On this day, 43 years ago, April 14, 1982 (March 21, 1982 in the lunar calendar), Taiwan's first armed bank robbery occurred. In April 1982, when Taiwan was still under military martial law, an extremely sensational case occurred: Li Shike's bank robbery case. This was also the first armed bank robbery in Taiwan. At that time, no one could imagine how far-reaching the impact of this robbery would be and even changed the process and direction of cross-strait relations. Li Shike was arrested and quickly executed. Li Shike was a retired veteran. He was born in 1927 in Changle County, Shandong Province. After the liberation of Jinan, he moved to Qingdao and followed the Kuomintang army from Hainan Island to Taiwan. After retiring due to illness in 1959, he made a living by repairing cars and driving taxis, and gradually had the idea of robbing banks. On April 14, 1982, Li Shike, wearing a wig and a white cap, broke into the Guting branch of the Taiwan Land Bank in Taipei and looted it. He shouted in the bank with a gun,"The money belongs to the country, and your life belongs to you." He then stole NT$5.31 million and fled. As early as two years ago, Li Shike shot and killed a police officer of the Taipei City Security Brigade and stole the.38 revolver he was carrying for later bank robberies. Twenty-three days later, a taxi driver Wang Yingxian, who looked exactly like Li Shike, was reported (because the robber abandoned the money bag beside the gate of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, there was a broken quilt nearby. It was recognized that it belonged to the taxi driver Wang Yingxian's family, and the car Wang was driving had a similar license plate number to the robber), and was tortured by the investigation team and forced to admit the crime. On May 7, Wang Yingxian lied about leading the police to find criminal tools and stolen money. During the process, he took the opportunity to jump off a bridge and commit suicide. The whole Taiwan was in an uproar, and the Taiwan authorities had to transfer the personnel to justice. Shortly after Wang Yingxian's death, Li Shike sent 4 million yuan to an old friend's home. He was reported by the old friend and arrested at the rental office. "My friend has a child who is in primary school and he is very cute. I thought I would definitely be arrested, so I might as well give the money to my friend's daughter so that she could graduate from college with peace of mind." Li Shike once told reporters after his arrest. In addition, Li Shike spent about 50,000 yuan on the woman and also bought a TV, an electric rice cooker and an electric razor. During the investigation, Li Shike said that the case was committed "because he was dissatisfied with reality and society." He even admitted that he killed police officers to grab handguns and rob banks, and the purpose was to provide for the elderly; he did not rob people, but wanted to rob public units because "the people have less money, but the public agencies have more money" and "the government owes too much, so he wanted to rob banks." In the end, Li Shike was sentenced to death on May 21, 1982, and was executed in the early morning of May 26. Xindian City, Taipei County, a statue of Li Shike under the Wutian Temple was taken on April 21, 2013. Veterans like Li Shike, an honorary citizen in the Kuomintang's mouth, and a soldier for half his life. They sacrificed so much for the Kuomintang, but were trapped at the bottom of society on this island by Taiwan's "three noes" policies (no contact, no negotiation, and no compromise) towards the mainland, and passed away in obscurity all their lives. They are not objects of social concern and can only struggle alone in dark corners. After the incident, veterans 'organizations came to Taiwan to speak out, demonstrating and protesting everywhere, demanding that the Kuomintang be open to visiting relatives. Finally, in July 1987, Chiang Ching-kuo officially abolished martial law and announced the "lifting of martial law." Since December, the general public will be allowed to visit relatives in the mainland. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait have begun a wave of returning home to visit relatives, which has also brought cross-Strait relations into a new era.