Since the beginning of Taiwan's modern construction, linxiang people have enthusiastically participated, and they have either joined the army, worked in the industry, participated in politics, or taught, and made great contributions to the development and defense of the motherland's sacred territory, Taiwan's treasure island. His kyaunt was highly praised by Lian Yatang's "General History of Taiwan" and Su Tongbing's "Album of Taiwan's Pioneers and Martyrs - Biography of Liu Huang" and other books. Liu Xuan (1829-1857), a native of Yunxi (now part of Yueyang City, North District), was born. He has been in Taiwan twice.
In March of the thirteenth year of qing tongzhi (1874), the Japanese used the excuse of Peony Sheshengfan to kill Ryukyu refugees, and suddenly sent troops to Langqiao at the southern tip of Taiwan, intending to take the opportunity to invade and occupy Taiwan. In view of the development of the situation, the Qing government, on the one hand, dispatched troops to strengthen Taiwan's defensive strength, and on the other hand, sent Shen Baozhen as "Minister of Chincha to handle Taiwan's coastal defense and the affairs of various countries" to go to Taiwan to deal with Japanese aggression. Liu Huang, who had served as the prefect of Taizhou in Zhejiang and was then an alternate in Zhejiang, arrived in Tainan on September 17 at the invitation of Shen Baozhen to serve in the Military Affairs Office of Shen Army in Taiwan, in charge of the logistics and staff of the Shen Army. After political negotiations in that year, the Qing government paid 500,000 taels of silver to purchase the facilities built by the Japanese army in Langqiao as "compensation", and the Japanese withdrew their troops and returned to China. After the end of the Japanese invasion of Taiwan, the Qing government aroused its heart of encouragement for Taiwan, began to attach importance to Taiwan's development and construction, and actively prepared for the construction of Taiwan's military coastal defense, thus opening the curtain on Taiwan's modern construction, Shen Baozhen became a pioneer in Taiwan's modern construction, and Liu Huang became the first person in Linxiang and even the Yueyang region and Hunan Province to participate in Taiwan's modern construction.
Liu Xuan was only in Taiwan for about five months this time, but he also did a lot of things. First, he assisted Shen Baozhen in preparing for military affairs and traveled to and from various places in Tainan to raise troops and deploy troops; second, when shen Baozhen entered Shen Baozhen to prepare for the opening of the mountains, Liu Xuan gave Shen Baozhen a unique insight into the "Kaishan Fufan Tiao" in the autumn of that year: He proposed to communicate with the original residents first, to show friendship to the original residents, and to have no threat to them when bing yong came to the places of residence of the original residents, and on the basis of communication, he promoted indoctrination, taught them the language of communication with the outside of the mountains, taught them common sense of daily life, and let them learn to master some crafts The third was to choose a site at Langqiao, the southernmost point of Taiwan, on the orders of Shen Baozhen, and to plan the city pool of Hengchun County to consolidate the coastal defense of the southern region of Taiwan; the fourth was to lead the troops to quell the confrontation between the officers and men of the Lion's Head Society on The South Road of Taiwan in the first month of the first year of Guangxu. On the first day of February, when he was working on the construction of Hengchun County, he suddenly received a family letter and learned that "His father Died of illness in Linxiang County, Hunan Province on December 20, 13th year of Tongzhi." Liu Xuan followed the old system of the court and immediately "pleaded with the funeral to return to the home system" and left Taiwan. This time he was not in Taiwan for a long time, but it was so effective that after Liu Huang left Taiwan to guard the system, Shen Baozhen wrote to the imperial court three times and repeatedly asked the imperial court to send Liu Huang to Taiwan.
After Liu Xuan's three-year reign was over, he was summoned by Zuo Zongtang to lead his troops to accompany Zuo Zongtang to the northwest desert, and was one of the three parts of Zuo Zongtang's Western Expedition. After the Western Expeditionary Army ended the war to retake Xinjiang, in July of the seventh year of Guangxu (1881), he led his troops south to Fujian with the order of "according to the rank of envoy, the second pin top wear, the Fujian branch patrol of Taiwan's military preparation road and the adjutant inspector Xuezheng, the premier of the taiwan military service, and the unification of the Chu army Yue camp". On the seventh day of August, he and his men arrived in Anping, southern Taiwan, on the Evergreen, and landed in Taiwan again.
