明代应天巡抚辖区考辨——兼论“飞地”承天府的归属

明代的应天巡抚,直接渊源自洪熙元年设于南直、浙江二省的巡抚。至宣德五年初设时,其辖区应为南直隶应天等十一府州,而非以往学界认为的仅辖苏州、松江、常州三府。正统间,因浙江巡抚的废置,加之出于综合督理太湖流域税粮、水利事务的需要,其辖区遂长期扩展至浙西杭州、嘉兴、湖州三府,统十四府州之地。湖广承天府在嘉靖十四年后一直属湖广巡抚辖区,从未隶应天巡抚管辖。学界所习称的嘉靖十四年至隆庆初应天巡抚一度辖有承天府这一“飞地”的说法,并不足以凭信。这一观点的产生,源于研究者受到了现行《明世宗实录》中相关记载的误导。

Textual Research on the Administrative Areas of the Yingtian Governor in the Ming Dynasty,also Discussing the Belonging of the Chengtian Enclave

The office of the Yingtian Governor originated directly from the Governor of Nanzhili and Zhejiang Province, both of which were set up in the first year of Hongxi. When it was officially set up in the fifth year of Xuande, its governing areas should be Yingtian and other ten prefectures rather than only the three prefectures of Suzhou, Songjiang and Changzhou as considered in traditional researches. During the period of Zhengtong, due to the abolishment of the Zhejiang Governor, as well as the need of supervising grain tax collection and water conservancy in the Taihu Lake Basin, the administrative areas of the Yingtian Governor was extended to Western Zhejiang for a long time. Thus, a total of fourteen prefectures were under its administration. As for the prefecture of Chengtian, it had been under the administration of the Huguang Governor after the fourteenth year of Jiajing, but never taken over by the Yingtian Governor. The opinion that Chengtian had been a detached enclave of the Yingtian Governor from the fourteenth year of Jiajing to the beginning of Longqing is not credible. Researchers holding this opinion might be misled by the related records in the current version of the Records of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty.