On April 15 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, a wedding was being held in a mansion near the lotus pond in the north of Kunming. This is the wedding of Wan Shi, the famous widow of Tusipu in Ami Prefecture, and a subordinate of Liu Xingzuo.

Amizhou leans on Ailao Mountain in the west, Annan in the south, Guangxi in the west, and Kunming enters the water passage of Guangxi in the north, which is the traffic place in the southeast of Yunnan. The terrain here is complex, and although there are many rivers, agriculture is extremely backward, so the population of the state is only 40,000 or 50,000.

However, with the terrain of the intersection of the four directions of Ami Prefecture, it has enriched the passing business in the prefecture and county areas, coupled with the courage and belligerence of the natives in the mountainous areas, making the Tusi of Ami Prefecture a strong place in southeast Yunnan.

When Yunnan sent troops to assist Guizhou and Sichuan to quell the rebellion of Lu'an, the reputation of Tusipu in Amizhou defeated the Lu'an rebels in battles one after another, which made him despise the Ming army. At that time, he thought that if the Ming army could not even suppress such a weak enemy as the Hao'an rebels, then if anyone occupied Yunnan and cut off the passage with the interior, wouldn't they be able to close the door and become king.

Many Yunnan toasts also have the idea of fame, so they were a little hindered in the subsequent battles. However, as the Ming army changed its strategy, it lured Yunnan Tusi with benefits, saying that as long as they made merits, they could be allocated a piece of land in Sichuan; At the same time, it began to reorganize the troops and eliminate those incompetent and timid officers and soldiers. In the end, the results of the comprehensive pacification of the rebellion of luxury and peace were achieved.

Except for some Tusi who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, they refused the land reward and led the troops back to their own places. Tusi such as Rupu Mingming gladly accepted the land near Chongqing, and also accepted the canonization of the imperial court and became a member of the Southwest Nationalities Committee. Nominally, they have the right to fight for the economic and educational development of the ethnic minorities in the southwest, but in reality they have lost the right to run their own territory.

And what frightened these Tusi the most was that the army they brought to Chongqing was quickly divided and disintegrated by the imperial court. The imperial court said that it would give them a piece of land, but it did not give them their own distribution, but distributed them according to the way of the imperial court. And the court also forced Tusi to release the slave babies in the army to break Tusi's control over his own army.

Pu Mingsheng and other Yunnan Tusi originally thought that they would take advantage of the fact that Sichuan had just quelled the Extravagant Rebellion and come here to occupy a piece of land for development, thinking that they would consider it in the future. But no one expected that the imperial court wanted to take the opportunity to absorb the tribes they brought out of Yunnan. In Chongqing, which is far away from home, surrounded by the Tuntian Guard Station of the Shaanxi military family, as well as the surveillance of the Sichuan army, most of the Tusi chose to accept it respectfully, enjoyed the personal preferential treatment given by the imperial court, and settled down in Chongqing.

Only Pu Mingming was unwilling, and he had to go back to his hometown in Yunnan, but only a few of the people he brought into Sichuan were willing to go back to Yunnan with him. Under the frustration, Pu Mingming fell ill before he arrived in Amisizhou, and finally died of illness in the summer of Chongzhen's fifth year.

In this way, the power of Amisan fell into the hands of Wan Shi, the wife of Pu Ming. The difference between Wan and Pu's fame is nearly 20 years old, it is the time when they are young and beautiful, and now there is a powerful Amizhou as a dowry, and for a while, the Yunnan Tusi are ready to move, and they want to marry him home.

Mu Tianbo, the contemporary Duke of Qianguo, and his mother, Mrs. Chen, are still living in the capital at the moment, and Mrs. Chen's housekeepers and cronies who remained in Yunnan have been marginalized since Hong Chengchou entered Yunnan. Hong Chengchou, who went out of Yunnan and Guizhou as the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, has much more power in his hands than the governor of Yunnan.

After Liu Xingzuo led his army into Kunming to ensure the smooth passage between Kunming and Guangxi, the strength of the Ming army in Yunnan had overwhelmed the power of the local Tusi. At the end of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the formation of the Eighth Field Army in Sichuan and Guizhou, and the Ninth Field Army in Guangxi and Yunnan greatly improved the ruling power of the imperial court over Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou.

Since Hong Chengchou entered Yunnan, he has been dividing the Tusi in Yunnan to strengthen the authority of the imperial court, and he naturally will not allow the Wan clan to marry other Tusi and cause instability under his rule.

And the merchants who opened mines in Yunnan also did not like the passage in and out of Yunnan to be controlled by an uncontrollable toast. As businessmen who entered Yunnan from other places to open mines, they first supported the central government, and second, they went to make good relations with the local Tusi.

After all, without the unified planning of the central government, Yunnan's transportation facilities could not be improved on a large scale, and even if they dug up minerals, it would be difficult to transport them out of the province. Moreover, without the support of the central power, it is really unknown whether the mines they opened will belong to them.

Therefore, in Yunnan, the most supportive of Hong Chengchou is the businessman. Yunnan is mountainous and mineral, and under these four or five years of exploration, a number of copper, tin, lead and zinc mines have been discovered. If you want to mine these mines and transport them out of Yunnan smoothly, you need a stable and united Yunnan.

Under the guidance of these businessmen, Hong Chengchou quickly contacted Wan's brother-in-law, Tang Guest, and promised this Lin'an Mansion student the benefit of being a county magistrate, so he installed an internal response by Wan's side.

Wan's Wan Cailian and Pu Mingming actually have a ten-year-old child, Pu Fuyuan, who actually wants to keep this family business to pass on to her son. It's just that under the persecution of many toasts, she had to seriously consider choosing a toast's courtship to resist the coveting of other toasts for Amizhou.

