明代中期边方纳粮制的解体,究竟是由于叶淇变法即改行运司纳银制,还是因势要占窝、王府奏买食盐、太监织造奏讨盐引,以致造成大规模内外宫贩卖私盐所致的问题,殊值讨论。迄今为止,治明盐史者,大都依明代官修史书,将边方纳粮制解体归咎户部尚书叶淇的所谓“变法”,唯日本学者藤井宏另持一说,认为与叶淇无关。本文仅就“势要占窝”之一侧面,具体考察势要占窝的形态与边方纳粮制解体的关系。一、势要奏请开中势要奏请开中,起源于势要家人纳粮中盐贩鬻。按明制:在户部奏请开中盐粮则例公布后,势要官员家人按其规定上纳粮米,以获取贩盐权,这当与一般开中商人纳米中盐,本质并无区别。问题是,达官显要之家人倘若染指贩盐,势必凭藉声势,侵攘民利。因此,洪武时即规定监临官及四品以上官员家人,不许中盐营利,其目的不言而 Whether the disintegration of the grain-handling system at the mid-Ming dynasty was due to a change in the law of Ye Qi, namely the transfer of the Shiner’s silver system or the need to occupy the foothold, the purchase of salt by the palace, the eunuchs, Salt caused by the problem, special discussion. So far, most of the people who cure the salt history, mostly according to the Ming dynasty official history books, blame the so-called “change method” that the grain side disintegrates and the grain department disrupts the Shang Yeji. The only Japanese scholar Fujii Akihiro holds that there is nothing to do with Ye Qi. This article only on the “potential to occupy the nest,” one side, a specific survey of potential to occupy the nest shape and grain side disintegration of the relationship. First, the trend to play Please open the trend to play Please open the middle, originated in the situation to the family to accept salt in food grain trafficking. According to the rule of law: In the household sector, please open the case of salt was announced after the case, officials and family members want to impose on the basis of its provisions of rice, in order to obtain the right to sell salt, which should be opened with the general business of salt in the nano, no difference . The problem is that if Dagang’s most prominent family members are accused of trafficking in salt, they will certainly cling to the people’s interest by relying on the momentum. Therefore, when the Hongwu Provisional Officials and families of officials above the fourth grade, no salt for profit, its purpose is not to say