Huxi Township, Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, surrounded by mountains and rivers, has beautiful scenery, although it is only a township-level administrative unit, it has many well-known cultural heritage at home and abroad.
Among them, the third place of ZhaoJiabao, Yao'anbao and Lantingzhenfu is the most prominent, all of which are listed by the State Council as the national key cultural relics protection unit, because these three buildings are only five miles apart, they are affectionately called "five miles and three cities".
In a township, within five miles, it is extremely rare to have such a dense collection of important cultural relics in all of China.
Lantingzhen Mansion, the largest building among the three cities, was built in the last year of the Kangxi Dynasty and officially completed in the fifth year of Yongzheng, with a history of more than 300 years.
The Blue Mansion covers an area of more than 5,000 square meters, with an astonishing depth of 100 meters, and has a total of 108 rooms inside, which is said to be related to the 108 generals in "Water Margin", because the person who built this house is a military general who believes in loyalty and righteousness.
Lan Tingzhen, a famous general of the Qing Dynasty, had been a soldier since he was a teenager, and when the first large-scale armed civil uprising occurred in Taiwan, he wrote to the Kangxi Emperor to recommend himself to go on a campaign.
After successfully quelling the taiwan civil unrest, he became the admiral of the Fujian Water Division, served as the chief military officer of Taiwan Town in Fujian Province, stayed in Taiwan to guard, worked hard during his tenure, put forward many strategies for governing Taiwan, and profoundly affected the history of Taiwan.
During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the administration of Taiwan was one prefecture and three counties (Taiwan, Fengshan, zhuluo), which came under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province at that time.
Because Taiwan was isolated overseas, its products were barren, and it was once the anti-Qing base of the Zheng Dynasty, after the Qing court recovered Taiwan, the officials at that time even suggested that the Kangxi Emperor abandon the island of Taiwan after the Qing court recovered Taiwan.
It was precisely under such circumstances that most of the officials sent by the Qing court to Taiwan were corrupt and incompetent, who were corrupt and corrupt, and with the heart of making a profit, they wantonly levied and violently levied on the local low-level people, which eventually triggered the "Zhu Yigui Incident."
Zhu Yigui, a native of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, was once an errand boy in the Qing court military camp, and later raised ducks for a living, because he liked to make friends with various haojie in his life, and was nicknamed "Xiao Meng Taste".
In 1721, because of the financial deficit of the taiwanese prefect Wang Zhen in the official government, in order to make up for this deficit, he kept the black gauze hat on his head, attacked everywhere, set up a clever name, and apportioned various harsh taxes.
In the end, Zhu Yigui and others rose up, and it took only two months to gather tens of thousands of people, and finally crushed the Qing troops in Taiwan, attacked the capital city of Taiwan, and occupied almost all of Taiwan.
In May of the same year, Lan Tingzhen wrote to the imperial court and asked himself to go on a campaign, and on June 1, nearly 20,000 Qing troops went to sea from Xiamen and drove to Taiwan in a mighty way.
After zhu yigui and others achieved some victories, like the rogues in Chinese history, they soon began to covet pleasures internally and plunder ordinary people everywhere.
Soon after, the peasant army was divided into several factions, vying for power and profit, killing each other and attacking endlessly.
The Qing army seized the favorable opportunity and attacked everywhere, and under the correct command of Lan Tingzhen and others, the well-trained inland army quickly defeated the peasant army with different hearts and minds, and Zhu Yigui and others were also captured by the Qing army.
At that time, Taiwanese folk songs once made fun of the speed of his demise, saying: wearing a Ming Dynasty hat and Qing Dynasty clothes, Yonghe in May and Kangxi in June.
Zhu Yigui and others had built the Yuan "Yonghe", but they did not expect that within a month, the dream dynasty would collapse, and in June Taiwan would return to the Kangxi era.
After the Qing court surveyed Taiwan, Lan Tingzhen remained in Taiwan, and during the three-year period of staying in Taiwan, he promulgated and implemented many policies beneficial to Taiwan, and corrected some measures taken by the imperial court at that time to govern Taiwan, and achieved remarkable results.
For example, the Qing court once wanted to move the Taiwanese commander-in-chief to Penghu and set up only a deputy general.
Lan Tingzhen opposed: If the town of Guotai moves, the sea frontier will be in danger... With the Penghu general army controlling Taiwan, like a dime of the oxtail... How to abandon Taiwan... He thought that the land could not be entrusted, and if he obeyed the advice of the ministry, he would mistakenly seal the territory.
For example, at that time, there were many mountains in Taiwan, and ethnic minorities and Han people were mostly at odds, so Man Bao, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, ordered the abandonment of the land and the relocation of the border, so that the Han people were not allowed to enter and leave the mountains.
Lan Tingzhen argued according to reason: the country initially established counties and counties, with jurisdiction of only more than a hundred miles, less than forty years away from the order, and the reclamation of the displaced masses, extending more than 2,000 miles, the sugar valley of the world. In another forty or fifty years, even the realm of the wild fan behind the Inner Mountain Mountain will be a beautiful house of good fields, and it will be irrepressible.
He looked at the problem from the perspective of development, believing that as long as it was beneficial to people, it would eventually be reclaimed by the Han people and eventually become a thriving land, which in the feudal era could be described as a unique vision.
In the end, both of these things were no longer implemented under the advice of Lan Tingzhen.
Lan Tingzhen saw that there were many wastelands in various parts of Taiwan, so he personally led the army and people to reclaim "Lanxing Fort", and "Lanxing Fort" also became one of the largest official reclamation forts in Taiwan's history.
In view of the fact that there were still rampant thieves everywhere, he implemented the system of armor protection and regimental training as a comprehensive solution to solve the safety of the local people.
In the seventh year of Yongzheng, Lan Tingzhen died, and the imperial court, impressed by his merits, gave the title of Prince Shaobao, known as "Xiangyi".
It is worth mentioning that his grandson Lan Yuanmei served as the admiral of Fujian during the Qianlong period, quelling the "Lin Wenshuang People's Rebellion" in Taiwan, and after his death, he was also called "Xiangyi" by the Qing court.