明代户部尚书任职情况分析

An Analysis of the Appointment of Ministers in the Board of Revenue and Population in Ming Dynasty

明代户部尚书的任职情况大致可以反映出有明一代270余年的国家政治状况。通过对明代最高统治者在户部的用人政策、户部尚书的籍贯分布、任职情况与结局等问题进行分析,揭示出明代户部机构权力虽较历代有所扩大,但亦是在有限的范围内展开的。同时明代在户部的用人政策与现实之间的差距、户部尚书任职的短暂以及他们大多不得善终的结局,也暴露出当时的政治体制中存在的问题。

The appointment of ministers in the Board of Revenue and Population reflects the political situation of Ming dynasty for over 270 years. This paper, through analyzing the appointment policy, native places of ministers, their office performance and final results, reveals that although the Board of Revenue and Population of Ming dynasty enjoys more power than that of formal dynasties, it is only in a limited scale. Meanwhile, the distance between appointment policy and reality, the fact that most of the ministers didn’ t wind up properly join to expose the problems existing in the political system at that time.