https://iiwiki.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Comptroller_of_Waters_and_Marine_Prefect&feed=atom&action=historyComptroller of Waters and Marine Prefect - Revision history2024-03-29T08:25:02ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.7https://iiwiki.us/mediawiki/index.php?title=Comptroller_of_Waters_and_Marine_Prefect&diff=165271&oldid=prevThemi: /* Modern history */2020-02-10T04:00:11Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Modern history</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1889, the Marine Prefect was made a government minister overseeing natural parks and "the wilderness", often coming into conflict with various smoke abatement movements that campaigned to move heavy industries into unoccupied lands. In 1976, he was given authority over the Department of Forests and Department of Minerals, answering to the newly-created Secretary of State for the Environment. In 1980, the Marine Prefect's department organized a large public exhibition themed "Themiclesia and the Environment: 1,500 Years of Exploitation and Conservation". This exhibition included historic artifacts, received and excavated texts, and modern environment research that focused on Themiclesia's "non-commercial" uses of the environment as part of public policy.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1889, the Marine Prefect was made a government minister overseeing natural parks and "the wilderness", often coming into conflict with various smoke abatement movements that campaigned to move heavy industries into unoccupied lands<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Starting in the 1950s, the Home Secretary began to take note of the damages to the environment through 100 years of heavy industry; environmental scholars, who enforced a policy of conservation rather than exploitation, were appointed as Marine Prefects starting from 1959</ins>. In 1976, he was given authority over the Department of Forests and Department of Minerals, answering to the newly-created Secretary of State for the Environment. In 1980, the Marine Prefect's department organized a large public exhibition themed "Themiclesia and the Environment: 1,500 Years of Exploitation and Conservation". This exhibition included historic artifacts, received and excavated texts, and modern environment research that focused on Themiclesia's "non-commercial" uses of the environment as part of public policy<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Recently, the Marine Prefect has taken several hard-line stances against development of protected areas, earning the incumbent Dr. Julie Row the "tree hugger-general of Themiclesia"</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1889, the Marine Prefect was made a government minister overseeing natural parks and "the wilderness", often coming into conflict with various smoke abatement movements that campaigned to move heavy industries into unoccupied lands. In 1976, he was given authority over the Department of Forests and Department of Minerals, answering to the newly-created Secretary of State for the Environment.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1889, the Marine Prefect was made a government minister overseeing natural parks and "the wilderness", often coming into conflict with various smoke abatement movements that campaigned to move heavy industries into unoccupied lands. In 1976, he was given authority over the Department of Forests and Department of Minerals, answering to the newly-created Secretary of State for the Environment<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In 1980, the Marine Prefect's department organized a large public exhibition themed "Themiclesia and the Environment: 1,500 Years of Exploitation and Conservation". This exhibition included historic artifacts, received and excavated texts, and modern environment research that focused on Themiclesia's "non-commercial" uses of the environment as part of public policy</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the 14th through 16th centuries, the Marine Prefect's department was iternerant, but mostly within what is today [[Camia]]. That being one of the densest Themiclesian settlements, he soon became an unwelcome figure, who frequently expropriated the colonists' lands, structures, and goods. In 1622, his department settled in Tiung-kyaeng. At this time, his outranked all other civilian magistrates in Camia, making it lawful for him to exact benevolences from locals, in name of the court. While colonial-era Camians could appeal to the [[Inner Administrator]] for intercession, he most often sided with the Marine Prefect, since exactions from the latter reduced fiscal burdens on the former. In 1692, the Camians rebelled with "absurd exactions" by the Marine Prefect as one of the main grievances. Suppressed the following year, they rebelled again in 1701 with the same list of grievances and expelled him from Tiung-kyaeng; his department moved to Kaoyang. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the 14th through 16th centuries, the Marine Prefect's department was iternerant, but mostly within what is today [[Camia]]. That being one of the densest Themiclesian settlements, he soon became an unwelcome figure, who frequently expropriated the colonists' lands, structures, and goods. In 1622, his department settled in Tiung-kyaeng. At this time, his outranked all other civilian magistrates in Camia, making it lawful for him to exact benevolences from locals, in name of the court. While colonial-era Camians could appeal to the [[Inner Administrator]] for intercession, he most often sided with the Marine Prefect, since exactions from the latter reduced fiscal burdens on the former. In 1692, the Camians rebelled with "absurd exactions" by the Marine Prefect as one of the main grievances. Suppressed the following year, they rebelled again in 1701 with the same list of grievances and expelled him from Tiung-kyaeng; his department moved to Kaoyang. