Xingning County Records of the Ming Dynasty

There are 12 livestock farms in the county, including Dalongtian (now Longtian), Nipi, Changxing (now Luofu), Luogang, Longguidong (now Huangpi), Shima, Daping, Li Antang (now Yonghe), Jingxin, Xinbei, Tang Ye and Shuikou. In the same period, there were five military camps: Dalongtian Village (northwest of Longtianxu), Gan Tang Village (east of Tang Ye District), Yuliangtun (south of the county 15km), Jichangtun (north of Nibidu Township) and Longpo Village (west of the county). Each piece of wasteland is about 5000 mu.

In the second year of Hongwu (1369), the magistrate of a county moved to Xingcheng town, built a 200-foot earth wall, and surrounded the government offices and warehouses within the city wall. In the same year, Xian Cheng Liu Yuan set up Xingning Post, and the county set up Xianqian, Maotang, Xiaoyang, Li Antang, Nanmu, Liutian and Jingxin seven shops. In the same year, Zhou Xun was abolished and Xingning was transferred to Huizhou Prefecture.

In the third year of Hongwu (1370), Zhou, the magistrate of a county, and Liu Yuan, the magistrate of a county, set up the altar of the country (half a mile west of Xihe Bridge), the altar of mountains and rivers (half a mile south of the city) and the altar of the town (north of the city 1 li) in accordance with the imperial court's Shinto education.

In the fourth year of Hongwu (137 1 year), Liu Zhaofu, the county magistrate, was ordered by the imperial court to set up a branch to take scholars, set up a temple school, and rebuilt the school palace in the southeast of the county. In the same year, Yin and Yang Studies (an astronomy school established in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties) was changed to Medicine (a school for training medical talents, whose address is now Zhongshan West Road). In the same year, in the north of the county 100 Li (now Luofu Town), the 13th General Administration was established, and 1 inspector and 20 archers were stationed all the year round. In the same year, a river berth was built in Nanshuikou County to manage fishermen, with more than 400 ships. In the same year, the Town God Temple was built in Chengdong Street and Chengbei Street. In the same year, a platform of Lingdong Road was built on the right side of the county government to receive officials coming and going.

In the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), there was a patrol inspection department at Shuikou, 1 inspector, and 20 archers were stationed all the year round.

In the fourteenth year of Hongwu (138 1), Zhang, the magistrate of a county, helped to build a nursing home in the south of the city to accommodate the poor, sick and disabled.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384), he taught Confucianism in Chongqing, instructing scholars to study the Four Books and Five Classics in order to take the imperial examination.

In the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), Anyuan people in Jiangxi led troops into Xingning on Wednesday and fought against government forces for three years. The people in this county either died in the war or took refuge in exile, leaving only more than 20 households, as shown in Figure 2, belonging to Changle and managed by Shao, the magistrate of Changle County. In the same year, Xingning Post moved to the south gate of Changle and changed its name to Changle Post.

In the 23rd year of Hongwu (1390), Xia Ze, the magistrate of a county, exiled him, cultivated official land and entered the court. Please reduce the official tax, so that farmers can settle down, and the household registration will increase greatly in a short time.

Hongwu twenty-four years (139 1), compiled books according to the imperial order. There are 7 Li, 70 A, 160 insurance companies, 722 households and 2,626 households (school-age subjects) in the county. There are 48,655 mu of fields and ponds in the county, with taxable grain of autumn grain 1.280 stone and summer tax of 8./kloc-0 stone.

In the 25th year of Hongwu (1392), the troops of Dalongtian, Yu Liang and Longpo fled and merged into Gan Tang and Jichang. The troops of 1 12 led by Changle and16 led by Jiang Shouzhong respectively defended Huangling. In the tenth year of Yongle (14 12), there are 1033 households, 4 18l mouths, 1 17034.4 mu of farmland and ponds in the county.

In the fifth year of orthodoxy (1440), Zhu Mengde, a magistrate of a county, founded the General Secretariat Office in Xianqian Street.

After six years of orthodoxy (111), the Shuikou River berth was abolished. The people merged into the next six capitals. Zhu Mengde, a magistrate of a county, granted Zhang Boling the title of Shuikou Governor, who took care of Yao and was quasi-hereditary.

In the tenth year of orthodoxy (1445), a respectful pavilion was built in the Confucian temple of Cai Deyi, a magistrate.

In the 13th year of orthodoxy (1448), Nanyue Palace was built 3 miles south of the county seat.

Jingtai five years (1454), uncle Shao served as magistrate of a county for nine years. There are four storage warehouses in Heshan, Maotang, Gaozi and Chenkeng to store food during the famine.

In the fifth year of Tianshun (146 1), in September, the Yi people gathered more than a thousand people to break the city first, and all the houses were burned down. He continued to attack Changle and Cheng Xiang (now Meixian). Later, he was wooed by Chen Lian, Deputy Special Envoy of the Inspection Department.

