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Administrative Districts 1
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Yang, Southern Xu, Yu, Southern Yu, Southern Yan, Northern Yan, Northern Xu, Qing, Ji, Jiang, Guang, Jiao, Yue
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Danyang Commandery
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Jiankang, Moling, Danyang, Liyang, Yongshi, Hushu, Jiangning, Jurong
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Kuaiji Commandery
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Shanyin, Yongxing, Shangyu, Yuyao, Zhuji, Shan, Yin, Shining, Juzhang, Mao
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Wu, Lou, Haiyu, Jiaxing, Haiyan, Qiantang, Fuyang, Yanguan, Xincheng, Jiande, Shouchang, Tonglu
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Wuxing Commandery
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Wucheng, Wukang, Yuhang, Dongqian, Changcheng, Yuqian, Lin'an, Guzhang, Anji, Yuanxiang
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Dongyang Commandery
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Changshan, Taimo, Wushang, Yongkang, Xin'an, Wuning, Feng'an, Dingyang, Suichang
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Xin'an Commandery
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Shixin, Yi, Sui'an, She, Haining
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Linhai Commandery
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Zhang'an, Linhai, Ninghai, Shifeng, Le'an
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Yongjia Commandery
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Yongning, Angu, Songyang, Hengyang, Yuecheng
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Southern Xuzhou
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Seat: Jingkou. The kingdom of Wu created an inspector of You Province and kept troops garrisoned there. The Dantu waterway opens on Wu and Kuaiji; Sun Quan first took it as his headquarters. The Erya says: 「What is loftiest in height is called jing—a height. 」Today's capital is walled along the hills, gazes on the sea and stands against the river, and takes the Yangtze as its frontier—like Henei commandery in weight of inner defense. Since the Song, it has been the dynasty's native soil; migrants in the Jiangzuo region have largely drawn on its rich districts. It administers the following commanderies:
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Southern Donghai Commandery
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西
Tan, Zhuge, Xiangben, Licheng, Xiyin, Dantu, Wujin
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Jinling Commandery
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Jinling, Wuxi, Yanling, Qu'e, Jiyang, Nansha, Haiyang
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Yixing Commandery 〈In Yongming 2 it was transferred to Yang Province, then later returned to its former arrangement.〉
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Yangxian, Linjin, Guoshan, Yixiang, Sui'an
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Southern Langye Commandery 〈Originally seated at Jincheng; in Yongming the seat was moved to Baixia.〉
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Linyi, Jiangcheng, Lanling, Cheng 〈Abolished in Jianwu 3. Qiao: In the second year of Jianyuan, for Pingyang commandery refugees within Linjiang commandery, Xuanzuo county was established and soon renamed Qiao. In Yongming 1, Huaihua county was abolished and merged in.〉
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Linhuai Commandery 〈From here on, these commanderies hold no territory in fact.〉
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西
Haixi, Sheyang, Ling, Huaiyin, Dongyang, Huaipu (abolished in Jianwu 2)
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Huailing Commandery
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Siwu, Wuyang 〈In Jianwu 3, its tie to Taishan commandery was abolished.〉 Zhencheng, Yangle, Xu 〈Abolished in Jianwu 3.〉
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Southern Dongguan Commandery
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Dongguan, Ju, Gumu 〈Abolished in Jianwu 3.〉
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Southern Qinghe Commandery 〈Southern Xuzhou oversaw Ji Province.〉
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Dongwucheng, Qinghe, Beiqiu, Yimu 〈Abolished in Jianwu 2.〉
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Southern Pengcheng Commandery
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Pengcheng, Wuyuan, Fuyang, Fan, Xue, Kaiyang, Jiao, Tong, Xiapi 〈Abolished in Jianwu 3.〉 〈Abolished in Jianwu 4.〉 Zhuxiu 〈Abolished in Jianwu 4.〉 Beiling 〈Abolished in Jianwu 4.〉
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Southern Gaoping Commandery 〈In Song the fifth year of Taishi it was set up as a refugee commandery, first seated at Huaiyin; then the two Huainan refugee counties at Dangtu were attached to Southern Yu, and later it fell under Southern Xu.〉
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Jinxiang, Gaoping
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Southern Jiyin Commandery