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the early 700s, Themiclesia <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">attempted to establish </del>control over the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">continent </del>Columbia, first via diplomacy then, after the founding of the [[Dzi dynasty]], a mixture of diplomacy and conquest. These early attempts had mixed results, and by 780 a sizeable coalition of native societies, brought into contact largely by Themiclesian interference, formed a formidable threat to Themiclesia's desire to dominate them. In 792, Themiclesia mobilized 40,000 soldiers and defeated the coalition, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">led by </del>prime minister <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gwjang Hwal (王歡). Gwjang negotiated for </del>the assent of native leaders to allow travel, mining, agriculture, hunting, and forestry in all the lands that were unowned, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">apparently </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">allow a </del>future <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </del>peaceful co-existence. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To drive home his point, </del>Gwjang executed the leaders of the coalition and exterminated one of the tribes that had an important position in the coalition. As a life-long bureaucrat <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from a hallowed line of bureaucratic aristocrats</del>, Gwjang established ownership according to Themiclesian understandings; the lack of clear records impaired his objects.<ref>Gwjang's methodology here involves imposing Themiclesian understanding of real estate on native societies. This meant if a piece of land was owned so to exclude Themiclesian access, it had clear boundaries and an owner. A piece of land could be jointly owned, but that required a contract or some written instrument so stating. Gwjang asked natives if they owned a particular piece of land, but they frequently responded by noting their access to it, such as hunting or trapping in it. Yet if multiple persons answered they had the same access to that land, Gwjang interpreted it that the land was unowned and therefore open to Themiclesian annexation. This is inconsistent with how land was owned in Themiclesia, there certainly being communal lands without single owner or stipulated set of owners, which still excluded alien access. According to modern analyses, Gwjang not only imposed a Themiclesian understanding of land ownership, but a hyper-limited type of land ownership, dissolving coherent Columbian native economic systems based on various forms of access to land to the status of individual Themiclesian freeholds. This destroyed the power structures such economic systems supported, weakening native leadership and ability to marshal resources. There is dispute whether Gwjang did this intentionally or not.</ref> After basic boundaries were established, the Marine Prefect was ordered in 795 to inventory resources in the part of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">continent </del>Themiclesia declared unowned and to itself annexed<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, for future use</del>. The nuances of native concepts of ownership, which Gwjang failed to recognize, made the Marine Prefect's job a challenging and controversial one, especially when Themiclesia withdrew <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">all </del>forces from the continent. However, his jurisdiction over the continent would <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">outlast </del>the next ten centuries. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the early 700s, Themiclesia <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">established </ins>control over the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subcontinent </ins>Columbia, first via diplomacy then, after the founding of the [[Dzi dynasty]], a mixture of diplomacy and conquest. These early attempts had mixed results, and by 780 a sizeable coalition of native societies, brought into contact largely by Themiclesian interference, formed a formidable threat to Themiclesia's desire to dominate them. In 792, Themiclesia mobilized 40,000 soldiers and defeated the coalition<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Gwjang</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>prime minister <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in charge of the campaign, obtained </ins>the assent of native leaders to allow travel, mining, agriculture, hunting, and forestry in all the lands that were unowned, to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">make for </ins>future<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>peaceful co-existence. Gwjang executed the leaders of the coalition and exterminated one of the tribes that had an important position in the coalition. As a life-long bureaucrat, Gwjang established ownership according to Themiclesian understandings; the lack of clear records impaired his objects.