"Three Provinces Border Defense", fourteen volumes, (Qing) Yan Ruxuan.
Yan Ruxian (1759~1826), also known as Bingwen, was a native of Suting and Paradise, Hunan. In his early years, he studied at Yuelu Academy, studied the study of astronomy, martial arts, public opinion maps, and xingbu, Qianlong entered Hunan in the sixty years to patrol the Jiang Sheng shogunate, helping him to quell the rebellion of the Miao people in Guizhou, Jiaqing five years to raise filial piety and honesty, the court tested the policy, and said that the three provinces of Sichuan, Chu, and Shaanxi were strategyd, and the Jiaqing Emperor was ranked first. Later, he served as an envoy to Xunyang Zhi County, Tongzhi Zhili Prefecture, Hanzhong Prefecture, Shaanxi'an Province, and Shaanxi Province. He is the author of "Foreign Defense", "Miao Defense", "TunFang Book", "Three Provinces and Mountains", "Hanzhong FuZhi", "Paradise Poetry Collection" and so on. The Draft History of the Qing Dynasty has been passed down.
This book is preceded by Yan Daoguang II (1822) "Introduction to the Defense of the Inner Mountains of the Three Provinces", which says that in the mountainous areas bordering Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Hubei Provinces, there are many people living in the three Chu, Two Guangdong, Yunnan, and Qianliu migrations, and the imperial court is defensive and stricter than elsewhere. In the spring and summer of the first year of Daoguang (1821), the borders of the three provinces of Chakan traveled everywhere, and worked with the kings for a long time, dongda border affairs, consultation, on the experience, mutual reference, is in line with the "Terroir Magazine" and "Road Examination", adding that those who have never seen or heard in the past and have not thought about it, compiled into the book "Preparation".
The scope of the book is mainly to prevent the rebellion of the people here, covering HanzhongFu, Xing'anFu, Shangzhou in Shaanxi, BaoningFu, Suidingfu in Sichuan, Kuizhou, Yunyangfu in Hubei, Yichangfu and other places, and the whole book is divided into ten sections: public opinion map, road, waterway, dangerous point, people's food, mountain goods, military system, strategy, history, and art and literature.
There are fourteen maps in the first volume, including the general map of the border between Sichuan and Shaanxi Lake, the map of the border junction and the danger map, the map of Dingyuan in Ningyuan Nanzhuo Xixiang, and the map of the Baihe River in Ankang Pingli Ziyang Xunyang. Among them, the risk map is the most detailed, marking out the risk requirements of each place, and attaching instructions. From this, we can see the situation of transportation and military use in this area of the Qing Dynasty.
Volumes 2 and 3 are road examinations, which describe the land routes in this area, with the county as the center, and record the detailed mileage, the places passed, the dangerous places along the way and the use of the roads, not only recording the main roads, but also detailing the mountain paths, which is particularly valuable.
Subsequently, he also attached the "Diary of the Public Camp of Ewei Yong", which was a diary of the travels of the Minister erle Dengbao to and from the borders of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Chu, from the first two days of May in the third year of Jiaqing to the fifth day of December in the seventh year of Jiaqing, starting from Xiangyang and ending in Mao'erba in Zhuxi County.
The two categories of waterways and risks are detailed in the places where rivers in this area pass and where the dangers are in various places, while the two types of people's food and mountain goods detail the water conservancy, crops, products, people's livelihood and wood factories, salt factories, iron mills, paper mills, etc., and there are also detailed accounts of population movements, which can provide practical examples for the migration of Jiangxi to Huguang and the filling of Lakes in Sichuan during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
It is also remembered that the mountainous areas are used for incense, round ton, sun, God, white lotus religion and so on.
In the military system category, it is also recorded that the Strategies used by the Qing Army to suppress civil unrest in this area are also described, including the strategy of collecting sentry, the strategy of marching in the valley, the strategy of establishing a table, the strategy of guarding against the guards, the strategy of rectification, the strategy of ambushing soldiers, the strategy of placing wounded soldiers, the strategy of ambushing camps, the strategy of martial law for victory, and the strategy of being prepared for military preparation.
The history theory class collects and summarizes the experience of using troops in this area and its comments in the past, and is also quite detailed.
This book is centered on the border of the three provinces, not limited to one province, one government and one place, with the prevention of civil unrest and the use of troops in mountainous areas as the main eye, and all the records are personally experienced, so the historical value is quite high. The "Continuation of the Four Libraries complete book" is photocopied according to the Qingdao lithography book collected by the Tianjin Library and included in the geography category of the History Department.