Introduction: In July of the ninth year of the Guangxu Dynasty (1883 AD), in Fanjiaba of the Xuanhui River, villagers in Cangxian County and Dongguang County, Directly under the province of Cang, in order to dig the embankment and release water, an unprecedented large-scale weapon fight occurred, killing 49 people and disabling 84 people, creating the "Fanjiaba Massacre" that shocked the government and the opposition. This case was recorded in the "Nanpi County Chronicle", "Dongguang County Chronicle" and "Chronicle of Modern Chinese History", and also recorded a heavy stroke.
In the ninth year of Guangxu, from the beginning of the summer, this old god had an old face. The rain was like a big water tank that leaked water, and it didn't end when it rained. Two days a small, five days a big one. Straight down the ditch full of flat trenches, home leaking rain. This is not to count, from one into July, one is three days and three nights, this is amazing, on both sides of the Xuanhui River, there is a vast ocean everywhere!
At this time, the water on the Taihang Mountain also came down. Rolling waves flow east. The South Canal at the mouth of the Zhao family in Dongguang County was even worse, and the "uproar" suddenly broke its mouth, and Dongguang County suddenly became a piece of Zeguo.
Eighteen villages, such as The Yuanliu Temple, which is located in the middle of the great depression in the lower reaches of the Xuanhui River, have a deep enough water, and the villages are surrounded by floods, and the large kilns that burn bricks in the depressions are only exposed with a sharp tip. In order to protect the family, the villages and villages have blocked the protection of the village, which is higher than the house, and there are shacks everywhere, and all the men in the village have moved to live on the village and patrolled day and night. Just in case.
In order to drain the flood in the middle of the big depression, only the Xuanhui River in the north of the depression is left!
Xuanhui River is a boundary river between Cangxian and Dongguang Counties, with a long history, disrepair, and serious siltation. The southern section of Fanjiaba is even more dangerous. Henan and Hebei are all In the Dawa area. Hebei is Bojiawa connected to Li Gaojiawa, and Henan is The Yuanliu Temple Zijiawa. Five or six miles downstream, there is the Jinshaling Area, which is high and steep, and the riverbed is shallow and narrow, becoming a throat and not venting well. In the upper reaches of the Xuanhui River, Dezhou, Wuqiao, and Dongguang, all of which have accumulated water, all converge here, and the vicious waves roll and roll, and when the flood arrives here, it is like a tiger that has just entered the cage, spinning left and right, rampage.
If the north bank breaks the embankment, the thirty-six villages around Fanjia, Bojia and LiGaojia will be a vast ocean, and the 240 Dingshui villages and 120 Pingshui villages in Cangxian, Xinhai and Yanshan in the lower reaches will all be soaked in water. If the south embankment breaks, more than 250 villages on the south bank will be flooded, and the villages in the eighteen large depressions such as the Dongxiyuanliu Temple will be even worse!
In the early years, in order to solve the problem of water accumulation in Yuanliu Temple and Yujiawa, eighteen villages on the south bank contributed to the work and dug a drainage river that led directly to the Xuanhui River. Nowadays, the river is full of embankments and inverts, and the situation is extremely grim! As a result, the villagers on the south bank began to brew to open the north embankment and discharge water from the original Road of the Ma Xi River.
Originally, in the village of Fanjia in Hebei Province, there was a horse cheek river old road to the north, which had long been a fertile field at this time due to the diversion of the river in the early years.
Villagers on the north bank broke the embankment of the Old Road of the Majie River to prevent the Xuanhui River, and a tall dam was built here. At present, if this embankment is safe and sound, hundreds of villages downstream such as Li Gaojiawa on the north bank will be foolproof, but dozens of villages on the south bank will suffer from flooding.
The Fanjia has become an inevitable and inevitable fuse for both sides!
Dong Kang Enbo of Dongyuanliu Temple Village decided to drain the water from the embankment.
Kang Enbo was in his forties, not very tall, and a rich man in the area around Genliu Temple. He had been in private school for a few years, was literate and hyphenated, could speak the Tao, and was quite shrewd. He felt that this water could not go down for ten days and half a month. To protect the homeland, we must open the north embankment. to drain the flood. So, I got on a small boat and connected it from village to village. He first came to Xiyuanliu Temple and found the village chief Gao Lichen.
