Gossip Well-built gossip wells and Taoist Yin and Yang gossip is irrelevant. In the first year of Tongzhi (1862) in the Qing Dynasty, in order to prevent war, the water inside the city was cut off. Wenshan, a magistrate, built a water well behind Chenguangcheng Temple in the west of the city and was well over two feet (about 7 meters below the Meijiang dry season) , The Meishui River was introduced into the well from the Grand Reservoir (name of the river section, 200-300 meters upstream from Ximen Bridge, Yucai High School), and the platform was built into an octagon called "Bagua Well". On the one hand, this measure has shortened the distance for taking water and facilitated ordinary people. On the other hand, it has taken the initiative to introduce water sources into the city.

　Xiushan militant warlord repeatedly robbed
After the Revolution of 1911, warlords and scuffles, Xiushan as the border town of the border between Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou, and the gritty land of rich rice, were often occupied by warlords of various quarters.

One of them, Li Shanbo, drew up a unit called the "Rediscovery Army" and repeatedly asked Xiushan for money and food. The local militia in Xiushan could not compete with him and had resorted to Wang Youshan .
He sent Peng Guo Ping as the representative to Xiushan and Li Shaobo negotiations. Li Shanbo forced pressure on Wang Besshan, promised to withdraw troops, but asked him to raise Xiushan "pull fee." Peng Guobin then stay in Xiushan as county magistrate, fund-raising away Li Shanbo, and Xiushan Public Security appointed Long Chi Tuan Xiong always chair.

　　话说这个熊湘也不是一般人，他因随父亲经营秀油而成为秀山首富，历任秀山县团练局长、黔江县长、秀山县长。他负责秀山之后，对社会事业非常看重，又是兴办学校，又是练习团丁设防。围城45天全赖八卦井供水可惜好景不长，1918年，那个开拔走的李善波又无耻的跑回秀山来要钱要粮。这下秀山人民彻底愤怒了，终于奋起反抗，不让李部进城。熊湘带领秀山男女老少齐上城墙。滚石擂木，刀枪棍棒，打退了李部的多次进攻。  

Li Shaobo a look storm does not work, then adopted the siege strategy, the fence is 45 days. But Li Shanbo miscalculated, Xiushan rich rice, the city did not lack of food, but that mouth has long been digging Well, also in the critical period to ensure the city's water supply, the city of thousands of people, eat, drink, wash shabu shabu One day can not be separated from this well.
Lee Fortress to Forty days later Hunan reinforcements arrived, and Xiushan Army should be in a foreign country, repelled Li Shaobo. After another three days, I confirmed that there was no ambush around me before I opened the gate.