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I feel it ...... under That's it. Xie Qinxin said.

Wang Yiwan said to Tang Zhong again: "Since you are a friend of Liuzhu, then I will say one more word and wish Tang Gongzi success." ”

Tang Zhong arched his hand and said: "Borrow your auspicious words, there will be a period later." ”

Wang Yiwan smiled: "Tang Dan, that kid is really a lot of disasters...... Well, there will be a period later. He arched his hand as he spoke.

Everyone left the mahjong room quickly, Tang Zhong opened Didi, and no one took the order.

Everyone stood on the side of the road and waited, and the afternoon sun was warm on them, and they felt very comfortable.

Tang Zhong looked at the traffic coming and going, a little distracted, and his expression was cloudy.

Xie Qin saw his abnormality and asked, "Brother Zhong, what's wrong with you?"

Tang Zhong looked at Xie Qin, then at everyone, and then said, "There is one thing I can't figure out. ”

"What's the matter?" asked Sechin.

Tang Zhong said: "The Nine Poisons Hall is too busy. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Tang Zhong said: "The Nine Poisons Hall colluded with the Xuanzhu Hall to attack our Ziming Hall, and they want to start a war with the Elders' Association, and according to Brother Huan's analysis, they will also make trouble at the birthday banquet of the master of the sect...... How did they do so much at once?"

Xie Qin understood as soon as he heard it, the meaning of Tang Zhong's words was simply put: How could the Nine Poisons Hall plan a coup d'état while preparing for a war?

Tang Zhong was rightly suspicious, one of them required long-term planning and preparation before it could be implemented, and any one of them required almost the entire organization to be prepared, but the Nine Poisons Hall put two things together, was Tang Jiaqi crazy? Or was he confident enough in his manpower to easily handle these two major events?

Seeing Xie Qin frowning and pondering, Tang Zhong bowed his head and said, "This is the problem I can't figure out. ”

Xie Qin said: "I can't figure it out either. ”

The crowd was also puzzled.

Tang Zhong shook his head and said, "Let's go back and ask Brother Huan first...... There is a car. ”

In less than five minutes, the car came, and everyone got into the car and returned to the western-style building where they were temporarily staying.

Sitting in the car, Xie Qin suddenly remembered the stubble of the elders' meeting, so he sent a message in the WeChat group.

"Who's going to talk about the Elders?"

"I'll come. This is Tang Zhong's reply.

"I'll tell you about the old days of the Brotherhood. This is Old Man Zu's reply.

So, the old man talked about the past life of the Elders' Association, and Tang Zhong talked about its present life.

The ancestor made a haircut: "The Elders' Association is a secret society with a long history, which is said to have been established in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Its birthplace and predecessor are no longer verifiable.

Some people say that the Elder Church originated in Hunan, Hubei, and entered Sichuan with immigrants from Hunan, Hubei, Liangguang, Jiangxi and other places during the prosperous Kangqian period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and some people say that it itself originated in Sichuan. And its predecessor is even more controversial, some say that the Elder Brotherhood is a branch of the Heaven and Earth Society......"

Xie Qin was stunned.

"Wait, Chen Jinnan's Heaven and Earth Meeting?" he hurriedly asked.

Old man Zu replied: "Yes, Chen Jinnan of Ming Zheng in Taiwan founded the Heaven and Earth Society in order to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and then derived many branches, such as the Qingshui Society, the Little Knife Society, the Hongmen, the Green Gang, and so on. ”

"Oh, that's it. Sechin replied.

Old man Zu replied: "There is also a saying that as early as the early Qing Dynasty, in the mountainous areas around Sichuan, there was an active kind of nomad known as "Lulu". Its members are all nomads from Guangzhou, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Guangdong and other provinces, and spontaneously formed a secret society in order to survive. Some of these people are traitors and criminals, colluding with hooligans and gangsters in Sichuan, and they are in groups of three or five, armed with knives and blades, and run rampant in towns and villages, and are called "Purpurs". Later, it became a church of elders. There is also the theory of the revolutionaries in the late Qing Dynasty, saying that during the rebellion of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Xiucheng, the loyal king of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, and Li Shixian, the king of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, sent the children of Hongmen to infiltrate the Hunan army, and some people say that it was founded by Zheng Chenggong......"

