According to the memories of Jiang's elders and Jiang's genealogy, it turns out that the ancient Jinhua House (including Yiwu, Lanxi and Pujiang) has always been a battleground for military strategists, with frequent wars and famines, and often people are in poverty. For example, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Fang La Uprising captured Wuzhou (Jinhua). In A.D. 1357, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Hu Dahai to attack Jinhua, but he didn't shoot it for more than a year. 13581February, Zhu Yuanzhang personally directed Li Wenzhong and others to attack Jinhua city. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising (chaos and long hair) sent Wang Li Shixian to attack Jinhua, etc. These wars caused refugees to flood into the surrounding mountains.
As early as the first year of Thailand (1324~ 1327), Jiang Rongkui and Jiang led a group of refugees to move here from Sanbanqiao, Yiwu, and found that it was basically in an undeveloped wilderness, without the interference and competition of reclaiming wasteland, and it was a natural torreya forest. Torreya grandis is an evergreen tree, belonging to Torreya of Taxaceae, which generally grows in foggy, humid and cool alpine valleys with an altitude of 300-800 meters. The whole cycle of sexual reproduction of torreya grandis is 29 months, and it takes 3 years from the formation of flower bud primordium to the maturity of fruit morphology. From May to September every year, two generations of fruits grow and develop on the tree at the same time, and the flower bud primordium of the new generation of fruits is developing, which is called "three generations of the same tree". The life span of torreya grandis is hundreds or even thousands of years. Known as "longevity tree", it is a national second-class protected tree species. Torreya grandis is a rare fruit, which can be eaten and made rich. Rich in fat and grease, the content is as high as 5 1.7%, even exceeding peanuts and sesame seeds. At that time, the Chiang brothers led everyone to pick up hundreds of loads of wild torreya grandis fruit for nothing, which was an important material basis for them to survive the famine, so they did not hesitate to set up a hut here and settle down. My brother lives in Jingling, and his name is Jiang. My brother lives under Jingqiaoling and calls himself Jiang.
At the same time, the Hong family who moved didn't want to fight with the Jiang family, so one of them moved to Yang 'e, where it gradually developed. Others, such as Lin Heyu who later moved from Lanxi and Pujiang, had to live in Wangpiwu, not far away.
Because people in Yiwu, Lanxi and Pujiang are hardworking and good at management, they have reclaimed many mountainous areas and planted food crops in this area. Year after year, they gradually lived a life of food and clothing, transporting surplus grain, torreya grandis and wood out of the mountain for sale in exchange for other necessities of life of the mountain people. There are also many vendors who take the initiative to buy products here and continue to transport other goods into the mountains, so this deep forest has quickly become a commodity distribution center, and many people here have become wealthy businessmen. When the ancients had money, they bought land first and then built houses. Gradually, in the vicinity, even Mazhai has the land, real estate and farmland of landlords who go up to Chiang Kai-shek and down to Chiang Kai-shek.
Cang Li Man knows manners. Landlords began to build ancestral halls, revise genealogy, draw up family rules and establish family instructions, and invited famous teachers to teach their children literacy, good and evil in the ancestral halls, hoping that they could understand books and live a high-class life. It is said that during the Republic of China, there were nine scholars in Shangjiang and Xiajiang. One is the secretary of the county magistrate, the other is the secretary of the battalion commander, and the other is proficient in Chinese medicine, which cured the strange disease of the county magistrate. The county magistrate gave him a white horse. Since then, the Chiang family has established a good relationship with the ruling class and has become more prosperous.