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Chengwu, Danfu, Chengyang 〈Abolished in Jianwu 3.〉
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Southern Puyang Commandery
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Linqiu, Dongyan, Hui, Juan 〈The commandery: in Jianwu 3, Jiyang commandery was abolished and its counties reassigned here.〉 Yuci 〈Abolished in Jianwu 2.〉
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Southern Lu Commandery 〈Abolished in Jianwu 2.〉
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西
Lu, Fan, Xi'an 〈Abolished in Jianwu 2.〉
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Southern Pingchang Commandery 〈Abolished in Jianwu 3.〉
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Anqiu 〈The commandery was abolished; its counties went to Dongguan.〉 Xinle 〈The commandery was abolished; its counties went to Dongguan.〉 Dongwu, Gaomi
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Southern Taishan Commandery 〈Abolished in Jianwu 3.〉
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Nancheng 〈The commandery was abolished and reassigned to Pingchang; soon afterward it was abolished again.〉 Guangping
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Southern Jiyang Commandery 〈Abolished in Jianwu 3.〉
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Kaocheng 〈The commandery was abolished and reassigned to Lu; soon afterward it was abolished again.〉
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西 西
In Jin Yuandi's Yongchang 1, Inspector Zu Yue fled the Hu raiders, left Qiao, and moved his seat back to Shouchun. Shouchun was Huainan's chief city, more than a thousand li across, rich in polder fields; since Han and Wei it had been the Yang inspector's seat, blocking the Huai to the north. The Yu Gong says, 「Between the Huai and the sea lies only Yang Province.」 In Xianhe 4, Zu Yue surrendered the city to the Hu; Yu Liang was again made inspector, with his seat at Wuhu. Wuhu, where the Pu River enters from the south, was likewise a defensible narrows. Liu Bei told Sun Quan: 「East of the Yangtze you first had Jianye, then Wuhu. 」Yu Liang planned to recover the central plain, made Mao Bao inspector with his seat at Zhucheng, and the city was overrun by the Hu. Yu Yi of Jing Province held the province from Wuchang. Thousands of refugees from commanderies that had lost territory had no land to farm; Yi memorialized to settle refugees from Xiyang and Xincai on polder fields at Xunyang. In Jin Emperor Mu's Yonghe 5, Wang Yi, the Later Zhao puppet inspector of Yang, surrendered Shouchun; afterward Yu inspectors sometimes sat at Liyang or advanced to Matou and Qiao, and no longer returned to the old seat. In Emperor Ai's Longhe 1, Yuan Zhen returned to Shouchun. Zhen was destroyed by Huan Wen; Wen made his son Xi inspector and garrisoned Liyang. In Emperor Xiaowu's Ningkang 1, Huan Chong moved to Gushu; with border enemies still active, he split the registered households of Qiao and Liang commanderies, resettled them along the Huanchuan, and set up Southern Qiao and Liang commanderies. In the twelfth year, Huan Shiqian returned to Liyang. Yu Zhun became inspector and memorialized to abolish every provisional district, restoring the former setup. In Yixi 2, Liu Yi again garrisoned Gushu. He submitted a memorial: 「I hold this province unworthily; the land is not empty. The west is wasted borderland hard against the enemy; the north is bleak. The local temper is fierce and wild—the people know no right conduct and are schooled only in fighting. Deserters and outlaws meet daily without design. Year on year there has been fighting every month; one empty-handed man truly cannot pacify it alone. I ask that Assists-the-State General Zhang Chang oversee Huainan, Anfeng, and Liangguo commanderies. 」At that time Yu Province's frontier was so wasted that it had come to this. In the twelfth year, Liu Yiqing garrisoned Shouchun; afterward it regularly served as the provincial seat. He soothed the far borderlands and held the frontier. It administers the following commanderies:
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Southern Ruyin Commandery 〈In the second year of Jianyuan the two counties of Southern Chen Left commandery were abolished and merged in.〉
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Jinxi Commandery
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Xinye, Yin'an, Huaining, Southern Loufan, Qixing, Left County of Taihu
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Yingchuan Commandery
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Linying, Shaoling, Southern Xuchang 〈Not in the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Quyang
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Ruyang Commandery
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Wujin, Ruyang
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Northern Qiao, Liang, Meng, Chengfu 〈In the Yongyuan Gazetteer, subordinate to Southern Qiao.〉
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Northern Chen Commandery
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Yangxia, Xihua, Changping, Xiang
