Sixteen hundred and thirty-five households went to Dongchang and other places to compile books and cultivate.
Among the dozens of immigrants listed above from October 27 to February 25 in Hongwu, there are seven household registration data to be tested. If calculated by five households, the total number is about 590,375. Taizu had the largest number of migrants. After Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, the movement of resettlement and reclamation continued.
Fourteenth time: In September of the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), the peasants who had no land in Shanxi migrated to Beiping to cultivate their fields, and there was no tax on grain within five years.
Fifteenth time: In August of the first year of Yongle (1403), after the battle of Jing Nan ended, Ming Chengzu reclaimed land in Beijing for those below the crime of deportation.
Sixteenth time: We moved to 10 prefectures such as Suzhou, Zhejiang and other nine provinces to enrich more than 3000 households and fill in Beijing.
Seventeenth time: In September of the second year of Yongle (1404), ten thousand households of Shanxi residents were moved to Beijing for farming.
Eighteenth time: In January, 1416, Yongle 14 years, migrated to Shandong, Shanxi and Huguang unemployed refugees, and opened up wasteland in Baoan Prefecture, free of rent for three years.
In a word, except for some of the border people and the officers and soldiers of the former Yuan Dynasty, the areas with more people and less land moved into the areas with less people and more land. The number of immigrants in the Hong and Yong dynasties is about 2 million, and in fact there may be about 4 million. In addition, a large number of troops have moved into the border areas to set up farmland and engage in production for a long time. Some people have remained there for generations, which is in fact the same as immigrants.