| As an official, Bandit-Suppression Commission was earliest established in Liao Dynasty. After the establishment of Liao Dynasty, it continuously conquered the northwest minorities such as Wugu,Dilie, Zubu, Shiwei and so on by using force. Then to strengthen the control over northwest border Bandit-Suppression Commission was established. After the perishing of Liao Dynasty, Jin Dynasty inherited Bandit-Suppression Commission system. So northwest, southwest and northeast Bandit-Suppression Commission were established consecutively to manage northwest minorities. Bandit-Suppression Commission established in Jin Dynasty, was the first level local military agency that managed nomads in northwest area. After the perishing of Jin Dynasty, Bandit-Suppression Commission, as a military agency mainly managed the minorities in southwest area. In Ming Dynasty, Bandit-Suppression Commission was established too, in which Bandit-Suppression Commission officer and vie- Bandit-Suppression Commission official rank were inherited from generation–to generation under Tusi system. In Yongzheng Period of Qing Dynasty, Tusi System was abolished for"transforming local traditions into mainstream culture"policy. As a result, Bandit-Suppression Commission passed in history.In the introduction, the author mainly discusses the meaning of selected topic, predecessors'achievement, and innovations to eliminate the barriers in text writing.The study and explanation can be carried out to Bandit-Suppression Commission in Jin Dynasty in this text that is divided into three parts.In the first part, we mainly carry out a study to the basic content of Bandit-Suppression Commission. Firstly, we discuss the setting and evolution of Bandit-Suppression Commission in Jin Dynasty., Jin Dynasty set up Bandit-Suppression Commission inherited from Liao Dynasty to manage the minorities in northwest area and protect the northern border. In Jin Dynasty, northwest, southwest and northeast Bandit-Suppression Commission was established. The position of three Bandit-Suppression Commission groups was getting more and more important as the reform to official system and Mongolian invasion. Until Dading Period, the situation that Bandit-Suppression Commission and Commander-in Chief Division controlled the whole country was forming .Secondly we study the seat of Bandit-Suppression Commission. Northeast Bandit-Suppression Commission was firstly located in Yanzi City, in tenth year of Dading Period it was removed to Huanzhou City. Southwest Bandit-Suppression Commission was located in Fengzhou City, the some as that in Liao Dynasty. Northeast Bandit-Suppression Commission was firstly located in Pengge City, and then removed to Taizhou City in Dading Period. In the third year of Chengan period, it was removed to Jinshan, then to New Taizhou City in eighth year of Taihe period, finally to Zhaozhou in the second year of Zhenyou period. Finally we make a study to the branches of Bandit-Suppression Commission; its branches are Jiu,Buzu and MenganmoukeIn the second part we mainly discuss the official rankings in Bandit-Suppression Commission of Jin Dynasty. There are more details about the official rankings in Bandit-Suppression Commission of Jin Dynasty recorded in Annals to Official Ranks in Jin History. In this part, we compare by lists to the official ranks such as officer and monitor and Vice-officer and others in Bandit-Suppression Commission of Jin Dynasty. We discuss the Bandit-Suppression Commission mainly from four aspects, qualification, promotion, officer concurrently holding Secretariat and the details of various Bandit-Suppression Commission groups. There is not any record about Bandit-Suppression Commission Monitor in Annals to Official Ranks in Jin History. We mainly discuss it rank and functions Bandit-Suppression Commission Vice-Officer appeared when Bandit-Suppression Commission Monitor disappeared.Both had the similar functions. We speculate that Bandit-Suppression Commission Vice-Officer was evolved from Bandit-Suppression Commission Monitor.In the third part we study the functions of Bandit-Suppression Commission in Jin Dynasty. In Jin Dynasty, Bandit-Suppression Commission had two functions, military and civil functions. Military was a major one. Bandit-Suppression Commission, as a highest level military agency that controlled the northern border, defended the foreign invasion, conquered Mongolian groups that were getting stronger and stronger and domestically suppressed the uprisings and insurgencies from Qidan and other minorities. At the same time, it built slits and forts on large scale and manage them. Civil functions were accepting tributes, granting rewards, doing patented business, collecting army provisions, raising horses, offering relief, dealing with judicial affairs and opening up the wastelands for farming. We also discuss the impact of Bandit-Suppression Commission to Jin Dynasty. In this text we explore the impact of Bandit-Suppression Commission from the positive and negative sides, believing that it could defense the borders and strengthen its security and develop the areas near borders. But on the negative side that we should not ignore, Mongolian could finally defeat the defense from Bandit-Suppression Commission, thus causing the perishing of Jin Dynasty. |