Did Zhu Yuanzhang's "bloodbath of Hunan, taking Jiangxi to fill Hunan" really happen?

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's theory of "bloodbath in Hunan" is absurd, it also has a reason. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the world was in turmoil. After Zhu Yuanzhang wiped out Chen Youliang's main force, in the 24th year (1364), he sent general Xu Da to meet various ministries to wipe out the remnants of Chen Youliang and Yuan Dynasty, including Jingxiang Road, Ketanzhou (now Changsha), Hengzhou (now Hengyang), Xiangxiang, Baoqing (now Shaoyang) and Yongzhou.

After the war, the population of Hunan decreased sharply. "A thousand villages are stained with blood", "a thousand stoves are cold" and "white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no crow in a thousand miles" should be a true portrayal of the vast territory and sparse population, and nothing grows. A more extreme evidence is that according to the records of Changning County, Hunan Province, there were more than 99,000 people in the county as early as the fifth year of Chongning in the Song Dynasty (1 106), but by the tenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (14 12), there were only 5,800 people left, which can be regarded as "war"

The real historical origin of the legend of Zhu Yuanzhang's "bloodbath of Hunan" should be another historical event that Zhu Yuanzhang could not get rid of, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang's "bloodbath of Hu and Lan" was also a "prison of Hu and Lan". "Hu" and "Hu" are homophones in Hunan dialect, but "blue" and "south" are indistinguishable (initials L and N are indistinguishable). For hundreds of years, people still turned a blind eye to the bloody case in the "Hulan Prison", so that the "Hulan Bloody Case" in Hongwu years was mistaken for the "Zhu Hongwu Bloody Case in Hunan".