Jiangsu Province during the Ming and Qing Dynasties

In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang established a political power in Yingtian (now Nanjing) as the capital city. Later, Yingtian changed its name to Nanjing and then to Jingshi, also known as Zhili. After Ming Chengzu established the name Yongle, he moved the capital to the north and changed Nanjing to Liudu, known as Nanzhili. During the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing not only referred to the area within present-day jiangsu province, but also included parts of present-day Anhui province and Shanghai city. At that time, there were Yingtian Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Xuzhou Prefecture, etc. in jiangsu Province. During this period, the population of jiangsu further increased. According to official statistics in the sixth year of the Ming Wanli reign (1578), Suzhou Prefecture in Nanzhili had 600755 households, Songjiang Prefecture had 218359 households, and Changzhou Prefecture had 254460 households. The total number of households in the three prefectures was 1073574, exceeding the sum of Henan and Shaanxi provinces in the Central Plains. In the early Qing Dynasty, the Southern Zhili (i.e. Nanjing) of the Ming Dynasty was renamed Jiangnan Province. In the sixth year of Kangxi's reign (1667), Jiangnan Province was divided into jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and jiangsu Province was named "Jiangning Prefecture" and "Suzhou Prefecture" together, which is the abbreviation of "jiangsu". This is the beginning of the name "jiangsu". In 1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its capital in Nanjing, renamed Tianjing, and established Tianjing Province, Tianpu Province, and Sufu Province in the occupied southern jiangsu region. The Wuchang Uprising broke out in 1911, and on November 5th of the same year, jiangsu declared independence. On December 2nd, the jiangsu Zhejiang Allied Forces captured Nanjing