When the bus from the north and the boat from the south reach the border of Jiangxi and meet people from Jiangxi, maybe you will call me "cousin" kindly. In the inland of Jiangxi, especially in the countryside, everyone is old-fashioned and short-sighted, which has almost become synonymous with Jiangxi farmers. Why do Jiangxi people have this reputation? It is said that the first person named Jiangxi Laobiao was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the leader of peasant uprising, and Chen Youliang, another uprising leader who occupied Hankou and Huguang, fought fiercely in Fanyang Lake, Jiangxi Province 18. Chen Youliang was born as a fisherman and had many brothers, all of whom were good at fighting. According to Yugan County Records, in A.D. 1363, Chen Youliang dispatched dozens of huge ships and 600,000 sailors surrounded Hongdu (Nanchang). In this battle, Chen Junxiao and Zhang Dingbian almost wiped out Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang, with his beaten army, put all his eggs in one basket and fled into the reeds at the port branch.
Fanyang Lake stretches for 800 miles as far as the eye can see. Zhu Yuanzhang was cornered. One day, they finally approached a peninsula land. Upon inquiry, it is also called Kang Langshan and belongs to yugan county. The villagers found several damaged warships floating on the lake and went forward to ask. It turned out that they were Zhu Yuanzhang's army and played the banner of "eliminating bandits, relieving people's sufferings, practicing benevolence and righteousness, and not being greedy for money and goods". Let's get them ashore and settle down for treatment. Every family sends food and pork and takes care of them like relatives. Zhu Yuanzhang was shot with several arrows and was seriously injured. The villagers hid him in a cave and asked the doctor to pull out the arrow and disinfect him, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very moved. Zhu Yuanzhang asked the villagers what your surname was, and the villagers said that their whole village was surnamed Chen. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy after hearing this. It was fate that my uncle in Fengyang's hometown was also surnamed Chen. Maybe it was a family 500 years ago. So, you and I are still cousins. Since then, the two sides have called each other "cousins."
After Zhu Yuanzhang recovered, he used this as a stronghold to recruit soldiers, collect old staff, train sailors and accumulate food and grass. After two years' efforts, he reorganized his military forces and deployed 200,000 naval divisions in Kang Langshan. With the support of local people, Zhu Yuanzhang loaded a large number of fishing boats with reeds and grass people, loaded with gunpowder and oil, and attacked Chen Ying by the northeast wind. In a 36-day water battle, Chen Youliang was hit in the head by a stream vector and died. This battle laid a solid foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang to unify the whole country and establish the Ming Dynasty.
In A.D. 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne in Yingtianfu (Nanjing), surrounded by thousands of people, and lived a long life, and ascended the throne of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. A few years later, Jiangxi was flooded for years, and Poyang Lake Plain was a land of Zeguo without crops. People are struggling with hunger and cold, and they are in pain. Therefore, Kanglangshan people chose three courageous and knowledgeable young people to find Zhu Yuanzhang.
Three young people traveled day and night, hand in hand, and went through hardships to come to Nanjing. A countryman went to Beijing, not knowing that the palace compound was heavily guarded and he could not see the emperor. In desperation, he risked his life to knock on the bell and drum in front of the palace. The bells and drums really alarmed the emperor Zhu. He asked, "Who dares to drive?" The eunuch reported: "Three people came from Jiangxi, saying they were old cousins of the Sagrada Familia, and they always wanted a ride." When Zhu Yuanzhang heard that he was a cousin from Jiangxi, he raised his hand and said, "Open the middle door quickly and send a big gift to welcome him."
Zhu Yuanzhang met Jiangxi's "cousin" and asked him why. He comforted him with words and treated him with good wine. He immediately decided to allocate a large amount of money and food to help victims in Jiangxi, while Kang Langshan was exempt from paying grain tax and sent it to the whole country. Since then, Jiangxi cousins have spread all over the country.