Is it better to travel to Guilin or Lijiang?

Guilin is a place with fresh mountains and rivers and fresh air. It is safer to go to Guilin. Going to Yunnan is relatively more chaotic than Guilin. On the Internet, I saw that Yunnan tour groups colluded with black-hearted local bandits and felt that it was not worth going to those places. In the landscape of Guilin for so many years, I have never heard of openly blackmailing passengers on the road.