Market Exchange Bureau set up with Inner Treasury money
The Song shi basic annals record that on the bingwu day of the third lunar month of Xining 5 (AD 1072) a Market Exchange Bureau (市易務) was set up with money from the Inner Treasury (內藏庫).
What this does and does not establish
The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. The annals do not state where the bureau was located or how much money was used.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Economy and exchange
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 熙寧 5 (熙寧五年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 3
- How we use it
- Year assigned from the lunar month under which the annals enter the item; the sexagenary day was not converted to a Julian day.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Lunar month 3 of 熙寧 5 = Julian 1072-03-23 to 1072-04-20, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 熙寧5.html (sha256 7c2388b3d54d…); the whole month lies in AD 1072.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Song shi (History of Song), basic annals
Toghto (脫脫) et al., Yuan court historiographers
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Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
丙午，以內藏庫錢置市易務。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On bingwu, using money from the Inner Treasury, a Market Exchange Bureau was set up.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Song shi, juan 15, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2285105). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
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