Chapter 331: The Truth and Falsehood of the Heaven and Earth Society
With great curiosity, Fan Tong and Cao Peng rushed to Chen Qingsong's office during the lunch break, opened the door and asked:
"Old Chen, which hall master will come from the Heaven and Earth Club? Hongshun Hall or Qingmu Hall?"
"No, no, Qingmu Hall is in charge of Jiangsu, and Lianhua Hall is in charge of Fujian. You think so? Comrade Chen."
Chen Qingsong didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His nap schedule was ruined. He had no choice but to get up and make tea. He said to Fan and Cao: "Do you really believe it? That's a martial arts novel."
Cao Peng sat down on the chair and argued unconvinced: "How can it be a martial arts novel? The chief rudders of the Tiandihui, Chen Jinnan and Chen Yonghua, are historical figures."
"That's right!" Fan Tong said in support: "The Heaven and Earth Society is the Hongmen. The so-called Hongmen in the world came out of Shaolin."
When Chen Qingsong heard about it, he even brought it up in Shaolin Temple.
The two took the teacups and said, "Old Chen, let's talk about it."
Chen Qingsong said: "I don't know the specific situation yet. The Police Headquarters will question Yan Yan this afternoon."
Cao Peng said: "Why do you think they came?"
Fan Tong was the first to say, "I guess he's here to ask for help."
Chen Qingsong took out a cigarette and threw it to the two of them. After lighting it, he said, "Xiao Fan, are you okay? You've guessed this?"
"That's right!" Fan Tong said triumphantly: "We are also people who like reading. According to history, it is time for Fukang'an and Hailancha to land at this time, and win the first battle at Bagua Mountain."
"You can pull him down!" Cao Peng rolled his eyes at Fan Tongyong and said, "Don't you just read it from the set of "Emperor Qianlong" brought by Li Xiaobo? Since the call came, I have seen you turning over the sky. That is a novel, not history.
"
Chen Qingsong said: "Xiao Cao is on point. Hailancha has been beaten to death by us a long time ago, so your 'reference' is meaningless."
Fan Tong then remembered that Hai Lancha in this time and space had already received the lunch box, and couldn't help but sigh: "You are really ruthless. You picked a general from Qianlong."
Cao Peng said: "Reverse the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. Father and Mother. What about Old Chen? Cooperate with them?"
Chen Qingsong said: "I don't care about military matters. But I don't think Zhao Xin will agree."
"Why?" Fan and Cao asked in unison.
"You don't know, Zhao Xin despises these gang members the most, saying they are more hateful than the Qing army. When he went to northern Jiangsu before, he captured several White Lotus Sect members and threw them into the coal mines in Ezo."
"..."
Chen Qingsong glanced at the time, put out his cigarette, waved his hand and said: "Enough chatting, let's get busy."
Fan Tong and Cao Peng said, "Can we go and see something?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Can we be present during the interrogation? Nothing else. I'm just curious. A bunch of guys at the construction site are craning their necks waiting for news about us."
"You two are so free!"
Fan Tong said with a smile: "Hey, I only have a few days to spare. Once the equipment starts to be installed, I will have to work overtime day and night. Comrade Chen, Brother Chen, please help me."
Chen Qingsong knew that Fan Tong was telling the truth. As for the infrastructure project of the power plant, Wu Ping An reported the progress to Chen Qingsong every day. For people like Fan Tong who were doing inspections, the equipment was not installed on site, so they had nothing to do all day long.
; Once the equipment is installed, they will be busy.
Chen Qingsong thought for a while and then warned: "It's okay to sit in, but you can only go to one. I'll call Katayama to talk to him later. But you two, remember, don't talk nonsense."
Fan Tong said: "Don't worry, I won't talk nonsense."
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After Yan Yan and his party were disembarked at the port by a tugboat, they were placed in two adjacent small courtyards on the west side of Beihai Town. Yan Yan, Liao Dong, and the three people on the bow of the Fuchuan lived in one courtyard, and the rest
People were crowded in the courtyard next to it.
