This article: Xiamen Evening News June 5438+February 2006 1 1 Edition 17 Author: Sun Huangyuan Title: "Xiamen Jingxian Grandson's land transfer contract plot is located in Datong Road and Zhenbang Road today"
Recently, from tens of thousands of real estate contracts from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China, the Municipal Archives of Land Resources and Real Estate Surveying and Mapping found three land sales contracts signed by Zheng Keqi, the brother of Qihan Army, and stamped with the seal of "Zuo Ling". According to expert research, the department was founded by Zheng Keqi, the grandson of national hero Zheng Chenggong.
At the beginning of the last century, the old shadow of Datong Road in Fujian Province issued a land certificate.
Very strict ancient commercial contract
These three contracts were all concluded in the forty-ninth year of Kangxi (17 10), all of which stated that the buyer of the foundation "built shops and houses with tile wood in the first year, and collected local taxes year by year. When it was burned down for the second time in Guimao and Gengshen years, it still made a living by building a foundation, and reported the place names in the survey book, and awarded it as "quasi-silver" and "the foundation is my family's ancestral business, and I am hereby ordered to repay it". It can be seen that although these three plots are Zheng's ancestral heritage, the buildings on the ground are all built by people with foreign surnames, and the Zheng family has no right to use and dispose of them. It was not until after "selling the bill" that Zheng Keqi was able to be in Kangxi forty-nine years (17 10).
After reading the contract, it is not difficult to see that this is a very strict commercial contract. The main part lists the detailed terms. At the end of the article, there are the signatures of the seller, the insider and the guardian, as well as the official seal of "the official seal of Zhu parents in this county". It is particularly noteworthy that the left side of the contract is also pasted with the land certificate issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Fujian Province, which embodies the idea that "the land in the world is not a king, the land is on the coast, and it is not a king's minister". In Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was the highest local administrative organization, and the Qing Dynasty basically followed the Ming system. At that time, China had 18 foreign ministries, commonly known as eighteen provinces.
The two incinerations mentioned by Wen Qi, the first one was in Guimao year of Kangxi (1663), showed that Jia Zheng's property had been confiscated and distributed to the people before this. In the second year of Ming Longwu (1646), Zheng Chenggong raised the flag, and in the sixteenth year of Ming Li Yong (1662), the Dutchman was driven back to Taiwan Province, and his son Zheng Jing took the San Francisco Rebellion and planned to set up his own home and attack Taiwan in Shi Lang. His grandson, Zheng Keli, knelt down, was called into Beijing to be an official and added a title, and even got an ancestral legacy of "to pay off".
These three plots are located in today's old city. According to records, Zheng Keqi sold two foundations, namely, "Shen Qian Street Crossing the Alley in Fushan Community, Xiamen" and "Xinshutou Crossing the Street Boy in Fushan Community, Xiamen", which changed hands for more than 220 years from the forty-ninth year of Kangxi (17 10) to 1933. For example, Kangxi called it the cross street of Shen Qian Street of Fushan Society, Qianlong called it the cross street in front of Guandi Temple of Fushan Society, Guangxu called it Huamian Lane of Baoheng Street of Fushan, Tianxiang of Baoheng Street of Fushan in the Republic of China, 44 1 Datong Road at the end of the Republic of China, and now it is called No.70-6 Datong Road. Because they are adjacent, their houses were all bought by Jianyuanhang at 1933, so the two contracts (see figure) of 1 and No.2 are one file.
The property under contract No.3 (see the picture) has also changed hands 10 times in more than 220 years, and the last buyer before liberation was Chen Jiesheng; Located in the place name Kangxi, it was then called muxi Lane, Shen Qian Street, Fushanshe, Xiamen; Muxi Lane, Baoshenqian Street, Fushan during Guangxu period; 83 Zhenbang Road, Republic of China; Now it's 87 Zhenbang Road. This shows the great changes of ancient and modern place names in Xiamen.
The author and others visited the website. After 300 years of great changes, the pattern of "going to the street before, then to the ditch, left to the forest and right to the yellow" mentioned in the contract has disappeared. I asked the old man about the past several times, but I shook my head. But 70-6 Datong Road and 87 Zhenbang Road are separated by a narrow street, only a dozen meters. In ancient times, they may be connected as a whole, or they may be adjacent wooden houses. No wonder there were two fires in the year of Guimao (1663) and Gengshen (1680). According to the words "barracks" and "pacify the master" in the contract and the background analysis of the Qing army's occupation of Kashima after Zheng Chenggong went to Taiwan, the first disaster was destroyed by war.
It should be noted that we originally wanted to publish it by aerial photography, but considering that it would be misleading to explain the ancient landform with today's landform, we had to replace it with the old shadow of Datong Road Old Street at the beginning of last century. However, there is one thing to think about by the way: Zheng Chenggong runs five commercial buildings, namely water, fire and earth, in Jin Mu, and the whole Xiamen Island is his sphere of influence, but the division between public and private is so clear, and the procedures for three private properties are complete, which is still well documented and admirable!