Hongmen.

Secret civil organizations in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties were commonly known as the Tiandihui to the outside world, and later evolved into multiple societies or societies. As overseas Chinese immigrated to Southeast Asia, they spread far away from Southeast Asia, mainly two major systems: the Society and the Educational Sect.

The Tiandihui branch includes three major branches: Hongmen, Qinggang and Baimen, so there are the sayings of Hongmen lotus, Qinggang green leaves, and Baimen white lotus root. With the loyalty of "Taoyuan" and the majesty of "Wagang", it advocates the saying that "brothers are not big or younger" is equal to each other.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the Tiandihui was also divided into regions. For example, the Qing Gang mainly developed in Shanghai, while the Hongmen preached in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Southeast Asia and even the United States. In Fujian and Guangdong, because the three rivers of the North River, the West River and the East River Basin converged in Guangdong, it was also called the "Three Congregation".

The reason why the Hongmen was introduced was that Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China, was introduced by his uncle Zhong Shuiyang at the end of 1903 and was appointed as the Hongmen Zhigong Hall in Honolulu, USA, and opened the "Da Lushan" that included all the hills in the mainland, and served as the chief mountain master. At the same time, he also served as Hongmen Hongshang (marshal).

In fact, since the Tiandihui was originally a legacy of the late Ming Dynasty or an anti-Qing patriot, it has been severely suppressed and suppressed since the early Qing Dynasty. As a result, many Hongmen disciples continued to contribute money and efforts to support various civil organizations that resisted the Qing court after they were spread to Hong Kong, Macao and South China Sea. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, they made great contributions to overthrowing the Xinhai Revolution of the Qing Dynasty.

No matter what kind of group it is, once it is related to a political party and a certain political program, the change between senior leaders means that new people will take office, and naturally they will consider how to deal with themselves in the future.

Therefore, although the many incense halls under the Hongmen in the late Qing Dynasty were still worshipped by the Five Patriarchs and Five Sects, the senior leaders of the New Five Ethics, Little Five Heroes, and the Three Yings and Second Divisions were basically gradually taken over by the most determined revolutionaries at that time, that is, the later members of the Tongmeng.

In this way, the Hongmen had the Ming Cult that helped Zhu Yuanzhang seize the country.

After Sun Yat-sen became the Hongshou, the first thing he did was to register the Hongmen General and draft a new management charter for Zhigongtang, which infinitely expanded the scope of anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, it also quietly tied the entire Hongmen's huge human and financial resources to the chariot of the anti-Qing revolution.

From 1903 to 1904, the donations received by Sun Yat-sen alone among the American Chinese were as large as 210,000 US dollars. Among them, the loans obtained by Zhigongtang with the headquarters building as collateral were all made funds for the anti-Qing revolution, thus greatly supporting the urgent needs of the domestic revolution. Therefore, it was later called the Overseas Chinese or the Hongmen, the mother of the Chinese revolution.

In fact, the Tongmenghui, which was formed by eight parties in 1905, was also regarded as a branch of the Hongmen at that time.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about Huang Xing, the leader of the Tongmenghui who came back from Japan.

There are so many strange literati in this era, and Huang Xing can be regarded as the strange among the strange ones.

To describe his words with an old-fashioned movie line from later generations, he was born to be a genius who wanted to save the Chinese people and maintain peace in the universe.

According to statistics from Yang Meng and him in Hunan, this person always talks about revolution every day, and he will shout revolution five hundred times a day, determined to save the people from the fire and fire... (Okay, I admit that I just admire great men very much, and I don’t know how to be an official, and I will practice the political skills of being a master of flattery to a state of superb level.)

Logically speaking, Huang Xing smuggled back to Guilin, Guangxi from Hong Kong to instigate Guo Renzhang and Cai E to carry out an armed revolutionary uprising, but because the Qing court's monitoring of the local area was still strong at this time, and his prestige of orthodox among the people had not been denied by the landlord class, so the uprising basically did not start much and soon failed again.

Although Huang Xing was helpless when the uprising failed, he was ready to flee to Shanghai again and instead smuggle Singapore, and assisted Sun Yat-sen, who was more prestigious, to establish the Tongmenghui branch in the Chinese circles in various parts of Nanyang.