After Liu Xuan arrived in Taiwan, his first work was to investigate culture and education. He arrived in Anping, Tainan, on the seventh day of the seventh month of August in the seventh year of Guangxu, received the seal on the tenth day of the first month, and issued his first administrative statement on governing Taiwan on September 18, the "Notice of Guan Feng". This notice is a long and emotional gift. With his love of reading experience, he encouraged Taiwanese students to study hard and showed that he would attach great importance to Taiwan's culture and education. When he said that he had done so, he had done two different tasks: first, regular education, that is, education on attaching importance to the subset of scriptures and histories within the jurisdiction of the government. For example, it is necessary to step up the input of education funds, so that the Penghu Wenshi Academy, which is "full of funds," "has the expenses of Binxing and anointing the fire," encourage Taiwan scholars to study, and pay them travel expenses from taxes for students who take part in the examination for the imperial examination; straighten out the atmosphere among Taiwan's readers, and prohibit the recurrence of the matter of "gunmen" taking the examination; personally visit the examination hall, participate in the selection and allocation of talents, and accept apprentices to teach; and build a township examination hall in the provincial capital and Kyoto for Taiwan scholars to stay during the examination period. Another task is to pay special attention to the indoctrination of the indigenous people of Taiwan. He believes that Taiwan's indigenous people live in the lofty mountains and mountains, "the inner mountain place, the beginning of the Hongmeng, in the mountains and the crowd, there is still the wind of knotted ropes", should "set up a study on the spot." For the education of indigenous people, he believes that it is necessary to pay attention to practicality and practicality, emphasizing that starting from the daily language, using the "tongyin book style" to let the indigenous people learn to understand the official dialect and the local dialect, "in the end, the official and the local are learned together." More importantly, he placed special emphasis on teaching these indigenous peoples their crafts, and vocational education in the modern popular language. Pick "people who are proficient in craftsmanship, teach to work, and speak in shallow languages" and let them "work and raise their mouths". It can be said that the idea of making a solid idea for the indigenous people and conducting vocational education for the indigenous people can be said to be very advanced at that time.
Liu Xuan paid attention to the establishment of local welfare and public welfare undertakings to help the orphans and widows and help the poor. In September of the seventh year of Guangxu (1881), he changed the regiment training bureau to the Peiyuan Bureau, and the premier did all good deeds. Organize examinations and township examination halls; and set up public welfare, such as opening baby-rearing, nursing, charity warehouses, building roads, building bridges, and clearing ditches. Liu Huang's proposals were rebuked by his superior, He Jing, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, but he did not give up, such as buying townships and meetings in provincial cities and capitals, and He Jing had ordered them to be suspended.
While Liu Xuan was busy with the construction of Taiwan, in the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), in order to obtain the suzerainty of the Yue Kingdom, France launched a provocation against the Qing Dynasty government, which was the suzerainty of Vietnam. Liu Xuan judged the situation and began to actively prepare for Taiwan's military defense. Taiwan hangs alone overseas, and it is a barrier for seven provinces. Outside, it is surrounded by the sea on all sides, surrounded by more than 3,000 miles, there is no danger to rely on, and it can be landed. From the south to the north of Taiwan, there were only an ampoule in Anping, Qihou, Huwei, Keelung, and five ports in Penghu with forts; the troops stationed on land were "less than 7,000 in Taiwan Yong and more than 4,000 soldiers"; there were four sea-level ships "Evergreen," "Chenhang," "Yongbao," and "Fubo," and only "Fubo" were used as warships, and the rest had been changed into commercial steamships. According to the actual situation in Taiwan at that time, Liu Huang's armament warfare in Taiwan was like a clever woman cooking without rice. However, he affirmed the correct thinking of military combat readiness: "On coastal defense today, we do not seek to wrestle on the surface of the water, but only seek to win over the land route." He divided Taiwan into five defensive zones, and "the strength of each defensive zone" was divided into half guards, and the rest were the living camps"; the defensive areas and the defensive areas responded to and rescued each other; he took the initiative to take on the task of defending the southern road defense zone with the heaviest responsibility and the largest scope in the defensive area; and after drawing 1,200 troops from the water bravery and fishing groups, he also "recruited 3,000 and hundreds of new Lu Yong." As soon as the land force was arranged, two new forts were built at Xiyu Island and Shetou in Penghu, and new forts were built on both sides of the Huwei River, and the Nanyang Minister was reported to request the allocation of cannons. There was no hope of changing troops and transferring troops to Taiwan with commercial steamers, so he retreated to the second place: to establish the Water Courage Fishing Regiment. During the war, the ShuiYong Fishing Group was mainly composed of fishermen from the coastal areas of Taiwan who were "strong in water", patrolled along the surface of The Taiwan Sea during the war to investigate internal traitors, cut off absolute enemy assistance, strengthen information ties with the hinterland, and ensure the transportation of materials to aid Taiwan. Fishing groups played a major role in this regard in the subsequent Sino-French war, reversing the difficult situation caused by the French blockade of Taiwan's sea. Long before the deployment of Taiwanese troops, he believed that Taiwan was isolated overseas, and if the explosive weapons and ammunition were consumed in a war, and the ammunition was sufficient, it was necessary to build an arsenal. In October of the ninth year of Guangxu, he went to the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang to ask for the establishment of a "Gun and Cannon Pharmacy", but without approval, he set up a gunpowder factory.
