In Mid And Late Ming Dynasty Huizhou Silk Share The Dispute With The Local Finance

In recent years, Hui Studies centering on Huizhou has been hot in historical researches,yet the issue of local finance in Huizhou is less mentioned.Among multitudinous documents,Silk Book by Cheng Renqing is a relaitively new historical document in which there are substantial charging documents recording the whole process of conflicts led by the particular silk tax in Huizhou from the fourth year of Longqing to the first year of Wanli.So far,the academia has paid little attention to the issue above.Thus this article is to explore every aspect of the silk conflicts andlocal finance at that time by refering to the historical documents including local chronicles and Huizhou Fu-I Ch’uan-shu.In general, the government of Huizhou in Ming Dynasty satisfied8779Cloth silk shared by subordinates six counties, the fact is borne by Shexian, but also recognize the dynasty two centuries satisfied. Longqing Era,Shexian raised objections satisfied the requirements of the other five counties, and five counties were rejected, both sides of the origin of silk tax and financial burdens six counties were fierce debate, unfortunately, is the origin of the Ming Dynasty silk tax has taken historical records, which brought great trouble to dispute resolution. In the process, Huizhou office magistrate somewhat do nothing, just blindly to nanjing for help, increased Yin Zhengmao intervention, ministers and solutions for the rapidly, angered counties people lead to catastrophe, it is cabinet records of Zhang Juzheng wanted to see the situation to dissuade enemies, these a series of reasons make silk is difficult to get timely solve that lasted nearly a decade.Produced in the process of the focus of this article analyze the silk dispute reflects the defects of financial management in the Ming dynasty, the disjunction of local fiscal management, making it local officials on the financial management in a passive situation, on in a powerless position, to do nothing. Silk, of course, the resulting dispute, the result is a win-win situation between the central government and local government, Huizhou ease the financial burden of two thousand five hundred and thirty-two, from the side that the country’s fiscal strength and a whip method successfully.