Why did the capital of Anhui Province move from Anqing to Hefei?

Anhui belonged to Jiangnan Province in the early Qing Dynasty. In the sixth year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1667), Anhui was officially established as Jiangnan Province as Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. The first characters of Anqing and Huizhou at that time were Anhui. Anhui is referred to as "Wan" because of the ancient Wan Kingdom and the Wan Mountain and Wan River within its territory. From the 25th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1760 AD) to the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937 AD), it was the seat of the capital of Anhui Province.

Anhui Province is a relatively late province.

In the early Qing Dynasty, there were eighteen provinces in the country (including Jiangnan Province).

(1) In 1667, Jiangnan Province was divided into two parts, divided into:

Jiangsu Province: Jiang (Ning) came from Su (zhou), and the provincial capital was located in Suzhou, called: Department of Political History of Jiangnan Youbu.

Anhui Province: Coming from An (Qing) Hui (prefecture), the provincial capital is located in Nanjing, and is called: Jiangnan Zuo Bu Zhengshi Department.

(2) In 1760, the provincial capital was adjusted:

Jiangsu Province: The Secretary of Political History of Jiangnan Province moved to the left and moved to Nanjing, becoming the capital of Jiangsu Province.

Anhui Province: The Secretary of Political History of Jiangnan Zuo moved to the left and moved to Anqing, becoming the capital of Anhui Province.

(3) Anqing has been the capital of Anhui Province from 1760 to 1952. (During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1853-1861), during this period, the governor of Anhui also retreated from Anqing to Luzhou. In the spring of 1938, the temporary provincial capital was moved to Lihuang County (now Jinzhai) after the fall of Anqing. In September of the 34th year of the Republic of China (1945), the Anti-Japanese War was victorious. Later, the provincial capital was moved from Jinzhai to Hefei. In 1952, the provincial capital was officially designated as Hefei)

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(4) From 1952 to the present, Hefei is the capital of Anhui Province.

Therefore, few people know that Nanjing was the capital of Anhui Province from 1667 to 1760 (***93)! ! ! But history cannot be questioned! But history has also left behind an astonishing fact: Nanjing dialect and Anqing dialect are so strikingly similar! Don’t you ask why? The reason is very simple: during the Qing Dynasty, a large number of people migrated and exchanged between Anqing and Nanjing, reproduced and lived! Because Jiangsu and Nanjing are originally one family (people from Jiangnan Province)! Someone will ask me again why the good Jiangnan Province was divided into two? Because the Qing Dynasty had just established the country in 1644, and Emperor Kangxi had just ascended the throne in 1662, but the national situation was not stable at that time! Therefore, Emperor Kangxi was afraid that Jiangnan Province in the south would grow bigger, and that another Zhu Yuanzhang would appear in Jiangnan Province (Jiangsu, Anhui) and call himself emperor! Because in the Qing Dynasty, like the Yuan Dynasty, ethnic minorities occupied the Central Plains and made Beijing their capital! (Beijing was called Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty) So he reluctantly gave up and disintegrated Jiangnan Province! How can Jiangnan Province be allowed to sleep soundly when the capital city collapses? Anhui Province was born! Maybe someone will ask me again why the capital of Anhui Province was moved from Nanjing to Anqing? This is because during the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong periods, Zhang Ying and Zhang Tingyu, both from Tongcheng, Anqing, were prime ministers of the Qing Dynasty (known as "father and son prime ministers" in history)! When Prime Minister Zhang Tingyu presided over the compilation of "History of the Ming Dynasty", he bluntly said that the Qing Dynasty should learn from the Ming Dynasty's lessons! Nanjing should be prevented from becoming the frontline of the anti-Qing and Ming dynasties, and it is recommended to move the provincial capital Nanjing to Anqing! The emperor of the Qing Dynasty had special trust and dependence on Zhang Tingyu, so he moved the provincial capital Nanjing to Anqing! However, due to the influence of Jiangning Weaving on the Qing Dynasty's economy, and the inextricable connections between the Jiangsu governor, the Nanjing prefect, and the Jiangning Weaving Cao family, the Qing emperor used a balancing act to move the capital of Jiangsu Province from Suzhou to Nanjing! Facts once again proved that Nanjing still achieved counterattack