.1922 To 1932 Hebei Province, Banditry And Its Causes

The extension of bandits activities in the He Bei province is 1922-1932, especially in the neighborhood of foundation of He Bei province. The area of He Bei include the area of He Bei province at present. The bandits activities in this area had already been existed in the foundation of Zhong Hua Min Guo. The bandits activities had already been existed since 1922. The wars was broke out repeatedly in the middle of Bei Yang warlords , for example, the war of Zhi Wan and two wars of Zhi Wan in the area of He Bei. The banditry was depravation increasingly. The banditry in the area of Jing Jin was caused by lamasters that caused by chaos of war in a sense. Most bandits in the middle and south He Bei province were members of confraternities. Most bandits in the north of He Bei province were the integrated members of bandits of Liao Ning province and the rascals in this area. The demotic life conditions was sharply deteriorated by calling up and forcing of garrison in the basic of exorbitant taxes and levies. This pricked up the course of people's brit idism. Nature disasters taken place frequently at the same time, especially flood and neighbor provinces' bandits, were an important factor in the rampant brigandism of He Bei area. The number of per gang bandits was about twenty, the number of gang bandits in the areas of other provinces nearby was more thanthat in the inland in quantitatively. The number above 1000 was seldom. The member of gang bandits' age was about 20-40. The banditry research was blank in the historical research of He Bei province. At the same time this special topic is a society history's important contents. The existence of bandits was never evasive facts. The influence of banditry was very comprehensive from life to politic, economy; from rustic to city. Though the attention of banditry research, we could study and learn all senses of Min Guo society. And this special topic also has much more positive realistic significance. Organizing crime and gangsterdom crime move up obviously. Professor Cai Shaoqing, a confraternity specialist on gangsterdoms, said that the members of gangsterdoms had already been over 1 million all over our country since at present when a China News Web reporter visited him. The research on gangsterdoms make very clear that the existent gangsterdoms are very similar to that in the past about organizing, makeup, form, activity, specialty and the spot of brigandism. The representations and configurations of gangsterdoms, such as secret comfraternities, secret factions, sea rovers, gangs of brigands, bandits, robbers, rapparee, and other evil organizations, are extremely kindred and conspicuous heritability to that in modern. This research discipline has a great irresistible magnetism.