Chapter 273 - 264: Martial Arts Family Born from Decay
After passing Jing’an Prefecture, the team traveled over a hundred miles eastward and entered the territory of Qinghua Prefecture.
The Tenglong Guard was located in the southeastern part of Qinghua Prefecture, but even though the Tenglong Guard was not under the jurisdiction of Qinghua Prefecture, the military households and farmlands of a garrison were usually managed by the garrison itself, and neither the county government nor the prefectural government office had the right to intervene.
In simple terms, a garrison was not just a pure military organization, but also carried out administrative management duties.
To a great extent, a garrison, much like a prefecture, state, or county, was an independent management system, governing aspects like population, land, finances, judiciary, education, and civil affairs within the garrison.
And the Tenglong Guard was different from other garrisons; other garrisons had the responsibility to guard part of the city walls, or other duties.
For example, within Qinghua Prefecture, there were three garrisons, with the first being the Qinghua Guard. The Qinghua Guard had five divisions, each with its own thousand households, and aside from the farmland duties, they were also responsible for the city defense of the prefectural city. However, this city defense differed from the garrison office of An Yuan City.
Qinghua Prefecture did not have a garrison office, so the responsibilities of the soldiers from Qinghua Guard were limited to patrolling the city walls and standing guard at the gates, while matters such as city patrolling, criminal capture, and public security were all taken care of by the prefectural government office.
The second one was the Prince Qing Guard, which was also a garrison consisting of five divisions of thousand households. They were responsible for the protection of the King City.
The guard of a Prince differed from a local garrison in that local garrisons were under the jurisdiction of the Governor’s Office, whereas the Prince Guard was under the dual jurisdiction of both the Prince and the Governor’s Office.
However, under normal circumstances, a Prince would manage his own guards, and as long as it wasn’t excessive, the Governor’s Office wouldn’t really be strict with a Prince.