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At 11:35 a.m. on May 21, the ninth year of the Republic of China, a gas explosion occurred in the Tianjiapu Coal Mine in Ningyang County, which is next to the ancient Yellow River, killing more than 1,000 people and shocking the whole country.

Tianjiapu began to be known to the world.

In fact, before it was known to the world, Tianjiapu also really existed. This ancient land, like every piece of land on this small planet, has undergone hundreds of millions of years of vicissitudes and changes, and has gone from eternity to today step by step according to the process of historical evolution.

Confronting its existence is not a discovery.

However, in May of the ninth year of the Republic of China, the entire Republic of China was chattering about the issue of "Tianjiapu explosion", as if Tianjiapu had fallen from the sky. This makes those historians who are well-versed in the past and the present have to use their brains to argue the existence of Tianjiapu; And those sociologists who are full of wealth have discovered the potential harm of modern industrial civilization to human beings; Some literati who were influenced by the Red Russian sociali** ideology were agitated, and while they were crying out for the laborers who had died, they fantasized feverishly about a big bang in the sociological sense......

In May of the ninth year of the Republic of China, the Tianjiapu issue became a major issue that attracted the attention of the public opinion circles of the Republic of China, and it was almost as important as the issue of "Shandong negotiations" concerning state sovereignty and the issue of the "Zhiwan War" concerning the national political situation. At that time, all major newspapers and periodicals across the country published news and articles about the "Tianjiapu explosion."

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So far, the earliest and most authoritative written record of Tianjiapu known in the world is the "Ningyang County Chronicles" compiled by Wang Bohou of Ningyang Zhixian in the second year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1737). It is recorded in the "County Chronicle":

Ningyang County is located at the junction of Sulu, Henan and Anhui provinces, and Tang Yao belonged to the country; In the Spring and Autumn Period, he stayed in the country and died and belonged to the Song Kingdom; The Qin Dynasty set up a county, named Ningdu; It was called Ningyang when Han Gaozu was born, and it has been inherited to this day. This land is about eighty-six miles wide from east to west and ninety-eight miles long from north to south; The county seat is located in the south-central area, 1,390 miles away from Suzhou Mansion, 886 miles away from Jiangning Mansion, and 1,300 miles away from Jingshi.

"County Chronicles" from why Dayu named Xi Zhong as Xue Hou and why Xue is the oldest surname in this place, until the Northern Song Dynasty Jin soldiers attacked Ningyang, turning Ningyang into a ruin as a volume. This volume is sprinkled and widely cited; The historical data is very rich, the historical facts are very detailed, and it is really a huge volume.

However, to the dissatisfaction of historians, Tianjiapu as a place name in this volume only appears once in the pen of Wang Bohou, which describes the first year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1078) when Su Dongpo was too punctual in Xuzhou, and sent personnel to Tianjiapu in Ningyang to inspect the people's situation, and occasionally got coal. For this reason, Dongpo once wrote a poem "Stone Coal Walk", and the song said:

You don't see the rain and snow the year before last, and the residents in the city were cracked.

Wet salary half a bundle of hugging robes, sunset knocks on the door and there is nowhere to change.

You don't see the rain and snow the year before last, and the residents in the city were cracked.

Wet salary half a bundle of hugging robes, sunset knocks on the door and there is nowhere to change.

Unexpectedly, there are treasures in the mountains, and they are as good as chimes and thousands of cars.

No one knows that the ointment bursts into the milk, and the gusts of fishy wind blow away.

The roots and seedlings are boundless, and thousands of people are inspired to see them.

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The coal sung by Dongpo is today's coal. It can be seen from the poem that the scale of mining back then was by no means a trivial matter, and it was so much that "10,000 people inspired 1,000 people to see". Therefore, this makes some historians with a taste for archaeology quite aware, and insist that the explosion in the ninth year of the Republic of China laid the ambush line as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, perhaps at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty mining, it exploded vigorously, but no conclusive evidence has been obtained so far.

Since then, it seems that it is difficult to find any record of Tianjiapu in this county chronicle compiled by Wang Bohou. The following three volumes are mostly about Ningyang feudalism, current politics, military disasters, turmoil, strange people and strange things, until the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng period Tian Jiapu out of a martial arts, Tian Jiapu was mentioned by the way......

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In the more than 110 years after the death of Wang Bohou Xian, after the great drought in the eighteenth year of Jiaqing (1813), the locust plague in the sixth year of Daoguang (1826), and the plague in the thirteenth year of Daoguang (1833), another major disaster occurred in the first year of Xianfeng (1851) in Ningyang......

