Yunnan During The Ming Government Military Defense System Research

In recent years, the research of Borderland History and Geography from the traditional frontier Administrative Region, History of the frontier territory of politics, settlement, ecology, and many directions to expand. But the research on military geography is relatively weak. In terms of frontier research on the Ming Dynasty, modern scholars are mainly concentrated in the Ming Dynasty ethnic relations, border areas and so on, and geographical scope is concentrated in north and south-east frontier. The Southwest Border Issues Ming , especially the research on Yunnan frontier area is not so much. The article from the perspective of military defense, to the Ming Dynasty is the time breaks, Yunnan government for the geographic scope, research its military defense system. Try on the basis of their geographical to test cable and objective interpretation of military bases, discuss the formation of the military defense system, and then discuss the characteristics and impact of its history.This article is consisted of two parts--the preamble and the body. Preamble of the main topics of the article explained the meaning and status of the Ming frontier research, highlighted the topic of academic significance and practical relevance and clearly this is the basis of previous research carried out.Body parts are discussed from three aspects in turn. First of all, discussed the military situation of Ming Dynasty from the prevailing social reality and geographic circumstances, and concluded that Ming Dynasty, House of Ming military defense system not only thinking about the government's border control, but also by political, economic, ethnic, geographical and other factors; Second, start from the Yunnan government in defense and government defense , through the Ming Dynasty, the government and military installations inside and outside the military base of research, we can see that city with regional military defense systems are not static, but constant ed over time developed, eventually form a military defense system; Finally, through a comprehensive study of military defense systems, discussed House of Ming Dynasty, the characteristics and effects of military defenses, proposed that Yunnan government military defense system not only has its own specialty, but for the entire area of Yunnan government's political, economic, cultural, and other aspects of national integration had a profound effect.Ming Dynasty in the late feudal despotism, great country, lasted nearly three years. The scope of its territory, although not, and the Yuan Dynasty, but the border conflicts come and go, continuous wars, the Ming frontier military defense from the reflection of the vicissitudes of the history of the Ming Dynasty.Yunnan frontier defense as part of the military defense system in the whole occupied an important position, and Yunnan, the government's special political status, also determine the importance of its military defense system, if the government settled in Yunnan Province, Yunnan Province on the border for the whole stability lay a good foundation, so the government's military defense system in Yunnan to conduct detailed analysis is necessary. Ming Dynasty, the government's order is not immutable, under the influence of multiple factors, often deviate from the right track, there wars and disputes to the state and the people had serious consequences, leading to trouble on the frontier on weight, stability and national unity crisis.Based on the Ming Dynasty government military positions in the research, then the government military defense system in Yunnan, the particularity, diversity and its impact, hoping the military defense of our country's border to provide some experience and learn.