Revealing how gold diggers in the late Qing Dynasty successfully evaded the robbery of beards? In the late Qing Dynasty, breaking into the Guandong became a means for people in Shandong and Hebei to survive. Due to natural disasters and regime instability, a large number of people poured into the area outside the customs. During this period, gold panning became one of the ways to earn wealth. However, the gold prospectors faced the threat of bearded robbery. The beards are entrenched outside the gold ditch, and their leader, the Golden Scorpion, was once a gold digger and later turned thief. The bearded men subjected to strict body searches and even beatings of gold diggers. In order to avoid the robbery of the beard, Li San, a Shandong gold digger, cleverly hid the gold under the horseshoe, successfully avoiding the sight of the beards. What's going on here? At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, China entered a period of turmoil.
After the Jurchens entered the Central Plains, resistance movements emerged one after another, causing instability in the world's regime. But over time, the Qing dynasty's rule weakened, and droughts in Shandong and Hebei led to an increase in the number of hungry people. The fertile land outside the customs has become the preferred target for displaced people. Hundreds of years later, a large number of people from Shandong and Hebei poured into the Guandong region, forming the largest population migration in Chinese history, which is called the Guandong. The purpose of crossing the Kanto is to find a way to survive and survive. Most of the people who crossed the Kanto were engaged in heavy manual labor, such as farming, digging and logging. However, there are also those who choose to pan for gold, hoping to get rich quickly by mining for gold.
In the Zangjin Gou in the Jilin region, there are many gold prospectors like Li San who go to find wealth. However, panning for gold is not an easy task. Gold prospectors not only have to pay pit fees to the kingmasters, but also have to endure the exploitation and beatings of the gold heads. To protect their wealth, gold miners used various methods to hide gold. Some people hide gold in their pockets and swallow their stomachs, some stick gold to cloth straps and braid it, and still others even hide gold in tools. However, these methods do not completely hide from the eyes of the bearded thief. The beards are so powerful because their leader, the Golden Scorpion, was once a gold digger. The golden scorpion turned into a thief, and a large number of outlaws gathered under his command. For the gold diggers' gold hiding techniques, the golden scorpion sees it as a child's trick.
They would strictly search gold diggers, and if they found hidden gold, they would immediately beat or even kill them. However, Li San is not a person who is willing to accept his fate. After working in the golden ditch for more than half a year, he managed to accumulate nearly fifty taels of gold. So much wealth can completely allow him to buy land to build a house and live a good life. However, he did not want the bearded people to get this wealth for nothing. So, he cleverly hid the gold and led a thin horse out of the gold ditch. However, he was stopped by bearded men and underwent a strict body search. The bearded men even drove him up the mountain with their horses, hoping to confirm if there was gold hidden by checking their excrement. However, the bearded men did not find any gold in the end, and could only grit their teeth and relax Li San to leave.
After returning home, Li San transformed into a small rich man. He bought land to build a house, married a beautiful wife, and reached the pinnacle of his life. So, how did Li San succeed in hiding gold? It turned out that he had made an agreement in advance with the blacksmith in the ditch. Before leaving the ditch, he asked the blacksmith to beat the gold into gold bars, wrap it in iron sheets, and nail it to the horseshoe. In this way, gold became a horseshoe trampled under the feet of the horse, successfully evading the search of the beard. This story tells us that in the old society, everyone had to go to great lengths to protect their property. Social instability and the imperfection of the rule of law have led to unsatisfactory lives. However, in modern society, we enjoy better living conditions and the rule of law, and no longer face the threat of wanton infringement of property.
This is the happiness of modern people and the luck of society. To sum up, breaking into the Guandong became one of the means adopted by the people of Shandong and Hebei in order to survive in the late Qing Dynasty. Gold panning became a way to obtain wealth, but the gold miners faced the threat of robbery by beards. Because the beards are entrenched outside the hidden gold ditch, their leader Golden Scorpion was a gold digger who turned into a thief because he could not bear the hardships. The bearded men conducted strict body searches of gold prospectors and even beat and even killed them. In order to avoid the robbery of the beard, Li San cleverly hid the gold under the horseshoe, successfully avoiding the sight of the beards. In modern society, we enjoy better living conditions and the rule of law, and no longer face the threat of wanton property violations.
However, we can still reflect on the plight of the old society from this story and cherish the happy life now. What do you think is the progress of modern society compared to the old society? Have you ever encountered a similar dilemma in your life to protect your property? How did you cope?