I believe that everyone has more or less heard of northern Jiangsu people saying that their ancestral home is Suzhou or southern Jiangsu, and northern Jiangsu people will also say that sleeping is "going to Suzhou". So to this possibility, many friends will say that Northern Jiangsu is to see the wealth of Southern Jiangsu before saying that their ancestors were in Suzhou, but in fact, it is not.
At present, the economic level of all cities in Jiangsu Province is relatively developed, the gap between southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu is getting smaller and smaller, and in this era of extremely serious "inner volume", everyone is working very hard, and all small editors think that the reason for saying that northern Jiangsu envies southern Jiangsu has money is obviously untenable. So what causes most people in northern Jiangsu to say that their ancestral home is from southern Jiangsu without saying anything else? We have to look through history to find the answer.
Since the Yongjia Rebellion at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains fell, the family families have moved south, and China's economic center has gradually shifted from the north to the south, to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yangzhou and Suzhou in jiangnan have become the famous fish and rice towns in the country, and the economy of Jiangnan has begun to occupy a pivotal position in the national finances. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos and several of the larger warlords in the south, including Chen Youyu of Jiangxi, Zhu Yuanzhang of Jinling, and Zhang Shicheng of Jiangnan.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the group was divided
From the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the Zheng period, Liu Futong and Han Shantong spread the "White Lotus Sect" to publicize the birth of the Ming King, and in the eleventh year of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to control the Yellow River, 150,000 migrant workers were forced to build embankments, and Han Shantong took the opportunity to fabricate the folk song of "Mo Daoshi people have one eye, provoking the Yellow River to rebel", and in the same year launched an uprising in Yingzhou, because the rebels wore red scarves on their heads, also known as the "Red Turban Army", after which hanshan boy soldiers were defeated and captured and killed. His son Han Lin'er was proclaimed King Xiaoming by Liu Futong. The Red Turban Rebellion thus opened the curtain on the peasant revolt at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and King Xiaoming was also nominally worshipped as a co-lord by the rebels under the heavens.
The Red Turban Army revolted
At that time, chen youyi, who had the most troops and the most extensive jurisdiction, and the one with the most wealth and the richest was Zhang Shicheng in Jiangnan, and Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be the least optimistic force sandwiched between the two.
Although the various rebel armies nominally worshipped King Xiaoming as the co-lord privately attacked each other for the sake of territory, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang had strong enemies on both the east and the west, no matter who attacked the other side must come to the rescue, until the twentieth year of Zhengzheng (1360 AD), Chen Youyu proclaimed himself the King of Han in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and the following year he arrogantly claimed the title of emperor, and agreed with Zhang Shicheng in Jiangnan to attack Zhu Yuanzhang equally.
Zhang Shicheng
Zhang Shicheng Taizhou Baijuchang Pavilion people, originally born as a salt trader, to the thirteenth year of Zheng (1353) spring and his younger brothers Zhang Shide, Zhang Shixin and Li Bosheng led the yanding army against the Yuan, the following year, in the first month of the following year, in Jiangsu Gaoyou called chengwang, the founding of the country name Ofe Zhou. In February of the sixteenth year of Zhengzheng (1356), the capital was Pingjiang (present-day Suzhou), and in August of the following year, he was demoted to the Yuan, was made a lieutenant, and divided western Zhejiang. At this time, Zhang Shicheng was sharpening his sword and Preparing to attack Liu Futong and Xiao Ming, who were defeated and retreated under the pursuit of the Yuan army, and had no time to attack Zhu Yuanzhang with Chen Youyi, only wanted to divide a corner of Jiangnan and live a leisurely life, and in the same year established himself as King Wu and broke away from the Yuan court.
Zhu Yuanzhang also saw that Zhang Shicheng had no great ambitions, so he decided to solve Chen Youyu, who was the most threatening, and then turn around and solve Zhang Shicheng. Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to contain Zhang Shicheng's army, and on the other hand, he launched the largest water battle in Chinese history with Chen Youyi at Poyang Lake, and the "Poyang Lake Water Battle" finally destroyed Chen Youyu after 36 days.
