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Provincial Branch Secretariat System

Type Object Region East Asia Time 1264–1368

Branch secretariats were Yuan agencies dispatched by the Central Secretariat to the provinces, governing military and civil affairs of one or several…

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  1. 1264–1291Dadu · ChinaKublai Khan sinicized the mobile headquarters system used during Mongol military campaigns, establishing branch secretariats to oversee military, civil, and fiscal affairs of each circuit; Beiliao, Liaoyang, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiangzhe, Jiangxi, and Huguang branch secretariats were successively set up, laying the framework of Yuan local administration.
  2. 1331–1340Branch secretariats of the Yuan Empire · Yuan EmpireIn the 1330s, provincial officials such as pacification commissioners and chancellors took orders from the Central Secretariat, handling grain transport, salt taxes, military-agricultural colonies, and military deployment; Jiangzhe and Henan provinces were major revenue regions, while Beiliao and Yunnan provinces also managed frontier ethnic affairs and postal relay stations.

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