Study On The Corruption Of Granary Adminstration In Song Dynasty

Inherited the development of the storage system in previous generations,based on the Song Dynasty established a more complete storage system from the central to local.Song Dynasty warehousing played an important role in army supply,disaster relief and regulation of food prices.Song Dynasty warehouse management system,regulatory measures can be described as detailed and meticulous,for the normal operation of the warehouse to provide a guarantee.However,warehousing in the management,operation process there are also a variety of fraud and corruption,such as warehouse officials corruption,erosion of warehouse food,account falsification,etc.These corrupt practices not only affect the normal functioning of the warehouse,but also exacerbate the local financial losses,increasing the burden on the people,and thus intensify social conflicts.The corruption of the Song dynasty warehouse government is closely related to the centralization of the Song dynasty finance,the increasing distress of local finance,corruption of officials,and the level of storage technology.The central government of the Song dynasty kept increasing the levy on the local property and taxation,and the central government acquiesced to solve the financial difficulties by extra-legal levy in the increasingly difficult situation,thus making the warehouse management order gradually chaotic.The quality of warehouse officials is of vital importance to the warehouse management order,the Song dynasty is very strict in the selection and appointment of warehouse officials,even so,can not guarantee the integrity of all officials.reforms of Xi Ning before the law,the departments of the warehouse officials and no salary,which makes the management of the warehouse money and other institutions of the officials,the use of office to embezzle.In addition,the grain and rice itself is perishable goods,in the storage and transportation process and loss,all kinds of disadvantages,so that storage officials and other officials can also "profit" from it.Faced with the problem of corruption in storage administration,the rulers of the Song dynasty actively took many measures to prevent and manage it.The Song dynasty not only established the supervision of the bureaucracy within the upper and lower levels,but also between parallel institutions,and a certain degree of social supervision,allowing people to appell or cross litigation;the development of storage management laws and regulations,the officials of illegal warehouses to be severely punished;focus on the selection and assessment of storage officials,the implementation of the "reluctance law",improve the treatment of storage officials,and at the same time increase the punishment of corrupt officials.At the same time to increase the punishment of corrupt officials.Although these preventive measures could not fundamentally solve the problem of storage corruption in Song Dynasty,they played a positive role to a certain extent in preventing the corruption of storage officials.Despite the existence of various shortcomings and deficiencies,the Song Dynasty warehousing is still in the adjustment and governance of continuous improvement,play its role.