When did Huguang fill Sichuan? How many people were touched?

Better be a peace dog than a soldier. No matter when and where, war does the greatest harm to the people. At the end of the dynasties, peasant uprisings surged, and the scale of the war was unimaginable to you and me now. Often the old dynasty dies, and after the new dynasty is established, the population of many provinces will decrease rapidly, and the new rulers will make up for the mistakes caused by the war. In order to balance the population and economic development of various places, it is necessary to forcibly relocate the population of places with relatively large populations to war-torn areas to fill them. The most famous migration in the history of China is the migration of Sophora japonica and the filling of lakes and rivers.

In the history of China, Huguang filled Sichuan twice, once in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, and once in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, thanks to the cruel war. As the name implies, the government forcibly moved a large number of people from Hunan, Hubei and Guangdong to Sichuan. The tyranny of the rulers at the end of the Yuan Dynasty aroused the people's fierce resistance. 135 1 year, the lower classes in Huguang and other places, led by Zhang Shicheng, Xu Shouhui, Ming Shizhen and others, set off a vigorous peasant uprising. Hundreds of thousands of uprising troops were brutally suppressed by loyal ministers of the Yuan Dynasty. These peasant insurgents, who had no military training, turned to Sichuan, so that they could fight circuitously and expand their strength.

After arriving in Sichuan, they supported Ming Shizhen to establish the Daxia regime and gradually lived a stable life in Sichuan. However, when Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel army developed to Sichuan, the rebel army composed of Huguang people in the Ming Dynasty suffered a devastating blow and was finally wiped out. Sichuan's population plummeted, and Zhu Yuanzhang issued a compulsory order to move about 500,000 people from Xiaogan and Macheng in Hubei to Sichuan.

Zhang was a leader in the late Ming Dynasty and made a contribution to the second filling of Sichuan by Huguang. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rule of Emperor Chongzhen had become a spent force. Zhang Yu 1633 started his army in Shaanxi, led the peasants all the way south, and was active in the economically prosperous Huguang area, recruiting troops. In the end, most of his troops were Huguang people. In order to compete with Li Zicheng for the world, Zhang led his troops into Sichuan. The people of Sichuan immediately faced the disaster of extinction. Zhang troops easily launched a massacre in Sichuan, and the place they passed was like a plague, with corpses everywhere. Sichuan's population has dropped sharply. 1646, the Qing army entered Sichuan and shot Zhang in Fenghuang Mountain. His troops were leaderless and were defeated. At this time, the population of Sichuan has left hundreds of thousands, which is terrible. In order to quickly strengthen the control of Sichuan, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty forced all Sichuanese who fled to Huguang to return to Sichuan and moved millions of people from Huguang to Sichuan.