It was the leap August of the year, the sky was abnormal, the rain was continuous, and there was no survivor of Tianhe. Between the spring and summer of this year, there are groups of urchins, with branches, sorghum straw as a boat shape, for the sound of Nai, to the late autumn and October, the Yellow River breaks in the southeast of Tianjiapu Zhangwangzhai.

The yellow water came fiercely, and it rushed over the fields overnight, drifting away the population, and turning most of the land of Ningyang and the three surrounding counties of Ningyang into an ocean. According to later statistics, no less than 100,000 people drowned in Ningyang in this river duel, and the huge Ningyang County fell to the ground with starvation, mourning all over the wilderness, and almost became a cemetery.

It was in this year that Hong Xiuquan, a Cantonese man, held the Jintian Uprising, established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, established the young lord, crusaded against the Qing court, and issued an edict at the end of the year to confer the title of king. At the same time, the Henan Twist Party took advantage of the situation, gathered people to raise righteousness, echoed the Kingdom of Heaven, and captured Nanyang, Nanzhao, and Tang counties in one fell swoop, and then coerced Yongcheng......

In the same year, the survivors of the Tian family left their homes under the leadership of their patriarch Tian Daokuanzhi and flowed along the Grand Canal to the area of Qingjiangpu in northern Jiangsu.

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The yellow water soaked the land for four years.

In the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), the yellow water gradually receded, the river defense was rebuilt, and the embankment was reinforced; The Yamen of Ningyang County returned to the county seat, and issued a notice to the people, encouraging reclamation, and declaring: The local people can apply for the land deed of the land that has not been claimed within the year, and reclaim it freely.

At the end of the year, a team of twisters with the Hu family as the main body was chased by the Qing soldiers and fled into Ningyang, knowing that the land here could be reclaimed freely, so they put away their knives and guns and reclaimed the land of the Tian family on the ruins of the original Tian family's shop.

In the next two years, the Hu family survived by eating locusts and wild vegetables. They painstakingly reclaimed the overgrown wasteland under their feet and began to take root on the land. In the sixth year of Xianfeng, the Hu family brought their fathers and sisters from their hometown to build a house. Gradually, Tianjiapu has become an eye-catching natural village, and its leader Hu Fengli has also changed from the head of the regiment to the master. He no longer wanted anyone to mention the Twist, so he ordered the abolition of all titles in the army at the time of the Twist......

In this year, the 3,000 people of the Harada family, under the leadership of their patriarch Tian Daokuan, rowed hundreds of wooden boats from Qingjiangpu along the Grand Canal to the north, arrived at their hometown Tianjiapu one evening in June, and built a new village on a high slope less than half a mile away from Hujia Village.

Thus began a bloody family war that had been fought for decades......

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It's a land war in the end.

The Tian family simply ignored the sweat shed by the Hu family to reclaim this land, insisting that the Qing Dynasty had not been extinguished, and the old land deed in their hands still had the force of law; The Hu family, on the other hand, did not recognize the Tian family's earliest sovereignty over the land, insisting that the official proclamation issued by the Ningyang County Government and the new title deeds in their hands had permanent legal authority.

The Hu and Tian families went to Fushang County one after another to file lawsuits in order to resolve the problem fairly. Unexpectedly, the old magistrate of the county who announced the people of Anmin had died of illness in office, and the new magistrate did not understand the truth, and the Taiping army was like a bamboo, occupying Jinling, trapping Wuhan, and attacking Nanchang, and the people were in turmoil, and the county adults had no time to deal with the Taiping army, so they naturally had no time to take care of this small family dispute.

Therefore, on March 9 in the spring of the eighth year of Xianfeng (1858), Tian Daokuan, the head of the Tian family, decided to launch a night attack to drive away the Hu family bandits in one fell swoop.

That night, hundreds of descendants of the Tian family entered the Hu family's village, hacked the Hu family's master Hu Fengli to death, and almost killed Hu Fengli's family of three generations and eighteen people, and even Hu Fengli's ten-year-old grandson Hu Delong was slashed in the back.

That night, the Hu family suffered more than 100 casualties. In retaliation, five days later, one evening, Hu Mingli, the new leader of the Hu family, led people into the village of the Tian family, set fire to the house, and killed the old patriarch of the Tian family, Tian Daokuan, with a rock. Then his eldest son Tian Deyi was captured and hung alive to a tree, and his strands were burned with a red-hot iron, and his eyes were alongled with needles until he was disemboweled......

The open, regular war between the Hu and Tian families lasted for seven years. In the past seven years, the men of the Tian family's "De" and "Dong" generations have almost died, and the men of the Hu family's "Feng" and "Ming" generations have also lost most of their ......

The land of Tianjiapu was soaked in blood, and new graves were added to the old graves.

When both of them are exhausted, when neither of them can live, they go out in groups to beg for food!