The dignified magistrate and the escorting general had to sleep in the same room, which made Yan Yan and Liao Dong very dissatisfied.
What made the two most angry was that there were actually several soldiers from Beihai Town holding "muskets" outside the yard. Liao Dong tried it in the name of going out to the latrine, but the men didn't let him go out at all; one of them pointed at
The shed in the southwest corner of the yard says the latrine is there.
"Who are we? Prisoners?" Liao Dong shouted dissatisfied.
Yan Yan was also dissatisfied, but still advised: "A Dong, we came without saying hello, so people should be wary. When they meet King Zhao and read him the letter from the Generalissimo, they will probably think so.
Treat each other with courtesy."
At noon, several women brought lunch to the people in the two courtyards. When everyone saw it, they saw snow-white rice and steamed buns, as well as pickled fish, pickled venison, stewed radish, and a bottle of wine.
Liao Dong asked dissatisfied: "Why only one bottle? How can this be enough to drink?"
Several women put the food on the table, turned around and left, but no one paid any attention to Liao Dong.
"Stop! I'm asking you a question!" Liao Dong was furious, but he didn't dare to be rude on the territory of Beihai Town.
"Forget it, A Dong. I guess I have something to do in the afternoon. It's not appropriate to drink too much."
Everyone ate hastily, and after a while, the women came again and quickly took away the dishes.
Later, I heard someone calling in Zhangzhou dialect outside the door: "Are Mr. Yan and Mr. Liao here? Our director has invited us."
Yan Yan, Liao Dong and the other three people were shocked and wondered why there were people from Zhangzhou here?
At this age, Liao Dong was called "Sir" for the first time, which immediately dissipated most of his original dissatisfaction.
When I opened the door, I saw a lean man wearing a blue and black half-length cotton robe and a leather hat standing in the yard.
Yan Yan stood up and walked to the door, cupped his hands and said: "I, Yan Yan, may I ask who you are?"
This man is no longer the hidden cloth merchant of the past. He is the magistrate of Changhua County under Lin's regime, and he calls himself an official at every turn.
Liao Dong carelessly cupped his hands and said, "Brother, we are under the command of the Grand Marshal of the Shuntian Alliance, escorting the General Liao Dong."
Facing these two imposing guys, the lean man had no expression on his face. He just cupped his fists and said, "I am sent by the Beihai Town Police Headquarters. Our director wants to see Mr. Yan and Mr. Liao."
"Police? Headquarters? Director?"
Yan Yan and Liao Dong stared at each other, completely unable to understand. Could this be the official position in the Ming Dynasty?
Liao Dong raised his hands and said, "Excuse me, what kind of yamen is this 'General Administration'?"
"It's the Police Headquarters. In Beihai Town, arresting thieves and managing street security are under the jurisdiction of the public security police. Foreign merchants must also register with the General Headquarters first."
"Oh! It turns out to be the Wucheng Army and Horses Division." Yan Yan suddenly realized, and then he raised his hands and said, "May I ask what your surname is?"
"surname piece."
Only then did Liao Dong ask the lean man: "Brother, are you from Zhangzhou?"
"Yes."
"May I ask your name?"
"I don't dare. My surname is Bo, and my only name is Zhi."
The bow of the boat suddenly said: "Are you from the Dan family?"
This person asked this question because in the early Qing Dynasty, the imperial court began to organize the Dan family into a unified household. Because they had been wandering at sea for many years, some Dan family members took "Bo" as their surname.
He has a Zhangzhou accent and his surname is Bo. Isn't he a Danhu or what?
Public security policeman Bo Zhi just nodded. His family is from the Dan family in southern Fujian. Later, he got into a lawsuit and ran to Guangdong to join the Zheng family's Red Flag Gang. The year before last, he followed Zheng Yi and the others to Beihai Town.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. After Yan Yan heard this, he was secretly surprised. He thought that Beihai Town's hand had reached to southern Fujian, and even the gangsters along the coast of southern Fujian had come to join the gang.
