On September 15, the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), Yitong, Jilin, accompanied by a burst of sporadic gunfire in the direction of the North City Gate, groups of beards soon appeared on the cross streets in the county, galloping back and forth on big horses, rolling up bursts of smoke and dust, and horse whips fell on the heads of the people running around like headless flies from time to time.
For a time, wailing arose, calling for children and daughters, a scene of the end of the world.
This is Xindesheng, Nanshanpi, Xiaohaijiao and other handbags united to attack Yitong County - two security guards in the city were in battle to follow the thieves, so they quickly smashed this "big hard kiln".
The first to suffer was Tongyuan Sheng Cloth Village, the row of boards was quickly smashed open, and piles of satin cloth were happily carried onto the cart by the beards.
Then there is Qiao's pawnshop, Nancheng Tax Bureau, and Lao Tongmao Oil Mill......
By the afternoon, when the looting was almost over, the bearded horse caravan began to withdraw from the original road at the North City Gate, and a long three-horse cart was full. In addition, there are more meat tickets that have been tied up, about twenty or thirty people, basically all of whom are the shopkeepers of various trading shops in the county and the landlords who live in the city.
Two security companies had already defected into thieves, and naturally they were also involved in the looting. However, one of the company commanders was not satisfied, and scolded: "After a while, the brothers only got a few pieces of the ocean, which is really a disappointment......
In fact, the bearded men did not treat the two security companies differently, because the current ocean that each of them could get was not as good as the security company.
But this does not mean that the harvest of this trip is not abundant, in addition to the materials grabbed, the biggest harvest is actually those meat tickets - that is the walking white flowers in the ocean......
01
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, there were guns in the land of Kanto, and there were large and small locks everywhere.
The purpose of being a beard is actually very simple and primitive: psychological indulgence + physical enjoyment.
Psychological indulgence is easier to satisfy, as long as you plunge headlong into the mountains and forests, the sky is the king's boss, I am the king's second, you can completely let go of yourself.
But the physiological enjoyment is different, which requires sufficient hardware conditions - Yinyang, Yinyang, or Yinyang!
It is not correct to say that beards are lazy and do not produce. In fact, the beard is very industrious and is also engaged in production. It's just that the means of production are more special - the gun in the hand, the horse under the crotch.
When the beard is called "eating and eating", it can be said to be very vivid. To put it bluntly, it is to plunder other people's resources through violent means to satisfy personal consumption - in criminal law, this is called "robbery......
But robbery itself is also a technical job, because the object of robbery is not an elm stake, and will stand there stupidly waiting to be robbed.
Of course, ordinary people can be regarded as elm stakes, but what can they grab? Is it pickles on the head of the nest? Or patched old clothes, rotten bedding rolls?
The so-called not robbing ordinary people is just because ordinary people have nothing to rob.
Therefore, in the end, it still has to fall on the landlord Lao Cai.
Kanto beard, robbing the rich must be true, and it must be true. But poverty relief is debatable, not that there is none, but it is rare.
02
Since the Kanto region is full of silks, where did the landlord's old wealth come from? Shouldn't it be robbed and extinct?
The answer is: the landlord is not stupid, people have money in their hands and grain in their warehouses, so they naturally want people and guns.
The Liao 13 (Linchun made) rifle produced by the Fengtian Ordnance Factory, the price of a shot is 50 yuan, and 50 rounds of ammunition are included.
And the price of the long and short guns shipped from Guanli is not unattainable.
As for the gunners, as long as the price of 1,000 catties of sorghum rice per month is enough, it is enough to attract the old and young masters of the Kanto region to sell their lives.
The thick walls and tall forts were built to become hard kilns.
Fence and the remains of the fort
For beards who lack heavy weapons, it is extremely difficult to smash the kiln.
But as the saying goes, "there are a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves", no matter how strong the bib is, it can't hold the beard and ponder all day long.
Once it falls, it will be a nightmare for the main family in the enclosure.
Generally speaking, as long as there are no big casualties in the process of smashing the kiln, then after the smashing sound, it will not kill people easily, at most the gunner in the fence will be inserted (killed), and the bitter master's family will basically not bleed.
But a whistling beard may not be able to avoid the act of fracturing (playing with women).
In addition, looting all kinds of valuable and useful belongings in the enclosure can only be regarded as a basic operation.
However, contrary to popular assumptions, there is only a limit to the amount of money that can be obtained directly from the beard after the smashing sound.
03
Needless to say, in the turbulent social context of the time, even today, ordinary people do not put too much cash.
At that time, although the gold bars and silver dollars of the wealthy landlords were generally not deposited in the bank, they would definitely find a place to hide them.
The beard has a limited time to stay after the smash, after all, the officers and soldiers are not decorations.
In fact, even if you have enough time for the beard, you can't find it at all. It's too difficult for one person to hide something, and other people come to find it.
But the beard is not panicked, the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high.
Tied tickets, came into being.
In a lock, in addition to the big shopkeeper, the speaker also has four beams and eight pillars. Among them, the shopkeeper of the seedling house is one of the pillars - the ruthless pillar. The door post and the outer pillar (flower tongue) are actually specially for the service of the seedling room, the former is responsible for writing extortion letters to the bitter master, and the latter is responsible for sending letters and bargaining to the bitter master.
After the smashing sound, all the belongings that can be seen in the fence will be looted: from pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, clothes, grain and oil, to needles, threads, brains, pots and pans. And when leaving, one person will inevitably be taken away.
Generally the most important one, don't be too old, don't be too young.
