Píngzhū

Pingzhu lay in the mountain country of southern Guizhou, around the settlements later known as Pingtang. Its communities were drawn into the Yuan administration at the end of the thirteenth century. After local leaders submitted in 1297, the court established two native offices for Pingzhu and the Six Dong in 1298 and appointed numerous local officials. A contemporary account also records an attack on Pingzhu's chief by forces from neighbouring Pinglang, revealing the rivalries that accompanied the creation of these new offices.