Chapter 88 fourth quarter

Having seen Rong Desheng's "serious drama" and Zhang Yuanji's "comedy", now it's time to look at the tragedy in the kidnapping case - in 1940, Fang Yexian, an outstanding national entrepreneur and "king of chemical industry", was kidnapped and killed. Born in Shanghai in 1893, Fang Yexian was originally from Zhenhai, Zhejiang. He came from a business family.The young Fang Yexian loved chemistry and was especially interested in the chemical industry. In 1912, 20-year-old Fang Yexian took 10,000 yuan from his mother and founded the China Chemical Industry Association on Yuanmingyuan Road in Shanghai.

At the beginning of his business, Fang Yexian had a long period of difficult times. For several consecutive years, although his products were of good quality, they could not be sold. He once complained to his friends: "Our products are delicious, but our business is stinky. In 1919, with the help of the May 4th Movement to "boycott Japanese products and advocate the use of domestic products", he turned around in less than two years; during this period, he received a large investment from his fourth uncle Fang Jiyang, and finally had a chance Display your own ideals and ambitions.

In 1923, Fang Yexian launched the earliest domestically produced toothpaste "Samsung" toothpaste in China. This toothpaste has excellent taste, fragrance and use effect, and it only sells for 2 cents a piece, compared with the US "ribbon" for 7 cents. The brand toothpaste is much cheaper, quickly occupied the market, and became a famous national brand in the Republic of China. After 1949, China's toothpaste production base, the famous Shanghai Toothpaste Factory, was formerly the toothpaste production department of Fang Yexian's China Chemical Industry Corporation.

The national chemical brands operated by Fang Yexian also include "Scissors" brand soap, "Samsung" brand mosquito coils, and "Guanyin Powder" and "Wei Sheng" monosodium glutamate. It also squeezed out similar foreign goods from Japan, Europe and America. Fang Yexian's business became more and more prosperous. From 1931 to 1940, the income of China Chemical Industry Association was better than one year, known as "ten years of prosperity"; by 1940, he was also the general manager of China Chemical Industry Association and Shanghai China Domestic Products Company. Chairman and general manager, chairman of Jianhua Chemical Pharmaceutical Factory, chairman of Kaicheng Acid Company and other responsible positions, he is not only a business leader in Shanghai, but also famous all over the country.

Fang Yexian is a patriotic national entrepreneur. During the "January 28th" Songhu Anti-Japanese War in 1932, he set up a hospital for wounded soldiers in the chemical industry factory area to support the 19th Route Army; in 1937 when the "August 13th" Anti-Japanese War started, he funded the establishment of the wounded soldier hospital again. And hired famous surgical experts to diagnose and treat wounded soldiers. In Shanghai in 1940, the Chinese community was occupied by Japan and ruled by the Wang puppet government.Fang Yexian became a celebrity in the business circle that Japan tried to win over. Japan lobbied Fang Yexian many times to "cooperate" with him on extremely favorable terms, but he refused; the Wang puppet government also wanted him to join, and Chen Gongbo sent people Persuading him to become the Minister of Industry of the Wang puppet government in Nanjing, Fang Yexian said: "I run a factory and do business. I don't understand politics. I only know how to do business. I can't be a high-ranking official." Complicity.

Not cooperating with the Japanese and puppets politically, and being rich economically, these two conditions happened to be the target of an evil force-this evil force is the Wang Puppet Secret Service Organization. The Wang puppet government is in Nanjing, but its secret service headquarters is at No. 76, Jisifeier Road, Shanghai. The leader of No. 76 is Li Shiqun. Wu Shibao, the captain of his security team, told him how rich Fang Yexian is, and that he doesn't cooperate with Japan, so he can be tied up. Pen.Li Shiqun felt that it was feasible, and with some planning, Fang Yexian's ruin was about to come.

Fang Yexian was known for his unruly and uncooperative attitude. His relatives and friends were always worried about his safety. His wife Qian Binying persuaded him to go abroad.Fang Yexian thinks that I only do business anyway, and the Japanese don't dare to do anything to me.He didn't expect that the Japanese didn't want his life, but his "compatriots" in No. 76 were coveting his property, and the claws of kidnapping were about to reach out to him. On the evening of July 24, 1940, Fang Yexian received a call from an acquaintance, saying that a giant businessman from Nanyang wanted to negotiate business with him, so the two parties made an appointment to meet at the International Hotel the next morning. On the morning of July 25, Fang Yexian went out as scheduled, and never came back.

The phone call to discuss "Nanyang" business was a trick set up by No. 76.This morning, the kidnappers were lying in ambush by the gate of Fangzhai on Xingjiapo Road (now Yuyao Road).Fang Yexian's bodyguards immediately drew their guns, and the leader of the kidnappers, Gu Baolin, fired seven shots and killed him on the spot.The kidnappers who rushed into the car grabbed Fang Yexian and forced the driver to drive westward. Fang Yexian knew that he had run into a kidnapper, and shouted, "Someone has kidnapped him!"; the kidnapper held him with a gun and ordered him to be silent.Fang Yexian didn't care and shouted desperately.The kidnapper panicked and shot him in the lower abdomen. Fang Yexian was seriously injured and passed out.

Fang Yexian's screams when he was tied up were heard by Fang's house and the surrounding area, and several servants and policemen from the concession Annan rushed towards him with guns raised.In desperation, the kidnapper kicked the driver under the car, turned around and drove east by himself, and drove away all the way. The Fang family was extremely anxious and called the police everywhere.Facing such rampant kidnappers, Singapore Road was in turmoil for a while.The police searched in many ways, but there was no clue; the Fang family waited for calls and letters from the kidnappers to contact the ransomist, but there was no news.

