The county successively established Dalongtian (today's Longtian), Nipi, Changxing (today's Luofu), Luogang, Longguidong (today's Huangpi), Shima, Daping, and Liantang (today's Yonghe) 12 polders including Jingxin, Xinpi, Yetang and Shuikou. During the same period, 5 military villages were established: Dalongtian Village (northwest of today's Longtianwei), Gantang Village (east of today's Yetang District), Yuliang Village (15 kilometers south of the county), Jichang Village (now Nipei Du Pixiang), Longpotun (west of the county). Each farm covers about 5,000 acres.
In the second year of Hongwu (1369), the county magistrate Zhou Shigui moved the county seat to the current Xingcheng town, built a 200-foot earth wall, and surrounded the office and warehouse within the city wall. In the same year, the county magistrate Liu Yuan built Xingning Station, and the county had seven shops including Xianqian, Maotang, Xiaoyang, Liantang, Nanmu, Liutian and Jingxin. In the same year, Xunzhou was abolished and Xingning was transferred to Huizhou Prefecture.
In the third year of Hongwu (1370), the county magistrate Zhou Shigui and the county magistrate Liu Yuan adhered to the imperial court's intention to establish Shinto teachings and built the Sheji Altar (half a mile west of Xihe Bridge) and Shanchuan Altar (half a mile south of the city). ), Yi Litan (about 1 mile north of the city).
In the fourth year of Hongwu (1371), Liu Zhaofu, the county magistrate, was ordered by the imperial court to set up subjects to obtain scholars, founded temple studies, and rebuilt the academy in the southeast of the county. In the same year, the school of yin-yang (a local astronomy school established in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties) was changed to medicine (a school for training medical talents, located at today's Zhongshan West Road). In the same year, the Thirteen Capital Inspection Department was established 100 miles north of the county (now Luofu Town), with one inspector and 20 archers stationed all year round. In the same year, a river mooring station was built at Nanshuikou of the county to manage fishermen. There were more than 400 boats at that time. In the same year, the Town God's Temple was built at the east and north intersections of the city. In the same year, a platform on Lingdong Road was built on the right side of the county office to receive officials.
In the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), an inspection department was set up at Shuikou, with one inspector and 20 archers stationed all year round.
In the fourteenth year of Hongwu (1381), Zhang Zhu, the county magistrate, built a nursing home in the south of the city to accommodate the poor, weak, sick and disabled people.
In the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384), Confucianism taught Yu and issued the "Imperial Examination Rules", ordering scholars to study the Four Books and the Five Classics in order to prepare for the imperial examination.
In the 20th year of Hongwu (1387), people from Anyuan, Jiangxi Province, led their troops into Xingning on Wednesday and fought with the government troops for three years. The people in this county either died in the war or took refuge in exile. There are only more than 20 households left. They are compiled into 2 maps and attached to Changle, and are under the jurisdiction of Changle County Magistrate Xi Shao. In the same year, Xingning Station moved to the riverside of Changle South Gate and was renamed Changle Station.
In the 23rd year of Hongwu (1390), Xia Zezhong, the magistrate of the county, was recruited into exile and farmed official land as tenants. He went to the court to ask for permission to reduce the tax on official land so that farmers could settle down. In a short period of time The number of internal accounts increased significantly.
In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu (1391), the register was compiled in accordance with the imperial order. The county has 7 Li, 70 Jia, and 160 Bao, with 722 households and 2,626 people (those of the right age for labor service). The county has 48,655 acres of fields, mountains and ponds. The taxable grain is: 1,280 shi of autumn grain rice and 8.1 shi of summer taxable rice.
In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu (1392), due to the large number of troops fleeing from the three villages of Dalongtian, Yuliang and Longpo, they were merged into the two villages of Gantang and Jichang. In 1392, they were guarded by Changle respectively. There are 112 people led by Yu Huangling and 110 farmers led by Jiang Shouzhong, each of whom must pay 12 shi per year. In the tenth year of Yongle (1412), the county had 1,033 households, 418 people, and 117,034.4 acres of fields, mountains, and ponds.
