One drizzly evening, the author of this article was walking among the graves. He stopped from time to time and observed something. A small hill was buried in the weeds. If I am not mistaken, this is the tomb of Princess Jinyu of the Tang Dynasty. From a nearby
It can be seen from the hole that tomb robbers have visited this place. A year later, during the crackdown by the public security organs, a group of cultural relic dealers were arrested one after another. In the small county where I live, Liu Chaoyang, the prisoner who stole the princess's tomb, stood with other prisoners.
The truck was paraded in the crowd. I saw him in the crowd with his head lowered and a sign hanging around his neck. As the truck turned the corner, I passed by one of the characters in this article.
Liu Chaoyang, nicknamed Mouse, was sentenced to three years in prison for tomb robbing. He met Cuban in prison and later followed him in drug trafficking.
Let’s tell his story below.
On December 28, 1995, Liu Chaoyang was walking home with six cabbages on his back, thinking about a question in his mind.
He sold radishes and cabbage, and later soy milk. He rode a tricycle that often lost its chain, with a small speaker in the basket, shouting: soy milk, hot soy milk, original flavor, healthy drink.
When the rapeseed flowers were blooming, he stood under an ailanthus tree in the yard and finally figured out why he couldn't make a fortune - he was a farmer.
Just after the Qingming Festival, Liu Chaoyang packed up his luggage and went to Huacheng.
Huacheng Railway Station is a place where public security has deteriorated rapidly. A businessman who often shuttles between Guangdong and Guangxi often warns relatives and friends: Don’t make phone calls at the station, don’t buy anything, don’t take a taxi, don’t
Nearby hotels and guesthouses for meals or accommodation.
As soon as Liu Chaoyang got off the train, his bag was snatched away and he had to sleep in the station square.
A sign in the square reads - Please do not relieve yourself here!
There are many mobile phone numbers on the surrounding walls and ground, with "Certificate Application" written on the back.
Liu Chaoyang and nearly a thousand migrant workers sleeping in the square were escorted by police, armed police and joint defense team members to a small street and alley to spend the night. The next day, they returned to the square, where they gathered to form a
At the temporary labor market, whenever a contractor arrived, everyone would surround them. The contractor looked at the group of people as if they were drafting animals. Liu Chaoyang and several other strong migrant workers were selected.
There are many small private coal mines near Huachengyan Town. It was one morning when Liu Chaoyang went into the mine for the first time. The sun was shining, and he squinted his eyes. The clouds in the sky were light and the wind was gentle, and his body slowly descended. From then on, he
The sun has not been seen for a year. The miners sleep four hours a day and have meat every meal, but they are not allowed to drink. The good food is not because the boss is compassionate, but to make the miners work more efficiently. Underground, a man named
Old man Ding's old miner told Liu Chaoyang that wages have not been paid here for three years. If anyone dares to ask for wages, a group of thugs will come to beat him, and even the coal driver will come over and kick him.
"If you don't get paid, why do you still have to work for him?" Liu Chaoyang asked.
"It's just because the boss is withholding wages, so I have to continue working." Old Man Ding replied.
A year later, Old Man Ding became Liu Chaoyang’s tomb-robber accomplice. The life experience of this Shanxi old man can be summarized in one word: poor. If he used two words to summarize it, he would be: miner. When he was still a child, he started digging.
In the mine, his mother once collected reed flowers by the river and made him a cotton-padded jacket. It was humid and sultry underground, and overnight, his cotton-padded jacket sprouted and a small sapling grew. When he grew up, his dream
Just to open a coal mine, a man's dream may never come true. Therefore, he spends his whole life in poverty, from a vigorous young man to a haggard and thin old man.
Old Man Ding was an experienced miner, and this experience was greatly used in his future tomb robbing career.
Once, he pointed to the top of his head and asked Liu Chaoyang: "Do you know what is up there?"
"It's mud." Liu Chaoyang replied.
"What about the mud?"
"have no idea."
"It's a river."
While they were mining and robbing tombs, they also did one thing - they kidnapped the boss of the coal mine. The reason was simple, because the boss did not pay wages. Like all kidnapping cases, Old Man Ding and Liu Chaoyang tied up the boss and hid him.
in a secluded place, and then called their family members. The difference was that the money they asked for was not much. The amount was just the wages they deserved. Despite this, the boss’s wife still called the police. This was smart and big.