That's the meat ticket.
Beard tied meat ticket: the rightmost one is a flower tongue (marked by a white cloth wrapped around the left arm)
With a meat ticket in hand, I am not afraid that I will not be able to get the ocean. The shopkeeper of the seedling house is specialized in this, all kinds of cruel torture methods, chilling, the specific editor in the article "Seedling room and kidnapping: the greed and cruelty of the Northeast beard, to the outrageous level", I will not repeat it here.
The meat ticket that the beard takes away can sometimes be a young woman, the so-called "flower ticket".
Spending tickets is asking for quick money.
Because after the flower ticket is kidnapped, the family will often pool the money to redeem it on the same day, and cannot stay overnight.
Staying overnight means that innocence is tainted, and the bearded platoon cannon is not a joke. According to the general social perception at the time, there was no point in redeeming such a ticket after it was spent overnight.
Therefore, tying a beard with a flower ticket is also a process of a game: if the ransom is too high, the family members of the flower ticket will not be able to gather together in a day, and in the end they will get nothing; if the demand is too low, they will not be reconciled.
04
In addition to the flower ticket, it is the fire point, also known as the "fat ticket" and "fire ticket", which means the meat ticket with a lot of oil and water.
Those who can build a fence must have economic strength. In this regard, the principle of beard is: knock the bone and suck the marrow, eat dry and wipe clean.
When the ransom is demanded, it is usually the lion who opens his mouth, that is, "the fire is lit by the lion".
For example, according to the news heard by the inner disk (inner line), it is estimated that this company can have 10,000 yuan in the ocean, so the beard will ask for 20,000 yuan.
One is to leave room for bargaining, and the other is to force the family to go out to borrow money from relatives and friends, as well as sell land and shops.
If you don't toss this family to the point of defeat, you won't stop. One is to get a high ransom, and the other is to avoid the comeback of the family and wait for the opportunity to retaliate.
The greed and brutality in it are unimaginable.
And even if it is a hard kiln that can be strictly guarded, the family does not dare to guarantee that they will not be kidnapped. Because people are social, it is impossible to stay in the fence all their lives without going out.
Once you go out to visit relatives, go to school, or encounter weddings and funerals, there is a risk of being tied up by a beard. Therefore, at that time, many people lived in fear, whether rich or poor, as the so-called "rich people are afraid of being tied up, some girls are afraid of robbing, those who are in the aisle are afraid of being bored, and those who go out are afraid of being struggling." ”
And the beard is also full of tricks in order to tie up the ticket, and it is impossible to prevent it.
For example, in the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935), there was a large landowner nicknamed "Jiang Laokou" in Jiutai, Jilin, who built a fence with a four-corner fort and hired a number of gunners to defend it.
There is a local silk with the number "Sanjiang Good", and Jiang Laokou has a festival, and he has come to smash the kiln many times, but he has failed.
And Jiang Laokou was also afraid that Sanjiang would retaliate, so the whole family stayed in the fence and did not go out, for fear of being tied up.
At the end of the year, it was freezing cold, and it stands to reason that without the cover of the green gauze tent, the beard is inconvenient to move, and it should be safe. But Jiang Laokou still withered up and didn't move his nest.
On this day, a clansman came to ask, "Who in our family is old (dead), why are there people digging graves in the cemetery?"
Jiang Laokou was a little confused: If someone in the family is old, how can there be no movement?
So he hurriedly led people to the ancestral cemetery, and sure enough, he saw a group of mourners dressed in linen and filial piety, and there was a red coffin.
Jiang Laokou was furious: Who dares to pull Li Guleng from the ancestral cemetery!
When he stepped forward to talk about crutches, he beat people, but he was grabbed and thrown into a coffin and carried away.
Gotta prepare for the ransom......
05
Not only are the landlords in the countryside unsafe, but even the cities are not safe. For example, in the opening scene of this article, it is a few silk sons who teamed up to capture Yitong County, which is also a kind of smashing kiln, and it is not uncommon, Heilongjiang's "Lao Zhanshan" also led his troops to capture Jiamusi, which also looted the whole city, and then also captured a string of meat tickets.
Even living in the big cities of the time was not absolutely safe. For example, in the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919), there was a brothel called "Jinyutang" in Changchun, and the head card was hit by the big shopkeeper "Dalong" of Wanbaoshan nearby, and wanted to redeem himself. But the old bustard Xiao Jinbao refused to release the cash cow, so the insertion pillar in the big dragon locks took the opportunity of the temple fair to kidnap Xiao Jinbao's good son.
In the end, Xiao Jinbao could only reluctantly agree to exchange tickets (later this head card was the famous female mustached head in Kanto - camel dragon).
In fact, Xiao Jinbao has to be lucky: Da Long Shawn is just trying to get her top card, not asking for her money, otherwise it will be light to take off the three layers of skin.
The meat tickets tied by the beard will eventually fall into the hands of the shopkeeper of the seedling house. And those who can be the shopkeeper of the seedling house must have a heart harder than iron.
Taking the dozens of meat tickets kidnapped in Yitong County as an example, you can get at least 100,000 yuan of cash ocean. Of course, this has to be determined by the ability of the shopkeeper of each dreadlock, because the meat ticket will be divided equally after leaving the city, and then each will depend on his ability.
Therefore, the two security guards didn't even have to complain about the small amount of money on the spot, and when the meat tickets were redeemed, it would be no problem for them to share a few hundred yuan in the ocean.
It's just that behind this are dozens of families shattered......