In history, when did Huguang fill in Sichuan ?
Many people like to listen to Sichuan people playing Longmen Formation. It’s okay if they don’t understand. That feeling they want. Especially when Cantonese people come to Sichuan, they will definitely join in the fun, because there is also a Cantonese language with an earthy flavor.
The ancestors who said this are Hakka who took root in Bashu when Huguang reclaimed Sichuan, including Jiangxi laobiao, Fujian gangsters, Guangdong Meizhou, Shaoguan fellows, etc.
Today we will talk about the historical Huguang Reclamation of Sichuan.
Historically, war, natural disasters and epidemics are the three fundamental factors for rapid population decline.
There are two situations that will lead to large-scale population migration. One type is people from areas affected by natural and man-made disasters who fled to places with fewer natural and man-made disasters, such as northerners migrating southward or to Sichuan during the Five-Hua period.
People from the Central Plains during the Tang Dynasty An-Shi Rebellion. Relocation or relocation to Sichuan were all caused by natural and man-made disasters.
the other one is government behavior . When the world was stable, some places were vast and sparsely populated, and had to open up wasteland for farming and resume production. The rulers issued various preferential policies to force or encourage people to migrate. Huguang irrigation and Sichuan belong to the latter situation.
Let’s talk about “Huguang fills Sichuan”. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the population dropped sharply due to war. Everyone knows that "Zhang Xianzhong massacred Sichuan", and this is indeed the case in history.
Of course, the people he killed were not as terrible as in " Ming History ". History books say that he killed 600 million people, 600 million people, and almost all the people in Sichuan were massacred. Some people say it is a clerical error, it should be 6 million, but the editor thinks it may be about hundreds of thousands.
You must know that Zhang Xianzhong only has 100,000 people. How could it be possible to kill so many people, and they were all civilians. He killed so many people, how to replenish his troops? He must have been deliberately discredited by Qing Dynasty .
The people Zhang Xianzhong massacred were basically concentrated in Chengdu and several cities where he was active. Sichuan was also very large. It is impossible to say that they have all been killed.
Zhang Xianzhong was, after all, a peasant uprising and a threat to the rulers. The Qing Dynasty did not blame Zhang Xianzhong, what if someone followed suit? Anyway, writing him as an executioner who kills without batting an eye will make the people frightened and stay away from the rebels, achieving the effect of intimidation.
In the past, Sichuan was vast and sparsely populated, so in terms of population, there were not many people. The late Ming and early Qing dynasties were affected by war. People died, and then those who had to flee fled. The land is barren and the population is severely underpopulated. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty moved the Huguang population to Sichuan to settle and reclaim land. This was the famous "Huguang Reclamation of Sichuan" in history.
According to the "Chengdu Survey" in the late Qing Dynasty, "all people in Chengdu today are from other provinces."
Among them, Hubei 15%, Hunan 10%, Henan, Shandong 5%, Shaanxi 10%, Yunnan, Guizhou 15%, Jiangxi 15%, Anhui 5%, Jiangsu, Zhejiang 10%, Guangdong, Guangxi 10%, Fujian, Shanxi, Gansu 5%.
Huguang's reclamation of Sichuan began during the Kangxi period and continued until the late Qianlong period. By the late Qianlong period, Sichuan's population increased to more than 8 million, and the prosperity of the Song Dynasty was basically restored.
The reclamation of Huguang and Sichuan was carried out by the imperial court. It promoted the rational distribution of the country's population, reclaimed large areas of abandoned farmland, and restored the local political economy and culture. It has made great contributions to the inheritance of Chinese civilization.
