Wang Yaqiao, known as the first killer of the Republic of China, even set up an axe gang in Shanghai, which was extremely popular. Even Jin Rong and Du Yuesheng had to let him score three points. Once, Lieutenant General Yang Hu, commander of Songhu, invited Wang Yaqiao to dinner, and during the meal, Yang Hu called Wang Yaqiao an Anhui barbarian, and Wang Yaqiao jumped on the table and slapped Yang Hu twice after hearing this, and then Yang Hu even hurriedly lost money, which was enough to see Wang Yaqiao's momentum in Shanghai at that time.
Wang Yaqiao looks like a beautiful scenery, but he fled from Anhui to Shanghai, and when he arrived in Shanghai, he did not even dare to use his real name, and worked in the dock in anonymity. What's going on?
It turned out that when he was in his hometown in Anhui, Wang Yaqiao was originally a revolutionary party, following in the footsteps of Sun Yat-sen and devoting himself to revolution, and was then the deputy commander of the military and political branch of Luzhou in Anhui. But in the Republic of China, the partisan strife was fierce, and he became its victim, and he was even more wanted at that time. In this case, he fled from his hometown in Anhui to Shanghai with his wife and children.
After arriving in Shanghai, he did not even dare to use his name, only a pseudonym, and at that time there were many Anhui compatriots in Shanghai working at the dock, and he also went to the dock. Not long after being at the dock, he became a leader of the trade union by his personal ability, and a group of brothers gathered around him.
After having a group of followers, Wang Yaqiao thought about the revolution again, but the revolution had no money to do anything. At this time, he met a fellow countryman named Li Shaochuan.
Li Shaochuan, a member of the National Assembly and a relative of Li Hongzhang, was very powerful in Shanghai, and he felt that Wang Yaqiao was a talent, so he took money to give financial support. In this way, Wang Yaqiao slowly developed.
After that, he also thought that he could not always rely on Li Shaochuan's funding, so he thought that he had to have a substance and be able to earn money. I asked someone to inquire, and when I inquired, I learned that there was an Anhui hometown association in Zhabei, and there were many properties.
Wang Yaqiao said to his brothers, "'Let's go to Zhabei and receive the hometown association.'"
When the brothers listened, they agreed, saying that they were receiving, but in fact, they were robbing. But when I got to the place, I encountered obstacles.
At that time, the president of the Anhui Hometown Association was a former Qing widow named Yu Chengge. When Wang Yaqiao saw him, he said, "Can you give me the land, I will manage it, and every year I will give you a share." ”
At that time, Wang Yaqiao had no reputation at all, so Yu Chengge taunted him, and Wang Yaqiao returned angrily.
Going back to what he was doing, he found a brother and said, "You go to the blacksmith shop at once, and you go to 50 axes, and every one of them is bladed, that is, the kind that can cut people."
As soon as the brothers heard this, they immediately ran, and overnight, 50 axes came out, and the next day, Wang Yaqiao found 50 strong men and women, and went straight to Yu Chengge's house with axes, and went to Yu Chengge's house and surrounded a family of men, women and children.
At this point, Yu Chengge obediently took out the ledger and handed over the business to the Axe Gang. In this way, all the assets of the Anhui Hometown Association fell into the hands of Wang Yaqiao.
After being able to gain a foothold, Wang Yaqiao was not satisfied with these, but also thought of expanding his own power.
Once, he consulted with his subordinates: "Shall we build an Anhui Brigade Shanghai Labor Conference?" ”
"At that time, all those who work at the Shanghai wharf will join the conference and let them pay the membership fee, that is, the protection fee."
Soon this conference was established, and many part-time workers joined in. At this time, Wang Yaqiao could only be said to be famous, and in 1922, this incident happened, which directly brought Wang Yaqiao's axe gang name to the peak.
At that time, there was a worker who was bullied by the boss and did not pay the worker. He ran to Wang Yaqiao to cry and complain, and wang yi saw that we had to take care of this matter.
However, the military master next to him said: "We can't do this thing, we want to take care of this matter, there are so many people in Shanghai, we can't manage so many things!" ”
Wang Yaqiao said: "That's not okay, we have to take care of this matter, besides, the brother pays us the membership fee, no matter what happens, how to mix in the future, in addition, this is also a good opportunity for Yang Mingliwei." ”
Still the old routine, let the brothers go to the blacksmith shop to shoot 100 axes, the kind of blade, the next day with 150 people, plus a total of 150 axes from the last time, led by Wang Yaqiao to the dock.
On the way there, Wang Yaqiao also encouraged his brothers and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a good time for Yang and my labor conference to be prestigious, and even if you come there, even if you cut me, kill me, and stab the basket, it will be borne by my surname Wang." "The noise was very loud, the crowd on the street at that time, a look, so hot also followed the past, when they went to 150 people, when they arrived at the dock, plus the masses already had thousands of people."
After arriving at the place, the worker pointed: "This! ”
People went up to hit and smashed, the boss who saw the goods was scared, hurried to find the boss, the boss arrived at the place, found Wang Yaqiao, and it was prostrating and making donations, and finally it was a matter of doing it.
And it is precisely because of this that the reputation of Wang Yaqiao's Axe Gang has also reached a new high. At that time, there was a reporter who was present, and he turned around and wrote a report on "Axe Gang Wang Yaqiao Wei Earthquake on the Beach", and all of a sudden, the whole of Shanghai knew about the Axe Gang.
As soon as the reputation came out, it also brought trouble, and the emergence of a new force was bound to stir up the interests of the old forces at that time.
Therefore, du Yuesheng, the people of Jin Rong's gang, wanted to see who this Wang Yaqiao really was. Let the Songhu garrison commander, Lieutenant General Yang Hu, summon Wang Yaqiao, Jin Rong, Du Yuesheng and others to dinner.
At that time, the Green Gang was still thinking about whether to take the Axe Gang or fight. During the meal, Wang Yaqiao brought a lot of people. During the meal, Yang Hu was jealous of the old forces of the Qing Gang, but he looked down on Wang Yaqiao from his heart.
Therefore, when eating, he called Wang Yaqiao "Anhui Barbarian". At this time, Wang Yaqiao did not dry up, directly jumped on the table, and slapped Yang Hu with two big slaps.
To say, it must be done, but Yang Hu is also a cunning person, he knows that Wang Yaqiao has brought a lot of people, moreover, this person is very murderous, if the gun on this side is fired, he will definitely not be able to live. So I put up with it and lost a no to Wang Yaqiao, but I didn't know.
At this point, the Qing Gang also knew that Wang Yaqiao, this person, don't die, the sky is not afraid of the earth, we are still far away from him. Since this incident, the Green Gang and the Axe Gang have basically not mixed much, and they have done their own thing