In the summer of 1963, a black car slowly drove into the old Gulou Street in Beijing and stopped at the door of the Zhao family behind No. 1, Xiaoshiqiao. Three men in suits and tie walked out of the car and asked about an old lady named "Zhao Biyan" and said she wanted to communicate with her about a huge property dispute case far away in Japan.
But there is no "Zhao Biyan" in the alley, there is only an old lady "Geng Biyan" with the same name and different surname. Old Mrs. Geng is no different from an ordinary old woman. She lives in an old house and dresses simply. She relies on her son’s salary of more than 50 yuan to support a family of seven every month.
How can such a tight family be related to a rich man with huge wealth?
And all this starts with Geng Biyan's unknown marriage. Geng Biyan is actually the person they are looking for. She has used 3 names in her life: Geng Weifu, Zhao Biyan, and Geng Biyan.
Before meeting her husband Zhao Xinbo and becoming the "traitor's wife", Geng Biyan's name was "Geng Weifu", and she was a Dalian girl who had been studying for several years. A marriage notice in the newspaper completely changed her life.
Zhao Xinbo's first wife was not Geng Weifu, but a woman named Wang Biyan. Wang Biyan was originally a popular actor. When she was 30 years old, she met Zhao Xinbo and fell in love with her. At that time, Zhao Xinbo was still a student at the higher education in the capital.
Zhao Xinbo was very poor when he was a student. It was hard for Wang Biyan, as an actor, to be very righteous. Not only did he not be poor and stay with him, he also took out his savings for many years to study abroad.
Not long after, the two went to Tokyo, Japan together and began their study abroad life. During his stay in Japan, Zhao Xinbo climbed into many Japanese political circles, squeezing his head to make a name for himself, so that his beloved woman could live a wealthy life as soon as possible.
However, things didn't go as expected. When Zhao Xinbo had just been studying abroad for three years, Wang Biyan died of uterine cancer on the operating table of a Japanese hospital in a medical accident.
Zhao Xinbo, who lost his beloved, was in grief and angry and sued the hospital. But how can a Japanese judge protect the rights and interests of a Chinese? After mediation, the lawsuit was settled out of court.
Zhao Xinbo was unpleasant and turned grief and anger into motivation. From then on, he devoted himself to the study of such lawsuits and obtained a doctorate in law in 1926.
Zhao Xinbo, who has achieved success in his studies, has also begun to make a name for himself, but he is always empty with no lover around him. Therefore, shortly after returning to China, he published a marriage notice in the newspaper.
Zhao Xinbo is young and handsome, and is also a student studying in Japan. He is a hot commodity in the hearts of many girls. One day in June 1921, Geng Weifu married Zhao Xinbo and became his second wife in his imagination of his perfect lover.
But the newlyweds were just married, but Zhao Xinbo made a strange request. Not only did he ask his wife to change her husband's surname according to the customs at that time, he also asked her to change her name to "Biyan" to commemorate her deceased wife.
Geng Weifu was initially aggrieved, but after listening to the story of Zhao Xinbo and his ex-wife, he thought that her husband was affectionate, so he changed his name to Zhao Biyan, followed her husband to Japan, and gave birth to his son Zhao Zongyang.
During this period, Zhao Xinbo began to pro-Japanese thoughts because he had been dealing with Japanese people all year round.
1926, after Zhao Xinbo, who had been in Japan for many years, returned, with the help of the Japanese ambassador, he became the legal advisor of the security headquarters of the three eastern provinces of Zhang Zuolin . During his tenure, Zhao Xinbo was a famous pro-Japanese sect in Fengtian .
On the eve of the "September 18th" Incident, Zhao Xinbo actively participated in the birth of the puppet Manchukuo puppet regime. Even his idea was his "national name" of "Manchukuo" and "Changchun" as " New Beijing ". Therefore, Zhao Xinbo is also known as the "midwife of the pseudo-Manchukuo". After gaining power, Zhao Xinbo was in great power and began to use his power and position to plunder the people's wealth and wealth, and accumulated a fortune. However, just one year after the puppet Manchukuo was established, he was suspicious of Puyi for his corruption.
In 1933, the Japanese abandoned him and sent him to Japan for investigation. Zhao Xinbo has never reused it again, but he still received a large amount of "Kaoguo Jin" as compensation.
After arriving in Japan, Zhao Xinbo, who is far away from politics, devotes all his energy to the Western medicine business. He joined forces with the powerful Japanese figures at that time to do some reselling drugs in some short-term drugs and earned a lot of money.