On March 18, 1884, the French warship "Lou Da" sailed into the port of Keelung, and then three people went ashore to climb the mountain, pretending to be tourists, actually reconnaissance, and wanted to enter the fort, but were blocked. Subsequently, the French protested to the commanders in Keelung, claiming that the fortiers should apologize to them and be punished; at the same time, they wrote to the local officials of Keelung protesting that they could not buy coal and food in the local area, and that coal should be delivered to the ship at 7:30 on the second day, otherwise, the guns would be fired at 8 o'clock to attack Keelung. After receiving the report from the keelung magistrate, Liu Xuan immediately made a decision, reporting the incident to Prime Minister Yamen on the one hand, asking Premier Yamen to take a note of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the minister stationed in Beijing to make a reasonable and restrained response and resistance, while strictly punishing the local officials to "increase their intentions to guard against idleness."
On May 24, 1884, the tenth year of Guangxu (1884), Liu Mingchuan, minister of Chincha, inspector, and superintendent of Taiwan's military affairs, arrived in Taiwan. Take over the military leadership of the whole of Taiwan. After Liu Xuan handed over Taiwan's defense, his job was to raise salaries and focus on the reorganization of the South Road Defense Zone. On June 13, 1884, the First French Ship Attacked Taipei Keelung, and the Sino-French Battle of Taiwan officially broke out. Although Liu Xuan was no longer in charge of the defense of the whole of Taiwan, he still did not wait for the war, and in addition to waiting in a strict position on the south road, he immediately dispatched the regimental training troops under his jurisdiction, led by Lin Chaodong, to Keelung, Taipei, to assist the defenders in preventing the Landing of the French army. The French were defeated.
On September 16, france announced the blockade of most of the sea around the island of Taiwan, and the French fleet approached the mouth of anping sea in Tainan several times and tried to attack, but forced the defenders to defend tightly, so they had to give up. In February of the eleventh year of Guangxu, the commander of the French Far East Fleet was sent to Anping alone, and through the British, he made an appointment with Liu Xuan. Ignoring the persuasion of his staff and his personal safety, Liu Xuan resolutely went to the ship to make an appointment. When he and Gu Pu met, they showed their determination to defend the land resolutely and die. After that, Lone Dial had to lead the ship away, and Tainan was able to be harmless.
The war lasted nearly a year from the outbreak of The Guangxu Decade in June to the end of the Guangxu Eleventh Year in May. Before the war had begun in Keelung, Liu Xuan foresaw the outbreak of war and that the salary would be insufficient, so he consulted the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang to play the first to provide relief, but the household department failed to rescue him; and then mobilized the gentlemen of Taiwan to donate money to help. At the beginning of the war, all kinds of reinforcements went to Taiwan, Taiwan's salaries increased sharply, and Taiwan's provincial government treasury salaries were plentiful, and by the end of November, only more than 7,000 taels were left in Tainan. Due to the lack of assistance, Liu Huang obtained Liu Mingchuan's consent and withheld 50,000 taels of the salaries of the various provinces to use them. Throughout the war, he fulfilled his duties, actively raised troops and salaries, and ensured the unimpeded supply of strategic logistics materials.
