Chapter 25 Hmong issue

The Miao people in western Hunan are concentrated in three counties, namely Yongsui County in the upper reaches of Baihe River and adjacent to Baojing, Gancheng County in the upper reaches of Donghe River, and Fenghuang County in the upper reaches of Mayang River and bordering Mayang.As far as the map is concerned, these three counties are connected to each other.The discussion on the Miao people's issue should be traced back to the history.Its evolution and changes are inseparable from the issue of farming, the gains and losses of the country's policies towards it in the past, and the various influences it has suffered since the Republic of China with the changes in the civil war.How did they support in the past and the current situation, and what may be different in the future.How they obtain weapons, turn from good citizens into bandits, and how they are transformed from bandits, they are expected to become the most needed members of the defense of the country's land at present.This issue is the same as other issues in western Hunan. When discussing it, there is really too much to say.But this article does not intend to make such a discussion.Most people are concerned about other places, probably not how the Miao people are reformed, but these poor compatriots who were forced to the border areas, are they really serious about grabbing goods and killing everyone they see?Are they savage beyond reason?Will they still be there in the future... This string of questions is inevitable.Precisely because there were indeed all the above-mentioned problems in the local area at a certain time.

This kind of old account is really painful.We should know that Xiangxi was treated as a barbarian at a certain time in the past.Although willing to become a vassal, it is inevitable to be assimilated.Discrimination is also very natural, it has two reasons. The first is political strategy. The person in charge of ruling a province made a mistake in his habits. As usual, he believed that he must suppress one thing and promote another in order to control this area where Han and Miao people are mixed.One is the lack of understanding. The person in charge is ignorant of Xiangxi. He has never done any investigations on all aspects of the current society, nor has he ever done an analysis of the ethnicity in history. The impression we get in Xiangxi determines the so-called political strategy for dealing with Xiangxi.The lack of understanding resulted in the temporary success of the policy and the corruption of almost the whole place.As far as this matter is concerned, it has become a thing of the past.In the future, Xiangxi will be handed over to Xiangxi people again, and the leaders are willing to share the responsibility with the outstanding people in Xiangxi, and hope that foreign intellectuals can help to make this place better, so that there can be a turning point.As for the whole problem, although there are so many things, it is impossible to talk about it; as for the Miao people problem, those who come to these thirteen counties to be officials, regardless of outsiders or locals, must give up the mental state of being a conqueror for two or three thousand years , there should be a fundamental principle, that is, all are equal.Educational, economic and personnel positions should strive for equality.Get rid of discrimination, get rid of prejudice, get rid of all the harshness that happens because of habit.Where possible, marriages between Hakka and Miao people should be rewarded.If this can be done, the Miao people in western Hunan will not become a problem.As for the current stability, a person who wants to come to Xiangxi is not welcome except for traitors, drug dealers, and rogues who have absurd delusions and prepare to come to Xiangxi to search and exploit. Or, any legitimate businessman who intends to invest, all government officials and intellectuals distributed to the rear, as well as homeless refugee women and children, will definitely receive due care and help when they come to Xiangxi, so that there will be no undue harm. Difficulties.Xiangxi people love friends, know to respect knowledge, and need people to develop and conquer the ground, organize the masses, and educate the masses.Anyone who comes to Xiangxi, as long as he is willing to take a little time to get to know Xiangxi first, understand Xiangxi, he will have a different view of everything in Xiangxi, so that he will not be preconceived and feel terrible.Generally speaking, western Hunan is regarded as the bandit's area, and the bandits think that the Miao people are the most cruel. This is not a deliberate slander, but a misunderstanding.Little do they know that if the political leaders of a province are well-informed, and those in power have a little knowledge and conscience, they will not over-extort and harshly punish these common people in the mountains. , an extremely lovable kind-hearted citizen.

Xiangxi people who have served in the military and are forced to have no choice but to go to the mountains to become bandits are not happy to be bandits.If an enlightened politics of men of virtue, politics of gentlemen, and politics of experts can be realized, governing western Hunan should be easier than governing any other place. Of course, there is another kind of vagrants in western Hunan who take banditry as their occupation. The origin of this kind of elements is complicated, and not all of them are from western Hunan, especially not the kind-hearted Miao people who have resettled their land.Most of them are from Sichuan, Guizhou, and Hubei on the border, and a few people from Xiangxi.This can be said to be the product of decades of civil war in China.These bandits live on the borders of the four provinces and come and go indefinitely.

This kind of banditry made Xiangxi not only suffer from corruption, but also bear the title of "bandit area".To solve this problem, we should proceed fundamentally to make Xiangxi the Xiangxi of China for development and education.The ruler did not regard himself as a "conqueror" and did not treat the Miao people as "conquered". Everything would be very different.