The influence of provincial system

The establishment of provincial system consolidated and developed China's unified multi-ethnic country politically, laid the foundation for the division of provincial administrative regions in modern China, and ensured the centralization of administrative system.

This is a great change in China's administrative system, which has a great influence on later generations. Province, as the name of local administrative region, has been used to this day.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, the division of provinces is mainly aimed at the central military control, adopting the principle of "jagged teeth", arbitrarily combining local areas with great differences in natural, cultural and social environment into a provincial administrative region, weakening local political, economic and cultural identity, and artificially creating a situation of jagged teeth and controlling the south from the north.

This method of dividing administrative regions naturally strengthens centralization and objectively promotes economic, political and cultural exchanges between people of all ethnic groups.

Under the system that the provinces were entrusted by the court to adjust the military horses, the provinces were in charge of the garrison for a long time and became one of the few institutions with great military power in the local government.

Formally speaking, in the distribution of military power between the central and local governments, it seems that provinces should be the representatives of local military forces, and provinces should have more military power, which should also mean the decentralization of military power. However, due to the nature of provincial government agencies and the special relationship between the provincial government and the government when it is in charge of the army, the provincial government failed to form a veritable local military organ and independent local military force in practical effect.