In 1938, Zhao Xinbo also tried to return to China to continue his "traitor line". However, because of the cold treatment of the Japanese, he was disappointed and became a businessman since then.
1942, as the Japanese invaders were about to die, Zhao Xinbo, a traitor, began to plan a way out for himself. He purchased a large amount of real estate in Japan and also bought a lot of industries in Beijing.
But there are so many industries that need someone to take care of. Zhao Xinbo then handed over all his real estate to his close friend Yasuji Suzuki and filled in the name of his wife "Zhao Biyan" in the property owner column.
Zhao Xinbo thought this move was foolproof. No matter what his future ended, he finally left money for his wife and children to survive, which was enough to ensure that they had a worry-free life in the future.
Facts have proved that he was so smart and miscalculated.
1945 after the victory of Anti-Japanese War , Zhao Xinbo was arrested and detained. It was not until December 1948 that when the Kuomintang lost and fled Taiwan, Zhao Xinbo quickly bribed Kuomintang officials with huge expenses, and was later released from prison on bail.
However, the net of heaven is vast and unlimited. After the founding of New China, Zhao Xinbo was detained for review in 1951. Because he did too much, he was so scared that his old illness relapsed that night and died in detention center .
After Zhao Xinbo's death, Zhao Biyan and the property trustee Suzuki Yasuke, also lost contact due to the news blocked. As a family member of a traitor, Zhao Biyan was frightened and changed back to her mother's surname - "Geng Biyan". Then he led his son Zhao Zongyang to an old courtyard house in old Beijing, and he has since been hiding his name.
Zhao Biyan no longer expects the huge inheritance left by her husband after changing his name. In her opinion, those huge wealth is just a disaster, and her only hope now is that the family can stay together safely.
After the end of World War II , with the rapid development of Japanese economy , the Zhao family's real estate continued to appreciate and gradually became a large number of treasures. In 1950, Zhao Xinbo purchased an industry in Japan worth about 24 billion yen.
Faced with huge wealth, Suzuki Yainosuke, who helped Zhao Xinbo manage his property, had the first to have bad thoughts. He found out that Zhao Xinbo was no longer alive, so he had the idea of embezzling the property.
Suzuki began to forge various documents and privately sold several lands on the grounds that "the Zhao family had an appointment with him first. If they did not come to accept them in a few years, the property would be given to him for free."
In addition, many forces also illegally occupy Zhao's real estate. They learned that the owner of this huge inheritance was named "Zhao Biyan". As a result, many "Zhao Biyan" emerged in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. In order to identify the truth, the Japanese police were so busy that they were dizzy.
Some people forged proof, some people lied that they were descendants of the Zhao family, and staged farces for money. However, Zhao Biyan's family, who live in China, know nothing about these things.
The Zhao family has always lived cautiously, for fear of being recognized as Zhao Xinbo's relatives. Zhao Biyan, who was hiding his name, once again came into the public eye, and he had to start with a liar.
An overseas Chinese surnamed Ma was arrested by Japanese police forged land deeds and sold other people's property. His wife was desperate to come to the Tokyo Overseas Chinese Association for help and revealed that the owner of the property was named "Zhao Biyan", who was a Chinese. So the scene at the beginning of this article was found, and the director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office came to visit the Zhao family in person.
When Zhao Biyan heard about the series of farces that the property had started in Japan, she was surprised and angry. The staff of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office encouraged her to recover the property. Zhao Biyan said: she does not love money, but she hopes to recover the money full of the people's wealth and atone for her husband.
After 12 years, Zhao Biyan no longer shy away and openly changed his name back to "Zhao Biyan" and entrusted Chen Kunwang of the Tokyo Overseas Chinese Association to lift the entrusting rights of Suzuki Yainosuke on his behalf.
But when Chen Kunwang found Suzuki, in order to continue to possess the property, the other party refused to admit that Zhao Biyan from Beijing was his client. This confusing huge property dispute case has attracted the attention of many media, and the Japanese court has also sent letters to Zhao Biyan to appear in court in Japan.
However, due to some historical issues, Zhao Biyan has not been able to go to Japan to fight this transnational lawsuit. Until 1976, the Japanese court said that if Zhao Biyan did not attend again, the final judgment would likely be detrimental to her.
The Chinese side learned about this and sent someone to talk to Zhao Biyan to encourage her to fight for her own interests.
