What was the population in the late Ming Dynasty?

The population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was around 50-60 million.

According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, the population situation in the late Ming Dynasty is summarized as follows:

In the first year of Qin Long (1567), there were 625374 19 people.

Qin Long two years (1568)625374 19 people.

Qin Long three years (1569)625374 19

Qin Long four years (1570)625374 19 people.

In five years in Qin Long (157 1), there were 625374 19 people.

In the thirty years of Wanli (1602), there were 56,355,050 people.

In the first year of Taichang (1620), there were 5 1655459 people.

In the first year of the apocalypse (162 1), there were 5 1655459 people.

In the third year of the Apocalypse (1623), there were 5 165459 people.

In the early years of data extension, Li Xian, a cabinet scholar, returned to his hometown to bury his father. On the way back, he saw that Henan was starving everywhere and the people were surrounded by families. He reported what he had seen and heard to Ming Xianzong. Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty was called Hongzhi Zhongxing, but this Zhongxing was not the same as Wenjing. The court was short of money and the people were short of food. During the Ming Wuzong period, Yangzhou, which has been relatively rich in the southeast, appeared the phenomenon of cannibalism. During the Jiajing period, South Japan invaded the North, and Harry said that every family was clean and poor.

In the early years of Wanli, Zhang's political reform improved in the Ming Dynasty, but it should not be overestimated, and the court was still short of money. Then there are the three expeditions of Wanli, the extravagant Chongming rebellion, the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, and the killing and looting of the Qing army entering the customs.

The people of the Ming dynasty lived a good life for a few days, raising a prince, building a palace and building a grave; On the one hand, we should guard against ethnic minorities, Mongols and Nuzhen in the north, build the Great Wall and keep a large number of troops. There are other ethnic uprisings and peasant uprisings in the southwest that almost run through the Ming Dynasty.

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