At the beginning of the last century, as long as the name "Xu Laohu" was mentioned in Jiangsu, even a 3-year-old child would cover his mouth desperately in horror.
"Xu Laohu"'s real name is Xu Baoshan . He is from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. His family has been bamboo craftsman for generations. He and his younger brother Xu Baozhen had been stuffed with bamboo pieces in their hands to learn how to weave baskets.
However, Xu Baoshan is different from his true father. He has been brave and fierce since childhood and has fought invincible battles all over the country.
China in that era was extremely turbulent, the Qing court was shaking, and all kinds of ghosts came out one after another, and the big king's flag changed on the top of the city wall. For ordinary people, life is simply unsatisfactory, but for a demon like Xu Baoshan, it is a rare opportunity to make a comeback.
After adulthood, he abandoned his ancestral skills, joined the gang without hesitation, and became an private salt dealer.
Feudal dynasties of all dynasties regarded salt industry as their lifeblood. Once private salt is caught, it is difficult to keep your head.
Ming Dynasty Founding Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang , because of the matter of selling private salt, he cruelly gave his son-in-law "crack" and let his daughter become a widow.
In addition to the severe external environment, the internal struggles of salt dealers are even more intense, grabbing territory, salt, and people, and searching the guys if they have any disagreement.
Xu Baoshan's innate advantages are obvious. He is tall and strong, so he will be desperate when fighting. In addition, he had a natural sense of intimacy with the gun. He learned from the first time he got the gun. After firing a few shots, he reached the level of passing through the Yang hundred steps and became a well-known sharpshooter.
He had a good idea. He lit an -line incense in the dark. 10 meters away, Xu Baoshan took out his gun from his waist with a sneering face. With a "bang" sound, the red fire extinguished instantly, and the surroundings fell into silence.
Relying on his strong martial arts and excellent shooting skills, Xu Baoshan is busy competing with people from all walks of life in Qihaokou, opposite the shore of Zhenjiang , every day. After the gunshots and shouts of killing, dozens of corpses were exposed to the wilderness.
Xu Baoshan and Xu Baozhen, brothers, fought a way out in the bloody storm, and soon gathered together with more than 700 salt ships and a salt trafficking team of tens of thousands of people.
For a long time, Xu Baoshan and his salt owls have become an unforgettable nightmare for the locals.
He sent out multiple killers and wandered around everywhere all day long. When he saw his enemies, he rushed up and greeted him with a knife.
These perverted murderers have a horrifying hobby. They like to set up stages and sing operas in the countryside. When everyone gathers together lively, the probability of enemies appearing will increase.
Once enemies are found, the two killers will squeeze into the crowd, one left and one right to hold the enemies in the middle.
In the ocean of joy, the enemy's sense of smell will become extremely dull. He pointed his finger at the clown on the stage, laughing so hard that he leaned back and forth.
The killers pretended to laugh when they saw this, and then two cold knives pierced through the enemy's left and right waist acupoints. All the knives were penetrated into the enemy's body, and the sharp tip almost cut off the spine.
The enemy at this time was in unbearable pain, but due to inertia, it made an out-of-control laugh, and no one around noticed the abnormality. The two killers laughed and held the person out. Two minutes later, the knife was pulled out, and the enemy had become a lifeless corpse.
Because this method is extremely terrifying, people call Xu Baoshan "Xu Laohu".
However, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. Seeing that Xu Baoshan controlled all the private salts from Shanghai to Wuhan in his hands, the court quit: "Do you think we eat rice? Do you dare to touch my fat meat!"
"Look at the trick, this time I must beat you, the tiger, into a mouse."
Xu Baoshan thought he was invincible in the world, but when he fought with the Qing Dynasty regular army in his twilight years, he found that this was not on the same level at all.
is like lifting a weight. You grit your teeth and tremble all over to lift a 200 kilogram. As soon as the regular army came on the field, they easily snatched 3400 kilograms.
can only run if you can't beat it. According to Xu Baoshan's later self-report, that period was so miserable.
The most difficult time, he couldn't even eat a meal a day, and he didn't sleep all night. Fearing that he was caught, he slept in the land temple, wheat fields, and reeds beside the water.
No matter where you sleep, Xu Baoshan did not forget to wrap an incense in his hand. When the incense burned to his fingers, he immediately carp beats to change the place to rest.
Sleep in the empty coffin of Yizhuang , and you can sleep for a while longer, but the preliminary preparation work is too troublesome. You must first pry open the coffin lid, and then use a large brick to pad the coffin lid slightly with a seam so that you will not be suffocated to death.
After fighting with the imperial court for a period of time, Xu Baoshan was at the end of his strength and did not live like a person for a day. As for the court, they still have more things to do. There are rebels everywhere. A small Xu Baoshan is really not worthy of too much energy.
In the end, the Qing court used a common method of dynasties - recruiting amnesty, and incorporated Xu Baoshan's minions into a navy anti-smuggling camp, and appointed Xu Baoshan as an pipe to . In an instant, Xu Baoshan changed from a private salt dealer to a court official.
He reciprocates and helped the Qing court to suppress Tao Longxiang, Tao Longbing, Dashizi and other bandit leaders. He was promoted to gang general for his contributions.
However, before Xu Baoshan could repay the "kindness" of the Qing government, the young emperor Puyi announced his abdication. The Qing Dynasty was like an old house with air flowing on all sides, kicked to pieces by Xinhai Revolution.
The revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen persuaded Xu Baoshan to turn back, and Xu Baoshan thought about it the same thing. The Qing Dynasty could not save it anyway, and his future was the most important.
naturally refused to surrender obediently, and proposed that once Yangzhou "recovered", he would take charge of Yangzhou salt industry.
Who knew that a party member named Sun Tiansheng acted faster than Xu Baoshan. He quickly recovered Yangzhou, and now he ate Xu Baoshan's cake. He colluded with salt merchants in Yangzhou City, led a suicide squad across the river overnight, and spent two days and two nights to defeat Sun Tiansheng, established the Yangzhou Military and Political Branch, and proclaimed himself the governor.
He is a person without a stance. Whoever he fights or not depends entirely on the word "interest". When the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition forces attacked Nanjing, Xu Baoshan actively cooperated with the action, and for this reason he was received by Sun Yat-sen.
1912, Yuan Shikai stole the regime and sent money everywhere to ask for support. There were few local warlords who took care of him. However, Xu Baoshan accepted Yuan Shikai's olive branch and received 250,000 yuan from President Yuan's encouragement, and even sent his son to Beijing as a hostage.
Yuan Shikai was greatly moved and appointed Xu Baoshan as the commander of the Second Army stationed in Yang and the chief of staff of the Huainan Army.
In the spring of 1913, the Kuomintang persuaded Xu Baoshan to open his eyes wide and see the situation around him. Now that Old Yuan is taking rebellious actions, the people of the whole country are planning to overthrow him. You are still holding his fat thigh, do you need to wear glasses?
Who knew that Xu Baoshan, who was known as " Chameleon ", had an extremely firm attitude this time: "Get out, I will follow President Yuan, no one can persuade him."
If you want to overthrow Yuan Shikai, you must conquer Xu Baoshan.
If it is not soft, then it will be hard. Sun Yat-sen instructed Shanghai Governor Chen Qimei to find a way to get rid of Xu Laohu.
Chen Qimei was so worried that Xu Baoshan was full of martial arts and gunshot skills. No one in the world could defeat him, not to mention that he had a large group of soldiers under him. Most of the elite players on the party side have been lost in the Battle of 1911, and no one is sure to win Xu Baoshan.
After thinking about it, Chen Qimei had an idea after hearing about a hobby of Xu Baoshan and found a fatal method that could be fatal to one blow.
Chen Qimei
Although Xu Baoshan is a martial artist, he is quite arty and elegant. He always fiddled with antiques and fiddled with antique merchants.
Chen Qimei sent someone to investigate which antique merchants Xu Baoshan had more contact with, and finally, he targeted the boss named Ai from the Gu Songji Arts and Entertainment Store in Shanghai.
Chen Qimei discussed with Zhang Jingjiang and decided to assassinate Xu Baoshan in the name of sending antiques. Unexpectedly, Xu Baoshan was extremely careful and never had direct contact with antique merchants.
After the merchants have good goods, they can only give them to Xu Baoshan through the doorman. When he feels satisfied, he keeps the things and pays them to the other party. If he is not satisfied, he returns the original item directly.
In this way, the plan to kill Xu Baoshan in the name of sending antiques was declared a failure.
Chen Qimei was a little annoyed and decided to use a simple and crude method. Don’t he like porcelain very much? He simply put a projectile in the vase and bombed him to death while the old guy was enjoying it.
Zhang Jingjiang applauded and praised: "Brother, why did you grow your head? You're so smart, just do that."
The projectile at that time was not very lethal and not small in size, so it couldn't be put into the vase at all. Chen Qimei found expert Huang Fusheng, and after several experiments, she specially made a very small but powerful projectile.
After that, Chen Qimei called a guy named Cheng and took a pair of rare "beautiful shepherd's chestnut" porcelain bottles to Xu Baoshan.
Xu Baoshan really couldn't put down the porcelain bottle, but the man named Cheng had a high offer and the transaction was not completed in the end.
For several days, Xu Baoshan thought of this pair of exquisite porcelain bottles, and his heart would be as if he had been scratched by a wild cat, and he asked someone to find the pair of porcelain bottles everywhere.
Chen Qimei found someone to imitate the handwriting of Boss Ai, who was familiar with Xu Baoshan, and said that she had found a store selling "Beautiful Shepherd" and the price was negotiated. She sent someone to send the bottle to the commander for a look. If there was no problem, she could pay on the spot.
On the evening of May 23, 1913, a young man came to Xu Mansion with a well-decorated wooden box and letter and told the concierge: "This vase is a treasure. Please hand it over to Chief Xu personally. No one is allowed to open it privately."
The next morning, when Xu Baoshan got up, he heard that the vase had been placed in the study. He was immediately overjoyed and rushed over with Chabian Gao Zhenqing and Wang Delin.
Wang Delin heard that the wooden box contained a priceless treasure, how could he dare to be careless? Knock the east and pry it out with great care.
Xu Baoshan couldn't wait, and loudly scolded Wang Delin for being unscrupulous, kicked him out of the door, and unboxed himself and Gao Zhenqing.
Xu Baoshan is extremely powerful. He was worried that the vase inside would be shaken and damaged after opening the wooden box rashly, so he simply pressed his abdomen against the wooden box.
The wooden box was finally pried open a gap, but suddenly a "hiss" sound inside, and smoke sprayed out along the gap.
Xu Baoshan reacted very quickly and was about to throw the wooden box out. Unexpectedly, he had not had time to take off his hand. With a "boom", the house trembled and thick smoke filled his eyes. Xu Baoshan's belly was blown open, and Gao Zhenqing was killed. Even Wang Delin, who was leaning against the door, was blown away half of his face.
Ironically, after his death, President Yuan Shikai and Vice President Li Yuanhong were deeply mourned. In order to cater to the preferences of superiors, people from all walks of life in Yangzhou also built a "General Xu Gong Temple" with elegiac couplets and bronze statues sculpted in the temple, staged a farce.
However, Xu Baoshan's death also sounded a wake-up call for those big shots. Don't have any hobbies. If so, don't let your opponent know.