They would rather die, beg for food, than lose their backbone!

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In the third year of Tongzhi (1864), Zeng Wenzhenggong of Zeng Guofan broke Tianjing, exterminated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was found by the Qing Dynasty to add the crown prince Taibao and was awarded the title of first-class marquis; In May of the following year, he was ordered by the Holy Lord of the Qing Dynasty to supervise the military affairs of the three provinces of Zhilu and Henan, and to kill the Twist Army; In July, it was stationed in Linhuai, Anhui Province, and then moved to Xuzhou Mansion, Jiangsu.

In order to suppress the chaos, Zeng Wenzhenggong set up heavy troops in more than ten counties at the junction of Sulu, Henan, and Anhui provinces centered on Xuzhou Prefecture, and at the same time ordered villages and villages to dig deep trenches, extensively repair walled forts, and clear the wilderness.

When the Tian family saw that Zeng Wenzhenggong's soldiers were here, they thought that the time had come, and immediately rushed to Xuzhou Mansion and announced to Zeng Wenzheng, saying that the Hu family was a remnant of bandits, who had done many evils, and had harassed the place for many years, and should be exterminated. The Hu family did not show weakness, they relied on the land deed in their hands and the notice of the former magistrate of the county to counter-accuse the Tian family of being a stubborn bandit of the people, provoked armed killing, and should be punished according to the law.

After Zeng Wenzheng's guild made a visit to the local government, he was promoted to the court three times to inquire about the case, and finally, he asked the Holy Lord to make a ruling.

Zeng Wenzheng Gong believed: First of all, the Hu family participated in the rebellion, and the crime is unforgivable, and it should be beheaded according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty. However, considering that Hu Fengli, the head of the Hu family's culprit group, had died in the armed killing, and the rest of the group members voluntarily quit the chaotic party and made a living by reclaiming the wasteland, the twisted party did not follow many contacts; Therefore, it can not be pursued, but the leader of the armed fight should be punished. Second, the Tian family assisted the imperial court in the suppression of the bandits, and their ambitions were commendable, and the matter of killing 18 people, including Hu Fengli, the head of the regiment, and his family members could not be investigated, but the subsequent armed killings were really undisciplined and undisciplined, and the ringleaders of the armed killings must also be dealt with strictly. Third, the acres of land in the Tian family were redistributed by the government, and the Hu and Tian families should each guard the land boundary and live and work in peace and contentment, and once again provoke the armed killers, not to mention killing.

After the verdict was made, the Ningyang County Ya, with the assistance of officers and soldiers, immediately began to execute, and then arrested and executed Hu Mingli, the new leader of the Hu family, and then escorted the two ruffians of the Tian family to the county government with 80 rods and flail for public display.

Half a month later, Zeng led a large team of people to Tianjiapu to redistribute acres of land for the Hu and Tian families. This matter was recorded in the "County Chronicles" renewed by Zhang Heran, the governor of Ningyang in the fifth year of the Republic of China. It is written in the "County Chronicle":

In May, the sun was shining, the fields were green, and Zeng Xiangguo was on the horse, twisting his beard with his hands, and meditating for a long time. In an instant, the drums and cannons rang out in unison, and Xiangguo galloped in the sound of drums and cannons, passing through the countryside in the middle of Hujia District and Tianjia District, and the place where Xiangguo's horse's hooves stepped was the boundary; The officials behind him immediately sprinkled ** as a mark.

In this way, the boundaries of the Hu and Tian families were demarcated.

This was a great success for Zeng Wenzhenggong.

In that year, the Hu and Tian families were matched by the local gentry in Ningyang, collected hundreds of taels of silver, and jointly built a "Xiangguo Horse Monument" for Zeng Wenzheng, and later people called it the boundary monument. Taking this demarcation monument as a starting point, a ridge was repaired, and the ridge was called the demarcation ridge. Later, there were more and more residents on both sides of the dividing ridge, and the dividing ridge was gradually flattened, so the dividing ridge naturally became a dividing street. After entering the Republic of China, the boundary street has become the main street of Tianjiapu, due to the vigilance and precautions of both sides, everyone is reluctant to approach the street, this boundary street has always maintained a wide road surface.

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Although they claim that the emperor's grace is vast and the country is wise, the Hu family knows in their hearts that they have suffered losses in this lawsuit. Because they rebelled against the Qing court, the Qing court favored the Tian family; Zeng Wenzhenggong killed the three men of the Hu family, but did not kill a birdman of the Tian family, which is extremely unfair.

For the first time, they thought of studying and becoming officials, and they wanted the descendants of the Hu family to enter the ranks and become officials in the imperial court, in the Fuxian Yamen, and in the county government; Only by becoming an official can the Tian family be fundamentally subdued, and the shame of their participation in the twisting chaos can be washed away.