In Wan's own opinion, if you really want to choose a toast to marry, it is better to choose to marry Wang Lang Toast, which is adjacent to Ami Prefecture. Wang Lane Tusi Shayuan was originally a neighbor of Amizhou, but he performed well in quelling the Rebellion of Lu'an, which made the former Yunnan governor Min Hongxue promote and comfort the envoy to contain the Tusi of Amizhou.

Although Sha Yuan was only known to the imperial court during the Hao'an Rebellion, he had previously defeated the Vietnamese soldiers many times in the war to defend the border, and recovered the Annam Governor's lawsuit, and he was famous among the Yunnan Tusi for a long time. It's just that the places where Annan and Wang Lane are in court are not as rich as Amisizhou, so they are not as important as their reputation in the eyes of the imperial court.

At this time, Sha Yuan was already more than seventy years old, so he naturally did not ask for his own marriage, but for his eldest son Sha Dinghai. Obviously, this Tusi, who is loyal to the imperial court, is also unwilling to give up the fat of Amisizhou.

It's just that Wan likes to marry Wang Lang Tusi, but he doesn't like Sha Dinghai, because Sha Dinghai is different from his father, he likes literary affairs and is not good at military affairs, which can be described as an outlier among Yunnan Tusi. In contrast, Sha Yuan's second son, Sha Dingzhou, is quite similar to his father, known for his bravery, and looks like a person who can keep the family business.

Wan's delay in deliberation delayed the opportunity, and after finding out Wan's intentions, Tang Guest hurriedly reported to Hong Chengchou. So Hong Chengchou invited Wan and his son to Kunming to discuss the education of Pufuyuan and the issue of the Tusi agent of Amizhou.

Hong Chengchou detained Wan's mother and son in Kunming, and on the other hand, he bribed and divided the local officials under Ami Prefecture through Tang Guest, and finally broke Wan's plot with an oath of all local officials. The oath submitted by the local officials of Amizhou to the Governor's Mansion of Yunnan and Guizhou claimed that the inheritance of the Tusi of Amizhou should belong to Pu Fuyuan, the son of Pu Mingming, and that the Wan clan had no right to regard the Tusi of Amizhou as his own property. They would not interfere with Wan's marriage, but they asked the Yunnan-Guizhou Governor's Mansion to send someone to manage the Ami Prefecture on their behalf until Pu Fuyuan reached adulthood.

This oath paper presented to the Governor's Mansion of Yunnan and Guizhou not only broke the dreams of the Tusi who coveted the land of Amizhou, but also put the Wan clan in a dangerous situation. At this time, Hong Chengchou sent someone to have a showdown with Wan, hoping that she would marry an officer beside Liu Xingzuo to avoid causing civil strife in Amizhou.

Under the persuasion of his brother-in-law Tang, Wan finally nodded and agreed to the marriage. In return, Hong Chengchou promised to let Tang Guest become the governor of Amizhou, which can be regarded as retaining part of Wan's influence on Amizhou.

Hong Chengchou immediately took advantage of this marriage to invite all the Tusi in Yunnan to Kunming, firstly, to show that the wedding was purely voluntary for Wan's family; The second is to re-establish order for the Tusi in Yunnan, so as to change the laissez-faire state of the Tusi in remote areas who listen to the tune and do not listen to the propaganda.

From the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen to the end of March, a total of 57 Yunnan toasts arrived in Kunming one after another, which greatly exceeded the number of toasts canonized by the imperial court.

Since the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yunnan's governance mode is different from the mainland, in addition to Yunnan, the capital of the Guizhou State, is to divide Yunnan into three management circles, the first is the relatively flat terrain in central Yunnan, this region with Kunming as the center to implement the ruling mode that is no different from the mainland, but also the political, economic, cultural and military core support area of Yunnan.

The second is the homeland of Yunnan outside of central Yunnan, although the local people are powerful, but they are also deeply influenced by Sinicization, so they are ruled by the staggered management of soil flows, as the last barrier to protect the central Yunnan region.

The last one is a foreign land where the Yuan Dynasty failed to establish a permanent rule, that is, the land of present-day Laos, Thailand, and Burma. The degree of sinicization of these regions is not deep, although in the early years of the Ming Dynasty surrendered to the Central Plains, but in modern times they have almost all stood on their own, or were annexed by local powers.

Yunnan is so complicated that it has become a common thing for local forces to rebel and descend from time to time. Therefore, in the course of governance in successive dynasties, local officials in Yunnan or the government of Qianguo often only gave a verbal title of Tusi to some unreliable local forces, and did not report it to the imperial court. However, after some local forces passed it on, they put this name of toast on their heads.

In modern times, the wind of government has also blown into Yunnan, in order to accumulate wealth. The local officials and the Qianguo Mansion held on to the inheritance of the formal canonized Tusi on the one hand, and took the title of Tusi in exchange for gold and silver on the other hand, so by the time the previous Qianguo Duke died, the situation in Yunnan had become a little chaotic.

If you really have to calculate it carefully, now the Tusi of Yunnan and foreign countries add up, at least 100 people, and only 57 people came, which is already a lot of face for the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.

Hong Chengchou didn't distinguish the true identity of these toasts, he gladly admitted the identities of these toasts who came to Kunming. He also announced in public that there were too many old materials of the Tusi preserved by the government, so all the Tusi who came to Kunming could write down their territory, family history and title, and he would report to the imperial court to re-canonize the Tusi to ensure that nothing was missing.

This news is naturally good news for those who are not confident enough toast. The toasts' original defensive psychology towards Hong Chengchou disappeared most of them in this discourse.

The next Tusi Conference, in which the contents discussed, made many Tusi move closer to the Yunnan-Guizhou Governor's Mansion.