Chapter 66. Hongmen double-flower red stick
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Hongmen.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the secret non-governmental organization, commonly known as the Heaven and Earth Society, later evolved into a number of associations or associations, with the immigration of overseas Chinese to the South Seas and spread to Southeast Asia, mainly there are two major systems of the party and the sect.
The Tiandihui branch has three major tribes: Hongmen, Qingbang, and Baimen, so there are Hongmen lotus, Qinggang green leaves, and Baimen white lotus root, and with the "Taoyuan" righteousness and "Wagang" majesty as the call, advocating the saying that "brothers are not big and brothers are not small" are equal to each other.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Heaven and Earth Society was also divided into regions, for example, the Qinggang was mainly exhibited in Shanghai, the Hongmen was a missionary in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Southeast Asia and even the United States, and in Fujian and Guangdong, because the three rivers of the Beijiang, Xijiang and Dongjiang basins converged in Guangdong, so it was also called the 'triad'.
The reason why I want to introduce Hongmen is because Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China, at the end of 19o3, through the introduction of his uncle Zhong Shuiyang, worshiped the Hongmen Zhigong Hall in Honolulu, USA, opened the 'Big 6 Mountains' covering various mountains in the mainland, and served as the chief mountain master, and also did the position of Hongmen Hongbang (marshal).
In fact, because the Tiandihui was originally established by the widows of the late Ming Dynasty or anti-Qing scholars, it has been severely suppressed and suppressed since the early Qing Dynasty, resulting in many Hongmen disciples still not forgetting to continue to contribute money and efforts to fund various non-governmental organizations that rebelled against the Qing Dynasty after spreading to Hong Kong, Macao and Nanyang, and in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, they made great contributions to the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty.
No matter what kind of organization it is, once it is linked to a political party or a certain political program, when there is a change of leadership between the top leaders, that is, when a new person takes office, it is natural to consider how to live on the temple in the future.
Therefore, although many incense halls under the Hongmen in the late Qing Dynasty were still enshrined by the Five Ancestors and Five Sects, the high-level leaders of the General Gate, such as the New Wuyi, Xiao Wujie and the Sanying Second Division, were basically the most determined revolutionaries at that time, that is, the later members of the League.
In this way, Hongmen has the Mingjiao color to help Zhu Yuanzhang seize the country.
After Sun Yat-sen made the Hongmen, the first thing he did was to hold the general registration of Hongmen, and drafted a new management charter on behalf of the Zhigong Court, which infinitely expanded the scope of anti-Qing and Ming restoration, and at the same time quietly tied the huge human and financial resources of the entire Hongmen to the chariot of the anti-Qing revolution.
From 19o3 to 19o4, Sun Yat-sen alone received donations from overseas Chinese in the Americas amounted to 210,000 US dollars, and even the loans obtained by the Zhigong Court as collateral for the headquarters building became the fund of the anti-Qing revolution, thus greatly supporting the urgent needs of the domestic revolution.
In fact, as recently as 19o5, when the eight parties merged to form the League, it was also regarded as a branch of the Hongmen at that time.
Speaking of which, I have to talk about Huang Xing, the leader of the League who returned from Japan.
There are many strange literati in this era, and Huang Xing can be regarded as a strange among wonderful.
To describe him with a clichéd movie line in later generations, then he was born to be a genius who wants to save the Chinese people and maintain peace in the universe.
According to the statistics of Yang Meng and his days in Hunan, this person never leaves the revolution every day, and he will shout about the revolution 500 times a day, determined to save the people from fire and water...... (Well, I'll admit that I just have a great admiration for great men, and I don't know how to be like an official, and I have practiced the political god skill of sycophants to the realm of supernatural perfection.) )
It stands to reason that Huang Xing smuggled back to Guilin, Guangxi from Hong Kong, and instigated Guo Renzhang and Cai Yi to carry out an armed revolutionary uprising anyway, but because the Qing court's control of the local area was still quite effective at this time, and its prestige of civil orthodoxy had not been denied by the landlord class, so the uprising basically did not start much, and it quickly failed again.
Although Huang Xing was a little helpless after the failure of the uprising, he was also ready to flee to Shanghai again and smuggle his way to Singapore, so as to assist Sun Yat-sen, who was growing in prestige, to establish branches of the League in the Chinese circles throughout Nanyang.
Huang Xing went all the way to Shanghai, and suddenly heard that there was a Wudang Sword Immortal in Hangzhou, and among the disciples around the Wudang Sword Immortal, he also respected Yang Meng, a mad monkey who had lived and died with him, so he happily returned to Hangzhou, first, to prepare to catch up with Yang Meng's brother, and secondly, by the way, to get some donations from this seemingly little turtle, and pull him to join the alliance with a bright future.
