1992 September 18, the sky was drizzling, and the city museum located on the Baogong Lake in the south of the Yangtze River was shrouded in misty rain.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, the staff pony and Xiao Cui came to the museum to work as usual, intending to clean up the door of the Ming and Qing court supplies exhibition hall and prepare to welcome tourists from all over the country. But as soon as they opened the door lock and walked into the door of the exhibition hall, they were shocked by what they saw.
Several display cabinets in the exhibition hall are in a mess, as if they had been looted. Look at the cultural relics in the showcase. They are all gone.
Seeing this scene, the two girls turned pale and immediately ran to report to the leader.
At 8 o'clock 15, the museum curator picked up the phone and called the police.
10 minutes later, Zhang Tianzeng, captain of the criminal police detachment of Kaifeng Public Security Bureau, and Hu Antai, deputy director in charge of criminal investigation, quickly rushed to the scene.
No sooner had they arrived than Wu Heping, director of Kaifeng Public Security Bureau, arrived.
The director of a prefecture-level city public security bureau personally rushed to the crime scene at the first time. This kind of situation is rare enough to illustrate the seriousness of the case.
Although Wu Heping, director of the Public Security Bureau, was prepared for the value of stolen cultural relics, he was still surprised when he saw the list of stolen cultural relics provided by the museum:
Among the 8 showcases that were pried, 69 precious cultural relics were stolen, of which 59 belonged to national first-class and second-class cultural relics.
Among them, four first-class cultural relics are priceless. They are the green Hualien pattern plate in Xuande period of Ming Dynasty, the yellow glazed porcelain plate in Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty, the three-legged fence furnace in Minghua kiln, and the blue and white red fruit pattern flat bottle in Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty.
These porcelains are the best blue and white porcelains in China and unparalleled in the world. According to the market valuation at that time, the value has exceeded 100 million.
According to conservative estimates at that time, the value of all stolen cultural relics exceeded 600 million yuan. If you put it now, the value is immeasurable. It is really worthy of the name that it is the second cultural relic theft case in the world.
Kaifeng City attached great importance to this case and immediately established the "9. 18" Extraordinary Cultural Relics Theft Command, which was commanded by the Secretary of the Municipal Political and Legal Committee and the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.