What was the purpose of the Qing Dynasty to move the governor's residence of Guangdong and Guangxi from Zhaoqing to Guangzhou?

1. 1469 to 1566 The Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi is located in Wuzhou.

In A.D. 1449, Ming Yingzong was captured by the Northern Yuan in the Civil Fort Revolution (in the early Ming Dynasty, the remnants of the Northern Yuan often harassed the North), and his brother Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne with the support of Yu Qian and others, defeating the Northern Yuan emperor Ming Jing. Influenced by the fiasco of the civil fort, at the beginning of Ming Jing's accession to the throne, the situation in the south was not very stable, and local aborigines rebelled against the court one after another. The company commanders of Guangdong and Guangxi also shirked each other, so in the third year of Jingtai (A.D. 1452), Yu Qian, the minister of war, recommended Wang Ao, the prince of Taibao, as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, which was the first time that the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi appeared.

The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi has been in Wuzhou for a hundred years. In the 43rd year of Jiajing, Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1564), the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi moved from Wuzhou to Zhaoqing. The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was stationed in Wuzhou mainly because there were many "Yao riots" in Guangxi, and the court attached importance to "fighting bandits" in Guangxi. Therefore, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is stationed in Wuzhou, which is convenient for water control.

2. 1566 to 1644 The Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi is located in Zhaoqing.

The reason why the governor's yamen moved from Wuzhou to Zhaoqing was also very simple: at that time, Guangdong began to be chaotic, and the court decided to take Zhaoqing as the residence of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, considering the focus of Guangdong's military attack.

Nanming is divided into two, and the importance of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is even more prominent. Zhaoqing, the residence of the Governor's Office, became an important town in the Southern Dynasties to resist the southward migration of the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Youlang, the last emperor of Nanming Dynasty, ascended the throne in Zhaoqing.

3. 1746 The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was stationed in Guangzhou.

After the Qing dynasty took over, the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi remained basically unchanged. In the fourth year of Shunzhi, in A.D. 1647, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was established in the Qing Dynasty, and his residence was still in Zhaoqing. In the 11th year of Qianlong (AD 1746), the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi officially moved to Guangzhou.

Why did you move to Guangzhou? One is that Guangzhou is relatively large, and the other is that the situation in Guangdong and Guangxi is stable.

1857, the British and French allied forces occupied Guangzhou, and later the Governor's Office was converted into Sacred Heart Cathedral (Sacred Heart Cathedral).

This paper discusses the changes of the governor's residence in Guangdong and Guangxi, and finally talks about a digression-the origin of Cantonese.

People all over the country, even Guangdong natives, believe that Guangzhou is the birthplace of Cantonese, but the real birthplace of Cantonese is Wuzhou and Zhaoqing.

In the pre-Qin period, the language of Baiyue nationality was widely used in Guangdong and Guangxi, and Lingnan was later unified by Qin Shihuang. A large number of Central Plains immigrants came to Lingnan along the Xiaoshui-Heshui ancient road traffic line and settled and multiplied in the middle reaches of Xijiang River. In the following hundreds of years, the Han people in the south got along well with the local Baiyue people and gradually developed Cantonese dialects.

If you travel frequently between Guangdong and Hong Kong, you will find that Wuzhou, Zhaoqing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong have the closest Cantonese pronunciations, while Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan and Zhuhai have very different Cantonese pronunciations. In other words, people from Guangzhou and Wuzhou can basically communicate without barriers, while people from Guangzhou and Foshan/Dongguan have to bother to understand each other when communicating.