Ancient books often mention "one chaos and one governance". This is the general trend of the world summarized by the ancient Chinese, and modern people also call it "dynasty law".
In recent hundreds of years, there were first the rebellion in the late Ming Dynasty, and later the reign of the Qing Dynasty. But by the end of the Qing Dynasty, China became in chaos again, and it was not until the founding of the New China that China re-entered the "great governance".
Then someone asks: The Republic of China has been in power for more than 30 years. Isn’t it considered a great rule?
Some historians believe that it does not count, because the Republic of China has not been stable from beginning to end.
In the early years of the Republic of China, warlords in the world fought in a melee, and all kinds of Chinese commanders and military commanders formed a group, and the people lived in vain.
In the middle and late period of the Republic of China, China first had the Agrarian Revolution War, then the War of War against Chiang Kai-shek, and finally the War of Japan's War of Aggression against China, and the War of Liberation. It can be said that there were less than two years of peace in more than 30 years of history.
This is just the "chaos" in the general trend of the country. When you look at the people with a magnifying glass, famine, plague, bandits and natural disasters are emerging one after another.
, especially the bandits in the Republic of China, were a chronic disease that the government has been unable to solve for decades. In 1930 alone, " declaration " counted that tens of millions of people became bandits or half-people and half-bandits, and the Chinese people suffered greatly.
Because of its mountainous nature, bandits have been rampant since ancient times. In the early days of the Republic of China, four major bandits emerged in Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, and made trouble around Hui'an .
Among them, the bandit Wang Chaishui has the worst reputation.
Wang Chaishui was young and educated. He once joined the National Army as a clerk, but later he brought up his own team to be a bandit. He suffered disaster in Hui'an for fifteen years and created the "Sixth and Sixth Tribulation" that shocked the Republic of China and shocked the south.
So how did bandits like Wang Chaishui take the initiative? What bad things have he done in Hui'an? What happened to him in the end?
1. Yasha was born in troubled times, half of the soldiers and half bandits Wang Chaishui
At the end of 911, the Qing Dynasty fell, and in 1912, the Republic of China was established.
Reasonablely, after the establishment of a new government, the country should have a new look, but the Republic of China fell into division from the beginning.
Beiyang military controls the state power in Beijing and is the official Chinese government. The Kuomintang in the south is active in Guangzhou, trying to defeat the warlords and rebuild the government.
Because of this, in the 1920s, the revolutionaries in the south organized the Northern Expedition many times, and protected the country and the law protection movement wave after wave.
North-south confrontation has caused many parts of China to have not established perfect local governments. Officials at grassroots localities have no money or power, and can only rely on the army to manage the local area.
The army at that time was also very corrupt, not only had poor combat effectiveness, but also had bad habits. The army in some places was half-army and half-bandit.
At the same time, local vagabonds and gangsters are on duty in the army, often colluding with bandits, and they escape from the army and gather in the mountains and forests whenever they have the opportunity. This is the case in most bandits in Fujian.
Wang Chaishui was born under such a background.
Wang Chaishui was born in Houfang Village outside the east gate of Hui'an County in 1900. Although his family is a farmer, his family is relatively rich.
Wang Chaishui's experience when he was young was ominous, but the Hui'an County Chronicles record that he was not illiterate, but graduated from Hui'an County Middle School. Later, he went to Jimei School in Xiamen to study in Jimei School, where he studied in the normal school major and almost became a teacher.
918, due to the turmoil in Xiamen, Wang Chaishui dropped out of Jimei School and returned to his hometown to join the army. This unit is called the "Minnan Jingguo Army", and Wang Chaishui's boss is Wang Lian, who is also from Hui'an.
Wang Chaishui was just 18 years old at that time and had culture. This was considered a talent in the peasant army at that time. In the end, Wang Lian asked Wang Chaishui to be a clerk by his side and did not have to fight with guns on the front line.
Wang Chaishui has been involved in Wang Lian since then, and these two people later became the big bandits of Hui'an County .
Wang Chaishui has Wang Lian as his backer and is like a fish in water in the army. He is good at camp and has a good relationship with his superiors. So even if he does not have any military achievements, he is still promoted one after another in the "Yanguo Army".
1924, Wang Lian surrendered to General Kong Zhaotong, the then "Xingquan Yong Guardian". Later, Wang Lian's power increased, with thousands of people. Wang Chaishui was named battalion commander and under his command, hundreds of people.
