战乱不休使民国时期的河南乡村渐趋匪化,而这又直接促生了乡村的武力化,但这种乡村的动荡与匪化却使河南在近代化的进程中慢慢被甩在身后。何西亚在民国十四年(1925年)出版的《中国盗匪问题之研究》中说:河南向多大股土匪,自去年政变以后,陕豫间“胡憨之战”……牺牲良民, The endless war chaos caused the banditization of Henan villages during the Republican Period, which in turn directly aroused the force of rural areas. However, the turmoil and banditization in this country caused Henan to be left behind in the process of modernization. Hussein said in the study “China’s banditry issue” published in the fourteenth year of the Republic of China (1925): "To what extent should Henan bandit the bandits? After the coup last year,