Chapter 157 Lin Shiliang case

Lin Shiliang (1907-1942), a native of Fujian, from a wealthy family, joined Zhijiang University in Hangzhou founded by the church, transferred to Soochow University in Suzhou and graduated, fluent in English, and then went to Nanjing to work in the Lizhi Club.The inspirational society is specially set up to receive Chinese and foreign high-ranking officials and distinguished guests. Lin Dezhi is favored by Kong Xiangxi for some dignitaries in the center.The Inspirational Club promoted Lin to be the director-general of the Nanjing Club, introduced by Kong to the Central Bank, and was promoted to the Director of General Affairs of the Central Bank.Lin often went to the Confucian mansion to work for the Confucian family, and Song Ailing, the wife of Confucianism, asked Lin to accompany her when she went in and out. In 1942, Lin Shiliang was officially named the manager of the transportation department of the Central Trust Bureau (director of the transportation department).

At that time, the coast of China was blocked by the Japanese army, and the Soviet-German war was raging, and the import volume from the Northwest Soviet Union and Russia dropped sharply.Under the pressure of Japan, the Vichy regime in France cut off the Haiphong Port-Yunnan Railway in Vietnam, and only the Yunnan-Burma Line became the only channel for transporting strategic materials to the rear.When overseas shipping arrived at the port of Myanmar, the Kuomintang Military Commission appointed Yu Feipeng as the deputy director of the Transportation Control Bureau of the Military Commission, and he was stationed in Yangon to supervise the transportation.There is a railway running through Mandalay to the end point of Lashio, and the highway from Lashio to Kunming. Although the road conditions are not good, strategic materials such as gasoline, ordnance, hardware, rubber, and pharmaceuticals can be imported in a steady stream.Lin Shiliang is in charge of water, land and air transportation, and the CITIC Bureau has hundreds of Dodge trucks.

The anti-Japanese war was tight, and the rear area was short of supplies. However, some high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen "suffered food" and danced and danced all night. Chongqing was full of imported products, luxury goods, high-end clothing and cosmetics.At that time, the Kuomintang military command was in charge of the national water, land and air traffic inspection, and organized a traffic inspection corps of special agents, and Dai Li also served as the director of the anti-smuggling department.At first, the military command thought that it might be sold by the US military, but it was proved to be incorrect after investigation.Because the US military supplies are limited in variety except for military use, they are nothing more than Camel brand cigarettes and famous wines, high-quality clothing for men and women, glass stockings, Mis Buddha lipstick perfume, lighters, etc.There was a case where businessmen colluded with U.S. Air Force pilots to smuggle valuable western medicine, gold ornaments and jade from India, and were seized in Kunming.However, Dai Li has a tight intelligence network, and finally found out that the case was transported in large quantities by the Transportation Department of the Central Trust Bureau using its power to disguise the public for private purposes.Because Dai Li and Kong Xiangxi had a long-standing feud, he immediately went to Yunnan to arrange an investigation.

At this time, Japan was aggressively attacking Burma under the command of Commander Shojiro Iida of the 15th Army, and the British army was routed to India.After the Japanese army occupied Yangon, they fought fiercely with the Chinese Expeditionary Force. The anti-war materials accumulated by our army in Lashio had to be rushed day and night.Lin Shiliang personally went to Lashio to supervise the transportation, and rushed to transport the materials with 150 Dodge trucks from the CITIC Bureau.The military command found out that there were a lot of private goods, so Dai Linai, together with Li Chongshi, the police chief of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and the traffic inspectors waited at the Kunming station entrance, and followed the CITIC Bureau brigade trucks into the warehouse.The seal was opened and inspected on the spot, and the truck carried a huge amount of luxury smuggled goods, worth more than 30 million yuan in French currency.When Dai Li reported the incident to the highest authority, he immediately reported the incident to the press, aroused public opinion and pressure, and even hinted that the backstage was the "God of Wealth".All of a sudden, there were voices of scolding for making money for the country.Previously, Yu Feipeng stationed in Yangon had also reported to Chiang Kai-shek that it was very unfavorable for the operation of the Transportation Department of the China Information Bureau in Myanmar.Chiang Kai-shek's instructions on this were sent to the Ministry of Military Law Executive Director.

