In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period, because of the chaotic situation and the people's livelihood, there were indeed many bandits. And these bandits also have a lot of interesting things, the following is a few brief.
During the period of the Republic of China, warlords were constantly fighting, and this Sichuan had more than a hundred large and small warlords, who often went to war with each other for land grabs, causing chaos in Sichuan, and many people were forced to become bandits. The problem warlords are not fighting, and there are many bandits, so the business of this businessman is not easy to do.
For the big guys in the green forest, the merchants are also the parents of food and clothing, and they really have ruined them, and everyone has no food, and life is even more difficult. So in the end, all the good men in Sichuan discussed a way together, and they had to issue receipts for the robbery in the future. In this way, when the merchant encounters the next bandit, as long as he issues a receipt indicating that he has been robbed, then he does not have to pay any more money.
It is said that these people in the green forest are still better looking than the warlords who have received taxes for decades.
When he had to meet this river bandit, the face of the government was not good. In particular, in the county towns near Chengdu later, bandits killed in the daytime to kidnap tickets, causing public opinion to be in an uproar.
In order to calm public opinion, the warlords of all walks of life could only reluctantly do so and dispatch troops to suppress the bandits. However, there are inextricable links between this bandit and the officers and soldiers, and everyone exchanges information: Every time the officers and soldiers go to suppress the bandits, they will notify the bandits in advance to hide as soon as possible; and where the bandits want to rob, they will also inform the officers and soldiers in advance, so that they can move to avoid accidental injury.
For several months in a row, the crackdown on bandits was huge, but not a single bandit was caught. So someone wrote a poem satirizing:
There is no shadow of the soldiers, and there is no trace of the bandits. Poor soldier and thief, when will they meet.
During the Republic of China period, the soldiers and bandits were by no means unique to Chuanzhong, in fact, this is also a relatively common phenomenon, and the armed forces in many places are sometimes officers and soldiers and sometimes bandits.
For example, the Zhensong Army in Shaanxi and Henan was originally a unit composed of good men in the green forest of Henan during the Xinhai Revolution, and later the habits did not change, and this method of expanding the army retained the style of the green forest in that year, and anyone could ask their superiors to be an official, and then they took their subordinates out to re-fall into the grass, rob the house to recruit troops, and when the number of guns reached the standard, they could recruit security again to become an officer. Your boss never asks what you did during that time.
Therefore, the bandits in Henan are seriously affected, and it is news that bandits in central Sichuan enter the county town to kidnap tickets, and in Henan bandits attacking the county town and arresting the county chief are common things, but it is only bitter to the people.
There are many bandits in Henan who operate differently, and baixin is certainly bitter, but the competitive pressure for the bandits is also great, and everyone's business is not easy to do, so it is also the eight immortals who cross the sea to show their magic.
For example, among the many bandits in Henan, there are female bandit leaders, called Zhang Widow, who sees that there is more competition in general business, and it is also another shortcut, specifically to do the fast ticket business.
The so-called fast ticket actually refers to the kidnapping of women. After a woman is tied up, if she is not immediately redeemed, this reputation is not good. Both the husband's family and the mother's family are embarrassed to redeem people, so the female meat ticket pays attention to fast-forward and fast-out, which is called a fast ticket.
However, bandits kidnapping people is customarily called kidnapping tickets, and those who are kidnapped are called meat tickets. After kidnapping the ticket, the bandits first have to estimate how much ransom the meat ticket can ask for, and then negotiate with the middleman and the family, and the family will raise money, which is a common thing for a month or two. This fast ticket business is very difficult to do, and the general bandits do not do fast ticket business.
But for Widow Zhang, this is not a problem, she herself is a woman. Widow Zhang announced that the kidnapped fast ticket was personally cared for by herself, and no one else was allowed to touch it. In this way, the fast tickets do not have to worry about the reputation problem, and everyone can slowly sit down and discuss the ransom. In this way, the widow relied on the fast ticket business that no one else did, and she had a reputation on the Green Forest Road in Henan.
According to the ransom paid by the ticket, after the ticket is tied, the value of the meat ticket must be determined first, and then the ransom can be asked for the family. But how to determine the value of meat tickets is a technical job, the general meat tickets are definitely said to be less, of course, even if the bandits say it according to the truth, they will not believe it immediately, often they have to be coaxed and frightened, and sometimes they have to be punished a little, in order to roughly ask how much.
But there are also people who use their brains. For example, Sun Meiyao, who is famous for the Lincheng carjacking case, announced that after hijacking the passengers on the car, he announced that he would redeem people according to the ticket level, and the passengers in the third-class carriages would have the least, with a ransom of 2,000 yuan per person, the passengers of the second-class carriages would not have 10,000 yuan, and the first-class carriages would need a ransom of 30,000 yuan. As for the foreigners on the car, no matter what seat you are, it will be calculated according to 50,000 yuan.
Sun Meiyao also specially told the meat tickets that the tickets must be managed well, otherwise if they are lost, they must be calculated according to the first-class carriages, which is simple and clear enough.