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Su Chuo
Western Wei institutional reformer and chancellor who formulated the Six Edicts and budgetary accounting foundations of the Guanlong bloc.
Mural guide
In a riverside storehouse, sacks of grain and white salt blocks are stacked high; workers weigh grain in a basket hung from a large steelyard, others carry sacks along a plank onto a barge at the right, and a clerk sits at an abacus beside bundled tally sticks.
Also known as Zi Lingchuo · Minister Su Chuo · Liutiao Zhaoshu Zuozhe
Su Chuo (498 CE–546 CE) was the preeminent institutional architect of Western Wei under Yuwen Tai. He authored the famous Six Edicts and pioneered modern bureaucratic accounting and civil governance systems.
Life and times
Dates 498 CE–546 CE
EraNorthern and Southern
- 550Establishment of Fubing SystemPrecursor