Did Zhu Yuanzhang really wash Hunan in history?

About Zhu Yuanzhang's bloody slaughter of Changsha, it actually does not exist in history. Now the legend of Zhu Yuanzhang's bloodbath in Changsha has been handed down from the past and has not been confirmed at all.

There are many versions of the legend about Zhu Yuanzhang's bloody slaughter of Changsha. There is a folklore that Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Liuyang to be bloodbath in retaliation for Liuyang people's support for Chen Youqiong, which made Hunan, which had a small population at that time, become a barren land. Another is that after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, many people wanted to come to Beijing to congratulate him, but because so many people came to Beijing, he was very tired, and there were not many places to live in Beijing. At that time, there happened to be an army in Changsha, so he ordered others to rest for three days. They heard that Changsha was bloodbath, so Changsha was littered with corpses.

The story spread widely in Changsha, but it was impossible to verify whether Zhu Yuanzhang really slaughtered Changsha. However, because Zhu Yuanzhang had sent troops to attack Changsha before, and Changsha was controlled by Chen Youqiong at that time, the Ming army took Changsha after four years of fighting. But this legend is also not desirable, because the people of Jiangxi at that time supported Chen Youqiong, so if Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to retaliate, he would retaliate against the people of Jiangxi first, not Hunan.

Later, after the stability of the Ming Dynasty, because Hunan had a relatively small population, there was a saying that Hunan's immigrant population mainly came from Jiangxi, and some from Anhui and Hubei, and of course, Liuyang locals who survived at that time. That's because many people moved from Jiangxi to Hunan at that time, so now Hunan people call Jiangxi people old cousins.