Jin Rong has a "secret army", all beautiful women, who have made great contributions to him
One of the secrets of the Shanghai Beach tycoon Jin Jinrong to be reused and promoted step by step in the patrol houses in the French Concession was that he was able to attract the forces in society and make good use of human resources.
Under him, there is such a group of people, all of whom are all beautiful women, who have laid a great foundation for his career. This "army of beautiful women" has a name, known as the "Jinjun", and they specialize in using hue to defraud others of money.
In old Shanghai, the trade of theft was divided into three categories: black line, white line and brocade line.
The black line is to go out and steal money when people are asleep at night;
The white line is to steal in broad daylight;
The jin line, which can be regarded as the most intelligent and skillful of theft, is a conspiracy activity that requires brain planning. Most of the people who take the brocade line to steal are in and out of the social places of high society, generally acting opportunistically, cleverly convenient and without revealing traces, and using hue seduction to achieve their goals, so most of them are completed by young and beautiful girls.
The women who do the brocade work, once organized, are extremely powerful. Even sometimes it is possible to break through the positions of the three armies, so it is called "Jinjun", and there is a poem in shiren: "I want to break through the strong jin as an army." This is where the name Jinjun comes from.
At that time, Jin Rong was working in the Patrol House of the French Concession, and in the process of handling the case, Jin Rong found that many cases would involve Jin Jun, so he was very appreciative of Jin Jun's activities and methods, and had an idea of accepting Jin Jun to do things for himself, and the direct relationship between Jin Rong and Jin Jun began with the apprenticeship of Zhou Yafang, a female leader of his Jin Jun, and it also started from a major case.
At that time, a foreign merchant lady in the French Concession lost a precious diamond ring at home, and the theft time was just a short lunch. According to the maid at the time, she went to the second floor to wash the water in the wife's room, saw a young and fashionable lady sitting on the bed reading the newspaper, and when she saw the maid come in, she nodded and smiled at her, and the maid thought it was a friend of the lady, so she didn't think much about it. When Madame returned in the afternoon, she heard that there were guests in her room, and immediately became alert, and when she checked the room, the diamond ring worth two hundred gold had disappeared.
When the case reached the hands of Jin Rong, he pondered carefully, this statement is unique to Jin Jun, it must have been done by this gang, he wanted to see this female thief, so he sent his men out to inquire about the news, and soon had a result:
A female guest named Zhou Yafang, who stayed at the Jiangzhong Hotel a few days ago, looked very similar to the female thief described by the maid, and she checked out on the afternoon of the diamond theft. Further investigation revealed that this Zhou Yafang was a powerful general under Fan Jincheng of the Hangzhou Youth Gang, so Jin Rong mobilized his connections in the gang to pass on the news to Zhou Yafang. Within a few days, Zhou Yafang took the diamond ring to the French Concession patrol house and surrendered herself to Jin Rong. In order to save Zhou Yafang, Jin Rong returned the recovered stolen goods to the owner of the foreign firm and wrote a letter expressing his apologies for the difficulty of obtaining the stolen goods.
The lady of the central bank saw that the diamond ring was lost and recovered, and she was very grateful to Jin Rong in her heart, and she did not hold him responsible for not being able to punish the criminal, on the other hand, Zhou Yafang was also grateful to Jin Rong, and even defected to his door.
Relying on the offerings of Jin Jun, Jin Rong had an additional source of wealth, and Jin Jun relied on Jin Rong's power to be more active in the bustling shanghai, creating one after another appalling cases of theft.
According to the records, a sensational theft of the prince's antiques in Shanghai in the early 20th century was the work of the famous Jin Jun.
Prince Shuo was sent by Empress Dowager Cixi to visit Germany and traveled south from Beijing to Shanghai, preparing to take a boat to Europe. After arriving in Shanghai, Prince Alcohol stayed at the Huizhong Hotel and waited for the departure date, but the day before his departure, an accident occurred. When his housekeeper was outside ventilating, he was attracted by a graceful woman, and after talking to him, he asked for a cigarette, and then he fainted, and when he woke up, the jewels in the room were gone, including a bamboo root arhat of the forty-two years of Kangxi, which was a rare treasure, and later fell into the hands of Jin Rong.
However, it is still necessary to pay it back when it comes out of the mix. After liberation, Jin Rong published the "Confession of Jin Rong" in the newspaper, expressing "willingness to confess his sins to the people", and later swept the street in front of the Great World Gate, and died of illness in 1953.