In mid-December, as the New Year approaches, people from all over the world are busy purchasing New Year’s goods and having a peaceful New Year.

However, in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, the people of the Ming Dynasty were still working and were preparing to work for a few days.

In Yongchang Prefecture, Yunnan, in the territory of Lujiang Fushi, thousands of local people, led by the chieftain, were repairing the official roads in the mountains.

In the Ming Dynasty, especially in the southeast, chieftains had strong independence and generally did not obey the government.

However, earlier years ago, after Sun Kewang retreated from Sichuan to Yunnan and Guizhou, he cleaned up the chieftains and issued some policies to gradually lose their independence.

It is said that later, the Qing Dynasty ruled the southwest and followed the arrangement of Sun Kewang.

Three years ago, in order to attack Sichuan, the Ming Dynasty started a road construction movement in Yunnan and Guizhou, but at that time, the roads connecting Huguang and Guangdong and Guangxi were mainly built.

This road construction campaign, which started at the beginning of the year, mainly connects the roads in Yunnan.

Yongchang Prefecture, located west of Dali Prefecture, is already in the border area. In the past, the road was not built, but this time the court spent a lot of effort to not only build the road to the border, but also build the road wide so that war horses can gallop and carriages can be transported.

An important reliance for the chieftain to maintain independence is inconvenient transportation.

Only when the road is blocked and the closure is maintained, and a few enemies are created by humans, telling the local people that it is not safe outside, the Han people oppress us, and other Tuzhai attack us, can the local leaders leave the local people on the mountain and facilitate their own rule.

If the official roads were built into their territory, the imperial army would be easily driven in, and the local people would be able to go down the mountain and were easily influenced by the Han people.

Advanced civilization is naturally attractive to backward civilizations.

If the natives saw that the Han people in the city would not be willing to live a hard life in the mountains, so the chieftains actually had a certain degree of rejection of the Ming Dynasty's desire to overhaul the official road.

When Yongchang Prefecture announced that it would build an official road, most of the local people in the country were opposed. However, as the government took out the road construction funds and placed them on the table, the chieftain's attitude immediately became differentiated, and finally they fought to become contractors and started government projects.

Being a native leader in the mountains is like a local emperor, but he is really powerful. However, life is really hard, and his material conditions are not as good as a small landlord of a Han Dynasty.

It is already difficult for the chieftains to maintain independence for the powerful Ming Dynasty government. Moreover, they also yearn for the lives of Han Chinese and local rich men in the city, but they have no conditions to move to the city to purchase industries.

The project payment issued by the government now is enough for them to buy houses and houses in the palace even if they are not native leaders. When they are local rich people, everyone's attitude was immediately shaken.

Some of the heads who were close to the capital and could not avoid being influenced by the Han people and did not intend to be king in the village took the lead in taking over the projects within the territory, and planned to take over the projects within the territory of other heads, which made the natives unable to share the same hatred and could only compete with each other to take over the road projects within their respective territory.

After a year, the government transferred money to local people based on the road construction, and then sent it to local people involved in the construction of the road.

At this time, many native people, for many heads, were almost equivalent to free labor.

In the cottage, these laborers cannot realize their value, but after taking over the project, laborers can create huge wealth for the leaders.

When the first project payment fell into the hands of the head, the head people immediately changed their position and became a blood-sucking contractor, squeezing the local people under their jurisdiction to build roads. Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, there is no intention of stopping.

On the 25th, in the early morning, on the official road connecting Dali and Yongchang, several dim lanterns hung in the shed.

The mosquitoes hit the lampshade and the local people who had been working hard for a day were sleeping soundly, and nothing unusual was seen.

This official road, connecting Mengmi Xuanfu Department and Kunming, has been basically completed. Most local people returned to the village, with only a few people left, and they are still guarding the construction site and guarding the equipment.

The local people learned from the beginning that after the road was completed, they still needed to go to Mengmi to build the road. They had to build the road to the south of the sea, and the road construction equipment had to be used behind the back, so they were kept to guard them so as not to be transported back to the mountains.

At this time, a beast's howl came from the dark night. A few local people watching by the bonfire raised their heads and continued to sleep on the vehicle.

When the Ming Dynasty was powerful, there were eight hundred chieftains in the southwest of Yongchang Prefecture, and they all surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, several Xuanfusi, including Meng Mi, Meng Lian, Ganya, Longchuan, etc., were all eroded by Dongxu during the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty built roads in Yunnan and the official roads reached the border. Dongxuguo had long been vigilant and protested, demanding that the Ming Dynasty stop building roads at the border.

The southwest was remote for the Ming Dynasty and was unwilling to cause more trouble. One important reason was that the road was blocked and difficult to control, and it was not cost-effective to fight.

Now that the Ming Dynasty built a road to the border, it was equivalent to the army moving into the southwest, and it was no longer as difficult as before.

This is a huge threat to Touo.

At this time, in the dense forest, a group of Dongzhao soldiers lurked in the darkness.

After feeling that the Ming Dynasty was about to launch an attack on Dongyu, King Dongyu was very scared and wanted to find a solution. He hoped that the Ming Dynasty would change its mind and stop building roads on the border, but they all ended in failure.

Just as King Dongxu felt his destruction and was approaching day by day, the approaching Great Zhou sent envoys and brought a covenant to fight against the Ming Dynasty's invasion.

In November, Dongxu signed a covenant with Zhou State. In early December, Zhou State's ally, Britain, also joined the covenant. Dongxu lost tariffs and judicial autonomy in exchange for support from Zhou State and Britain.

This alliance was far more harsh than joining the new tribute system of the Ming Dynasty. However, at this time, Dongshuo was in a hurry to seek medical treatment and could not take care of it. He soon reached an alliance with Zhou and Ying.

With the support of the Great Zhou Empire and Britain, Dongxu's courage immediately became strong.

Under the instigation of Zhou and Britain, King Dongyu decided that instead of waiting for the Ming Dynasty to build the road and launch an attack on Dongyu, it would be better to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty's unpreparedness and take action first and destroy the road built by the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, under the cover of night, more than 100 Dongshu soldiers touched outside the Tumen camp.

The leader waved his hand and several arrows with huge poison shot out. The local people who were on guard instantly covered their throats and fell to the ground.

At this time, the officer immediately raised his sword and yelled, "Kill them all and dig the road."
Chapter completed!