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Chenliu Commandery
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Junyi, Xiaohuang, Yongqiu
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Nandun Commandery 〈Not in the Yongyuan 1 local gazetteer.〉
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Hecheng, Nandun
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Southwest Nandun Commandery 〈Seated at the provincial capital; not in the Yongyuan 1 local gazetteer.〉
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Southwest Nandun, Hecheng, Qiao, Pingxiang
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Northern Liang Commandery 〈Not in the Yongyuan 1 local gazetteer.〉
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Northern Meng, Northern Chen
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Western Ruyin Commandery
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Loufan, Ruyin, Song, Chen 〈Not in the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Pingyu 〈Not in the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Gushi 〈Not in the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Xincai 〈Not in the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Runan 〈Absent from the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Ancheng
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Northern Qiao Commandery
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Ningling, Qiao, Qi 〈The Yongyuan Gazetteer lists these under Southern Qiao.〉
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Runan Commandery 〈Missing from the Yongyuan-1 territorial gazetteer.〉
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Quyang, Ancheng, Shangcai
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Northern Xincai Commandery
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Tongyang, Xincai, Gushi, Baoxin
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Yiyang Commandery
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Qisi, Nanxinxi, Yiyang, Shangcai, Pingyu
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Nanchen, Changping 〈Absent from the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Xiang 〈Absent from the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Xihua 〈Absent from the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Yangxia 〈Absent from the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉
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Anfeng Commandery
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Yulou, Xinhua, Shishui, Fuyang, Kaihua, Biancheng, Songzi 〈The Yongyuan Gazetteer lists these under Northern Xincai.〉 Anfeng
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Guangcheng Left Commandery
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Le'an, Guangcheng, Ruyou
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Biancheng Commandery 〈Missing from the Yongyuan-1 territorial gazetteer.〉
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Jianning Commandery
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Yangcheng, Jianning
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Qichang Commandery
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Yangtang, Baocheng, Qichang, Yongxing
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These three commanderies were detached from Ying Province and assigned here in Yongming 4.
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Southern Yuzhou
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西 西 西 西 使 西 西 西 便西
In Jin Ningkang 1, Yuzhou inspector Huan Chong first held Gushu; he later moved his seat — see the Jin Shu. In Song Yongchu 2 the Huai east became Southern Yuzhou with its seat at Liyang; the Huai west remained Yuzhou. In Yuanjia 7 it was abolished and merged in. In Daming 1 it was restored, with its seat at Gushu. In the second year of Taishi the seat was Liyang; in 3, Xuancheng; in 5 the province was abolished. The Huai west was lost to the northerners. In year 7 the Huai east was again split off to form Southern Yu. In the second year of Jianyuan the High Ancestor abolished Southern Yu: Western Yu had too few officials and households to bear a second province, and the expense was heavy. Left vice director Wang Jian reported: 「In my view the west-of-the-river lands tie to Ru and Ying — broad territory, thin population; raiders cross at will, and only Shouchun blocks them. Give the province a capable inspector: when the enemy moves, word will come first; with Yuzhou already on guard, Southern Yu is unnecessary. If one fears a single failure — the Jie arrive before news, Hu horses are suddenly at the wall, Shouchun can only shut its gates and cannot sever their route, and court troops must come from Liyang — the initiative is already lost. At the first alarm everything is improvised — how can that match a permanent frontier garrison and a headquarters long in order? Ad hoc reinforcements yield very little. In peace not forgetting danger — that is sound government of old. That is why the Jiangzuo court has repeatedly split off Southern Yu — the reasoning is plain. I hear Western Yu's labor levies are still barely bearable; adding Southern Qiao and the like only thins the households further — in real gain, what is there to say? 