Why did you emigrate on a large scale after the establishment of the Qin Dynasty?

The Qin Dynasty was an energetic dynasty. After the reunification of China, a series of large-scale population migration was organized for political and economic needs, some of which were groundbreaking in the history of population migration in China and had a great impact on the immigration policy of later generations.

In addition to political exile, its content is mainly divided into two categories.

The first category is "the real Guanzhong". For example, in the twenty-sixth year of the first emperor (22 BC1year), he immigrated to Xianyang120,000 households, aiming at strengthening the rule and developing into a veritable national political center.

The second category is frontier defense and development of new areas, the most famous of which are Wuyuan in the north, Yunzhong and Wuling in the south, with hundreds of thousands of people, which have played an important role in the development along the Great Wall and South China.

Extended data:

In the ten years after the unification of China, Qin Shihuang made eight large-scale migrations, about 1.06 million, with a population of over 5 million. At that time, immigrants were mainly divided into two situations: one was to move to rich households in Guanzhong to expand their families; One is to move civilians and criminals to the border. The annexation war that Qin unified the six countries had a serious impact on the population in some places. Large-scale immigration helps to balance the distribution of the national population.

It is of great political significance to continue to carry out the policy of "carrying out Guanzhong" and guarding the border by immigrants, especially for the large-scale settlement of immigrants in Hetao area, Hexi Corridor, eastern Qinghai and central Xinjiang.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Population Migration in China