<ref>Gwjang's methodology here involves imposing Themiclesian understanding of real estate on native societies. This meant if a piece of land was owned so to exclude Themiclesian access, it had clear boundaries and an owner. A piece of land could be jointly owned, but that required a contract or some written instrument so stating. Gwjang asked natives if they owned a particular piece of land, but they frequently responded by noting their access to it, such as hunting or trapping in it. Yet if multiple persons answered they had the same access to that land, Gwjang interpreted it that the land was unowned and therefore open to Themiclesian annexation. This is inconsistent with how land was owned in Themiclesia, there certainly being communal lands without single owner or stipulated set of owners, which still excluded alien access. According to modern analyses, Gwjang not only imposed a Themiclesian understanding of land ownership, but a hyper-limited type of land ownership, dissolving coherent Columbian native economic systems based on various forms of access to land to the status of individual Themiclesian freeholds. This destroyed the power structures such economic systems supported, weakening native leadership and ability to marshal resources. There is dispute whether Gwjang did this intentionally or not.</ref> After basic boundaries were established, the Marine Prefect was ordered in 795 to inventory resources in the part of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subcontinent </ins>Themiclesia declared unowned and to itself annexed. The nuances of native concepts of ownership, which Gwjang failed to recognize, made the Marine Prefect's job a challenging and controversial one, especially when Themiclesia withdrew forces from the continent. However, his jurisdiction over the continent would <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extend over </ins>the next ten centuries. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since the Marine Prefect was appointed to this position, his department expanded significantly and came to involve diplomacy. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Themiclesian </del>pledging its technological and military support to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">well-behaved </del>native communities, it was necessary to determine who was "in right" before the court reacted. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Initially disputes, </del>were divided into intertribal <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">disputes </del>between <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">natives and disputes </del>natives and Themiclesia. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As part of the </del>Marine Prefect<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s jurisdiction over natural resources in Themiclesian-owned lands, he had power to decide </del>whether a resource was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">situated </del>on Themiclesian<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-owned </del>land as established by Gwjang <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hwal</del>, if another actor was found using it. This <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">established </del>the civil <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">law </del>jurisdiction of the Marine Prefect. Themiclesia generally did not interfere if natives <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">decided to go to </del>war with each other, unless one side appealed for assistance; when <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </del>was necessary <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to be involved in a non-civil dispute</del>, a [[Tribune (Themiclesia)|tribune]] would be commissioned to investigate along with an envoy, and the Marine Prefect would be summoned to give evidence. Even though he had no formal power over such diplomatic disputes, his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">description of events was </del>frequently taken for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perhaps </del>more weight than is justified, and his support in these proceedings was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">highly </del>sought after by native socities. In both situations, the Marine Prefect stood to profit from disputes in commodities common in Columbia but <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">desirable </del>in Themiclesia. Combined with a responsibility to manage resources and oversee <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their </del>exploitation, his soon became the most lucrative appointment <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">outside of </del>the [[Inner Region|Inner Administrator]] and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cabinet-rank </del>ministers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since the Marine Prefect was appointed to this position, his department expanded significantly and came to involve diplomacy. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Themiclesia </ins>pledging its technological and military support to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">friendly </ins>native communities, it was necessary to determine who was "in right" before the court reacted. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Disputes </ins>were divided into intertribal <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ones and those </ins>between natives and Themiclesia. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>Marine Prefect <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">decided </ins>whether a resource was on Themiclesian land as established by Gwjang, if another actor was found using it. This <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">created </ins>the civil jurisdiction of the Marine Prefect. Themiclesia generally did not interfere if natives <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">made </ins>war with each other, unless one side appealed for assistance; when <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">involvement </ins>was necessary, a [[Tribune (Themiclesia)|tribune]] would be commissioned to investigate along with an envoy, and the Marine Prefect would be summoned to give evidence. Even though he had no formal power over such diplomatic disputes, his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">statements were </ins>frequently taken for more weight than is justified, and his support in these proceedings was sought after by native socities. In both situations, the Marine Prefect stood to profit from disputes in commodities common in Columbia but <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">valuable </ins>in Themiclesia. Combined with a responsibility to manage resources and oversee exploitation <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thereof</ins>, his soon became the most lucrative appointment <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other than </ins>the [[Inner Region|Inner Administrator]] and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">leading </ins>ministers.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Comptroller of Waters''' (水黃令, ''sl′jur-gwrang-ringh'') and '''Marine Prefect''' (護水使者, ''gagh-sl′jur-srje′-tja′'') are two high-ranking Themiclesian [[Themiclesian Civil Service|civil servants]], managing natural resources in [[Themiclesia]] and [[Columbia (Septentrion)|Columbia]] respectively. The Marine Prefect originated as an assistant of the Comptroller of Waters in Themiclesia but later developed his own jurisdiction in Columbia, becoming the subject of much controversy once Casaterran settlers appeared in the area. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Comptroller of Waters''' (水黃令, ''sl′jur-gwrang-ringh'') and '''Marine Prefect''' (護水使者, ''gagh-sl′jur-srje′-tja′'') are two high-ranking Themiclesian [[Themiclesian Civil Service|civil servants]], managing natural resources in [[Themiclesia]] and [[Columbia (Septentrion)|Columbia]] respectively. The Marine Prefect originated as an assistant of the Comptroller of Waters in Themiclesia but later developed his own jurisdiction in Columbia, becoming the subject of much controversy once Casaterran settlers appeared in the area. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Comptroller of Waters is an ancient office, the first mention of which dates to the Tsjinh dynasty (265 – 420). While it is not clear whether his early portfolio was identical to the same in later times, jurisdictions were comparable. He was responsible for the maintenance of all waterways and a number of royal forests. By extension, he managed all shipping by water, whether via river or the coastal waters. By a further extension, he oversaw the equalization of the prices of goods by purchasing them from areas where they abound and selling the same where they were wanting; this was an early form of economic control, derived from Menghean economic policies and treatises of the Meng dynasty (c. 200 BCE – 278 CE). A war between the Sungh and Rjang states occurred on the river border in 480, resulting in increased state control over civilian boats, via the appointment of the Marine Prefect, whose duty is the registration of all river-worthy and seaworthy boats in Themiclesia, in case of war in water.<ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Note, the word </del>"Marine" here is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to be interpreted in the same way </del>as in "merchant marine".</ref> By extension to this, he also registered the owners of boats and arranged for their captaincy and armoury during an emergency. The need to suppress pirates resulted in the extension of his jurisdiction to the sea. In 502, he acquired a number of manufactories to produce battering rams and other naval weaponry.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==History==</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Comptroller of Waters is an ancient office, the first mention of which dates to the Tsjinh dynasty (265 – 420). While it is not clear whether his early portfolio was identical to the same in later times, jurisdictions were comparable. He was responsible for the maintenance of all waterways and a number of royal forests. By extension, he managed all shipping by water, whether via river or the coastal waters. By a further extension, he oversaw the equalization of the prices of goods by purchasing them from areas where they abound and selling the same where they were wanting; this was an early form of economic control, derived from Menghean economic policies and treatises of the Meng dynasty (c. 200 BCE – 278 CE). A war between the Sungh and Rjang states occurred on the river border in 480, resulting in increased state control over civilian boats, via the appointment of the Marine Prefect, whose duty is the registration of all river-worthy and seaworthy boats in Themiclesia, in case of war in water.<ref>"Marine" here is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used </ins>as in "merchant marine".