」The High Ancestor did not follow his advice. In Yongming 2 six commanderies were split off—Xuancheng and Huainan from Yang, Liyang, Qiao, Lujiang, and Linjiang from Yu—and Southern Yu was restored. In year 4 Champion's chief clerk Shen Xian submitted: 「When the two Yu provinces were divided, Sangyizi Pavilion marked the line. Yingchuan and Ruyang fall within Southern Qiao and Liyang yet all belong to Western Yu; Lujiang sits between Jinxi and Ruyin and belongs to Southern Yu. He asked that Yingchuan and Ruyang go to Southern Yu and Lujiang return to Western Yu. 」In year 7 Southern Yu acting assistant Yin Mi said: 「Yingchuan and Ruyang have been desolate for ages; refugees are scattered through Qiao and Li, many exempt from tax yet still bearing commandery names—rents grow ever thinner, the prefecture and province have no officers at all, only hollow titles with no real use. Administration is only lodged at Qiao and Li; by the proper boundary they should belong to Southern Yu. The two Yu provinces have been split again and again; Lujiang belongs to Southern Yu, runs along the Yangtze, and borders Southern Qiao—grain and cloth from the people follow the river to the provincial seat, which is truly convenient, far better than Western Yu, which they do not want. The commandery holds Qian, Shu, and Left County of Shixin, where village bamboo grows; prefecture and province harvest it to no small profit. The prefecture and province are newly set up, unlike the old fiefs. Funds and labor levies are badly short; they truly need Lujiang. We ask that the old division be restored. 」The Ministry deliberated: 「In earlier years we feared the frontier needed real strength, so we petitioned the exchange. Now the Huai and Si are secure—the request should be granted. 」The edict read, 「Approved.」 It administers the following commanderies:
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Huainan Commandery
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Yuhu 〈In Yongming 8 the three counties Jiaocheng, Gaoping, and Xiapi were abolished and merged in.〉 Fanchang, Dangtu, Junqiu, Dingling, Xiangyuan
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Xuancheng Commandery
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Guangde, Huai'an, Wuanling, Guangyang, Shicheng, Linchang, Ningguo, Xuancheng, Jianyuan, Jing, Anwu
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Liyang Commandery
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Liyang, Longkang, Yongqiu
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Southern Qiao Commandery
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Shansang, Qi, Northern Xuchang 〈Absent from the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Fuyang, Quyang, Jiaping
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Lujiang Commandery
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Shu 〈In the second year of Jianyuan it became the commandery seat.〉 Qian, Shixin, Hecheng 〈Absent from the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Xihua 〈Absent from the Yongyuan Gazetteer.〉 Left County of Luting 〈In the second year of Jianyuan carved from Jinxi.〉 Qiao 〈In the second year of Jianyuan carved from Southern Qiao.〉
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Linjiang Commandery 〈In the second year of Jianyuan it was abolished and merged into Liyang; later restored.〉
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Wujiang, Huaide, Zou
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Southern Yan Province
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使 西
Seat at Guangling—an old Han princely kingdom. The Jiangdu Pu channel runs here; when Emperor Wen of Wei marched against Wu he came out this way, saw the river surge in full flood, and sighed: 「Heaven set this to part north from south. 」When Emperor Yuan of Jin crossed the Yangtze, in Jianxing 4 he announced a northern expedition, sent Duke Pei of Xuancheng to command Xu and Yan, and garrisoned Guangling. He later sometimes returned south of the river, but the permanent garrison dates from this. The people were then in distress and fled into this region; refugees mostly took shelter with great families as clients. In Emperor Yuan's Taixing 4 an edict, because refugees had lost registration, ordered names listed for the authorities and a client system drawn up—but north of the river was too wasted to check. In Emperor Ming's Taining 3 Chi Jian became Yan inspector, garrisoned Guangling, then returned to Jingkou. After that Yan was sometimes seated at Xuyi, sometimes at Shanyang; Huan Xuan made Huan Hong Qing inspector and garrisoned Guangling. In Yixi 2, Zhuge Changmin was made Qingzhou inspector and moved his seat to Shanyang. The Xianbei were on the border. Changmin memorialized: 「For ten years this frontier has seen raid follow raid; walls lie in ruins, old fields lie waste, people are scattered, and at the border posts one hears neither cock nor dog. Moreover the northerners raid and plunder ever worse. 