Huazhou administers five counties
Author Yan Guangqin
Folk have spread the saying that "one state manages three counties", in fact, it is not the case, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, Huazhou once managed 5 counties.
Schematic map of the administrative divisions of Song Jinhua Prefecture
At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Huazhou continued the administrative construction of the Five Dynasties and the Later Zhou Dynasty, with jurisdiction over the four counties of Zheng County, Huayin, Xiayi, and Weinan County, and Zheng County was the state. At that time, Huayin also had jurisdiction over present-day Tongguan County, xiayi county was the area north of the Wei River in linwei district of present-day Weinan City, and Weinan county was the area south of the Wei river in the linwei district of present-day Weinan City. In the fourth year of the Tianxi Dynasty (1020), Pucheng County was transferred from Tongzhou to Huazhou, which had a total of 5 counties under its jurisdiction. In the sixth year of Xining (1073), Weinan County was abolished and demoted to a town in Zheng County. However, five years later, Weinan Town was upgraded to a county and still belonged to Huazhou.
During the Tang And Five Dynasties period, Huazhou had a military trumpet and set up a festival envoy, which was the famous Zhenguo Army, which was cancelled in the first year of Zhou Xiande (954) after the fifth dynasty. However, 6 years later, in the first year of Jianlong (960), when Zhao Kuangyin overthrew the Zhou Dynasty and established the Song Dynasty, the Zhenguo Army was restored and an envoy of Jiedu was appointed. In the fifth year of the Emperor's reign (1053), the Zhenguo Army was renamed the Zhentong Army. However, the Northern Song Dynasty's Jiedushi envoy was only a name, which was completely different from the Jiedushi envoy of the Tang and Five Dynasties who held the local military and political power. The Northern Song Dynasty's emissaries were a fictitious title of "no official", but they were only courtesy to the relatives and heroes of the clan, and the local military and political power was attributed to the chief executive of the prefecture. The supreme chief executive who administers the states is no longer called "Thorn History", but "Zhizhou Affairs", or "Zhizhou" for short.
At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the policy of centralized power was strictly implemented, and the real power of the jiedushi envoy was abolished, so that all the states were directly subordinate to the central government. However, the state is troubled, and the two-level political district system of the state and county can no longer adapt to the historical development, so the Northern Song Dynasty set up a "road" level above the state. A "road" does not belong to one institution or one chief, but belongs to several institutions, so the "road" has not become a first-level administrative organ above the state, and the chief executive at the state level, "Zhizhou", generally still goes directly to the central government in case of trouble. Huazhou was then part of Yongxing Military Road.
Northern Song Dynasty Yunkong Master Pagoda (in present-day Yunkong Zen Temple, Daming Town)
During the reign of the Jin Dynasty, the administrative structure of Huazhou basically continued the old system of the Northern Song Dynasty, and still had jurisdiction over the five counties of Zheng County, Huayin, Xiayi, Weinan and Pucheng, but the Zhentong Army was renamed Jin AnJun, and the Yongxing Junlu road under the upper part was renamed Jingzhaofu Road.
About the author: Comrade Yan Guangqin is more than a rare person, and was the deputy editor-in-chief of the 1992 edition of "HuaXian Zhi", the deputy secretary-general of the Huaxian Guo Ziyi Research Association, and the vice president of the Zheng Huangong Culture and Art Research Association. He is the author of "Huazhou History" and other historical monographs. He is the editor-in-chief of Huazhou Ancient and Modern, and the deputy editor-in-chief of "A Hundred Years of Xianlin".
Original source: Huazhou Literature and Art ~ "Huazhou History"
Original author: Yan Guangqin
Finishing editor: Huazhou literature and art, Huazhou literature and history