In this era, although there are many theories about constitutional monarchy and even revolutionary theory, Huang Xing is really the only one who really has the courage to practice the road of armed revolution again and again.
Compared with Huang Xing, Sun Yat-sen, who later became known as the father of the Republic of China, and Song Jiaoren, an expert on the democratic political system, and other high-level leaders of the League who were active overseas, most of their personal safety factors were within the tolerance range of revolutionary comrades.
Huang Xing is not stupid, he can become the founding father of the Republic of China, and his mind is not a genius that is rare in a hundred years.
It's just that while he has wisdom, he also has a kind of courage and spirit that later generations of otaku can't experience at all, which is a kind of fearless belief......
With such a long foreshadowing in front of him, coupled with Huang Xingzhi's fearless belief, Yang Meng, who already has some respect for him, wants not to join the alliance, which is obviously impossible, of course, for this guy who is still a little homely in his heart, he can join the alliance without going to Japan, it is still a very face-saving and promising thing, even if he can't be a founding veteran and a high-level party in the future, but his seniority in Hongmen will at least be higher than Brother Jiang or Du Yuesheng in the future, right?
If Yang Meng had the idea of saving the country before, but when he really came together with the elites of this era, he was depressed and realized that compared with others, he was still a real ****, which is not about wisdom or courage, but a sense of identity with the times, and a sense of responsibility for the country and the nation.
Yang Meng thinks he is a little angry and enthusiastic, but he really doesn't dare to say that he is a tall man with a clear conscience.
Therefore, instead of holding the idea of subduing how many warlords and carrying hundreds of guns can save the country immediately like in the YY novels of later generations, it is better to follow the tide of history and do what you can by the side of the great men of these times, which is enough to break and smash this stupid and decadent era......
The process of joining the alliance is a bit simple and excessive, as long as you fill out the personal information form drawn by Huang Xing with a brush, it is basically enough, but the process of joining Hongmen gave Yang Meng a headache, and it seemed to return to the Hong Kong police and gangster films in later generations.
The first step of the entrance ceremony of the Hongmen Gate is called 'opening the altar'.
From the white paper fan shouted: 'Respectfully to the altar master. After that, he will shout: "Spread the new man!"
After the 'Tianyou Hong' character guarding the door was interrogated according to the routine, the newcomer passed the test, and the 'deacon red stick' sent a branch of fragrance, kneeling down and holding it high above his head.
These steps such as cutting the phoenix and burning yellow paper are not energetic, and the key to Yang Meng's shock is the third step: the thirty-six oaths.
The 'Deacon Red Stick' raised a big knife and patted Yang Meng's new horse on the shoulder with the back of the knife, and then loudly proclaimed the 36 oaths of the Hongmen and 72 cases, and if there was a violation, he would be subject to the family law of 'three swords and six eyes'.
"Since entering the Hongmen, your parents are my parents, your brothers and sisters are my brothers and sisters, your wife and my sister-in-law, and your son and my nephew, if you disobey, the five thunders will be destroyed."
"If there are parents and brothers, a hundred years of life, no money to bury, once Bai Aya flies in, in order to ask for help, immediately know that there is money to pay, no money to contribute, if there is fraud do not know, five thunders will be destroyed."
"The brothers of the Hong family, although they don't know each other, when they encounter a foreign brand, they talk about speculation, but they don't recognize each other, and they die under ten thousand knives." ……
"In case of brotherly difficulties, it is necessary to help each other, money and silver, no matter how much, do your best, if you don't care, the five thunders will be destroyed." …………
The key is that these excerpts are the oaths that Yang Meng subconsciously cannot understand, and for some people in later generations, they may even sound funny, but in this era, it is the true knowledge precepts pursued by most Hongmen disciples, which is the foundation for Hongmen to be inherited and expanded overseas.
Thinking about the hard-won money of those overseas Chinese who were bullied in Nanyang at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and then thinking about the huge amount of revolutionary funds raised by Sun Yat-sen, I have to sigh that the people of this era are really a hundred times more simple and righteous than later generations......
"Maybe in this era, people who are detached from low-level fun are no longer a joke!" Yang Meng looked at the admonitions and gestures of the elders on the altar, and quietly put the habitual nonsense in his pocket little by little......
