The Punishment To The Malfeasant And The Encouraging The Incorrupt Of Early Period Of Song Dynasty

Whether the punishment to the malfeasant and the encouraging the incorrupt are good or not, its impact to successive dynasties throughout are obvious: if doing well, administration of officials will be good, the people will be well-being; if in contrast, the officials will be greedy and muddy, the people will live in hard.The period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is the second epoch of breaking up in Chinese history since the Emperor Qin the First making the Country unify. All states' corrupt were ineffective, thus the corruption of the government and its officials was also startling.Song Dynasty was set up in stead of North-Zhou Dynasty by the way of palace coup, therefore was not stricken by peasants' war in its early period, which made the corruption of the government and its officials from the Last period of Tang Dynasty,the period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms survive. Thus, the struggle of punishment to malfeasant in the early period of Song Dynasty became inevitable, and showed a number of features different from the past, especially in the severe degree.Of course, compared to the negative punishment after the corruptions of the officials, the active prevention in the system (political, economic) of the government and the idea (intellectual, moral) of the officials is more important. Therefore, in the early period of Song Dynasty in reign of Emperor Taizu,Emperor Taizong and the first ten years of Emperor Zhenzong (960-1007), it introduced a series of initiatives of the encouraging the incorrupt. As many initiatives themselves were not perfect, we even could not call it "policy" and only describe it in general as "initiatives", but they had achieved a lot of good results. It is the reason why the scholars of late generations always gave high appraisement when they discussed the administration of the government and its officials in the early period of Song Dynasty.But in the past, people even more concerned on the punishment to the malfeasant in the early period of Song Dynasty and the entire period of Song Dynasty, but involved fewer about the initiatives of the encouraging the incorrupt in the early period of Song Dynasty, actually the two initiatives should be not mutually exclusive. The encouraging the incorrupt also should be a "great enterprise" and take all aspects into account. Moreover in the punishment to the malfeasant and the encouraging the incorrupt of early period of Song Dynasty, there are many needs to summarize and recognize! In addition, the punishment to the malfeasant and the encouraging the incorrupt both are measures, the goal is to"yang guan"(as training the bureaucrat officials with high quality). In fact, the punishment to the malfeasant and the encouraging the incorrupt also are being in accordance to this basic goal. Which part did the punishment to the malfeasant and the encouraging the incorrupt take in the early period of Song...