Why did the Ming Dynasty become the largest unified dynasty after the Qin Dynasty in terms of area?
Updated on: 17-0-0 0:0:0

In the Ming Dynasty map of Tan Qixiang's Historical Atlas of China, there are two areas in the southeast of Guizhou:

The one on the east is called Liping Mansion, and the one on the west is marked "Ligu Prefecture".

Liping Mansion was set up in the Ming Dynasty in the twelfth year of Yongle, at the beginning it was under the jurisdiction of seven barbarian chief officials, Xuande period next to a government was abolished, and then seven barbarian chief officials, orthodox six years, there was a long official changed into a county, so from this time to the end of the Ming Dynasty, Liping Mansion under the jurisdiction of 13 counties, 0 barbarian chief officials.

So some people said, can this proportion of Tuhan zoning be regarded as actual control?

Therefore, in some so-called displays of the actual control map of the Ming Dynasty, this place is treated with color separation to show that it is fettered or not completely controlled:

The Ming Dynasty had an official account book, which recorded the revenue and expenditure of the central finance and accounting of the Ming Dynasty, and the local tax collection could be specific to the prefectures and counties, and this book was called "Wanli Accounting Records". Coincidentally, this book has Liping Mansion:

The tax in Liping Province is very low, the summer tax is exempted, and only 397 stone, 0 buckets, 0 liters of autumn grain and rice, and 0 money, 0 cents and 0 cents of household salt and silver. A house, just these taxes. However, this tax is not only borne by Yongcong County, but by 0 counties and 0 barbarian long lawsuits, Yongcong County's autumn grain is 0 stone, and this number is not even as much as some long lawsuits, such as Tanxi Barbarian Long Lawsuit Autumn Grain Rice 0 Stone, Hongzhou Boli Barbarian Long Lawsuit Autumn Grain Rice 0 Stone.

Now it's up to you to judge, do you think the Ming Dynasty is actually in control of this place, or is it a fetter?

And that's not all. Because although Liping Mansion was only set up in the twelfth year of Yongle, as early as the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang set up another administrative unit here - the Wukaiwei Command Envoy. When the Liping Mansion was set up in the twelfth year of Yongle, the palace city was set up in the Wukai Acropolis, and the two units worked in the same city in the Ming Dynasty.

很多人都知道,明代一个卫5600人,下辖五个千户所,进阶内容了解一下的话会知道,所谓的五千六百人实际上是五千六百户,每户出一个军丁,所以一个卫是五千六百人。

But guess what size is the five-guard?

Wukaiwei has left, right, middle, front, back, left, center, right, and middle eight thousand households in the city, and there are eight thousand households outside the city, including Liping, Zhongchao, Xinhua Liangzhai, Longli, Xinhua Tun, Tonggu, Pingcha, and Pingchatun, with a total of 16 thousand households inside and outside, 4570 banner troops and 0 tun troops - almost six times that of ordinary guards, and these guards are not like the garrison of the Eight Banners in the city and do not come out and do not allow non-banner people to enter, but are scattered, and there is no difference from the distribution of ordinary Fuzhou counties:

Now you judge again, is the Ming Dynasty actually controlling this place, or is it fetters?

Before the Ming Dynasty, the two Han Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty, these great unified dynasties, are like this: