Chen Commandery was a major commandery of Yu Province—or rather, in terms of Human Way prosperity, Yu Province lay in the inland heartland of the Immortal Dynasty, where there were no minor commanderies. All thirteen commanderies of Yu Province were major commanderies.
The Great Jin Immortal Dynasty had two greatest river systems. One was the Yangtze River in the south of the Immortal Dynasty, flowing through Yi Province, Jing Province, Yang Province, and other provinces, but it could only be considered the dynasty's second-largest river system. The greatest river system was the Jin River, which flowed through Yong Province, Si Province, Yu Province, and other lands at the heart of the Immortal Dynasty.
The Jin River bore the same name as the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, and that name alone revealed many things.
The five provinces where the Immortal Dynasty had arisen, the foundational lands of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, had developed under the nourishment of the Jin River.
Nine thousand years ago, when the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty was established, Emperor Jin Yang personally bestowed the name Jin River upon this great waterway, in recognition of its merits.
Nurtured by the Jin River, and with Yu Province being chiefly plains ideally suited for growing grain, coupled with thousands of years of stability free from major wars or disasters, it had amassed an enormous population. The Human Way prosperity of a single commandery often nearly matched that of an entire province on the Immortal Dynasty's borders.
Just as now, within Chen Commandery, Liang Zhaohuang could clearly sense that the Human Way prosperity of this one commandery had already surpassed the current state of Human Way development in Liu Province.
The disparity truly made Liang Zhaohuang sigh inwardly.
A flourishing Human Way could suppress and refine greater quantities of Human