On January 21, the verdict of the second trial issued by the Tianjin High People’s Court was announced: it was ruled that the appeal of Lai Xiaomin was rejected and the original sentence of death penalty was upheld.
On January 5, 2021, Lai Xiaomin, the former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Corporation, was sentenced to death in the first trial on Tuesday. The Tianjin High People’s Court, after deliberations of the panel and discussions of the trial committee, ruled in the second trial according to the law that although Lai Xiaomin had a significant meritorious performance, the facts, nature, circumstances and degree of harm to society of the crime of accepting bribes committed by him were not sufficient for him to be punished leniently. …… Tianjin High People’s Court then made a ruling rejecting the appeal and upholding the original sentence, and reported to the Supreme People’s Court for approval of the death penalty in accordance with the law.
I don’t know what these spectators heard at the scene about Lai Xiaomin’s so-called “significant meritorious performance”, except for the sentence “Lai Xiaomin provided significant criminal clues to his subordinates and was verified to be true” that was mentioned in the report of the first trial, is it There are other contents? For example, how he and his subordinates at Huarong “gave away” the state-owned assets of Huarong’s subsidiaries to Zeng Qinghong’s Family company, “Fancy Year”, which was run by his niece, Zeng Bao, on the cheap.
The article “Lai Xiaomin behind the scenes small narrative” on mainland China’s financial website says: about Lai Xiaomin “Lai six tons” of backers ……, his Life, he loves to deal with two kinds of people, the old country and the second generation. The circle formed by the old folks makes him feel safe, “everywhere is our people” this feeling is very comfortable. The second generation is another path for him to get a sense of security, he always imagined that the family of the old bully, is the same as the old bully, is equivalent to buy the most reliable insurance for themselves. From classmates, fellow villagers, comrades, colleagues to find out a few of the biggest officials, is always rumored to be the Prince of Qing and Wu family.
It is well known in mainland China who the “Prince Qing” in the article refers to, all because the official website of the Chinese Communist regime’s own Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Supervision posted an article more than six years ago titled “The Style of Prince Qing, the “Naked Official” of the Qing Dynasty”. Readers were convinced that the article was a lesson from history, suggesting that after Zhou Yongkang and others, the next person to be removed from the “iron hat” of the Xi Jinping regime might be Zeng Qinghong, the “Prince Qing” of the current Communist regime.
An important background of such an article on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) was that Xi Jinping had just spoken at the plenary session of the CCDI chaired by Wang Qishan, and Baji learned from Wang Qishan’s phrase “there is no ‘iron hat king’ for corruption”, which was meant to illustrate that even if a person is a “party and state leader”, as long as he is corrupt, he will be removed from the “iron hat”.
In the history of China’s Qing Dynasty, Yong Lin was promoted to Prince Qing in 1820, and his son was demoted to the rank of county king as a rule. Later, his grandson Yikuang in Guangxu twenty years, that is, 1894 by the empress dowager Cixi Yi decree to seal Prince Qing, is the twelfth iron hat king of the Qing dynasty.
These twelve “iron hat kings”, to say the least, are not considered clean officials. Then six years ago, in the article “The style of Prince Qing, the “naked official” of the Qing Dynasty”, signed by “Xi Hua” on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, why did it single out “Prince Qing”? This is why some mainland Chinese netizens lamented at the Time, “Prince Qing is too specific, the next tiger’s tail is showing a bit of ‘red'”.
Xi Hua, the author of “The Style of Prince Qing, the “Naked Official” of the Qing Dynasty,” also authored “Lessons from Chinese History,” which was listed on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection as a recommended book for 2015. He is now working for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and has a doctorate in law. He has studied under Prof. Lin Rendong of Nanjing University and Prof. Huang Zongliang of Peking University on clean government legislation and Soviet Communist Party issues.
Xi Jinping and Zeng Qinghong (right)
In this article, Xi Hua says: Prince Qing, Yikuang, was a poor worker and had a less than stellar reputation, but his official luck was surprisingly good ……. But Prince Qing is even busier in his spare time, busy with what? The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a lot of money. Invitation and eating treats is his daily compulsory course, the theme is mostly birthday celebrations. At that time, successful people are a group of wives, a bunch of children, so Prince Qing is either hosting a banquet, or on the way to attend the banquet; then is playing mahjong. In order to please the old Buddha, he went so far as to introduce mahjong into the palace, hand to hand to promote the skills of mahjong to people, from the palace maids to eunuchs, all happy. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was the internal and external difficulties, Cixi need to relieve the mood, so the introduction of mahjong work is very satisfied.
Of course, this is only the first step. Prince Qing from time to time let one of his young wife into the palace, either to accompany the old Buddha, or to accompany the old Buddha’s side staff to two rounds. Every time this lady went to the palace to accompany the fight, the silver ticket that she brought with her was always not enough to lose. Success is not rewarded, Prince Qing therefore constantly get promoted and reused. Some people really can’t stand to see, solemnly put forward criticism. Cixi patiently do people thought work: “What level he I do not know? But look around, or he is sweet.”
A mainland netizen commented on this sentence above, saying, “Once Prince Qing was very red, are spoiled by Cixi spoiled, the result completely ruined the Qing dynasty.” The “Cixi” that spoiled Zeng Qinghong is, of course, Jiang Zemin.
