Suizhou immigrants in Ming dynasty

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to the large number of deaths caused by the war, the Ming government began to encourage people to emigrate. Since we want to encourage immigrants, we will naturally give many generous policies, such as getting free property and real estate when immigrants move to new places.

People who want to immigrate must register in the corresponding place before emigrating, and then the official will send the registered information to the place where they want to immigrate. The immigration reception desk will divide the land and property of these immigrants according to the immigration information provided by the registration place to prevent people from claiming property.

Therefore, the first thing these immigrants do when they first arrive in Sichuan is to report their household registration. So now we'll chat after you come to Sichuan again. When you are asked where you are from, everyone answers more from the name of the place of registration than from the name of your hometown.

Geographically, at that time, Xiaogan in Macheng was an important transportation distribution center leading to Sichuan in Huguang area, so in Ming Dynasty, Xiaogan in Macheng was used as the information registration place of population migration to facilitate traffic. Many people registered and distributed in Macheng Xiaogan, and Macheng Xiaogan became synonymous with hometown.

In addition, in ancient times, because the citizen class was still relatively small and the overall education level was not high, the illiteracy rate was very high, and many ordinary people were completely illiterate. Naturally, when some families are handed down from generation to generation, it is inevitable that they will gradually forget the name of their old family. Everyone only remembers that they are from Xiaogan, Macheng.

Now everyone still has some herd mentality. Needless to say, feudal autocracy reached its peak in ancient times, when people were not enlightened. As long as some authoritative people say something, ordinary people hardly dare to refute it, so their herd mentality will only be more serious than we are now.

So at that time, some people even came from other distribution centers, but to avoid themselves? Weak? And will befriend big groups, so many people also claim to be Xiaogan people in Macheng.

After all, our country has always attached importance to family ties. When this affection extends to other provinces, it is easy to extend to homesickness. If you come from a place, it is obviously easier to get along with people and even have a care when you encounter difficulties.

Therefore, due to this phenomenon, with the continuous development of time, the descendants of these immigrants only remember that their ancestors came from Macheng, and they know nothing about other details.

For example, in Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other places, many people claimed that their ancestors came from the big locust tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province. However, when there were limited immigrants from Hongcheng County, Shanxi Province, many people registered and distributed under the big locust tree. As soon as they meet, many people will sign up for the Hongtong pagoda tree. After a long time, the Hongtong pagoda tree has become the hometown of all immigrants.

Is that what people say? Huguang fills Sichuan? The root cause of the largest number of Xiaogan in Macheng, Hubei Province.

Secondly, there is a direct reason, which is related to the large number of standing troops moving into Sichuan at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, many uprisings overthrew the Yuan Dynasty broke out in the southern region, among which Chen Yongliang and Zhu Yuanzhang were the most famous. But in fact, among many rebel leaders, besides the two of them, there is also a man named Ming Yuzhen. Ming Yuzhen is a native of Sui County, Hubei Province, and also a Ming believer.

Chen Youliang and Ming were of the same clan, but later they were divided because of the unfair distribution of power. However, Chen Youliang was so powerful that Ming Yuzhen couldn't compete with Chen Youliang, so he took 200,000 rebels into Sichuan to establish Ming Xia. Ming Yuzhen and Chen Youliang fought each other for the name of orthodoxy, and the war lasted for many years.

At that time, Hubei was the front line of the Yuan army and the rebel army. As a result, the people here suffered from war. Just after Ming Yuzhen occupied Sichuan, in order to develop Sichuan, he recruited immigrants from his hometown, so many people took the opportunity to flee to Sichuan, and these immigrants mainly came from Macheng and Suizhou.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, during the Civil War, there were various counties because the Ming Dynasty was in shock and Zhengyi was not in Shu. Orientals avoid chaos and return to it. Yu Zhen is a native of Suizhou in northern Chu, recruiting villagers to consolidate the situation. In the Ming dynasty, Pingshu was given a false name, and everyone called it that. Therefore, when Hongwu moved to Shu, it was salty, that is, the people in the clan always had this language, and now it is clear.

In the early Ming Dynasty of Zhu Yuanzhang, the separatist regime established by Ming Yuzhen was not completely conquered until the fourth year of Hongwu.

Because Ming Yu Zhen started his army in Macheng in those years, and the 65,438+10,000 insurgents who followed Ming Yu Zhen in those years also claimed to be Macheng and started their business there. After that, they settled in Sichuan and gradually spread their branches and leaves, which led many immigrants in Sichuan to call themselves Xiaogan, their ancestral home.

Of course, some people, even if they are not from Xiaogan, Macheng, will say that Ming Yu Zhen brought them, because their faces will be brighter and their ancestors will be more brilliant after all.