Not a single other person is involved in the making of these videos. I do the research,
I do the writing, I do the graphics, I do the audio processing, I do the editing and I do the
thumbnails. Part of this is because I'm very particular, probably due to some undiagnosed
mental disorder - once I have an idea of how something should look, I have a very hard time
giving it away to some idiot to make it a reality. It's just not going to turn out how I envision it
in my mind and that's certainly also the case for Tan Youhui, a business man who envisioned
the death of a business rival, but unlike me, he did delegate this task to an idiot,
and then this idiot delegated it to another idiot, and so on, until their were five idiot
hitmen who were all unwilling to actually do the job. And then disaster struck.
In 2013 in China, real-estate developer Tan Youhui had a shared property development with
fellow businessman Wei Mou. The two got into a dispute about the joint venture,
which led to Wei launching two civil lawsuits against Tan. Tan was worried a lengthy legal
battle would disrupt his business and cost him a lot of money, and so decided to reach a
settlement with Wei - by killing him. Case closed. Seems like a stupid idea to murder someone who's
suing you, obviously all eyes are going to be on you during the investigation,
but maybe not if you get the right guy for the job. Unfortunately, Tan did not get the right guy
for the job and instead hired Xi Guangan to kill Wei, offering the hitman 2 million Chinese yuan,
about 300,000 in today's dollars. For whatever reason, Xi Guangan was
not overly eager to do this himself. Instead, he hired a second hitman, Mo Tianxiang to do the
killing for him - offering him 1 million yuan to kill Wei. So he was keeping half the money
for himself for Mo Tianxiang to do all the work. For whatever reason, Mo Tianxiang was not overly
eager to do this himself. Instead, he hired a third hitman, Yang Kangsheng to do the killing
for him - offering him 270,000 yuan upfront to kill Wei, and a further 500,000 when the job was
done. So he was getting a million and giving away 770,000 for Yang Kengsheng to do all the work.
For whatever reason, Yang Kangsheng was not overly eager to do this himself. Instead,
he hired a fourth hitman, Yang Guasheng to do the killing for him - offering him 200,000
yuan upfront to kill Wei, and a further 500,000 when the job was done. So this guy was barely
keeping any of the money for himself, makes you wonder why he even bothered getting involved,
he was giving all but 70,000 of his 770,000 to Yang Guasheng to do all the work.
For whatever reason, Yang Guasheng was not overly eager to do this himself. Instead, he hired a
fifth hitman, Ling Xiansi to do the killing for him - offering him 100,000 yuan to kill Wei. This
Yang Guasheng fella's obviously a lot greedier than the others, only offering one seventh of his
pay to Ling Xiansi to do all the work. For whatever reason, Ling Xiansi was
not overly eager to do this himself. Actually, he had a pretty good reason,
he was only getting 100,000 yuan to kill a person. Probably wasn't aware the guy who hired the guy
who hired him was only making 70,000 but that guy sounds like a bigger idiot than all the rest to
be honest. Or maybe the second biggest idiot, because wait until you hear this next part.
Ling Xiansi didn't want to kill someone for 100,000 - and by now the money had been whittled
away so much there wasn't really any left to subcontract another hitman. Instead, he hatched a
plan that would make everyone happy - he contacted Wei Mou and asked to meet him in a coffee shop
in Nanning city. By this point, nearly six months had passed since the original contract was taken.
Wei agreed to the meeting and Ling Xiansi informed him he had been paid to kill him. What an idiot.
Ling told him he would instead allow Wei to simply fake his death, so that Wei would get to live and
Ling would still get the money. Wei agreed to pose for photos bound and gagged, which Ling would then
take to his boss, who would then take them to his boss, who would th -- you get the idea.
Clearly Ling had neglected to put a great deal of thought into this plot,
or really any at all. For Wei Mou to fake his death he'd have to upend his whole life,
forget about his lawsuit against Tan and the joint business he had with him,
and obviously any other business he had. He'd have to give up everything. Why would he do any
of that when he now knows who is hitman is and what he looks like because he was a big
stupid fucking idiot who told him all of this? Obviously, Wei Mou just went to the police.
One after the other the hitmen gave up their bosses until the police had all five hitmen
and Tan Youhui in custody. Honestly if I were the police I don't think I would have uncovered this,
I would have just assumed I was being led on a wild goose chase after like
the third hitman - in other words I would have underestimated the depths of their stupidity.
In 2016 the six men were on trial for conspiracy to commit murder. China has a terrifyingly high
conviction rate - 99.9%. Now, in the US, federal prosecutors have a 99.6% conviction rate so that's
not a statement about China other than to say these guys were fucked. However,
some evidence was excluded from court on the basis of police misconduct - oh what,
did they hire a string of investigators too? Amazingly, all six men were acquited.
This was until prosecutors appealed the case, and in 2019 Tan Youhui was sentenced to five years
imprisonment. The hitman he hired, Xi Guangan was sentenced to three years and six months. Hitman
2 - Mo Tianxiang, that is, not the video game - was sentenced to three years. Hitmen 3 and 4,
Yang Kangsheng and Yang Guansheng, were sentenced to three years and
three months. Hitman 5, Ling Xiansi was sentenced to two years and seven months.
Those seem like fairly light sentences given the intended crime, but maybe the court was lenient in
light of their idiocy. And that's the story of a man who hired hitman who hired a hitman who hired
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