The author needs a special reminder here, Zeng Qinghong’s love of mahjong, everyone in the south knows. Although its “mahjong friends”, but which is not more than the then Politburo member Hui Liangyu more to his heart. The reason why Hui Liangyu was able to befriend Jiang Zemin was not because he married his daughter to Jiang Zemin’s son, as rumored by the outside world, but because he started accompanying Zeng Qinghong to “play mahjong”.
Xi Hua’s article also wrote that Prince Qing was very talented in managing money and had a sense of foresight. Although foreign banks had already entered China at that time, the smoke of the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Allied Forces had not yet cleared, and people’s patriotic enthusiasm was unprecedentedly high, people were ashamed to deal with foreigners and preferred to deposit money in Chinese banks or money changers. Prince Qing, however, favored foreign banks, especially the British HSBC, and did not have a cent of his money in the national financial institutions. If he had been born a hundred years later, Prince Qing would have been a “naked official” whose family was out of town and unseen!
As we all know, a few years ago, Zeng Qinghong’s son, Australian Chinese Zeng Wei spent 32.4 million Australian dollars to buy a super mansion in Australia, and proposed to spend another 5 million Australian dollars to renovate the mansion was rejected by the local government, has been a sensation throughout Australia. The local media disclosed the details of the incident with pictures and truth, which cannot be denied by the parties involved.
Some mainland netizens have commented on Xi Hua’s article, saying that there are only two “Iron Hat Kings” in today’s communist regime, that is, “former Politburo Standing Committee members” who are still alive after their retirement, with the word “Qing The word “Qing”: one is Jia Qinglin, the second is Zeng Qinghong. But Jia Qinglin is obviously not bad enough to the historical “Prince Qing” degree of corruption. Some outside media quoted a commentary by Chen Fang, a China Search commentator, as saying, “Who is Prince Qing referring to? Who satisfies the four items mentioned in (Xi Hua’s) article: First, he has been in the center for a long time and has won the favor of the hand but has no talent for ruling the country; second, his overseas assets are so large that even the foreign media can’t stand it and report it publicly; third, he is good at settling things and can sit on the fishing platform even in the biggest scandals; fourth, he is keen on making circles and one person has brought out a group of corrupt giants.
In the words of independent observer Zheng Jingwei: If Cixi is used to compare Jiang Zemin, who is obsessed with power and disorder, then Zeng Qinghong is the most suitable “counterpart”. The two are very similar in terms of their noble family origins, their experiences in power, their status as naked officials and their ways of enrichment.
As a commentary in the Chinese Communist Party‘s official media said, “The CDC website represents the official, different from commercial websites, and the publication of such an article after the Chinese New Year of the Yang is supposed to mean that the CDC in 2015 will take down the super tiger that will make the world jaw drop and the nation cheer.” So there were many people who, because of this article on the CDC website, boldly predicted that Zeng Qing would be the second person after Zhou Yongkang to be removed from the “iron hat” of the state level. But before the prediction was made, the article by Xi Hua was quietly removed from the official websites of the CCDI and the Ministry of Supervision.
One of the stories that happened later was that, exactly today last year, a number of financial websites in mainland China republished the article “Baby Zeng, founder of Fancy Year, returns to the front line as CEO of real estate group”, saying that Baby Zeng, daughter of Zeng Qinghong’s brother Zeng Qinghuai, is the founder of Fancy Year Group, one of the controlling shareholders of Fancy Year and the largest shareholder of the company, i.e. the real owner and de facto controller of the company. Over the years, she has pushed Pan Jun, the chairman of the board, to become the controller of Fancy Year, taking full charge of the company’s business, while she herself is mostly hidden behind the scenes. After years of being a “dashing boss”, Zeng decided to return to the front line as CEO of Fancy Year Real Estate Group. In addition, Zeng is still the chairman of Fancy Year China Group’s Strategic Planning Committee …….
The report also introduces the five “frontier officials” of the rapidly expanding Fancy Year, all of whom have been appointed one by one by Baby Zeng. The “five” refer to the “five regions” of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Chengdu respectively.
Since then, Baby Zeng has continued to be very happy to be followed by the media in China. One of the most typical reports is the detailed account of her sitting in first class on a flight from Beijing to Rome on the third day of the Lunar New Year last year, sipping wine and playing with the “anti-Epidemic“. The story said, “After assuming the role of CEO of Fancy Year Real Estate Group, Zeng Bao, who was not able to tear up Green City, encountered the more difficult matter of the raging pneumonia epidemic that swept the country. The actual pneumonia epidemic has been a very clear-cut issue, and it is difficult to stay away from it. The report posted a microblog written by baby Zeng on that day, saying that “comprehensive resistance war, need military, China, need the central army regular army, guerrilla, also need Gold rong, Du Yuesheng, this is not contradictory not conflict ah. …… our group’s own procurement of supplies hoarded in Wuhan, not sent to Hubei around ……. Paralysis!”
After the fall of Lai Xiaomin Zeng baby more high-profile, and even simply from the “behind the scenes” to the foreground, as well as by her out of the Zeng family business scale has spread throughout China’s “five regions” of public reports, with the outside world to expose its This is in marked contrast to Xi Jinping’s relatives, who quickly went into hiding after the huge wealth of his “offshore companies” was exposed. Such a phenomenon only shows that the “iron hat” of the contemporary “Prince Qing” Zeng Qinghong is still unbreakable.
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