</ref> By extension to this, he also registered the owners of boats and arranged for their captaincy and armoury during an emergency. The need to suppress pirates resulted in the extension of his jurisdiction to the sea. In 502, he acquired a number of manufactories to produce battering rams and other naval weaponry.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Early history===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the early 700s, Themiclesia attempted to establish control over the continent Columbia, first via diplomacy then, after the founding of the [[Dzi dynasty]], a mixture of diplomacy and conquest. These early attempts had mixed results, and by 780 a sizeable coalition of native societies, brought into contact largely by Themiclesian interference, formed a formidable threat to Themiclesia's desire to dominate them. In 792, Themiclesia mobilized 40,000 soldiers and defeated the coalition, led by prime minister Gwjang Hwal (王歡). Gwjang negotiated for the assent of native leaders to allow travel, mining, agriculture, hunting, and forestry in all the lands that were unowned, apparently to allow a future of peaceful co-existence. To drive home his point, Gwjang executed the leaders of the coalition and exterminated one of the tribes that had an important position in the coalition. As a life-long bureaucrat from a hallowed line of bureaucratic aristocrats, Gwjang established ownership according to Themiclesian understandings; the lack of clear records impaired his objects.<ref>Gwjang's methodology here involves imposing Themiclesian understanding of real estate on native societies. This meant if a piece of land was owned so to exclude Themiclesian access, it had clear boundaries and an owner. A piece of land could be jointly owned, but that required a contract or some written instrument so stating. Gwjang asked natives if they owned a particular piece of land, but they frequently responded by noting their access to it, such as hunting or trapping in it. Yet if multiple persons answered they had the same access to that land, Gwjang interpreted it that the land was unowned and therefore open to Themiclesian annexation. This is inconsistent with how land was owned in Themiclesia, there certainly being communal lands without single owner or stipulated set of owners, which still excluded alien access. According to modern analyses, Gwjang not only imposed a Themiclesian understanding of land ownership, but a hyper-limited type of land ownership, dissolving coherent Columbian native economic systems based on various forms of access to land to the status of individual Themiclesian freeholds. This destroyed the power structures such economic systems supported, weakening native leadership and ability to marshal resources. There is dispute whether Gwjang did this intentionally or not.</ref> After basic boundaries were established, the Marine Prefect was ordered in 795 to inventory resources in the part of the continent Themiclesia declared unowned and to itself annexed, for future use. The nuances of native concepts of ownership, which Gwjang failed to recognize, made the Marine Prefect's job a challenging and controversial one, especially when Themiclesia withdrew all forces from the continent. However, his jurisdiction over the continent would outlast the next ten centuries. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the early 700s, Themiclesia attempted to establish control over the continent Columbia, first via diplomacy then, after the founding of the [[Dzi dynasty]], a mixture of diplomacy and conquest. These early attempts had mixed results, and by 780 a sizeable coalition of native societies, brought into contact largely by Themiclesian interference, formed a formidable threat to Themiclesia's desire to dominate them. In 792, Themiclesia mobilized 40,000 soldiers and defeated the coalition, led by prime minister Gwjang Hwal (王歡). Gwjang negotiated for the assent of native leaders to allow travel, mining, agriculture, hunting, and forestry in all the lands that were unowned, apparently to allow a future of peaceful co-existence. To drive home his point, Gwjang executed the leaders of the coalition and exterminated one of the tribes that had an important position in the coalition. As a life-long bureaucrat from a hallowed line of bureaucratic aristocrats, Gwjang established ownership according to Themiclesian understandings; the lack of clear records impaired his objects.<ref>Gwjang's methodology here involves imposing Themiclesian understanding of real estate on native societies. This meant if a piece of land was owned so to exclude Themiclesian access, it had clear boundaries and an owner. A piece of land could be jointly owned, but that required a contract or some written instrument so stating. Gwjang asked natives if they owned a particular piece of land, but they frequently responded by noting their access to it, such as hunting or trapping in it. Yet if multiple persons answered they had the same access to that land, Gwjang interpreted it that the land was unowned and therefore open to Themiclesian annexation. This is inconsistent with how land was owned in Themiclesia, there certainly being communal lands without single owner or stipulated set of owners, which still excluded alien access. According to modern analyses, Gwjang not only imposed a Themiclesian understanding of land ownership, but a hyper-limited type of land ownership, dissolving coherent Columbian native economic systems based on various forms of access to land to the status of individual Themiclesian freeholds. This destroyed the power structures such economic systems supported, weakening native leadership and ability to marshal resources. There is dispute whether Gwjang did this intentionally or not.