Song State Grain Warehouse Management System Study

The storehouse system is the important part of the state finance. Our state attached importance to past dynasties. The commodity economy was flourishing in Song Dynasty, the whole of economy structure was changed with it, the storehouse system was completed too. Rich reserves not only strengthed the state finance, but also improved the ability of defense famine. This paper discusses on the state granary manage system which is belong to the whole storehouse systems, the main goal is , through studies of the management and staff installation of state granary, the fund source, grain collection, the manners of storage and the expend patterns, discuss how the granary's function played in the concrete operation, the analysis will help us know the significant meaning on finance system and famine of the granary which is built by state more.The paper can be divides into five following parts mainly:The first part, "'the preface" ,mainly introduces the research on state storehouse in present condition, the paper research foundation and the train of thought.The second part, "the basic situation of storehouse develop in Song Dynasty" ,introduce the main types of storehouse in Song Dynasty, as well as the development of storehouse in the past times in brief, mainly introduce the granary set up and it's distribution in the whole Nation, at the same time, analyze the reserves of the state granary.The third part, "the manage system of the state granary" ,mainly introduce the management and staff installation in Song Dynasty. For the concrete manage system, we put emphasis on the fund source, grain collection, the manners on grain storage and expenditure ways, through four research emphasis, analyze the concrete operation situation of state granary. The fund source of granary is diversify, there are concrete prescription on the collection and the expenditure, in addition, there are special staffs guard the state granary, make the grain in the granary safer and fresher. We can't neglect how to take care the granary appropriately, because this is one important segment of the state whole manage system.The fourth part, "the function of the state granary", for the microcosmic, different kinds of state granary has different effect, generally speaking, there are four kinds of function, relieve with sell, relieve with donated funds, relieve with lend and relieve with work as follows, moreover, some special use are exist, such as make wine, assist army and so on. Above-mentioned are belong to the normal expenditure, however, the abnormal appearance is exist, such as other departments borrow the grain can't return them in time, and use the grain by force of the wars. For the macroscopic, if the perfect storehouse system is built, not only can gather wealth in the whole society, but also convenient to the materials allocated. The storehouse widely build , may make the manners of allocation more diversification and more adaptability. Meantime, not confine the allocation is between years, it even can allocate the materials between the warehouse and warehouse, between the area and area. So it will easy to the Nation's wealth is used effectiveness under the government regulates. And these advantages will be evident if the war and famine is happened.The final part, "summary" ,which summarizes this paper, mainly highlights the primary idea of this paper intention, summarizes the new characteristics of manage system of the state granary in Song Dynasty, and explains the function and influence of state granary in Song Dynasty.