Ming · Ruler

Hongwu Emperor 太祖

Taizu

Attested AD 1368 - AD 1398

Passages
5
Chapters
1
Histories
1

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Hongwu Emperor was a ruler.

PeriodMing
IdentityHistorical · Male
RolesRuler

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  • among those moved, some were banished for crimes 其間有以罪徙者
    Legal · Ruler · Also exiled criminals in resettlement
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 74
  • charitable burial grounds established in prefectures and counties empire-wide 天下府州縣立義塚
    Welfare · Ruler · Established charitable burial grounds
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 80
  • established louzeyuan public burial grounds for the poor 設漏澤園葬貧民
    Welfare · Ruler · Established louzeyuan
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 79
  • established yangjiyuan relief hospices with monthly grain for those without support 設養濟院收無告者，月給糧
    Welfare · Ruler · Established relief hospices
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 78
  • legislation often favored the poor and restrained the wealthy to punish late-Yuan magnates 立法多右貧抑富
    Legislative · Ruler · Favored poor restrained wealthy
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 83
  • Hongwu 26 registered 10,652,870 households and 60,545,812 persons 洪武二十六年，天下戶一千六十五萬二千八百七十，口六千五十四萬五千八百十二
    AD 1393 洪武二十六年 · Demographic · Reign marker · Hongwu 26 census
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 91
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  • granted noble ranks to commoners aged eighty or above 民年八十以上賜爵
    Welfare · Ruler · Honored aged with ranks
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 81
  • legislated in imitation of Han resettlement of wealthy households to populate Guanzhong; later abuses made it a source of harm 立法之意，本仿漢徙富民實關中之制，其後事久弊生，遂為厲階
    Legislative · Ruler · Imitated han guanzhong wealthy resettlement
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 90
  • issued edicts granting special relief to soldiers and civilians who had suffered hardship 下詔優恤遭難兵民
    Welfare · Ruler · Issued hardship relief edicts
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 82
  • moved people from Deng, Lai, and Qing to Dongchang and Yanzhou 又徙登、萊、青民於東昌、兗州
    Administrative · Ruler · Moved deng lai qing people
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 72
  • moved 20,000 households from Zhili and Zhejiang to the capital as granary porters 又徙直隸、浙江民二萬戶於京師，充倉腳夫
    Administrative · Ruler · Moved granary porters to capital
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 73
  • ordered Ministry of Revenue to register over 14,300 wealthy households from nine provinces and Yingtian and move their families to the capital as fuhu 命戶部籍浙江等九布政司、應天十八府州富民萬四千三百餘戶，徙其家以實京師，謂之富戶
    Administrative · Ruler · Registered and moved wealthy households
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 84
  • early Ming moved over 4,000 landless households from Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiaxing, Huzhou, and Hangzhou to Linhao with oxen, seed, carts, grain, and three-year tax exemption 當徙蘇、鬆、嘉、湖、杭民之無田者四千餘戶，往耕臨濠
    AD 1368 to AD 1398 明初 · Administrative · Ruler · Resettled jiangnan landless to linhao · At Linhao 臨濠
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 65
  • adopted Liu Jiugao's proposal and resettled Shanxi Ze and Lu people in Hebei 採其議，遷山西澤、潞民於河北
    Administrative · Ruler · Resettled ze lu to hebei · With Liu Jiugao (劉九皋)
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 70
  • repeatedly resettled western Zhejiang and Shanxi people to Chu, He, Beiping, Shandong, and Henan 屢徙浙西及山西民於滁、和、北平、山東、河南
    Administrative · Ruler · Resettled zhejiang shanxi people
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 71
  • Relation Adopted proposal of · Person Liu Jiugao (劉九皋)
    Directly stated · History of Ming 77, passage 70

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References in the histories

History of Ming, Chapter 77Volume 77 Treatises 53: Finance and Economics 1 · 5 passages
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