4-year-old Wang Chaishui became the battalion commander and showed off his power all day long, but he had hundreds of soldiers under his command and often encountered insufficient military pay.
In order to stabilize the team, Wang Chaishui often went to villages and towns to force the people to "apply donations" under the name of "suppressing bandits". The people of Southern Fujian have been exploited by local soldiers and bandits since the establishment of the Republic of China. They often let them go and lose money to avoid disasters.
This atmosphere encouraged the arrogance of soldiers and bandits such as Wang Chaishui. He began to ignore military discipline and often plunder the countryside. Wang Chaishui's atrocities were sued by some gentry to Kong Zhaotong, but in the end they were suppressed by Wang Lian.
2. Burning, killing, looting, doing evil, and the Wang bandits squeezed out the people in the area in
927, with the breakdown of the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, China entered the period of the land revolution.
Wang Chaishui brought his troops back to Hui'an to station. He took the title of "Special Envoy to Suppress the Communist Party" and went deep into the countryside in the local area, destroying the grassroots organizations of the Communist Party of China, and taking the opportunity to extort farmers participating in the Farmers Association.
Wang Chaishui revealed his cruel nature at this time, and tortured the farmers who could not pay the money, and even killed the family, which aroused public anger in the local area.
Finally, Hui'an wealthy businessmen and gentry jointly reported Wang Chaishui. After the National Government learned about it, it disbanded the local army composed of mobs, abolished all organization, and sent a revolutionary army to take charge of public security.
Wang Chaishui lost black hat , and hundreds of people under him were about to disband in the blink of an eye, but he was used to such a mighty life and could not let go of the gun in his hand.
Finally, Wang Chaishui discussed with several subordinates, simply refused to listen to the government, stole guns and ammunition with hundreds of people, and became bandits in the Tianchuan area in western Hui'an, and still plundered the people under the banner of his "special commissioner".
At that time, there were serious bandits in the coastal areas of Fujian, and bandits in Putian, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xiamen and other places were rampant, with dozens of bandits of all sizes. But the National Government was busy with the Northern Expedition at that time and had no good way to resolve the bandits.
In the Quanzhou area, "Hui'an Wang Chaishui" is not the largest among the bandits, but it is the most fierce. Wang Chaishui is not very old, but he is quite prestigious. He is meticulous and good at winning people's hearts. He quickly brought the team to hundreds of people.
Wang Chaishui's way of expanding his subordinates is very brutal. He does not use "eat meat with big chews and share gold with big scales" as bait, but instead directly grabs people from the countryside.
Not only that, Wang Chaishui also made harsh words in the rural areas of Hui'an, and ordered under the false name of "special commissioner", each village must find several people to join their team and assist themselves in "stable public security". Otherwise, the village would not listen to the order and would bring people to clean up.
In desperation, people in each village will join Wang Chaishui's team. If he encounters some tough villages, Wang Chaishui will take people to demonstrate, rob food, burn houses, and rob women of all kinds, and do everything he wants.
In fact, Wang Chaishui's move is very cunning. He asked farmers to join the team, not only increasing the manpower, but also invisibly tied the farmers in each village to the pirate ship.
Some people participated in the bandits in the village. The government knew about it and would pursue it, so the farmers did not dare to report to the officials easily. Wang Chaishui would be more comfortable when robbing him in the future.
Hui'an County was the center of Hui'an and an important commercial distribution center in Fujian at that time, with many merchants coming and going.
Wang Chaishui later couldn't squeeze out oil and water in the countryside, so he made a living by kidnapping. He kidnapped merchants on the official road near Hui'an County, then plundered property and demanded ransom.
Wang Chaishui often has torture and torture first when he catches hostages. He believes that "whoever is arrested must be killed," and only then can they tell their true wealth if they catch hostages.
Then Wang Chaishui estimated the ransom, and then sent someone to cut off the hostage's fingers or ears, so that someone could send a blackmail letter to the hostage's family to demand a high ransom.
Wang Chaishui used this method to search for hundreds of thousands of silver dollars savings, and raised more than 200 bandits and hundreds of guns, dominating the country in Hui'an.
