At the beginning of 2024, a TV series "Ice Hunting" starring Zhang Songwen and other powerful actors will be officially released.
Zhang Songwen, who relied on the role of Gao Qiqiang in "Hurricane" to become a mess, played a high-IQ drug lord Huang Zongwei in this TV series, and was good at making methamphetamine.
The TV series is based on reality, Huang Zongwei's prototype in real life is called Liu Zhaohua, and the experience of this big drug lord is outrageous that can't even be made up in a novel.
first joined the army and became the backbone of the army, and after changing jobs, he became a bailiff, and then earned his first pot of gold by smuggling, and then went to the road of drug trafficking, and finally sent himself to the guillotine.
So, what kind of story does Liu Zhaohua have? Let's talk about it today.
Born in a poor family in rural Fujian, he was influenced by his mother to believe in feng shui
On December 20, 1966, a poor peasant family in Suyang Town, Fujian Province, welcomed another boy.
The locals believe in having more children and more blessings, and the arrival of a new life makes the Liu family and his wife have mixed joys and sorrows, the joy is that this is a son, and the worry is that there is one more mouth to eat, and life is more difficult.
In addition to the newborn baby boy, the Liu family already has four children, two sons and two daughters.
As the eldest child in the family, his parents named the baby boy Liu Zhaohua, although he was the youngest child in the family, Liu Zhaohua did not receive too much pampering in his childhood.
Parents run around for a few taels of silver every day, and they don't care about their children at all, and their brothers and sisters have to help their parents share some housework after they are sensible, and they don't have time or patience to coax their younger brothers.
Extreme poverty accompanied Liu Zhaohua almost throughout his childhood and adolescence, and also affected him throughout his life. Many local people are devout Buddhists and have been influenced by adults, and Liu Zhaohua's sisters and brothers are no exception.
When he was 9 years old, Liu Zhaohua's mother was seriously ill, and the boy made a wish that as long as his mother survived, he was willing to eat fasting for three years.
Later, he also developed a habit of going to the local temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha every time he went to a new place.
When he was 12 years old, Liu Zhaohua's father died of illness, the pillar of the family collapsed, and the burden of raising 5 children was all on Liu's mother.
Seeing his mother working day and night for herself and her brothers and sisters, and her waist was so tired that she couldn't stand up, the sensible Liu Zhaohua had the idea of dropping out of school and going out to work.
A boy of the same age as Liu Zhaohua can go to junior high school and graduate from junior high school, which is already considered a high education, but his mother is firmly opposed to her son dropping out of school.
In her eyes, the youngest son is smart and has good academic performance, and if he gets out of the poor village after taking the entrance examination for a good university, the family can follow suit.
Mother said to Liu Zhaohua earnestly: Your father and I just suffered the loss of no education, you don't follow our old path, I will send you to study no matter how hard and tired I am, and the family is still counting on you to get ahead.
The teachers at the school learned that Liu Zhaohua wanted to drop out of school and work, and they also came to persuade him, thinking that this was a good seedling for studying, and he would definitely be admitted to university if he cultivated it well.
Facts have proved that this poor boy does have an extraordinary talent in mathematics, physics and chemistry. Science and engineering are subjects that speak with strength, and Liu Zhaohua participated in the Fujian Provincial Middle School Student Chemistry Competition at the age of 14 and won the second prize.
According to such results, he is very likely to be admitted to a good university, but when he arrives at home in the second year of high school, he really can't afford to pay for his own study, so Liu Zhaohua has no choice but to drop out.
The eldest brother Liu Zhaofu worked as a maintenance worker in an auto repair shop, and the income was not bad, so Liu Zhaohua followed his brother to the auto repair shop as an apprentice. The apprenticeship lasted only a few months, and he couldn't stand his big brother's violent temper, so he chose to quit.
Learning auto repair was a no-brainer, so Liu Zhaohua decided to find another way out, and just when he felt confused about the future, the local government began an annual conscription.
Liu Zhaohua thinks that the only way to get ahead in a family like himself is to be a soldier, and it can be seen from a small incident when he recruits that he is very flexible and bold.