This year, Hu Delong was seventeen years old.

This year, the Hu family's private school opened. Hu Delong shook his head with seven or eight children in their teens and recited "Zi said: Learn and learn, don't you say ......"

The arrival of Zeng Wenzhenggong of Zeng Guofan made this fierce Hu family turn from martial arts to Chongwen.

In the tenth year of Tongzhi (1871), Hu Delong finally entered the school to increase the number of students in Xuzhou Prefecture.

In the fourteenth year of Guangxu (1888), Hu Delong was donated by the Hu family and received the title of tribute.

In that year, Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, sent his subordinate alternate magistrate Ji to set up a bureau in Qingquan County, east of Ningyang. There is also a boom in opening small kilns in Ningyang.

The Hu family and the Tian family dug up small kilns one after another.

During this period, Zeng Guofan Zeng Wenzheng died, the Hu and Tian families fought twice because of the land boundary, and Hu Delong, the only tribute of the Hu family, showed his skills, first with a fist stick, and then went to Fushang County, and won a lawsuit, and became the leader of the Hu family in one fell swoop. The Tian family introduced Tian Dongyang, the eldest son of Tian Deyi, as the new patriarch to compete with it.

The family wars continued to be fought on a sporadic and small scale for many years......

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What finally changed this status quo was the emergence of modern large-scale industry.

In the first year of the Republic of China, Li Shicheng, a native of Tianjin, came to Tianjiapu, collected small kilns, and bought mining land; Lay railways, build large wells, and prepare for the establishment of Dahua Coal Mine Co., Ltd.

The Hu family and the Tian family were deeply shocked, and they both felt that something was going to happen in this world. In the early years, they also opened kilns, but it was not such a method; This Li Shicheng and this Dahua Company are not the same thing as them. So, for the first time, they looked at this issue from the same angle and from the same standpoint.

In the eyes of the Tian family, the Hu family is an outsider and a guest; In the eyes of the Hu family, Dahua Company is an outsider. The legacy of the Tian family shop people also seeped into their blood, they forgot their identity as outsiders, and they unanimously opposed Dahua Company together with the Tian family.

However, no matter how the Tian family and the Hu family objected, Dahua Company's Oi still stood up. In the spring of the third year of the Republic of China, Dahua Company officially started production, and the coal train drove into Ningyang County along the embankment of the Yellow River.

At that time, the new governor of Ningyang, Zhang Heran, took the lead in becoming a local advisor to Dahua Coal Mine Co., Ltd.

Hu Gongye and Tian Er were a little apprehensive at this time, and then they realized that something was wrong, and they knew that they would never be able to compete with Dahua Company by their own strength, so after Li Shicheng issued a letter of appointment, they also successively became the local consultant of Dahua Company. Tian Dongqin, a distant brother of Tian Er, simply went to the company to pack a large cabinet and summoned the Tian family's queen to give birth to a kiln; Hu Gongye was not to be outdone, and secretly dredged up, allowing his cronies to work in the company......

Subsequently, the murder and dispute between the Hu and Tian families gradually subsided, and their eyes were no longer just staring at each other; While staring at each other, they also stared at Dahua Company and this dazzling world.

This world no longer belongs to ***, no longer belongs to Aixinjue Luo, it is said that this world belongs to the people......

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Dahua Coal Mine Co., Ltd. brought unprecedented prosperity to Tianjiapu. In just a few years, this small village near the Yellow River in the north and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the south has become an important market town second only to Ningyang County.

The boundary street has naturally become the most lively street in Tianjiapu Town, the north of the street is the Tianjia District with the Tian family as the main body, the south of the street is the Hujia District with the Hu family as the main body, the east boundary monument is the location of the Dahua Coal Mining Company, and the mass grave in the west of the street has been under the embankment of the Yellow River, all of which have become the territory of foreign potters.

In the sixth year of the Republic of China, the Tian family laid out the town council and the town board of directors, Hu Gongye of the Hu family became the vice chairman of the town council, and the second master of the Tian family became the chairman of the town board of directors. In the same year, a tax card was set up here, a money village was set up, plus two kilns brought by the mining and three first-class foreign goods shops, and a small town with a modern civilization atmosphere centered on coal began to take shape.

However, the people of Tianjiapu never dreamed that Dahua Company, which brought unprecedented prosperity to Tianjiapu, could fundamentally destroy Tianjiapu!

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In this way, when some Tianjiapu people were confused and uneasy, and when another part of Tianjiapu people were dreaming of making a fortune, the hour hand of China's modern industrial history pointed to 11:35 midnight on May 21, the ninth year of the Republic of China......