Yan Yan went back to the house to get a baggage, and gave the bow of the boat a few instructions. Then he and Liao Dong followed security policeman Bo Zhi and went out to the west.
Soon, the three of them arrived outside a large courtyard on the east side of Beihai Town Square.
"It's just ahead." Bo Zhi pointed to the yard and said to the two of them.
Yan Yan and the two walked to the door of the yard and saw a long sign painted with white paint hanging on the left side of the door, with the words "Beihai Town Public Security Police Headquarters" written in black pen from top to bottom.
When they walked into the gate, they were faced with a large two-story wooden structure building. Countless thick logs were piled up in an orderly manner, which was very majestic. This made Yan Liao and his wife feel a sense of oppression.
The two of them were from the lower rungs of society. Before Lin Shuangwen's uprising, when he met the landlords, gentry, scholars and officials, they were all groveling and did not even dare to take a breath, for fear of upsetting the old gentlemen and giving them a slap in the face.
Even though most of Taiwan was conquered and these people were given official positions, they still called Lin Shuangwen eldest brother. They were informal when meeting and sat and stood casually, still looking like a scoundrel.
There are two courtyards on the east and west sides, both of which are houses and courtyard walls made of wood. The gate of the east courtyard is open and people come in and out; while the gate of the west courtyard is closed, and I don’t know what it is for.
There was a flagpole standing at the door of the wooden building in front, and the howling north wind blew the flag on the top. When Yan and Liao looked up, they saw that the flag was a red flag with a white five-star in the middle.
, outside the five stars is a circle, and the inside is painted black.
Yan Yanxin asked why there was no name on the flag? The shape and specifications of the buildings in Beihai Town were completely different from those in the south, which made the two of them extremely curious.
Bo Zhi led the two of them into the wooden building at the front, and after a while, they came to the door of a room on the first floor.
Bo Zhi knocked on the door twice and heard someone inside the room say: "Come in."
After Yan and Liao entered the door, they were hit by a wave of heat, dry and dry, which made him, a southerner, extremely uncomfortable.
There was a long table in the room, covered with a light blue tablecloth, and two people were sitting across from the long table, talking.
Bo Zhi stood at attention and saluted: "Report to the director, Mr. Yan and Mr. Liao have arrived."
The person called the director is a middle-aged man with a short stature and a serious face; the one on the right is a tall fat man. Both of them wear the same style of blue and black shorts and pants, and have short hair like a monk.
"Your Excellency, is this Mr. Yan? I am Katayama, the director of the Beihai Town Police Headquarters, and this is Mr. Fan."
Yan and Liao quickly raised their hands in greeting, and after some pleasantries, they sat down.
"I am now the magistrate of Changhua County. This time I came here on the order of the Grand Marshal, the leader of my family's Shuntian Alliance, to pay a special visit to King Zhao." After Yan Yan said this, he took out a letter and handed it to Katayama.
Fan Tong came over to take a look, and saw a large seal on the cover of the letter, which read "Generalissimo, Chief of the Shuntian Alliance". When Katayama read it and handed it to him, he saw the writing on it was clumsy, to the effect of sending Yan Liao Er
People came to Beihai Town to pay homage to King Zhao, and noted the positions and physical characteristics of Yan Liao and Yan Liao. Their intention was simply to unite with Beihai Town to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and hoped that Beihai Town could send troops south to support them.
Fan Tong, the county magistrate, naturally understood what it was, but what was this "escort general"?
Fan Tong became curious, and based on what he saw as the "Little Hongmen Encyclopedia", he couldn't help but ask: "Are you two members of the Heaven and Earth Society?"
"Exactly."
"Heavenly Father and Earthly Mother, rebel against the Qing Dynasty and revive the Ming Dynasty?"
Yan Yan and Liao Dong: "..."
"Then you respect Hong Ying as your ancestor?"
"Ah?" Yan and Liao were stunned for a moment, wondering who the hell is Hong Ying?
"What about Yonghua Hall of Shaolin Temple? Where are Hong Xiguan and Fang Shiyu?"
