[cp] The richest prince of the Ming Dynasty was the King of Shu, "the richest of the Shu Province, A is in the world". The reason was that Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, reported the rebellion of his mother and brother King Gu during the Yongle years, and took the initiative to sacrifice two guards, zhu Di was very happy, and ordered the two guards to completely return the land of the two guards to the Shu king's palace. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhuangtian, the prince of Shu, stretched from Guanxian county to Pengshan, accounting for almost seven-tenths of the fertile land of the Chengdu Plain.
Although the Mu family in Yunnan was not a prince, the ancestor Mu Ying was the adopted son of Zhu Yuanzhang and one of the few heroes who survived the Hongwu years. Gu Yingtai commented that Tang He and Mu Ying were "obedient to Tang Xingong's orders, and Mu Xiping's residence is not proud." Mu Ying's descendants were given the titles of Marquis of Xiping and Duke of Qianguo, the commander-in-chief of Pei Yunnan, who also served as the commander of the capital of Yunnan, Shizhen Yunnan, "Prince Wei Chong", and after his death, he was buried in Nanjing, buried around the tomb of his ancestor Mu Ying.
During the Ming Dynasty, Mufu occupied a large amount of Zhuangtian in Yunnan. Mu Sheng once set up the 360 district of Zhuangtian and boasted that "I can be one of the eclipses of the sun, and I can be one year old." In the 39th year of the Wanli Calendar, Inspector Yushi Deng Yu investigated the situation of Mufu Zhuangtian and found that the people's land he had encroached on had reached 8,842 hectares (more than 880,000 mu). These had already been found, and Deng Yu estimated that with the hidden fields that had not been found, Mu Fu's Zhuangtian in Yunnan was more than 10,000 hectares.
At that time, the total amount of land in yunnan was more than 29,000 hectares, which meant that the fields occupied by the Mu family were at least equivalent to 30% of all the fields in Yunnan Province. In the Ming Dynasty, the Fourteen Provinces of Yunnan, except for the four Provinces located in yidi, the remaining ten provinces had nine provinces of Zhuangtian. In addition, Mufu also had a horse pasture in Pingliang Guyuan, which was later opened into a field. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, There were only more than a thousand hectares of taxpayer land in Guyuan, and the remaining tens of thousands of acres of land were all zhuangtian (formerly horse pastures) of the Chu King, the Han King, the Su King, and the MuFu.
The Zhuangtian of Mufu, even if it is not counted as the land of Guyuan, is only calculated according to the 8842 hectares in Yunnan, which is similar to the Qin Wangfu Zhuangtian (8992 hectares) known as the "first feudal domain under the heavens" in the Ming Dynasty. This brought a lot of wealth to mufu. "The treasure golden shell fills the treasury of the house, and several enemies of the Heavenly House." There are hundreds of people in the backyard, and tens of hundreds of castrated slaves." In December of the second year of Longwu, Yunnan Tusi Sha Dingzhou attacked MuFu, Mu Tianbo hastily fled with official seal iron coupons, and Sha Dingzhou transported the treasures accumulated by Mu Fu in the past 270 years into this valley, and the months continued. "Mufu Shizhen Yunnan, Fuzang Yingji. The Buddha's top stone, the blue arrow, the dansha, the falling red, the amber, the horseshoe, and the red gold are all loaded with a basket, and the basket is all 100 pounds, and the high version is hidden; the plate library is fifty, a total of more than two hundred and fifty libraries; his treasures are incalculable."
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Mu Ying to build a mansion in Kunming, and Mu Ying chose to build a mansion under Wuhua Mountain, on a grand scale. When the drawings were presented to the imperial palace, Zhu Yuanzhang made a painting with a Zhu pen in his courtyard, saying that "the front is the Yunnan Cloth Administration", so the Qianguo Gongfu did not have a gate, and composed the street in front of the second gate and went out to the east. During the Southern Ming Dynasty, Mu Mansion became Liu Wenxiu's residence, and later served as the palace of the Yongli Emperor and the palace of Wu Sangui.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Mu clan regarded Yunnan as their own sphere of influence and did not allow others to touch it. During the years of Hongwu and Yongle, the imperial court twice enfeoffed Zhu Yu, the King of Min, in Kunming, but King Min and Mu Ying's son Mu Sheng were at odds with each other, could not be compatible, and attacked each other, and finally ended with the court backing down and moving the Min king away. The Han kings Gao Xu and Teng Wang Zhan'ao were also sealed in Yunnan, but they were also later abandoned for some reason. After that, the Ming Dynasty no longer held the throne in Yunnan. The Mu family's exclusive yunnan town shoushi marquis Ming Xiaozong had wanted to demote the title of Duke of Qianguo Mu Kun to the title of Marquis of Xiping, but the Yunnan shouguan said that the Dian people and the Burmese Zhuyi only knew the Duke of Qianguo, and did not know the Marquis of Xiping, and Emperor Xiaozong of Ming had no choice but to make him still attack the Duke.
In the Ming Dynasty, Mu Shi, as the chief military officer of the town guard, in addition to monopolizing the military power of Yunnan, also had the right to transfer troops in Sichuan and Guizhou, and also managed civil affairs such as Tuntian, water conservancy, salt well, commercial affairs, and conscription. The envoys of Yunnan, the envoys of the prefecture, and the envoys of the capital commanded the envoys, and the baishi transfer text must "first guard the town, and then patrol the patrol." In various prefectures and prefectures outside the capital of Yunnan Province, the Mu clan also sent their descendants to "divide" or "garrison" important places and intervene in local civil affairs.
