Bai Yanhu, one of the leaders of the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Bai Yanhu and his rebels killed a total of 20 million innocent Han people in Shaanxi and Gansu during the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion, Bai Yanhu was a sinner of the Chinese nation, but now some people often glorify Bai Yanhu and portray Bai Yanhu as a national hero, which leads to some readers who do not understand Bai Yanhu are misled, resulting in some readers who do not understand Bai Yanhu really think that Bai Yanhu is a national hero.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, conflicts broke out between the Hui and Han Dynasties, and Bai Yanhu and other rebels wantonly killed innocent Han people in Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces, and some villages were even killed.
A small number of readers may question the data that 20 million people in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces were killed by rebels such as Bai Yanhu during the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion, but the basis of these data comes from the county records of Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces, which is not exaggerated, and in addition, the jurisdiction of Gansu Province at that time and the current Gansu Province were different, and the Gansu Province at that time also included the current Ningxia and Xining.
The "Chronicle of Fuping County" records that in 1855, there were 46,579 households in the entire county, and the number of people was about 250,000, but in 1876, the result of the re-statistics was that only 28,543 households were left, and the number of people became about 120,000.
The records of the counties of Shaanxi and Gansu also record that the original population of Sanyuan County was about 160,000 people, and only about 40,000 people remained after the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion was quelled. The original population of Gaoling County was nearly 70,000, and when the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion was quelled, it was found that the population of Gaoling County had lost more than half.
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According to the population data of Fuping County, Sanyuan County, and Gaoling County, it can be inferred that a large number of innocent Han people were killed in each county of Shaanxi and Gansu Province at that time, of course, the data also included Hui people, but it is completely incomparable with the data of the Han people who were killed.
Combined with the records of the counties and counties on the population data of Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces before and after the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion was put down, it can be inferred that it is very likely that the number of innocent Han people who died in the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion reached 20 million.
The Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion was finally successfully quelled by the Qing generals commanded by Zuo Zongtang, saving the already precarious northwest at that time, because Bai Yanhu's purpose was to establish a Muslim country including Shaanxi, Gansu (gansu at that time including Ningxia and Xining), Qinghai, and Xinjiang. It was Zuo Zongtang who saved the entire northwest!
Portrait of Zuo Zongtang
After Zuo Zongtang quelled the rebellion in Shaanxi and Gansu, he also proposed to Empress Dowager Cixi to reclaim Xinjiang, which was controlled by Agubai of the Kokand Khanate in Central Asia, and Zuo Zongtang argued on the basis of reason, and finally persuaded Empress Dowager Cixi to make Empress Dowager Cixi agree to Zuo Zongtang's expropriation of Xinjiang.
Zuo Zongtang was good at using troops and had excellent command skills, under the leadership of Zuo Zongtang and the hard work of the Qing generals, Xinjiang was finally successfully recovered, Agubai took poison and committed suicide, Bai Yanhu (Bai Yanhu led the remnants of the Hui army to flee to Xinjiang and surrendered to Agubai after the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion was pacified) learned that Agubai committed suicide, so he led his remnants of the Hui army to flee to the territory of Tsarist Russia and became a Dungan in Tsarist Russia.
Zuo Zongtang sculpture
Readers who have justice in their hearts and who distinguish between right and wrong know that Zuo Zongtang is a great national hero worthy of the name and saved the entire northwest of the mainland, but a small number of people think that Bai Yanhu is a national hero, they slander Zuo Zongtang as a butcher, they slander Zuo Zongtang as an evil person who helped the Qing government suppress the Shaanxi-Gansu Huimin uprising, they slander Zuo Zongtang as a person who hinders social progress, and they believe that the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion is of progressive significance. In fact, the Shaanxi-Gansu rebellion was a bad incident that split the land of China and hindered the unity of the nationalities!
All people should establish a correct view of history, all people should distinguish between right and wrong, and should not speak of the darkness of history as light, and not of the light of history as darkness; In addition, there may be a few readers who, after reading my article, think that I have ulterior motives and think that my purpose is to provoke ethnic antagonisms, in fact, readers who have such ideas have ulterior motives, after all, all readers who distinguish between right and wrong, whether han, Hui or readers of any nationality, will not think that Bai Yanhu is a good person.
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