Qinghai at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not as Wang Shuo thought, and it naturally belonged to the Ming Dynasty, but various forces were mixed, and the situation was quite complicated.Qinghai was a place directly under the Ming Dynasty and was far from the modern map of China.From Zhuanglang to the west in the east, to the east of Qinghai Lake, that is, Haidong, to the Qaidam Basin in the south, to the Qilian Mountains in the north, and Gansu border, roughly this place, belongs to the Ming Dynasty Xiningwei.To the east of Qinghai Lake, it belonged to the Khanate established by Gushi Khan of the Mongolian Erut Department.Gushi Khan sat in Western Tibet, which is now Lhasa, Tibet, and the Qinghai part of Haixi was ruled by his ten sons, known as Shitaiji.Mongolian, Prince.In addition, there are still Tibetan forces in many places in Qinghai.They nominally belonged to the Ming court, but in fact they became separate forces and advocated Buddhism.In the famous lama temples in various places, the living Buddhas who have been awarded the title of the imperial court are often the owners of the highest rights.In addition to the above two larger forces, there are also a small number of Uighurs, Sara and other ethnic groups in Qinghai, scattered all over the country, and their influence is very small, so there is no cause for concern.Most of these places directly under Xiningwei are mainly Han Chinese or sinicized ethnic minorities, who make a living from farming, which can be roughly divided into two situations.One is the pawn.Most of the soldiers came here with the army, and then they married and had children here, and settled here.The soldier system was the basic military system of the army in the Ming Dynasty, and it was basically the same throughout the country.The Ming military system stipulates that the garrison shall be used as a unit to live near the garrison, and the state shall allocate part of the land for cultivation for the production of grain required by the garrison, and the rest shall be owned by the family of the cultivator.The family composed of soldiers, each household must produce one person to form an army, which is called a soldier, and a family is composed of roughly 1,000 households, so the commander of the garrison is often called a thousand households.If there is a family with no male descendants, it is necessary to replace the male from the ancestral home, or move a new family with a male to replace it.There are six guards directly under Xiningwei, that is, six thousand households, scattered around Xining, mainly used to protect the security of Xiningwei's directly subordinate areas.There were commanders and soldiers in Xining City, and these institutions were transferred to Suzhou by Ma Yi along with the garrison of the garrison.Generally, other similar guards are five guards, and Xining has one more guard, which shows the importance of Xining.In the north and west of the Xining Acropolis, ranging from ten to dozens of miles, there is also a city wall, called the side wall.The side wall roughly extends from the Niangniang ditch and the tiger ditch in the north of Datong, extends to the southwest, goes south through Yuanshuo to the south to Qaidam, and the Great Wall in general, protects the Xining guard, and there are beacon towers built every few miles to defend against foreign invasion.Guarding this side wall are also four guard posts, called the outer four guards, which are evenly distributed near the side wall.These four guards are not directly under Xining Wei, but they are under the command of Xining Wei.That is to say, when encountering an invasion by a foreign enemy, the outer four guards have the duty to light the beacon to give an alarm and first stop the enemy's attack, and Xining Wei has the right to send troops to support and organize and command to resist the enemy's attack, but it does not have the right to transfer the outer four guards at will.Therefore, Ma Yi and Lin Riduan drew troops from Qinghai to defend Ganliang, and they could only draw away the six guards of Xining, but they did not have the right to transfer the outer four guards.Lu Wenbin invaded Xiningwei, and Gushi Khan of Western Tibet sent a letter to Qi Tingzhi, willing to send Shitaiji of Haixi to help him.Qi Tingzhi did not agree, even at the most critical moment, he did not ask for help in the garrison of the outer four guards, which shows that his national consciousness is still very strong, and the internal dispute and the invasion of foreign enemies are very clear.From this point, it can also be seen that he is a person and character.In addition to the forces of the soldiers, the direct subordinate of the Xining Weiming Imperial Court is Tusi.The Tusi system has existed since the Qin and Han dynasties.The local forces were divided into one side, and the imperial court was unable to exercise direct management because of the long distance, so according to the size of the power, different official positions were assigned to the leaders of these forces, who were called local officials.Native officials replaced the imperial court, administered the locality, suppressed rebellions, and sent troops to help the regular imperial army resist foreign invasions when necessary.The local official is just an empty title, and he does not take the court's money, but his power should not be underestimated.The land within Tusi's sphere of influence belonged to Tusi's private property, and the people were also his private property, and they were called serfs.Tusi has private soldiers, called Tubing, the big Tusi has four or five thousand Tusi, and the small ones have hundreds of dozens of people, and they are the Tu Emperor who really has the power of life and death in his sphere of influence.The imperial court adopts a policy of gentleness, and when they act recklessly, they recognize the court as their father, and they also give this father some face, pay some taxes, and make a point.When the imperial court could not help them, they united to resist donations and taxes, and even drove out the officials appointed by the imperial court and destroyed the imperial army.Since ancient times, the imperial courts of successive dynasties have tried their best, but they have not been able to cure these toasts.The Ming Dynasty has repeatedly forced officials to accept orders on the boundaries of Tusi, because the officials who accept their orders are not passed down from generation to generation, they can be replaced at any time, and they are known as liuguan in history.This method of coercing the management of the exile is called changing the land and returning to the stream.The imperial court changed the land and returned to the stream, which was nothing more than an attempt to really rule these places, but the Tusi did not cooperate, and the serfs only listened to the Tusi, otherwise their lives would not be guaranteed.As a result, even the officials who accepted their fate could not take care of the hands of the people with the money, and no one dared to sell them food, so they could only go back to where they came from.Therefore, Hu Lianqi would expect that Wang Shuo would not dare to do anything to these toasts.There is no way for the imperial court, you are a small thousand households, tens of thousands of troops, you can subdue these toasts and dream: