The political envoy of Yunnan is located in Yunnan Prefecture.

Yunnan has a total of 22 prefectures, including 38 scattered prefectures and 24 prefectures, as well as five non-county prefectures.

There are not many of them alone.

But...

There were only 163 prefectures in the Ming Dynasty.

The number of prefectures in Yunnan province alone accounts for 13% of the total! 𝓜.𝙑𝕆🄳🆃𝙒.🅲𝕆🅼

The reason why so many prefectures were set up was that there were too many local officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, a total of more than 330 local officials were set up in Yunnan.

Tuguan is also known as Tusi and Tuchief.

It is a position given by the imperial court to the leaders of local ethnic minorities.

Tuguan are mainly concentrated in the northwest and southwest and other minority areas, and are divided into civilian and military positions.

The military positions are respectively consolation, appeasement, pacification and solicitation; Civilian positions include Tuzhifu, Tuzhizhou, Tuzhixian, etc.

Whether it is a civilian or military Tusi, it is under the management of the Ministry of Officials.

The imperial court would give a sigil to prove his official status, and the tusi would pay taxes to the imperial court and bear the levy and distribution.

In addition to this, the Tuguan also has absolute ruling power in their jurisdiction.

To put it simply, these local officials are the local soil emperors.

Shrewd, capable, and loyal local officials can indeed help the imperial court to govern the place well.

For example, Ma Qiancheng, Qin Liangyu and his wife.

However, if the local officials rebelled, it would bring great trouble to the imperial court.

Such as Yang Yinglong in the Battle of Banzhou, Luxury Chongming and An Bangyan in the Rebellion of Luxury.

Their rebellion not only displaced the local people, but also plunged the Ming into a financial crisis, dragging the Ming into a quagmire.

Faced with the threat of local officials, the Ming court began to change the land and return to the stream since the Yongle period.

(The meaning of changing the land and returning to the stream means abolishing the local Tusi system, and changing it to be governed by the imperial court appointed by the imperial court as in the mainland, also known as changing the land officials to the liuguan.) ）

In the eleventh year of Yongle, after quelling the rebellions in Sinan and Sizhou in Guizhou, Zhu Di abolished the Tusi system in the two places and ruled it by liuguan.

The process of quelling this rebellion is legendary.

Zhu Di prepared an army of 50,000 in order to quell the rebellion.

It didn't work at all.

At the same time as the army set off, hundreds of Jinyi guards also set off from the Beijing division and sneaked into Sinan and Sizhou one step ahead of the army.

The lone Jinyi guard captured Tian Chen, the consolation envoy of Sizhou, in Sizhou City and escorted him into Beijing.

The other group of brocade guards is even more powerful.

They crossed the mountains and mountains to the Sinan area, quietly entered the Yamen compound of the Sinan Propaganda Division, and captured Tian Zongding, the Sinan Propaganda Envoy who was sleeping.

Because he was discovered by the enemy during the evacuation, Jinyi Wei could only stab him to death and then fly away.

Subsequently, Chenghua, Zhengde, Jiajing, Wanli, and Tianqi all carried out different degrees of land reform and return.

In the Chongzhen period.

Plagued by internal and external troubles. The Ming court temporarily stopped changing the land and returning to the river, trying to exchange this way for the tranquility of these places.

Faced with the problem of Southwest Toast, Chongzhen tried to think about a preemptive strike.

But it's just a matter of imagination.

The situation in Yunnan is even more complicated than that in Guizhou and Guangxi.