试论唐地方监察权力的弱化

Weakening of Local Supervisory Power in Tang Dynasty

唐前期地方监察效率较高,确保了中央对地方的有效控制。但唐中后期,巡使地方使臣演变为常住地方使臣,并进而变为地方主官,集行政权和监察权于一身,侵夺了监察机构对地方行政的监察权。其根本原因是唐监察机构的独立组织建制和独立行使职权的机制被破坏。

Supervision was efficient in the earlier stage of the Tang Dynasty, which ensured the control of the central feudal government over the local ones. However, the supervisory system was damaged in middle and later stages the officials assigned to making inspection tours to local places evolved into resident officials and further became chief local officials, who took over both administrative and supervisory powers, and enjoined infringement on and seized the supervisory power from the supervisory organ. The root cause was the fact that the independent organization franework and the mechanism of independent exercise of power by the supervisory organ had been damaged.