Guozhou (Nanchong)

Who holds it

Title

prefect (zhizhou)

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Family

not known

Confidence

low

No source found that names the prefect on 1 January 1200; prefects held short terms.

Overlord

The Song court at Lin'an, through the Sichuan Pacification and Control Commissioner at Chengdu and the Tongchuanfu circuit commissioners.

What it holds

• Tongchuanfu circuit (Tongchuanfu lu; called the Zizhou circuit, with the other zi character, in the older books)

How it was acquired

Song prefecture since the Northern Song; the 1200 form of the name is given in the record.

Allies and rivals

Answers to the circuit commissioners and the Sichuan Pacification and Control Commissioner. The circuit's commissioners sit at Tongchuan fu (Santai); the Luzhou prefect also holds the southern frontier pacification post.

How things stand that morning

An ordinary prefecture; the Shunqing fu name is from after 1200 on our recollection (about 1227), not checked.

Wealth

Not itemised for this prefecture beyond the summary; the Southern Song drew its Sichuan revenue from salt, tea, wine, silk and the paper note (qianyin), collected through the circuit offices.

Military

Local garrison and militia only; the field armies of Sichuan are the Imperial Guards commands at Xingzhou, Xingyuan fu, Jinzhou and Lizhou, not the prefecture's own. No numbers.

Threats

• No war in force on 1 January 1200; the Jin-Song peace of 1165 holds.

Where the sources disagree

• The raising to Shunqing fu may fall after 1200; not pinned.

Evidence: The existence and circuit of the prefecture, and its 1200 name, are from the compiler's reading of the Songshi Dili zhi (juan 89), which could not be re-opened in this session (zh.wikisource was unreachable and ctext refused automated access). The campaign board's seat coordinates were checked against the gazetteer and our own knowledge of the modern county seats.

"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.

On the map: The prefecture is drawn from its seat and county seats only; Song prefecture borders were not lines and the hill edges are rough.

Primary sources for Southern Song

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
• Outline and Details of Two Reigns (thirteenth century, after 1224). A Song outline-and-detail chronicle of exactly the two reigns around 1200, drawn from the court's daily records. Read online
• Annals of the Western Xia, Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成) (1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. Read online
• History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. Read online
• History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
• History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
• History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
• Record of the Great Jin State, Attributed to Yuwen Maozhao (宇文懋昭); the attribution is doubtful (preface dated 1234; probably assembled in the Southern Song from Song and Jin material, with later accretions). A Song-side history of the Jin, with annals for each emperor and chapters on institutions, customs, the capitals and the Jurchen way of life. Read online

12 more in the sources library for South China.