Where exactly do Tunpu people come from?

In the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1381), Zhu Yuanzhang sent 3, troops to attack the southwest, wiped out the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, and left the troops in Yunnan-Guizhou area. After more than 6 years, the architecture, costumes and entertainment methods of local houses still followed the cultural customs of the Ming Dynasty. Then, what was Zhu Yuanzhang's profound intention when he left 3, troops in the local area? Are they carrying out some kind of "secret mission"?

to understand this problem, we have to start with the war initiated by Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1381, Zhu Yuanzhang assembled 3, troops from the south of the Yangtze River, and launched a war of conquering the south to eliminate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan. In more than three months, he quickly destroyed the forces of Liang Wang in the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan and won the war. After the expedition to the south, except for Mu Ying, who led more than 1, sergeants to stay in Yunnan, the other 2, sergeants stayed in Guizhou.

Although the war won quickly, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried. In order to prevent the ethnic minorities in the border areas from making trouble again, he adopted the strategy of "transferring the north to fill the south" and ordered all the parents, wives and children of the garrison to be sent to the garrison in Guizhou. In the local area, the garrison of the army was called "Tun" and the residence of the immigrants was called "Fort", so their descendants were also called "Tunpu people". In order to consolidate the frontier and reduce the burden of the troops stationed in the army, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the implementation of the reclamation system in the local area. Soon, the officers and men and the people merged together, raced around, gathered together for the camp, lived together, erected fences and built villages, and one by one Tun Bu Village quickly appeared in the Shan Ye Woods near Anshun, Guizhou.

however, since the middle of Ming dynasty, with the gradual formation of urban functions, the number of non-agricultural people has gradually increased, and the living space of Tunpu people has gradually become narrow. After the abolition of the garrison system in the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the soldiers in the Ming Dynasty became typical adherents of the former dynasty, and were finally regarded as "alternative" by the local people and excluded from the mainstream society in China.

It was not until July 192 that a Japanese scholar named Torii Ryuzo entered Anshun, Guizhou Province. Near Fanlongpu (today Longzhen) in Anping (now Pingba) County, he found several women wearing long sleeves and strange hair styles passing in front of him, which was quite different from the Miao nationality he had visited before. Soon, Torii Ryuzo and Tadashi Ito quickly came to the conclusion that these people who were regarded as "different" by local officials and city dwellers were not a branch of the Miao nationality, but belonged to the Han nationality, and their ancestors were the descendants of the garrison troops of the Ming Dynasty at that time.