Gao Lichen is in his fifties and is good at giving advice. He was a senior in the village and spoke very well. He also had this intention for the discharge of the levee, but he hesitated with a beard. Gao Lichen thought farther than Kang Enbo. Twelve years ago, the Xuanhui River flooded. Villager Gao Erniu crossed the river with forty or fifty people to pick up the embankment, resulting in one death and two injuries, and the lawsuit was fought for two years, but there was no result. At present, the villagers on the north bank have reinforced the levee, and there are people defending it day and night. Once the fight starts again, the consequences are unimaginable! Gao Lichen said his worries with his beard and advised Kang Enbo not to be reckless, and the total was added up.
Connpo's resolve has been determined. Seeing that Gao Lichen had concerns, he did not force it, and rowed a small boat to Li's house, Zhang Baguan, Zheng Ji, Xiao Wu's family and other villages.
There are two brothers in Xiaowu Family Village, Cui San-sho and Cui Si-sho, both of whom have worked in the Yousheng Dart Bureau and are very good at martial arts. Hearing that they wanted to release water from the embankment, the two of them patted their chests and promised Kang Enbo that if they really did it, the two brothers would not give up, and they would also organize fifty brothers who knew martial arts to fight the vanguard, and the other villagers saw that the rich man Kang took the lead in organizing the embankment, and the crowd was excited, and they also followed the coaxing, preferring to be beaten to death rather than drown alive!
Connpo was very pleased. He ran for three days, all over eighteen villages on the south bank, and the villagers were willing to go with him. Kang Enbo immediately invited the village directors of these villages to Xiyuanliu Temple, and once again found the village director Gao Lichen. Seeing that the matter had reached this point, Gao Lichen coughed, smashed a fist into the palm of his hand, and made his final determination: "Dry! ”
This time, the levee is extraordinary, and the lessons of twelve years ago must be remembered. Immediately, Gao Lichen wore a beard and summed it up with everyone. He sent someone to find the high school bald man and the big pants stall, and asked them to dress up as fortune tellers and asked Iiko to go to the north shore to inquire about the situation. After the event, each person is rewarded with a donkey.
Moreover, Fanjia Village, Li Gaojia and other villages on the north bank saw that the water was huge this year, and in order to prevent the embankment, they desperately strengthened the embankment. There were many people on the north bank, and all of them worked together to strengthen the entire north embankment to the thickness of several rooms. In order to prevent the villagers on the south bank from crossing the river and picking up the embankment, the villagers of these villages voluntarily organized a berm team, which was composed of young and strong boys who knew martial arts, and each village guarded the berm for one day, taking turns to berm. In order to prevent unexpected situations, a bull leg cannon was installed on the embankment of the Xuanhui River, and a pile of firewood and grass was piled up, called "Beacon Tower", and each village also had a similar beacon tower. In order to prevent the fire from raining, the berm team also has a large gong and a fast horse, and in case of emergency, it will sound the gong as a trumpet, and there are also special personnel in each village to perform this matter, and the organization can be described as strict and meticulous.
In addition, Henan's high school sophomore bald man and the big pants stall, after receiving the order, immediately set off. Riding a donkey, the second bald man of high school detoured through Takahashi Village, crossed the river from the bridge, and sneaked into the village they were going to with the big pants stall.
When the two of them came to the north bank of the river, their hearts were cold. All the villages on the north bank are prepared, and if the organization is not good, they will suffer a big loss! After half a day of moving around the Wuma camp and Li Gao's house, the two went to Fanjia Village separately. They want to go to the dam to have a look. In order to choose the specific location of the levee.
It was also a coincidence that the person on duty at the dam that day was Li Gaojia's flying gun Li Liuyi's group. Li Liu was in his early thirties, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, as strong as a bull. This person has learned martial arts since childhood, and his martial arts are very proficient, within a hundred steps, he takes people with flying guns and shoots a hundred shots.