In the fifth year of Zhengtong (1440), Zhu Mengde, the county magistrate, built the Chief Secretary's Administration Office on Xianqian Street.
In the sixth year of Zhengtong (1111), Shuikou Hebo Station was abolished, and the people were merged into the six capitals and registered as households. Zhu Mengde, the county magistrate, approved the appointment of Zhang Boling as an inspector of Shuikou, specializing in Fu Yao, and allowed him to be hereditary.
In the 10th year of Zhengtong (1445), Cai Deyi, the magistrate of the county, built the Zunjing Pavilion in the Confucian Temple.
In the 13th year of Zhengtong (1448), Nanyue Palace was built 3 miles south of the county.
In the fifth year of Jingtai (1454), Shu Shao was appointed magistrate of the county and served for 9 years. Four reserve warehouses were built in Heshan, Maotang, Zigao, and Chenkeng to store grain and prepare for shortages.
In September of the fifth year of Tianshun (1461), Luo Liuning, a native of the city, gathered more than a thousand people and attacked Xingcheng first. All government offices and residences were burned down; then he continued to attack Changle and Chengxiang (today's Meixian County). Later, he was recruited by Chen Lian, deputy envoy of the Inspection Department.
In the eighth year of Tianshun's reign (1464), Yang Hui and Zeng Yu gathered people to start an uprising in Baolong, Meishi Shikeng and other places in the north of the county. Mao Ji, the Qianshi of the Chasi Bureau, led his troops to annihilate them.
In the winter of the third year of Chenghua (1467), the county magistrate Qin Hong reported to the imperial court for approval to rebuild the county seat, changing the earthen walls into a brick city, and it was completed in the summer of the following year. The city is 1.85 feet high and has a circumference of 626 feet. There are 903 battlements. A moat was dug around the city, 0.7 feet deep and 2 feet wide. A bridge was built across Hao and four gates were opened: east, west, north and south. The reconstruction projects of the city's offices, granaries, school palaces, and the City God's Temple took a long time and were completed one after another.
In the 16th year of Chenghua (1480), the county magistrate Marquis majored in county annals (has been lost), and Wang Lian, the governor of the city, wrote a preface, which was the beginning of the publication of "Xingning County annals".
In the 18th year of Chenghua (1482), the post road from Xingning to Chengxiang was changed. Due to the deep mountains and dense forests on the east road, the pavilion was changed to the south road, and the name was changed everywhere. ***Build 5 shops including Diaofang, Guanpi, Dashukeng, Shuikou and Xiaofeng.
In the 23rd year of Chenghua (1487), a Confucian edict was issued, urging scholars who were taking the exams to not only study the Four Books and Five Classics, but also study the art of eight-legged writing (at that time, the imperial examination began to use Eight-legged essay).
In the 16th year of Hongzhi (1503), Liuyao leaders Peng Jin, Liu Wenyu, and Lianchengcai gathered together and took control of Dawangshan, Daxin, Shangxiashe, Baolong and other places. The imperial court dispatched troops to suppress .
In the autumn of the seventh year of Zhengde (1512), Zhang Fantan gathered thousands of people at Dawang Mountain in the north of the county and successively captured Ninghua, Fujian, Shicheng, Jiangxi and other places. The imperial court ordered Zhou Nan, the censor, and Fang Liang, who participated in politics, to lead an army to encircle and suppress the attack.
In the ninth year of Zhengde (1514), Wang Tianhe, a native of the city, became a Jinshi. In the Ming Dynasty, there were three Jinshis in this county, the other two being Lin Tingyong (1466) and Lin Ji (1469).
In the winter of the tenth year of Zhengde (1515), Lin Manshan led a rebellion in Dawang Mountain. The county magistrate Zhu Yunming (Haozhishan) ordered the army to suppress him. In the same year, the Guandi Temple on the old street in the city was rebuilt.
In the eleventh year of Zhengde (1516), the county magistrate Zhu Yunming majored in four volumes of county chronicles, titled "Zhengde Xingning County Chronicles", which is the earliest existing county chronicle in the county.
In the fourteenth year of Zhengde (1519), Heshanyan Temple was built. In the same year, Wu Faqian, a gentry from Wuchi Village in Yetang, led a group to build water conservancy projects. He built a stone bridge at the junction of Wuchi and Zhukeng Village in Daping, and excavated an irrigation canal from Longyue and Longtang to Pinggeng Village, with a full length. More than 10 kilometers, it can irrigate more than 1,500 acres of farmland. It is still effective to this day. In the first year of Jiajing (1522), the county had 221,600 acres of fields and ponds, 104,500 acres more than in the 10th year of Yongle (1412).
In the second year of Jiajing (1523), the county magistrate Ying Peng advocated the construction of the West Gate Floating Bridge, using 4 iron cables to connect 24 wooden boats and laying wooden boards on top. In the 17th year, the county magistrate Fang Shu raised 5,000 taels of silver and changed the pontoon bridge into a stone bridge. In the 29th year, the bridge was washed away by floods, so Huang Guokui, the county magistrate, raised funds to rebuild the pontoon bridge.
In the fourth year of Jiajing (1525), the city wall was repaired, four gate towers were added, and the east gate was renamed Pingyuan Gate, the west gate was Fucheng Gate, the south gate was Yingxun Gate, and the north gate was Gongchenmen.
In the eighth year of Jiajing reign (1529), Dongyue Palace was built 2 miles north of the city.
In the 13th year of Jiajing (1534), the county magistrate Shi Qian built Weicheng Society on the left side of Haotang, Ximen.
In the 30th year of Jiajing reign (1551), Wang Tianxu, a native of the city, rebuilt Shenguang Temple. In that year, Huang Guokui, the county magistrate, majored in 4 volumes of county chronicles, which are preserved today.
In the summer of the 35th year of Jiajing (1556), heavy rains caused hundreds of houses to be washed away.
In the 39th year of Jiajing (1560), the county magistrate Chen Qizhen built the city wall and added heavy gates. The east and west gates were renamed Chaoyang Gate and Guanlan Gate.
On the morning of April 30th in the 40th year of Jiajing (1561), Raoping Chencun, Zheng Luyang and other bandits invaded Daheping, Shetang and other places in the county, capturing people for ransom. On the same day, we set up camp at Huanglingbei and left the next day.
In the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), the bandits Ye Zhoulou and others plundered various villages, occupied people's fields, and burned down houses. The villagers were killed indiscriminately, and the people were in panic. When the invaders left, they took advantage of the opportunity to farm, and when the invaders came, they closed the fort and defended it. In the autumn of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), the plague was prevalent.
In the third year of Longqing (1569), Li Songfeng, a native of the city, and others dispatched rebels, and Yu Dayou, the commander-in-chief, planned to appease them. Afterwards, Su Jiqi, Yang Ziliang, Huang Heng and others gathered people to rebel again and broke through the siege walls. Later, they attacked each other internally. Huang Heng defeated Yang Ziliang, recruited his subordinates, and defended Huangkeng. The following year, Huang was coerced by the government and recruited.
In the second year of Wanli (1574), Longxing Tower was built at Chigang Dun, 1 mile south of the city. The following year, Longxing Temple was built 2 miles west of the county, and a seven-story pagoda was built behind the temple.
In the fourth year of Wanli (1576), Zhoutang Post was built in Shuikou, which was also photographed by the Shuikou Inspection Department to receive officials.
In the eighth year of Wanli (1580), the county magistrate Sun Menglong was ordered to clear land in the entire county, clearing out a large amount of hidden land, increasing the tax field from 222,000 acres in the first year of Yingjing (1522) to 378,100 acres mu.
In the ninth year of Wanli (1581), there was a flood. In the north of the county, there are huge rocks 10 meters high and 5 feet high. They were moved one mile by the water.