Most kidnapping cases are carried out by acquaintances. Even after getting money, they will kill the kidnapped person, cover up the crime, and destroy the body. The highlight of the entire kidnapping case is the method of obtaining money. They asked the boss's wife to give the kidnapped person the money.
The money was thrown into a public toilet in Yan Town, and the police tightly controlled the area. That night, the moonlight illuminated the toilet. Although no one entered or left the toilet all night, the wallet disappeared early the next morning. According to police analysis,
The criminal opened the manhole cover from the sewer in the toilet, stretched out his hand and took the money away.
Three hours later, in a cave, Liu Chaoyang threw a bag in front of the coal mine owner: "Look, this is the money your wife sent."
There is a roll of toilet paper in the bag.
The coal mine owner said: "This bitch."
Old Man Ding said: "Your wife called the police."
Liu Chaoyang looked at Old Man Ding, and the two exchanged glances. He sighed and walked towards the coal mine owner with a knife.
The boss said: "You won't kill me, will you?"
Liu Chaoyang said: "I will let you go."
He cut the boss's rope with a knife.
During subsequent interrogations, Liu Chaoyang said nothing about the matter. He did not think it was a crime. The boss also told the police that someone was joking with him. The kidnapping case was eventually dropped because the coal mine boss claimed that he had not been kidnapped.
Where did Liu Chaoyang and Old Man Ding go afterwards?
In the suburbs of Hwaseong, there is a tree in every straw pile. The locals store the fodder for cattle. They always stack hay around a tree. April 3, 1997, the day of the kidnapping
The next day, a woman who got up to feed her cows saw two people emerging from the haystack at home. It was obvious that they had slept in the haystack all night. One of the middle-aged men yawned profusely, arranging his hair and
Grass clippings on the clothes, another old man holding a watermelon, there is a melon field twenty miles away.
Since then, these two people have traveled all over the most desolate places. Some ancient tombs are in desolate mountains and ridges where no one has visited. They can dig as boldly as they can. Why did they think of robbing tombs? It is impossible to find any rational reason for such a thing.
The reason is that there are great similarities between tomb robbing and coal mining. Sometimes, they sleep on a quiet hill; sometimes, they sleep in a small forest, where the dew at night wets the grass and hair. Liu Chaoyang sells vegetables
When he was young, his hair was still black. After robbing the tomb, he began to lose a lot of hair. The ever-expanding bald spot made others and him ignore his true age, so he wore a hat. He was silent and withdrawn.
From then on, he would sometimes not talk to Old Man Ding for several days in a row. He would only work hard and wave the shovel. At first, they had no experience and only dug up rocks and some worthless junk. Later they knew how to use it.
Some simple tools, such as a shovel and a detector, were used to comprehensively survey and confirm the approximate location of the cemetery, and then they continued digging with confidence. Some holes proved that they had exhausted their efforts rather than exhausting their physical strength, and the shallowness of some holes was enough to show that they were discouraged.
I have been disappointed, but I still have some strong courage to question the granite and limestone under my feet. As old man Ding said, they lack a little good luck.
The first tomb they successfully stole was in a bamboo forest. They dug it smoothly. The sealing layer was red soil. This red soil is very sticky, so there was no need to worry about the cave collapse. Under the sealing soil was a layer of bluestone.
He pried open the stone slab and jumped down. The tomb was not big, but it was well preserved. Liu Chaoyang shined a flashlight and saw the entire coffin surrounded by dense white bamboo roots.
This is a Qing Dynasty tomb. They accidentally discovered some Ming Dynasty utensils. From the bronze mirror dressing box and several pieces of jewelry in the coffin, it can be seen that the person buried here is a woman. This beauty from many years ago is now a
The skeleton turned into dust when touched by hand. Some pearls and jades emitted a faint blue light. The two of them were not in a hurry. They sat down cross-legged, drank wine and smoked a cigarette.
Old Man Ding said: "We have made a fortune."
Liu Chaoyang said: "Yes, I have made a fortune."
Early the next morning, Liu Chaoyang put on his hat. There was an old ship and mast on his hat. He smashed the earthen jar on the tombstone, grabbed a few handfuls of rice with his hands and stuffed it into his mouth. A bird flew from the top of his head.
