Research Into The Control Of The Minoirty In West Of The Sichuan Area Of North Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty implement jimi control in southwest ethnic area, set up jimistates and county, point officers among the leaders of minorities, and the position canbe hereditary. To respect the customer of the minority, the Song Dynasty carry outflexible policies in ethnic area in west sichuan, give them favorable policies on thehabits and laws. When deal with the conflicts and disputes between the minorities, thegovernor prefer to reconcile and comfort the arguments, rather than the war to solve theproblem. High competence is demanded to the local officers, as there are manyminorities in the southwest, the social conditions is more complex than central plains.They have to familiar with the local conditions and customers, shrewd and competent.Hard and complex conditions can reflect a person’s nature and temperament, their upsand downs、rewards and punishment are all associate with ethnic affairs.To solve the random of the minorities, the North Song Dynasty use” kind hearted”policy in ethnic area. In most conditions, the governor is very cautious to deal with therandom of the minorities, not to expand the affair and solve the problems as much aspossible. In order to guarantee the peace and stability, the governor give the orderrepeatedly to forbid to kill the minorities at random, kind hearted treat the minority. Inorder to prevent the minority revolt again after they obeyed, the Song Dynasty oftenhostage the minority leader’s child, or order young men of minorities walk in front ofthe army. The states and counties in ethnic area often built “baozhai” to prevent trouble.There are often have large and small military conflict and struggle during the defense tothe minority, most of them have been brutal repression by Song Dynasty.Song Dynasty also give minority favorable policy in economic, carry out tea-horse trade, usetea to exchange minorities’ horse which is shortage in central plains. Because many conflictswere cause by economic gap, more reward to the minorities who came to tribute is animportant economic measure to control the minority.In addition, in ethnic area, SongDynasty will reduce the tax of the minority.