Chapter 30 Chapter 2 Traffic in Xunwu

(1) Waterway Xunwushui originates from the mountains around Pangu Pass of Guiling Mountain, passes through Chengjiang, Jitan, Shipaixia, Chetou, and Liuche, flows into Longchuan, and goes down to Huizhou. Therefore, Xunwushui is the upper reaches of the Dongjiang River.The boat can go to Chengjiang.Along the river, Chengjiang, Jitan, and Liuche are the three largest fairs, and Jitan is second to none among the three fairs. In addition, from the stone row, you can pass the boat to the Heling in the urban area (ten miles south of the city). (2) land route With Shipaixia as the center, it is divided into four main roads: one passes through Jitan (30 miles), Chengjiang (60 miles), Pangu Pass, and leads to Yunmen Ridge (110 miles), for Xingguo, Yudu, Huichang is the main road leading to Guangdong.One road passes through the county seat (30 miles), Sanbiao (60 miles), Taiyangguan, and leads to Anyuan City (140 miles), which is the main road from Xinfeng, Anyuan to Mei County.A road passing through Zhucun, Niudouguang (20 miles) to Pingyuan's Bachi (45 miles), connecting Huichang and Anyuan to Mei County, that is, both Huichang and Anyuan roads converge at Shipaixia , common road leading to Mei County.One line goes through Chetou (20 miles), Liuche (35 miles), Huangtangdu (60 miles) to Luofu in Xingning (95 miles), Luogang (125 miles), and goes to Xingning and Wuhua are the main roads to find Wuxia and go down to Huizhou.

There are also several smaller roads: one is from Luotang (Sanli), which is dug to make up the boundary in Tong'anyuan, Chengjiang, and then from Luotang to Xiaba in the south, and to Menling in the north.One from Jitan via Xiaotian, Chuandu, and Shuyuan to Pingyuan (sixty miles).One goes from the county town to Wuping (180 miles) via Daluxia, Zixi, Jianxi, Liche, and Laidi.One line runs from the county seat to Hushan (sixty miles) in Anyuannan Township via Shangping, then goes from Hushan to Anyuan City (sixty miles) in the north, and goes west to Taiping (sixty-six miles) and Goose Fair (sixty miles) inside).One line goes from the county seat to Xinxu (sixty miles), then from Xinxu via Gonggongwei (three miles), Liangguang Pavilion (forty-five miles), to Dingnan's Egongxu (eighty miles), and then south through Egong Wei, west to Dingnan City, west to Xinfeng via Heziwei.From Xinxu via Calamus (twenty miles) and Aipaikou to Longchuan City (two hundred and forty miles).From calamus and Aipaikou to Xingning City (one hundred and eighty miles).The above roads are relatively small.

Starting from Xunwu City, it is 90 miles to Menling, 180 miles to Wuping, 240 miles to Meixian, 240 miles to Xingning, 110 miles to Anyuan, and 100 miles to Longchuan. Three hundred and ten miles, one hundred and sixty miles to Dingnan (via Shangping, Hushan, Taiping, Egongxu). (3) Telegraph In the past, the telegraph office was located in Jitan, but it was moved to the county seat in the 11th year of the Republic of China.The wire runs from Jitan to Xunwucheng, to Yunmenling, and to Pingyuan. (4) Post The county seat is a third-class post office.Go all the way to Jitan and Chengjiang Tongmenling.Go all the way to Niudouguang to lead to Bachi, and then to Meixian County from Bachi; and to Pingyuan from Bachi all the way.Going all the way to Sanbiao leads to Anyuan.There are "agency offices" in Chengjiang, Jitan, and Niudouguang, and "collection offices" in Sanbiao and Shipaixia.On the second, fifth, and eighth of the old calendar, go to Menling;Letters from Ganzhou went to Anyuan, and letters to Yudu and Xingguo went to Menling.The county post office can usually remit less than 200 yuan, and negotiating in advance is required for less than 500 yuan, otherwise it cannot.During the March 25 riot[8] the year before last, the postmaster was arrested and fined over 500 yuan.This time the new director was afraid of being caught, so he ran away early.The March 25 riot also killed a telegraph director.

(5) Land transportation equipment Like Guangdong, there are no cars on any road.Most of the land transport vehicles are the shoulder blades of living people, followed by mules and horses.There are many mules and horses on the main road of Tongmei County in the county seat, and there are also two roads in Tongmenling and Tongjitan roads in the county seat, but there are no other roads.The mules and horses transported are more mules than horses, but they are generally called "horses".The bulk of the goods carried by horses are two gates of salt and beans.