The local army has gone out of the city to suppress bandits several times, but Wang Chaishui has had a spy to inform him. When the official army was dispatched, Wang Chaishui disappeared without a trace. When the official army returned to the city, Wang Chaishui killed him and shot him back.
several times, Hui'an County Government also had no choice but to take Wang Chaishui, and could only see him showing off his power.
html In the late 120s, Wang Chaishui caused no oil and water to be squeezed out in Hui'an, so he sent people to force local farmers to grow poppy and boil opium. Wang Chaishui will collect all the opium grown by farmers, and only pay some hard work, which is not much higher than farming.
, and Wang Chaishui himself took the opium north and went to Zhejiang to sell it, making a lot of money.
3. The internal strife failed and fled to Shanghai. The giant bandit was shot dead by random
Wang Chaishui used the money to sell opium to buy weapons and strengthen the team. Until June 6, 1929, the lawless Wang Chaishui and his men created the "June 6 Incident" that shocked the Republic of China.
On June 6, 1929, the garrison in Hui'an County urgently changed defenses, and the city was almost unprepared. The news of
was originally kept confidential within the government, but Wang Chaishui got the news through an undercover agent. Then he took advantage of the opportunity when the army changed defense and the county town was empty to attack Hui'an County. After the city was broken, hundreds of shops and more than a dozen large-scale shops in Hui'an County were all robbed, and residents in the city were beaten, robbed, and raped.
Bandits occupied the county town for 6 days. In the end, Wang Chaishui caught enough oil and water, and kidnapped 13 merchants from the business bank as hostages. The army did not dare to chase after the army arrived because Wang Chaishui threatened to chase after him.
However, more than half of the wealthy businessmen who were kidnapped by Wang Chaishui in the "Liuliu Incident" finally did not come back.
According to the description of the person who came back, Wang Chaishui's subordinates tortured the hostages day and night, beat, hung, and drowned. They were tortured to death and asked for money after they wrote a letter.
At night, Wang Chaishui and his men played mahjong, and the bets were piles of silver dollars, and the hostages had to accompany them, and they had to illuminate the bandits with candles on their heads. Even if they were burned by candle oil, they could not shake it, otherwise they would be beaten.
In the end, more than a dozen merchants sent ransoms, but a few of them had ransoms that were not to Wang Chaishui's wishes, so he still tore up the votes.
Although the early Republic of China was chaotic, the "Sixth Incident" caused by Wang Chaishui was still too scary. After all, the Nanjing government had been established at that time, and the warlords were all dependent on the National Government. There was a scandal like "bandits siege the city", which made the Nanjing government lose its face.
soon, Zhangzhou , Quanzhou, Putian and other places began to jointly deal with bandits such as Wang Chaishui. Finally, in 1932, the Wang Chaishui bandit regiment was defeated by the Kuomintang Lieutenant General brigade commander Chen Guohui in Xianyou County .
However, Chen Guohui is not a good man, he is also a ruthless man with half a soldier and half a bandit. His soldiers are through many battles and are not comparable to Wang Chaishui and others.
After Wang Chaishui was defeated, most of his subordinates fled. He brought a few confidants back to Hui'an's nest, and finally divided the property he had accumulated over the years and left.
Wang Chaishui chose to go north to Shanghai. He brought a lot of money and wanted to get into the concession in the future. In that case, the laws of the Republic of China would not be able to control him.
In Shanghai, Wang Chaishui was busy looking for a backer, and finally found the Shanghai Guard Commander Wu Tiecheng's family.
He met Wu Tiecheng's brother-in-law and spent money to hide under Wu Tiecheng's wings. But some Fujian businessmen were very indignant when they learned that the big bandit actually hid in Shanghai.
There are also many Hui'an people in Shanghai. They jointly wrote a letter to Shanghai Garrison Commander Wu Tiecheng, reporting that the bandit leader who has been a disaster for more than ten years in Fujian.
Wu Tiezhen was unable to come to Taiwan. In order to save his black hat, he also pulled his face down and sent someone to drive Wang Chaishui out of his home and then sent him to court for trial. In the end, Wang Chaishui was sentenced to and his property was confiscated.
1 In October 1932, Wang Chaishui was executed at the Longhua Airport in Shanghai. During the execution, there were crowds of people. Fujian businessmen from Shanghai came to watch and shouted and scolded.
Because people were too resentful, Wu Tiecheng ordered the soldiers who executed the execution not to shoot from behind, but to kill Wang Chaishui from the front. The last generation of bandits was beaten into sieve, newspapers rushed to report, and the people of Hui'an celebrated each other.
text/Business Wild
Reference materials: "Biography of Quanzhou Chronicles", anonymous
