A Study On The System Of The Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty is an important era of monopoly alum in ancient China, it can gradually develop and improve, not only because inherited the foundation of monopoly of alum during the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasty, widely used in the Song Dynasty also benefited from the vitriol production and life demand; At the same time, the overall development of the prohibiting system is also the mature laid the policy background. The monopoly of alum shows a distinctive regional characteristic in the Song Dynasty. The literatures about the representative of three important areas for the district of Hedong, the district of Hebei and the nine districts of Southeast. The monopoly of alum mainly in Jinzhou in the district of Hedong, Fenzhou, Cizhou and Xizhou is auxiliary, the defense economic monopoly alum industry played a catalytic role in the development. The monopoly form of alum includes the government sale and the businessman sale in the district of Hedong, some time introduces a new policy form of Contract tax named Maipu. To the management of alum, the three central division or department is responsible for the unified management of monopoly of alum affairs, elsewhere, there are set, specific management or the State regulatory, among them, the Quehuowu plays an important role in the central and local governmental management. The district of Hebei practices forbidden without monopoly in the early in the Song Dynasty, until the middle and late start to implement the field monopoly, showing a special way of prohibiting, this is related to the military geographical environment of Hebei district. The alum area s in the Nine districts of Southeast Mainly in Wuweijun. The monopoly of alum system followed the Hedong model, the alum certificate is widely used in the Nine districts of southeast. The Wuweijun add new policies for amount of alum progenitor and Jiarao in the Southern Song Dynasty, it indicates that the alum tax system further diversified and perfect. The monopoly of alum regional differences in the Song Dynasty adapted to changes in tax policy as a whole during the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, it also agrees with the development trend of Chinese ancient economy. At the same time, it reflects the characteristics of local economic development and the vitality of regional economic development in the Song Dynasty.