Yunnan has been a remote place since ancient times, and it has been a place where many ethnic groups have lived together since ancient times, with strong folk customs, barren land, and very chaotic social order.

In 1381 (the fourteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Mu Ying, Fu Youde, and Lan Yu to lead 300,000 troops to Yunnan. After the pacification of Yunnan, Mu Ying stayed in Yunnan to guard, and during the 10 years of his town in Yunnan, he greatly revitalized the tuntian, persuaded the agricultural mulberry, rejuvenated the virtuous and virtuous, spread the Central Plains culture, and stabilized the frontier.

In September 1382 (the fifteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty), Mu Ying died of illness due to the illness of Empress Yi Mare (Empress Xiaoci of Zhu Yuanzhang), and coughed up blood due to excessive grief.

In May 1392 (the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty), Mu Ying fell ill due to the death of the crown prince Zhu Biao, and died of illness in Yunnan two months after the death of the prince, at the age of 48.

After Mu Ying's death, Zhu Yuanzhang was very sad and ordered to return to Beijing to bury him, posthumously crown the king of Qianning, Zhao Jing, and enjoy the Taimiao. The descendants of the Mu family have inherited it from generation to generation, guarding Yunnan, and now it has been passed on to the fifteenth generation of Sun Mu Qiyuan.

Unlike his predecessors, who are wise and resolute, and who are kind to the people, this Mu Qiyuan is a complete disciple, and he is involved in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and it is also thanks to his ancestors that he laid a good foundation for him, and let him eat and drink for several years. In the second year of the Apocalypse, when Guizhou Tusi Chongming rebelled, Wang Sanshan resisted bravely, but Mu Qiyuan's father and Mu Qiyuan did not dare to send troops to assist at all, and they did not dare to go out in Yunnan.

In fact, Zhu Youxiao had already seen the situation in Yunnan, but because he didn't have effective manpower, he had no way to send capable people here, so he had to let Mu Qiyuan mix here first. In April this year, the Red Lady sent someone to Beijing to report, saying that Li Xin was not safe and needed to rest. Zhu Youxiao knew that Li Xin's body could no longer withstand the climate of the Uszang Plateau, plus this guy was a workaholic, there may be another reason, the red lady is too beautiful. Afraid that Li Xin had some accident, he directly sent an 800-li expedited to let Li Xin and the Red Lady go to Yunnan to take office, appoint Li Xin as the governor of Yunnan, and hand over Wu Sizang to the governor of Sichuan to take over.

In fact, Li Xin's body is indeed not very suitable for the plateau climate, the scholar's net worth is too weak, and the work is too hard, and he has altitude sickness, but he is not so sick that he can't get out of bed, but he is in the Wusi-Tibetan area and he is afraid that he will be jealous after staying for a long time, so he wants to return to the bottom.

Li Xin Zaiyu went to Wu Sizang, and the King of Shu naturally wanted to have a banquet, and then asked Li Xin to select some personal guards, as well as more than 20 people from the Red Lady's female self-defense team, and let the Red Lady train these personal soldiers first. Li Xin followed the King of Shu to recuperate in Chengdu, and by the way, through the King of Shu to learn about the folk customs of Yunnan, as well as some of the situation of the Mu Wangfu, Li Xin means to try not to conflict with the King of Mu, after all, it affects the whole body, there are still many princes like King Mu in the Ming Dynasty, they are the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule, and the most loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, there was no governor in the provincial-level region of Yunnan, only the governor of Yunnan, which meant to replace the emperor to patrol the border, and the military and political power in Yunnan was managed by Mu Wangfu, which was a special case at that time, and even the princes and grandsons of the Zhu family could not enjoy this treatment, but now Li Xin was awarded the governor, which means that the military and political power in Yunnan should belong to Li Xin, at least Li Xin's position is on an equal footing with Mu Qiyuan, and you can understand this relationship by looking at the posture of the king of Shu towards Li Xin.

In order to ensure that Li Xin can smoothly take charge of Yunnan, Zhu Youxiao also asked the Sichuan Metropolitan Command to transfer 3,000 soldiers to Li Xin and hand them over to the command of the Red Lady.

At the beginning of August of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Li Xin took 3,000 elite musketeers, all the way south from Sichuan to Yunnan Mansion, hungry and thirsty along the way, and no thieves dared to fight Li Xin's idea, because Li Xin was one of the heroes of Sichuan-Guizhou rebellion, so his reputation in Sichuan was very good, and Sichuan was built relatively well with the enlightened support of the King of Shu, and the road was relatively flat. However, after entering Yunnan, the situation is not so optimistic, there is no work to carry out land reform here, it is still managed according to the original old order, and the lives of the common people are still poor.

