The Study Of Jin Zou Yuan In The Song Dynasty

Jin Zou Yuan was a central authority which transferred information between central andlocal, it stemmed from the middle Tang Dynasty, followed Tang and Five-Dynasties, Songlocality set up Jou Zou Yuan in capital. Because of drawbacks in Jin Zou Yuan and the need tostrengthen centralization, Tai Zong reorganized jinzouyuan in capital. Jou Zou Yuan becamecentral authority which transmitted information.The change of Jin Zou Yuan was the result ofpolitical reality, it had closely relations with Strengthen centralization and wrested localpower.Jin Zou Yuan became transmit information agency after Tai-zong reorganizing it. It wasresponsible for transmitting Zhang Zou and assizes including emperor, Sansheng PrivyCouncil and other central authorities. According to the nature of the documents and servicelocations, Jin Zou Yuan dealt with the documents, and passed them to local and state agenciesthrough delivery stations. It also received documents of local present to central, classed thedocuments and submitted to central government departments, respectively. Releasing theofficial newspaper of central political in order to all levels’ officials can understand politicaldecisions and appointments. In addition Jin Zou Yuan was related to delivery station closely.The officials of Jin Zou Yuan was mainly composed of senior officials and Jin Zouofficers.Senior officials had capital officials and San Ban Envoys, they appointed by TangChu, recommendation, hereditary and other ways, primarily responsible for management andsupervision the deliver of Jin Zou Yuan’sdocuments. Jin Zou officers are junior Xu Li, theywere mainly selected by hereditary and self-recommendation, they were responsible for thedocuments copy, transmit, storage, etc. Jin Zou Yuan had many shortcomings in thedocuments deliver, such as Jin Zou officials disclosed confidential documents, fabricatedincidents and confused others, so the court formulated the relevant legal measures to ensurethe safety of the documents deliver.Due to the special position of Jin Zou Yuan. It was closely related to politics in Song.During Renzong domination, the conservative forces fought against the new bureaucracywhich headed by Fan Zhong Yan through “Case of Jin Zou Yuan”. The case directly resulted of the failure of the political reform during Qingli Emperor. Beside,due to Jin Zou Yuanplayed an important role in the documents operation, thus the Prime Minister often interferedthe way of document operationin order to achieve their own political purposes.