Xie Qin's head was big, and he replied: "Well, I can see that there are many different opinions." ”

After a while, the old man came to his head with a long list: "In short, the elder brother will rise, he often appears in the history of the late Qing Dynasty, from the repeated uprisings of the revolutionary party to the road protection movement in Sichuan, there is a figure of the elder brotherhood." Its members are very complex, including farmers, craftsmen, soldiers, vagrants, and many people who have no sect or sect, so it can be said that the Elder Association is a typical ninth-rate gang. ”

In ancient times, the power of the three sects was very large, and it can be said that it was the upper class of the rivers and lakes, they monopolized most of the resources of the rivers and lakes, and formulated a very strict "distinction between the teaching streams", all the sects that do not follow Buddhism and do not practice Confucianism are all divided into the nine streams, and the nine streams are divided into the upper nine streams, the middle nine streams and the lower nine streams, although the lower nine streams are all gangs engaged in illegal activities, but the division of the upper, middle and lower three and nine streams is also determined according to the likes and dislikes of the three religions.

Xie Qin thought to himself, if the predecessor of the Brotherhood was really a group of thieves who robbed homes and houses, it would be a proper ninth-rate.

Old man Zu sent another one: "The elder meeting in the Bashu area is commonly known as 'Brother Robe', also known as 'Brother Robe' and 'Uncle Hi'." The word "robe" in "Brother Robe" is said to come from the "Book of Songs" in "How can it be said that there is no clothes, and the robe is the same as the son". "Brother Robe", it is said that his brothers are also dressed in the same robe. Its membership is divided into two categories: 'Brother Qingshui' and 'Brother Muddy Water', the so-called "Brother Qingshui" refers to the rich and powerful bureaucrats and gentry. They have a high status in the local area, and they are also well-equipped, and they can speak in various local matters, that is, they are in charge. The so-called "Brother in Muddy Waters" refers to the heroes of the green forest, most of whom are people in the rivers and lakes, these two groups of people are good and bad, Brother Qingshui can not only be the master of the people, but also harm the township, and Brother Qingshui Pao is the same, he can not only do chivalrous righteousness, but also rob the house. ”

"Hmm. Sechin could only respond like this, saying that he was listening.

Old man Zu came again: "The so-called many people are powerful, this is a little good, the poor people get together, they can fight against the local tyrants and inferior gentry, the world is like this, the same is true of the rivers and lakes, the people in the rivers and lakes walk the rivers and lakes, either rely on the sect, or rely on the skills, or rely on fame, if there are no of these three, and if you are alone, it is easy to be bullied, and even some small shrimp dare to find fault." For this reason, many lonely people in the rivers and lakes finally chose to join the Elders' Association. ”

"Hmm. ”

"When the Elders' Association was at its most powerful, it even became a social organization, not only with its own hall, but also with its own hidden language, which was completely different from the common incisions on the rivers and lakes. Its internal organization and division are also extremely complex, but it is difficult for outsiders to figure it out, and there are two sayings in the rivers and lakes, one is that it is divided into eight halls and eight halls. The so-called "inner eight halls", namely: dragon, alliance, incense, zuo, accompaniment, punishment, execution, and ceremony. The so-called "Outer Eight Halls", namely: card handles, sages, Huan Hou, stewards, patrols, discipline guidelines, listings, and camp gates. Each has its own role and is not to be confused. For example, the "card handle" is the owner of the mountain, the "Huan Hou" is in charge of money and grain, the "patrol wind" is responsible for reconnaissance, and the "listing" registers, and so on. ”