Flying by, he forgot to chew, and the rice grains fell from his mouth like maggots. He and Old Man Ding looked back at the entrance of the cave they had just climbed out of, holding the gold and silver jewelry in their arms, and went down the mountain with a smile.
A few years later, the local cultural relics department conducted a rescue excavation of the tomb, and people discovered a sentence left on the coffin by Liu Chaoyang with a stick smeared with his own feces: The mouse is here!
Under the ground, there is another world.
You can see the world by lighting up a torch and getting in through your toilet. There are also some entrances that we notice every day but have forgotten. Open the manhole cover, and in 1974, Professor Ma Jiyu went down from here; 1983
In 2006, the deceased Chen Yin went down here; in 1996, the hawker Heizi still went down here.
Now let's go down from here too.
There are only mice here, no flies, the flies are all above the ground.
In this world, there live two animals, rats and crime.
Plague and miasma were also born here. They are twin brothers and they share the same mother.
There is a counterfeit currency manufacturing factory in Jiangsu, where a few farmers are manufacturing one-yuan coins in an air-raid shelter; there is also a counterfeit currency den in Loudi City, Hunan Province, where several laid-off workers are manufacturing counterfeit 100-yuan banknotes in the basement; an old man from Puyang, Hanning, runs a counterfeit currency store in his home
Detonators were made in the cellar where ginger was stored, and Fu Chun, a native of Ningbo, dug a hole under the pig pen to produce explosives.
Crime is a strange flower in the underground world.
There are many excavation projects in cities, sewers and sewers are two of them.
In 1994, there was an earthquake in Hong'an County. A whole section of the sewer was dug out of the ground and exposed to the world. People were surprised to find that there was a sewer under the sewer. In addition to the sludge, we also saw a lot of things. In
The pipes and wine glasses sold in the same shop meet again here, the dentures that once swore an oath have become dentures again, the handkerchief that has caused the memory of love has become a handkerchief again, and the sheet where a beautiful young woman slept is now wrapped in a
A dead cat rots here.
What makes people puzzled is what is the use of the sewer under the sewer?
Where does this unknown branch of darkness lead?
Whenever the rainy season comes, Hong'an County becomes a vast ocean.
A county party secretary who took office in 1986 only did one thing during his three years in office: to renovate the sewers. He ordered workers to dig deeper and strengthen the sewers so that they could accommodate more rainwater. Floodwaters used to flow through the streets.
It now flows through sewers, and the sewers under the sewers were dug at that time.
This respectable county party secretary is called Sun Zhaoyu. After his death, a new street was created: Zhaoyu Street. Ten years ago, Zhaoyu Street was called Huazi Street. There were not a single flower on Huazi Street, but there were
There are many beggars. 15 years ago, people also called it "stinky street". Sun Zhaoyu misappropriated public funds, compressed every expenditure, and deducted the wages of civil servants. He behaved like a beggar in front of the company and suffered like a pug in front of his wife.
After begging hard, he asked his boss to be kind and his wife to take out his bankbook. One thing that needs special mention is that after his death, people found that his savings were almost zero. We know that zero is the smallest number and is also infinite.
of a number.
Sun Zhaoyu did a good thing for the people and also provided a favorable place for criminals.
Scientists go to caves to explore, criminals go to sewers to explore.
Hong'an County has more than 200 streets and alleys and more than 400 sewer holes. Late one night in 1999, a child who stole a manhole cover encountered an incredible thing - he heard someone talking in the sewer. The child was brave
He opened the manhole cover and hid next to it. After a while, he saw an old man with unkempt hair and a smelly body emerging from the sewer.
We recognized that this old man was Old Man Ding. He and Liu Chaoyang’s many years of tomb robbing career did not bring much wealth to themselves. In 1998, there was an unknown underground drug den in Hong’an County, which Shan Ya was responsible for.
After Shan Ya died, Gao Fei expanded this underground den into a large-scale underground drug factory. Old man Ding and Liu Chaoyang were the people who expanded the underground factory at that time. They met Gao Fei through Kuban and discovered that drug trafficking
It was far more profitable than tomb robbing, so he quickly became a member of this drug gang.
