Pirates Of The Southern Song Dynasty Fujian Road And Haiphong

Because of locating its captial in Hangzhou,such situcation were formed that the dynasty built country against the sea, so both tension of the coast defense and deterioration of the civil peace in the foreland affected the safety of the dynasty. Because of politics,geographly,economy and technology,overseas trade debelopped Prosperously in Fujian during the Southern Sung Dynasty.It has brought mounts of economic for Fujian and also brought a series of problems. Among that,pirate was the best one.From the fifth year of Shaoxing to the first year of Qingyuan, as long as 120 years time, there had been pirate activities in.Fujian Road in the Southern Sung period Such a long length of time span had been unprecedented before Southern Sung Dynasty. They had been four distinct characteristics: its number and scale were large, it had intensive organization, but its militarization was not very strong; they were mainly composed of the bottom civilians, but also included some businessmen; the pirate gangs had certain social base; besides traditional looting, they were also engaged in commercial activities. The frequent pirate activities in Fujian Road not only posed a serious threat to Fujian Road, but also impacted the neighboring Canton Road South and Liangzhe Road. In order to maintain the order in Fujian Road and consolidate its rule in the southeast coastal areas, Southern Sung rulers had taken various measures to fight against piracy. Under the attacks of Southern Sung Dynasty government and the local government of Fujian Road, the various pirates eventually faced the demise. These pirate gangs collapsed or surrendered to Southern Sung government, their troops became part of government force.Southern Sung Dynasty had been built up during the war against Jin's troops. Then, it faced with the problem that Jin's troops continued invading. Besides enhancing the traditional land defense, the coast defense situation became more and more stern as another prominent condition. The Fujian region was the important sector of Southern Sung Dynasty's coast defense. During Southern Sung Dynasty earlier period,Fujian situated in south boundary, was the strategic rear area of Sung Dynasty. In light of Sung's migrating to the south, Southeast area became the national political center and the military status of Fujian road rapidly rised.Southern Sung court and Fujian road government strengthened the coastal navy construction and made full use of Fujian local armed forces and folk military in order to vindicated the feudal security and consolidated its rule. They used many defense form including supposing the stronghold, establishing warning line and strengthening the defense of important city. Looking upon the southeast coast of the entirety to carry on the coast defense of overall situation, Southern Sung court and the Fujian government implemented lots of ways including strengthened jurisdiction and management to the coastal territory. The dynasty further strengthened the government's control of grass-roots level by using the Fujian local power. Frighten the lawless person through carrying on the strict regulation. Implemented the nimble coast defense and lay the foundation of thoroughly eliminating the pirate through tactical and strategic arrangements. Meanwhile, in the process of attacking the pirates, the dynasty reconstructed the new dominant order and guaranteed the provincial stability, moreover, consolidated the Southern Sung Dynasty political regime. The fact proved that the various ways of Fujian road were effective and practical, and basically achieved its goal.