During the more than three years that Liu Xuan spent in Taiwan, his governance extended to all fields in Taiwan, and he performed very well in the fields of opening up mountains and fufan, suppressing banditry, fighting with people's weapons, rectifying coal affairs, increasing taxes and taxes, culture and education, military affairs, and diplomacy. Therefore, Dr. Hsu Xue-hee, director of the Central Institute of History in Taiwan, said: "From the thirteen years of Tongzhi to the ten years of Guangxu, the Daoists who served in Taiwan were Xia Xianlun and Liu Huang who made the greatest contributions." This period of time coincided with the beginning and development stage of Taiwan's modernization construction, that is, Taiwan's foreign affairs movement.
Because of Liu Huang's relations in Taiwan, a large number of Linxiang and Baling disciples left their inland hometowns and accompanied Liu Huang to set foot on this treasure island in the sea. They arrived in Taiwan on a large scale in four separate times and served in the Taiwanese army. In August of the seventh year of Guangxu (1881), when Liu Xuan was serving in Taiwan for the second time, he accompanied the Chu army Yue battalion of 561 men, this unit was the Western Expeditionary Army, it was Liu Zhang's battalion, it was the hometown disciples, who followed him from the northwest; in June of the ninth year of Guangxu, after he asked the governor of Min Zhejiang, he recruited 1,171 new soldiers in his hometown; in the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), the Sino-French War of Taiwan was about to begin, and he ordered his son Liu Jinan to return to his hometown again to recruit disciples to defend Taiwan, and in the first month of the tenth year of Guangxu, 1,400 people landed in Taiwan through Penghu in two places. In addition, Liu Huang's former subordinates, as well as some of his relatives and friends in Linxiang and Baling, also sporadically rushed to Taiwan to join him in the army, totaling nearly 4,000 people. Unfortunately, the history is not detailed, it is difficult to know its full shape, fortunately Liu Xuan's "Records of Retreating from Taiwan" and some genealogies of Linxiang and Yueyang Counties, as well as some literati notes in the early years of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, have this record, which can be seen.
Gao Dengyu, a native of Linxiang Yunxi , (now a native of Friendship Village, Yunxi District), was a very good playmate for Liu Huang when he was young. After The Hong Yang Uprising, they joined the army together, followed Liu Xuan to fight for many years, from Xiang to Zhejiang, fought bravely, was given the title of viceroy by the court, and was awarded the title of viceroy. In September of the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, he went to Taiwan with Liu Xuan and served as the commander of the Yue battalion of the Chu army. Liu Xuan left Taiwan in February to return home to guard the system, and Gao Dengyu stayed behind to participate in all the work of building Yuanchun Castle.
Li Shengcai, vice general, Linxiang ZhanQiao, Yue Ying tong belt, also Tongzhi thirteen years in September to Taiwan. When Liu Xuan came to Taiwan for the second time, he entered Taiwan again. On the fifteenth night of the first month of the ninth year of Guangxu, Li Shengcai was ordered to lead some of the yue battalion soldiers to Dashujiaozhuang in Fengshan County, Taiwan, to quell the riots of Chen Qing, Chen Rong, and other bandits.
Li Xudong, vice general, Linxiang ZhanQiao, commander of the Right Battalion of Appeasement. In early August of the eighth year of Guangxu, the indigenous people of Taiwan sneaked to kill the people outside the east gate of Yilan County, and on the eleventh day, they killed six people outside the north gate. Li Xudong led his troops to Yilan to investigate and settle the matter.
Li Defu, Du Siguan, Linxiang ZhanQiao, Commander of zhenhai rear battalion. Zhenhai Houying unified belt. In July of the eighth year of Guangxu, he was transferred from Anping, Tainan to Keelung, Taiwan, and later transferred back to Anping, Tainan due to banditry in Tainan.
Li Ligang, Du Siguan, Linxiang ZhanQiao, Suijing Zuoying Tong. He was stationed in the area around the Changhua Water Society, and later he was ordered to investigate the reclamation of the Puli Society to the north and south and the east corner.
Liao Zhuoren, also known as Yunhan, a native of Baiyangtianfangshan Cave, and a native of Qing Guangxu, once followed Liu Huang into Taiwan to run a school. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the anonymity "Yunshan Poetry Collection" (manuscript) contains Li Moumou's poem "Xi Liao And Liu Observation Tour to Taiwan".
