Yu Gong account The
Yu Gong treatise in the
Book of Documents contains an account of Jizhou province and
Yu the Great's actions there. According to the account, Yu mainly focused on water control projects for the Hukou waterfall, the Taiyuan river (modern-day
Fen River), the
Wei River and the Liang, K'i, Heng and Chang rivers. The treatise also mentions the white clay soil of the region, its high tax revenues, its middle quality fields and the native inhabitants who wore skins.
Han dynasty period.(In the late Eastern Han dynasty, 189 CE). In the late Han dynasty, much of northern China, including Jizhou, was controlled by the warlord
Yuan Shao and headquartered at
Ye. In 200, Yuan Shao was defeated by the rival warlord
Cao Cao at the
Battle of Guandu, and died shortly thereafter. His sons
Yuan Shang and
Yuan Tan took control of his territories. In the following years, Cao Cao launched an invasion of northern China,
capturing Ye in 204 and decisively winning the
Battle of White Wolf Mountain in 207. Cao Cao and his successors controlled Jizhou for the rest of the Han dynasty and the
Three Kingdoms period. ==References==