The Historical Evolution of Qingmuchuan

Qingmuchuan is located in the northwest corner of Ningqiang, at the junction of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, and in the Golden Dragon Belt.

Known as "one foot in three provinces", Shu is the westernmost town in Shaanxi, covering an area of 208 square kilometers, 0/36 kilometers away from the county seat/kloc-,with provincial nature reserves in the west and Jiuzhaigou in the west, 227 kilometers away. It is the throat of Qin Shu, an important border trade town where businessmen gather, and a battleground for military strategists. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wargo attacked Shu and led troops south to cross Qingmuchuan; In the tenth year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty (1637), the army of Li Zicheng, the conquering king, crossed into Sichuan from Qingmuchuan and occupied Qingchuan County. The Qing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Landa Shunyi Army and the official army fought fiercely in Qinjiaya. In the 12th year of the Republic of China (1933), the 1st Division and the 64th Division of the Kuomintang were stationed in Qingmuchuan for three days in an attempt to prevent the Red Army of Workers and Peasants from going north to resist Japan. 1949 10 Lv Jihua, the brigade commander of Hu Zongnan cavalry brigade, led the remnants to stay in Qingmuchuan for 9 days, trying to use the natural terrain for a life-and-death battle and fled to Sichuan under the powerful offensive of the People's Liberation Army. 1950, a battalion of PLA 19 army stationed in Qingmuchuan to carry out the task of eliminating bandits and defend the new regime.

During the Republic of China, politics was chaotic and bandits were rampant. Because the land was vast and the population was sparse, the government was unable to rule, and in troubled times,

Wei, a brave and aggressive local figure, has achieved. Wei plundered and extorted money in the village, established armed forces, ruled by himself, monopolized by himself, and dissociated from government governance. Wei is a poor peasant with three brothers, ranking third. By killing Wei Zhengxian, the militia leader at that time, he took control of local political power, planted poppies, bought guns, with thousands of people and hundreds of guns, and connected with local armed leaders on the Sichuan-Shaanxi border, forming a powerful armed group. * * * In a corner of western Ningxia, a special situation of the ruling party was established, which lasted for more than 20 years and became a powerful local armed force along the Shaanxi-Gansu-Sichuan border. Wei successively served as the captain of ningqiang county Independent Self-Defense Force, the captain of Ningxi People's Self-Defense Force, and the deputy director of the joint defense office of nine counties in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Sichuan. He built several mansions and married six wives. Although Wei grows opium, he doesn't smoke it himself and his men are not allowed to smoke it. He attached great importance to culture and set up a middle school and a drama club to send poor children out to study, while Wei, who yearned for living outside the mountain, never went out. Before liberation, Qingmuchuan was very prosperous, with foreign companies, businessmen, teahouses and hotels ... all these were Wei's achievements.

1949 12. After the liberation of Ning Qiang, Wei led the team to surrender with guns; 1952 during the counter-insurgency, Wei, who was designated as a bully and bandit, was shot in the playground of Fu Jen Middle School built by Wei.