</ref> After basic boundaries were established, the Marine Prefect was ordered in 795 to inventory resources in the part of the continent Themiclesia declared unowned and to itself annexed, for future use. The nuances of native concepts of ownership, which Gwjang failed to recognize, made the Marine Prefect's job a challenging and controversial one, especially when Themiclesia withdrew all forces from the continent. However, his jurisdiction over the continent would outlast the next ten centuries. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since the Marine Prefect was appointed to this position, his department expanded significantly and came to involve diplomacy. Themiclesian pledging its technological and military support to well-behaved native communities, it was necessary to determine who was "in right" before the court reacted. Initially disputes, were divided into intertribal disputes between natives and disputes natives and Themiclesia. As part of the Marine Prefect's jurisdiction over natural resources in Themiclesian-owned lands, he had power to decide whether a resource was situated on Themiclesian-owned land as established by Gwjang Hwal, if another actor was found using it. This established the civil law jurisdiction of the Marine Prefect. Themiclesia generally did not interfere if natives decided to go to war with each other, unless one side appealed for assistance; when it was necessary to be involved in a non-civil dispute, a [[Tribune (Themiclesia)|tribune]] would be commissioned to investigate along with an envoy, and the Marine Prefect would be summoned to give evidence. Even though he had no formal power over such diplomatic disputes, his description of events was frequently taken for perhaps more weight than is justified, and his support in these proceedings was highly sought after by native socities. In both situations, the Marine Prefect stood to profit from disputes in commodities common in Columbia but desirable in Themiclesia. Combined with a responsibility to manage resources and oversee their exploitation, his soon became the most lucrative appointment outside of the [[Inner Region|Inner Administrator]] and cabinet-rank ministers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Since the Marine Prefect was appointed to this position, his department expanded significantly and came to involve diplomacy. Themiclesian pledging its technological and military support to well-behaved native communities, it was necessary to determine who was "in right" before the court reacted. Initially disputes, were divided into intertribal disputes between natives and disputes natives and Themiclesia. As part of the Marine Prefect's jurisdiction over natural resources in Themiclesian-owned lands, he had power to decide whether a resource was situated on Themiclesian-owned land as established by Gwjang Hwal, if another actor was found using it. This established the civil law jurisdiction of the Marine Prefect. Themiclesia generally did not interfere if natives decided to go to war with each other, unless one side appealed for assistance; when it was necessary to be involved in a non-civil dispute, a [[Tribune (Themiclesia)|tribune]] would be commissioned to investigate along with an envoy, and the Marine Prefect would be summoned to give evidence. Even though he had no formal power over such diplomatic disputes, his description of events was frequently taken for perhaps more weight than is justified, and his support in these proceedings was highly sought after by native socities. In both situations, the Marine Prefect stood to profit from disputes in commodities common in Columbia but desirable in Themiclesia. Combined with a responsibility to manage resources and oversee their exploitation, his soon became the most lucrative appointment outside of the [[Inner Region|Inner Administrator]] and cabinet-rank ministers.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the early 700s, Themiclesia attempted to establish control over the continent Columbia, first via diplomacy then, after the founding of the [[Dzi dynasty]], a mixture of diplomacy and conquest. These early attempts had mixed results, and by 780 a sizeable coalition of native societies, brought into contact largely by Themiclesian interference, formed a formidable threat to Themiclesia's desire to dominate them. In 792, Themiclesia mobilized 40,000 soldiers and defeated the coalition, led by prime minister Gwjang Hwal (王歡). Gwjang negotiated for the assent of native leaders to allow travel, mining, agriculture, hunting, and forestry in all the lands that were unowned, apparently to allow a future of peaceful co-existence. To drive home his point, Gwjang executed the leaders of the coalition and exterminated one of the tribes that had an important position in the coalition. As a life-long bureaucrat from a hallowed line of bureaucratic aristocrats, Gwjang established ownership according to Themiclesian understandings; the lack of clear records impaired his objects.<ref>Gwjang's methodology here involves imposing Themiclesian understanding of real estate on native societies. This meant if a piece of land was owned so to exclude Themiclesian access, it had clear boundaries and an owner. A piece of land could be jointly owned, but that required a contract or some written instrument so stating. Gwjang asked natives if they owned a particular piece of land, but they frequently responded by noting their access to it, such as hunting or trapping in it. Yet if multiple persons answered they had the same access to that land, Gwjang interpreted it that the land was unowned and therefore open to Themiclesian <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">access</del>. This is inconsistent with how land was owned in Themiclesia, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since </del>there <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were </del>certainly communal lands <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that had no </del>single owner or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">limited </del>set of owners, which still excluded alien access. According to modern <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interpretations</del>, Gwjang not only imposed a Themiclesian understanding of land ownership, but a hyper-limited type of land ownership, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reducing </del>Columbian <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">natives </del>to the status of Themiclesian <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">commoners and simplified their interests in land to only a single type of interests in land that Themiclesians had</del>. This <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dissolved economic relationships and </del>the power structures <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it implied</del>, weakening native leadership and ability to marshal resources. </ref> After <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some </del>basic boundaries were established, the Marine Prefect was ordered to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take accounts of </del>resources in the part of the continent Themiclesia declared <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it owned</del>, for future use. The nuances of native concepts of ownership, which Gwjang failed to recognize, made the Marine Prefect's job a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">profoundly </del>challenging one, especially when Themiclesia withdrew all forces from the continent. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the early 700s, Themiclesia attempted to establish control over the continent Columbia, first via diplomacy then, after the founding of the [[Dzi dynasty]], a mixture of diplomacy and conquest. These early attempts had mixed results, and by 780 a sizeable coalition of native societies, brought into contact largely by Themiclesian interference, formed a formidable threat to Themiclesia's desire to dominate them. In 792, Themiclesia mobilized 40,000 soldiers and defeated the coalition, led by prime minister Gwjang Hwal (王歡). Gwjang negotiated for the assent of native leaders to allow travel, mining, agriculture, hunting, and forestry in all the lands that were unowned, apparently to allow a future of peaceful co-existence. To drive home his point, Gwjang executed the leaders of the coalition and exterminated one of the tribes that had an important position in the coalition. As a life-long bureaucrat from a hallowed line of bureaucratic aristocrats, Gwjang established ownership according to Themiclesian understandings; the lack of clear records impaired his objects.<ref>Gwjang's methodology here involves imposing Themiclesian understanding of real estate on native societies. This meant if a piece of land was owned so to exclude Themiclesian access, it had clear boundaries and an owner. A piece of land could be jointly owned, but that required a contract or some written instrument so stating. Gwjang asked natives if they owned a particular piece of land, but they frequently responded by noting their access to it, such as hunting or trapping in it. Yet if multiple persons answered they had the same access to that land, Gwjang interpreted it that the land was unowned and therefore open to Themiclesian <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">annexation</ins>. This is inconsistent with how land was owned in Themiclesia, there certainly <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being </ins>communal lands <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">without </ins>single owner or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stipulated </ins>set of owners, which still excluded alien access. According to modern <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">analyses</ins>, Gwjang not only imposed a Themiclesian understanding of land ownership, but a hyper-limited type of land ownership, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dissolving coherent </ins>Columbian <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">native economic systems based on various forms of access to land </ins>to the status of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">individual </ins>Themiclesian <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">freeholds</ins>. This <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">destroyed </ins>the power structures <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such economic systems supported</ins>, weakening native leadership and ability to marshal resources<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. There is dispute whether Gwjang did this intentionally or not</ins>.