Ming And Qing Cancel Watersider Grain Warehouse Research

Water transport was great importance to Ancient Chinese feudal society.the feudal regimed depends on grain transported to the "The national food ," in order to shipped tax food through water to the capital, or other significance military, the central government often established an artificial or natural rivers, in order to transfer stored grain.The prototype of Waterside Grain Warehouse appeared in the Qin Dynasty, and later with the formation and development of the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang period, its functions and management systems were also increasingly sophisticated and mature and means of transport by natural rivers gradually changed to the artificial river. To the Ming and Qing dynasties, as emphasis on the state level , the role of storage had also became increasingly significant and had a more considerable impact.to the state and society .In order to strengthen the management of the Waterside Grain Warehouse , Ming and Qing dynasties of feudal power from central to local agencies set up a series of them under the jurisdiction. The early Ming Dynasty Yongle times when the water storage by the Ministry of indirect management, counties hosting, but because of "military horizontal hard" system, management rights revert to the Ministry. The Ministry to send a dedicated principal management of the Ministry of warehousing operations, in addition to the specific warehouse operation and labor officials, Ambassador Fu Shi, save code, bucket level, repair warehouse Husband. Ming Hsuan-te years, the eunuch, as a gradual infiltration of foreign forces into the warehouse department, they are not only bribery and corruption, the scourge of the people, but also disrupt the warehouse discipline, theft warehouse food, water times the normal operation of warehouses had a great harm. Ming Dynasty Qing Dynasty inherited the water sub-warehouse management system, the establishment of Yunnan Province in the Central Division-ching lai water transport and warehousing management, and supervision of the primary position to send the Ministry of Finance. However, due to the Qing dynasty has been in a long transportation law, coupled with a larger number of water transport grain folding, so the number of water sub-warehouse stocks is not large, their management style mostly have repeatedly gone through the Ministry of regulation, grain Road under the jurisdiction of the local note-off or state Government management changes.Waterside Grain Warehouse the main function of positions reflected in the political, military and economic. Political aspects of the supply of capital is mainly the royal family, the bureaucratic need for food to maintain the normal operation of the feudal institutions. Military functions are to protect the frontier troops and war-time demand for food, as well as throughout the country by the Guardian daily expenses. Economically, however, play a regulating food prices to maintain market stability role.The main function of positions in early Ming and Qing dynasties reflected the political, military and economic. Political aspects , was mainly to supply food to of the royal family, the bureaucratic for maintaining the normal operation of the feudal institutions.Military functions were to protect the frontier troops and the demand for food in wartime, as well as the Guardian daily expenses throughout the country. Economically, however, play a role of regulating food prices to maintain market stability .Ming Chu Qi due to a great needs of the state grain transported, so the function of water storage played relatively well on the maintenance of feudal rule and national stability . But with the river blockage ,grain transported to the fold of change, official management of the corruption and the intensification of conflicts within and outside ,the water storage was also gradually becoming decay times. Throughout rise and fall of the Waterside Grain Warehouse of the Ming and Qing dynasties ,in which we could see that the country's political behavior had been a major factor in Waterside Grain Warehouse operations while the people, the market and even the role of economic laws had been minimal. So when we study the Ming and Qing water transport and storage, we should not be limited to water transport and warehouse themselves, but rather to pay attention to the country's political behavior on the impact of storage,and also to link the social reality of the time, from which reveals the laws of historical development.