At the time, Zhang Bei's resort business was not doing well, and he could not support his extravagant spending.
Seeing that his old friend Yu Minhong's training institution was developing better and better, Zhang Bei harbored evil intentions towards Yu Minhong.
Zhang Bei's men followed Yu Minhong back and forth and discovered that every Sunday night Yu Minhong would go home alone, carrying a black plastic bag containing the tuition fees he had received over the weekend.
Yu Minhong lives alone at home, while his wife and daughter live abroad.
After learning the general situation, Zhang Bei and his men reached out to Yu Minhong.
On the evening of Sunday, August 21, 1998, Yu Minhong returned home alone as usual, carrying a black plastic bag. It was already 9 p.m. when he arrived at the apartment building.
At the time, Yu Minhong lived in an old residential area near Shangdi in Beijing. There was no elevator, and the lights on the second and third floors of the stairwell often broke down.
Upon entering the building, Yu Minhong noticed that the motion-sensor lights on the second floor were not working again, but he didn't pay much attention and planned to climb up in the dark.
The corridor was pitch black, so Yu Minhong had no choice but to slowly walk upstairs.
Yu Minhong, who was in the dark, took out his house key. Just as he was fumbling for the lock to open the door, two people suddenly appeared in the darkness.
Zhang Bei and his men, who had been waiting for a long time, blocked Yu Minhong in front of the door from the front and back. One of them held a gun to Yu Minhong's head, while the other used a syringe containing an excessive dose of anesthetic to inject Yu Minhong's arm.
The large dose of anesthetic caused Yu Minhong to fall into a coma immediately.
Zhang Bei picked up Yu Minhong's key, opened the door, tied Yu Minhong's hands and feet, threw him onto the bed, and found the 2.2 million yuan in cash tuition fees that Yu Minhong had received the day before, along with other valuables.
After looting the items, Zhang Bei's accomplice Qu Yuntong found Yu Minhong panting on the bed and prepared to strangle him with his body, but Zhang Bei stopped him.
Zhang Bei remembered that Yu Minhong hadn't bothered with the 30,000 yuan at the time, and said to Qu Yuntong, "Yu Minhong is a good person, and he didn't even see us clearly. We've already got the money, so let's spare his life."
After Zhang Bei and his accomplices succeeded, they left in the dark. An hour later, Yu Minhong woke up in bed.
Yu Minhong, feeling dizzy and disoriented, discovered that his hands and feet were tightly bound and he had no strength left in his body.
Yu Minhong recalled, "I've experienced many hardships in my life, but that journey from the bedroom to the living room was the most difficult. With the lingering effects of the anesthesia and the weakness in my legs and arms, even though it was a short distance, I had to gasp for breath after each movement..."
Yu Minhong struggled to the phone in the living room, tapped it with his chin, and in a semi-conscious state, called the police, saying, "Help! I've been kidnapped! Help me!"
Upon receiving the report, the police rushed to Yu Minhong's home and took the unconscious Yu Minhong to the hospital for emergency treatment.
The day after the incident, Yu Minhong woke up in his hospital bed, and the doctor told him, "It's a miracle that you survived."
At the time, the anesthetic that Zhang Bei gave Yu Minhong was the same kind that zoos use on large animals, such as tigers and elephants, and the dosage was extremely high.
Under normal circumstances, this dose would cause the heart to stop beating when administered to a person.
Having experienced a kidnapping, Yu Minhong began to pay more attention to his security. He was still wary of kidnapping and hired a bodyguard to pick him up and drop him off at get off work.
Having taken protective measures, Yu Minhong thought there would be no more danger.
But unexpectedly, less than a year later, the criminals had squandered all the stolen money and were up to kidnapping again, this time on a Sunday night.
That night, the bodyguard escorted Yu Minhong home. Downstairs, Yu Minhong noticed that the lights in the third-floor hallway were not working.
Yu Minhong had a bad feeling and reminded the driver to be prepared for danger.
When they reached the third floor, three men rushed out of the darkness and blocked Yu Minhong and his driver. The assailant once again pressed a gun against Yu Minhong's waist and said, "Don't move! If you move, I'll shoot you dead!"
Having experienced this before, Yu Minhong remained calm under pressure. He thought to himself, "Rather than being forced into a room and beaten to death, I'd rather just be shot dead."
Seizing the opportunity, Yu Minhong pushed the gun away when the assailant wasn't paying attention and then grabbed it.
Yu Minhong was quite strong at the time, and he broke the gun in half with a single twist of his hand, only to find that it was just a plastic gun.
In the chaos, the driver managed to escape the encirclement of the other two thugs.
Seeing that things were not going well, the thugs began to fight with Yu Minhong and his companion.
Fortunately, the assailant did not carry a knife, and Yu Minhong and his bodyguards were able to hold their own against him.
The fight lasted for more than ten minutes. Fearing that it would disturb the surrounding residents and call the police, the assailant had no choice but to flee in embarrassment. Yu Minhong and his bodyguard only suffered minor injuries.
After the second kidnapping incident, Yu Minhong began to reduce the frequency of his public appearances in the local area, only appearing occasionally on necessary occasions to reduce the probability of danger.
He is protected by seven or eight bodyguards when he goes out, and he also has bodyguards at home.
He joked, "I'm like a mafia boss."
The police investigation made no progress, and Yu Minhong once suspected that his competitors were deliberately threatening him, or even that they might be his relatives or friends.
Zhang Bei, Qu Yuntong, and others were arrested in 2005.
Police investigations revealed that Zhang Bei and his gang committed six kidnapping, robbery, and murder cases over a period of 10 years, with a total of seven victims. Six of them died, and only Yu Minhong survived.
Coincidentally, this happened at the end of the year, and the timing was right, 2005.
"Old Ding, why didn't you tell me about this?"
Ding Sanshi shrugged: "The person is fine, why would I say anything? I can't just leak this out, it might cause the stock price to drop. But speaking of it, this really gave me a cold sweat."
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