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Chapter 779 - 779 Change of Mind

?Chapter 779: Change of Mind Chapter 779: Change of Mind Editor: Atlas Studios Mu Yangling found the map of Qiannan and flipped open the Southwestern Chronicles and Great Zhou’s Records to carefully study the geographical and cultural environment of Luodian.

What she saw made her frown.

Most of the people in Luodian were descendants of the Yue people and actually shared the same ancestors as the Miao people in ancient times.

Later on, they migrated and split up.

While the Miao people were now all over Lingnan, most of the Buyi people still lived in Luodian.

Just like the Miao Tribe, the Buyi Tribe was also hospitable but xenophobic.

Government was based on clans, with the chiefs and priests holding the most power, while the tribal chieftains ruled over the various clans, although their authority was not very strong.

Their relationship with the central government was neither close nor distant.

As Luodian was even more remote and barren than the Miao stockades in Lingnan, the Imperial Court was not very interested in that small region.

Therefore, the Imperial Court granted them greater autonomy and only symbolically collected some taxes every year.

As long as they did not encounter tyrannical rulers or corrupt officials, the people of Luodian rarely had conflicts with the Imperial Court.

Luodian was not oppressed like the other Miao clans in Lingnan, so they naturally did not resist the Imperial Court as much.

They seemed to have closed their doors and existed independently of other places.

Though hospitable, they were xenophobic.

Be it social relations or socio-economic development, development was lackluster.

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