The Study On Kaifeng Prefects In The Northern Song Dynasty

After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty gradually,since the end of the late Tang military governorship historical situation, and followed the Five Dynasties, still keeping the Kaifeng as the capital of the empire.Throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, with the matured of the empire’s political and economy, Gyeonggi areas were still in the control of Kaifeng Fu despite they got ongoing new adjustments since the Five Dynasties. Kaifeng has thus formed a relatively complete system of administration, which the administrative institutions led to the prefect, assistant judge, administered six Cao and military organizations.Kaifeng prefects as the head of the country’s first local government, is also an exemplary national officials. Their conditions of employment were also quite high, usually by high literacy, high qualifications and relatively young politician, but generally relatively short term. Kaifeng prefect has a universal executive power in the whole community of Kaifeng principlely, including civil affairs, public security, penalty and many other aspects. But in the specific administrative process, Kaifeng prefects have to complete some special mission assigned by the court, except that, they spend a lot of energy handling the affairs of Dongjing.Therefore, to maintain law and order and the Dongjing trial prison case also became the main task, In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang anshi presided over political reform, Kaifeng became the test site boundary of the new law, the new party people in order to successfully implement the new law, the old party on the opening post of prefect of fierce competition and victory; Hanwei as a representative of the pro-dimensional Reform school prefect in the rise and the early implementation of the new law has given strong support. In the Jingkang ages of the Northern Song Dynasty, Dongjing gets into an opponent, and the Song court surrendered in a short time, The prefects of Kaifeng also completely become the tool of the Jin army which plundered population, wealth of the Dongjing city. To explore the lessons of this history combinated with Kaifeng prefects, has a certain significance for the study of the Song civil service system.