Deep in a mountain in Ningxia's Xihaigu region, there is Majia Village, a village established more than 150 years ago when Zuo Zongtang moved some ethnic minorities to the Shaanxi-Gansu region.
But what is strange is that Majia Village, which once lived in more than 4,000 villagers, is now only inhabited by the elderly Ma Dehai family, which has become a veritable "exclusive village". If we want to answer this question, we have to start with Zuo Zongtang recovering Xinjiang and quelling the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu.
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After quelling the Shaanxi-Gansu Hui rebellion, Zuo Zongtang began the recovery 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 rebellion, and in 1873, under the fierce attack of the Xiang Army, Suzhou was breached, and ma Wenlu, the leader of the Huimin Army, surrendered, and with the attack of Suzhou, it marked the end of the 7-year-long Huimin riot. After pacifying the Shaanxi-Gansu region, Zuo Zongtang began to work on the recovery of the Xinjiang region, and in March of the same year, Zuo Zongtang wrote to the imperial court, pointing out that "if you want to take Ili (which has been occupied by Tsarist Russia at this time), you must first conquer Urumqi."
In the dispute between coastal defense and Cypriot defense, Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang argued on the basis of reason
In the face of Zuo Zongtang's letter, the imperial court did not reply to him, because at this time the imperial court was in a dispute between "coastal defense" and "Sai defense", and the conservatives led by Li Hongzhang 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 the salary for coastal defense. On the other hand, the radical faction led by Zuo Zongtang advocated attaching equal importance to coastal defense and Sai defense, because if Xinjiang was not recovered, the Qing army in the Shaanxi-Gansu region would be contained for a long time, and the withdrawal of the Enemy in Sai Against advancing and retreating would encourage Russia's arrogance, and in time, it would become a major hidden danger.
Left Li Hongzhang, right left Zongtang
After recovering Xinjiang, Zuo Zongtang moved ethnic minorities to Xihaigu and established villages
Under the arguments of Zuo Zongtang and others, in 1875, Cixi appointed him as the minister of Chincha, overseeing the military affairs of Xinjiang and preparing for the recovery of Xinjiang. In April 1876, Zuo Zongtang led 70,000 Xiang 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 exuberant event in the history of the late Qing Dynasty.
After Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, he moved part of the Hui in the Shaanxi-Gansu region and ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region to the Xihaigu area, and built a village here.
Nowadays, this village only has the old man's family living here, according to the old man, Ma Jia village originally lived in other villagers, but here the land is thin, the mountain is steep and the amount of rain is small, only when the rain is good, can eat enough to eat, and then the ecological migration, the whole village people are gone, they all moved to the plain area in the north of Ningxia, and the old man's family, because of their two sons have intellectual problems, it is difficult to live in the city, so they did not move with the villagers, but continued to live here.