Huang Xing arrived in Shanghai and suddenly heard that a Wudang Sword Immortal had appeared in Hangzhou. Among the disciples around Wudang Sword Immortal, Yang Meng, who had lived and died with him, he excitedly returned to Hangzhou. He was preparing to talk about the past with Yang Meng, the brother, and secondly, he also donated some money from this seemingly rustic bully and brought him to join the Tongmenghui with a bright future.

In this era, although there are many folk theories about constitutional monarchy and even revolutionary revolution, Huang Xing is actually the only one who has the courage to practice the path of armed revolution repeatedly.

Compared with Huang Xing, Sun Yat-sen, who later became known as the founding father of the Republic of China, and Song Jiaoren, an expert in democratic political system, and other senior leaders of the Tongmenghui who were active overseas, had their personal safety factors within the scope of the resistance of revolutionary comrades.

Huang Xing was not stupid. He was able to become a founding father of the Republic of China. His mind and mind were rare geniuses in a century.

But while he has wisdom, he also has a kind of courage and spirit that later otakus cannot understand at all. It is a fearless belief...

With such a long preparation and Huang Xingzhi's fearless belief, it is obviously impossible for Yang Meng, who has already admired him, not to join the Tongmenghui. Of course, for this guy who is still a bit idyllic, joining the Tongmenghui without having to go to Japan is still a very face and promising thing. Even if he can't become a founding veteran or a senior political party in the future, his seniority in the Hongmen will at least be higher than Brother Jiang or Du Yuesheng who is lower than that in the future?

If Yang Meng had thought of striving to save the country before, but when he really got together with the elites of this era, he was frustrated to find that he was still a real person compared to others. This is not about wisdom or courage, but a sense of identity with the times and a sense of responsibility for this country and nation.

Yang Meng thought he was a little angry young man and enthusiastic, but he really didn't dare to say that he was a tall person against his conscience.

Therefore, instead of holding the idea of ​​shaking the tiger's body like in the later YY novels, subduing many warlords, and carrying hundreds of guns to save the country immediately, it is better to follow the tide of history and do what you can with the great men of these eras, and do what you can to break and smash this foolish and corrupt era...

The process of joining the Tongmenghui is a bit simple and excessive. You just need to fill in the personal information table that Huang Xing used to draw with a brush. However, the process of joining the Hongmen gave Yang Meng a headache, and it seemed that he had returned to the Hong Kong police and gangster films in later generations.

The first step of the entry ceremony of Hongmen is called "opening the altar".

He shouted from the white paper fan: "Please ask the master of the altar." Then he called: Hear the new one!

After the "Tianyouhong" character guarding the door, the newcomer passed the test and the "Deacon Hongshang" gave a fragrant branch and knelt down and raised it over his head.

These steps such as killing phoenixes and burning yellow paper are not very energetic. The key to making Yang Meng feel shocked is the third step: Thirty-Six Oaths.

The "Deacon Hongban" raised a big knife and patted Yang Meng's new horse's shoulder with the back of the knife, and then loudly sent a thirty-six oaths from the Hongmen to 72 cases. If there is any violation, it will be subject to the "three swords and six eyes" of the family law.

"Since entering the Hongmen, your parents are my parents, your brothers and sisters are my brothers and sisters, your wife, my sister-in-law, your son and my nephew, if you violate it, the five thunders will be destroyed."

"If there are parents and brothers who have returned to their lives for a hundred years and have no money to bury them, and when they meet the white silk flying to ask for help, they will immediately turn to know that they have money and have no money to do their work. If there is any fraud, the five thunders will be destroyed."

"Although the Hong brothers don't know each other, they have a foreign license plate, and they talk about speculation but don't recognize each other, and die under ten thousand swords."...

"When there are brothers' difficulties, you must help each other. No matter how much money, you can do your best. If you don't care about it, the five thunders will be destroyed."…………

The key is that the excerpts are some of Yang Meng's subconscious vows that may even sound funny to some people in later generations. In this era, it is the true precepts that most Hongmen disciples pursue. This is the fundamental reason why Hongmen has been passed down and continuously expanded overseas.

Think about how hard-earned the hard-earned money of those overseas Chinese who were bullied in Southeast Asia in the late Qing Dynasty, and think about how huge the revolutionary funds Sun Yat-sen raised, I have to sigh that the people of this era are indeed a hundred times more simple and loyal than later generations...

"Maybe in this era, people who have been separated from low-level interests are no longer a joke!" Yang Meng looked at the elders on the altar hard and gestured, and quietly put the habitual nonsense in his pocket in his heart...

