Chinese architectural culture is broad and profound, extraordinary, and very strong, such as the Great Wall, used for more than 2,000 years still standing, Dujiangyan, is a historical miracle. In the small mountain village below, the Taiping Army and the Twist Army were discouraged, and the bandits did not dare to peek, that is, the Japanese army attacked for 3 days and did not fight down, and its designers are still confused.
This mountain village is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, In Henan Province, the name is Zhuwa Village, this village actually looks like a castle, all built of red striped stones, surrounded by tall and strong walls. The village is said to be buried with great wealth, so after the construction was completed, it was first visited by bandits, and finally beaten head-hugging rats. Later, the Twist army and the Taiping Army dared to come again and fought for a few days without moving. Finally, the Japanese army invaded China, which fought for 3 consecutive days and finally failed. Many people will ask, what kind of village is this, such a cow?
Speaking of its construction, there is also a wonderful story, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qiugui, the last king of Jin, a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, ran to the current Zhuwa Village in order to avoid being pursued, which was deserted and very remote, so he settled here. Zhu Zifeng, a descendant of the Zhu family during the Daoguang years, said that this Zhu Zifeng became the salt transport envoy of the Three Pins of the Qing Dynasty through the imperial examination, and at that time, guan salt was the fattest shortage in the world.
Zhu Zifeng relied on this to accumulate a huge amount of property, and his brother Zhu Zigui and Zhu Ziyun also became the leading salt merchants, and the three of them quickly accumulated huge assets together. In order to prevent red-eyed people from peeking into their own property, coupled with the bandits running rampant at that time. Therefore, Zhu Zifeng decided to build a strong fortress to protect himself. Therefore, in 1834 AD, Zhu Zifeng found a mysterious design master to design this castle, according to the choice of "step by step fortification, easy to defend and difficult to attack".
First of all, to create an incredibly strong outer wall, it is said that the outer wall of 1100 meters alone cost 3.3 million taels of silver. Inside this wall is the current Zhuwa Village. Second, the village is fortified step by step, for example, outside the village you can not see the situation inside the village in any way, because the road inside the village and the existence of the outside of the village at an angle of 120 degrees, the enemy of the unknown situation will encounter street battles inside. Moreover, there are many alleys in the village, but they are all T-shaped dead ends, and it is easy for the enemy to come in and out.
Moreover, the doors and windows of each household are very strong, and there are special shooting holes. In addition, 72 forts were set up at each pass in the village, and the artillery fire could be described as very dense. In order to prevent the enemy from digging tunnels, at the beginning of construction, 19 layers of solid red stone were laid under the foundation, which the enemy could not dig and so on. In addition to these measures, just in case, once the village is breached, it does not matter, because there are 3 wells in the village, which lead directly to the outside of the village and are used to escape.
The construction time of this village alone took nearly 30 years, and tens of millions of taels of silver were spent, which shows the amount of money of the Zhu family brothers. After the completion of the construction, it is like an iron wall of copper, impregnable. As a result, they were attacked by bandits, the Twist army and the Taiping army, but none of them were able to enter the village. In 1945, the Japanese army wanted to capture the village as a military base, helplessly led a large group of men and horses, for 3 consecutive days of combat, failed to fight, the village is still unmoving. In the end, you can only take a detour.
It is worth pointing out that such a cattle village was almost demolished, and in the 50s, the movement to demolish the city wall arose, but just when people went to dismantle, a mudslide occurred, but the solid city wall successfully blocked the mudslide and saved the village, so in the future, in the safety consideration, it was not demolished again, and it was preserved. But the designers of this Village have been a mystery for hundreds of years.