The true biography of Yaqiao, the first chivalrous king of the Republic of China

Chapter 42

Over the past few days, the assassination of Song Ziwen made Wang Yaqiao upset, and the assassination of Chen Tiaoyuan had a miscarriage, which made him angry. These things could not be explained in detail, and he was so stuffed up in his heart that he often slapped the table for trivial matters. , staring, making fellow villagers and subordinates baffled.

One day, at Yipinxiang Hotel in Shanghai, Wang Yaqiao gathered with Bai Wenwei, Li Guofeng, Guan Yunong, Xu Shiying, Chang Hengfang, Gao Yihan, Zhang Shuhou, Wang Xiaochu and other fellow villagers.While chatting, Ma Cheng, Guan Yunnong's entourage, took out a Swiss gold watch, which was probably new, Ma Cheng said: "This watch belongs to a friend of mine, and he is anxiously waiting for money and wants to sell it to a knowledgeable person. Let’s see, 90 yuan, who needs it?”

Several people took it and passed it on one by one.Some were not short of watches and were not interested; some smiled and did not express their opinion;Ma Cheng was quite regretful, and was about to put it back into his pocket, when Wang Yaqiao said, "Well, Ma Cheng, I want this watch, and I will give it 100!"

"What, someone asked for 90, but you gave him 100?"

"Lao Jiu has plenty of money, so he still cares about it?"

Everyone talked a lot, and they all felt that Wang Yaqiao was too burnt.

"Let me tell you, folks, this gold watch is worth 150 yuan in my opinion. If the owner is not in a hurry to use the money, can he be willing to sell it for only 90 yuan? We should understand his complex psychology of reluctantly giving up his love. You people , not only did not send charcoal in the snow, but also desperately lowered the price, it is simply taking advantage of the fire, what are you doing?"

As he spoke, he took out a 100-yuan bill from his purse and handed it to Ma Cheng: "Please hand it over to the owner."

Ma Cheng held the gold watch in front of Wang Yaqiao with both hands, and said gratefully: "Brother Ninth is righteous. I bow to you on behalf of the owner."

Many people applauded.

"Hmph, who can be as rich as Wang Jiu?" Someone in the crowd muttered.

Wang Yaqiao suddenly stood up and said: "We are all fellow villagers for many years. Who doesn't know who? Among you, except Wang Xiaochu, who has not been in Shanghai for a long time, who is not richer than me? The question is not whether you have money, but whether you have money or not. Do you have this kind of heart? The same is helping others. Some people like to add flowers to the cake, while others are willing to give charcoal in a timely manner. Adding flowers on the cake and giving charcoal in a timely manner are both helping others, but from the perspective of benevolence and righteousness, there is an essential difference between the two. This is what the ancients often said. The distinction between righteousness and benefit..."

So, everyone expressed their views, some agreed to add icing on the cake, some advocated sending charcoal in a timely manner, and some put forward a dialectical view... It is difficult for anyone to convince the other party.The dishes have already left, and they are still arguing.Chang Hengfang, who had been silent all this time, waved his hand to signal for everyone to be quiet, and said, "I heard Lao Jiu talk about righteousness and benefit today, which really opened the eyes of the villagers. This topic has been debated for thousands of years, but there is still no result. Let's stop talking today. Next topic, drink and eat!"

Five tastes of food, three rounds of wine.At this time, a tall and burly young man stood outside the door of the private room, looking inside with a rather nervous expression.When Wang Yaqiao saw him, his face immediately changed.Sitting with a livid face, neither eating nor drinking, he kept fanning himself.Li Guofeng toasted, Wang Yaqiao raised the wine glass and touched it, but put it on the table again without drinking, panting heavily.

After a few minutes, he couldn't hold back any longer, got up and went to the door, asked a few words, then closed the bamboo fan and beat him on the face; Lei, mercilessly, hit the young man more than a dozen times in one breath, leaving purple marks on the young man's face and hands... Guan Yunong couldn't stand it anymore, so he got up and went out, hugged Wang Yaqiao, and pushed him to his seat.Panting heavily, Wang Yaqiao cursed loudly: "You useless thing, Chen Tiaoyuan played a trick and fooled you. What else can you do? Get out! Don't let me see you again!"

The young man quickly got up, wiped his tears, and ran away.

Later, when Wang Yaqiao calmed down a bit, fellow villagers asked him why he got angry.He saw that everyone present was reliable, so he briefly introduced what happened.

It turned out that on the eve of the Great War in the Central Plains, Han Fuju led troops to defect to Jiang and rebel against Feng in Luoyang, Henan.After the war, in order to win over Han Fuju further, Chiang Kai-shek transferred him to Shandong to serve as the commander-in-chief of the bandit suppression in Hebei and Henan, keeping him away from Feng, Yan and Shi Yousan; In the middle, there are enemies on both sides.Subsequently, he led his troops to Jining, Tai'an, Jinan, Qingzhou and other places. On September 1930, 9, there were few gunshots in the Central Plains War, and Chiang Kai-shek's victory was determined, so he rewarded him for his merits, appointed Han Fuju as the chairman of the Shandong Provincial Government, and transferred Chen Tiaoyuan back to Anhui.

When Chen Tiaoyuan returned to power in Anhui, he did not change his bad habit of extorting money and plundering people's wealth, and continued to harm the people of Jianghuai.Wang Yaqiao attacked the case and once again organized the assassination of Chen Tiaoyuan.At a mass gathering in Anqing, the assassin Xu Su had already approached Chen Tiaoyuan and was about to pull out his pistol to shoot. However, the old and cunning Chen Tiaoyuan seemed to smell something unusual. He stretched out his big hand and shook Xu Su with a smile on his face.Xu Su was unprepared, and had never shaken hands with such a big person before, so he stretched out his hand in a daze.Chen Tiaoyuan's big hands grabbed him like pliers, and ordered in a low voice: "Don't move around, follow me!" The personal guards then wrapped Xu Su into the car and locked him in Chen Tiaoyuan's manor .After a body search and torture, Xu Su was forced to confess the secret of the murder.Later, Xu Sucheng's guarded soldiers were paralyzed, broke windows, and escaped over the wall.

Today, Xu Su found Wang Yaqiao, hoping to get his forgiveness and give him another chance.Wang Yaqiao didn't know how to act, he was angry when he was angry, and he didn't care that there were many fellow villagers present, so he taught him a lesson.From then on, Xu Su quietly left Shanghai, hiding her name, as if she had evaporated from the world.

After a while, suddenly, Chen Tiaoyuan entrusted someone to send Wang Yaqiao 10 yuan, hoping to make friends with him and stop making trouble with him.

A huge sum of money fell from the sky, should you accept it?Wang Yaqiao discussed with Wang Yaying, Zheng Baozhen, Xu Zhiyuan, Zhu Dagang and others.

"This is ill-gotten wealth, we can't take it. If we want it, wouldn't it be the same as being bought by Chen Tiaoyuan?" Xu Zhiyuan spoke first.

"I think this money can be accepted." Zheng Baozhen thought for a while and said, "This money is the people's fat and people's ointment that Chen Tiaoyuan scavenged from the elders in Anhui. We can take it from Chen and use it for the people as a countermeasure." Chen funds."

Two factions of opinion, tit for tat.After discussing for a long time, no one could convince the other party, so they focused their attention on Wang Yaqiao.Wang Yaqiao, on the other hand, smoked a cigarette silently, seeming quite difficult to make a decision.After thinking again and again, he asked in a negotiating tone: "Money is a good thing, and the more the better. But a gentleman loves money, and he gets it in a proper way and uses it for fame. Let's see if this is good. Let's accept 10 yuan. 5 yuan will be used as The organization fund, another 5 yuan, is in charge of Baozhen, and it is used for the special project of driving Chen. If this pest is not driven out of Anhui, we will never withdraw our troops!"

Everyone glanced at each other, and there was no opinion.

Later, Zheng Baozhen led a dozen brothers and divided them into Nanjing and Anqing groups, setting off a new anti-Chen upsurge, making Chen Tiaoyuan anxious and restless all day long, and calling Wang Yaqiao a "rogue".In the end, forced by the situation and for the safety of his family, Chen Tiaoyuan believed that he was in the open, while Wang Yaqiao was in the dark. The members of the national government who have no power dare not set foot in Anhui again.

Later, when Wang Yintang passed away in Shanghai, celebrities from all walks of life in Anhui Province went to express their condolences. Xu Shiying, the former chairman of the provincial government, sent an elegiac couplet: "You have a son who can be a hero in the world, and this man is beyond the dust of the world." According to the custom, Wang Yintang's coffin needs to be transported back to Feidong for burial.Chen Tiaoyuan learned that, in order to show his goodwill, he took the initiative to send a competent general, Zha Shihan from Jingxian County, Anhui Province, to express his condolences, and undertook the task of transporting the coffin, and paid for the expenses himself.Wang Yaqiao wanted to refuse, but Chang Hengfang persuaded him: "Old Jiu, this is called no deal without deal. Big fool Chen wants to show his filial piety on your behalf, why do you want to refute his face?"

(End of this chapter)