Text Chapter 453 The identity of the second elder
Seeing that Xiao Peng was leaving, Hong Lao hurriedly stopped him and said, "Xiao Xiaoyou, don't be in a hurry to leave, since you are here, how can we not fulfill the friendship of the landlord?" It just so happens to be time to eat, let's have a light meal together." β
Xiao Peng pointed to the child next to him and Feng Jianting and said, "Grandpa Hong, I still have the child here." Inconvenient. β
Grandpa Ding hurriedly said: "What's inconvenient about this, Ah Can, you go and talk to Wanfulou, today you will have a banquet for VIPs, and you will not receive foreign guests!"
"Okay, Master Ding. Grandpa Ding's subordinates went directly to arrange it.
Grandpa Ding said to the 'Mediterranean' just now: "Everything here has been dealt with, and Yan Fang's 'master' and her apprentice will be taken care of." When he said the word "take care", Grandpa Ding also emphasized the tone of his voice,
'Mediterranean' listened to a slight doubt, Grandpa Ding nodded to him, and 'Mediterranean' did so.
Xiao Peng couldn't refuse, so he followed the second elder to Wanfu Building.
Xiao Peng smiled: "Two grandfathers, you are really a big show, it seems that your identity must not be simple." Can I know the true identity of the second elder?"
The two elders glanced at each other, and Grandpa Ding said, "Xiao Xiaoyou, have you heard of the Huaqing Gang?"
Xiao Peng nodded, how could he not have heard of the Huaqing Gang when he came to the United States? There is such a saying in the United States: "If you want people to be crushed, look for Huaqing, and if you want to live alone in never-ending fear, find Huaqing!" The Huaqing Gang, like the Hongmen Zhigongtang, is a century-old society, and the Huaqing Gang originated from the Qinggang.
Diametrically opposed to the Zhi Gong Court, the Huaqing Gang is low-key and extremely mysterious. The Huaqing Gang can be called the most mysterious community organization in the world.
Grandpa Ding said, "Then have you heard of Ding Xiaoxing?"
Xiao Peng nodded again, Ding Xiaoxing, one of the leaders of the Huaqing Gang, caused a sensation when he was arrested in 2002, remembering Grandpa Ding's surname, Xiao Peng asked suspiciously: "Grandpa Ding, Ding Xiaoxing is yours?"
Grandpa Ding nodded: "It's the son of a sinnerγγγγγγ β
"Ugh. Xiao Peng was stunned, feeling that this is the gang boss and his father.
Look at Grandpa Hong again: "Grandpa Hong, just now Grandpa Ding said that your surname is Zhou, shouldn't you have anything to do with Zhou Guoxiang?"
Grandpa Hong smiled: "Xiao Xiaoyou is really talented, yes, I am Zhou Guoxiang's father." β
Xiao Peng knelt down, who is Zhou Guoxiang? Isn't that the boss of the Hongmen Zhigong Court who was arrested last year? He was convicted on 162 charges and sentenced to 2,900 years in prison. No wonder you want to change your name and surname, your son is too fierce!
Dare to love the two of you, one Qinggang and one Hongmen, real Nima Niu!
When it comes to Hongmen and the Qing Gang, they really have a long history, and they are the two ancient gangs in China.
The predecessor of Hongmen was the former Heaven and Earth Society.
Heaven and earth will enter people's field of vision, and the most grateful person should be the old man Jin Yong, the sentence in "The Legend of Deer and Ding" "If you don't know Chen Jinnan, it is in vain to call yourself a hero" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, there is no exact statement about the origin of the Tiandihui, some people say that it is anti-Qing and Mingming, just like what is said in "The Legend of Deer and Ding", it is Chen Yonghua under Zheng Chenggong who participated in the grass-roots creation, and some people say that Tiandihui is a mutual aid group organized by people from the lower classes of society, and there was no purpose of "anti-Qing and Mingming" at the beginning of its establishment, and some people say that Tiandihui is composed of veterans of the Green Battalion, Hunan Army, Chu Army and other soldiers.
But in any case, it is a fact that Hongmen has been around for hundreds of years.
As for the Qing Gang, it was first called the Cao Gang, established during the Yongzheng period, it is said that the Manchu Qing Dynasty in order to deal with the Heaven and Earth Society, specially organized a group of Hongmen traitors and people in the rivers and lakes of the organization, the primary purpose is to help the Manchus deal with the anti-Qing forces in the rivers and lakes, the main is the Heaven and Earth will Hongmen, to ensure the safety of Cao Yun, and has been rewarded by Qianlong.
Therefore, Hongmen once strictly forbade Hongmen members to turn their heads to the Green Gang, and there was such a sentence at that time: "From the Qing to the Hong, wear red and hang colors, from the Hong to the Qing, peel the skin and cramp." However, in order to avoid the conflict between the two factions, the two factions were mostly called the 'Qinghong family', especially in the late Qing Dynasty, the disciples of the Qinggang also opposed the Qing Dynasty, so the two factions gradually reduced their hostility. Everywhere and one side.
Of course, don't think that these two gangs are simple underworlds, Sun Guofu once joined Hongmen in 1903, and led Hongmen to make a revolution, the famous Huanghuagang Uprising in the 'Huanghuagang Seventy-two Martyrs', there are 68 people who are Hongmen disciples, after the liberation of Hongmen is divided into two parts: one is transformed into the Chinese Zhi Gong Party to participate in politics, when the founding ceremony of the Chinese People's Republic of China, standing next to the founding leader, it is the founder of the Zhi Gong Party, Mr. Situ Meitang. And the other part is still outside, continuing the identity of the Hongmen gang.
When it comes to the development of the Green Gang, we have to talk about another person: Yuan Kewen. That is, the son of Yuan Datou.
Yuan Kewen, as the second son of Yuan Datou, was not like his father and eldest brother, yearning for the restoration of the imperial system, and even strongly opposed it, and was finally swept away and fled to Shanghai to temporarily avoid the limelight. After arriving in Shanghai, Yuan Kewen gained complete freedom, joined the very prosperous Qing Gang at that time, through hard work and his own knowledge, and finally sat on the position of the boss of the Qing Gang, and then began to accept disciples, the Qing Gang's power expanded again and again, and gradually became a well-known big gang in the country, at that time there was a saying: 'There is Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng in the south, and Yuan Kewen, the leader of the Qing Gang in the north'.
It's a pity that Yuan Kewen strengthened the Green Gang, but he didn't have the blessing to enjoy it, and died early, but the development of the Green Gang couldn't stop, in that era, there were at least 600,000 gang members in Shanghai alone, and the total population of Shanghai at that time was only 3 million!
And since the death of Chen Qimei, the first hero of the Republic of China, his brother-in-law Principal Jiang, with his relationship with Chen Qimei, worshiped Huang Jinrong as an old man, and with the help of the Qing Gang, launched the '4.12' incident and completed the purpose of 'Qing Party', and later after the establishment of the Jinling government, President Jiang gave back to the Qing Gang. As for Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu, the two nephews of Chen Qimei, the eldest brother of the original Youth Gang, they are even more prosperous.
But the sky will not let go of anyone, these three ended up very miserable, after the establishment of New China, the national gangs were devastated, Huang Jinrong swept the land for a few years, died of illness, Du Yuesheng fled to Hong Kong Island not long after, died of illness, Zhang Xiaolin was even more pitiful, when the Shanghai market fell, he actually surrendered to the enemy and was directly assassinated. Most of the leaders of the Green Gang followed President Jiang to Taiwan Island to develop, and established a legal society there, the 'China Peaceful Association'. The overseas Youth Gang formed the Huaqing Gang.
Because the Qinggang implemented the Zen system, unlike Hongmen, the Qinggang is a mentor to join the gang, the congregation is commensurate with the master and apprentice, advocating 'master and apprentice like father and son', so the Qinggang organization is stricter than Hongmen, the rules are more complex, so it is more mysterious, although because the development of the way of membership is blocked, the scale can not be compared with Hongmen, but, on its mystery, no one is out of the way, and because of this, the Huaqing Gang is known as ' The most mysterious organization in the world', in the eyes of the judicial department of the Stars and Stripes, the Huaqing Gang and the Italian Mafia are the same weight.
In fact, the Huaqing Gang and the Sicilian family are almost equated, and the drug and arms trade circulating in the Chinese-American area of the Stars and Stripes are almost all the 'masterpieces' of the two gangs, and the illegal immigration problem that makes the FBI of the Stars and Stripes a headache is all the work of the Huaqing Gang after investigation.
Of course, no matter how mysterious the organization is, there will be a day when it is discovered, and the Stars and Stripes have launched many sweeps to crack down on the Huaqing Gang and arrest many leaders, which makes the activities of the Huaqing Gang more and more underground, and the style of action is more low-key. It seems even more mysterious.
And Ding Xiaoxing was one of the leaders of the Youth Gang arrested when the United States cracked down on the Huaqing Gang, and he was sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for various crimes, and he is still in the federal prison of the Stars and Stripes.
And Grandpa Hong's child, Zhou Guoxiang, is even more remarkable! He is directly the boss of Hongmen! After his arrest, his chief defense lawyer, Tony Sarah, commented on him: "Every time I talk to him, I feel like I am facing a saint, he is gentle, kind, caring, and can empathize with the feelings of others." "Use 'saint' to evaluate a gang boss who has been sentenced to 2,900 years in prison, 162 counts, and an indictment of 137 pages alone.
In the evaluation of the Associated Press: "Under the lanterns and narrow alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown, there is an unknown underground world, and Zhou Guoxiang is the leader of this underground world, he smuggles, sells drugs, launders money, extorts, buys murderers, and killsγγγγγγ He has been engaged in violent crime all his life".
Even in 2008, when he appeared in the documentary "Gangster", he said: "I entered the Tao at the age of 8, stabbed people at the age of 9, and piao ji at the age of 12, and only read until the third grade of elementary school" But speaking of this, he pointed to San Francisco in the camera and said: "This city, I have the final say!"
In fact, since arriving in San Francisco in 1977, Mr. Zhou has been imprisoned three times, in the words of prosecutors: "The criminal record is so extensive that it involves almost every form of crime possible." β
In 2003, Zhou Guoxiang was released from prison early for serving as a tainted witness, but he was still electronically tracked on his feet, and he was not allowed to engage in any commercial activities or go to other countries. So Zhou Guoxiang said that he wanted to rewrite and reform and become a 'normal ordinary person', in fact, he also did this, went to the community to volunteer, dissuaded marginal youth from staying away from the gang, and even won the 'Certificate of Honor for Giving Back to the Community' from San Francisco, giving speeches to people everywhere, giving advice to young people, and even writing memoirs, peddling his underworld stories to Hollywood, wanting to make a movie, and use legal income to make himself innocent for the rest of his life.
At that time, Zhou Guoxiang, who appeared in front of people's eyes, was no longer a gang leader, but appeared on high-end occasions as a community leader and socialized with celebrities.
However, not everyone believes that Zhou Guoxiang will really wash his hands, such as the FBI in Stars and Stripesγγγγγγ