1, Zhou Mu is not the governor. Similar to today's "governor", the position is the state secretariat, and the secretariat is called the state shepherd-that is, the state shepherd is equal to the current governor+provincial garrison commander.
2. There was no "city" in Han Dynasty, but Xinye was a county. The emperor could not appoint local officials, which was only the appearance of the decline and decentralization of power in the Han Dynasty. It was normal for officials at the end of the Han Dynasty not to appoint the emperor's hand, because the priests in each state did not listen to the central authorities.
In governing the world, the emperor needs not only taxes, but also local stability. It is naturally impossible to be completely indifferent to the appointment of officials. How much character, integrity and ability should be considered; In the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty, the emperor was unable to govern the place, not "indifferent" but "powerless".
6 counties are a part of Yangzhou, which is smaller than Jingzhou and roughly equivalent to Xuzhou. Xuchang is a county. By the way, the local structure of the Han Dynasty was: state-county-county, but because the romance was written in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the county was also recorded as a state, which led to two States in the romance-Xuchang was a small country at that time.
5. During the Han Dynasty, the world was divided into thirteen states, the territory of which was roughly equal to that of China except Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Xinjiang, Tibet, half of Ningxia and Yunnan-Guizhou provinces.