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

Chapter 8
The ax can be said to be the earliest and greatest invention of our ancestors. "poetry?Qi Feng?"Nanshan": "How to analyze salary, you can't do it without an axe." Translated into vernacular, it means, how to split firewood?It must be an axe.

Before the birth of Lu Ban, the carpenter's patriarch, the ax came out many, many years ago.As early as the Neolithic Age, the stone ax was an important cutting tool. With a wooden handle, the shape is not different from the modern iron axe.Many stone axes were unearthed in Hongshan Culture and Liangzhu Culture 5000 years ago.Carpenters still use saws, drills, planes, shovels, curved rulers, ink fountains, etc., all of which are said to have been invented by Lu Ban, except for the axe.But Lu Ban is the first carpenter in history who is good at using axes. Isn't it just to laugh at those ignorant people who think they can play axes in front of Lu Ban?

Human beings are relatively forgetful, which is why they have gradually evolved from tying knots to writing records; human beings are relatively forgetful, and always tie axes and carpenter's tools together.In fact, people forget that the ax is also an important weapon.The ax that cuts trees and animals can also cut people.Eighteen kinds of weapons, knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, battleaxes, hooks, forks, whips, maces, hammers, claws, scorpions, sticks, lances, clubs, crutches, and meteor hammers. The ax family has two exclusive ones: the axe , Yue - a large ax with a long handle. "Xing Tian dances with the relatives, and the fierce will is always there." This is a famous sentence of the pastoral poet Tao Yuanming. The "dry" of the relatives refers to the shield; and "Qi" refers to the axe.

If Chinese history is regarded as a history of war, then there are no lack of ax masters in all dynasties: in "Shuo Tang Quan Zhuan", the fierce general Cheng Yaojin used the Xuanhua axe; Big axe; in "Water Margin", Suo Chao, the vanguard, uses a gold-dipped axe, and Li Kui, the black whirlwind, uses a pair of broad axes.In particular, Li Kui's "Three Broad Axe" is even more well-known.In "Water Margin" No.40 chapter "Liangshanbo Hero Robbery Field?"In "The Little Gathering of the Heroes of the White Dragon Temple", when Li Kui went to Jiangzhou to rob the court, it happened that Liangshan also dispatched a large number of people to rescue Song Jiang.Shi Naian wrote with a wonderful pen: "I saw that big black man in the crowd, wielding two axes, blindly chopping the future...one ax at a time, and the leader of the row will be chopped off."

Now it is impossible to verify whether Wang Yaqiao got his inspiration from Cheng Yaojin and Li Kui.What is certain is that he used a lot of brains when he chose the ax as the weapon for workers' rights protection.The police force in Shanghai is sufficient. There are more than 6000 police officers under the command of Xu Guoliang, the director of the Shanghai Songhu Police Department, all over the city; National Mounted Police, Indian patrols (security guards, commonly known as "red-headed Assan"), Annan (Vietnam) patrols, Chinese patrols, etc., patrol day and night, armed with live ammunition, and will be arrested and thrown into prison if there is any suspicion.Pistols are expensive, and if they are hidden for crimes, they will be imprisoned if they are discovered; knives and swords are all murder weapons, so they are not easy to carry.The axe, as everyone on Earth knows, is a carpenter's tool.High in quality and low in price, easy to carry, and can be repurposed at any time, the labor tool has been transformed into an offensive weapon of the "Ax Gang".

In the spring of 1921, Wang Yaqiao changed the name of "Anhui Labor Federation" to "Anhui Traveling to Shanghai Association", further expanding the team, strictly organizing and strengthening discipline. The meeting place of "Anhui Traveling to Shanghai Association" is located at No. 132, Guling Road, Shanghai.There are more than 30 councilors.Through voting, Bai Wenwei, Chang Hengfang, Xu Shiying, Li Guofeng, Wang Younong, Guan Yunong, Wang Yaqiao and others were elected.Wang Yaqiao received the most votes with 2365 votes.Everyone wanted him to be the president. He smiled, waved his hands again and again, and said, "In terms of age, seniority, and financial resources, I can't afford this heavy responsibility. I don't want power, I don't want to make money, so I am willing to run errands for everyone." , Bai Wenwei served as the chairman, and his nephew Wang Zhuru was in charge of the affairs of the meeting, while Wang Yaqiao took care of the specific matters.

At the end of the same year, Wang Yaqiao fought fiercely with Li Lisan, Ma Chaojun, and Chen Xiaocen, who were also engaged in the labor movement in Shanghai, and jointly organized the Shanghai Labor Federation with Ma Chaojun and Chen Xiaocen, with two offices in Shanghai East and West Shanghai. .The workers who had been bullied by the capitalists and the Qinghong gang cheered and joined enthusiastically. In less than three months, the number of members grew to more than 10.Later, Ma Chaojun went south to Guangzhou and was appointed by Guangzhou Mayor Sun Ke as a special assistant to the Guangzhou Municipal Government; Chen Xiaocen went to Tianjin to develop, and Wang Yaqiao alone assumed the heavy responsibility of the Shanghai Labor Federation.When encountering capitalists and hooligans who bully the workers, if there is no reason, he will send people to kill them one by one with an axe. It is very clean and difficult to solve the case.His nephew Guo Jiaquan said frankly: "Yaqiao is bold, frank, daring, and quite chivalrous. There are all kinds of people in Shanghai's lower class, including political desperadoes, gangsters, down-and-outs, gang leaders, and others. Dereliction of duty soldiers, there are gangsters. Yaqiao made friends widely regardless of high or low. Because of his loyalty, he drew his sword to help each other, and shared weal and woe. Therefore, more and more people followed him, and soon formed a social force. Credibility is a promise, and as for fighting and killing, you dare to risk your life, so you don't dare to provoke him."

Although Ax rights protection is illegal, it has a deterrent effect. For a while, the "Ax Gang" became famous in Shanghai, and all walks of life are proud to know Wang Yaqiao.On the streets and in restaurants, I often see two people arguing with their sleeves rolled up. One said: "Wang Yaqiao is my old cousin. How dare you do anything to me?" Shake it a few times, and say: "Jiu Ye is my master, you feel sorry for me, you are really blind and want to beat me!"

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