Guóchuān

Guochuan lay in the mountain approaches between Baoji and Feng County, where its stream ran southeast of Baoji before turning west into Feng County. The valley carried a route toward Hanzhong through the Qinling, so Guochuan was a mountain passage and not a town on the open Wei River plain. The Qing posted an inspection office here, with a gate, guard rooms, two halls, a kitchen and a study. The inspector Lu Weixin petitioned to have it repaired in 1738 and again in 1742, a small sign of how the state watched a mountain road and its scattered settlements.