Tusi, also known as Tuguan, is a hereditary official position set up by the Ming Dynasty in the northwest and southwest regions by the leaders of the Turen.

Of course, the Tusi system was not pioneered by Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, but inherited the system of the Yuan Dynasty.

At the time of the Yuan Dynasty, for the situation of ethnic minorities living together in the southwest region, the Tusi system was directly set up.

For the vast frontier of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yunnan-Guizhou region in the southwest is too remote, and it is full of mountains and forests, and the mountains are high and dense.

If you want to completely exterminate these local snakes, it is better to focus on pacification, after all, a poor and remote place is really not worth the trouble.

Simply set up the Tusi system, which is equivalent to the autonomy of ethnic minorities, and let them manage themselves, and the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty only need them to submit.

Last year, the Ming Dynasty conquered Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, continuing the system before the Yuan Dynasty, and most of the southwest is still Tusi autonomous.

According to the rank, the Tusi can be divided into military positions such as Xuanfu Envoy, Xuanfu Envoy, and Pacification Envoy, as well as civilian positions such as Tuzhi Prefecture, Tuzhi Prefecture, and Tuzhi County.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, the feudal dynasties had adopted the method of "governing the people with local officials", that is, giving the heads of the frontier Tusi officials to rule their own people.

The Yuan Dynasty granted the leaders of various ethnic groups the official positions of consolation envoys, appeasement envoys, pacification envoys and solicitation envoys.

The Ming Dynasty set up two kinds of toasts in the areas inhabited by the Tu people of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangzhou:

One is under the jurisdiction of the military department, such as the Propaganda Department, the Propaganda Department, the Pacification Division, the Recruitment Division, etc.;

The other is the prefecture, prefecture and county under the jurisdiction of the administrative department, which are established according to the administrative system of the Han nationality region, and set up the Tuzhi Prefecture, Tuzhi Prefecture and Tuzhi County.

Both types of official positions were held by the head of the natives.

Tusi was subordinate to the Ministry of Officials, all of whom were hereditary, and were given a seal by the imperial court, and established a system of inheritance, rank, assessment, tribute, and levy.

In addition to paying tribute and levying taxes to the imperial court, the Tusi still retained their traditional ruling institutions and powers in their jurisdiction.

Therefore, for the Tusi, they are the local emperors, and the natives of each tribe are their people, or slaves, who take what they want.

In addition, there are many feuds between toasts and toasts, which is also destined to make it impossible for toasts to live in peace.

In the southwest region, rebellions often broke out, although they may not be aimed at the Ming Dynasty, but in order to maintain local tranquility, the imperial court will naturally send people to solve it.

This will make the toasts hostile to the Ming Dynasty, so this contradiction is intensifying.

The war between the Tusi and the Ming Dynasty, starting from the Hongwu period, lasted until the end of the Ming Dynasty, even if the Ming Dynasty fell, the Tusi were still active in the southwest region, and during the Qing Dynasty, they also continued to rebel, making the court anxious.

Especially during the Wanli period, the rebellion of the Yang family in Banzhou lasted for nearly eight years, which greatly weakened the national strength of the Ming Dynasty and even affected the subsequent Battle of Sarhu.

It can be said that the Southwest Tusi is like a cancer that grows on the body of the Ming Dynasty, and has been repeatedly tormenting the Ming Dynasty since the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

And the Ming Dynasty, from beginning to end, was unable to completely solve this tumor, and was finally dragged to death by the Southwest Tusi.

Since Li Jin came to Hepu County and began disaster relief, the natives who were originally in the deep mountains and old forests have walked out of the mountains and forests one after another.

It's just that these natives didn't come out willingly, they were coerced by Tusi, and they had to go out of the mountains and come to Hepu County to receive the grain that Li Jin gave relief.

In recent years, there has been frequent precipitation in the south, and the people of Hepu County have been affected by the floods.

Before, they were reluctant to go out of the mountain, because even if they went out of the mountain, they would get nothing, after all, the people of Hepu County are also poor ghosts, and they can't grab anything good when they go out of the mountain.

The county order of Hepu County used to be a bandit, and it was even more of a fool's dream to let the county order provide disaster relief.

Only this time Li Jin took office, not only did he destroy the incompetent county order, but he was also willing to contribute money and grain to help the people.

For this reason, Li Jin even deliberately emphasized that both Han and Tu people are treated equally, and no one can receive two bowls of white porridge every day.

The eyes of the natives were already hungry and green, and now as soon as Li Jin's notice was posted, the natives and ordinary people in other counties of Qinzhou who could not survive all flocked to Hepu County.

In just over 10 days, the small county town, which originally had only more than 50,000 people, has now gathered nearly 200,000 people and natives.

Led by Tusi, these natives came to Hepu County in the hope of having a free lunch.

Li Jin saw this kind of battle, but he was not surprised at all, but waved his hand and directly asked people to start disaster relief activities in the county according to what was said in the notice.

Porridge sheds rose from the ground, and the grain that originally poured in from all directions was now dispersed by Li Jinshui like flowing water.

Everyone doesn't know what Li Jin is doing this for?

Anyway, what the people know is that Li Jin, the prefect of Qinzhou, has a lot of grain, and it is said that Li Jin's grain is enough for them to eat for a year, and they can't eat it all.

The people of the entire Hepu County were immersed in joy, what they didn't know was that all this was just Li Jin's plan.

In this world, where is there any free lunch?