The second bald man came to the dam and chattered with the people guarding the dam, trying to give people a count, but his eyes kept looking east and west. As soon as the flying gun Li Liu came from the second bald man of high school, he felt that he was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere. Asked which village he was from, the high school bald man claimed to be from Wang Zhuang in Nanpi County, and the flying gun Li Liu suddenly recognized the high second bald man. That year, Liu Zhuang's relatives married a daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law was from Xiyuanliu Temple, he went with the ceremony, and arranged with the palanquin to accompany the wine and eat at a table, and there was this high school bald man among the palanquins, he was clearly from the Xiyuanliu Temple, how could he say that it was Nanpi Wangzhuang? Looking at that look again, it was even more wrong. At this moment, the flying gun Li Liu suddenly realized something: Could it be that he was a spy on the south bank and had come to inquire about the situation of the levee?
As soon as this thought came to mind, he immediately told his companions about his doubts. The crowd also felt that the high school bald man was like a traitor, not like a reckoner. He was immediately detained and asked to explain the purpose of coming to the North Shore.
The second high school bald man naturally refused to admit it, and when the flying gun Li Liu saw that he refused to tell the truth, he tied him up to a tree and beat him up. The second bald man of high school really still has bones, and when he bites his teeth, he refuses to confess.
Speaking of the big crotch, he also came to the dam. In the distance, I saw a group of people arguing and shouting around the high school bald man punching and kicking. The crotch of the big pants was not good, and quickly smeared the soles of his feet with oil and slipped the number, and quickly went back to report to Gao Lichen Kang Enbo about the capture of the second bald man of high school.
After Gao Lichen and Kang Enbo heard the report of the big crotch, they felt that the situation was very serious at the moment. Once the high school sophomore bald man could not resist and confided the truth, the north shore was prepared. The levee plan will be ruined! The two discussed and decided: Immediately send someone to notify the eighteen villages and come to the Dongyuanliu Grand Temple to assemble.
After Gao Lichen and Kang Enbo arranged for people to come and inquire, they and the village directors of the eighteen villages summed up a specific plan for the embankment.
According to the number of people reported by the villages, there will be more than 2,000 people participating in the levee, and there will be far less boats, so it is decided to tie some rafts. The army of the levee was divided into two ways. A route crosses the river directly in the middle of the river, led by Kang Enbo's younger brother Kang Enquan; Detour all the way to Takahashi Village, cross the river from the bridge, led by two brothers, Cui San and Cui Si. The two brothers had already made good contact with the Nanxiang Martial Arts Museum, and specially invited forty martial arts masters to participate in the battle, and in order to prevent the north shore from shelling with ox legs, the river crossing boats set up "blocks" made of gate panels, and also set up large poles to defend themselves.
This time, the levee will be a fierce battle. In order to prevent the unexpected, they also agreed that all those who went to pick up the embankment would share the money according to the heads of the people, and one would give twenty hangings, and those who were injured would give a hundred hangings, and those who were killed would give four hundred hangings. The villages agreed. At the moment, each of them went back to the village to prepare.
It is said that soon after the village directors returned to the village to prepare, they received an urgent letter from the Genliu Temple. So the village directors copied the big gong, sounded the gong and gathered the crowd, brought the required objects, and gathered from all directions at the Dongyuanliu Grand Temple.
Here, Kang Enbo and Gao Lichen have laid out the incense case, and all the participants prostrate three heads each to pray for the blessing of the gods and succeed in picking the embankment. In order to facilitate the counting of people after the fact. There is also a basket in the temple, and all those who participate in the temple will each throw a copper coin (after counting the copper coins, a total of 1,576 coins). To prevent confusion, each participant was marked with a layer of white ash on the door of his head.
Kung Fu is not big, Li Roll's family is coming, Du Zhuang's is coming, Ban Da Wang's is coming... The Xiao Wu family is also coming!
This little Wu family's pickpocket team was different, only to see Cui San and Cui Si leading forty or fifty young men who knew martial arts, each with a bare backbone, each with a large blade, shining cold, tiger angry. Their task is not to directly pick up the embankment, but to charge the embankment for the pickpockets and be a good guard.
Their appearance has added courage and confidence to thousands of levees.
"Go—" With a command from Connpo. Thousands of people trapped by the flood, holding their homes, set off in a mighty way.
It was mid-afternoon.
Speaking of the North Shore Flying Gun Li Liu interrogated the high school bald man. When they saw that gao er bald zi would rather die than tell the truth, they tied him up in the Zhao family's house in the Fan family village.
