In 1381, in the ninth month of the fourteenth lunar calendar of Ming Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, with Fu Youde as the general of Zhengnan and Lan Yu and Mu Ying as deputy generals, led an army of 300,000 to conquer the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty in Yunnan. After two years of hard fighting, as the Yuan Dynasty Liang King committed suicide by throwing the thorn into Dianchi Lake, the Ming army finally pacified Yunnan.
Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Fu Youde and Lan yubanshi to return to Nanjing, while Mu Ying, as Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son, continued to stay in Yunnan Zhenshou. In the following four years, Mu Ying led an army in Yunnan to conquer the west and finally surrendered all the barbarian forces in Yunnan.
In 1386, Mu Ying built the Xiping Marquis in Kunming, which is what later generations call mu wangfu, and Mu Ying was the first generation of masters.
Of course, the actual name of Mu Wangfu was called "Qianguo Gongfu", because Mu Ying's son Mu Shenghou was awarded the title of Duke of Qianguo by Zhu Di for military merit, which was also the highest title obtained by the Mu family, and this title was also hereditary until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
However, because "the Mu clan is in Dianjiu, the authority is growing, and the prince is respected", the Qianguo Gongfu is habitually called "Mu Wangfu" by the world.
For more than two hundred years, mu wangfu was handed down for eighteen generations, and its last owner was called Mu Tianbo, who was the eleventh grandson of Mu Ying.
At that time, in the first year of Chongzhen (1628), because his father Mu Qiyuan suddenly died of illness, Mu Tianbo, who was only 10 years old, became the new master of Mu Wangfu, not only inherited the title of Duke of Qianguo, but also was appointed by Chongzhen as the general of Zhengnan.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng invaded the city of Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty collapsed, followed by the Qing army's large-scale invasion of the Central Plains. At this time, Mu Tianbo was seventeen years old and began to formally take charge of the military and political power in Yunnan.
Soon, Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army occupied Sichuan, and After Mu Tianbo consulted with Inspector Wu Zhaoyuan and Inspector Wu Wenying, on the one hand, he transferred his army to defend Yunnan, and at the same time officially accepted the dispatch of the Southern Ming court.
Two years later, the toastmasters in Yunnan launched a collective rebellion, and they declared: Emperor Zhu is gone, and there is no mu guogong. The rebels successively captured Dayao, Dingyuan, and Yao'an, shaking Yunnan. In this rebellion, Mu Tianbo was caught off guard and had to flee the mansion with several of his henchmen, and Mu Tianbo's mother, wife, and brother were all killed in this change.
Then, these toastmasters took the opportunity to seize all the treasures in the Mu King's Mansion, which was a wealth accumulated for more than two hundred years, which could be called a rich country. At the same time, they also sent a message to the Southern Ming court, saying that the Mu clan had no way, and asked the imperial court to seal them in place of Mu Tianbo to guard Yungui for generations. Not only that, they also continued to lead the army to pursue the fleeing Mu Tianbo, planning to cut down the grass and remove the roots.
Just at this time, Sun Kewang led his army to Yunnan. Then, Sun Kewang led a large army to engage these toastmasters, and finally pacified them all, so Sun Kewang began to occupy Yunnan, but he claimed that he was avenging the Mu family, and he also wrote to Mu Tianbo, asking him to come back and preside over the overall situation of Yunnan.
In this context, Mu Tianbo returned to the Mu King's Mansion, but at this time, Mu Tianbo was just Sun Kewang's puppet.
In the eighth year of Shunzhi, Sun Kewang fell out with Li Dingguo after pacifying Guizhou, and in a fit of rage, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, while Li Dingguo entered Yunnan with the Yongli Emperor and established the Southern Ming State of Yunnan. At that time, the civil and military officials were all given the title of knight, but Mu Tianbo had become the head of the hundred officials because of his generational merits, and he felt that mu had been deeply favored by the emperor and could not repay it, and resolutely refused the emperor's reward.
After that, the Qing army began to attack Yunnan on a large scale, and Mu Tianbo understood that the Southern Ming Dynasty was already in a big way and irreparable, so he decided to martyr the country and coexist with the Southern Ming. However, he did not want to cause the Mu family to die because of this, so he gave his sons to the local toast, hoping to leave incense for the family.
Subsequently, the Qing army invaded Kunming, Mu Tianbo did not choose to surrender, but without hesitation, he followed the Yongli Emperor south and fled into Burma, when the Burmese people heard that the Duke of Qianguo was coming, they dismounted to pay their respects, because the successive Dukes of Qianguo were quite prestigious in Yunnan and the surrounding vassal states.
But gradually, as the Yongli Emperor's military horses ceased to exist, the burmese king's attitude also deteriorated, especially when the burmese king actually asked them to wear Burmese clothing barefoot and submit to the burmese king.
In this context, Mu Tianbo advised the Yongli Emperor to send the crown prince to Li Dingguo's army and horses in the mountains, so that in case things changed, as long as the royal bloodline was still there, there was still hope, and at the same time, the army could be ordered to come to the rescue, but the empress resolutely refused this request. As a result, this last chance to preserve the bloodline of the Ming Royal Family was missed.
Shortly thereafter, the Burmese king's younger brother Mang Bai staged a coup d'état, killing the old king to stand on his own, and at the request of Wu Sangui, he wanted to dedicate the Yongli Emperor to Wu Sangui. So he used the excuse of allying with the Yongli Emperor and let him cross the river to participate in the oath of alliance, and some ministers saw that there was deception, but they did not dare not go to the fence, so in the end Mu Tianbo had to lead the ministers to go to the appointment with gifts.
On August 13, 1661, Mu Tianbo led officials to cross the river to the Oath of Oath of Oath, and as a result, they were surrounded by three thousand Burmese regiments as soon as they reached their destination.
The Burmese commander did not want to kill Mu Tianbo, he ordered people to take Mu Tianbo out, but Mu Tianbo seized the guard's knife and rose up to resist, killing nine Burmese soldiers, other ministers and generals also responded when they saw this, but in the end, they were all killed because they were outnumbered. Killed at the same time as Mu Tianbo, there was also his youngest son Mu Zhongliang.
Since then, the 280-year-old Mu Wangfu has come to an end. However, in Jin Yong's novel, Mu Jianping, the daughter of Mu Tianbo, is one of Wei Xiaobao's seven wives.