Garrison in Tianlong Tunpu Ancient Town

In order to prevent the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty and the chieftain forces from rebelling again, Fu Youde played the role of the imperial garrison, so the Ming government's feat of stationing troops in the southwest ushered in the first real development of the southwest. The history of wasteland reclamation in China can be traced back to Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty. At that time, in order to enrich the border guards, Wendi recruited a large number of immigrants in the border areas. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used troops to cultivate land, and Emperor Wen's "raising the people's real border" was the beginning of cultivating land. The armies of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Xuan Di were the ancestors of wasteland reclamation. The Yuan government used the local ethnic minorities in Yunnan to reclaim land, which is the first case in southwest China. In the 15th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1382), Zhu Yuanzhang approved Fu Youde's memorial of wasteland reclamation, and ordered the Southern Army to wasteland on the spot. Today, it is of great and far-reaching significance for us to trace the historical footprint of reclaiming farmland in southwest China in Ming Dynasty. Many experts who study "Tunpu culture" have pointed out that the Ming Dynasty government's southwest reclamation can be regarded as the first real development of Guizhou and Yunnan. Guizhou improved the feudal administrative system and laid the foundation for building a province because of the southwest reclamation of the Ming Dynasty government. Guizhou was established as a province in the 11th year of Yongle (14 13). Since then, it has been "independent" and no longer belongs to Yunnan and Yunnan.