At this moment, the oath has been completed, and everyone began to vow in unison: 'The oath is said to be traitorous and loyal, and the brothers of the four seas are generally the same, loyal and righteous are waiting for the throne, and the traitor is against the bone knife. ’
Thanks to Yang Meng's master Li Cunyi's blessing, it is also through the old man's status as a grandmaster in the rivers and lakes, and with Yang Meng's reputation as a great boxer of the current northern faction Xingyi crazy monkey, although he has just joined the Hongmen, he doesn't have to start with a little brother, but according to the current pedigree, he swaggered into the team and turned into a red stick of the big characters.
Of course, his red stick is completely different from Sun Yat-sen's, the one who is the mountain owner and the marshal of Hongmen, and he is the first dozen boys under the Hongmen Hangzhou Mountain Lord - Shuanghua Red Stick.
The Hongmen is tightly organized because of the longitudinal. Horizontal system, such as the title of the position has a leader, sitting, execution, henchman, patrol to the full column, and there are "speech", "gestures" and other horizontal systems.
Judging from the longitudinal list, the specific position is also based on seniority, how can Hangzhou now be the most capable of fighting the Wudang Sword Immortal Song only, but the people are officials of the Qing court, and they don't look down on this small hill at all, so the mountain owner of Hangzhou Hongmen decided not to block this crazy monkey who is famous for fighting people in Hangzhou, and simply take the teacher to take in the apprentice, so that he can be a high-ranking but no real power of the scattered person.
And horizontally speaking, the energy of Hongmen's set of code language gestures and other cuts in the rivers and lakes is by no means as weak or pale as when later generations were chatting.
Many Hongmen brothers, even when they meet for the first time, when they see the gesture and stop, as soon as they hear the "hidden words of the Spring Festival", they will say the incision of "Huating Tie Yi", and then even if they are brothers, they are friends of life and death, and if the original hatred must be turned into jade silk.
From these two aspects, it can be seen that people who are not truly knowledgeable and talented will never be able to formulate such a strict longitudinal. Even the mafia and the trio, which were extremely prosperous in later generations, could not formulate such a strict organizational system.
Of course, since you have joined Hongmen, you have to do some work.
What do you do?
"This time I went to Singapore to assist Brother Yat-sen in the Nanyang Exhibition Alliance, and there should be no big problem in terms of security, but although there are many people with lofty ideals in the club now, there are still far from enough people in China who can really support the revolution......
Yang Meng was a little puzzled, and at the same time secretly roared in his heart: "Nima, people who join the club are given some settling-in allowances, tea fees, and at worst, they can collect a protection fee, so why will Mao be upside down when he arrives at Lao Tzu?" What is especially unacceptable to my brother is that my brother still seems to be eating soft rice fiercely......"
Of course, even if he scolded Huang Xing in his heart, Yang Meng was embarrassed to shout to him so blatantly, 'I eat soft rice', otherwise he would not have to be despised by others, and he would be turned into a sharp knife by these spit that had just become a fellow brother, and he would personally demonstrate for him, what is the real version of the three-knife and six-hole experience model......
Turning his head to look at Ruoli with a snicker, Yang Meng's thick face like a city wall couldn't help but feel hot: "Lady, you look at the thirty-six oaths of Hongmen, this money is not borrowed to be three knives and six holes......"
"Haha, don't be embarrassed here, this is a thousand taels, hurry up and bring it to Brother Huang......"
Huang Xing was a little stunned, obviously he didn't expect that the martial artist who was known as poor and rich would be even poorer than himself, even if he ate soft rice, but before going out, wouldn't he ask his mother-in-law for money and put it in his pocket to put it on the façade......
Okay, Huang Xing thought about his pocket, and didn't seem to be qualified to laugh at Yang Meng, who was also a fallen person at the end of the world, "Brother, if you don't say much, my brother won't say much, you are a family person, you can't run around like me, you stay in Hangzhou for a while, and when the Hongmen brothers in Shanghai are contacted, someone will naturally come to you...... Let's talk about financing the revolution......"
Yang Meng stupidly watched Huang Xing walk away as a matter of course, and suddenly had the urge to rush over and grab his head and play him a hundred times: "Look at what you mean, Brother Affection will not only be the general thug of your Hongmen Alliance in the future, but also become the ATM of your gang of revolutionaries!" ”
(The keyboard was broken in the afternoon, and it took me most of the day to figure it out, and I felt that I had written too strictly all the way, and I didn't feel a little tired, so I always wanted to write a little funny and entertain the public...... Finally, I would like to thank the two brothers 'Li Yiming' and 'Ji Suo Drink Lao Chun' for their evaluation votes...... )