The Nationalist Government and the Central Military Commission drew on advanced foreign experience, unified organization and organization to improve the military legal system, and military judges were dispatched from divisions, brigades and regiments, and the National Military Law Executive Directorate was established. On June 14, 1938, Special General He Chengjun (1882-1961) ) for the Director.He Chengjun, a veteran general of the Central Army, was introduced by Huang Xing to join the China Tongmenghui in 1905, and entered the fifth phase of the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy in 1907.During the Northern Expedition, he served as the Chief Counselor of the General Headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army.Later, he served as the chairman of the committee, the director of the Beiping camp, and the director of the Wuhan camp.Hope is enough to deter.Military law enforcement supervisors have been set up in all theaters of the country.Later, the Western Sichuan Anti-smoking Military Law Enforcement Supervisor and the Yunnan Burma Theater Military Law Enforcement Supervisor were established.The appointment of the military law enforcement supervisor must be reported to the Military Commission by the directorate (often recommended by the commander of the theater), and the appointment will be approved by the "Chairman and Attendant" on behalf of him.

The cases that are directly heard by the director's department are all important cases and special cases. The reason is nothing more than that the Lin Shiliang case of CITIC Bureau was during the war.In addition, considering the complex interpersonal relationships of local judicial organs, they are more aloof than military judicial supervisors, "it is beneficial to investigate and find out all the facts of the case, so don't let it go wrong." Since the Military Judiciary Department took over the case, I haven't heard of any bribes to the Director's Department to lobby. I only heard that "an old friend came to visit, and the Lin case seemed to be casually mentioned in the chat, meaning that it is better to close the case as soon as possible." "Don't go after the so-called backstage and left-right involvement"; and then say "saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, and exempting Lin from death by doing extrajudicial favors."

According to He Chengjun’s diary that day: On December 5, 1942, Kong Xiangxi, who was the vice president of the Executive Yuan at the time, invited He Chengjun to have lunch at Kong’s house. Xu Kan, Yang Xiaotian, and Chen Xizeng had dinner with him.After the meal, "Mr. Kong talked about the case of Lin Shiliang's fraud in great detail, and tried his best to explain it to Xu Xingchu (Xu is the manager of the Trust Department of the Central Trust Bureau and is in custody with Lin in the same case). It seems that the purpose of the appointment for lunch is here ". Four days later, on December 9th, He Chengjun received a phone call from the Department of Communication of the headquarters and said: The committee is calling, and I will come to the official residence to talk.He "went to the official residence to have an audience and inquired about the situation of Lin Shiliang's case, so he should report them one by one. I was told that all matters can be adjudicated according to law, and no other considerations should be taken into account."

The investigation and analysis of the case found that Lin Shiliang abused his power during the tense war in Yangon, colluded with Zhang Dewu, the manager of Dacheng Enterprise Company and Litong Commercial Bank, and privately used the name of the Central Trust Bureau to rush to transport commodities on behalf of the firm, corrupt and embezzled.Although Xu Xingchu was suspected, he did not deal with it directly, and he did not pay a penny of the money he promised to make a bill remittance. He said that Xu was deceived by his colleague Lin Shiliang to get closer to the facts.The Department of Military Law Executive Director carefully weighed and signed a report to sentence Lin Shiliang to life imprisonment; Xu Xingchu was sentenced to two years in prison and suspended for three years, and submitted to the Military Commission for approval.

In the middle of the night on December 21, 1942, Chiang Kai-shek issued an order saying: Lin Shiliang should be shot immediately, and Xu Xingchu should also have a heavier sentence.Of course, the director's department obeyed Jiang's order.Lin Shiliang was sentenced to death on December 22, Xu Xingchu was sentenced to 5 years in prison, and Lin was executed at 16:00 on the same day. After the Lin case was closed, Chiang Kai-shek dismissed Dai Li as director of the anti-smuggling department and replaced him with Xuan Tiewu. Some people speculated that it was to protect Kong Xiangxi's face.

