The Research Of Nandan Garrison Of Guangxi In The Ming Dynasty

In the Ming dynasty, Nandan garrison is important military garrison in Guangxi province. Hongwu 28 years (1395), Nandan state Mo surname Tusi happened insurgency, the government sent troops to suppress. In the Nandan state, in order to strengthen the management and control, Nandan garrison was set up. Along with GuiZhong changes of situation and the local natural conditions, the address of the Nandan garrison experience three large-scale migration from the Nandan state to shanglin, to binzhou and to shangLin again. In the Ming dynasty, it played an important role in military defense system of GuiZhong area.At the beginning, Nandan garrison set up in Tusi region of mixed and unforeseen situation in northwest of Guangxi, therefore, the size of its organizational system goes far beyond the general garrison. It bear the heavy military defense and combat mission, so reduce soldiers of workers militancy was very serious,with the addition of soldiers not accustomed to the climate of a new place, so many soldiers death and escape, Nandan garrison’s soldiers are greatly reduced. Main sources of Nandan garrison soldiers were hongwu 28 years with Yang Wen fighting to stay who HuGuang belong to the cavalry, foot soldier and strong army officials and soldiers in the capital garrison. Guilty officials and civilians were important supplement as sources of soldiers of the Nandan garrison. The officials are main source is expropriated, banishment and remove three ways, they were mainly came from in south Zhili and north Zhili, HuGuang, jiangxi and other places. The promotion methods included the military such as were killed, achievement, escape cut and nonmilitary promotion including the military years rise and recommended and abolish years promotion in the special period. For violation of law punishment is attache including dismissal, demotion, exile etc. Native officials mainly distributed in South and North Zhili Huguang, Jiangxi etc.Because of the geographical factors, the land area of Nandan garrison were small, it was too difficult to satisfy the needs of soldiers. By the Mid Ming dynasty, along with the constantly migration of Nandan garrison, the scale of the land increased. By the late Ming, following the damage of garrison system and the reduction of soldiers, more and more land were occupied by the Nandan garrison officials, the landlord strongmen, and Yao zhuang ethnic minority, the scale of the land reduced again. The land of Nandan garrison belong to the army, with the time going by, the land was abandoned gradually, and the government intervention deeply in army farming, leading to the trend of "folk-land". Early years of the Qing dynasty, Nandan garrison was canceled, the land finally belonged to the state, completely "folk-land".The existence of the Nandan garrison and the nature of the migration was a military immigration, and made a profound impact on the local society in the GuiZhong region. Nandan garrison military immigration for GuiZhong area, especially on the shanglin left a large number of immigrants. They not only served for the disseminator of the culture communication, and through the way such as marriage inhabit gradually merge with local people, on the local has produced important influences on the change of social culture and custom.