During the Xinhai Revolution, the party that revolutionary Tao Chengzhang contacted in Zhejiang mostly belonged to the Elders' Association. Therefore, when talking about the origin of the Presbyterian Church, it is also influenced by the above legend. He said in "Examination of the Origin of the Church": "The Elders' Association is nothing more than from the Heaven and Earth Society, so they are all called Hongmen, also known as the Hong family, and also known as the Hong Gang." "What is Hongmen, because the name of Ming Taizu is Hongwu, so it is named, referring to the sky as the father, referring to the earth as the mother, so it is also known as the heaven and earth will. The initiator is Zheng Chenggong, and the one who follows and regulates is Chen Jinnan." He also said: Before the death of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, "Li Xiucheng, Li Shixian and others knew that the great revenge had not been restored, and the general trend had gone, and they were very distressed." Knowing that Xiang Yong's successors will be more important than the Manchu government, and those who can influence China's forces in the future will undoubtedly be Xiang Yong. Therefore, he sent the Hongmen brothers of Fujian and Jiangxi to surrender to the Hunan army to guide them. Fu also avoided the name of the three points and the three combinations, because the leader of the party had the alias of the big brother, so it was renamed the Japanese elder brother's association. ”。

In view of the trend of the integration of Hongmen, the Qing Gang and the Elder Brothers' Association (Red Gang) in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the gang members put forward this theory and vigorously advocated that the Hongmen and Hanliu (Elder Brothers' Association) originated from one family, and that the Elder Brothers' Association was founded by Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan. In the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, Liu Shiliang, the "robe brother Juzi" in Sichuan, said in (The Complete History of Han Liu): "In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (Xin Chou), the Burmese people were in charge of Emperor Yongli before sending Wu Sangui to the army. Sangui forced him to die in the grate slope. At that time, the death of Zheng Zhilong and the life of the three tribes of Yi, as well as the death of Emperor Yongli, spread to Taiwan at the same time. Successfully sympathize with the death of the Ming room, regain the death of his biological father, and cut the injustices of the three clans. The oath of revenge was in September of that year, and the generals of the department, according to the original grade, as the order of progress, that is, the Jintai Mountain, which was stationed, was named Jintai Mountain Mingyuan Hall, and the alliance returned with 4,000 people. Later, Zheng Chenggong saw that the scholars and doctors at that time were all obsessed with Lilu, "he sent his subordinates Cai Deying, Fang Dacheng, Ma Chaoxing, Hu Dedi, Li Shikai, etc. to develop in the Central Plains, and later entered the Shaolin Temple in Fujian as a monk.

In 1947, Zhu Lin further developed this statement in "Hongmen Zhi". It is said that Hongmen "started in Hanliu", the ancestor was Yin Hongsheng, a native of Taiping County, Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi, and a scholar of Ming Chongzhen for four years. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, he was ordered by Shi Kefa to Beijing to spy on the reality of the Qing court, and visited Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Fu Qingzhu, and Huanglizhou along the way, and discussed the creation of the Hanliu organization, "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty", and died in the Sanxia River in the second year of Shunzhi. In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), Zheng Chenggong was stationed in Taiwan, and in order to promote the Hanliu organization, he "opened the mountain and established the church, named Jintai Mountain Minglun Hall", and sent Cai Dezhong and others to the Central Plains to develop to the Shaolin Temple in Jiulian Mountain, Putian, Fujian, and Zheng Chenggong's nephew Zheng Junda and others to plan for righteousness. In the eleventh year of Kangxi (1672), Xilu invaded, Cai Dezhong and Zheng Junda went to serve and defeated Xilu. Later, he was framed and fled to Wanshan Temple in Wanyun Mountain, where he met Wanyunlong and Chen Jinnan. In the twelfth year of Yongzheng, he organized in Yazhou, Sichuan, and opened Jingzhong Mountain, which was the beginning of the Sichuan Elders' Association.