」He then returned to garrison Jingkou. Late Jin: Guangling commanded the link to the three Qi regions, so Qing and Yan shared one garrison. In Song Yongchu 1, Qing was abolished and merged into Yan. In year 3, Tan Daoji first held Southern Yanzhou; Guangling thereby became the provincial seat. The land is very flat and open; each autumn the inspector often went out from Hailing to watch the tidal bore — opposite Jingkou, where the Yangtze is at its broadest. In Yongming 1, Inspector Liu Shilong memorialized: 「The Ministry issued land-allotment rules, abolishing and merging refugee commanderies and counties. All displaced persons had no fixed home; households scatter — five lost in ten — each dwelling apart like stars. One county's people are scattered across the whole province, west to the Huai bank and east to the sea's edge. Now you only abolish refugee districts without cutting empty settlements; mixed habitation and disorder remain as before. They are split into zones but wandering and abuse are not reformed. I submit they should be abolished together and households attached along the borders. Where hamlets cluster two or three hundred households, with fields that can be restored and boundaries easy to divide, let them be set up separately in detail. 」Thereupon Jiyin's six counties, Xiapi's four, Huaiyang's three, and Dongguan's four — people scattered with no real territory, officials with no yamen, seats lodged in civilian hamlets — were all abolished when the provincial seat was set up; households were attached where they lay. Commanderies administered are as follows:
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Guangling Commandery 〈In the fourth year of Jianyuan, Northern Huaiyang, Northern Xiapi, Northern Jiyin, and Dongguan — four commanderies — were abolished and merged in.〉
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Hailing Commandery
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Shanyang Commandery
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Dongcheng, Shanyang, Yancheng, Zuoxiang
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Xuyi Commandery
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Kaocheng, Xuyi, Yangcheng, Zhidu, Changle
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Southern Pei Commandery
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Pei, Xiao, Xiang
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Northern Yanzhou
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祿 使
Seat: Huaiyin. The Geographic Records place Huaiyin under Linhuai commandery; the Commanderies and Principalities Gazetteer under Xiapi kingdom; the Jin Taikang Territorial Gazetteer under Guangling commandery. In Emperor Mu's Yonghe era, Northern Gentlemen-of-the-House Xun Xian campaigned north against the Xianbei, saying 「Huaiyin is an old garrison, a strategic junction, linked by land and water — easy ground from which to watch for trouble. Its rich fields offer scope for reclamation; grain boats can pass with no other blockading garrison.」 He then built walls and a city. In Song the second year of Taishi the north bank of the Huai was lost; here the provincial seat was established. In the fourth year of Jianyuan the seat moved to Xuyi, which still governed Xuyi commandery. Formerly it faced the clear Si to the north; along the Huai it held the defiles, with the Yangping Stone Turtle — paddy fields were abundant. It administered only Yangping commandery. In Yongming 7, Household Minister Lü Anguo memorialized: 「Sixty Northern Yanzhou commoners led by Dai Shangbo petitioned: 『Our old lands lie cut off; we wander displaced with nowhere to settle. Though Huaiyin has now been set up, Yangping commandery — the province has no real territory and is lodged within Shanyang. I note that Si, Xu, and Qing — all three provinces — were newly established, each with real commanderies. Dongping is after all a famous homeland, where the gentry clans are rooted. They ask that between Shanyang and Xuyi a small district be cut off to form this commandery, to begin gathering the scattered waste lands. So that the clans of the native soil may have somewhere to return.」 Searching further: Dongping commandery is this province's original charge; this humble minister's ancestral seat — I wish this district established. 」The request was granted. Commanderies administered are as follows:
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Yangping Commandery 〈Seat lodged at Shanyang〉
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Taiqing, Yongyang, Anyi, Fengguo
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Dongping Commandery
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Shouzhang 〈Cut from west of the Guandu canal in Shanyang, three hundred households were set up.〉 Huai'an 〈Cut from lands east of Zhidu and Pofu, it was set up from one hundred miscellaneous households below the Huaiyin garrison on the river.〉
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Gaoping Commandery
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Jibei Commandery
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Taishan Commandery
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Xinping Commandery
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The above lie in waste.