People wondered why the kidnappers did not contact their family members to extort money after the kidnapping was successful. How could they have imagined that this time the kidnappers were the No. 76 secret service organization; If you don't cooperate, you will be tortured to death within a few days! After Fang Yexian was kidnapped, the kidnappers did not dare to drive directly to No. 76 when they saw the police from the foreign concession chasing them. They were afraid that they would meet the police car from the foreign concession patrol room who had received the call. They drove to No. 22, Jingyunli, the secret service organization. another stronghold.Gu Baolin gave Fang Yexian an injection of anesthetic, which made him unconscious again, and then quietly transported him to No. 76 and handed it over to Wu Shibao.

Wu Shibao was ecstatic when he got the "meat ticket". He rushed back to No. 76 that night, and told Fang Yexian, who had woken up, that you were "arrested" because of your connection with Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing, and now "confess" quickly; then, Wu Shibao He revealed the kidnapper's true colors and asked Fang Yexian to write a letter home, asking his family to redeem him with money. Unexpectedly, Fang Yexian didn't accept this at all, and sternly rejected all his unreasonable demands, and scolded Wu Shibao and his group as gangsters!Furious, Wu Shibao grabbed Fang Yexian's head and brain with his belt and beat him desperately, and poured cold water from Fang Yexian's nose with a hose.Fang Yexian, who was already suffering from gunshot wounds and lost a lot of blood, suffered such torture and was on the verge of death. He stopped breathing with hatred within a few days after being transferred out of No. 76. The "meat ticket" was dead, and Li Shiqun was strictly ordered not to admit the kidnapping of Fang Yexian. The Fang family, who had been waiting for the kidnapper to contact for a long time but had no news, was in a mess.Fang Yexian's wife, Qian Binying, didn't expect that the case was handled by the secret agents, so she kept asking the underworld, especially Wan Molin, a close confidant of Du Yuesheng, the top figure in the underworld. The news finally leaked from a man named Li Zulai.Li Zulai is a student of Du Yuesheng and a member of the traitor spy organization. He is also the lover of Wu Shibao's wife She Aizhen!Qian Binying originally asked him to inquire about the underworld, but he inadvertently found out that Fang Yexian was at No. 76 from She Aizhen, and immediately notified Qian Binying. As soon as Qian Binying heard that it was about No. 76, she didn't dare to be negligent. She quickly wrote out a few huge checks from HSBC, rushed to the home of Li Shiqun, the leader of No. 76, and said straight to the point that my husband has been arrested by you, please help release him.Li Shiqun pretended to be surprised, and "angrily" asked Qian Binying where he heard the rumors from.Qian Binying pestered him too much, handed over a huge check, and only said that he was bothering to help. Li Shiqun knew that Fang Yexian had been killed by his subordinates, but he still accepted the large sum of money with peace of mind, saying "to help with the investigation"; Qian Binying, who had paid the money, still could not see her husband, and begged Li Zulai again, Li Zulai had already died Knowing from She Aizhen that Fang Yexian died in the hands of Wu Shibao, it is hard to tell her directly, so she just asked Qian Binying to seek help from Wu Shibao. Therefore, after the unscrupulous Wu Shibao killed Fang Yexian, he grandly accepted a large sum of money from Fang's wife, and used the identity of a "kind helper" to "investigate" where Fang Yexian was.In the end, he asked Li Zulai to tell Qian Binying, saying that after "multiple investigations", he finally knew that Fang Yexian was dead, and it was "unclear to investigate" who did it, and Fang Yexian's body was in the Wanguo Funeral Home. The Fang family paid a huge sum of 100,000 to 200,000 yuan, and all they got was Fang Yexian's cold corpse.The traitor spies who kidnapped and killed Fang Yexian still demanded large sums of money from the anxious Fang family after Fang Yexian died.Even a habitual bandit who specializes in kidnapping cases would not be able to do such a heartless act.According to the rules of the kidnapping gang, if you get the ransom, you will be released immediately. This is the case in both the Rong Desheng case and the Zhang Yuanji case.This is for the "reputation" of the kidnappers, because if people know that no matter whether they pay or not, the "meat ticket" is dead, they will not pay according to extortion, they will only call the police to arrest the kidnappers, which will only cut off the kidnappers' wealth road. The greedy and vicious traitor agents on No. 76 have no "rules".Every kidnapping case is a tragedy, but the death of Fang Yexian is a tragedy among tragedies. After Fang Yexian was brutally killed, China Chemical Industry Association kept it secret to the outside world in order to carry out normal business, and still operated in the name of Fang Yexian.But the truth finally came to light, and the Shanghai business community was outraged.Not long after, Okawa Zhouming, an important official Japanese "theorist" during World War II, came to Shanghai to do the work of attracting business people. The entrepreneurs found a way to complain, and said one after another, how could they cooperate with such inhuman people as Li Shiqun and Wu Shibao?After the Japanese found out about Fang Yexian's case, they were very annoyed by it, thinking that these secret agents had counterproductive to their aggression because of their personal greed. Therefore, after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, Wu Shibao, who dared to rob the Bank of Japan, was first poisoned to death by the Japanese; in 1943, Li Shiqun, then the pseudo-governor of Jiangsu Province, was poisoned by Japan with a biscuit despite all kinds of precautions... … The waves run, the waves flow, the torrential Huangpu River rushes endlessly, taking away a lot of Shanghai's past.The rampant "kidnapping era" is gone forever. Rereading this page will only increase our call for conscience, justice, order and the rule of law; The duty-bound aspirations of people who live a normal life no longer breed so many shadows and sins behind the radiance of the city.