Xi baotian
1June, 864 (April in the third year of Tongzhi), Hong Xiuquan died of illness in Tianjing, and his son Tianguifu Hong succeeded to the throne as the young king. At this time, the capital of Tianjing was besieged by Xiang for half a year, and the city was broken. /kloc-in July, 2009, the wall of Tianjing collapsed in Ceng Guoquan, where Xiang troops rushed into the city, and Tianjing fell. Tianguifu Hong, the young heavenly king, escaped from Tianjing under the escort of Li Xiucheng and others, and was welcomed into Guangde by Wang Hongren-hyun. Later, they merged to stop Wang and other Taiping rebels, intending to go to Jiangxi to serve Hubei Wang Li Shixian and Kang Wang, and then merged with Wang Decai and Lai in Jingzhou and Xiangyang to seek the Central Plains. But this is exactly what I said:' the ideal is full and the reality is very skinny! "。 In Shicheng, Jiangxi Province, they will meet a strong Xiang army, defeated and killed. This brave general of the Xiang army, who has been forgotten by the world, is precisely the young Bao Prince Xi Baotian, who was praised by the Qing court as "the hero of Zhongxing".
1859, Shi Dakai, the wing king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, attacked Yongzhou from Guangxi and surrounded Baoqing (Shaoyang). Xi Baotian and Liu Changyou blocked the Taiping Army from the west of Yongzhou, and Lien Chan was defeated in Wugang, Xinning and Baoqing, and pursued the Taiping Army to Guangxi and captured Liuzhou. After winning, he was promoted to magistrate by virtue of his merits. However, unlike, Bao Chao, Li and other disciplines, Yasuda can play, but it is not used much in the disciplines. 1860, Yasuda was ordered by Governor Luo of Hunan Province to raise more than a thousand soldiers, and soon went to Chenzhou, Guiyang and other places to stop the Guangdong Heaven and Earth Society Rebels (instead, he was sent to the marginal battlefield because of his meritorious service). Since then, Baotian has been far away from the main battlefields of Xiang and Taiping Army.
In the first year of Tongzhi (1862), Shi Dakai led the Taiping Army to re-enter Hunan from Guangxi, captured Huitong and Laifeng from Hubei, and besieged Qianyang. Xi Baotian led the troops to fight, defeated and conquered the siege of Qianyang. In the next two years, Yasuda led his troops and defeated Huang, the general of Taiping Army, at Hukou, Shimen and Qingshan Bridge. In Baisha Pass, Wang Shi and Li Shixian's troops of Taiping Army were blocked, and Cambridge Pass and Jinxi were captured. Later, due to poor rescue, he was reduced from lieutenant to magistrate. Just when Xi Baotian thought his future was hopeless, the opportunity came. 1In July, 864, Tianjing of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fell, and Tianguifu Hong, the young king, and Hong Rengan, the dry king, broke through to Guangde and entered Jiangxi via southern Anhui. Xi Baotian led the army to intercept the Taiping Army. At this time, although there were tens of thousands of Taiping rebels, they had been pursued by the Qing army, blocking Wang Wenjin's way. They were poorly equipped, demoralized and fighting.
1864 10, Xi Baotian led his troops to defeat the Taiping Army in the Battle of Shicheng, and the remnants of this Taiping Army were completely annihilated. Xi Baotian captured the dry Wang Hong, compassionate Wang Hong, Zhao Wang and young Wang of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom alive. 1 1 At the end of the month, Hong Rengan and the young king Tianguifu Hong were ordered by the Qing court to execute the death penalty that year. Because of "meritorious military service", Xi Baotian is an official and political envoy who likes to wear a yellow jacket. He is a hereditary riding captain and a cloud riding captain. Later, Xi Baotian led his troops to Guizhou to suppress the local peasant uprising and killed the rebel leader Zhang Xiumei. Later, he claimed to be ill and resigned. He died in the fifteenth year of Guangxu (1889) at the age of 60. In the Qing court, Dr. Feng Guanglu was posthumously awarded Prince Shao Bao and painted in Ziguangge, known as the "Zhongxing hero".
During the suppression of Taiping Army and Miao uprising, Baotian robbed a lot of money and soon became a millionaire. There is also a story among the people that "Xi Baotian beat gangsters with silver". It is said that after Xi Baotian laid the Wenggu Cave in Guizhou, he got a lot of gold and silver treasures and shipped them back to his hometown. The ship arrived in lengshuitan and was robbed by a gang of bandits.
Xi Baotian said, "Why don't you need silver ingots for war?" When a ingot of silver was thrown out, the bandits just robbed the silver, and the guards took the opportunity to carry away the gold and silver treasures. After his illness, he returned to his hometown, bought a lot of land and built a manor. The manor opposite the Tang Tiancheng River was founded at this time. Located at the junction of Fuxing Village and Zhuyuan Village, Tangtian City, Wugang District. Its engineering layout and construction technology are a must at this time, and the planning is unprecedented in the county.
Xi Baotian lived to be 6 1 year old and died in a villa in Tangtian City. As my grandparents said, it is said that when Xi Baotian was buried, in order not to let outsiders know where his real body was buried, the Xi family organized 48 sets of coffins to be buried in 48 places, during which he was buried in his hometown-Shachongling, Huang Ting. In fact, it was a fake grave-his real grave, buried in the Fuyi River under the Furong Peak in Tangtian City. In the early 1980s, there was a stone tablet about 1 person high in front of the tomb, but it disappeared. It is said that it was smashed by grave robbers.
It is reported that the location of Xi Tomb in Shachongling is called Muyu Mountain locally, and Muyu Mountain has a strange place-there is no obvious stone in the whole mountain, but at the foot of the mountain slightly south ahead, there is a shale boulder with a length of about 5 meters and a basic level. Under the boulder, there is a shale groove with a height of about/kloc-0.5 meters and a depth of about 2 meters, which looks like the mouth of a giant animal.
During the period of breaking the four modernizations, the field curtain of Bao was pried open by several masons in front of the grave, and loess was exposed under the hard surface. They dug up the loess, put dozens of pounds of explosives, and opened the tomb cover with a bang, exposing the top and toes of the coffin and unable to open it. So they broke the ankle of the coffin with a sledgehammer, exposed the feet of the body, tied it with a rope and dragged the body out.
The body is well preserved, black and yellow, and its muscles are elastic. It is dressed in a five-layer silk coat, a yellow coat for official service, a big round hat with heraldry on it, red beads on its neck, a purple ribbon around its waist, a Korean brand in hand and leather boots on its feet. There is a sword, a hookah and a pair of glasses in the coffin.
At that time, everyone wanted to see the faces of historical figures. Four or five days, there was a heavy rain, and the body was soaked by the rain and rotted quickly. It is said that Xi Baotian's clothes and funerary objects have been handed over to the relevant county departments.
One afternoon in the 1980s, four young people (Wujiaqiao people) searched the tomb of Xi Baotian that night. The next day, the nanmu coffin that had not been dug up was turned upside down by them, leaving four dark stone tablets engraved with "Tomb of Xi Baotian" at the bottom of the tomb. A few years later, probably in the 1990s, another grave robber visited the tomb of Xi Baotian. They arrived in the middle of the night and dug down the stone tablet on the grave, revealing a tomb made of blue bricks, five feet square, which might contain some gold and silver treasures, but when we found the grave, it was empty with only four walls.
Sixty years, one son, the wind and water turn. How many people know about the magnificent tombs and luxurious manors destroyed and the great wealth?