According to the conscription conditions at that time, Liu Zhaohua was still one year old, and most people would wait for the second year to meet the conditions before signing up. However, he lied about his date of birth as March 1965, and finally passed the review to join the Fuzhou Frontier Detachment of the Armed Police.
The man performed well in the army and was influenced to embark on the road of drug production
After Liu Zhaohua entered the army, his performance in all aspects was very good, and his cultural level was very high, and the leaders of the unit thought that this was a malleable talent, so they included him in the key training objects.
He also lived up to expectations and performed very positively, and after only two years in the army, he was given the opportunity to go to a military academy for further study, and after graduating from this school, he was basically able to be promoted.
Liu Zhaohua became the fastest promoted soldier in the same period, and in 1988 he became the acting secretary general.
At this critical moment, the wheel of fate has turned in the other direction. During his mission, Liu Zhaohua knew a man, Chen Daozhong, who was from Taiwan and used to work in Taiwan's District Prosecutor's Office.
Chen Daozhong, who has read countless people, saw this young soldier for the first time, and he expected that the other party must be a character in the future, and he also saw the ambition to do great things in Liu Zhaohua's eyes.
After a period of communication, Chen Dao discovered that this person was extremely talented in chemistry, and a new type of drug crystal methamphetamine was popular among young people in Taiwan at that time.
The Taiwan authorities lagged behind in the law and did not introduce any restrictive measures in a timely manner, resulting in the virus being very widespread in Taiwanese society.
Chinese mainland has always had zero tolerance for drugs, and Liu Zhaohua has never heard of methamphetamine since he was a child, let alone contact with drugs.
Methamphetamine is different from heroin, which is often heard of, in that it is a series of processes from a raw material called ephedrine that eventually synthesizes a substance called methamphetamine (the scientific name for ice), which causes dependence.
What interests Liu Zhaohua is not the methamphetamine itself, but the process of chemical synthesis. Chen Daozhong saw that the other party was so interested, so he gave him chemistry books and 100 grams of ephedrine, which are difficult to find on the market.
Liu Zhaohua's performance can be described as rebellious, but he was very obsessed with obscure chemistry books, and it took only 3 hours to complete the process from reading books to synthesizing methamphetamine from raw materials.
Chen Daozhong saw that this young man was simply a genius in chemistry, and no one mentioned it this time when he experienced the tacit understanding between the two people, but Liu Zhaohua found that he seemed to be more interested in studying chemistry.
What really prompted him to leave the army was his girlfriend Wu Yunqing, who studied at Fujian Normal University, and Liu Zhaohua was a fellow countryman, and the two were also their first love.
Wu Yunqing is a typical woman who "would rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle", and often complains in front of her boyfriend that the salary of being a soldier is too low and there is no future.
In addition, Chen Daozhong let Liu Zhaohua see the outside world, so he decided to leave the army.
The man did not hesitate to harm himself in order to change his career, and changed from a bailiff to a Breaking Bad
If they want to leave the army and go outside, 99.9% of them will choose to report directly to the army, and Liu Zhaohua is a special case.
He didn't want to completely give up his organized job, and he wanted to go out to make money, so he carefully planned a trap of corruption, which he dug for himself.
Taking advantage of his position to embezzle more than 100 yuan of public funds, pretending to expose it unintentionally, the embezzlement of more than 100 yuan will not have too serious consequences, and he will leave a sum in the army's files.
Considering that he had performed well before, the leader finally allowed Liu Zhaohua to change jobs ahead of schedule and was assigned to his hometown as a bailiff. When he came to the court, Liu Zhaohua looked like he had changed his mind, and he worked actively to gain the trust of the leaders.
In 1991, Liu Zhaohua, the leader of the court, was in charge of attracting investment, and took this opportunity to meet foreign businessmen from Singapore to Southeast Asian countries.
Through attracting investment, Liu Zhaohua met a Taiwanese businessman, and the two jointly set up a plastic factory the following year.
The address of the factory is near Suyang Village, and Liu Zhaohua chose this place very cleverly, there is a river near the village, and you can go straight to the sea along the river.
