Fourth, about Li Jiqianzhai

Li Zicheng was born in Li Jiqian Village, 200 miles west of the Mizhi River, more than 60 miles away from his old hometown Yan (called Changliang Bay in the Ming Dynasty) (both places are now Hengshan Land), which is the indisputable view of experts and scholars in the past dynasties.

The key is that this place is the place where the Dangxiang Tuoba clan lived after moving eastward, which is the best evidence that Li Zicheng is a Dangxiang Qiang person.

Dangxiang is a branch of the Qiang ethnic group, and during the Eastern Han Dynasty, their center of activity was in Xihai County (now Haiyan County, Qinghai). In the 2006 Youth Song Contest held by CCTV, two brothers from Qinghai won the second place in the original singing method, and they are the indigenous people of this place. Tuoba clan is one of the eight major tribes in the Qiang nationality, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, occupied "east to Songzhou (now Pansong, Sichuan), west to Yehu, south to Chunsang, north to Tuhun, more than 3,000 miles of land". In the 8th year of Tang Zhenguan (634), he was attached to the Tang Dynasty, divided 32 states, took Songzhou as the governor's office, and appointed Tuoba Chici as the governor of Xirong, and gave the surname Li. After the Wei and Jin dynasties, due to the unbearable invasion of the Tubo Dynasty, he asked for internal migration. Tang Xuanzong was resettled in Qingzhou (now Qingyang County, Gansu) and other prefectures, and was named the Duke of Xiping. In the second year of Tang Guangde (764), Guo Ziyi, the envoy of Shuofang (now Lingwuxi, Ningxia), in order to prevent the party from being instigated by others, suggested that the imperial court move the party items of Jingbian and other six prefectures to the north of Yinzhou (now Mizhi) and the east of Xiazhou (Tongwancheng in the west of Hengshan). Tang Dynasty Zong adopted his suggestion, and from then on, the party Tuoba clan was divided into two shares, of which one headed by Tuoba Chaoguang lived in Xia Prefecture and was called Pingxia Department.

This large area of land in northern Shaanxi is centered on Li Jiqianzhai. In other words, the Li clan has lived on this land north of the Wei River and in the loop since 746 AD. Later, the Huangchao rebel army invaded Chang'an, and Xizong fled to Sichuan. Pingxia Youzhou (now Jingbianxi) Thorn Shi Tuoba Sigong gathered tens of thousands of people from his tribe and other ethnic minorities to kill cattle and swear an oath to defeat the rebel army, which was valued by the Tang Dynasty, and Xizong gave his army as a difficult army. After three years of bloody fighting, they joined forces with Yanmen to invade Chang'an. For this reason, the king of Tang named Tuoba Sigong as "Duke of Xia" and once again "gave the surname Li". After five generations of changes, personnel changes and war disputes, the party project extension department took advantage of the opportunity of the feudal warlord melee to gradually develop and expand its own strength, and by the end of the next year, it had formed a local separatist force centered on Xiazhou (Tongwancheng). Not only did they collect taxes, but they also appointed officials, "though they did not claim the title of king, but they remained their kings for a long time." In 960 A.D., after Zhao Kuangyin mutiny and became emperor, he still gave the party a brocade robe and a silver belt.

However, not long after, Song Taizong cut off the posts of **Wen, **Xianzhi Xiazhou and Suizhou assassins, in an attempt to eradicate the situation of the party's separation from generation to generation in one fell swoop. This gave rise to a major conflict between the party aristocracy and the ruling class of the Song dynasty.

Li Jiqian is Li Jishou's brother, when he learned that his brother was forced to enter the court, and handed over the land of Wuzhou, and his brother Li Jichong and other false nurses died, went out of the city for burial, collected all the weapons and loaded into the funeral car, led the family and cronies dozens of people to flee Yinzhou, went straight to the place where the party Xiang clan lived, and took out the portrait of the ancestor Tuoba Sizhong to instigate, and asked everyone not to forget the ancestral family business, so more and more people followed, and since then embarked on a road that is enemy of the Song Dynasty. After the unremitting efforts of his son Li Deming and grandson Li Yuanhao, three generations of party members, fought bloodily, and finally established the country and became the emperor in Yinchuan, Ningxia. It is known as the "Western Xia Dynasty" in history.

After the anti-Song Dynasty, he returned from Ordos to seize Yinxia and other prefectures, and stationed troops in Li Jiqianzhai. The mountains and ravines here are deep, the land is fertile, it is an excellent place for the soldiers of the past dynasties to raise horses and gather grain and grass, and it is also the old nest of the Dangxiang clan, Li Jiqian naturally attaches great importance to this place.

It is also an indisputable fact that Li Zicheng went down to Xi'an and established the Dashun Dynasty after establishing the Western Xia Taizu Li Jiqian as the ancestor of the Immortals

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Gao Zhaochu, a scholar of rice fat, believed that when Bian Dazhu excavated the tomb, Li Zicheng's ancestral cemetery had 23 tombs and more than 1,000 trees. According to the calculation of 3 people buried in each generation, there are also seven or eight generations. How many generations can there be under the great-great-grandfather?

As for the story of the people of Lijiazhan who changed their surname to Ye in the early Qing Dynasty, when the Manchus killed the people of the Li clan in Lijiazhan, they also killed the people of Li Jiqian's village; the story of the people in Lijiazhan who changed their surname to Ye has also been passed down from mouth to mouth in Li Jiqianzhai, and the people surnamed Ye in the surrounding villages also said the same