There is a public security museum in Shanghai, which has now become a famous Internet celebrity punching point. The museum has collected more than 50,000 Chinese and foreign collections of police themes from the late Qing Dynasty to the present. Among these collections is an inconspicuous knife with a caption that reads: This gun was used by Du Yuesheng, a big gangster on the beach in old China.
You might be wondering: Did the staff get it wrong? This is obviously a knife, how to say that it is a gun?
Du Yuesheng's small knife and gun
1. Du Yuesheng's deadly dark weapon
It wasn't really the staff who made it wrong, it was a small pistol made in Switzerland disguised as a fruit knife. Its appearance is the same as the common fruit-cutting knife, but it has a gun chamber, can hold a bullet, can be reloaded after firing, and has a large lethality within 5 meters.
Seeing this knife, I can't help but marvel at the ingenuity of the designer and the craftsmanship of the maker, from the shape of the gun can not be seen at all!
It can be imagined that Du Yuesheng must have been carrying this small knife and gun with him, which can be said to be his life-saving artifact.
So why did Du Yuesheng disguise the gun as a fruit knife?
This is related to his early experiences. Before Du Yuesheng made his career, he had been an apprentice in the fruit pen, and after being fried for good gambling, he had to make a living by selling rotten pears that others did not want. But rotten pears who want ah, business is of course not good.
But for smart people, there are often opportunities in difficult situations. Du Yuesheng saw that rotten pears were not easy to sell, so he had a clever move, and thought of cutting the pears well and then selling them, so that he wouldn't be able to see it? It also makes it convenient for customers, so that business is better.
And Du Yuesheng has been cutting pears for a long time, and he has practiced a good knife technique. With just one hand, he can cut the peel of the pear thin and flat. Until he was found, he still showed this skill from time to time, and his men were proud to be able to eat the pears that Mr. Du had cut.
Du Yuesheng later defected to Jin Rong, and by virtue of his cleverness and hard work, he soon surpassed Jin Rong and became the Emperor of Shanghai Beach.
After becoming the boss, of course, there are more dangers, so Du Yuesheng specially let people create this unique knife and gun, cutting pears, self-defense, and using one thing and two things. Don't look at him peeling pears, maybe the next second he will shoot a bullet from the knife and punch a hole in the enemy's body!
2. Golden Rong's three-inch golden gun
In the Shanghai Public Security Museum, there is also a self-defense artifact of another Green Gang leader, Jin Rong, a three-inch golden gun.
This is a foldable 6.35 mm Rifled pistol made in Belgium. Because its handle is made of 24K gold, it is only the size of an egg when folded up, so it is also called "three-inch gold gun".
Jin Rong's "three-inch golden gun"
The gun also had a small brown holster that looked like a dry cigarette bag commonly used by northerners. At the beginning, Jin Rong took his disciples and grandchildren on various decent occasions, seemingly unarmed, in fact, who knew that there was a deadly weapon hanging from his belt?
3. Weapons foreshadow fate
In that year, Du Yuesheng, Jin Jinrong and Zhang Xiaolin cooperated to establish the Sanxin Company, which mainly engaged in opium smuggling business, and was a prominent "three tycoons of the Shanghai Beach Green Gang" in Shanghai Beach.
However, the chaotic world is uncertain, and the endings of the three tycoons are different, the golden glory is desolate in the evening, Zhang Xiaolin is killed as a traitor, and Du Yuesheng dies of illness in Hong Kong.
From left: Du Yuesheng, Zhang Xiaolin, Jin Jinrong
For these three people, some people concluded: Jin Rong is greedy for money, Zhang Xiaolin is good at fighting, and Du Yuesheng will be a man. Their final and earthly endings are, in the final analysis, closely related to their respective personalities.
The difference in personality between Jin Rong and Du Yuesheng can be seen from the two "dark weapons" mentioned above.
Although Jin Rong's golden gun can be folded up and hidden, it is made of gold in the end, and in the eyes of uninformed people, it is to carry a piece of gold everywhere, which shows how high-profile he is.
Jin Rong's high profile once made him soar, but also because of the high profile, Lu Xiaojia, the son of the warlord Lu Yongxiang, was arrested by Lu Xiaojia and beaten violently, but it was only by Du Yuesheng that he was rescued. Since then, The status of Jin Rong has been surpassed by Du Yuesheng.
Because of his greed for money, Jin Rong accumulated too much money, so that he caused his daughter-in-law Li Zhiqing to be greedy and swept away all his money. This is also an important reason for the bleak evening view of Golden Rong.
Golden Rong
On the other hand, Du Yuesheng's small knife and gun are much more clever.
First of all, the knife fits his origin very well, because he is from a pear seller, and carrying a fruit knife with him is not only reasonable, but also regarded as not forgetting the original.
Secondly, the knife and gun are more hidden, and can hide the killing action in the fruit cutting.
Third, the knife and gun are more low-key, which is also in line with Du Yuesheng's personality.
From this small force, we can see how low-key and cautious Du Yuesheng is, and this personality trait can be said to be the secret of Du Yuesheng's success, and it is also the secret of his good death.
At the beginning, the reason why Jin Jinrong and his wife Lin Guisheng reused Du Yuesheng was because he was decisive in his work, but he was low-key.
And Du Yuesheng's low profile can make him exquisite in all directions and everywhere. We rarely hear of him offending anyone or anything like that. And he was closely related to Zhang Xueliang, Dai Jia, and Chiang Kai-shek, who were high-ranking officials and nobles.
4. Du Yuesheng's real self-defense artifact
We can see from the small knife and gun used by Du Yuesheng that although Du Yuesheng is illiterate in large characters, he is really smart in handling things for people and is a person who has seen through human nature. And the many golden sentences he left behind are also talked about:
1. The first class, who has the ability, has no temper; the second class, has the ability, has a temper; the last class, has no ability, has a temper.
2. Learn to be a person when you don't have money, and you will be a person when you have money.
3. Money is used up, and friendship is not exhausted. Other people have money, I have friendships.
4. As a person, there are three bowls of noodles that are the most difficult to eat: human noodles, scenes, and love noodles.
5. Do things to see the ability, people to see the pattern.
6. Man may not be illiterate, but he may not be illiterate.
7. Do things like a knife cutting tofu on both sides of the light.
8. Let others do the icing on the cake, I only do the things that send charcoal in the snow.
9. Man lives in the world by two things: courage and wisdom.
10. Good people don't remember being nice to others, nor do they remember that others have been bad to them.
From these golden sentences, we can see that Du Yuesheng's real "self-defense artifact" is actually not the small knife and gun, but his wisdom in life.