The acquaintance of these people is like one stream of sewage meeting another stream of sewage, they are in the same flow and share the same odor.
The design of the underground factory is very clever. They dug another basement in a basement, which is connected to the sewer. Every wellhead of the sewer in the county is both an entrance and an exit.
Late at night on August 10, 2000, four outsiders came to Xiaojing Hutong in the east of Hong'an County. The further they walked, the narrower the alley became, as if they had gotten into a funnel extended by a pipe. When they arrived at this rather short street,
At the end, they saw a wall, a dead end.
They whispered to each other and waited quietly for something.
"Keep moving forward," said a voice.
The voice was dull, but it appeared next to me.
"Move forward," the voice continued.
They finally understood that the sound came from underground, and they took two steps forward. A man opened the manhole cover from the sewer, waved to them, and they jumped in.
Five minutes later, these four people met with four other people in a secret basement.
These eight people are: Gao Fei, Old Man Ding, Liu Chaoyang, Ku Ban, Zhou Xingxing, Tiezui, Qiu Ba, and Tu Laoye.
Time: August 10, 2000
Location: Hong'an County
Characters: Gao Fei, Old Man Ding, Liu Chaoyang, Kuban, Zhou Xingxing, Qiu Ba, Tiezui, Tu Laoye.
Zhou Xingxing: "Where is this?"
Goofy: "Basement."
Zhou Xingxing: "Where is it above?"
Gao Fei: "It's also a basement above."
Zhou Xingxing: "What's the sound outside?"
Goofy: "Our neighbor."
Old Man Ding: "It's a mouse, a mouse as big as a pig."
Liu Chaoyang: "I am also a mouse, haha."
Gao Fei: "Where is Master Shan?"
Tiezui: "We buried him."
Qiu Ba: "It was Master Shan who asked us to come here."
Gao Fei: "Well, I saw the red cloth strips tied on the tree."
Cuban: "How did you escape from prison?"
Tu Laoye: "Twist the rope and drill into the chimney, haha."
Old Man Ding: "Whoever thought of it, his head is smarter than mine."
Zhou Xingxing: "Me."
Gao Fei: "You alone are worth more than twenty people."
Cuban: "I told you before that you can't force your way in. The Paozi guys are too barbaric."
Gao Fei: "We happen to be short of manpower. Since you are here, let's work together."
Cuban: "We sell white dogs."
Gao Fei: "Let me introduce to you, this is Cuban. He dug a tunnel and dug into the bank, but he didn't make any money."
Cuban: "Haha, bad luck."
Gao Fei: "The other two, Uncle Ding and Mouse, are masters of digging holes and experts in tomb robbing."
Liu Chaoyang: "That was all hard work, now we are businessmen."
Tiezui: "Let me take a few puffs, I can't stand it anymore."
Tu Laoye: "My drug addiction is about to break out."
Gao Fei: "Okay, have you ever killed anyone?"
Tiezui: "No."
Gao Fei: "What about you?"
Zhou Xingxing: "Me neither."
Gao Fei: "Bring that man over."
Old Man Ding and Liu Chaoyang carried a man in and placed him gently on the ground. The man seemed to be asleep or passed out. There was a black plastic bag covering his head, and his face could not be seen.
Gao Fei: "I'll give you the knife and hit him in the stomach."
Zhou Xingxing took the knife and was very hesitant. If he gave up, it would definitely arouse Gao Fei's suspicion. In order to gain his trust, he had to accept the test. The man lying on the ground was motionless. Zhou Xingxing walked over, squatted down, and observed something carefully.
Soon, he stabbed him with a knife. As he expected, it was a dead man. Zhou Xingxing noticed that the plastic bag covering his face did not move at all, which meant that he was not breathing.
Gao Fei said: "Slit open the belly."
Zhou Xingxing opened his belly neatly, and his intestines flowed out. The air was filled with an unpleasant smell.
Gao Fei: "Take out your intestines and see what's in your stomach?"
Zhou Xingxing: "There is a bag of white powder!"
Gao Fei: "This corpse was bought from the funeral parlor. It's safer to transport the goods with the corpse. I'll give you the packet of powder to enjoy!"
Three days later, at 10 a.m.
