As the saying goes, "Pifu is innocent of his guilt", a person is not at fault, but he has a treasure, it has become a fault, a 79-year-old man in Hunan encountered such an embarrassing thing.
The 79-year-old Hunan man named Yi Shaobai was just an obscure ordinary old man before he took out the heirloom, but when he took out the heirloom, it immediately caused a sensation.
The heirloom that Yi Shaobai took out was not a gold and jade calligraphy painting, but a silver-plated waist plate, but this waist plate was not ordinary, but a waist plate of the general soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, and there were only more than 80 pieces of the entire Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty only had more than 80 general soldiers.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty had more than 600,000 troops, and the total number of soldiers was only more than 80, which showed the preciousness of this kind of waist card, and the waist plate used by the general soldiers to mobilize soldiers and horses was a bit similar to the familiar tiger symbol.
How big was the general soldier in the Qing Dynasty? This official position appeared at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in the event of war, there were generals assigned by the imperial court to lead the troops, and appointed them as the chief soldiers, but the general soldiers were generally the emperor's cronies.
With the change of the times, by the time of the Wanli Emperor, the system of general soldiers and town guards had developed to the localities, and had become a relatively fixed military officer official position, and its official titles were general soldier of conquest, general of town guard, and general of training troops patrolling borders.
Later, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the system of general soldiers was inherited by the Qing Dynasty, and it was developed and more grades were established, generally the general soldiers were the high officials of ZhengErpin, and their subordinates were more than tens of thousands of people, so it seems that Yi Shao Baizu was still a great general.
According to Yi Shaobai, this waist plate belonged to his great-grandfather's uncle, who said that his ancestors were once the Xiang Army, and in the records of the Yi family tree, there were many people in his ancestors who served as officials under Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang.
Among them, the largest official position was his ancestor Yi Delin, the official to the viceroy, and Yi Shaobai's sixth ancestor Yi Zhenyou, who was posthumously awarded the title of General of Yipin Jianwei, but this waist plate of his ancestors was his uncle Yi Wenguang.
According to the old man Yi Shaobai and the historical data, during the Sino-Japanese War, the Xiang army participated in the fourth counter-attack on Haicheng, and in this counter-offensive, the Xiang army fought bravely in the face of a rain of bullets and bullets.
In a battle in the middle and lower reaches of the Liao River, the two sides fought fiercely for 6 days, due to the advanced weapons of the Japanese army, the Qing army weapons were old and invincible, and finally the Sino-Japanese War ended in the defeat of the Qing Dynasty, after the signing of the "Maguan Treaty", Yi Wenguang resigned and returned to his hometown.
Since then, this piece of the general soldier's waist plate has been handed down, when the museum experts saw this heirloom, they strongly recommended that Yi Shaobai hand it over, but Yi Shaobai said, If it is handed over to you, I am ashamed of the ancestors! The experts were silent.