In the thirteenth year of Wanli (1585), Liu Qingshan and others from Yiyi gathered hundreds of people to rebel in Luogang, and were later captured and killed by the army.
In the fourteenth year of Wanli (1586), the county magistrate Shi Chengfang set up Luogang Camp and recruited 300 rural soldiers. They would stay in the camp on the first and fifteenth day of each month and return to farming on the remaining days.
In the eighteenth year of Wanli (1590), Wang Dong, the county magistrate, built Fugu Society in the north of the city.
In the 30th year of Wanli (1602), the county magistrate Shi Mao Wenming issued an order prohibiting the consumption of tea and other poisonous weeds. Anyone who violated the rule would have his father, brothers and children to blame. In this year, Shi Maowen rebuilt Zunjing Pavilion and placed many scriptures in the pavilion. In the 33rd year of history, Dr. Wang Xueyuan, Lian Zan and others made a special trip to Linchuan, Jiangxi Province to meet with Ming writer Tang Xianzu. Tang responded to Shi's request and wrote the "Inscription on the Reconstruction of Zunjing Pavilion in Xingning County, Huizhou Prefecture". The full text is 1,250 words long.
In the thirty-seventh year of Wanli (1609), the county magistrate Chen Ying recommended the construction of the Nanji Bridge (Floating Bridge). The bridge was not destroyed until the early 1980s.
In the forty-third year of Wanli (1615), He Nanfeng won the imperial examination. In the Ming Dynasty, 30 people in this county successively passed the examination (including 5 in the martial arts examination).
In February and March of the forty-fifth year of Wanli (1617), the grain was expensive, and the poor people in the attached city broke into the warehouse to seize grain during the day. County magistrate Huang Ruoyun sent troops to round him up and killed several people. In April of summer, there was a sudden flood, and Longgui Dongwei was washed away. 127 people drowned and their houses and cottages were all wiped out.
In the forty-seventh year of Wanli (1619), Shuikou Ferry was set up.
In October of that year, a comet was seen in the southeast. It was several feet long and looked like a Guandao. The villagers called it "Guandao Star".
In the forty-eighth year of Wanli (1620), the county Fengwen increased Liao's salary (military expenses) at 2 centimeters, 7 cents, 3 silk and 6 hu per mu, and the government distributed 1035.5 taels of silver. In the same year, land tax was also levied, with a total of 1627.4 taels of silver. In the sixth year of Tianqi (1626), the amount per mu increased to 7 cents, 3 silks and 6 hu, with a total of 2760.2 taels of silver.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), an additional Liao rate was allocated, with an amount of 9 cents, 4 millimeters, 3 silks and 2 hu per mu, and 3569.8 taels of silver. The following year, additional Cantonese wages were paid at 1.3 cents per mu, with a total of 492.03 taels of silver.
In the second to fifth years of Chongzhen (1629-1632), there was a serious famine. The government increased rents and forced taxes, which triggered many civil riots. The leaders of the uprising, Chen Wen, Wang Guansong, Chen Wan, Zhong Lingxiu, Lai Dazong, etc., all died in battles with officers and soldiers.
In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), a comprehensive survey of tobacco households in the county found that there were more than 16,300 households (based on 4.5 persons per household, there were approximately 73,350 people in the county at the end of the Ming Dynasty). In that year, the county magistrate Liu Xizuo, taking advantage of the county's growing humanities, applied for promotion to Xingning as a central county. The county school had a quota of 30 students each in the age limit and the second subject examination (those who qualified for admission were generally called scholars).
In the tenth year of Chongzhen (1637), the county experienced severe drought in spring and floods in summer. In that year, the county magistrate Liu Xizuo majored in 6 volumes of county chronicles, which are preserved today.
In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (1641), Liu Xizuo strengthened the defense of the passes on the east, west, south and north borders of the county, strengthened the city walls, deepened the city trenches, built city protection barracks outside the four city gates, and maintained 140 soldiers. The Ding share of wages was used as supplies, the Baojia system was rectified, and the household registration was strictly compiled, with every 10 households being classified as 1jia.