在中国地方行政制度史中,作为宋代最高级行政区的路,被称为一种“复式政区”①。这种制度的特点之一,就是路级政区没有单一的行政长官,而是由转运司、提点刑狱司、安抚使司和提举常平司共同分管一路行政事务。这种形式对后来的地方行政管理制度产生了一定影响,例如明代就仿效宋代,将地方最高一级行政区的权力分散给都指 In the history of the local administrative system in China, the road that served as the most advanced administrative region of the Song Dynasty was called a “double administrative district.” One of the characteristics of such a system is that there is no single chief executive in a road-level administrative district. Instead, the Transport Division and the Department of Prisoners Prosecutors appease the Secretary and the Bureau of Justice Chang Ping-ping to take the charge of administrative affairs. This form of later local administrative system had a certain impact, for example, the Ming Dynasty to follow the example of the Song Dynasty, the power of the highest administrative divisions scattered to the means