In the eighth year of Tianshun (1464), Yang Hui and Zeng Yu gathered in the county towns of Beibaolong and Messi Shikeng to launch an uprising, and Mao Ji led the troops to annihilate them.

In the winter of the third year of Chenghua (1467), Qin Hong, the magistrate of a county, reported to the court for approval to rebuild the county town, changing the earth wall into a brick city, which was completed in the summer of the following year. City height 1.85, perimeter 626. There are 903 pheasants. Dig 0.7 feet deep and 2 feet wide around the city. The bridge spans the whole city and has four gates: east, west, north and south. The reconstruction projects of Civil Affairs Department, barn, Gong Xue and Chenghuang Temple in the city took a long time and were completed one after another.

In the 16th year of Chenghua (1480), the magistrate of a county majored in county annals (lost), and Wang Lian, a city juror, prefaced it, which was the beginning of the publication of Xingning county annals.

In the eighteenth year of Chenghua (1482), it was changed to Xingning-Chengxiang Postal Road. Because the east road is deep and dense, it is paved by the south road, and its name is changed everywhere. * * * Build five shops including Diaofang, Guanpi, Dashuikeng, Shuikou and Xiaofeng.

In the twenty-third year of Chenghua (1487), Confucianism instructed candidates to learn eight-part essay in addition to the four books and five classics (at that time, the imperial examination began to use eight-part essay).

In the 16th year of Hongzhi (1503), Liu Yao, Jin Peng, Liu Wenyu, Liancheng and other leaders gathered together, and the unified soldiers of the imperial court suppressed them according to Dawangshan, Daxin, Shangxiashe and Baolong.

In the autumn of the seventh year of Zheng De (15 12), Zhang Fantan gathered more than a thousand people in Beiwangshan County, and successively captured Ninghua in Fujian and Shicheng in Jiangxi. The imperial court ordered Nan Zhou, an imperial envoy, and Liang Fang, a political commissar, to lead an army to encircle and encircle.

In the ninth year (15 14), Deng Jinshi, a Yi citizen. In the Ming Dynasty, there were three Jinshi in this county, and the other two were Lin Tingyong (1466) and Leith Lin (1469).

In the winter of the tenth year of Zheng De (15 15), Lin Manshan led a rebellion in Dawangshan, and Zhu Yunming, the magistrate of a county, ordered the army to suppress it. In the same year, Guandi Temple, the old street in the city, was rebuilt.

In the eleventh year of Zheng De (15 16), Zhu Yunming, a magistrate of a county, specialized in four volumes of county annals, named "Ning County Annals of Zheng Dexing", which is the earliest existing county annals in this county.

In the 14th year of Zheng De (15 19), Heshan Rock Temple was built. In the same year, Wu Faqian, a gentleman from Wuchi Village, Tang Ye, led many people to build water conservancy projects. At the junction of Wuchi and Daping Zhukeng Village, 1 stone dam was built, and 1 irrigation canal passing through Yue Long and Longtang to Pinggeng Village was excavated, with a total length of 10 km, which can irrigate farmland 1500 mu. It still plays a role. In the first year of Jiajing (1522), there were fields and ponds in the county (22 16000 mu), an increase of 104500 mu compared with the tenth year of Yongle (14 12).

Jiajing two years (1523), Peng Ying? It advocates the construction of Ximen pontoon bridge, connecting 24 wooden boats with four iron cables and laying boards. In seventeen years, the magistrate of a county said that he would raise 5.2 thousand silver and change the pontoon bridge into a stone bridge. In twenty-nine years, the bridge was destroyed by flood, and Huang Guokui, a magistrate of a county, raised funds to rebuild the pontoon bridge.

In the fourth year of Jiajing (1525), the city wall was repaired and four towers were added. The east gate was renamed Pingyuan Gate, the west gate was Fuchengmen Gate, the south gate was Yingxun Gate, and the north gate was Chengongmen Gate.

In the eighth year of Jiajing (1529), Dongyue Palace was built 2 miles north of the city.

In the 13th year of Jiajing (1534), Shi Gan, the magistrate of a county, built Weicheng Social School on the left side of Ximen Tang Hao.

In the 30th year of Jiajing (155 1 year), Wang Tianxu of Yi rebuilt Shenguang Temple. At that time, Huang Guokui, a magistrate of a county, specialized in four volumes of county annals, which have been preserved to this day.

In the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing (1556), hundreds of houses were destroyed by heavy rain in summer.

In the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing (1560), Chen Qizhen, a magistrate of a county, built a wall and added a gate, and the east and west gates were renamed Chaoyang Gate and Guanlan Gate.

In the 40th year of Jiajing (156 1), on the morning of April 30th, bandits such as Raoping Chencun and Zheng Luyang invaded Daping and Shetang counties and arrested people for ransom. Camp in Huangling North that night and set out the next day.

