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Abstract

This article examines the basic structure and character of Provincial Command System in the light of the Huaixi Military Commissioner Wu Shaocheng’s stance after the Jianzhong Incident. Wu Shaocheng was one of the Autonomous Provinces, but had the different side from them. Namely, he made efforts to change the conditions rather than to maintain the existing situations. Of Course, other Autonomous Provinces did not intactly accept the present circumstances, but differed in manner of ways. In the fifteen year of Zhenyuan Period, Dezong ordered seventeen Provincial Commands to suppress Wu Shaocheng. This was the only large-scale military mobilization of Dezong after the Jianzhong Incident. Autonomous Provinces such as Chengde, Youzhou, Weibo, and Ziqing were included in this military action, but it showed Dezong’s limitation because they had the possibility of conspiracy to expand their power by taking advantage of the turmoil of Wu Shaocheng. In May of the following year, when the Tang army was thoroughly defeated by Wu Shaocheng, Shannandongdao Military Commissioner Yudi wanted to occupy the south of Hanshui. This is important to show that when the balance of power between the Tang Dynasty and the Provincial Command was broken, anyone could attempt treason. In October of the same year, Wu Shaocheng suddenly withdrew his troops because his land could be come under threat by other Provincial Commands, and in the same month the war come to an end as he intended. The failure of Dezong’s suppression of Wu Shaocheng indicated that the Tang Dynasty had not dominated the Autonomous Provinces yet and the latter had advantage over the former.