บท 663: Chapter 300: Jin Guan Palace City_3

Since there was already a well-established system of prefectures and counties, after the swift recovery of the five prefectures of Xichuan, the Chu State could quickly establish effective rule in the current Xichuan County, which had expanded to eight prefectures.

As for the lack of officials in the five western prefectures, Lu Yuan had already instructed people to commence another Enke, to recruit a thousand juren and jinshi in order to supplement the vacancies for officials in the five western prefectures of Xichuan County, as well as the newly established Jianchang and Jianchuan prefectures in Qianzhong County.

Now, the Enke had ended early in the fourth month, and over a thousand newly graduated juren and jinshi in Baling City were eagerly waiting for their appointments and assignments.