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Northern Xuzhou
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Zhongli Commandery
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Matou Commandery
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Siwu 〈In Yongming 1, Qiao commandery was abolished and merged in. In the second year, inspector Dai Sengjing also merged Ji county into it.〉
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Jiyin Commandery
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Dunqiu 〈In Yongming 1, Dingtao was abolished and merged in.〉 Suiling, Leping 〈In Yongming 1, detached from Zhongli commandery.〉 Ji'an 〈In Yongming 1, detached from Zhongli commandery.〉
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Xinchang Commandery
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Dunqiu, Gushu, Weishi
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Xiang, Xiao, Pei
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鹿
In early Song Taishi the north bank of the Huai was lost to the enemy; in the sixth year the seat was first placed on Yuzhou. Yuzhou stands in the sea, several hundred li around its shores; the island produces white-deer clay and offers farmland, fishing, and salt. Liu Shanming as inspector, finding the island easy to hold, did not build full ramparts; he piled stone works eight or nine feet high instead. Later it became the seat of Qi commandery. Early in Jianyuan, Qi commandery's seat moved to Guabu; Beihai commandery took Qi commandery's former seat, while the provincial capital stayed put. Displaced people in the wastes — commanderies and counties were hollow names; few indeed settled as natives. In the fourth year of Jianyuan the garrison shifted to Qushan, then later resumed the old seat. It administers the following commanderies:
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Beihai Commandery
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Duchang 〈Yu county of Song; in Jianyuan the Han-era name was restored.〉 Guangrao, Ganyu, Jiaodong, Ju, Xiami, Pingshou
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Dongguan and Langye — two commanderies 〈Seat at Qushan.〉
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Jiqiu, Southern Dongguan 〈In Yongming 1, set up for migrant households.〉 Northern Dongguan
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Established in Song Yuanjia 9 by splitting from Qing Province. Qing province once held nine commanderies: Qi, Jinan, Le'an, Gaomi, Pingchang, Beihai, Donglai, Taiyuan, and Changguang. Ji province held nine: Guangchuan, Pingyuan, Qinghe, Leling, Wei, Hejian, Dunqiu, Gaoyang, and Bohai. Early in Taishi, when the enemy struck, all fell to ruin. What survives today was re-established only after Taishi. One inspector held both provinces. Eight or nine tenths of the districts were gone in name only; see the Song Annals for detail. Early in Jianyuan, Donghai commandery was placed under Ji province. It held only one commandery in full:
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Northern Donghai Commandery 〈Seat at Liankou.〉
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Xiangben, Tong, Xiapi, Houqiu, Qucheng
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西便
Seat: Xunyang — midstream belt and clasp of the great river. In Jin Yuankang 1, Emperor Hui decreed: 「Jing and Yang provinces span broad, distant lands. The relevant offices memorialized cutting from Yang the commanderies of Yuzhang, Poyang, Luling, Linchuan, Nankang, Jian'an, and Jin'an to form a new province. Xin'an, Dongyang, and Xuancheng lay within old Yuzhang territory; Yuzhang's northeast was far removed — they could remain under Yang as before. Also cut from Jing Wuchang, Guiyang, Ancheng, and seven other commanderies — ten in all; it should take the Yangtze's name as Jiang Province, with its seat at Yuzhang. 」Yu Liang held the inspectorate and oversaw six provinces; holding Jing and Jiang as the foundation, he compared the two provinces' household registers — though far apart on the map, on critical reckoning more than half the weight lay here; Jiang Province was truly the root. On his deathbed he memorialized that Jiang Province should be seated at Xunyang, overseeing Yu's Xincai and Xiyang commanderies from Pencheng — close to the eastern-river commanderies and convenient for travel. Afterward Yu Yi again moved the seat back to Yuzhang. After Yixi, the seat returned to Xunyang. He Wuji memorialized: 「Jingling is far from the provincial seat — exactly three hundred li from Jiangling; households of Suian commandery, which Jing Province had set up, have been mixed into this territory, and the commandery seat is usually near Xiakou. We wish to use this commandery to reinforce river-bank defense and return Jingling to Jing Province. Also Hongnong commandery of Si Province and Songzi commandery of Yang Province are lodged at Xunyang, their people intermingled — both should be overseen together. 」Today Jiujiang lies north of the provincial seat, and Poyang Lake is to the east. It administers the following commanderies:
