Chapter 16 Section 16 Before Arrest

Yang Qianxian, Zhuang Rushun and Lai Changxing have known each other since the early 1980s.At that time, it was the early stage of reform and opening up. Overseas Chinese from Jinjiang and Shishi returned home to visit relatives and friends one after another. The folding umbrellas, electronic watches, tape recorders and even nylon cloth they brought back were all attractive.Since then, such goods have been smuggled by fishermen on a large scale, and the stone lion smuggling market is booming. At that time, Lai Changxing just walked out of the burnt house in Jinjiang to do some small business for primitive accumulation.He was once detained by the Quanzhou Public Security Bureau for selling yellow calendars.Later, he opened a small restaurant in downtown Shishi and became a small boss.At that time, Zhuang Rushun was transferred from the Provincial Public Security Department to the Shishi Police Station.Yang Qianxian is the director of the customs investigation department, and often leads people to station in Shishi to combat smuggling, and Zhuang Rushun cooperates.Yang and Zhuang often dined at Lai's restaurant, and Lai also provided Yang with some smuggling information.Yang and Zhuang had to pay for meals, but Lai often refused to accept them.Lai's words are heart-warming: "You can spend tens of dollars a month, can you afford to spend years and months outside? Treat me like a brother, and run to my shop when you are hungry." Yang and Zhuang were very moved by his heroism. , Become an irresistible confidant between contacts.

When Lai Changxing entered Xiamen as a Hong Kong businessman to develop, the relationship between Yang, Zhuang and Lai developed to a new level.Lai Changxing's money and the rights of Yang and Zhuang became the investment capital of the community of interests of the three.Under the cover of power, Lai engaged in smuggling and profiteering. It broke out in a few years, and relying on Yang's protection, he monopolized the Xiamen smuggling market and controlled customs clearance channels to collect water fees.Relying on Zhuang's official influence, Lai used money to thread needles and threads, and soon weaved a network of relationships ranging from Li Jizhou of the Ministry of Public Security to available personnel in the Xiamen Public Security Bureau, and expanded to all levels of officialdom that needed to be borrowed.On the other hand, Yang and Zhuang relied on their economic strength to broaden their official career in the officialdom.The combined effect of money and power has been brought into full play.

For this reason, Lai is Yang and Zhuang.When the net was cast on Lai Changxing, how could Yang and Zhuang just sit idly by? On the morning of August 14, Jie Peiyong, the former deputy head of Xiamen Customs, received a call from Cai Huijuan from Hong Kong at home.Cai cried and yelled on the phone: "Fatty Lai ran away, and even Steward Wang couldn't get in touch with him. He is too disrespectful, so he didn't tell me, leave me alone!" She said, she wanted to find Yang On the front line, the phone can't be reached. "You must find 'Mu Yi' (Cai's abbreviation for Yang Qianqian) and ask him to call me."

Jie Peiyong knew that Yang Qianxian's home phone number had changed.He called and asked Yang to definitely call Cai, and told him: Cai said on the phone that Lai Changxing had left Hong Kong.Yang just "hummed" and didn't say anything.In fact, after Yang had a phone call with Lai last night, he received another call from Lai this morning, and it was known that Lai Fei had left.Yang first called Xie Dongfeng (the former director of the Tong'an office who resigned in early 1999 and joined Lai's Group) who was still in Hong Kong, and asked Xie to take Cai Huijuan to leave Hong Kong as soon as possible. "Don't stay in Hong Kong, leave early and be safe. You must take Xiao Cai away, she knows a lot of things." Xie Dongfeng agreed.Yang connected Cai Huijuan's phone at around 10:00, and Cai cried and made noises, scolding Fatty Lai for having no loyalty and calling Yang for having no conscience. "I'm a woman, what should I do if I'm single in Hong Kong?" When Cai was about to vent, Yang told Cai: "I have arranged for Xie Dongfeng to take you out of Hong Kong. Lai's departure is forced by the situation. You have to be careful. Don't keep complaining. If you are caught, you will spend your whole life in a prison cell." Cai burst into tears again, Yang shook his head and hung up the phone.

That afternoon, as soon as Yang Qianxian arrived at the office, he received a call from the deputy mayor in charge of foreign trade in Xiamen, asking Yang to rush to the city hall for a meeting. "Today, the secretary of the Municipal Party Committee presided over the meeting, mainly discussing the issue of rectifying the order of the piers around the island of Xiamen proposed by the customs. Director Yang, you are the keynote speaker. The meeting starts at 3 o'clock, so don't be late!" Yang Qianxian had urged the city government many times for this matter. The order of the pier was too chaotic for the customs to carry out effective supervision.When the task force is about to enter Xiamen, he will start by "rectifying" the dock order, and establish the image of the customs as "administrating according to law".So, when he answered the deputy mayor's phone call, he didn't have time to think about it, stuffed the relevant materials into his briefcase, and rushed to the city hall.