Schemes of the Noble Households Chapter 101

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Youzhou was one of the overseas Chinese states, close to the Yangtze River and located in the territory of Jiangsu Province in later generations.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out and the Central Plains was in turmoil.

To escape the war, people began to migrate southwards. After the Three Kingdoms, the number of people migrating southwards continued to increase. The number of people migrating southwards reached its peak during the Eight Kings Rebellion and the Yongjia Rebellion at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty.

Later statistics showed that the number was nearly one million, close to one-eighth of the northern population at that time.

After the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in order to unite the northern gentry who had migrated south, consolidate the royal rule, and avoid being suppressed by the Wu gentry, the imperial court successively established overseas prefectures, overseas counties, and overseas counties, divided the actual land, safeguarded the interests of the northern gentry, and brought together the common people who had migrated south.