No matter what changes in the outside world, it will still affect the province of Siqi under the control of the Buyan clan for the time being, and the governments of the province at all levels are still actively trying to prepare for a war with the Manchus. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Most of the feudal clan forces in the countryside that have done a lot of evil have been swept away, and basically as long as the few people who lead them are caught, the clan forces will basically disintegrate, the local people will all applaud, and the decrees of governments at all levels can be smoothly implemented.

However, when the government at all levels issued administrative orders, another gang-like organization, the Pao Brothers' Guild, also appeared, and the Pao Brothers in each region obstructed the implementation of the local government's decrees.

Brother Pao is the title of the members of the Elder Brotherhood in Siyi, and there are two interpretations, one is to take the meaning of "The Book of Songs: No Clothes": "The same robe with the son", which means that it is the brother of the same robe; The other is that the robe is homophonic with the cell, which means that it is like the brother of the compatriot. Both explanations are more or less the same. The Pao Brotherhood was a kind of folk gang organization that was prevalent in the late Qing Dynasty (including the current ZQ Yunnan), and was known as the Elder Brothers' Association in other regions.

The elder association originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, developed in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, flooded in the Republic of China era, and the Qing Gang and Hongmen were the three major civil gang organizations at that time, but at this time it was only 1883, although the robe brother association was not as popular as the Republic of China period, but it should not be underestimated.

The Brotherhood is actually a branch of the Heaven and Earth Society that opposes the Qing Dynasty and the Restoration of Sight, and after the Elder Church is formed, it develops rapidly in various places, and all provinces in the south and some provinces in the north have its organization, and from a general point of view, the development of the Brotherhood has three characteristics:

1. SC has the largest number and the greatest strength.

2. It has developed extremely rapidly in military camps such as the Hunan Army.

3. Although the Brotherhood is widely distributed, there is still a strong anti-Qing sentiment. The basic force of the peasant uprisings of Li Yonghe, Lan Chaoding, and Li Lan, which lasted for 6 years and took Siqian as the main battlefield, was the Elders' Association. In the future, the main force of the anti-Qing teaching plan centered on anti-foreign religion was also the elder association, such as "one gentleman, two grains and three robes", which was the main force of the Dazu teaching plan, the largest teaching plan in the four provinces.

Before the Yan clan raised the flag to "rebel", the Pao Brother Association was not considered the enemy of the Yan family, and the Yan family also had a lot of connections with the Pao Brother Society, after all, the Yan family firm was mainly active in the four provinces in the early stage, and a gang organization like the Pao Brother Association had to have a good relationship if it could have a good relationship, once it offended the Pao Brother Association, I am afraid that the Yan family would not be able to stay in Siqi Province.

However, after the Yan clan ruled Siqi Province, the Pao Brother Society also became the enemy of the Yan Clan, and the Yan Clan did not allow such a large force not to exist in the territory of Siqi that was not controlled by the Yan Clan.

This "killing" does not mean killing all the members of the Pao Brothers' Association, the number of members of the Robe Brothers Association in Siqi Province is expected to be as many as tens of thousands, if so many people are killed, how should their families be handled, do they have to kill them all? This will have a great impact on the Yan clan's rule over the four sides.

Therefore, Yan Xueyi's "killing" refers to killing all the leaders of the Pao Brothers' Association, and the remaining ordinary members of the Pao Brothers Association do not need to kill all, only need to kill those who dare to resist, Yan's plan to overhaul railways and highways in Siqi Province, there is still a lack of many laborers, I believe that there are so many members of the Pao Brothers' Association as laborers, and the speed of building railways and roads will be greatly accelerated.

Since the establishment of the Ministry of Intelligence, the Pao Brotherhood in Siqi Province has been the target of its attention, and the specific information of the leaders of the Pao Brotherhood has been investigated clearly, and even many agents of the Intelligence Department have penetrated into the Pao Brotherhood.

In order to prevent the Pao Brothers from resisting the local governments, governments at all levels decided to take action to eradicate the gang organization of the Pao Brothers.

Eradicating the Robe Brotherhood is not simply a matter of directly sending troops to eliminate the Pao Brotherhood, it is necessary to have a detailed plan.

First, the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence were excluded from assassinating the main leaders of the Pao Brothers' Society, so that the Pao Brothers' Associations would be leaderless everywhere, and then the police and Han soldiers composed of a purge team arrested the remaining ordinary Pao Brothers' members one by one.

On June 23, the eradication of the Pao Brotherhood began.

Agents of the Intelligence Department in various parts of the province began to act to assassinate the main leaders of the Pao Brothers.

On the street of Chengdu City, the leader of a robe brother club slipped down the street with a few younger brothers, and the next moment, the leader's head blossomed, and his brains collapsed everywhere, and several younger brothers were dumbfounded.

A few hundred meters away, a man in ordinary clothes put away his sniper rifle and quickly left.

In ZQ City, a beggar stole the money of the leader of the Pao Brothers' Association, and the leader and two younger brothers chased the beggar behind and came to a small alley.

"You'd better run again, see where you can go? If I stole my money from my uncle, if I don't discount your limbs, I won't be surnamed Li. The leader surnamed Li approached the beggar with his two younger brothers, and behind the beggar was a three-meter-high wall.

I saw the beggar unhurriedly take out a revolver from his waist, and under the horrified eyes of the three people opposite, the revolver was named one by one, and another leader of the Robe Brothers' Club was killed.

Brother Pao will only feel that the storm is coming, and the leader will continue to be killed, but he will not know who the enemy is.

At this time, the old man stood up and said, "It must have been done by the Yan family." ”

However, knowing that it was done by the Yan family, no one in the Pao Brothers Association dared to lead the Pao Brothers Association to create a rebellion against the Yan Clan, not that they did not dare, but that there was no leader, because the main leaders of the Pao Brothers Association were assassinated by the Ministry of Intelligence, and even the old man who stood up and spoke died not long after, so that no one dared to stand up.

According to the information collected by the Ministry of Intelligence, the Han army and police, under the leadership of agents of the Ministry of Intelligence, first took the entrance of the local Pao Ge Hall, and then the Han army and police went door to door to arrest the ordinary members of the Pao Ge Association, and killed all those who dared to resist.

The members of the Robe Brothers Association who were caught regretted it a lot, how could we join the Robe Brothers Club in the first place?

The clean-up operation will not be smooth sailing, and in a certain county, members of the Pao Ge Guild confronted the government under the leadership of a small leader, and gathered hundreds of people.

Faced with this situation, the Han army and police opened fire directly, killing and wounding nearly 100 people, and the rest were all captured.

On June 26th, the operation to eradicate the Pao Brotherhood in all parts of the province has ended, and the entrance to the Pao Brother Hall has been eradicated, except for a small number of members of the Pao Brotherhood who have fled, most of the remaining people have been caught, waiting for them is a hard labor life, bad luck, they may encounter various dangers and die or be injured, but they will not starve, if they behave better, there will be wages in the future, and they will be put back when the road is finished.

Towards July, most of the forces (including bandits) that were not under the control of the Gan clan in Siqi Province were completely eradicated, and the decrees of the governments at all levels in Siqi Province were basically not too much of an obstruction.