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How Zhong Gong Cheats Innocent People out of More than 50 Million in Hard-earned Money
Date: 2014-10-24 Source: Kaiwind

In April of 2013, Hebei authorities cracked down a major illegal underground Zhong Gong group. Led by Peng Shuixiu, a 60 year old Zhong Gong addict, with only a third grade education, this group had accumulated large sums of money of around 50 million yuan. The group was active in a number of provinces with hundreds of gang members. The victims were unaware that they had been deceived by the dark group until the truth of Zhong Gong’s activities to accumulate vast sums of money was revealed to the world.  

Under the spell of Zhong Gong fallacies, some humble people became addicts and then their money was cheated from them. From 2008-2012, some addicts took special trips to Hunan every once in a while just for handing in money. Each time they handed in a few bags of money, sometimes hundreds of thousands, sometimes a million or even several million. If they got hungry on the way they would simply eat a few bites of biscuits and go to a roadside hotel to ask for some drinking water. As soon as they reached Hunan , they would secretly hand in those bags of money to Peng Shuixiu. Surprisingly, they were willing to do that without even asking for a receipt.    

Peng Shuixiu told those believers that she collected and managed money on behalf of their Master. No one was allowed to record the amount of money handed in by the believers and no one was allowed to make a copy or keep the “donation list”, or even ask how this money was spent. Any doubt or wrong doings of believers were deemed as distrust of Peng and distrust of the Master. Deceived by these fallacies, believers became more loyal to the Master. They even ignored their sick mothers or needy sons and lived as economically as possible to save every penny for sacrifice to their Master.   

The full name of Zhong Gong is the Chinese Health and Intellectual Cultivation Gong. It is a harmful qigong organization and also an illegal organization with some cult like features. As early as 1999, the government recognized it as an illegal organization and banned its activities. Its founder Zhang Hongbao fled to the United States and was killed in a car accident there in 2007. Some addicts still uphold his banner to accumulate money illegally all around the country.   

How does Zhong Gong Cheated people?   

Trick one: Charge apprentice fee, education fee and learning material fees. In order to complete the Zhong Gong practice, a student must pay 3010 yuan all together including apprentice fees, education fees of level one to four, a general tutor fee and practice completion fee. Peng Shuixiu is responsible for providing learning materials. The book Secret Law of Yuandun only costs a few yuan but the price the group sets is 2000 yuan.   

Trick two: Claiming that Zhong Gong can drive away karma and evil, cure disease and help people to make money (they put the names of the believers onto a list and speak spells to the list to drive away people’s worries and difficulties).   

Trick three: Ask believers to donate “worship money” or “merit money”. Some are asked for hundreds, some for about ten thousand.   

Trick four: Ask believers to buy their books for curing diseases and maintaining happiness.   

Trick five: Making up fallacies of an “energy field” and claiming that it can mediate family disputes, resolve family conflicts and help make money. Most of the believers are ordinary people from rural and poor backgrounds, or sick people belonging to vulnerable groups.    

How they spend believers’ donation money?   

Peng Shuixiu piled donation money under her bed at home for self-enjoyment. She drove luxury cars, ate expensive meals and flew to different big cities like Changsha , Beijing and Nanning to purchase a large number of personal houses and apartments. She also spent believers’ donation money to buy luxury vehicles such as Land Rover, BMW, Audi, etc. When she was caught by the police, she had 11,720,000 yuan in cash at her home and bank deposits of 12,370,000 yuan. It’s also important to mention that many believers do not even know Peng Shuixiu’s real name. They always believed that she was the so called almighty master Yang Xiaoping. It was even difficult for them to accept the fact that their “almighty master” had been cheating them using a fake name until the police showed Peng’s identity information.