On the thirtieth day of the eighth month in the first year of Longhe, the forty-day Gengxu Tuduan came to a provisional end, while the work of the Tuduan Bureau had only just begun. Twelve Administrative Clerks temporarily transferred from the Ministry of Personnel and the ministry of the Minister of the Left for the People joined Xie Xuan, Chen Caozhi, and the others in sorting the Tuduan documents submitted by the Household Registration Inspection offices of Liangzhou, Yizhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Jiangzhou, and Xiangzhou-
On the twelfth day of the ninth month, the Tuduan documents from the Six Provinces had all been sorted. That afternoon, at the third quarter of the Wei Hour, Lu Shi, Minister of the Five Armies and concurrently Chief Registrar of the Tuduan Bureau, reported on Tuduan affairs to Sima Yu, Prince of Kuaiji, in the West Hall of Taiji Hall in Taicheng. Those listening included Wang Shu, Chancellor of the Department of State Affairs; Wang Biaozhi, Minister of Personnel; Lu Na, Minister of the Left for the People; Palace Attendants Gao Song and Zhang Ping; Xie Wan, Regular Mounted Attendant; Sun Chuo, Regular Mounted Attendant and concurrently Court Historian; Xie An, Chief Censor; Wang Yun, Director of Personnel in the Department of State Affairs; Xi Chao, Attendant Gentleman of the Central Secretariat; and Yuan Dan, Chief Clerk to the Minister over the Masses. Also attending the deliberations in the West Hall were Xie Xuan and Chen Caozhi, the Tuduan Bureau's Right Supervisor and Left Inspector. Xie Xuan read out the compiled accounts of Tuduan in the various provinces-
This Tuduan had merged and reorganized the emigrant provinces, commanderies, and counties that existed only in name or had confused boundaries, abolishing thirty-three commanderies and 177 counties in all. All emigrants were placed under the jurisdiction of