"In the gangs of modern China, the Jiang Xiang faction in the south and the consistent Tao in the north have their own set of theories on deception, which can be called the representative of divine deception, especially the Jiang Xiang faction is well-organized and secretive......

In the multi-functional conference hall of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, surrounded by modern facilities, facing the glittering police badge and a young and energetic face, Shuai Shicai was a little cramped when talking about these side doors, until now he has not figured out how the city bureau and the provincial department would be interested in this long-extinct Jianghu sect, cleared his throat, pulled out the documents on the notebook on the side, and said slowly:

"According to legend, the ancestor of the Jiang Xiang faction is the famous Liu Bowen, one of the five ancestors of the Hongmen Fang Zhaoyu is also the founder of the Jiang Xiang faction, the Hongmen people call the green forest heroes 'will', and the Jiang Xiang faction calls itself 'Xiang', which means the prime minister of the rivers and lakes, in order to distinguish the boundary between the civil and military, the leader of the Jiang Xiang faction is called the university scholar, the following are champions, Bangyan, Tanhua, Hanlin, Jinshi and other levels, where the true inheritor of the master is born in Hanlin, the university scholar is also called 'Shi Dad', recommended by the disciples of each room, this title has ' One is said to be a teacher, In the early decades of the last century, the Jiang Xiang faction was a legendary existence, and even for a long time after the liberation, there were still disciples and grandchildren of the Jiang Xiang faction in several provinces along the banks of the Yangtze River, and their relatively tight organization even escaped political pressure for a time………”

As Director Li expected, everyone who listened to it seemed to be listening to the book of heaven, both full of interest and ignorant of history, looking at the handsome Shicai with a wrinkled face with great interest, but I don't know where such secrets of the rivers and lakes come from.

After turning the page, Shuai Shicai made up his mind and continued:

"At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it was the heyday of the Jiang Xiang School, and its deception skills were also perfected, such as the hidden words that were handed down later, there were classes, referring to the appearance; Q C, refers to fortune telling; Zha Fei refers to worshipping God; And so on, there are ...... in the information Their rules are worth knowing about three main ones: first, they can't reveal deception; the second is to only cheat money, not sex; The third is not allowed to make melons and fire water...... It means that you can't be a dead customer, otherwise you will expose the face of Jiang Xiangpai's scammers, so that insiders can't make a living from cheating...... It is precisely because of the constraints of these rules that the Jiang Xiang faction has achieved the extreme prosperity and continuation of more than a hundred years.

I have collected a lot of folk secret techniques, pages 13 to 22 of the information, most of them are from the Jiang Xiang school, such as, bamboo blue water, oil pot extraction, square eggs, into the wood into three points, words into the stele stone, the divine book of ten thousand symbols, the idol drunk, empty palm to beckon butterflies, swans, a group of rats into the cage, fish into the net, snake to drive snakes, red flowers turn white, wooden dogs on their own, guns and bullets come out, open lotus in an instant, smoke hides...... And so on, there are more than forty in total; There are more than 30 kinds of spells, such as: golden needle floating water, burning Pa is not destroyed, line ash hanging coin, match fighting, resurrection, lottery divination, card to determine good fortune, rotary needle positioning, burning incense to invite God, God's family to find ghosts, impermanence escape, paper turtle swimming in the water, lamp smoke snake, ghost fire trace, demon manifestation...... Wait, if you don't know something, even today, it is very demagogic, such as this smoke retreat, I once saw people in our Xinyang countryside practice, in the courtyard of the gods, the practice of stepping on the gang, chanting mantras, after a while, the fog rose around him, and in the blink of an eye, the kung fu man disappeared...... In fact, it is not difficult, use miscanthus nitrate and Feiluo powder to grind very fine wood, sprinkle it evenly on the dew when stepping on the gang, and the fog will be steamed after a while, and then mix it with wolf dung and eel bones in proportion, and when it is lit, it is really like a cylinder, so you can't see people........."

