Jiānlì

Jiānlì lies among the rivers and lakes of the Jianghan Plain, beside the middle Yangtze. In the Southern Song, the commander Meng Gong moved the county seat after its old walls were damaged by water. Jianli belonged to Jingzhou prefecture under the Ming; in the early Ming, officials built embankments at places including Wanquan to protect the low-lying country from floodwaters.