Chapter 44 The Fourth Province and its provinces and their jurisdictions

In our current locality, the province is the highest level of administrative district, and the name of province as an administrative district also began in the Yuan Dynasty.The political center of the Yuan Dynasty was Dadu, and the Zhongshu Province was the official office that represented the emperor in charge of all major affairs. Using the official signature as the area name also meant that this was an important area directly under the royal administration. It was also called "Fuli" at that time, which shows its importance. .Its scope generally includes today's Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shandong, and most of Hebei and Inner Mongolia.In other regions, Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Huguang, Yunnan, Liaoyang, and Lingbei respectively established 10 Xingzhongshu provinces (referred to as provinces), and the names of six of them are still in use today.In addition, most of today's Xinjiang and the areas west of it were once feuded by the kings of Chagatai and Wokuotai. They were originally two of the four khanates, and today's Tibet was under the jurisdiction of the Xuanzheng Yuan.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there were administrative districts at the road, government, state, and county levels under the province.There are mansions under the road, but there are also two kinds of mansions that are directly under the province and subordinate to the road. The latter is called Sanfu.Similarly, there are two types of Zhili and Sanzhou.Taking Shaanxi Province at that time as an example, there were Pingliang Mansion (the center is in today’s Pingliang, and only the name of the government is recorded below), Lintao Mansion (Lintao), Fengxiang Mansion (Fengxiang), and Fengyuan Road (now Xi’an City ), Xingyuan Road (now Hanzhong), Yan'an Road (Yan'an), Longzhou (now Longxian), Jingzhou (now Jingzhou) and Zhenyuanzhou (now Zhenyuan), etc., are not affiliated steer.However, Fengyuan Road has jurisdiction over Tongzhou (now Dali), Yaozhou (now Yaoxian)... There are also Jinzhou (now Ankang County) and Yangzhou (now Yangxian) in Xingyuan Road, which is enough to show that at that time Complexity of Local Government Areas.