The Southern Song government set up Jianghuai and other departments to manage mining and metallurgy affairs. In the second year of Guangxu, Shao Xi established Jianghuai Hubei Metallurgical and Casting Department, which was solely responsible for iron ore mining and iron coin casting of Jiangnan West Road, Huainan West Road and Jinghu North Road. This institution was established in view of the sharp drop in copper coin casting since the Southern Song Dynasty and the serious leakage of copper coins into the territory of the Jin Dynasty. As early as the last years of Emperor Gaozong, the government had banned copper coins from replacing iron coins in the Huaihe River Basin. 1 170, Xiaozong Avenue, which lasted for six years. In order to ensure the circulation of iron coins in the Southern Song Dynasty, form an isolated area and prevent the outflow of copper coins, the court sent Xu Zizhong of Sinong Temple to deal with the cast iron coins in Huaixi Drum. His next official appointed officials to look for the development of iron ore seedlings. There are also iron money supervision, such as Zhou Shu Tongan Safety Supervision, qi zhou Qichun Safety Supervision and Huangzhou Seventh Construction Safety Supervision. Later, there were prisons in Daye, Susong, Hanyang and Dingcheng. Although the rise and fall time of each warlord is different, and the amount of money cast each year is also different, it has been transporting iron money to Jianghuai area for a long time. For example, from the seventh year of Xichun to the first half of the second year of Shao Xi, Tong Hechun invested more than 400 million US dollars. Seven years ago, it was decided by other directors, and there was no number. At first, each penetration of iron coins weighed four catties and twelve taels, and later it increased to five catties and eight taels. If the average annual casting capacity is 400,000 tons during the ten years from Xichun No.7 to Shao Xi No.2, and the weight of each casting capacity is 4 12 tons, then the annual iron consumption is at least 6.5438+0.9 million tons, plus the consumption of iron money in the smelting and casting process and the increase of materials in the later period. It is estimated that the annual iron consumption of these two prisons alone should exceed 2 million tons. At first, apart from Xu Zi, who was appointed as the official in charge of iron ore mining and smelting in the above areas, no separate organization was established. In the second year of Guangxu, in order to strengthen the control of iron coin production in this area, the Song government formally established Jianghuai Hubei Iron Metallurgical Company. The highest official of Chusen Department of Jianghuai Smelting Industry in Hubei Province is promotion. Sometimes, this position can be held concurrently by an official of the Supervision Department, such as Cao Chen of Huainan West Road and the arraignment of punishment. In the second year of Shao Xi, the first official appointed was Liu Wei, who had full-time subordinate officials: members of office affairs, in charge of Wuwei Military Company. There are two supervisors, one is Zhou Shu and the other is Zhou Shu, who are responsible for the monetary supervision of Zhou Shu and Gwangju. One member is a company in qi zhou, and he is also in charge of qi zhou, Hanyang and Xingguo Army. According to the above records, the ship administration at that time succeeded the Fumin Supervision in Daye County of Xingguo Army, which was established by the Tiediankeng Metallurgy Department of Jianghuai Road when it was in charge of the mining, metallurgy and coinage of trunk roads for six years. At this time, it was also placed under the management of Mori Department of Jianghuai Hubei Metallurgical Department. Generally speaking, the organization of Jianghuai Hubei Metallurgical Company is relatively stable. When Ye Ji was promoted by Huaixi, he went to Huaixi to ask for iron money for five things, thinking that Jianghuai Hubei Iron and Metallurgical Company had invited more than 30 things, all of which had been implemented. Besides, selling iron and charcoal has more feet than copper pits everywhere, and it is necessary to find seedlings. The newly established official leisure is lengthy and useless. Every road has its own supervisor's responsibility, so they have to give some advice to Jianghuai Hubei. Therefore, Ye Ji even begged for mercy and negotiated with Zaizhi. Within a few months, he joined hands with non-conscripts, in favor of the power system and not in favor of inferiority. Yulie Wang hopes to abolish the money company of Jianghuai Hubei Metallurgical Foundry Company and hand over the authority of this institution to the supervision company in Wali.
The above two records show that this institution of Jianghuai Metallurgical Company still plays an important management role in iron ore mining and coin casting activities in Jianghuai and Eelsen Road from Ye Ji to Dingjing, Song Lizong. Sichuan mining management. In the early Southern Song Dynasty, the mining and metallurgy industry in Sichuan still followed the management mode of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was not included in the jurisdiction of Jianghuai and other provinces at first. During the period of North Song Zhezong and Hui Zong, Sichuan Zhulu once had a short-term full-time official or full-time organization responsible for mining. In other periods, the transportation department of Sichuan Road was also responsible for mining. After entering the Southern Song Dynasty, in August of the sixth year of Xiaozong Road, he sent a letter to the Department of Transportation and Administration of Lizhou Road, allowing the judge to transport it out of Lizhou Road, and mentioned the request of Zhao Gong who was casting money. On this road, he appointed Shaoxing prison officials, prison gate officials, Taurus inspection officials, Taurus iron officials and other officials, and ordered the transportation department to provide posts every quarter. This imperial edict shows that the money smelting work of Lizhou Road Pit is still managed by the officials of this road transport company, and the subordinate officials such as Jinniu Inspector and Jinniu Iron Officer are in charge of mining and metallurgy full-time. Two years later, the imperial edict of the main road in July of the eighth year clearly mentioned that Lizhou Road had recommended Su Senji's processing, inspection, pit-stepping, smelting and casting officials and allowed the Road Supervision Department to recommend them, indicating that a management organization for mining, smelting and casting money independent of the Transportation Department had been established at this time. However, in the first month of the ninth year of Song Xiaozong trunk line, under the proposal of newly appointed Wang Ji and Li Dazheng, the Ministry of Industry approved Jiangnan, Huainan, Zhejiang, Tongchuan and Lizhou roads to be assigned to Raozhou Company, and Jiangxi, Xiangbei, Erguang and Fujian roads to be assigned to Ganzhou Company. The two companies still have their own advantages. The revised regulations show that after nine years on the main road, the acquisition and production of Fulu Road and Lizhou Road in Tongchuan, Sichuan Province were finally merged into the unified management of Jianghuai Road System Department, and the specific affairs were under the jurisdiction of Raozhou Branch. In this way, the jurisdiction of Jianghuai and other road preparation departments has expanded from No.9 road to 1 1. When we arrived in Song Lizong, our company was still in charge of the mining and metallurgical industry in Zone 1 1. Xu Yinglong mentioned in the official regulations that the whole company has always had the power of 1 1, and its role is relatively light. These eleven roads include Tongchuan Fu Road and Lizhou Road. V. Establishment and Management of Grass-roots Mining and Metallurgy Organizations The names and scales of grass-roots management organizations of mining and metallurgy are different, including supervision, metallurgy, service, field and pit. The first chapter analyzes these institutions from the perspective of production scale and distribution area, here from the perspective of government management. The top officials of various mine sites are called supervisors, who are mainly responsible for supervising the mining and smelting process of minerals, purchasing products and paying taxes, as well as various chores in the mine. There are specialized management officials under the supervisor, and some important mines also set up patrol inspection and rank officers and soldiers to prevent riots. Generally speaking, these mines belong to the management systems of state and county electric pit smelting and casting companies and transportation companies, but with the emergence of various concurrent management systems, the membership rights will also change.