Battle of the Third Reich

The fact that humans have become social animals is entirely the result of the natural evolution of living things. The earliest human races were purely for hunting prey that cannot be confronted by a single or a small number of individuals, and at the same time they were created to resist predators who were born at the top of the biological chain.

Human beings are a kind of creatures that tend to be chaotic. They are often obsessed with their desires and biological instincts, especially the common nature of survival and reproduction of these earth species, which is magnified a thousand times in humans.

For the views of the Chinese dynasties on the ethnic groups and the evolution process, it can really be listed as a special research topic and write a great article.

Confucianism is still very keen on the problem of self-cultivation and family governance. Confucianism is still very keen on issues. The ancient Chinese social structure is the individual and the family. Then the country eventually extends to the entire world. Leaving aside the most basic element of the individual, the family should build a society. Basic units, and when a family develops to the extreme, it will be upgraded to a clan.

Modern humans often gather people into groups based on their common points of race, beliefs, occupations, etc., and the oldest and most primitive group in history, distinguishing the sparseness is blood.

Having the same blood line does not mean that they will be more united, but from the perspective of ethnic survival and reproduction, ethnic groups with more blood relatives are usually more competitive in the brutal evolutionary history.

In the history of China to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the concept of clan has evolved from a pure blood connection to the same surname or even the same nationality. The result of the expansion of the scope is that the strength of the folk clan reached the peak of feudal society development, which became the national political structure at that time. An important part.

The government's control of the region can often only reach the county level, and the bottom villages are all managed by the local communities and squires. This structure has even continued into the period of the Republic of China.

At first, these Chinese workers who arrived in the United States for gold rushing to overseas, all of which have different language habits, will of course instinctively warm up.

In addition to resisting pressure from the outside, competition within the ethnic group is also an unavoidable problem. There will also be conflicts between Chinese workers for various reasons, so joining a group that can be sheltered has become the first thing that every Chinese worker will remember. Things.

The hometown has become the most basic identification standard, because from the same place, it means that they can speak the same language. Don't underestimate this point. At that time, Manchu even divided the mandarin into four or five types. There are dozens of dialects that are rarely spoken in Guangdong, Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces. In some mountainous areas that are blocked, "five different sounds and ten different sounds" may occur. In the case of two villages not far from each other, the pronunciation may be completely different.

These most primitive and spontaneous hometown associations have a rather rough organizational structure. In fact, it is difficult to provide any help to members, let alone provide guarantees for hard work.

Some of the coolies did indeed succeed in the gold rush. After completing the contract to pay off the arrears, they returned to their hometowns with rich harvests, built houses in the local area, and lived a wealthy local life. Zun Zun is called "Jin Shanbo".

Seeing these successful examples, a large number of farmers with the same dream of getting rich embarked on the journey to the "Golden Land". These people are no longer the former soldiers of the scattered soldiers. In many places, even the whole village is young and strong. Team up to board the ship to the United States. Some teams that have the conditions to form an "organization" have a special "management" class, which means that the clan power from China has boarded the land of the Americas for the first time.

During the peak of the gold rush, there were more than 50,000 gold prospectors from China. In addition to the bottom miners, there are a large number of traditional industries that provide services to these miners, like Chinese restaurants, barber shops, tailor shops, Shoe-making shops and Chinese medicine museums, of course, also have a lot of more traditional black industries, such as infamous gambling stalls, brothels and opium shops.

At that time, the most common Chinese clan association was a public office, and the most basic condition for participants was the same surname and the same clan, so the front of the office would be called the county hall number of each clan. Because some surnames are not many, there are still several surnames joining together to form a public office.

In addition, the largest Chinese group will belong to the United States Guild Hall. Although it sounds like a domestic association in the country, at the beginning of the establishment, the two are completely different in nature.

At that time, the export of coolie was a profit-making business, which was completely monopolized by some foreign firms in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Except for the local brokers who opened ports to serve as tigers, Chinese local businessmen were simply not qualified to intervene.

However, with the increase in the number of exported labor, Yang Xing needs some Chinese as intermediaries to manage and supervise the labor force in the United States. The other task is to collect bills from the labor demand side and prevent workers from escaping during work. By the way, they also do some preemption. Sites, to protect the interests of the company.

However, after some intermediaries or managers have established a firm foothold in the business, they set aside their original foreign employers and started their own business of recruiting coolies from the country.

These managers turned into coolie importers from coolie managers. With their own domestic relations and some unspeakable means, they quickly monopolized the local Chinese labor import business.

These coolie importers joined forces to build a series of clubs in San Francisco in accordance with their native hometowns, and then borrowing from the form of the Chinese Association.

These clubs will recruit laborers in their hometowns and sign “credit” contracts with these workers. When the coolie arrives in the United States, the first thing to do is to "register" as a member of the clubhouse and sign a clear debt agreement, and then the office will assign it to various labor contractors.

In addition to collecting repayment from the coolie, the club will also charge the corresponding "membership fee". At the same time, the hall will be responsible for the safety of the coolie's life, and provide medical and legal assistance. His body was sent home. Because the Guild Hall is the creditor of these coolies in law, if a coolie wants to buy a ticket to return to the country, he must obtain a debt settlement certificate issued by the Guild Hall, otherwise the shipping company will not sell the ticket to any coolie.

The clubhouse can earn a lot of money on every coolie. In addition to the previous credit and membership fees, they will also sell all kinds of daily commodities smuggled from China to the coolie. When clubs send money to their homes, they also charge an expensive "handling fee", and most industries that provide services to workers have clubs' "shares".

At the same time, the club also employs a group of professional thugs. In addition to the security of the club, these people are mainly responsible for monitoring and supervising the coolie. If someone escapes during work, these people will pursue them.

Those businessmen who sucked the blood and sweat of the coolie, in the eyes of the coolie, were all Jinshan squires with great virtue. There is no other reason because they are doing monopoly business. In addition to the local coolies, they refuse to recruit any foreigners. Therefore, over 90% of the Chinese coolies who came to the United States during that period were farmers from the two regions.

San Francisco has established more than a dozen clubs. After competition and annexation, it finally retained the six clubs of Sanyi, Gangzhou, Renhe, Yanghe, Ningyang, and Hehe. At that time, the hardship business in California was basically The six mansions are responsible for the above, and in the Chinese community, they can almost be regarded as covering the sky with only one hand.

But the good times didn't last long, and soon the situation changed, because a number of local social groups also followed up and broke out into the Golden Mountain.

Seeing a lot of mud legs rushing to Jinshan, many people returned with a pocket full of eagle ocean, how can those brave and cruel people in the rivers and lakes not feel upset.

Hongmen Zhigongtang was the first river and lake hall to show its name in the Americas. At this time, although Hongmen hung the "Anti-Qing Fuming" brand, it had already transformed into a pure river and lake gang.

Zhigongtang set an example for other dynamic social groups, and soon a variety of "tangkous" were established in the Chinese gathering area like mushrooms.

And the thugs of the six major companies were originally gang members, or they were not opponents of these professional gangs, and soon these halls lost control of the Chinese community, and Chinatown immediately fell into the era of gang wars. The Americans called this period "tangled fighting."

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