Ching-chou

Now, as formerly, Ching-chou is regarded as one of the most important strategical positions in China.

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Protection of lives and property of the people in Ching-chou 荊州 prefecture depended greatly upon the solidity of the dikes built along the Yangtze River and its tributaries that flowed through the area.

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To Hsieh T'iao it all came as a surprise. In 490 he was offered a prestigious position as Prince Sui's wen-hsüeh (literary scholar) and was to follow Prince Sui far west to Ching-chou in modern Hupei, then a growing city as flourishing as Chien-k'ang.

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According to narrative sources, the Chous sent the "obstreperous Yins" to work on the construction of their second capital Ching-chou; later they must have been used as slave-labourers on the crown-estate.

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