Whether it is regular goods or some other illegal activities, they can be shipped out as soon as possible by dropping.
He earned the first pot of gold in his life by smuggling, and when his colleagues around him received a salary of dozens of yuan or hundreds of yuan a month, Liu Zhaohua had already bought the first car in his life, and it was an imported Toyota Crown car.
On the surface, his identity is still a bailiff, but everyone has to call him "Boss Liu" when socializing, and soon Boss Liu looks down on the salary of the bailiff, and simply resigned in 1994 to devote himself wholeheartedly to the smuggling business.
It didn't take long for the mainland to crack down on the smuggling business, and Liu Zhaohua was affected, and Taiwanese businessmen ran away with their money when they saw that the situation was not good. From getting rich overnight to being on the verge of bankruptcy, Liu Zhaohua realized what it means to fall from heaven to hell.
At the critical moment, a person named Chen Wenyin inquired about this chemical genius, and he provided Boss Liu with a way to get rich, saying that he had a channel to make methamphetamine and hoped to make a fortune together with Liu Zhaohua.
Later, the story of the two was relatively simple, very similar to the bridge in "Ice Hunting".
Ephedrine is included in the scope of strict supervision by the mainland, and ordinary people cannot contact it at all, even if the amount of ephedrine obtained through abnormal channels is not large, it is impossible to make a large batch of viruses.
At this time, Liu Zhaohua showed his talent for chemistry, and found through many experiments that methamphetamine can be made without ephedrine, and the purity is still very high. After this high-purity methamphetamine entered the market, addicts and underworld bosses came to the market.
In May 1996, Liu Zhaohua used a newly developed method to produce more than 20 kilograms of high-purity methamphetamine, and Chen Wenyin took out some of it and sold it to Taiwan, China, which was quickly sold out, and the two began close cooperation after that.
Liu Zhaohua has repeatedly instructed him not to sell it on the mainland, but he has not been able to stop some drug dealers from buying methamphetamine from Taiwan and selling it on the mainland.
With such a huge amount of methamphetamine flooding the market, the anti-narcotics department had already discovered that something was wrong, and the anti-narcotics corps of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department organized a special team to investigate, and slowly set its sights on Chen Wenyin.
In 2003, Chen Wenyin was arrested, the police found Liu Zhaohua along the vine, and after hearing the rumors, he started the road of escape, first ran to Qingdao, contracted 10 welfare lottery machines to start a lottery business, and won the 1 million jackpot.
Later, he went to Guilin and swaggered to start a business with a fake identity, and on the other hand, the task force has also been stepping up to find the whereabouts of this Breaking Bad, and also issued an A-level wanted warrant with a reward of 200,000 yuan for the arrest of Liu Zhaohua.
Later, Li Qingsen, the owner of a company called Sensen Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in Guilin, came into the police's sight. After investigation, investigators confirmed that this person was Liu Zhaohua, but unfortunately let him run away again.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2005, the police found that Liu Zhaohua's third wife, Li Xiaoqing, had rented a house in Fu'an, Fujian Province, and a suspicious person had not been out of the room since she moved in.
In the early morning of March 5, 2005, the police launched an operation codenamed Woodpecker and arrested Liu Zhaohua in this rental house. Later, the police verified that Liu Zhaohua produced 31 tons of methamphetamine in a year at the peak.
After two years of trial, the court sentenced Liu Zhaohua to death in June 2007.
The captain of the Fujian Provincial Anti-Narcotics Corps, who was in charge of supervising the case, once lamented in an interview that Liu Zhaohua was a genius in chemistry and would definitely achieve something if he was put on the right path.
Although Liu Zhaohua quibbled with himself that he did not harm anyone, the people who bought drugs were all voluntary, and he only sold them to foreigners...... But it can't cover up his crime of making a large amount of methamphetamine to endanger society.
As the so-called smart is mistaken by smart, Liu Zhaohua, who took a wrong step and made a wrong step, was accustomed to the taste of making quick money, and finally sent himself to the point of no return.
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