"Farming Soldiers in All Areas":The Formation of the Farming Soldier System in the Late Ming Dynasty in Eastern Guangxi
The native chieftain system played an important role in the governance of the southwestern borderland in the Ming Dynasty.The farming soldiers,which mainly came from the chieftain region in western Guangxi,was a special military force established in Guangxi during the Ming Dynasty.During the Zhengde and Jiajing reigns,due to the small-scale application of recruitment policies in Guangxi,local soldiers from the chieftains in western Guangxi gradually entered the existing military fortresses.This situation combined with the"recruit Zhuang to defense Yao"policy that had been quite common in eastern Guangxi since the early Ming Dynasty.In 1530,large-scale recruitment of farming soldiers was first appeared in Guilin.With the establishment of the Gutian rehabilitation model in 1572,the farming soldier system was further encouraged by the Guangxi authorities,and was able to be widely implemented in the eastern region of Guangxi.By the mid-Wanli reign,it became the most important defense force to maintain local stability in eastern Guangxi,replacing the garrison army and the local militia,distributed around the most prominent areas of eastern Guangxi's turmoil.Over time,a large number of farming soldiers from western Guangxi settled and took root in eastern Guangxi,gradually integrating into local society and having a profound impact on the distribution pattern of ethnic groups in Guangxi in later generations.
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