Lin'an Beacon Smoke Record

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1382), the Ming army pacified southern Yunnan, abolished Lin'an Road in the Yuan Dynasty, and established Lin'an Prefecture. The government moved to Jianshui, and the Lin'an Guard Command Department was simultaneously established. 5,600 Troops were stationed to guard the throat of southern Yunnan. This place guards the main road between Central and South Yunnan, has copper and tin mineral deposits, fertile soil and water, and is home to a large number of merchants. It is known as the golden Lin'an and the silver Dali, and is the political, military, economic, and cultural core of southern Yunnan.   At that time, when the Ming Dynasty settled in Yunnan, the country was not yet stable: the Han officials in the Central Plains were determined to reorganize the system and promote royalization; the Bo, Cuan and other ethnic minority tribes that had been entrenched here for generations clung to their ancestral systems and were wary; the remaining forces of the previous dynasty, border undercurrents, private malpractices in the mines, and officialdom were intertwined. The prosperous and prosperous Lin'an Prefecture seems to be a fertile land for peace and happiness in southern Yunnan, but in fact it is a chess game involving the integration of Han Dynasty, military and political competition, and border stability maintenance. A game about stability, power, civilization, and survival is slowly unfolding here.