When Huguang filled Sichuan, why did it say that there were the most people in Xiaogan, Macheng, Hubei?

In the early Ming Dynasty, the government of the Ming Dynasty began to encourage people to emigrate because of the large number of deaths caused by war. Since we want to encourage immigrants, we will naturally give many generous policies, for example, immigrants can get free property and real estate when they arrive in new places.

people who want to emigrate must register at the corresponding place before emigrating, and then the official will send the registered information to the place where they will emigrate. The immigration reception desk will divide the land and property of these immigrants according to the immigration information provided by the registered place, so as to prevent some people from asking for property.

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

From the geographical point of view, Xiaogan in Macheng at that time was also an important transportation distribution point from Huguang area to Sichuan. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, Xiaogan in Macheng was used as an information registration place for population migration for convenience. Many people registered and distributed in Xiaogan in Macheng, and Xiaogan in Macheng became synonymous with their hometown.

in addition, in ancient times, because the citizen class was still relatively small and the 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 hometown, and everyone just remembers that they are from Xiaogan, Macheng.

nowadays, everyone still has some herd mentality. Not to mention, feudal autocracy reached its peak in ancient times, when people's thinking was not open-minded. As long as a person with a little authority said something, ordinary people almost dared not refute it, so their herd mentality would only be even worse than ours now.

so some people came from other distribution centers at that time, but in order to avoid themselves? Weak? , will also befriend with large groups, so many people also claim to be Xiaogan people in Macheng. After all, our country has paid attention to family ties since ancient times. When this kind of family ties reach other provinces, it is easy to extend to the nostalgia. It is obviously easier to get along with others if you come from a place, 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 claim that their ancestors came from the big locust tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, but the immigrants who came out of Hongcheng County in Shanxi Province in those years were limited, but many people were registered and assigned under the big locust tree. When they met, many people would sign up for the big locust tree in Hongdong, and after a long time, the big locust tree in Hongdong became a hometown for all immigrants.

and this is what people say? Huguang fills Sichuan? The root cause of the largest number of people in Xiaogan, Macheng, Hubei.

Secondly, there is a direct reason, which is related to the fact that a large number of standing armies moved to Sichuan in the late Yuan Dynasty.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a lot of insurgents 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, in addition to the two of them, there is also a person named Ming Yuzhen. Ming Yuzhen was a native of Suixian County, Hubei Province, and was also a Zoroastrian.

Originally, Chen Youliang and Ming Yuzhen belonged to the same faction, but later they had some differences because of the unfair distribution of power. However, Chen Youliang was so powerful that Ming Yuzhen couldn't compete with Chen Youliang at all, so they entered Sichuan with 2, rebels to establish Ming Xia. Ming Yuzhen and Chen Youliang fought each other for the name of orthodoxy, and wars between them continued for years.

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

At the beginning of Yuan Dynasty, there were wars in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and Ming Yuzhen and even Zhengyi did not enter Shu, so there were various counties. Easterners who avoid chaos return to it, and yu zhen is from Suizhou in northern Chu, recruiting villagers to consolidate their potential, but also. Up to the Ming Dynasty, Pingshu was given a false name, and everyone called it. Therefore, it is salty that Hongwu moved to Shu at the beginning, that is, people in the clan have always had this language, and it is now clear.

at the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming dynasty, the separatist regime established by Ming Yuzhen was not completely conquered, and it was not destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang until Hongwu four years ago.

Because Ming Yuzhen started his army in Macheng in those days, hundreds of thousands of rebels who followed Ming Yuzhen claimed to be Macheng, where they started their own business. Since then, they have settled in Sichuan, and gradually spread their branches and leaves, resulting in many immigrants in Sichuan claiming their ancestral home in Xiaogan.

Of course, even if some people are not from Xiaogan, Macheng, they will say that they were brought by Ming Yuzhen, because this will make their faces brighter and their ancestors more glorious after all.