The Zhao family's style house was opened by Zhao Geng and Zhao Wu brothers, and the apprentices came from all over the country, plus the local ones, a total of more than thirty people. Zhao Geng and Zhao Wu voluntarily took on the task of berm, he changed the martial arts team to a "death squad", made a note, and vowed to coexist and die with the dam!
Flying Gun Li Liu and the Zhao family brothers, both are martial artists, the relationship has always been very good, at present for the berm to protect the family, the interests are the same, but also the heart of the heart. Li Liu introduced the situation of the second bald man in high school with the Zhao family brothers and discussed with them what to do.
Zhao Geng was an acute child, seeing that Li Liu was right, he bit his teeth, and he had to let the high school bald man open his mouth. He had the high-school bald man stripped naked, hung him from the beam, and whipped him up with a piece of bamboo nailed to it. Without a few blows, the high school bald man could not stand it, and begged for forgiveness one after another, willing to do the truth...
When the flying gun Li Liu and the Zhao family brothers heard that the south bank was coming to pick up the embankment, they knew that it was not good, so they quickly sent people to each village to release the letter and make emergency preparations. At the same time, the strength of the berm was strengthened.
They never expected the South Shore to move so quickly.
The time value is half over. I saw countless small boats and rafts on the south shore. The first few larger ships were each set up with a few cannons, murderous, and plunged straight into the north shore.
The dam guards looked at the formation. Suddenly panicked, he immediately lit the firewood and grass on the "beacon platform", and then "banged" a large gong. As soon as the black smoke rose, the villages also responded immediately, and the village gongs sounded in one piece, and the villagers of the villages, armed with knives and guns, rushed to the Fanjia embankment as quickly as possible.
Speaking of Li Liu and others guarding the embankment, they saw that there were many people on the south bank, so they set up ox-legged cannons and opened fire. The ship's large lifting pole also rushed north. Without firing a few shots, I saw a thousand people from the Cui San-shogun style who had detoured from Takahashi, shouting and rushing over. Cui San's gang, clinging to Ming's big blade, murderous head before opening the way, dozens of people who had seen this kind of formation, knew that they could not resist, threw their legs and ran down the embankment, and the flying gun Li Liu also followed the embankment and went straight to the Zhao family's shogun-style room.
The two men and horses on the south bank came to the embankment as fast as they could, and everyone started to work together, wielding pickaxes and milling, and digging up. When they came to the embankment, they all made a clear division of labor, and the only thing that was taken care of the embankment was the embankment, and the guard was only guarded, in order to give the courage to dig the embankment. The guards also kept firing guns and cannons into the sky.
Moreover, after the flying gun Li Liu encountered the Zhao family's shogun house, Li Laosan, who was in the village, arrived with a hundred and ten people. Li Laosan is also a famous handle in the Cangnan area. When Li Liu saw the reinforcements coming, his little coat took off and said, "There is a kind of follow me!" "Rushed out with a big gun.
Zhao Geng and Zhao Wu took weapons in their hands, roared, and took more than thirty apprentices with them, and then rushed out.
All kinds of reinforcements are still gathering here like bees and ants, and there are tens of thousands of people.
Flying gun Li Liuyi took the lead, led the crowd straight to the embankment, and first fought with Cui San. Suddenly, the villagers on both sides of the Hebei River in Henan were killed in one place, guns and milling, chopping and rattling, screaming, and blood splashing.
At this time, the people on the north bank were gathering more and more, and the half-mile-long Fanjia Dam had become a battlefield, full of knives and blood, screaming.
In the melee between the two sides, only to hear someone shouting: "No, the officers and soldiers are coming!" ”
I saw dozens of fast horses running on the road. When the people on the south bank saw that the horse team was coming, they thought that the official family had arrived, and they immediately panicked, and they took the road to escape, jumping into the river, and the Bengao Bridge of the Bengao Bridge, and the chaos turned into a pot of porridge, at this time, the people on the north bank killed the red eyes and chased after them. Immediately, many people were drowned or died under knives, guns and sticks!
Some people want to ask: At this critical moment, how could the officers and men come?
In fact, the group of people and horses who came was not officers and soldiers, but the horse team of the Hou family of Taoyuan, a rich man in Nanpi County. The Hou family was engaged to the Liu family in Heilong Village today, and this group of people and horses was just passing through here when they came back from their business. Unexpectedly, I inadvertently helped the North Shore.
