In the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", Zuo Zongtang is recorded: "If you try to compare yourself with Zhuge Liang, people will be crazy." Hu Linyi urgently called it, saying that he had crossed Kyushu, and there was no one who was on the right. Forty years old, Gu Zhi said to himself: "If you don't dream of asking for it, you will not be lucky!" ”
150 years ago, Zuo Zongtang built a village in the mountains, but in 2019, there was only one family left in the village.
Deep in a large mountain in ningxia's Xihaigu region, there is a Majia Village, a village established more than 150 years ago when Zuo Zongtang moved some ethnic minorities to the Shaanxi-Gansu region when he pacified the Shaanxi-Gansu region.
But the strange thing is that Majia Village, which once lived with more than 4,000 villagers, has now only the old man's family living here, which has become a veritable "exclusive village". If we want to answer this question, we must start with Zuo Zongtang's recovery of Xinjiang and the suppression of the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu.
Zuo Zongtang argued for the recapture of Xinjiang
In 1866, Zuo Zongtang, a general of the Xiang Army, was instructed by the imperial court to go to Shaanxi and Gansu to quell the riots. In 1873, under the fierce attack of the Xiang Army, Suzhou was breached, Ma Wenlu surrendered, and the 7-year-long Hui people's rebellion ended.
After pacifying the Shaanxi-Gansu region, Zuo Zongtang began to work on the recovery of the Xinjiang region, and Zuo Zongtang wrote to the imperial court, pointing out that "if you want to harvest Ili, you must first conquer Urumqi."
In the face of Zuo Zongtang's letter, the imperial court did not reply, because at this time, the imperial court was caught in the consideration of "coastal defense" or "sai defense". The conservatives advocated abandoning the border defense line, going all out to build coastal defense, and using the money and food for the withdrawal of troops as food for coastal defense.
On the other hand, the radical faction headed by Zuo Zongtang advocates attaching equal importance to coastal defense and Cypriot defense, because if Xinjiang is not recovered, then the Shaanxi-Gansu region will be contained for a long time, and it will promote Russia's arrogance, and in time, it will become a major hidden danger.
Under the arguments of Zuo Zongtang and others, in 1875, Cixi appointed Zuo Zongtang as the minister of Chincha, overseeing the military affairs of Xinjiang and preparing for the recovery of Xinjiang.
In April of the following year, Zuo Zongtang led 70,000 Huxiang disciples from Lanzhou to launch an attack on the Agubai army occupying northern Xinjiang, and two years later, the entire territory of Xinjiang was recovered, and the remnants of the Agubai army fled to the territory of Czarist Russia, which was the most important event in the history of the late Qing Dynasty. It can be said that without the left, there is no Xinjiang.
The village became an exclusive village, like an abandoned archaeological remain
After Zuo Zongtang regained Xinjiang, he moved part of the Hui ethnic group in the Shaanxi-Gansu region, as well as ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region, to the Xihaigu region and built a village there. In Zuo Zongtang's recital, reports of the migration of people to the Xihaigu area can be seen everywhere. The village that Zuo Zongtang founded 150 years ago is now the exclusive village.
The exclusive zhuang can also be regarded as Tao Yuanming's ideal peach orchard. In fact, the exclusive village is a combination of three natural villages, including Xigou, Baizhuang and Wai'erwan. Today, the village is inhabited only by the old man's family, and if you are not on the table, you will think that you have arrived at the abandoned archaeological ruins.
Surprisingly, half of The Madhai family is actually a brick and tile house, while the earthen embryo house next to it has not been demolished. Ask him to know that the earthen house was built eighty years ago, which can be said to be almost half the history of waist bay, and when it is demolished, there is no thought.
In the whole village, only the courtyard of the Ma family can still see the smell of fireworks inhabited by humans, the grass stacks are high and neat, and the large trees have not been trimmed and have long been covered by the sun.
The other villagers in Majia Village gradually moved away, leaving only the Ma Dehai family to stay
According to the old man, majia village originally lived in other villagers, but due to the barren land here and the steep mountain and the low amount of rain, only when the rain is good can they eat a full meal a year. Later, the ecological migration, the whole village people left, they all moved to the plain area in the north of Ningxia. In the end, only their family was still left behind, not only because he was attached to this place, but also because he had been a village cadre for thirty years.
Now the telecom base station has also been dismantled, there is no signal, and the exclusive village has become an isolated island, going around and around, and returning to the appearance of the ancestors. The old ma dehai family, because of the intellectual problems of their two sons, it is difficult to live in the city, so they did not move with the villagers, but chose to continue to live here.
The Ma Dehai family lives a pure ecological life, the family has more than a dozen cattle, but also their own bees, farming, if there is a harvest, they will use three wheels to go out to sell, the problem of eating can be solved, that is, a few grandchildren and granddaughters have to go to the mountain to borrow. Madhay said that in a few years, when the children are older and go to college, they may not come back, and then the village will really end.
brief summary
With the change of the times, people must also learn to look forward. The village established 150 years ago may have been a good place for the villagers to live and work in peace and contentment at that time, but now it is not, especially after the villagers in Majia Village gradually moved away, hoping that the Ma Dehai family can integrate into other more advanced places as soon as possible.
Reference: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty