论宋朝过分重用、依赖文官的危害

On Bad Effects out of Overreliance on Civilians in the Song Dynasty

宋朝是一个在政治上特别重用、依赖文官士大夫的朝代,但这是对五代历史过度的矫枉过正。本文从六个方面论述了其危害。除了指出造成对外懦弱、外战外行等人们熟知的恶果外,首次从治官的角度论述了文牍主义和繁琐作风对政治生活的侵蚀,容易粉饰太平苟且偷安,推动了权相政治迭出,治官活动与外交活动严重错位等。

Civilians and scholar-bureaucrats were too highly regarded and politically relied upon in the Song Dynasty,and such a phenomena has been considered as an excessive hypercorrection of the history of the Five Dynasties.This paper discusses its bad effects in six aspects,initially probing into,in terms of management of officials,the erosion of political life by the red-tapism and trivial working style,the likelihood of artificial peace and tranquility and seeking temporary ease,the frequent rises of political power of prime ministers and the severe faults in official government and foreign affairs.