The next morning, the sky was clear. Yue Guanchao and the others arrived at the pier early. When they arrived, Taoist Jin and Monk Hua were already standing at the pier. Seeing that Zhu Fushun's family was also there, they simply got on her boat to talk.
After getting on the boat and chatting in detail, Ma Yanghua heard that they were going to Jiangyong County and that they were looking for the solution to Nushu. She basically understood what was going on: "Jiangyong County is further away than Huayuan County. It is located at the junction of Xiang Province and Hunan Province. One county spans two provinces. If Yueyang is at the northernmost point, Jiangyong County is basically at the southernmost point of Hunan Province. It is thousands of miles apart. There are mountainous areas in the southwest. You have to take the Xiangjiang River and cross the Xiangshui River. Ashore on the Yongming River."
"How about you take us with you? After all, let's get to know each other a little better, how about that?" Ma Yanghua nodded: "That's for sure. Let's not mention that this is business for now. Just our friendship, we have to I will take you on this journey and we will take you out after we finish processing the fish." Ma Yanghua and Zhu Fushun knew that they were in a hurry to find Nushu, so they sold all the fish in the morning and took them out of Dongting Lake before noon. Transfer to Xiangjiang River and head to Jiangyong County.
...Thousands of mountains and thousands of waves. After leaving Dongting, they sailed into the Xiangjiang River and sailed vertically through Hunan Province. They were getting closer and closer to Jiangyong County. The trip passed through many mountainous bays. By the time they reached Mengzhu Ridge, it was already three days later.
After leaving Shacheng, the capital of Hunan Province, we walked 500 miles southwest to reach Yongming County, which is bordered by Jianghua County to the east, Fuchuan County to the south, Gongcheng County to the west, and Guanyang County to the north. The intersection between the two provinces can be said to be a step across the two provinces. If you take a boat on the Yongming River, you will accidentally leave the province and enter Guangxi.
If there is anything worth talking about in Jiangyong County in modern times, it is the deeds done in Jiangyong County during the Taiping Army uprising.
Back then, after King Hong Tian's uprising, he went all the way from Jintian Village to Hunan Province to break out of the siege. The previous government did not take it seriously.
After all, this Hong Tianwang was just a scholar at that time, and he was a scholar with a burned head. He had never heard of the Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, etc., and besides, he was making trouble in the ravines.
The previous dynasty believed that this was just a few farmers with beggars and homeless people messing around. There was no need to use regiment training and camp soldiers at all. It only needed a few brave men to break up the team. As long as they were willing to admit guilt, the culprit should be beheaded. The heads were beheaded, and the rest of the refugees were released after being appeased.
How did they know that poor mountains and rivers breed unruly people, and the harder they are to survive, the more unscrupulous and fierce they become. Although these farmers don't know a few Chinese characters, they are all cunning and slippery farmers. They know too well that the common people have become dissatisfied with the corrupt government. Hate to the core.
As long as someone fanned the flames and waved flags and shouted, these refugees would respond and rise up collectively.
Of course, their rebellion is a serious crime of beheading, and they cannot say that they want to be the emperor of the country. They should at least cover up their purpose. If they are unknown, they will inevitably be discouraged.
Therefore, King Hongtian pretended to claim that Heavenly Father has descended to earth to appear, and packaged himself as obeying Heavenly Father's will to save the suffering. The people really believed this, with God's will and the slogan of benefiting the people, once the banner was launched , immediately like a raging fire cooking oil, the situation became out of control.
At that time, the officials of the previous dynasty used to deceive the superiors and deceive the subordinates. The county deceived the state, the state deceived the government, and once deceived the Jinluan Palace. The seriousness of this farce reached the official's expense, and it was constantly weakened, and finally turned into a riot for the victims. At that time, the old queen of the previous dynasty was young and widowed and had seized power. She was in high spirits. Seeing that it was just a small disturbance, she just asked the nearby Dao County to mobilize some bravery to quell the chaos.
Little did she know that this was no ordinary civil unrest, and she thought it could be suppressed as easily as before. Until the Taiping Army captured several counties in the Western Province and even reached the border of Hunan Province, the Empress Dowager, who had been widowed for several years in the capital, , and then I came back to my senses - these peaceful and chaotic people still have something to offer.
After that, the ministers involved in concealing the situation kept their heads high while also guarding against the Taiping Army. They lined up their troops on the border of Hunan Province to surround the advancing Taiping Army and did not allow them to break through.
At this time, King Hong Tian had just occupied Yongming County, which is now Jiangyong County. They had spent a lot of troops to pass the pass and attack the city. If they fought again in a short time, they would inevitably be unable to catch up. Seeing the terrain of Yongming County It is flat and surrounded by two ridges, so it is most suitable for defense, so we simply set up camp here to defend the army.
Here, on the one hand, he minted peace money to restore order, and on the other hand, under the banner of rescuing the suffering, he gathered refugees, bandits, bandits, and various religions in the south, gathered various princes, and broke through the defense line here. It was also here that he enriched the harem. More than thirty concubines were canonized.
These concubines were completely different from the empresses in the Forbidden City. They were concubines in peacetime, and they could even lead troops to fight in wartime. It was they who organized their local women, and used their status as good wives and the mystery of Nvshu to deliver numerous gifts to the Taiping Army. With little information, the officers and soldiers outflanked to no avail, and the Taiping Army finally broke out.
After that, the Taiping Army became even more powerful, conquering Jinling and establishing the Taiping Kingdom. It can be said that Yongming County’s contribution is particularly great. If not for this, King Hong Tian would not have minted any Taipingnu money here to circulate among the people. Since then, Yongming County has been targeted by the government, and like Hunan Province, it has ushered in a crackdown. The era when bandit suppression was the most severe.
Until after the Republic of China, this place had not recovered its vitality. There were more women than men. The reason was that when the bandits were suppressed, all the men who should be killed had already been killed. If there were any remaining men, they were either old, weak or disabled.
"The ridge in front of us is called Mengzhu Ridge. It is a huge mountain ridge in the east of Jiangyong County. If you cross the ridge, you will reach the plains in the county with many rivers. It is not until we reach the southwest end of Jiangyong County that Dupan Ridge appears again. , Apart from this, there are no other mountains in the county. It spans two provinces at one foot, with three mountains sandwiched between plains and plains. There are mountains, hills, hills and flats, and there are about 800 peaks, large and small." When Zhu Fushun spoke, he was already talking. As they drove into the Yongming River near Mengzhu Ridge, the large and small peaks were like green snails. Under the smoke, the green mountains surrounded the green water and the misty rivers had a rich and beautiful color.
The middle part of the Yongming River is Jiangyong County, where most of the houses are Ma Tou houses with gray tiles and white walls. Countless rivers and tidal flats divide the county and villages, giving it a unique southwest scenery.
"This place is known as Jiangnan in the mountains. Dozens of rivers in the entire county divide the plains in the mountains. There are tidal flats everywhere. Although it is in the mountains, there are no dangerous mountains and dangerous waters in the southwest. It is like the Jiangnan Plain surrounded by three rivers." , they skipped the port of Jiangyong County and drove into Huangtian Town in the west of the county!
Here, it faces the Yongming River with Dupang Ridge as its back, and is sheltered by low mountains and high hills on both sides. The small river beach is dotted with farmhouses, and the horse-head gabled houses are mostly distributed along the phoenix-claw-shaped curved bank of the river beach, with colorful purples and reds everywhere. , willows are green and blue, it is completely a quiet pastoral.
