If you pass the interview, you will be inducted. The bandits should worship incense when they enter the company, and the new joiners will plant incense in front of everyone and swear to the sky, and the content of the oath roughly includes: to be with everyone, not to betray friends, not to betray, not to leak the news, if you violate, you will be cut by a thousand knives and so on.

After taking the oath, they will visit the leaders of the bandit gang one by one to receive training. A person who has just become a bandit is called a cub. The gang usually only takes care of the cubs' food and lodging, and does not pay wages. Wages are not paid until the end of the year, and wages are not easy to get.

After listening to the introduction, Hei Feng was surprised: "I didn't expect to be a bandit with so many rules?"

Wen Yiming raised the red wine, took a sip, and said lightly: "The cub who has just joined the gang has no guns or horses, every time he goes out to fight and rob, he just scares people with a wooden gun wrapped in a red cloth, and he can only be qualified to share the spoils after he has a real gun." ”

"Once the cubs have a real gun, they have to work hard, like charging in front and retreating behind. Every day the army marched during the day, and at night they had to take turns to stand guard and feed the horses, and there was no time to sleep at all, which was more tiring than doing long work. ”

"The bandit horse team was preparing to enter the village, and the weapons were usually earthen guns, the muzzles of which were usually stuffed with wooden corks and red tassels tied to them. When the gun was fired, the cork was pulled out of the muzzle and put it in the mouth, looking like a lock of red beard from a distance. ”

"The most lucrative action of the bandits is called smashing the kiln, that is, robbing the compound of the rich family. Hit it in and smash it, and if you don't hit it, you don't hit it and don't smash it. ”

But these landlords and wealthy merchants would build compound walls, build forts, and pay high prices to hire hunters and good gunmen to serve as bodyguards. When one side is in trouble, support from all sides, a number of villages will form a joint village militia to deal with the invasion of large bandits. ”

For example, in 1923, in Wanbao Town, Dehui County, Dalong led more than 100 bandits to besiege a landlord in Shanrentun and suffered a crushing defeat. The wall of this landlord's courtyard is more than 3 meters high, there are buttresses on the top of the wall, and there are forts at the four corners of the courtyard, and there are more than 20 bodyguards in the courtyard. ”

Although the bandits once rushed into the courtyard, they were finally beaten out by the bodyguards of the courtyard. At the end of the battle, more than 20 bandits were killed, and all the dead were cut off by the bodyguards of the hospital and sent to the county seat for reward. When the large army fled, they were ambushed by the police, who suffered heavy casualties, and the police cut off all the bandits' heads, filled 11 sacks, and asked the government for credit. ”

The reason why Wen Yiming chose bandits as the target of treasure hunting is also because every time the kiln is laid, the big shopkeeper and the leaders must first fill their pockets, and then the cronies and gunmen share the spoils.

Usually in the bandits, there are big treasurers' henchmen and cronies to supervise all the cubs at all times, and every word and deed of all the bandit members will be reported to the leaders at all levels. Those cubs who usually do not behave to satisfy the leaders will be killed by others when they are fighting. The bandit leader would let all those they hated and suspect take the lead, without informing them of their retreat or breakthrough, and also having them report to the officers and soldiers.

At the end of each year, the bandit team began to divide the money for the winter, and the money was divided according to the shares, and the leaders such as the big shopkeeper and the four beams and eight pillars got a large share, and the general bandits could only share small shares. If you bring guns and horses with you, you can get more points. After the bandits had divided the money, they hid their spears and went to their relatives and friends, or lived in the concessions.

Winter is the season they enjoy the most, and they no longer have to sleep in the open, birth and death. The cubs used a year's wages to gamble, play cards, drink, or secretly live in their mistresses' homes. Every winter, many bandits are arrested, or they are suspected by the police for revealing their wealth, or they are recognized by the police after drinking and losing their words.

There are also many cubs who will hide in the Labang family, the so-called Labang is a woman who has both a husband and a good relationship. Most of their husbands are petty traders, gamblers, dancers, and even disabled people, and most of them are cubs in bandit gangs.

Two husbands live on a kang, one in the first half of the night and the other in the second half of the night. In the spring of the following year, as soon as the day of the bandit gang assembled, the cubs were leaving. The woman helped him pack his bags and send him to the outside of the village as if she were her husband, telling him to come home as soon as it was cold.

Therefore, in addition to the big leader, the real fortune is also the owner of the nest, and the owner of the nest himself does not come forward to kill, but supplies the bandit gang with guns, ammunition and horses, and dividends from it. They also harbored bandits to collect insurance money, lend usury, and extort money. Many bandits deposited their money in the homes of the owners of the nests, and they could not get back the last penny, and they were betrayed or killed by black shots.

Everyone was very surprised after hearing this, they didn't expect it to be so difficult to be a bandit and a thief? Originally, I thought it was a group of bad people robbing homes and houses, but it seems that I really underestimate this profession!

"Today's goal is Dong Wenting!" Wen Yiming shook the information in his hand and said: "The bandits led by Dong Wenting, a native of Xifeng, have been harming the three eastern provinces, with a maximum of more than 400 people, repeatedly encircled and suppressed, scattered them several times, and resurrected them. ”

"His wife, Xiao, engaged in banditry activities with Dong, learned good riding skills and marksmanship, and was his iron helper. There were nine brothers, and they went about recruiting bandits and waiting for an opportunity to build up bandits. ”

"Gathered 29 bandits, with 22 long guns and 1 short gun, and started the bureau on February 8, because they had the arrogant ambition to monopolize the northeast, so they took the bandit name, the overall situation of the northeast. ”

Dong Wenting adopted a series of cunning methods to expand the bandit organization. Sometimes the method of crowning officials is used to appease, and sometimes the method of annexation is carried out by rushing. More than 40 people, including "Zhan Dongshan", "Fu Hai", and "Jinshan Hao", were successively appeased, merged into the "Northeast Overall Situation", and organized into the second, third, and fourth detachments, serving as four beams and eight pillars. ”

"The so-called four beams and eight pillars, all have to kowtow to the handle, according to the age of the ranking of brothers, the big boss is called the big shopkeeper, also called the big boss, the second boss is called the second shopkeeper. The four beams are divided into four inner beams and four outer beams, which together are eight columns. There are four beams in the inside: cannon head, grain table, water incense, and idlers. ”

The gun head refers to the one that is bold, accurate in marksmanship, able to shoot in a hundred shots, and can be decided with one shot at a critical moment. The grain station is responsible for eating, drinking, and eating at large households or people's homes in dispersed activities or emergencies.

Water incense is to stand guard, sentry, set up cards, change the guard, and so on. Everywhere the bandits go, the first thing they do is to put a card in case of accidents. The origin of its name, according to the bandits, is to follow the ancient times when there were no clocks and clocks to calculate the time with a leaky pot and incense pillar.

The idler is the military advisor in the bandits, the chief of staff of the big cabinet, and he participates in all research matters, and he takes care of some things in the bandits.

The outer four beams are: liaison, wordsmith, horse number, and scout. The liaison officer is engaged in foreign liaison according to the instructions of the cabinet, similar to running diplomacy.

The lettersmith was in charge of the writing and ink, that is, the secretary and clerk among the bandits, and he did everything that was written by him. The written materials received were also declassified and disposed of by him. Register firearms and ammunition, keep accounts of money and goods, etc. The horse number is in charge of horses and vehicles.

The spies are in charge of robbing targets, routes, and other situations, and their decisions often determine the success or failure of the operation, so they should be filled by people who are bold, shrewd, capable, and decisive.