Zhou Xingxing walked into the Hong'an County Public Security Bureau. A man in police uniform passed by him in the hall. Zhou Xingxing stopped him and said, "Is your director here?"
The man looked at him warily and said, "The director is upstairs in his office."
Zhou Xingxing went upstairs and opened the door of the director's office. The director was sleeping on the sofa, snoring loudly.
"Hey, who are you looking for? Why did you come in without knocking?" The director woke up, sat up and asked.
Zhou Xingxing glanced at him, said nothing, walked straight to his desk and sat down.
The director said: "Go out, is that where you sit?"
Zhou Xingxing picked up the phone and said to him while dialing: "If you want to keep this position, just shut up."
Zhou Xingxing reported the situation he investigated to the "7.17 Prison Robbery Case" headquarters on the phone: Shanya purchased drugs from abroad and then sold them to Sanwenqian in Huacheng and Paozi in Northeast China. The Sanwenqian and Paozi were then sold again.
Wholesale to the downstream, thus forming a huge drug trafficking network. The arrest of Shan Ya was equivalent to cutting off the source of drugs. Paozi from the Northeast gathered a group of bold guys to plan a prison robbery. After Shan Ya was arrested, Gao Fei became
The backbone of this drug trafficking group, he met Cuban through Xiao Youhui, and met Old Man Ding and Liu Chaoyang through Cuban's introduction. They secretly built an underground drug processing factory in Hong'an County. Gao Fei can be said to be a criminal genius
, extremely alert, seems to have noticed something in the past few days, and may flee to other places at any time, request the headquarters to issue an order to the Hong'an County Public Security Bureau to arrest immediately...
Zhou Xingxing handed the phone to the director.
The director broke out in a cold sweat. There was a drug processing factory under his jurisdiction, but he knew nothing about it. He answered the phone tremblingly. Bai Jingyu, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security, briefly introduced Zhou Xingxing's undercover identity on the phone, because this time
The operation was extremely confidential, so no internal investigation report was released. This case is a major case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security. We hope that the Hong'an County Public Security Bureau will attach great importance to it, actively cooperate, and make arrests immediately.
The director was obedient, nodded in agreement, and hung up the phone.
"How many police personnel does your county have?" Zhou Xingxing asked.
The director thought for a while and said: "There are currently 376 civilian police officers on duty, including 200 front-line police officers and 176 police officers at the police station."
Zhou Xingxing said: "It's not enough. Find them all. The police force is too small and not enough. We have to find some more people."
The director asked: "How many people are there on the other side?"
Zhou Xingxing said: "7."
The director said: "Ah, there are only 7. We have more than 300 people to arrest 7 people. Isn't it enough?"
Zhou Xingxing introduced him to the special characteristics of this underground drug factory in detail. An hour later, the two formulated a foolproof arrest plan. The police dispatched nearly 400 police officers, who disguised themselves as vendors, pedestrians, clothing store owners, and customers while shopping.
A woman sitting on a roadside bench talking on the phone, etc., they strictly controlled the 400 sewer wellheads in the streets of the county, because every wellhead may be an escape exit for criminals.
At 1:00 noon on August 13, 2000, the Hong'an police suddenly attacked and surrounded the building above the underground drug processing factory. When they failed to persuade them to surrender, the police used tear gas and prepared to force a breakthrough. The criminals in the basement were attacked by the police.
They had already discovered it when they arrived, and after a brief discussion, they decided to run away separately.
They fled along the sewers. The first one to be arrested was Tu Laoye. At the intersection of Zhongxin Street, he carefully opened the manhole cover and was arrested as soon as he climbed to the ground. Several others were also arrested as soon as they showed their heads.
There are some arrest details worth mentioning. Liu Chaoyang burst into tears when he was arrested, Tiezui shouted "It hurts" when he was arrested, Old Man Ding became incontinent when he was arrested, Kuban brandished a knife to kill himself when he was arrested, Old Man Tu
When he was arrested, he bit a policeman on the arm.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, five criminals were arrested, but only Gao Fei and Qiu Ba had not yet been arrested.
Where are they?
Still in the sewer.
When the police surrounded him, Goofy's nose had already smelled the danger on the ground, so he chose another escape direction - the end of the sewer. Indeed, the police ignored this. They only closely monitored the wellhead and did not
A police presence was set up at the river beach at the end of the sewer.