The introduction was interrupted by a few good-natured laughter, many people saw the information on the collection of these folk secret techniques, but more than reading the case file, a lot of hearsay secret techniques were carefully explained by the old handsome, some are chemical methods, some are purely Chinese medicine methods, some are physical methods, many police ranks are not low fingers and point to the introduction of "a thousand cups are not drunk", it is to use the pollen and leaves of red beans or mung beans, dry and grind powder, it is said that the long drink is not drunk, this thing should really work, then the entertainment is not afraid...... For a while, the atmosphere was lively, and many people were in contact with the folk secret art for the first time, but if they didn't go into detail, they really felt amazing, especially the young ones, and said that this thing learned both hands, and there was no problem at all to turn around and scare people, no wonder it was a god deception gang, such as the tricks of driving snakes and catching snakes and catching mice, and no one may be able to learn it now.

……………………………………………… In the excitement, there was an inspector from the provincial department who seemed not so interested, and asked Shuai Shicai directly: "Master Shuai, what about the legendary Yingyao chapter?" ”

"If you say a legend, then it's a legend, because no one has ever seen it in its true form...... The secret transmission of the Jiang Xiang faction is oral from generation to generation, and ordinary disciples have no relationship with the Yingyao chapter. Shuai Shicai said.

"So this one, is it a fake?" The inspector held up an auction advertisement, which was a photo of "Yingyao Chapter", which was discussed during the meal, but there was no result, Shuai Shicai shook his head, unable to be sure, but said with a little suspicion: "The rule of the Jiang Xiang faction is not to pass on relatives internally, and not to pass on friends externally...... That is to say, the disciple and the father who inherit the mantle must be people who are not related by blood, at first I was very puzzled, but then I thought that they should have started the sect with the things of the future generations in mind, and set up such a rule in order to prevent their children and grandchildren from being liars, which adds to its mysterious surname, because they are not in the same line at all, and the surnames of all generations of scholars are different...... Now that it's coming out inexplicably, I'm really not sure. ”

"What about the content? The information you provided has a fragment of the "Heroic Chapter", is this true or false? Director Li asked with a stack of materials and sat opposite Shuai Shicai.

"I think this content is very big, this is the Provincial Cultural Center of a deceased old comrade left, he was sent to the labor camp during the Cultural Revolution to inadvertently glimpse the secrets of the Jiang Xiang faction, this study of social sciences memorized part of the heart...... Later, it was included in the monograph on the history of gangs in modern society. Shuai Shicai said.

"Master Shuai......" Someone was speaking, it was from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Municipal Bureau, and asked suspiciously as he flipped through the information: "Then if this content is true, it is very different from the legend. What eyebrows and eyes, a person who makes a family from scratch, what is incompetent, a lifelong worker...... What is broken and never separated from shoes and socks, and what new fortune is good to show off gold jewelry...... What is this? ”

Laughing, the legendary deception of the Bible, like the smooth mouth of the market, there is a truth to be found, a smile, even Director Li couldn't help but smile, maybe in this era, can no longer understand the mystery of these things, or perhaps, it is a forgery.

"You're wrong, you're reading the true meaning of the deception."

Shuai Shicai also smiled, smiled and pointed, and retorted, everyone was stunned, and they all watched and listened, and listened to Lao Shuai explain very firmly: "I can explain to you like this: liars must master the psychological analysis method from the appearance to the heart, which is the same as the vision of our criminal investigation, for example, the first nobleman is extremely ambitious, you can understand it as the three fires of the new official taking office, or the kind of complacent wealth and prosperity, the external expression of this kind of person is easy to capture; A smart son, the family business is often cold, which is the same as the talent who has been out of the poor since ancient times...... Also, the broken household is extremely inseparable from shoes and socks, which means that people who are in the middle of the road will inevitably have to slap their swollen faces and become fat and make a good outfit; It is easier to understand the new hair and gold jewelry, compared with the current trend of showing off wealth, whether it is the second generation of officials or the second generation of riches, there is this common problem...... I have been thinking about it for many years, in my opinion, at that time, Jiang Xiang was founded, the social productivity was low, and the cultural level was not high, in that era, it was already great to be able to write such a thing that directly pointed to people's surnames, everyone should not forget, Jiang Xiangpai is represented by divine deception, that is, to look at physiognomy and fortune-telling as a means of making a living, so the essence of "Yingyao Chapter" is to teach people to observe words and looks, and watch people cook, from this point of view, I think its credibility is still quite high......"

