Baojia System Organization

Timeline

1. 1070–1074Kaifeng and surrounding circuits · Northern SongDuring Wang Anshi's reforms the baojia system was promulgated, grouping ten households into mutually responsible bao with bao chiefs and jia heads collecting taxes, maintaining security, and organizing off-season training to reduce recruitment expenditures.
2. 1081–1085Hexi-Longyou and Shaanxi circuits · Shaanxi CircuitDuring Emperor Shenzong's wars against Western Xia, baojia in border prefectures and counties performed patrols, grain transport, and wartime mobilization, cooperating with the xiang and imperial armies to defend the frontier, extending baojia from inland security to border defense support.
3. 1086–1090Circuits of the Northern Song · Northern SongAfter the Yuanyou restoration the old faction took power; baojia military training slackened somewhat but the organizational framework was not abolished, inland baojia still bearing joint-liability security duties while border areas maintained basic defensive groupings.