In the turbulent era of the Republic of China, the warlords used guns and cannons to shoot at the slightest disagreement; in the past, bandit robberies were mostly at night, and even bandit robberies appeared in the daytime in the Republic of China...
In Shanghai, there is such a man; he is a poor man who was born poor and is also a poor worker carrying a big bag. But such a person later created the illustrious Axe Gang!
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This person is Wang Yaqiao, the "King of Killers". When Wang Yaqiao first arrived in Shanghai, he mainly made a living as a coolie, but they were often exploited by gangsters. Wang Yaqiao, who has a stubborn personality, began to consider building a self-made gang and wanted to gain a foothold on the beach. He found that most of the people who made a living as coolies as he did at that time were mostly people from Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, but they were relatively loose and did not have gangs that called themselves systematic.
After Wang Yaqiao came, he immediately contacted these fellow villagers. Wang Yaqiao quickly gathered a group of backbone cadres with his strong skills and excellent organizational skills, and established a gang that was beginning to take shape.
Wang Yaqiao
Soon after Wang Yaqiao established the gang, he encountered a good opportunity to develop the gang. At that time, there was a labor dispute between the anhui workers and a big capitalist in Shanghai, and this big capitalist had patrols and the support of the Green Gang and owed a large amount of wages to the workers. These Anhui workers then approached Wang Yaqiao for help, and Wang Yaqiao decided to take the big capitalist first. Wang Yaqiao took more than a hundred people with a short axe and rushed over with great momentum, and although several patrols had guns, they did not dare to shoot at hundreds of people. The big capitalists also suffered, and everything in their homes was robbed.
After Wang Yaqiao became famous in this battle, the membership expanded rapidly, and the gang members reached as many as several thousand. Their main fighting weapon in Shanghai is the short axe, so they are called "Axe Gang"! The Axe Gang, notorious in Shanghai, soon ran into new problems, and they had no fixed income financially. The traditional drug trafficking, gambling, brothels and other businesses in Shanghai Beach were all monopolized by the Green Gang, so the Axe Gang was very economically embarrassed at that time!
As a result, Wang Yaqiao created two new "businesses", one is kidnapping, the other is assassination. Through these two businesses, the Axe Gang's wealth is rolling in, and the gang members are no longer the ragged clothes they used to look like.
After the failure of the "Fujian Incident" in 1933, the Guangdong forces and others paid a large price to ask Wang Yaqiao to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, and they gave Wang Yaqiao a blank check, signed his name, and the amount was blank, so that Wang Yaqiao could fill it in after he succeeded.
In 1935, the Kuomintang held the Sixth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, Wang Yaqiao and others disguised as reporters mixed into the venue, in an interview with reporters, Chiang Kai-shek because the outside is too chaotic, so did not come out, but out of the wang Jingwei, so Wang Jingwei for Chiang Kai-shek several shots, of which, there is a bullet indirectly led to Wang Jingwei's death!
Wang Yaqiao and the backbone of the Axe Gang
At that time, after Dai Kasa found out who did it, Chiang Kai-shek scolded: It was him again, and he really had a kind of assassination in Nanjing and Xueliang in the streets of Shanghai. Now it is good to simply kill the Sixth Plenary Session of the Cpc Central Committee to assassinate the elite guard, and we kuomintang top brass have all stabbed him. I now command you to catch him within a month, and to see people die or to see corpses. If you can't catch it alive, kill it immediately! A killer can be scolded by Chiang Kai-shek in this way, and it seems that Chiang Kai-shek is really scared!