Yan Yanxin said that what Mr. Fan asked was all nonsense. He knew about the Shaolin Temple, but he had never heard of either Hong or Fang.
Seeing the confused expressions of the two of them, Fan Tong knew that he had been swayed by movies and novels again. He didn't give up, thought for a while and asked: "Boss Mr. Chen, you guys should know, right?"
Yan and Liao rolled their eyes and said, "Well, this association does not have the position of chief helmsman."
Fan Tong lost his temper. The reality was completely different from what he knew. So he spread his hands and said to Katayama: "I have no problem. You can ask."
What he didn't know was that the later theories about the origin of the Tiandi Society with the purpose of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty were mainly because many researchers relied too much on the confusing and unbelievable founding legends within the Tiandi Society. Secondly, they combined the Tiandi Society with the sects.
Confused.
You must know that gathering people to rebel is only one of the secret society's many motivations for forming associations. "Anti-Qing and Fuming" is not the purpose of the Tiandihui. Many legends of the Tiandihui slowly developed after Jiaqing. The so-called
The conflict between Manchu and Han is even more nonsense.
Those were all given by people during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
Before the Jiaqing Dynasty, the main force of the rebellion by the descendants of the Ming Dynasty was actually the secret sect; the Dacheng sect, Baiyang sect, Qingshui sect, Bagua sect, Sanyang sect, etc., were collectively called the White Lotus sect. And the White Lotus sect was not a specialized sect.
The fight against the Qing Dynasty started from the Fangla meeting in the Northern Song Dynasty. Whoever was arrested rebelled against the Qing Dynasty. Historically, at the time of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the White Lotus Sect was still shouting "Support the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries"!
And why did that Zheng Kai (Monk Tixi) found the Tiandihui back then? Without him, he could collect money.
During the day, he pretended to be a monk, and at night, he gathered people to gamble, drink and pick up prostitutes. After Tixi's death, his son Zheng Ji inherited the temple and the head of the guild, and lived a life as shameless as his father.
I think that when Yan Yan was recruited by Tixi's direct disciple Chen Biao, he paid a thousand yuan. When Yan Yan himself recruited disciples in Zhangzhou and Taiwan, each of them had to pay a Spanish eagle or a thousand cash.
, it’s really a good business.
Fan Tong stopped asking, and Katayama said solemnly: "How did you two find us?"
Yan Yan did not intend to hide it, so he said: "When we passed Ryukyu on our way north, we also made inquiries from many sources, and later we found out about it from a businessman from North Korea."
"What's the businessman's name?"
"Lee Doohuan."
Katayama thought for a while and then remembered that among the three Koreans who came to Beihai Town last year, there was indeed a businessman named Li Douhuan. Then he asked about the time of the boat trip and the places he passed, and Yan Yan told them one by one.
Finally, Katayama said: "My lord is busy with things and has no time to see you. He asked me to tell you two that it is impossible to send troops. However, if the Qing army is too powerful and you cannot resist, you can take a boat to Beihai Town to take refuge."
"
Before Yan Yan could speak, Liao Dong sneered and said, "What a joke! The Generalissimo has tens of thousands of elite soldiers. He must have conquered the capital of Taiwan by now."
"Since you are so capable of fighting, why did you come to us?"
Yan Yan thought for a while and said: "Master Pian, I've been waiting for you thousands of miles..."
Katayama interrupted: "We didn't invite you, you found it yourself."
"You!" Liao Dong finally couldn't bear it anymore and slapped the table.
Katayama said coldly: "If you two want to do business with Beihai Town, we welcome it. However, the rules here are different from those in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. You should pay more attention when you go out. Bo Zhi is from southern Fujian, so it is easy for you to communicate.
I will let him accompany me."
During dinner, Cao Peng and others saw Fan Tong returning to the dormitory and hurriedly came over to inquire.
"How's it going? Can you tell me anything interesting?"
"Are there five first halls and five last halls?"
"Who is their chief helmsman now?"
...
Faced with the endless questions, Fan Tong said "cut" and said to Cao Peng and others: "Stop asking, there is nothing you want to know, they are all fake!"