Research On Bully In Song Dynasty

Bully in Song Dynasty included local tyrant and evil gentry, government official, monk and people who depended on bully. They swallowed up lots of lands and water conservancy facilities by inlaw, riding roughshod in countryside, resisting rent and tax that should be handed to the country, managing prohibited goods. What they did had disturbed economic and political orders of local government, threatening authority of local society, and also had broken law and damaged country's interests, so the government would punish them. Then bully had an abundant property and political power, belonging to ruling class, having the same as interests as Song Dynasty, which decided the punishment would not thoroughly. Generally, besides punishing the extremely vicious, others were light. Song Dynasty not only used bully's power, but restricted their power, which based on Song Government's interests, to coordinate the contradiction between Song Dynasty and bully, not considering normal people who were under the bully's oppression. This ambigious policy hurted the masses, leding to lose government's prestige in local society.