The Daguang Road vegetable market in Hulong County is like a person's buttocks, with two streets leading here. This vegetable market is noisy and bustling during the day, with cabbages, radishes, cucumbers, and eggplants all representing the tranquility of life. This vegetable market is at night
It's so eerie and there's no passerby. Who would go shopping for groceries at night?
The street lights were smashed by bad boys, the wind blew the plastic bags across the street corner, and the surrounding low walls remained silent.
At 12 o'clock at midnight, some sneaky people started to come to the market. They murmured and left in a hurry before dawn. It was like this every day, maintaining order at night, and they were conducting secret transactions in the dark. Ever since
After fireworks and firecrackers were banned, this place became a gathering place for privately selling fireworks and firecrackers. Later, some criminals also came here to sell prohibited items. There are a few smugglers selling cultural relics in the shadows here, and a few thieves in the shadows over there.
They were selling stolen goods, counterfeit cigarettes and wine were being sold in the corner on the left, and the cement table on the right was filled with all kinds of pornographic books, periodicals and pirated CDs.
Sometimes there are many customers and the crowds are crowded. This black market is outside the law, only the interaction of supply and demand.
The police have made many attacks, but with little success. They often know the news before the police attack. There are always some dark and roundabout places where people can escape smoothly after climbing over the low wall.
On October 28, 2001, at midnight, three people walked into the Daguang Road wet market.
They are: Brother Thumb, Ding Busi, and Gao Fei.
They stopped in front of a stall selling detonators. A female stall owner smiled like she was treating customers and asked what she was talking about. After a while, the sale was completed. They bought three packs of explosives, which are a kind of TNT industrial explosive, mostly used in mountain excavation and mines.
Explosions are extremely powerful and are often sold by criminals on the black market.
They whispered furtively to the female stall owner, who lowered her voice and said, "Follow me." She led them through several streets, twists and turns through several dark alleys, and finally ended up at a dead end.
It stopped at the end.
The female stall owner knocked on the door, and the door opened, and a man in a military coat appeared in the slightly opened door. The female stall owner said something to him, and he looked surprised and cunning, and asked in a low voice: "You want to buy something?"
gun?"
Brother Thumb nodded.
The man in a military coat let them in, locked the door, walked through a courtyard with a well, and entered the main room. The man asked questions vigilantly, checking their words and expressions to confirm whether they were police officers.
Gao Fei said: "Take it out."
The man in a military coat took out an oilcloth bag from the mezzanine of the wardrobe. The bag unfolded and inside there was a shotgun with the barrel cut off. He said, "Here it is."
Brother Thumb shook his head in disappointment.
The man in a military coat said: "I picked this up from the mountain. You guys can give me a price."
Ding Busi said: "We don't want it."
Gao Fei said: "Shooting this gun at people fifty meters away is worse than shooting at the moon. They all have the same chance of hitting the target."
Ding Busi said: "What we want to buy is a gun that can kill people, not a gun that shoots birds."
Brother Thumb said: "The gun and the bullets."
The man in a military coat said: "No."
Brother Thumb said: "Let's go."
When they were about to reach the courtyard gate, the man in a military coat and the female vendor whispered to each other and discussed. "Wait, don't leave first." He stopped them.
The man in a military coat said, "I have it. Have you brought enough money?"
Brother Thumb patted his pocket.
The man took off his coat and walked to the wellhead in the yard. He slid down the rope, and the woman used the windlass to pull him up. He took out an oilcloth bag from the bottom of the well. There were three guns in the bag, two with sights.
mirror, a revolver.
Brother Thumb picked up the revolver and asked, "How much does it cost?"
The man said: "This is a foreign product."
Brother Thumb asked again: "How much?"
The man continued: "All the British police use it."
Ding Busi was a little impatient: "Just tell me how much it is."
The man still babbled: "This is not made of scrap iron. Some people make dumb guns. They use nails, horseshoes, and pour all these rusty things into the forge."
Gao Fei said: "I can see it."
The man added: "And a broken sickle."
Brother Thumb waited patiently for him to finish.
The man finally made an offer: "The revolver is 6,000 yuan, and 60 rounds of ammunition are free. These two long ones cost 7,000 yuan each, and three of them are 20,000 yuan."
Brother Thumb asked: "Revolver, can you sell it for 5,000?"
The man said categorically: "I won't sell it, this gun is made of copper."
Ding Busi said: "In this case, the deal is over."
The man pretended to put the gun away: "That's fine, I'll just keep it. Someone knowledgeable will buy it."
Brother Thumb said: "5,000 is cash, give it now."
The man got angry: "You guys don't know your stuff. As soon as you take out this gun, you will scare people to shit."
Brother Thumb turned around, got close to Gao Fei's ear, and asked in a low voice: "Is the thing good?"
Gao Fei nodded.
Brother Thumb said: "We bought them all, including the two long guns."
The man corrected him: "Wrong, this is not called a long gun, this is called a sniper rifle. It is also a foreign product. I will give you two more silencers. Look at this scope, it can be used as a telescope. Let alone birds, even phoenixes can be shot down."
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Brother Thumb said: "We bought three guns."
Hulong County is one of the three major black gun bases in China. The three guns sold by the man in a military coat are not so-called foreign goods, but are made by local farmers. Because the county is poor, they make guns in order to make money to support their families.
, the sale of guns is very common. Some people farm during busy farming periods and make guns during slack periods. Since 1992, the number of local private gun manufacturers and sellers has increased year by year. Data provided by the police show that between 1992 and 1996, various illegal guns were confiscated
A total of 8772 pieces.
This underground arsenal was famous throughout the country during the Anti-Japanese War. It has a long history of making guns. They are proficient in military technology and the guns they make are very exquisite. The bullets are standard and the lethality is quite astonishing. They are no worse than regular military guns.