At this moment, the swearing was over, and everyone began to make a vow: "There are treacherous loyalty coming from the oath, and the brothers from all over the world are the same, loyalty and loyalty are the ranks of the treacherous ministers.'

The blessing of Master Yang Meng Li Cunyi is also based on the old man's position as a master in the world, and the reputation of Yang Meng as a great boxer of the Northern School Xingyi Crazy Monkey, although he had just joined the Hongmen, he did not have to start with a younger brother, but followed the current book of the scribble and inserted a team, turning into a red stick of the big-character generation.

Of course, his red stick is completely different from Sun Yat-sen's one. The other is Hong stick, the mountain master and the marshal of the Hongmen General Sect, and he is the first hit boy under the sect of the Hongmen Hangzhou Mountain Master - the Double Flower Red Stick.

The strict organization of Hongmen lies in the vertical and horizontal system, such as the vertical column with the leading position, sitting in the hall, holding the hall, confidant, patrolling the wind so much, and there are horizontal systems such as "talking" and "gestures".

From a vertical perspective, the specific position is also about seniority. However, the most capable master in Hangzhou now is the Wudang Sword Immortal Song Wei. However, he was an official of the Qing court and looked down on this small hill at all. Therefore, the mountain master of Hongmen in Hangzhou decided not to cause trouble for this crazy monkey who was famous for beating people, so he simply led his master to accept disciples and asked him to be a scattered person with high seniority but no real power.

From the perspective of the horizontal line, the energy of the Hongmen's code language gestures and other incisions in the martial arts world is not as powerless or pale as in later generations when chatting.

Many brothers of the Hongmen who met the first time they saw the gestures and heard the "Spring Dictations" and would say the incision of "Hualing Pavilion's Fate". After that, even if they were brothers, they would be friends of life and death, and if they had their original hatred, they would have to be turned into jade.

From these two aspects, it can be seen that if you are not a truly knowledgeable and talented person, you will definitely not be able to formulate such a strict vertical and horizontal system and speech implicitly. Even the mafia and three-person group that have developed extremely prosperously in later generations cannot formulate such a strict organizational system.

Of course, since I joined the Hongmen, I have to do some work.

What kind of work are you doing?

"This time I went to Singapore to assist Brother Yixian to develop the Tongmenghui in Nanyang. There should be no big problem with security. However, although there are many patriots in the association now, the wealthy people who can really support the revolution are far from enough in China..."

Yang Meng was a little puzzled, and at the same time, he yelled in his heart: "Damn, people join the club and give some settlement fee, tea and water fees, and at the worst, they can charge a protection fee. If Mao comes to me, he will pay it back? What I can't accept is that I seem to be eating soft rice hard now..."

Of course, even if he scolded Huang Xing in his heart, Yang Meng was embarrassed to shout to him blatantly, "I'm a soft-hearted person." Otherwise, if others don't despise him, he would be spitting like a sharp knife by these newly-becoming brothers, and demonstrate to him what is the absolutely true version of the three-knife and six-hole experience model...

Turning his head and looking at Ruoli with a smirk, Yang Meng's face, as if he was so thick that he felt hot: "Madam, you just finished making the thirty-six oaths of Hongmen, you need three knives and six holes if you don't have money..."

"Haha, don't be embarrassed anymore. This is one thousand taels. Take it to Brother Huang quickly..."

Huang Xing was a little surprised. Obviously, he didn't expect that the warrior who was known as poor, rich and powerful was even poorer than himself. Even if he was a soft meal, wouldn't he ask his wife for some money and put it in his pocket to put it in his store before going out...

Well, Huang Xing thought about his pocket, and it seemed that he had no right to joke with Yang Meng, who was also a man from the world. "Brother, I won't say much about the extra words. You are a family member, so you can't run around like me. You can stay in Hangzhou for a while. When the Hongmen brothers in Shanghai are in contact, there will naturally be someone coming to you... and then talk about the matter of sponsoring the revolution..."

Yang Meng looked at Huang Xing as he walked away as expected, and suddenly he had the urge to rush over and grab his hair and flick his little JJ for a hundred times: "Look at what you mean, Brother Love will not only be the general thug of your Hongmen Tongmenghui in the future, but also become the ATM for you, the revolutionary patriots!"
Chapter completed!