After Li Xin entered Yunnan Mansion, he lived in the original governor's yamen, but it was changed to the Yunnan Governor's Palace, and nothing else was changed. It is said that with Li Xin's official position, Mu Qiyuan should follow the habit to pick up the wind, after all, they will be colleagues who will work together in the future, but he did not do this, but put on a posture of a national prince and waited for Li Xin's visit.

Li Xin naturally does not think that he can be more noble than the grandfather of the country, after all, the prince of the country is also a special existence in the Ming Dynasty, and the Mu Wangfu is even more special, and more importantly, if you want to govern Yunnan well, you must get the support of the Mu Wangfu, so Mu Qiyuan will not come to pick up the wind, he will visit, this is not a big deal, there is no need to make trouble with him for a little face, everything is for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

On the third day after settling down, Li Xin came to Mu Wangfu to visit Mu Qiyuan with some local products and letters from the King of Shu. To say that this King of Shu is good at doing things, originally when Li Xin got married, he was in the position of an elder, but now he is afraid that Li Xin will offend Mu Wangfu and will not be able to carry out his work, so he wrote a letter to Mu Qiyuan to explain all kinds of interests, hoping that he can cooperate and he can also get an enlightened reputation.

Li Xin and his entourage of more than ten people came to the front of Mu Wangfu, and the soldiers politely walked to the door and handed over the post, saying: "Here is the new Governor Li of Yunnan, come to visit Mu Wangfu Grandpa, please inform me." ”

The doorman in front of King Mu's Mansion, who was already arrogant, looked at this personal soldier, took the greeting post and looked at it, and said, "Wait, let's see if Grandpa Guo is free today?" If you don't have time, I'll come tomorrow. ”

The doorman said that he went into the house, Li Xin and they had to wait outside, but this wait was half an hour, Li Xin was just tolerating and there was a limit, no matter what, he was also the governor of a province! Just when Li Xin was about to fight his horse and return to his house, the door of King Mu's mansion finally opened.

It turned out that when the doorman went in to report, Mu Qiyuan was playing with the concubine, and he had to wait in a daze, not daring to disturb Mu Qiyuan's interest, in case he collided with Mu Qiyuan, but he couldn't eat and walked around. Finally waited until Mu Qiyuan saw him, and he dared to go up and hand over the post for Mu Qiyuan to see.

Holding the post and looking at it, Mu Qiyuan muttered in his mouth: "What is the broken governor, there are only governors in Yunnan, where is the governor, the little ones, I don't have time to take care of them, listen to Kunqu Opera next, who will have a song?" ”

Didn't Mu Qiyuan know that Li Xin was the governor of Yunnan? Of course I know that the holy decree has already been delivered, but he is used to being the king of Yunnan, and when he learns that he is here to seize power, can he feel comfortable? According to his meaning, you are your governor, I am my grandfather, I don't care about you, it's over, the Tusi and the government offices in various places don't listen to the words of the grandfather, and you can go back after playing for three or two years, and your own grandfather has the final say here.

Although Mu Qiyuan doesn't know what to do, it doesn't mean that the people in the entire Mu Wangfu are ignorant, Mu Qiyuan's mother, the old woman Mu, is a shrewd old lady, and she has been helping the previous generation of the Duke Mu Changzuo to take care of Mu Wangfu. Mu Qiyuan only took over the title of Duke of Guo after the death of the old Duke last year, and the old woman Mu was not at ease at all about this little Duke of Guo, and secretly pressed her eyeliner beside him. There was one of the gatekeepers, and when the man saw that Li Xin was a little impatient, he knew that Mu Qiyuan was temperamental, and hurriedly went over to report to the old woman Mu. The old woman Mu immediately knew that something bad was going to happen, so she hurriedly brought her maid to Mu Qiyuan, reprimanded him, and then asked him to pick up Li Xin, and she listened to their conversation behind the screen tent.

Mu Qiyuan was hindered by the majesty of the old woman Mu, and did not dare to be disobedient, and after opening the door, he shouted with a smile: "Oh, Li Dudu, I'm really sorry, it's the little ones who are not sensible, seeing that I am resting, they didn't tell me to get up, please come in, please come in." Let's have a good drink later, and pick up the wind for Li Dudu. ”

Li Xin was impatiently going back, but this Mu Qiyuan came out, and he was still full of smiles, so he hurriedly accosted: "Grandpa Guo is polite, the lower officials have just come to your land, and they are not familiar with the place, and they are looking up to help with many things, and they will definitely have a lot of trouble with Grandpa Guo in the future." ”