In May of the twenty-sixth year of Zhizheng (1366), Zhu Yuanzhang issued a letter of revenge against Zhang Shicheng. In November of the same year, Hangzhou and Huzhou surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Pingjiang became an isolated city.
At the beginning of the Battle of Pingjiang, Zhu Yuanzhang built a wall to besiege the city, and built a three-story wooden tower, which was higher than the city wall, and shot at the city with crossbows and fire bolts, and also set up cannons to bombard day and night. There was panic in the city, Zhang Shicheng's several breakthroughs ended in failure, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to persuade him to surrender many times, but Zhang Shicheng refused. Zhang Shicheng stubbornly guarded the Pingjiang River, and after the grain ran out, he fed on rats and dry grass; after the arrows were exhausted, he used the roof tiles as bullets. Until the eighth day of September in the 27th year of Zheng (1367), Zhu Yuanzhang led an army to attack the city of Pingjiang, and Zhang Shicheng launched a street battle to resist, and after failing and being captured, he hanged himself and died, and Zhang Shicheng's Wu regime collapsed.
Suzhou City
Zhu Yuanzhang's troops were strong and strong, but they suffered heavy losses outside Suzhou, and after ten months of bitter fighting, most of the people of Suzhou relied on Zhang Shicheng to resist desperately, and Zhu Yuanzhang vowed to slaughter the city of Suzhou. Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to slaughter Suzhou, Liu Bowen and Song Lian tried their best to dissuade Zhu Yuanzhang's plan to slaughter the city, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not at ease with the Southern Jiangsu clan.
In the first year of Hongwu (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang declared himself emperor in Nanjing and established the state of Daming. In the third year of Hongwu, more than 4,000 households from the provinces of Su, Song, Hangzhou, Jia, and Hu were relocated to Linhao (present-day Fengyang, Anhui). Another 140,000 households were relocated to Fengyang Province, and a considerable part of the 140,000 households were resettled in Sizhou and Xuyi. Since then, the people of Jiangnan have successively migrated to Huai'an Province. According to the "Chronicle of Siyang County" of the Republic of China, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, 25 clans moved from southern Jiangsu, including Weng, Zhu, Lu, and Wu, of which 21 were moved from Suzhou. In the geographical area of northern Jiangsu, there are immigrants from southern Jiangsu in present-day Yangzhou, Hanjiang, Jiangdu, Taizhou, Jiangyan, Taixing, Gaoyou, Baoying, Huaiyin, Huai'an, Guannan, Shuyang, Suqian, Siyang, Lianshui, Yancheng, Xiangshui, Binhai, Funing, Sheyang, Jianhu, Dafeng, Dongtai, Xinpu, Donghai, Guanyun and other places. History calls it "Hongwu Dispersion".
Hongwu dispersed distribution map
Nowadays, many northern Jiangsu families have genealogies, all of which record the northward migration of the Zhaomen clan from Suzhou during the Ming Hongwu period. So why write About Suzhou Gate? There is a saying that when they moved out at that time, they all came out of the Gate, registered at the Gate, and set off from the Gate, so it was said.
Suzhou Zhangmen
According to another theory, in order to appease new immigrants, immigrants from Suzhou were provided with agricultural tools and grain varieties, and a tax exemption policy was implemented, and the original residents also claimed to be from Suzhou In order to enjoy the tax exemption policy. Due to the eastward movement of the sea at that time, the arable land in northern Jiangsu gradually expanded, and more immigrants were also needed to reclaim, and the tax exemption and light tax policies implemented by the Ming regime in northern Jiangsu for nearly a hundred years made it generalized the claim that it came to Suzhou Zhangmen.
Nowadays, the Suzhou Municipal Government has set up the "Zhaomen Root-Seeking Monument" and "Chaozong Pavilion" next to the original Zhangmen Site for tourists to seek their roots and worship their ancestors.
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