In people's minds, warlords are mostly ferocious and arrogant, while the great warlord tan Yanmin of Hunan is not, he once lived in Yongzhou for several months, but he did several good deeds and good deeds for Yongzhou.
Tan Yanmin (25 January 1880 – 22 September 1930), courtesy name Wu Daun and Che Zhai, was a native of Chaling, Hunan. Together with Chen Sanli and Tan Sitong, he was also known as the "Three Princes of Huxiang"; he was a famous politician, calligrapher, and founder of Xiangcai in the Republic of China period. Guangxu eighteen years (1892) into the priest. In the first year of Xuantong (1909), he was elected as the director of the Hunan Consultative Bureau. After three years of reunification, he and Tang Hualong initiated the establishment of the Constitutional Friends Association. During the Xinhai Revolution, he killed Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin, the vice governors of Hunan, and seized the position of governor. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), he joined the Kuomintang. Tan Yanmin served as the overseer of the two Guangdong armies, and three times served as the overseer of Hunan, the governor and the commander-in-chief of the Xiang Army, and was awarded the rank of general and the grand marshal of the army. He was the chairman of the National Government in Nanjing and the president of the Executive Yuan. On September 22, 1930, he died in Nanjing. After his death, the government of the Republic of China held a state funeral for him. Tan Yanmin is known as "Modern Yanshu Everyone", and his authors include "Collected Poems of Kuian", etc., who are good at food, and are the founders of Zuian Xiang cuisine. Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling married, with Tan Yanmin as the introducer.
In 1918, Tan Yanmin lived in Yongzhou for several months. At that time, Tan Yanmin had been living in Shanghai for a long time, and the Hunan War had become a state of rest. Because he maintained close contact with the Gui army, he sneaked from Shanghai to Guangxi in April 1918 to meet with Lu Rongting in Wuming. On May 25, representatives of the Xiang Army met with representatives of warlords directly under their direct lineage in Leiyang, and on June 15, an armistice agreement was signed. Therefore, Tan Yanmin, with the support of Zhao Hengti, rushed to Yongzhou in July and became the governor of Hunan. During his stay in Yongzhou, Tan Yanmin did two things that had an important impact on Yongzhou: one was to set up a "Yongzhou New Bank" in Yongzhou; the other was to allocate funds to repair Yongzhou's scenic spots.
In August 1918, Tan Yanmin established the "Yongzhou New Bank" in the former Lingling Branch of Hunan Bank. In fact, this is a local bank established by Tan Yanmin in Yongzhou, which is tasked with raising funds for Tan Yanmin. In June 1920, the Hunan Zhang (Jingyao) Movement was victorious, and Yongzhou New Bank also moved to Changsha with the Hunan Provincial Government and became the New Coin Manager's Office.
Tan Yanmin also allocated funds to build Chaoyang Rock, Liuzi Temple, Yuxi Bridge and other places of interest and monuments in his spare time for military affairs. It is particularly worth mentioning that the chiseling of the Chaoyang Rock "Yin Diving Gorge" can be described as tan Yanmin's pioneering work. In this regard, Xu Chongli made the following record in the "Record of Chaoyang Rock": In the summer of Pengwu (1918), the Governor of Chaling Tan was stationed in Yongzhou, and he spent time swimming in Yan, Gu Zhan Ancestral Hall, and was sick and abandoned. Next year, it will be a dove-made material, and it will be new. It belongs to Dong Qigong, director of the Lingling Marine Police Station. In the depths of the rock, the more you enter, the narrower you are, and you can't pass through people, and there are small caves in the shade of the rock, which means that it can be passed. He also ordered the workers to dredge the springs and chisel the stones, and then they became poorer and poorer, and the twists and turns suddenly penetrated, and the wells rose, and the benefits were clear, and then the northwest was out of the east of the Qinglian Gorge.
Tan Yanmin also personally wrote an inscription for the repair of the Liuzi Temple and the Yuxi Bridge, and carved the stele on the bank of the Yuxi River opposite the Liuzi Temple, and built a pavilion to cover it from wind and rain. Unfortunately, the monument was destroyed in 1959 and is now gone.