Some Problems Of The Song Dynasty Military Spending

In the generation of Sung, the military fund keep on higher is a problem that has troubled the emperor and his ministers. Zhao Song adopted the widespread mercenary troops system, government kept a great deal of troops. The public finance income although take a lead than before , but it still can't satisfy the military expenses .The politics , economy and military of the Sung Dynasty ane factors that they need more fund endless. In regard to a military expenses of Sung, the academic circles has already made some researches, but thorough discussion aimed at the source , expend, manage and number of the problem of the military expenses, so far, belong to the blank still. Therefore, this text discussed the details of these problems.The high frequency of the war lead to the source of the military expenses of Sung involve very various :Two taxes, emperor's treasure house, salt tea wine benefits and so on.The expenditure of the military expenses mainly points three aspects:Provide for the officers and men, destrier and drill, among them, the soldier rewards to write in first part. The soldier of the peacetime and warfare rewards are to differ very big. In normal times, the hard working has especially pay. At the festival, they will get awards. But in the wartime only has a great achievement and then can acquire the award for battle achievement as severaltimes as normal.For the management of the military expenses, north Sung and south Sung are different . Sansi first in the central organization of north Sung, after is a department named hubu, and Zhuanyunshi supervised transport of army provisions in country.There are other organizations all work tightly around providing the ample military expenses .At south Sung, Zonglingsuo and Fayunshi are the important management organizations.Concerning the number problem of the military expenses, every period has the very big difference, an expenses of soldier's a year of early year of north Sung onlies have more than ten Guan, but arrived south Sung widespread add to 100 Guan above. The military expenses of the generation of Sung, total keep the tendency as follows: south Sung higher than north Sung, cavalry and navy higher than infantry.