The chief envoy of Yunnan is located in Yunnan Prefecture.
Yunnan has a total of 22 prefectures, which include 38 scattered prefectures and 24 prefecture-affiliated counties. There are also five Zhili prefectures that do not govern counties.
There are not many single houses.
but...
There were only one hundred and sixty-three mansions in the Ming Dynasty.
The number of prefectures in Yunnan Province alone accounts for 13% of the total number! ?.?????.???
The reason why so many prefectures were set up was because there were too many local officials.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 330 native officials in Yunnan.
Native officials are also called chieftains and chieftains.
It is a position given by the imperial court to the leaders of local ethnic minorities.
Native officials are mainly concentrated in minority gathering areas such as the northwest and southwest, and are divided into civil and military positions.
The military positions include the Xuan comfort envoy, the Xuanfu envoy, the appeasement envoy and the recruiting envoy, etc.; the civil service includes the Tu magistrate, the Tu magistrate of the state, the Tu magistrate of the county, etc.
Whether they are civil or military chieftains, they are all under the management of the Ministry of Personnel.
The court would give a seal to prove their official status, and the chieftain would pay taxes to the court and bear the levy.
In addition, local officials also have absolute ruling power within their jurisdiction.
To put it simply, these native officials are the local emperors.
Smart, capable and loyal local officials can indeed help the court manage the place well.
For example, Ma Qiancheng, Qin Liangyu and his wife.
But if the local officials rebel, it will bring great trouble to the court.
Such as Yang Yinglong in the Battle of Bozhou, She Chongming and An Bangyan in the She'an Rebellion.
Their rebellion not only displaced local people, but also put Ming Dynasty's finances into crisis and dragged Ming Dynasty into quagmire.
Faced with the threat of native officials, the Ming Dynasty began to reform the native officials since the Yongle period.
(Gaitu Guiliu means to abolish the local chieftain system and change it to be governed by floating officials appointed by the court like in the mainland. It is also called Gaitu Guiliu.)
In the eleventh year of Yongle, after quelling the rebellions in Sinan and Sizhou in Guizhou, Zhu Di abolished the chieftain system in the two places and replaced them with official governance.
The process of putting down this rebellion has a touch of legend.
Zhu Di prepared an army of 50,000 troops to put down the rebellion.
It turned out to be of no use at all.
At the same time as the army set off, hundreds of Jin Yiwei also set off from the capital, sneaking into Sinan and Sizhou ahead of the army.
Jinyiwei, who went deep alone, captured Sizhou Xuanwei envoy Tian Chen in Sizhou City and escorted him to Beijing.
The other group of Jin Yiwei is even more powerful.
They traveled over mountains and ridges to the Sinan area, sneaked into the Sinan Xuanwei Si Yamen compound, and captured Tian Zongding, the Sinan Xuanwei envoy, who was sleeping.
Being discovered by the enemy during the evacuation, Jin Yiwei could only stab him to death and then walk away.
Subsequently, Chenghua, Zhengde, Jiajing, Wanli, and Tianqi all underwent varying degrees of reform.
During the Chongzhen period.
Troubled by internal and external troubles. The Ming court temporarily stopped reforming the land and trying to exchange peace for these places.
Faced with the problem of chieftains in the southwest, Chongzhen tried to take a preemptive strike.
But it's only at the tentative stage.
The situation in Yunnan is more complicated than Guizhou and Guangxi.
