final conclusion of the incident.
It is interesting that Chen Quzhen, who had recovered more than 80,000 yuan, did not hand over all the money to the National Government after that. The Chairman of Hunan Province had repeatedly urged him to pay the money, but he was always excused by him for various reasons, because Chen Quzhen knew very well at that time that the Kuomintang was at the end of his strength and Chiang Kai-shek's fall was an inevitable result. In this way, why didn't he put these tens of thousands of dollars into his pocket?
Just shortly after the crash, Chen Quzhen led his men to announce the uprising in Hunan.
Chen Quzhen died of illness in 1952, but until his death, Chen Quzhen did not reveal the final destination of the 80,000 yuan to outsiders. Where did this ill-gotten fortune go? Whose pocket was put into? I'm afraid no one in this world knows it.
