唐十道遣使续议——天授至景龙

Commissioners of Ten Circuits in Tang's Tianshou and Jinglong Reigns

贞观十道从设置之初到武周天授初年,从遣使人数与十道道数不相对应发展到开始完全对应,但按十道遣使的原则一直行之有效。十道遣使分为诸道大使和御史出使,御史出使又分为左右台出使与监察御史出使,在厘清其中区别的基础上,反观学界几成定论的从武周天授十道存抚使到中宗神龙十道巡察使到睿宗景云十道按察使的演变轨迹,可以发现十道存抚使与十道按察使、十道采访使属于同一层级的诸道大使,而十道巡察使则属于御史出使的另一系统,二者均以十道作为最基本的分遣标准与地理观念骨架。

There was a discrepancy between the number of commissioners and that of the circuits set up in the early Zhenguan reign. Then in the Empress Wu's Tianshou reign both were identical with each other. The officials commissioned by the imperial court were comprised of the commissioners supervising circuits and the assigned imperial censors. Censors were from both the central cabinet and the highest Censorate. Investigating the history of the Ten Circuits' commissioners in the reigns of Tianshou,Shenlong and Jingyun,the present paper finds that these imperial commissioners could be divided into two groups.