Hundreds of years ago, why did Yang move to Yancheng, Nagato, Suzhou? Is it because of the war or something?

In the early years of Ming Hongwu, people from all over the country moved to sparsely populated northern Jiangsu for reclamation!

Hongwu was exiled, and this history spread widely among Yanfu people. The so-called Hongwu exile is the immigrants who cultivated land during Hongwu years in the early Ming Dynasty. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, the coastal areas in the lower reaches of Huaihe River suffered numerous casualties and heavy losses, which were aggravated by the flood of tides, floods in Huaihe River and drought locusts. At that time, there were only more than 6,500 households in Yancheng County, with 2 1000 people. Natural and man-made disasters, resulting in fields and stoves everywhere abandoned, a depression scene. Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty as emperor, reclaimed land in some areas and restored the economy. Huai 'an Prefecture is one of the key land reclamation places (now Yanfu Prefecture belonged to Huai 'an Prefecture at that time). According to historical records, Hong (around 1370) once moved into more than 4,000 families from Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiaxing, Huzhou and Hangzhou for reclamation. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang successively carried out several large-scale immigrants, one from Jiangnan to Fengyang, Anhui 1 40,000 people, and one from Suzhou and Songjiang to Yancheng110,000 people. By the 24th year of Hongwu (139 1 year), the number of Yancheng residents had soared to 89 12 households with 6 1080 people. 1370, the ancestor Yang Qing was forced to move from the rich water town in the south of the Yangtze River to the barren northern Jiangsu. The genealogy of many surnames in northern Jiangsu recorded the bitter history of this tragic immigrant in detail, and people who left their homes even dreamed of returning to their hometown in the south of the Yangtze River. The Ming government provided preferential policies for the development of the economy, and generations have to stay in this land in northern Jiangsu to survive. For 600 years, it has been said that immigrants came from Suzhou and Nagato. In fact, this place is just a sacred place in people's memory, and it is the starting point or transit point of waterway transportation. Many immigrants from one ship to another were forced to go north along the Grand Canal by water.