The narrator said eloquently, nodding frequently, it is normal for the differences in perception caused by the differences in the times, and of course it may not be possible to fully accept things from tradition with a modern vision, not to mention "Yingyao Chapter"?

"By the way, the old handsome ......" Director Li listened, and Yang Yang asked with the information in his hand: "You are not sent by Jiang Xiang, right?" How do I think you are very sympathetic to the Jiang Xiang faction. ”

There was another burst of laughter, and Shuai Shicai smiled and explained only as a joke: "I can't talk about sympathy, since I came into contact with deception, I also have a layer of understanding for thieves...... First of all, let's not look at it in a legal sense. In Chinese folk culture, such as the story of Avanti, such as the rooster crowing in the middle of the night, such as the story of learning to fight the landlord and the old wealth when he was a child, the swindler is often identified as the party that fights against the bureaucracy and the rich and wins, so our society reflects a certain degree of tolerance for the swindler culture. Truth and falsehood, truth and falsehood, integrity and fraud, since ancient times is an important category of Chinese philosophy, deception is not only a social subject behavior, but also a cultural phenomenon, it and the Confucian culture of sincerity is the same origin, the same root, symbiosis and growth...... It is precisely because of their glued state that they complement each other, both deceiving cultural evolution and attracting growth factors from the mainstream, so they are both mutually exclusive and compatible...... The development of the Jiang Xiang faction is an empirical proof, although they make a living by cheating, they have internal organizational discipline, they cheat money and do not cheat sex, they do not die in life, they do not pass on their relatives to the outside world, and they must treat themselves in good faith within the organization, and they must not deceive their teachers and destroy their ancestors...... and so on, all of which show their absorption of the culture of sincerity, and it is precisely because they have no great evil in society that they can exist for so long......... Compared with some fraud cases that we have come into contact with now that have no bottom line and no shame, these masses who have to live by deception under special historical conditions are worthy of our sympathy. ”

The bottom line, it seems to have touched the bottom line of the police practice, there are more than 20 people present, and they have not taken this talk, people's hearts have always been the most complex organization, peeling off the coat of law and law enforcement, there are many people with surnames, and Shuai Shicai said, the so-called "deception" has a little bit of its reasonable surname is a little incomprehensible, the two people in the back seat of the conference room are Xu Bing and Director Fan, the two people were fortunate to listen to the introduction of the old man, Xu Bing thought about a person, and quietly attached to Director Fan's ear and whispered: No wonder Xiao Shuai is so thief, Is it bad to be a father...... Coughed a few times, it was Director Li, who was presiding over the meeting, breaking the embarrassment, and asked out loud who had any objections to the people present, the person from the provincial department, a young inspector in his thirties, inadvertently glanced at the police badge on Shuai Shicai's shoulder, and asked with a skeptical attitude: "Master Shuai, since you said that the organization of the Jiang Xiangpai is very mysterious, how do you know these secrets?" Also, during the meal, I heard you say that Jiang Xiang's last father, that is, the gang leader, is surnamed Gu and is called Gu Xueyu, right...... Is this also a legend? The information we have is that the surname Wu is an orphan of the next generation...... This is important to us, are you sure? ”

It was Shen Ziang of the Anti-Fraud Center of the Provincial Department, who dealt with the bank card fraud case when he cracked it, but the case became a sandwich meal and is now thrown in the criminal investigation detachment There is no follow-up for the time being, Director Fan is not very interested in this person, and quietly quoted Yingyao Chapter to Xubing and said: "Have you seen it, I think Yingyao Chapter is still of practical significance, you see that Inspector Shen is 'the first noble person is extremely ambitious', which is amazing." As soon as he said that, Xu Bing clenched his fists and snickered on his mouth, but subconsciously, he was a little inclined to the introduction of the old marshal, and being able to sit here as an ordinary police captain can explain the problem in itself.

But now this question is a bit tricky, obviously doubting Shuai Shicai's introduction, and emphasizing the "gang" leader, is also obviously embarrassing Shuai Shicai, it seems that from the mouth of the police should not hear such sympathetic words, the slight discoloration of the people present, a little feel that the provincial department is aggressive, after all, it is a side branch introduction related to the case, so suspicious of the people in the brother unit is a little unreasonable.