In May 1976, 76-year-old Zhao Biyan received a state-funded 300 yuan to purchase new clothes, and then flew to Tokyo half a century later.
and Zhao Biyan appeared in court in Japan together with Zhao Biyan, three fake "Zhao Biyan" from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia . They are well maintained and dressed up as noble, and try their best to play the luxurious and elegant rich wife, while the real Zhao Biyan has wrinkles on her face and restrained behavior, like a frightened bird.
Zhao Biyan is worried that his words will affect his children and grandchildren in China. Therefore, she gave false answers to some questions raised by the court. The judge asked her if Zhao Xinbo had been arrested by the Kuomintang government, and she actually replied that there was no such thing.
When the Japanese reporter took photos of her with a flash, she was also uneasy and was at a loss. All signs gave the judge the illusion: , the old woman who claimed to be Zhao Biyan, may not be the noble lady who went to and from the Japanese Palace in Tokyo and dealt with high-ranking officials.
However, the court later invited a maid who had served the Zhao family for 8 years to go to court and asked Zhao Biyan to point out. Zhao Biyan's reaction was unexpected. She said, "I am the master, did you let me point out the servant?" At that moment, the arrogant attitude that could not be concealed in her eyes actually made the judge feel confident.
Judge continued to ask: "Have you heard of a secret library?"
Zhao Biyan said: "I dug it, I buried it, can I not know?"
Judge asked anxiously: "How do you prove that it was you buried it? How big is the secret library? What is hidden? What shape?"
Zhao Biyan asked a piece of paper and a pair of scissors, and effortlessly cut out a "non" shape and placed it on the table. This secret that had never been revealed to the outside made the judge very convinced: this inconspicuous Chinese old man in front of is Zhao Biyan who was replaced by falsehood.
However, because Zhao Biyan's previous "inconsistent statement" in court and his vague expression, the judge still had to make a verdict that "Zhao Biyan is not here". It means that none of the people here are the real Zhao Biyan, and this huge property dispute case is still unresolved.
There is no doubt that Zhao Biyan lost the case this time and the case was also at a deadlock.
Zhao Biyan, who is nearly 80 years old, believes that there may be no turning point in this case. However, with the state resuming lawyers in 1978, Zhao Biyan soon saw hope again.
Lawyer Fu Zhiren volunteered to take on the case. As long as evidence is found to prove that Zhao Biyan is Zhao Xinbo's wife, this case can be won.
For this reason, Fu Zhiren ran around to collect evidence and made preparations for nearly eight months. But when he walked into the Japanese court, Zhao Biyan fell ill unexpectedly.
The burden of recovering the huge inheritance fell on Zhao Xinbo's son Zhao Zongyang.
In April 1984, Zhao Zongyang and Fu Zhiren rushed to Japan. They found Zhao Zongyang's classmates Masaji Yukawa, Miyoko Otani and their mutual teacher, Mr. Ichiro Ichikawa, to prove Zhao Zongyang's identity and then prove Zhao Biyan's true identity.
In court, Zhao Zongyang not only proved through his classmates that he was Zhao Xinbo's son, but also took out the birth certificate in a Japanese hospital, , and a case of blindness in his left eye at the age of 3.
These evidences were obtained by lawyer Fu Zhiren for a lot of trouble.
On September 7, 1984, the Japanese court made a verdict that all the property left in the Zhao family in Japan would be taken over by Zhao Biyan. This transnational lawsuit that lasted for 20 years finally won a fair verdict. According to statistics, this property is equivalent to RMB 3 billion.
With this property, Zhao Biyan became the richest old lady in China overnight. But in the face of this huge wealth that fell from the sky, she was very awake.
0 Mid-Autumn Festival in 1984, Zhao Biyan held a family meeting and said:
"Children, you must be looking forward to getting a scary property. But I want to tell you that I am a living person, everything is clear, and too much money is a disaster. I want to do something, you may not be able to figure it out."
Zhao Biyan continued:
"I originally wanted to give up this money, but that made the Japanese cheaper. I experienced disasters throughout my life, but finally lived to this day. The tolerance and help of the country made me stand up and behave. I want to return 80% of the money I found and give it to you. What do you think?"
The Zhao family unanimously agreed with this proposal for the good intentions of this respectable and lovely elder. After Zhao Biyan successfully donated the money, a big stone in his heart fell to the ground.
For decades, as a "traitor family member", she has lived like a rat crossing the street, and now she has made contributions to the country. In his later years, Zhao Biyan's children and grandchildren lived a peaceful and self-sufficient life until his death in 1989.
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