Chapter 7 Killing Chickens with a Bull's Knife
Piao Tianwen The Seventh Infantry Brigade is the previous Seventh Mixed Brigade. The National Revolutionary Army did not have the organization of the Mixed Brigade, so it was renamed the Infantry Brigade. This unit is still the elite of the Jiangdong Army, well-equipped and well-trained, and is Chen Zikun's foundation. (_《》)
It took a day or two for a brigade troops to come even if they were lightly equipped. There was no airtight wall in the world. The news of Chairman Chen's visit to Beitai was spread for some reason.
In a shack in the west area, Long Gongwang was leaning on the couch to smoke opium. The one who helped him put cigarette paste was a 14 or 15-year-old girl. She was so timid that she was not very quick. She was slapped by Master Long, covering her face and not daring to cry.
The curtain was lifted, and two burly men walked in. One of them was covered with gauze, which was Long Er whose ear was knocked off last night.
The two of them were carrying a basket in their hands and poured it onto the kang, and it was filled with oceans and copper coins. Long Er took out a stack of Guandi tickets from his pocket and held it up. Long Gong looked at it and dipped his fingers on his tongue. He counted it in 1510, 1520, and cursed after counting, "Mom, so few."
"Mr. Long, it's been cold recently, and there is not much work on the construction site, so I can't collect any money." Long Er explained.
Long Gongwang kicked over: "Baozi, no one can think of other ways without work. Do those foremen sleeping with women without drinking and smoking cigarettes? These are all business opportunities, do you know!"
Long Er said: "We are all old ladies in the countryside. The intellectuals who have studied in the school are not good at this."
Long Gongwang said, "It's not new, we have some tender ones." He pointed to the little girl underground and said, "Is this the middle? Go back and ask someone else."
Long Er nodded and was about to walk out, when he suddenly remembered something and said, "Master Long, you asked me to ask about the matter. There are indeed big people on the construction site these two days, and they are quite good."
Long Gongwang said disdainfully: "Can you still stand by the sky?"
Long Er said: "It's almost like fighting against the sky. It's the provincial chairman Chen Zikun who came."
Long Gongwang's face turned gloomy, and his fingers kowtowed rhythmically on the small table. Suddenly, he pulled out a Guandi ticket, looked carefully at the avatar, covered the beard on the avatar with his hands and asked Long Er: "Does he look like the person last night?"
Long Er glanced at it and shook his head: "It's dark, I didn't see clearly." Then he understood and widened his eyes and said, "Master Long, can't he be so kind of care, right?"
Long Gongwang said: "I said why he is so arrogant? It turns out that he is the provincial chairman."
Long Er was shocked: "This is this, what should I do? Let's run away quickly."
Long Gongwang said, "What are you afraid of? More than 100,000 people live here. It's not easy to catch a few people. People say that the surname Chen is great, but I don't believe in evil. Long Er, please tell the fourth and fifth ones and the others to stop the work of the workers!"
Long Er was panicked, with gauze wrapped around his head. He didn't hear Long's instructions clearly. He stared at his little eyes and asked, "What, what did you say?"
Long Gongwang kicked him down: "Where are your ears, I can't even hear my words!"
Long Er finally understood what Master Long meant and couldn't help but say: "Fight against the Provincial Chairman, that is, Master Long, you have this courage."
"Stop flattering, hurry up and do it." Master Long looked cold, "Also, I'll stop silly recently, don't cause trouble."
Long Er went there happily, conveyed what Mr. Long meant, and then turned to Yang Laoshi's house. He went in and smashed it in a mess, patted his hands and said, "All the trouble for grandpa, fuck!"
Yang Shugen stared at Long Er tightly, pinching his fists tightly. Long Er saw that he rolled up his sleeves and was about to beat someone up. His mother quickly protected his son. Long Er laughed lewdly, touched the woman a few times before she left.
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The next day, the construction site in the west district was completely shut down, and all the workers did not come to work, and the construction was completely stagnant. The originally boiling construction site became silent. A large amount of cement accumulated on the railway station and no one moved the steel bars. The losses caused in one day alone were as high as 100,000 yuan.
When the news reached Chen Zikun's ears, he smiled: "Mr. Long is very powerful. This is a warning to me. However, Long Yang can't do such a big thing for his family. If you check it, who will help him?"
Sure enough, several gang bosses who had close ties with the Longyang Gang gave him face and participated in this unreasonable strike. At first, maybe they just wanted to shock Chen Zikun, but when County Magistrate Gong sent someone to urge him to resume work, Long Gongwang, who tasted the taste of victory, actually spoke up and asked for 200,000 Guandi votes before he resumed work.
"This person doesn't look like a bandit who is in the world, but rather a bandit who doesn't know the current affairs." Che Qiuling said this. Her father is a member of the Shanghai Qing Gang. He is usually influenced by his knowledge that gangsters of all sizes should not fight against the government. It's okay to bully the people. Those who offend officials are seeking death.
"Long Gongwang reminds me of an old friend." Chen Zikun said.
Mu Yichen said: "Who is it?"