Director Li was about to round the scene, but Shuai Shicai smiled and said: "If you just rely on the surname, you won't have a chance to catch the real liar, that liar has several or even a dozen incarnations, and the surname has never been an important thing in the world of liars......... I didn't want to answer your question about how I knew these secrets, but I can tell you about it because of your interest.........

Shuai Shicai's voice was very slow, his tone was very condensed, as if he was saying a very serious thing, which invisibly attracted everyone's attention, and he could see that this old policeman who usually smiled solemnly, solemn to the level of sadness, and said slowly: "After the founding of New China, the Jiang Xiangpai basically lost the soil on which they depended, and the disciples in various places were scattered, and they went to their own places, only sporadically in the villages and countryside, the last grandmaster's surname was Gu, the name Xueyu, Gu Xueyu was his real name, and it was also his name after he was incognito. The place where he settled was the suburb of Macheng, Hubei Province, where he lost all his wealth and was willing to be a tea merchant in a tea shop until 1966...... That year was called 'Red August', and the nationwide dilapidated four old began...... Because of years of war and chaos, Chinese people who have a little savings at home have saved some gold to prevent turmoil and have no food and clothing. But in the eyes of the young revolutionaries, gold was the symbol of the capitalist or the landlord or any reactionary. Many people were beaten to death because gold and silver jewelry were taken out of their homes.

Gu Xueyu, who was already a tea merchant, finally failed to avoid vulgarity and saved some savings for his son. After the soldiers raided the house, his son and daughter-in-law were beaten to death on the spot and buried in a pit on the spot. Gu Xueyu was later sent to prison and sentenced to life, and after serving six years in prison, he committed suicide by hanging beams........."

After a few words, the police colleagues who listened to the conference room were shocked, but they didn't know that there were many troubles behind the secrets, and they were all stunned. To say this, I can't complain that Shuai Shicai has a sympathetic attitude towards some people.

“…… The place where Gu Xueyu served his sentence was Xinyang Thirteen Liqiao Labor Reform Farm, when the director of the Zhongzhou Provincial Cultural Center was also placed here, the two people became friends because of their common situation, so there were the secrets of the Jiang Xiangpai and the remnants of the Yingyao chapter, the director of the literature survived to rehabilitation, and then devoted himself to the study of sociology, but the things he studied were also regarded as sideways, no monographs were published, only scattered in the citation of various documents, and are now sealed in the Zhongzhou Archives...... Twenty years ago, when I began to study liars and tricks, I noticed Jiang Xiangpai, because I also made a special trip to visit this old man because of the file I found, and in his impression, Gu Xueyu was a gentle and elegant scholar, very impatient and righteous ancients, and took care of them everywhere in prison, these sick rightists and capitalist roaders, and did not hesitate to offend the guards......... What I have always suspected is that how could such a deceitful grandmaster who can break the world commit suicide by hanging himself? And it will be after serving six years in prison. When asked about the cause of his death, Director Wen said, "Hanging beams? What beam to hang? We live in grass houses in the summer and adobe houses in the winter, so there are beams? As for how he died, it was all precarious at that time, and he couldn't even be notified by his family when he died, so who cares about that ........."

No one spoke, many pairs of complicated eyes stared at Shuai Shicai who was slowly talking about the past, it seemed that he gave this liar a reason to sympathize, although this sympathy had a complicated component, Shuai Shicai looked at the one who doubted him, and then said: "...... I don't know how many folk treasures were swept away by the catastrophe of the reversal of the universe and the reverse flow of the rivers, and a large number of China's national treasures were lost overseas, and the disaster began here; What's more important is how many human tragedies it has caused, when I checked the file, I accidentally found an archive of the results of the Red Guards' raids reported by the public security bureaus in various places, gold, silver dollars, dollar bills, and antiques eventually disappeared, even the predecessors who wore the same uniform as us, many of them also played a dishonorable role in that movement, honesty and deception, right and wrong, truth and falsehood, good and evil, sometimes, it is not so easy to distinguish between ......"

Shuai Shicai slowly buckled the notebook and packed up the things at hand, and the projection went blank in an instant, ending the introduction that made him reluctant in the eyes of his peers. In the silent conference room, there was a lot of confusion in the relative gaze of each other, as if the inherent boundary between right and wrong in their hearts was completely confused by these words.........

(To be continued)