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Xunyang Commandery
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Chaisang, Pengze
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Yuzhang Commandery
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Nanchang, Xingan, Ai, Jiancheng, Jianchang, Wangcai, Xinwu, Yongxiu, Wuping, Kangle, Yuzhang, Fengcheng
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Linchuan Commandery
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西
Nancheng, Linru, Xinjian, Yongcheng, Yihuang, Nanfeng, Dongxing, Anpu, Xifeng
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Luling Commandery
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西
Shiyang, Xichang, Dongchang, Jiyang, Baqiu, Xingping, Gaochang, Yangfeng, Suixing
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Poyang Commandery
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Poyang, Yugan, Geyang, Le'an, Guangjin, Shangrao
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Ancheng Commandery
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Pingdu, Xinyu, Yongxin, Pingxiang, Yiyang, Guangxing, Anfu
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Nankang Commandery
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Gan, Yudu, Nanye, Ningdu, Pinggu, Piyang, Qianhua 〈In Yongming 8, Anyuan county was abolished and merged in.〉 Nankang
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Southern Xincai Commandery
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Shen, Baoxin, Zuoxian of Yangtang, Song
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Jian'an Commandery
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Wuxing, Jian'an, Jiangle, Shaowu, Jianyang, Suicheng, Shacun
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Jin'an Commandery
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Houguan, Luojiang, Yuanfeng, Jin'an, Wenma
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西
Seat: Nanhai. It borders the sea and forwards tribute to Jiaozhi; though registered households are few, Li and Liao peoples are numerous and mixed — all dwell in towers on mountain passes and refuse submission. The two rivers in the southwest have distant sources; separate overseers were installed to campaign against them exclusively. Resources within one's grasp — wealth to match ten generations. Zhao Tuo's surviving foundation also bears traces of hegemony. Because it was remote, no imperial kinsman had held it in the Jiangzuo era — only Prince Dan of Sui in Song served as inspector. It administers the following commanderies:
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Nanhai Commandery
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Panyu, Xi'an, Boluo, Zengcheng, Longchuan, Huaihua, Youping, Suining, Xinfeng, Luoyang, Gaoyao, Anyuan, Heyuan
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Dongguan Commandery
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Huai'an, Bao'an, Hai'an, Xinle, Haifeng, Qichang, Lu'an, Xingning
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Yi'an Commandery
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Suian, Haining, Haiyang, Yizhao, Chaoyang, Chengxiang
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Xinning Commandery
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Bolin, Nanxing, Linyan, Ganquan, Xincheng, Weiping, Dandie, Longtan, Chengyang, Weihua, Guishun, Chuxing, Funna, Pingxiang
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Cangwu Commandery
175
Guangxin, Ningxin, Fengxing, Funing, Suicheng, Dingliu, Huaixi, Mengling, Guangning, Dangkang, Qiaoning, Si'an
176
Gaoliang Commandery
177
西
Anning, Luozhou, Moyang, Xigong, Siping, Qinxiang, Pingding
178
Yongping Commandery
179
Funing, Anyi, Chao'an, Luping, Yuanxiang, Suping, Buning, Leixiang, Kaicheng, Piping, Wulin, Fengcheng
180
Jinkang Commandery
181
Weicheng, Ducheng, Furuan, Yuanxi, Ansui, Jinhua, Yongshi, Duanxi, Binjiang, Xining, Lecheng, Wuding, Yuecheng, Wenzhao, Yili
182
Xinhui Commandery
183
Penyun, Xinyi, Fengping, Chubin, Fengle, Yining, Xinxi, Yongchang, Shikang, Zhaoji, Shicheng
184
Guangxi Commandery
185