Liu Mengnan (劉萌南), a native of Linxiang Yunxi (臨湘云溪), was a nephew of Liu Xuan(璈璈) from Jiupin( Linxiang Yunxi District). He acted as the commander of the Flying Tiger Battalion in Taiwan and inspected the reclamation of Hualien Harbor.
Liu Houlu, the sentry commander of the Yueying horse team. On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month of the ninth year of Guangxu, he accompanied Li Shengcai to Dashujiaozhuang in Fengshan County, Taiwan, to quell the bandit rebellion. Afterwards, Li Shengcai returned to the camp, leaving Liu Houlu to lead the soldiers to garrison here.
Li Guanlin, Du Siguan, Linxiang He, commander of the former battalion of Zhenhai. In September of the seventh year of Guangxu, when the southernmost tip of Taiwan was building Eluanbi, he led troops to garrison the construction of the protection project here.
Gong Zuhui (龚祖辉), a viceroy, was a native of Yunxi, Linxiang (present-day Yunxi District, Yueyang), and a soldier of Liu Xuan.
Liu Jinjiao (劉金峤), a native of Linxiang Yunxi (present-day Yunxi District, Yueyang). Commander of the Yue Battalion and Commander of the Flying Tiger Battalion.
Fang Shanfu, a native of Linxiang Nie City, was an important aide to Liu Xuan when he was in Taiwan, and was a logistician who specialized in managing and transporting military salaries and grain matters. In the twenty-second year of the Republic of China, Nie Shi Xiucai Yao Zijia published a poem "Don't Deceive Yourself" in the "Draft Poems of Don't Deceive Yourself", which contains the sentence "The roots of the feet are like smoke in the sea", and the sentence is self-noted: Jun Eunuch has traveled to Taiwan for many years.
Li Xuxun, a native of Linxiang Zhanqiao, fought with Liu Huang and the Taiping Army in Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places in his early years, and later went to Taiwan with Liu Huang.
Li Taocheng (李桃成), a native of Longwan, Linxiang He, and Li Zuoying, a member of the Heiwu Li family at the intersection of Linxiang Road (present-day Yunxi District, Yueyang City). They all arrived in Taiwan during the Guangxu years at the request of Liu Xuan.
Li Xianglin, a native of Linxiang He's Li Family Mountain, was once recruited by Liu Xuanzhi to go to Taiwan. After returning to his hometown, he learned a tailor's craft and made a living from it, and died in the sixties of the last century.
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After these Linxiang sons and daughters arrived in Taiwan with Liu Xuan, they did not receive special preferential treatment because Liu Xuan was the highest administrative officer in Taiwan at that time, and Liu Huang did not deliberately take care of and relax his management because he was a son of his hometown. In addition to defense and training, they also carried out a large amount of local construction work in Taiwan, engaged in road construction, embankment construction, dredging canals, bridge building, transfer, forced labor, construction, civil engineering, culture, education and other work. For example, dredging ditches in the county town of Tainan to drain the sewage in the county city; building roads to Anping; and building bridges in Dajia Creek; these projects were all completed by Linxiang disciples.
Among the Linxiang people who went to Taiwan during the Guangxu years were scholars and peasant children. When they went, they were all strong and strong young men with strong flesh and blood, embracing ideals and dreams, and rushing away alive. After going to Taiwan, some returned to their hometown after the military service, some married and started a family in Taiwan, and some died in battle or died of illness in Taiwan. Yi Kusheng Li Liangyuan and Li Xianyuan, Linxiang He Looked up at the Wang family. In the eighth year of Guangxu (1883), the brothers joined the army and went to Taiwan, where they later died. After the news of their death in Taiwan reached their hometown, the brother Li Hongyuan went to Taiwan to find the bones of the two brothers and transported them back to their hometown for burial. However, the third elder is also gone, and the news that came back is that the third elder also died from the army in Taiwan. It is still buried on the soil of Taiwan.
More than 120 years ago, these ancestors of Linxiang, with the ideal of making meritorious achievements, left their hometowns and embarked on a long journey to Taiwan. Many of them did not leave their names, and some even died unjustly, but the land of Taiwan's treasure island was guarded by them, and the modern construction of Taiwan was unveiled by them. Since then, they have left their figures in China's modern history, their sweat has not flowed in vain, and their blood has not flowed in vain! We are also Linxiang people, and we are proud and excited that Linxiang has such ancestors!
Author He Peijin Li Yuntao
July 25, 2009
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