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We have heard a lot of stories about bullies, the most famous of which should be regarded as a white-haired woman, Xi'er is the daughter of the poor farmer Yang Bailao, and the local bully who makes people hate in the story is Huang Shiren.
Huang Shiren used his position of power to arbitrarily occupy the land of peasants, but also robbed the women of the people, causing Yang Bailao's only daughter Xi'er to commit suicide and hide in the mountains after being insulted by Huang Shiren, and spent the night in vain.
People like Yang Bailao were spurned by us, and in the Republic of China period, there was really a very famous bully named Liu Wencai, and people in Sichuan should have heard the old people tell about this person's bad deeds.
At that time, he took advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune in the wartime, ran amok, and the people around him were miserable, and he was really a street rat that everyone shouted and beat.
Legendary Liu Wencai
Liu Wencai actually had good family conditions, and the landlord was born in a powerful and powerful manner, but he was not satisfied, and made a fortune by planting opium and other harmful businesses.
It is really evil that repays good and good, and Liu Wencai finally paid the price for the bad things he did, and finally became nothing. Left four sons, unfortunately the eldest son was addicted to opium, but also lost his life because of drug addiction, the second son is still relatively better, became an ordinary worker who worked all his life, the third son fell in love with Liu Wencai's lover, and the fourth son was accidentally killed by a train.
Not only his son, but also his grandson was strangled alive in Xinjiang because of the revenge of the enemy family.
Recently, there is always a small wave of voices saying good things for Liu Wencai, they say that the folk legend of Liu Wencai is fake, in reality he is not as evil as the legend, repair bridges and pave roads These good things Liu Wencai has also done, and even did public welfare to establish a school.
As for the matter of having five wives, people on the Internet who were ordinary for Liu Wencai felt that this was very common at the time, and it could not be said that he was a sinner.
Liu Wencai started out as a small business of smoking and drinking, there was nothing special about it, but life was not so bad, and when he was thirty-four years old, he became the head of the tobacco and alcohol company by virtue of the power of Liu Wenhui, the brother who became the brigade commander.
Not only that, Liu Wencai was also in charge of smoking bans and taxation in southern Sichuan at that time. On the surface, he advertised a ban on smoking, but behind the scenes, he was crazy about growing opium to make a lot of money.
Because he was powerful and had economic support, he became the leader of the Yibin underworld organization. With the promotion of his younger brother, Liu Wencai was also promoted to the head of taxation in dozens of counties, and no one dared to take care of the private cultivation of opium, and eventually became a major drug lord in Sichuan.
In the 1930s, Liu Wencai became more and more arrogant, competing with his nephew Liu Xiang for territory, and Liu Xiang was not a weak and bullying lord.
Therefore, Liu Wencai's battle ended in failure, and later there were rumors that Liu Wencai became angry after his failure, and secretly sent people to assassinate Liu Xiang, but the result was not successful, which also caused Liu Xiang to be furious and directly sent planes to bomb the Yibin area where Liu Wencai was located.
In 1932, Liu Wencai became even more arrogant, he united four well-known local evil force organizations, set up a public welfare association, became the president himself, for the harm side seemed to have a solipsistic posture, he repeatedly carried out armed suppression of the so-called disobedience to the tax policy, and the number of people killed was as high as one hundred and twenty.
At that time, polygamy had actually been banned, but Liu Wencai had a five-room aunt at home, and it was rumored that his fifth wife liked to eat goose paws, and this dish was necessary at the table every day.
When the chef makes this dish, he will choose a large white goose that jumps around alive, tie up the two goose paws, put them directly on the red-hot iron plate while he is alive, and after a while he will pick up the geese and cut off the duck paws to cook, the process is extremely cruel, not only cruel but also particularly wasteful, because the chef will only use the rest of the two goose paws to throw away.
Another face of Liu Wencai
In the 1960s, the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts created a work of art called "Rent Collection", which revealed that Liu Wencai set up a water prison to torture and maim tenants.
This work of art silenced the people who saw it, felt sad for the persecuted people, and felt hatred for Liu Wencai.
Liu Wencai's fifth wife, wang Yuqing, died in 2003 at the age of ninety-two.
When she was alive, she often played mahjong with her neighbors, and someone went to interview her about goose paws, and her answer was that she was from a poor peasant background, and indeed liked to eat goose paws, while other people in the Liu family did not like it, so every time she specially ate goose paws that no one ate, as for what was used to burn white geese with iron plates, it was pure nonsense.
There are some rumors that Liu Wencai used to rob the women of the people, but in fact, this is also false, after the death of the eldest lady, Liu Wencai married the second lady.
However, the second lady concentrated on eating and praying to the Buddha, so Liu Wencai fell in love with a famous social flower in Yibin, named Ling Junru, at that time Ling Junru was very young and only sixteen years old, Liu Wencai married her home as the third aunt, everything was spoiled, and ling Junru was particularly good.
As a result, Ling Junru did not appreciate it, she hated Liu Wencai as a countryman who did not understand anything, so she began to attract bees and butterflies to make Liu Wencai lose people, and later began to take drugs and adopted three children who wanted to share more family property, resulting in Liu Wencai being laughed at by people in four miles and eight townships behind his back.
Just under Liu Wencai's connivance with Ling Junru, she got involved with a male actor who sang opera, so Liu Wencai could only take her off, but even in this case, he felt that he could not treat Ling Junru badly, so he gave her a considerable living expense and let her leave.
There are not many stories about Liu Wencai on the Internet, it is said that he died of illness in his hometown in 1949, although Liu Wencai also built a school and helped some poor people, but he really cannot be said to be a good person.
Because his wanton cultivation of opium has harmed us for many Chinese, it is not at all that he has done a little thing to make up for it, and behind those opium, how many families have fallen apart, and the wicked will surely have bad retribution.
His eldest son also lost his life because of opium, but his grandson is really innocent, Liu Wencai's life has worked hard to accumulate wealth, and he wants his descendants to live a good life, but he did not think that because of the evil consequences he planted, none of the children enjoyed it.
References: "History of the Republic of China", "The Republic of China in the Depths of History"