In the 43rd year of Jiajing (1564), bandits such as Ye Zhoulou looted villages and towns, occupied private fields and burned houses. Killing villagers indiscriminately makes people panic. When they go, they will take advantage of the gap to farm, and when they come, they will close the base. In the forty-five years of Jiajing (1566), the plague was prevalent.

In three years (1569), Li and other Yi people were sent back, and the company commander Yu was recruited by the designer. Later, Su, Yang, Huang Heng, etc. Gathered to rebel and broke the walled village. After attacking each other internally, Huang Heng defeated Yang, incorporated his subordinates and established the Yellow Pit. The following year, jing wong was seduced by the imperial court.

In the second year of Wanli (1574), a dragon tower was built at Chengnan 1 Lichigang Wharf. The following year, longxing temple was built in the west of the county, and a seven-story pagoda was built behind the temple.

In the fourth year of Wanli (1576), Zhoutangyi was built in Shuikou, which was also used by Shuikou Inspection Department to receive officials coming and going.

In the eighth year of Wanli (1580), Sun Menglong, a magistrate of a county, was ordered to reclaim land in the county and clear a large number of hidden land, which increased the tax field from 222,000 mu in the first year of Yingjing (1522) to 3,785,438+0,000 mu.

Wanli nine years (158 1 year), flood. There is a huge rock, 10, which is 5 feet high and moved by water for a mile.

In the 13th year of Wanli (1585), Liu Qingshan and others rallied hundreds of people to revolt in Luogang, and were killed by loyalists.

In the 14th year of Wanli (1586), the magistrate of a county set up Luogang camp here and recruited 300 rural soldiers. He stays in the camp on the first and fifteenth day of each month, and returns to the countryside the rest of the day.

In the 18th year of Wanli (1590), Dong Wang, the magistrate of a county, founded Fu Jian Valley Society in the north of the city.

In the 30th year of Wanli (1602), Shi Mao, a magistrate of a county, explicitly banned taking poisonous weeds such as tea. If there are any offenders, their fathers, brothers and children will be condemned. That year, the Zunjing Pavilion was rebuilt, and books were widely collected in the pavilion. In thirty-three years, Wang Xueyuan, Lian Zan and other teachers and doctors made a special trip to Linchuan, Jiangxi Province to meet the writer Tang Xianzu. At the request of Shi, Tang wrote the article "Rebuilding Respect Pavilion in Xingning County, Huizhou", with a total length of 1250 words.

In the thirty-seventh year of Wanli (1609), Chen Ying, a magistrate of a county, suggested to build Nanji Bridge (pontoon bridge). The bridge was not destroyed until the early 1980s.

In the 43rd year of Wanli (16 15), He Nanfeng won. In the Ming Dynasty, there were 30 people in this county (including 5 military commanders).

In the forty-five years of Wanli (16 17), in February and March, Gugui, the poor in the attached city broke their warehouses and seized food during the day. Huang Ruoyun, the magistrate of a county, sent troops to round up and killed several people. In summer and April, a sudden flood washed away the east bank of Guilong, drowned 127 people, and built houses.

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli (16 19), Shuikoudu was set up. In that year 10, a comet was found in the southeast, tens of feet long, like a knife. The villagers call it "the star of the knife."

In the forty-eight years of Wanli (1620), the county increased Liao Xiang (military expenditure) by giving gifts, with an average of 2 cents, 7 cents, 3 cents and 6 cents per mu, and * * * gave silver 1035.5. Land tax was added in the same year, * * * silver 1627.4. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), the yield per mu increased to 7%, 3%, 6% and 2760.2% silver.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen (163 1 year), Liao Xiang was added, with 9%, 4%, 3% and 2 cents per mu, and * * * silver was 3569.8. In the following year, the Guangdong payment will be increased, with 1.3 cents per mu and * * * silver of 492.03 Liang.

From the second year to the fifth year of Chongzhen (1629 to 1632), the famine was serious, and the government increased rents and imposed taxes, which caused many civil strife. Uprising leaders Chen Wen, Wang Guansong, Chen Wan, Zhong Lingxiu and Lai Da all died in the battle with officers and men.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), there were more than 6300 smokers in the county (calculated by 4.5 people per household, there were about 73350 people in the county at the end of the Ming Dynasty). At that time, Liu Xizuo, a magistrate of a county, applied for approval of Xingning's promotion to Zhongxian County, and 30 students entered the county for re-examination of subjects (those who obtained admission qualifications were generally called Jinshi).

Chongzhen ten years (1637), drought in spring and flood in summer. At that time, Liu Xizuo, a magistrate of a county, specialized in 6 volumes of county annals, which have been preserved to this day.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (164 1), Liu Xizuo strengthened the defense of the pass in the east, west and north of the county, reinforced the city wall, deepened the moat, and built camps outside the four gates to protect the city, raising troops 140 people. Bao and Ding are used as supplies, the Baojia system is rectified, and households are strictly compiled.