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AD 1071Placed in a yearEast AsiaEconomy and exchange
The Song shi basic annals record that on the first day (renzi) of the tenth lunar month of Xining 4 (AD 1071) the law of assigned services (差役法) was abolished and the people were made to pay cash so that services could be hired.
Limits: The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. This is one step in a reform the annals enter over several months: under the twelfth lunar month of Xining 3 (January 1071 by the Academia Sinica table) they note that the service-exemption law (免役法) was first put into effect, and under the eighth month of Xining 4 that officials were sent to assess the new service law in Shaanxi (陝西差役新法) and its benefits and harms to the people. This entry gives no rates or regional details.
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AD 1071Placed in a yearEast AsiaCulture and knowledge
The Song shi basic annals record that on the first day (dingsi) of the second lunar month of Xining 4 (AD 1071) the poetry-and-rhapsody examinations and the Classics (mingjing) and other fields were abolished, jinshi candidates were to be examined on the meaning of the classics, discourses and policy questions, and school officials were established for the Jingdong-xi, Shaanxi, Hedong and Hebei circuits to instruct.
Limits: The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. The reading of 京東西 as the Jingdong and Jingxi circuits is a working interpretation; the entry does not say how or when the change was carried out.
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