The Rich Class And Economic-legal System Reform Of The Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty is the most developed economic period in Chinese ancienthistory，its economic legal system is relatively complete. But the country is faced withthe circumstances that be lack of financial strength.Choosing social importent forcesas the angel of view, we may be able to get new enlightenment.As the backbone forceof Song society, the rich class plays an important leading position in social andeconomic life, and has a great effect on the change of national economy legal system.This paper pays attention to the social origin of legal system transformation.The paperincludes the foreword,text and conclusion which discuss this problem.The forewordincludes two aspects to analysis the academic and realistic significance of thetopic:the rich class has a decisive economic status,and legal system reform of SongDynasty is extremely innovative. In addition， the foreword summarizes theresearch,method and innovation of this paper.The text is is divided into five parts. The first part discusses the historical originsand the reasons for the rise. In the late period of Tang Dynasty, the householdregistration policy gives birth to the rich class, when the liberal economic policiesmake many changes that rich class is rapidly becoming the backbone of thecommunity, especially in the economic field, they are the core of civil economic lifeand production, bringing an unprecedented change for traditional economic concepts.The second to the fourth part discuss how important the rich class is in thereform processes of different economic laws. The second part describes the legalsystem of agricultural management which includes two aspects of land managementand farmland irrigation conservancy. The pursuit of individual economic interestsconsolidates the private land system, at the same time as they occupy the dominantposition in agricultural production, tenancy contract that is a new production relationbecomes the most effective policy arrangement；rich people improve the conditions ofproduction, and actively respond to the government policy,they play strong supporting roles in the economy. It follows the conclusion that rich class is the economicfoundation of the reform of agricultural production management legal system. Thethird part is the change in the handicraft industry law and commercial legal. Richpeople need a lot of handicraft workers, the government have to change labor slaveryto employment；the government monopoly causes huge hindrance to the developmentof the rich class and the economic process of whole society. Therefore, governmentuses reform to active handicraft market. In the field of business, in order to protect thecommercial interests of circulation,the ruling group changes commercial legislation.And the rich class becomes the protection target of the reform of industrial andcommercial legal system. The fourth part is about the vocational service legal systemreform. The early policy damages interests of rich people.The rulers abolish old lawsand exempt vocational service taxes to cater to the interests of rich class.It mobilizesthe social enthusiasm for the rich.The rich class becomes the direct cause ofvocational service legal system reform.The fifth part describes enlightenment that the rich class influence nationaleconomy legal system reform.The rich class has beneficial effects on the legalsystem,but also causes the social gap between rich and poor. Through the abovediscussions,we can get references about economy legal system reform at present.