The sewer of Hong'an County leads to the Sishui River in the west of the city.
Gao Fei walked stooped in the dark and got lost many times, because there were some dead ends and some complicated branches in the sewer. Soon, he identified the direction and quickened his pace. Suddenly he heard something and looked back. Behind him
, far away, a terrifying beam of light pierced the darkness, and several vague black shadows were slowly moving.
At 3:10, the public security chief ordered a search of the sewers. Four police officers and a police dog formed a search team. They entered from the wellhead of Xiaojing Hutong and checked along the way. Like Gao Fei, they soon got lost and found themselves in a
They had differences of opinion at the fork in the road. One said it should go this way, and the other said it should go that way. Finally, they obeyed God's will and moved in the direction of the dog barking. Twenty minutes later, one team member died because he couldn't stand the stench in the sewer.
Offering to give up, the other two team members immediately agreed. In order to fulfill their police responsibilities, they fired a few shots at the end of the dark corridor and returned to the ground.
Gao Fei squatted on the ground, holding his breath. The bullet hit the vault not far from his head, and a piece of soil fell into the water. If the policemen continued to search forward, Gao Fei would have been arrested.
Gao Fei pricked up his ears and opened his eyes wide. After confirming that the danger had disappeared, he quickly moved forward without stopping. The water in the sewer flowed to the river, and he also relied on this to guide the direction. After a while, he looked up and saw that in the ditch
At the end of the street, far, far ahead of him, he saw a bright light. This time, what he saw was not the beam of a policeman's flashlight, but the light of day.
He saw the exit.
Gao Fei was ecstatic and walked to the exit, but soon became frustrated - the exit was blocked by an iron fence. Although it was rusty, it was difficult to bend and break the iron bar with both hands.
He calmed down, thought for a few minutes, and quickly came up with a solution. He took off his clothes, soaked them in water, wrapped them around two iron bars, and found a thick branch from the debris in the sewer, and pulled it hard
After twisting it, the iron bars made a creaking sound, and there was a gap in the iron fence that my body could just squeeze through.
Gao Fei washed his face in the river and walked onto a bridge. Suddenly, he felt as if there was someone behind him.
He turned his head.
There was indeed someone watching him from behind.
Zhou Xingxing appeared like a ghost.
Gao Fei: "Are you a policeman?"
Zhou Xingxing: "Yes."
Gao Fei: "I'm so stupid, I should have thought of it earlier."
Zhou Xingxing: "Actually, you are quite smart."
Gao Fei: "How did you know I would run out of here?"
Zhou Xingxing: "I have thought about it. If I were you, I would choose here too."
Gao Fei: "Let me go?"
Zhou Xingxing: "Impossible."
"Okay then." Gao Fei simply sat on the ground. Some pedestrians passing by on the bridge stopped to watch. They didn't understand why this man was sitting in the middle of the road.
"Do you know why I'm sitting here?"
Gao Fei kept his right hand in his trouser pocket and did not take it out. Zhou Xingxing looked at Gao Fei and said: "You have a gun or a grenade in your hand, and everyone around you is your hostage."
Gao Fei: "Smart, you are also my hostage, I will be the first to kill you."
Zhou Xingxing: "Then just shoot. The sound of the gunfire will attract the police nearby, and you still can't run away."
Gao Fei: "You have to know that when I was 17 years old, I killed a person without even frowning."
Zhou Xingxing: "The first time I solved a murder case, I was also 17 years old."
Gao Fei: "Think about it now, there won't be another person like you among the police in the country. You are smart, bold, and very powerful."
Zhou Xingxing: "There's one more thing you forgot to mention."
Gao Fei: "What?"
Zhou Xingxing: "I'm not afraid of death."
Gao Fei: "I don't believe it."
Zhou Xingxing also sat on the ground, saying nothing, just looking at him.
Gao Fei took out his pistol from his pocket and said to Zhou Xingxing: "I'll count to three. If you don't leave, I'll shoot."
Gao Fei: "One——"
Gao Fei: "Two——"
Zhou Xingxing said: "Three."
Gao Fei smiled and said, "If I have the guts, it would be great if I had wine. I can have a drink with you."