Lin Shiliang is Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law and once served as the confidential assistant to Kong Xiangxi, Minister of Finance.Lin started to contact Kong Xiangxi through the underground relationship of the Shanghai Youth Gang. After Lin Shiliang was appointed as the director of the storage and transportation department of the Central Bank Trust Bureau, he was responsible for ordering arms abroad and handling the transportation business through Hong Kong.The manager of the Central Trust Bureau in Hong Kong is Kong Xiangxi's eldest son, Kong Lingkan. After the Yunnan-Burma Highway was opened to traffic, he asked Lin Shiliang to "manage" the transportation business there.

This case actually involved a group of speculators and profiteers associated with Dacheng Company. The company entrusted Lin Shiliang's assistant, Wang Jifang, to transport a batch of tires and hardware stored in Yangon to Chongqing.Part of the huge sum of money from this transaction was transferred by Lin Shiliang to Kong Lingkan and his notorious younger sister, Kong Lingjun, the second lady who was used to female companions in men's clothing.Kong Xiangxi's eldest daughter Kong Lingyi and son-in-law Chen Jisi are also involved.The goods were shipped in several batches, two of which were seized by the Anti-Smuggling Administration. After Dai Li telegraphed the news to Chiang Kai-shek, the chairman was furious, thinking that Lin Shiliang was using his uncle's name to carry out smuggling activities for himself.As a result, on Chiang Kai-shek's order, Lin was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison in Tuqiao Prison in Chongqing.At the same time, the total price of the seized materials has skyrocketed from about 16 million yuan to 60 million yuan.According to the regulations, officials who seized smuggled goods received a bonus of 10% of the total confiscated goods, which was used to improve the organization.Dai Li's people also collected Lin Shiliang's bad deeds such as eating, drinking, whoring and gambling.After Jiang learned of these corrupt practices, he was furious and revised the original sentence to "immediate execution". Lin Shiliang was unwilling to take the blame for the Kong family, so he publicly blamed Kong Lingkan for the smuggling conspiracy.Under his father's coercion, Kong Lingkan took the whole matter to Song Meiling, Mrs. Chiang's place.In this way, Dai Li found himself on the opposite side of the entire Kong family and Song family, who asked Chiang Kai-shek to solve the case for them.Chiang Kai-shek thus faced a dilemma: on the one hand, family interests (in the eyes of the public, the four major families represented the private interests of "bureaucratic capitalism"), and on the other, what General Dai called an affront to the authority of the military authorities (The authority is now in charge of the former Kuomintang finance ministers Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi). Chiang finally sided with the family, especially as the estranged Song and Kong families were now united by a common enemy, Dai Li.In addition to sentencing Lin Shiliang, the chairman also accused Dai Li of exceeding his authority because of dissatisfaction and personal anger.Therefore, in July 1943, Dai Li was dismissed from the post of Director of the Anti-Smuggling Administration, and was replaced by Xuan Tiewu, a man of Kong Xiangxi and Dai Li's "unyielding" enemy. At the same time, all the directors of the anti-smuggling departments of the provinces were replaced, and all members of the military command were excluded. Dai Li's dismissal as director of the Anti-Smuggling Administration was misunderstood by China's ally, the United States, as dealing with excessive military reunification.The U.S. embassy in Chongqing reported to the State Department that it was widely believed that the dismissal of “Dai Li, the notorious leader of the Generalissimo’s secret police and military police and intelligence organization” was due to: 1. Repeated kidnappings and executions of subordinates of senior officials without authorization, Including Lin Shiliang, director of the storage and transportation department of the Central Trust, executed by shooting in the autumn of 1942. It is believed that he used the truck carrying government supplies from Burma to China to transport "luxury" supplies for senior officials; 2. The organization itself was corrupt "Anti-smuggling activities" conflicted with the "corrupt interests" of "senior officials"; 3. The fierce struggle within the Kuomintang secret police, whose main function was to deal with the field of "dangerous thoughts"; 4. Because of the successful anti-espionage activities of the Japanese , Dai Li’s intelligence organization in the enemy-occupied area was destroyed; 5. Attacks on Dai Li and his "Gestapo"; Madam Jiang heard about these attacks during her trip to the United States, which gave her the impression that "Americans It is believed that it was not the Chairman, but Dai Li, who actually took control of China through the brutal application of the Nazi and Japanese police systems."