</ref> After basic boundaries were established, the Marine Prefect was ordered <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in 795 </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inventory </ins>resources in the part of the continent Themiclesia declared <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">unowned and to itself annexed</ins>, for future use. The nuances of native concepts of ownership, which Gwjang failed to recognize, made the Marine Prefect's job a challenging <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and controversial </ins>one, especially when Themiclesia withdrew all forces from the continent. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> However, his jurisdiction over the continent would outlast the next ten centuries. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Comptroller of Waters''' (水黃令, ''sl′jur-gwrang-ringh'') and '''Marine Prefect''' (護水使者, ''gagh-sl′jur-srje′-tja′'') are two high-ranking Themiclesian [[Themiclesian Civil Service|civil servants]], managing natural resources in [[Themiclesia]] and [[Columbia (Septentrion)|Columbia]] respectively. The Marine Prefect originated as an assistant of the Comptroller of Waters in Themiclesia but later developed his own jurisdiction in Columbia, becoming the subject of much controversy once Casaterran settlers appeared in the area. <br />
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The Comptroller of Waters is an ancient office, the first mention of which dates to the Tsjinh dynasty (265 – 420). While it is not clear whether his early portfolio was identical to the same in later times, jurisdictions were comparable. He was responsible for the maintenance of all waterways and a number of royal forests. By extension, he managed all shipping by water, whether via river or the coastal waters. By a further extension, he oversaw the equalization of the prices of goods by purchasing them from areas where they abound and selling the same where they were wanting; this was an early form of economic control, derived from Menghean economic policies and treatises of the Meng dynasty (c. 200 BCE – 278 CE). A war between the Sungh and Rjang states occurred on the river border in 480, resulting in increased state control over civilian boats, via the appointment of the Marine Prefect, whose duty is the registration of all river-worthy and seaworthy boats in Themiclesia, in case of war in water.<ref>Note, the word "Marine" here is to be interpreted in the same way as in "merchant marine".</ref> By extension to this, he also registered the owners of boats and arranged for their captaincy and armoury during an emergency. The need to suppress pirates resulted in the extension of his jurisdiction to the sea. In 502, he acquired a number of manufactories to produce battering rams and other naval weaponry.<br />
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In the early 700s, Themiclesia attempted to establish control over the continent Columbia, first via diplomacy then, after the founding of the [[Dzi dynasty]], a mixture of diplomacy and conquest. These early attempts had mixed results, and by 780 a sizeable coalition of native societies, brought into contact largely by Themiclesian interference, formed a formidable threat to Themiclesia's desire to dominate them. In 792, Themiclesia mobilized 40,000 soldiers and defeated the coalition, led by prime minister Gwjang Hwal (王歡). Gwjang negotiated for the assent of native leaders to allow travel, mining, agriculture, hunting, and forestry in all the lands that were unowned, apparently to allow a future of peaceful co-existence. To drive home his point, Gwjang executed the leaders of the coalition and exterminated one of the tribes that had an important position in the coalition. As a life-long bureaucrat from a hallowed line of bureaucratic aristocrats, Gwjang established ownership according to Themiclesian understandings; the lack of clear records impaired his objects.<ref>Gwjang's methodology here involves imposing Themiclesian understanding of real estate on native societies. This meant if a piece of land was owned so to exclude Themiclesian access, it had clear boundaries and an owner. A piece of land could be jointly owned, but that required a contract or some written instrument so stating. Gwjang asked natives if they owned a particular piece of land, but they frequently responded by noting their access to it, such as hunting or trapping in it. Yet if multiple persons answered they had the same access to that land, Gwjang interpreted it that the land was unowned and therefore open to Themiclesian access. This is inconsistent with how land was owned in Themiclesia, since there were certainly communal lands that had no single owner or limited set of owners, which still excluded alien access. According to modern interpretations, Gwjang not only imposed a Themiclesian understanding of land ownership, but a hyper-limited type of land ownership, reducing Columbian natives to the status of Themiclesian commoners and simplified their interests in land to only a single type of interests in land that Themiclesians had. This dissolved economic relationships and the power structures it implied, weakening native leadership and ability to marshal resources. </ref> After some basic boundaries were established, the Marine Prefect was ordered to take accounts of resources in the part of the continent Themiclesia declared it owned, for future use. The nuances of native concepts of ownership, which Gwjang failed to recognize, made the Marine Prefect's job a profoundly challenging one, especially when Themiclesia withdrew all forces from the continent. <br />
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