In Qinzhou, Guangxi, there is a mansion, which is the former residence of national hero Liu Yongfu, called Sanxuantang, which has been preserved for more than 100 years since its establishment. Basically intact, the momentum is as magnificent as it was then, and it can be called the first mansion in Qinzhou City.
When I went to visit the old house, I found a very strange phenomenon. Mansions, that is where people live, it is reasonable to say that building like a house can be, to meet the residential function, luxury can also be understood. However, Liu Yongfu built his mansion very strangely.
Liu Yongfu's former residence has a turret in all four corners of the courtyard wall, the surrounding wall is as high as four meters, and there are countless gun holes on the wall, and the turret and gun hole are of course the same. What is even more bizarre is that there are many kinds of secret passages built in the house, and Liu Yongfu's bedroom also has a secret passage that can directly reach the command center of the turret to ensure that he can command foreign artillery battles at any time.
According to the local tour guide, there was also a tunnel dug under the Three Xuantang Hall, where does the tunnel lead? In front of the Sanxuan Hall, there is a river, and there is a Wangjiang Pavilion by the river. The tunnel of the Three Xuantang leads directly to the Wangjiang Pavilion. What is this for? In the event of an emergency, Liu Yongfu would come from the tunnel to Wangjiang Pavilion, and then take a boat far away, never to return.
It's just that more than a hundred years have passed, and now the tunnel exit of Wangjiang Pavilion can no longer be found. So, we have to ask, Liu Yongfu, a national hero who resisted the French invaders, a strange boy who stood tall in the sky, who is he really wary of? Qinzhou was his hometown, the place where he was born and raised, and he was so insecure in his own mansion in his hometown?
(The dark passage in Liu Yongfu's bedroom can go directly to the command center of the turret)
Liu Yongfu was born into poverty, and when he was a teenager, his parents left him forever, and he became a lonely orphan, wandering around and wandering around. One day, he fell asleep on the stone slab in the middle of the mountain, and in a confused dream he saw a tall man, who had a very white beard and was fluttering, and said to him, General Black Tiger, you are a descendant of Chen Jinnan, and you should rebel against the Qing uprising.
When he woke up, Liu Yongfu had an epiphany, and he quickly joined the Heaven and Earth Society. The Heaven and Earth Society, as everyone knows, is an anti-Qing civilian armed force. From joining the Heaven and Earth Society in 1857 to founding the Black Flag Army in 1866, Liu Yongfu engaged in nearly a decade of anti-Qing struggles.
By the qing government's standards, Liu Yongfu was an absolute bandit and the leader of the rebels. Therefore, the Qing government also suppressed him for many years. In 1867, Liu Hadh Phuc had to withdraw to Vietnam, where he took temporary refuge, where he was deported by the Qing government.
(Liu Yongfu's original Big Dipper Seven Star Banner)
Liu Yongfu single-handedly created the Black Flag Army, please note that this is his own unit, it is a private armed force, which can be called Liu Jiajun. How could the Qing Empire allow the existence of private armed forces? There was no way, the Qing Empire at that time was in decline, and it was too late to take care of itself, and Qinzhou in Guangxi was far away from the Emperor of Tiangao.
Liu Yongfu's army is called the Black Flag Army, his flag also has problems, the flag of the Qing Empire is the Yellow Dragon Banner, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army, but it is the Big Dipper Seven Star Banner and the Bagua Banner, as a citizen of the Qing Dynasty, he actually dared to fight a different flag with the imperial court, Liu Yongfu This is obviously anti-bone.
Therefore, the Qing Empire could not allow Liu Yongfu to exist, and kept encircling and suppressing him, driving him out of the country and expelling him from his nationality. What I didn't expect was that Liu Yongfu, who had turned to Vietnam, actually fought more and more strongly, and also defeated the French invaders one after another, recovering a lot of lost land for the Vietnamese government.
(Liu Yongfu Former Residence Main Entrance, Sanxuan Hall)
Liu Yongfu's fame in Vietnam may be even greater than his domestic fame. Even the Vietnamese government made him the viceroy of San Xuan, in charge of the military of the three provinces of Xuan Quang, Xinghua and Shanxi in Vietnam, which is why Liu Yongfu's mansion was called San Xuan Tang.
When the Sino-French War broke out, at the juncture of national peril, Liu Yongfu resolutely abandoned his personal grudges, accepted the title of "Named Admiral" from the Qing government, served the Qing government, and jointly resisted the French invaders.
Liu Yongfu became a national hero. Soon, however, there was a truce between China and France. The Qing government issued nine holy decrees in a row, urging Liu Yongfu to return to China. What medicine is sold in the gourd? After all, Liu Yongfu was a citizen of the Qing Dynasty, and now the imperial court accepted him, not to blame him in the past, restored his nationality, and rewarded him with many honors, allowing him to return to China as an official, Liu Yongfu had no reason to refuse, nor could he refuse.
(The Qing government granted Liu Yong the title of General of Fujian Wei)
In the end, under the soft and hard hands of the imperial court, Liu Yongfu embarked on the road back to China with 3,000 Black Flag Troops. However, the imperial court was a dark gentleman and a villain, and through various means, the Black Flag Army was abolished. Now that the Qing Empire has freed up its hands, of course, the Black Flag Army will not be allowed to exist.
By the time Liu Yongfu returned to China, there were only more than 1,000 people left in his Black Flag Army. Even so, the Qing government still did not give up and continued to dismantle, and the Black Flag Army was finally left with more than 300 people, of course, whether it was to the imperial court or to the localities, it was no longer a threat.
Now everyone understands why Liu Yongfu built his mansion like a bunker, which is called attacking and retreating. He also dug tunnels under the house, and when the situation was urgent, he took a boat far away, fled to Vietnam or Southeast Asia, and never came back. In the territory of the Qing Empire, although the official residence was Zheng Erpin, Liu Yongfu's heart had actually been insecure.
(Liu Yongfu and Feng Zicai)
What's more, in the north of Qinzhou City, there is another national hero Feng Zicai. Feng Zicai and Liu Yongfu were fellow villagers in Qinzhou, and they had both been bandits in their early years, so the difference between Feng Zicai and Feng Zicai was that he had returned to the imperial court earlier, and then he had always been an official of the Great Qing Dynasty, and the imperial court had completely considered him to be his own.
At that time, it was Feng Zicai who led the army of the imperial court and drove Liu Yongfu out of the country. The two old heroes have a deep grudge. Later, for the common national interests, the two old heroes joined hands to resist the Law and became friends. Liu Yongfu also married his second daughter to Feng Zicai's eleventh son.
They formed a family of sons and daughters, one living in the north of Qinzhou City and the other living in the south of Qinzhou City. But everyone knows that this alliance is not solid. Liu Yongfu knew in his heart that the imperial court did not completely regard him as his own person, and once the imperial court turned its face, Feng Zicai could become his enemy at any time. As the old saying goes, the heart of harming people must not be there, and the heart of preventing people must not be without, so Liu Yongfu built his mansion into that look. #北部湾之星钦州 #