| As an important inner palace storehouse during the Ming Dynasty,Gongyongku relied on a real financial derivative at the beginning of Gongyongku’s establishment.Under the influence of the concept of "convenient use by the people",Zhuyuanzhang,the founder of the Ming dynasty,built the system of the Gongyongku on the basis of a core which relied on Nanjing system operation,and the Gongyongku also became an important medium connecting the palace finance and local society.However,this system did not operate for a long time,and after the Battle of Jing Nang,Yongle moved capital to the north.The system of the Gongyongku followed by the parallel of the two.The system centered on Nanjing has produced a series of mismatching problems in actual operation.The cost of transporting the consumption of royal and administrative cereals and materials required by local societies for requisitioning and using depots has become increasingly high.Although the emperor and the bureaucracy has some measures to deal with this dillema,due to natural factors,it has not been able to solve the core problem of high transshipment costs to maintain the operation of the Gongyongku syste M.At the same time,the size of the court was expanding,consumption was becoming more luxurious,and the operating cost of the supply library was rising again.Although the officialdoms mostly regulates the scale of consumption in the court with the purpose of restoring the old original amount,the cyclical reduction will soon increase again,and by the age of Jiajing,the institutional framework of the old original amount finally could not be supported and moved towards a surge in scale.As the scale surge,the central government takes the number of warehouses as the original standard of the Gongyongku warehouses,which is relatively fixed,while the actual burden of the local government and people is fluctuating,so the central government lacks the enthusiasm to improve the loss of the supply and use warehouse revenue storage process.Local society not only needs to bear the superficial cost of court consumption,but also bears a large number of hidden costs,so the actual burden of local society is much higher than the original amount.Many local prefectures and counties immediately spontaneously improved,and the real financial spending from the supply bank was settled in the form of siiver which called qingji.The Ming court’s attitude towards the silverization of the Gongyongku was eventually promoted by rejection and retention,but the final trend of this promotion was to cause the competition between the court,ministries and localities for the financial power of the supply treasury,which eventually further deepened the burden on the local government.The palace finances further divided the ministries and local finances,causing serious social problems.As currency,silver became more and more deeply involved in the economical system of the Ming Dynasty,which not only profoundly affected the local society of the Ming Dynasty economically,but also reconstructed the financial power relationship between the central and local governments under the original institutional system.In other words,while its fiscal power relationship changes,the old institutional structure of the supply and use library is still under the framework of the original concept of physical finance.This institutional framework has transformed the physical objects that originally had a clear vesting object into silver with uncertain vesting objects,which in turn caused disputes over the belonging of the financial authority from many parties.This is also enough to explain that while silver extends its executive power,it also intensifies the unprecedented problems of the old fiscal system to a certain extent. |