"That man was named Sun Meiyao. He tied up dozens of Western votes at the beginning. The lion spoke up, which made the Beiyang government very worried." Chen Zikun sneered, "It's a pity that it's not Beiyang now, and Long Gongwang doesn't have the capital of Sun Meiyao. Let's let him be crazy for two days. Once the army arrives, I will let him know what it means to kill chickens and use a ox knife."
On the third day, a military train was launched from the provincial capital, and 2,500 light infantry jumped off the tank truck. For a moment, the railway station turned into a sea of soldiers. It looked all gray and blue. The Seventh Infantry Brigade was almost dispatched, except for the artillery and left-behind troops.
The army carried a large number of supplies, and the soldiers were busy transporting supplies to large open spaces on the beach, starting to log wood, dig drains, build tents, and build military camps.
The army is extremely efficient. At night, a military camp first appeared in scale, with fences, ditches, brick stoves and toilets, and a tent with a horizontal and vertical height, which was extremely strict.
In the shanty town of the West District, Long Gongwang was drinking and having fun with a group of bosses. When he heard that an army was driving, he was shocked, but said, "It's okay, do you think I'm scared? The law doesn't blame the public. More than 100,000 people live here, I don't believe that he can arrest him at all."
The bosses of each gang were all rural hooligans who only knew how brave and fierce they had never seen big scenes. At this time, they were afraid that they would be looked down upon. They were very tough and said that they would never start work if they didn't see money.
"I can't make any mistakes when I listen to Mr. Long." They all said so.
After drinking, everyone went back, but ordered that they would resume work tomorrow and not make trouble with Master Long.
Long Gong looked back to his shack, packed a few pieces of clothes, stuffed a stack of Guandi tickets into his bags, and hurried out without even firing a flashlight. He left the shanty town with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and headed towards Longyang.
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At dawn, the fully armed army quietly entered the shanty town and began to search for gang members with the assistance of the patrol team and the security team. On weekdays, the patrol team and the gang members were in a mess. They could figure out whoever lives clearly. They caught all the gang members in one morning and arrested them.
The bullies who used to rush into the countryside were strung together by ropes, like a string of grasshoppers in autumn. Many people were pulled out of the quilt, not even wearing cotton jackets, and shivered in the cold wind of the twelfth lunar month, among which was Long Er from the Longyang Gang.
The refugees in the shanty town watched with expressionless faces as the bullies who oppressed themselves were captured, no one cheered or cheered.
Yang Shugen saw Long Er tied up through the crack of the adult's legs, turned around and ran away. He went home to get a pottery basin, which was smashed by Long Er yesterday. He ran to the pile of shit near his home, scooped half a pot of shit, and ran back to the escort site. Everyone saw a child coming over with a half pot of shit and dodged one after another. Long Er in the team lowered his head and was walking, suddenly a pile of dirty stuff hit him, and his head was covered with his head.
Long Er was about to curse, but he smashed him over with a gun and put him on the ground. His eyes were covered with shit and urine. He vaguely saw the poplar tree running away.
"I raised it from Xiaobi, I will kill you sooner or later." Long Er gritted his teeth.
But he had no chance. Provincial Chairman Chen Zikun attacked the bully with heavy attacks. All the gang's chief evil spirits were shot and the accomplices were sentenced to labor. Long Er was not the chief evil spirit, but Chen Zikun remembered that the hero who clamored that he had broken him and specially named him to help him.
Long Er was shot and the execution ground was set on the beach, and tens of thousands of people watched. The reeds were withered and yellow, and the wind was cold. Long Er and more than 50 bullies were executed together. The bullets were shot in from the back of the head, and their heads turned into rotten watermelons.
This time, the numb spectators finally had a little smile and cheer. Chinese people have always loved to watch the fun, especially beheading or shooting.
Immediately afterwards, the county government announced a policy to move the elderly, weak, sick, disabled and young people in shantytowns into refugee camps, that is, camps built by the army overnight, and the government will set up a porridge shed to provide relief.
The rest of the young and strong laborers lived in the shed and were managed by various engineering managers. They all had food and accommodation on the construction site, and did not give gang members room to profit.
This matter is completed by the military cooperation, and it is compulsory. If it is not moved, it must be moved. There is no need to discuss it at all. However, the refugees are used to accepting it, and the whole process goes very smoothly.
After relocating the refugees, the original shanty town was demolished by the army and the construction waste was piled up and burned.
After statistics, the number of refugees in North Thailand was not as high as expected, only 50,000. The army did not carry enough tents, and most people still had to live in shacks made of straw mats and reeds. However, without the exploitation and oppression of bullies, they finally couldn't starve to death this winter and could not die of freezing.
But Yang Laoshi still died. He was too ill. Even the doctors from the provincial capital were unable to make up for the situation. They were buried in the mass grave of the river beach. The poplar root did not shed a single tear. The neighbors all said that this child was hard-hearted and would definitely do great things in the future.
Long Gongwang, who fled back to Longyang, was like a frightened bird, hiding from the east, but was still taken by the local detective team. He tied up and sent back to Beitai. He was sentenced to a firing according to law. At this time, less than a week before he and Chen Zikun challenged.
Before the execution, Chen Zikun saw him specially and said, "Now do you know who is really awesome."
According to the later Longyang County Chronicles, when the revolutionary martyr Long Gongwang was killed by warlords, he scolded him until he died.
Chapter completed!