The villagers on the south bank were so confused that they couldn't take care of themselves, and they actually fled for their lives and suffered a big loss! Cui San was shot to death by the North Shore people with iron milling. Cui Si also died on the dam in the melee! On the dam more than half a mile long, but I saw corpses all over the ground, and the blood flowed like a river, which was unbearable to see!
The Fanjiaba massacre happened!
After the war, the number of people was counted, and forty-eight people were killed and eighty-four were disabled, of which the north shore was killed and ten were wounded, which obviously took advantage, and the Henan people suffered a big loss. Vow to avenge Snow Hate!
Kang Enbo and Gao Lichen cried in the face of such a large number of casualties. The two discussed that they would not hesitate to destroy their families and avenge the victims! Kang Enbo first sold a good plot of land in his family, and then the villages collected money, together with Gao Lichen, brought dry food, and directly reported it to Baoding Province.
At that time, Li Hongzhang was serving as the governor of Zhili, and seeing that such a major bloody case had occurred under his jurisdiction, he did not dare to slacken off, and hurriedly issued a warrant to order Cangzhou Prefecture to arrest Li Liu, Zhao Geng, Zhao Wu, Li Laosan, and others who took the lead in the battle.
Speaking of the north bank of the river, I saw that the dam was saved, and so many people were killed and injured on the south bank of the river. It was expected that the south bank would never give up, so he began to prepare for a big lawsuit.
At that time, there were also many people with heads and faces in several villages on the north bank of the river, and after selecting a few people as their representatives, the required expenses were shared equally among the villages according to the head. As expected. Three days later, a group of people and horses came from the government and arrested Li Liu, Li Laosan, Zhao Geng, and Zhao Wu.
Subsequently, the representative of the north bank sat in a big cart, pulled the silver money, and followed him to Baoding Province.
Above the court, the two sides exchanged words and swords, and did not give in to each other.
The first ascension to the church was fruitless.
In order to avenge the victims, Kang Enbo, Gao Lichen, and others made money up and down, hoping to bring Li Liu, Zhao Wu, and others to justice on the spot, so as to show this evil breath in their hearts.
The people on the North Shore are also well aware of the magic of money. I also made money up and down, hoping that the arrested people would be safely released, and it would not be resolved.
For a time, both sides raised money, and several officials who presided over the case suddenly swelled up.
The presiding judge felt that there was a lot of oil and water to be fished out of this case, so he did something about it. The people on the south shore sent more money, and they let the wind blow and sentenced the people on the north shore to death! The people on the north bank sent more money, so they let the wind blow, saying that the people on the north bank were justified in defense, and the people on the south bank crossed the river and picked up the embankment, looking for their own bad luck. The case dragged on.
Kang Enbo, Gao Lichen and others on the south bank, when they saw that this would not work, they thought of other ways.
Moreover, in Dongyuanliu Temple, there is a Xiucai named Kang Dachen, who is divided into two generations of Great Kang Enbo. Kangdachen Has a relative in Gaoyang County, who is a relative of Li Hongzao, the teacher of the current emperor. Li Hongzao is a native of Gaoyang. Kang Enbo, Gao Lichen and others deliberated and decided to put their strength on Li Hongzao and ask him to help. Therefore, with generous gifts and personal support, he went to beijing city.
Li Hongzao was the master of Shang Shufang at that time, and he was not only the teacher of the Guangxu Emperor, but also the teacher of the Tongzhi Emperor, with high seniority and great power. Li Hongzao heard that so many people had been killed and injured in the Fanjiaba massacre, and felt that the case was serious, and he did not want to intervene, first, to close the face of his relatives, and then to see that in the share of this generous gift, he asked Kang and Gao to write another document, and he presented it to the Guangxu Emperor. Tell them not to rush and wait slowly.
Speaking of the three deputies on the north bank, I heard that the people on the south bank entrusted their personal feelings to the Guangxu Emperor's teacher, and immediately found a relationship and asked Zhang Zhiwan, the minister of military aircraft of the Military Department, which was also related to Zhang Zhiwan's own interests.
Zhang Zhiwan is a native of Nanjie, Nanpi County, with a family of thousands of acres, and dozens of villages around Li Gao's family, almost all of which are tenants of the Zhang family. Interests are related, Zhang Zhiwan will not stand idly by.
