Abstract:
In the period of Warring Kingdoms, the system of prefectures and counties established by the Kingdoms of Qin and Zhao was introduced over the Erdos Tableland. The system of prefectures and counties was introduced to the part of Erdos of the Kingdom of Zhao as early as the 26th year of King of Wuling(300 BC), while it was enforced in the south of the Erdos Tableland after the Kingdom of Qin annexed the barbarian regime in Yiqu in the 36th year of King of Zhaoxiang(271 BC). After the Kingdom of Qin united the Chinese nation, it formed a fourprefecture executive pattern by founding Jiuyuan prefecture, and extending its scope of government to Beidi and Shang prefectures. The West Han Dynasty reestablished Jiuyuan prefecture—renamed as Wuyuan prefecture later—and added the prefectures of Shuofang and Xihe in the 2nd year of Yuanshuo(127 BC), hence the sixprefecture executive pattern of Beidi, Shang, Xihe, Yunzhong, Wuyuan and Shuofang. In the 3rd year of Yuanshou of the West Han Dynasty, five subordinate states of the Huns were established in “the south bank of the Yellow River” as a special executive system. Moreover, the administrative domain of governor of Shuofang included such executive prefectures as Beidi, Shang, Xihe, shuofang, and Wuyuan.
