The Research On Prime Minister Domination Politics Of Southern Song

There was a critical change between northern and southern Song dynasty, the prime ministerial domination politics is very important in the history of Southern Song Dynasty, which almost account sixty percent of the south Song dynasty history. During the period, the imperial power and prime ministers’ power have the same political interest; and because the emperors in south Song did not have inner court system, at the situation of in the outer court but have no power Emperor, the power minister play a role of maintaining state power stability and making the government bureaucracy run normally. During the period of, The policy-making body and decision-making system changed a lot, the mansion of the power prime minister became the center of state decision-making place; in the matter of official document system, the document of the prime minister and emperor’s hand writing substituted by the power primer minister became the Supreme Decree; the power prime minister also created his own financial system during Chin Hui’s day; Expostulation became the power minister’s tool of personnel change; the cognitive of the society and the government officers also change and created a situation that the power prime minister had a higher station in their mind, the other way round, the Emperor tended to be symbolization.However, the boundary of the power minister politics which in the Imperial Examination society and under the control of Imperial ideology was very obvious. It lack of rule basis, the literati did not have centripetal force to the central government; the power ministers could not completely control the Emperor and the court; the control force of the power minister could not get to be below the county level; what is more important, the financial and personnel policy of the power minister politics damage the interests of the main taxpayer and the ordinary literati, which lead to form widely opposition force in the grass roots.The power minister politics have a great affect to the history of Southern Song, almost all the major events occur in the period of power minister. The power minister politics also change the politics, economy, ideological and cultural, military policy and social psychology. In the early Southern Song Dynasty, the power minister politics promote the establishment and consolidation; in the late Southern Song dynasty, the power minister power which represent the central authority great damage the interest of intelligentsia, which exacerbate centrifugal of them, accelerate the extinction of the Southern Song.