In my opinion, there is no correct answer to this question, in order to solve this problem, we must first set a standard for famous generals, is it a famous general who wins many battles, or a famous person is a famous general, or a person with a big official is a famous general?
This criterion is difficult to determine, no imperial court will give its generals an official title of famous general, at most the officials set a level standard, to the military generals set a good size and grade, high-grade military generals are not necessarily the folk so-called famous generals, low-grade military generals are not necessarily straw bales, a person to mix with high-grade military generals, background and interpersonal relations are often more important than fighting.
Whether a general can win a battle or not is difficult to say is only determined by the personal ability of a general, the role of national strength and army combat effectiveness is not inferior to the personal ability of military generals, and some people have the ability to become famous generals but cannot become famous generals.
Also, what period of history is it? We in China have a history of five thousand years, each dynasty has a famous general of that era, the place of origin is different, if you count from the time of the Yellow Emperor, until we live today, I am afraid it is difficult to count.
And there is also an important problem, before the Yuan Dynasty there was no such administrative level as a province, only prefectures and counties, earlier is a certain country and a certain place, in ancient wars, the military general registration number will only say the name of the state or county or specific hometown where they are born, such as Changshan Zhao Zilong, Yan people Zhang Yide, etc., it is not necessarily embarrassing to say that someone before the Yuan Dynasty is a certain province.
If you have to use provinces to distinguish the ancients, or from the Yuan Dynasty onwards, it is more accurate, the provinces of the Yuan Dynasty are only the prototype of provinces, and many provinces are mixed together, which is very different from today. Only in the Qing Dynasty did it have the appearance of today's provinces, and the names and territories of China's provinces were basically determined.
The history after the Qing Dynasty is only a small part of China's history, and the characters born during this period are only a small part of Chinese celebrities, and there is no representation. Therefore, using the region to calculate the number of famous generals in history is more realistic than that of a certain province.
Before the Tang Dynasty, most of the southern regions were not developed, and there were many more talents born in the north than in the south. After the Southern Song Dynasty, the political center of China shifted to the south, and at this time there were more famous generals and literary talents in southern China.
I think we have to count the number of famous players where, preferably divided into eras and regions, so that there is a possibility of comparison.
Before the Warring States, the Central Plains, mainly in Henan and Shandong, were the most developed areas in the country, and the talents needed by the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and the Three Dynasties of Xia and Shang came from this region, and at this time, the Central Plains in the north were the regions with the most famous generals in the country, such as women, sun sons, And Tian Hoang Tho.
After the rise of the Qin Dynasty, famous generals from Shanxi and the region west of the Taihang Mountains appeared, such as Bai Qi, Sima Que, and Meng Tian.
In the Western Han Dynasty, there is a saying in the society called Shandong Out of the Phase, Shanxi out of the general, at this time or the Taihang Mountains west of the famous generals such as Wei Qing, Li Guang, Huo Go disease and so on.
When the Eastern Han Emperor Liu Xiu raised an army from Henan in the Central Plains to fight the world, the Central Plains region had the highest proportion of military generals in the imperial court.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the nomadic peoples on the grassland occupied the north, and many of the military leaders of various nationalities were counted as famous generals, and they could be regarded as grasslands north of the Great Wall.
The Tang Dynasty began in Taiyuan, Shanxi, west of the Taihang Mountains, and relied on the human, material and financial resources of Shaanxi Guanzhong to take Jiangshan, and at this time, famous people from Shanxi and Shaanxi would be the main force in the imperial army.
During the Song Dynasty, the Zhao Song Dynasty started in the Central Plains, the base of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and most of the famous generals also came from Henan in the Central Plains, such as Yue Fei.
The Yuan Dynasty came from the grasslands, and most of the famous generals were converted from herders on the grasslands.
In the south of the Ming Dynasty, zhu Yuanzhang's group of old brothers in the army were mainly Lianghuai and Jiangnan.
The Qing Dynasty came from the northeast outside guanwai, the generals of the Eight Banners were the backbone of the Qing army, and the three northeastern provinces produced the most famous Qing generals. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the strength of the Qing Army declined, the Xiang Army in Hunan and the Huai Army in Anhui were the main forces of the country, and the generals from the two provinces were very important in the Qing Army.
During the period of the Republic of China, the Beiyang warlords were mostly generals from the northern provinces, such as Yuan Shikai in Henan, Feng Guozhang in Directly Subordinate, and Zhang Zuolin in Fengtian, and our Party was the first to revolutionize in The three places of Sichuan, Hunan, and Jiangxi, and these three provinces had the largest number of revolutionary generals.