During the Guangxu period, the Shaanxi Salt Gang was suppressed by the government. The leader was the swordsman Yang Yingui, who was forced to flee to Ziliujing Town, Sichuan to make a living.
Ziliujing is China's famous salt capital for thousands of years, with 30,000 to 40,000 salt merchants from all over the world gathered. The Shaanxi Salt Gang first arrived and was squeezed and blackmailed by local salt merchants. They endured the humiliation and finally selected a well site and started setting up stakes to dig salt wells using the ancient "snap method".
Year after year, in order to raise funds, caravans were organized to transport salt from artesian wells to Maotai Village in Kweichow. On this thousand-year-old salt transportation route, scenes of tragic and tragic love stories happened. The old Shaanxi people took the Moutai brewed in Guizhou to all directions along the old road of Yanbang.
They spent all the money they earned on digging salt wells. But the money seemed to be wasted, and it never showed results. People were talking a lot. Some people backed down, but Yang Yingui was not swayed by the rumors. In order to save money, he made a small stone mill by himself to make tofu and soy milk.
This salt well has been dug for eighteen years and has yet to show any success.
Yang Yingui decided to give up the salt well. In order to have a meal for the group, he exchanged the remaining stone mill for a few copper coins and asked his brothers to make teeth as a sacrifice. After eating and drinking, in order to express my gratitude to Boss Yang for his eighteen years of friendship, I decided to dig a well for the last time and do a farewell ceremony.
The King of Jumping led all the jumping workers, jumped onto the derrick, and bravely stepped on the file pole up and down to violently hit the salt well. Suddenly, there was a loud noise and a huge fire burst into the sky.
It finally worked.
To commemorate the stone mill, Yang Yingui registered the well as: "Mozi Well"