Longxiang, Luoping, Binhua, Ningxiang, Changhua, Dingchang, Yongxi, Baoning
186
Songkang Commandery
187
輿
Guanghua, Shimen, Hualong, Suidu, Weitan, Dancheng, Kaining, Hailin, Yuding, Suiding
188
Songlong Commandery
189
Pingxing, Zhaoxing, Chonghua, Jianning, Ximu, Chongde
190
Haichang Commandery
191
Ninghua, Zhaohuai, Yongjian, Shihua, Xinjian
192
Suijian Commandery
193
Xinzhao, Sihui, Huameng, Huazhu, Huamu
194
Lechang Commandery
195
Shichang, Leshan, Songyuan, Yili, Anle
196
Yulin Commandery
197
Bushan, Yuping, Alin, Jian'an, Shiji, Longping, Binping, Xinlin, Suining, Zhongzhou, Lingfang, Huai'an, Guihua, Jinping, Weihua
198
Guilin Commandery
199
Wuxi, Tengxi, Tanping, Longgang, Linpu, Zhongliu, Wufeng, Cheng'an, Weiding, Tanzhong, Anyuan, Anhua, Longding
200
Ningpu Commandery
201
Anguang, Jianyang, Pingshan, Ningpu, Xingdao, Wu'an
202
Jinxing Commandery
203
Jinxing, Xizhu, Guilin, Zengyi, Anguang, Guangyu, Jincheng, Yuyang
204
Qile Commandery
205
Xiping, Guanning, Zhen'an, Songping, Suinan, Fengling
206
Qikang Commandery
207
Qijian Commandery
208
Chuning, Yongcheng
209
Qixi Commandery
210
Seat: Jiaozhi — on an island amid the coastal shallows. Yang Xiong's admonition says: 「Jiaozhou is wild and remote; water meets the sky's edge. 」It borders the southern Yi; precious goods issue forth — mountain and sea rarities beyond compare. The people rely on rugged remoteness and are prone to rebellion. It administers the following commanderies:
211
Jiuzhen Commandery
212
Yifeng, Xupu, Songyuan, Gao'an, Jianchu, Changle, Jinwu, Jun'an, Jipang, Wuning
213
Wuping Commandery
214
Wuding, Fengxi, Pingdao, Wuxing, Gening, Nanyi
215
Xinchang Commandery
216
西西
Fanxin, Jianing, Fengshan, Xidao, Linxi, Wuding, Xindao, Jinhua
217
Jiude Commandery
218
西
Jiude, Xianhan, Puyang, Nanling, Dujiao, Yuechang, Xi'an
219
Rinan Commandery
220
西
Xijuan, Xianglin, Shouling, Zhuwu, Bijing, Lurong, Wulao
221
Jiaozhi Commandery
222
西𨻻
Longbian, Wuning, Wanghai, Gouluo, Wuxing, Xiyu, Zhuhe, Nanding, Quyang, Haiping, Leilü
223
Songping Commandery
224
Changguo, Yihuai, Suining
225
Songshou Commandery 〈In the second year of Jianyuan, detached to belong to Yue Province.〉
226
Yichang Commandery 〈In Yongyuan 2, established by renaming Wotun.〉
227
西使 穿 調
Seat: Linzhang Commandery — originally the northern border of Hepu. Yi and Liao peoples dwell in clusters, hidden in rocky fastnesses; bandits refuse submission, and registered households are almost none. In Song Taishi, West-River Protector Chen Bozhao hunted the northern frontier. Two green oxen bolted into the scrub; his men chased them in vain. He marked the spot and said, 「This place will know a wondrous omen.」 He memorialized to establish Yue Province. In the seventh year, Bailiang, Longsu, Yongning, Anchang, Fuchang, and Nanliu — six commanderies in all — were first established; territory was cut from Guang, Jiao, and Zhu, three commanderies, to belong to it. In Yuanhui 2, Bozhao was made inspector; the provincial seat was first established, a gate was hewn through the mountain, and the Li and Liao were awed into submission. The soil breeds miasma that kills. Han Jiao inspectors each summer withdrew to high ground; today Jiao is temperate, yet Yue's miasma alone remains deadly. Inspectors live in the saddle; punitive campaigns are their sole concern.
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Linzhang Commandery
229
Zhangping, Dancheng, Laoshi, Rongcheng, Changshi, Dubing, Huanduan
230
Hepu Commandery
231
Xuwen, Hepu, Zhulu, Xin'an, Jinshi, Dangchang, Zhufeng, Songfeng, Songguang
232
Yongning Commandery
233
Duluo, Jin'an, Meng, Liaojian, Liucheng
234
Bailiang Commandery
235
西
Bailiang, Shichang, Songxi
236
Anchang Commandery
237
Wusang, Longyuan, Shiqiu, Fulin
238
Nanliu Commandery
239
Beiliu Commandery 〈Established in Yongming 6; no subordinate counties.〉
240
Longsu Commandery
241
Fuchang Commandery
242
Nanli, Yili, Guiming
243
Gaoxing Commandery
244
Songhe, Ningdan, Gaoxing, Weicheng, Fulu, Nan'an, Gui'an, Chenlian, Gaocheng, Xinjian
245
Sizhu Commandery
246
Yantian Commandery
247
Dingchuan Commandery
248
Longchuan Commandery
249
Qining Commandery 〈Established in the second year of Jianyuan; cut from Yulin's Xinyi and Jianchu counties and merged in.〉
250
Kaicheng 〈Established in the second year of Jianyuan〉 Yanhai, Xinyi, Jianchu
251
Yuezhong Commandery
252
Mamen Commandery
253
Zhongwu, Tianluo, Maling, Sining
254
Fengshan Commandery
255
Wuchunli Commandery 〈Established in Yongming 6, with no subordinate counties.〉
256
The entire text has been collated against the Zhonghua Shuju edition of the Book of Southern Qi (January 1972).
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