For this murder, Zhang Zhiwan was cautious. He didn't want to intervene, thinking that Hebei and Henan were all hometown people after all, so why should they destroy one to one? When he heard that Li Hongzao had mixed in, Fang felt that the situation was complicated. Once the emperor listened to one side and ordered the excavation of the Fan family's levee, dozens of his tenant villages would have no grain, and tens of thousands of taels of grain would be paid in vain. After Zhang Zhiwan learned about these circumstances, he could no longer sit still, and immediately raised his pen to write a recital to Empress Dowager Cixi, which naturally excused the people on the north bank.
Moreover, Empress Dowager Cixi, after seeing Zhang Zhiwan's performance, handed it over to the current emperor to deal with, and went to see the drama herself. Zhang Zhiwan's recital quickly turned to the Guangxu Emperor's imperial case, and the Guangxu Emperor could do great trouble!
On one side is his own teacher, on the other hand is the current Lafayette's beloved subjects, both of whom are important ministers of today's imperial court, a pint of great members, and no one is easy to offend. If it is not handled properly, it is bound to cause a disagreement between the two ministers, which is unfavorable to the Qing Dynasty. But how to deal with this tricky case? The Guangxu Emperor had no idea for a moment. The fold was placed on the royal case for three days, and there was no holy judgment for a long time.
It's not a good idea to keep dragging it out! The Guangxu Emperor came and did not offend anyone, and pushed this thorny case to Li Hongzhang. Royal approval: "Li Aiqing handles it with full authority".
After Li Hongzhang received the holy will, he arranged the folds of the two ministers, Li Hongzao and Zhang Zhiwan, together, and couldn't help but sneer. One is the emperor's teacher, the other is Lafayette's red man, each one has a hard root, a big power, and the uprooting sweat is thicker than the waist, and no one can offend. So the strategy of "dragging" was adopted.
The case dragged on for two months. During this period, Li Hongzao sent letters to him, and Zhang Zhiwan also sent letters to him. Naturally, they all urged him to handle it as soon as possible. In order to cope with the two adults, Li Hongzhang personally held a trial. His purpose is to calm people down. Do the work for both parties, and turn the big things into small things and small things. The two sides still have their own opinions and refuse to give up. Li Hongzhang also really did a big difficulty!
The lawsuit dragged on for another month. This day. Li Hongzhang received a food box sent by Zhang Zhiwan and opened it to see that there were no other delicacies in the food box. There was only one piece of stewed fat. The messenger told Li Hongzhang that Lord Zhang had repeatedly told him to ask the Governor to taste it. The next people do not understand the meaning, think that hundreds of miles, send a piece of fat is worth it? Li Hongzhang understood Lord Zhang's intention of sending this piece of fat meat. In front of the poor man, he took a big bite and said "incense" repeatedly.
The lawsuit cannot be postponed any longer. Li Hongzhang weighed it up again and again, and finally came to an end. Those who were caught were released, and those who died died in vain.
For this ruling of Li Hongzhang, Nan'an naturally did not accept it, but there was nothing he could do, even the guangxu emperor's teachers were angry, not to mention that they were a grass people!
After Li Hongzhang made such a ruling, he felt that the people of Henan, especially Li Hongzao, could not be offended too bitterly, so he made another decision to open the throat of the lower reaches of the Xuanhui River to make it drain smoothly. At the dangerous area on both sides of the Xuanhui River, the embankment was strengthened, and at the same time, a "rolling gray earth dam" was built at the confluence of the Xuanhui River and the Majie River on the north bank. The ash dam is constructed with river rice soup mixed with lime laterite, and the size of the ash dam is specified. In order to facilitate management, the official family purchased 16 acres of land on the left side of the ash dam, built three flood control houses, and set up a flood driver to guard it. When the water is in full swing, the water is reduced by three or four minutes, overflowing into the silted Majie River Old Road, and the villagers in Hebei can never block it.
The dam was built in the 13th year of Guangxu. At the same time, in order to warn future generations, the villagers also erected a tall stone stele here, which reads the beginning and end of the Fanjiaba massacre in the ninth year of Guangxu. Since then, the villagers on both sides of the strait have become rivals of the wrongdoers, and for many years the old relatives have not recognized each other, and the new relatives have not married. This "custom" continued until after the founding of New China.