The Research Of Commodity Price Of Yuan Dynasty

The issue of commodity price is a major event, involving all areas of the national economy,which is a barometer of social and economic development.The issue of commodity price is related to the economic development, people’s living and social harmony, not only an economic issue, but also a major political issue. Since Kublai Khan Annexed the Southern Song Dynasty and reunified the whole of China in Yuan eight years (AD 1271) until Zhu Yuanzhang captured most of Beijing in AD 1638, which lasted less than a hundred years, in addition to the years before Yuan thirteen years (AD 1276),the commodity price were relatively stable, most of the time is the state of inflation seriously. In the Yuan Dynasty,the state had experienced three major price inflation periods and affected the social and economic order severely,which made the people living in pain, so its commodity price was concerned by the academic circles in a long-term.The paper will use the ancient historical materials including official history materials, chorography, jottings and other historical materials,which discusses the related problems about the commodity price.The paper will be organized as follows:The first part,Selecting the most representative of the goods from everyday life in a variety of merchandise goods, such as rice, salt,cloth for exampleand doing longitudinal analysis and rendering these products in the price curve, we can see the fluctuations in prices directly. The Second part, By analyzing the price changes in the graph, to explore the factors affecting prices, which mainly including currency policy, goods monopoly policy and tax policies,unscrupulous businessmen factors, natural disasters,wars and so on. Goods monopoly system in the yuan dynasty, the impact on prices has its positive side, but it is negative, which caused the rise in prices, increasing the income of tax revenue.Businessman hoarding and cornering caused prices rising abnormal.The nature of focusing on stakeholders of businessman and officer-trader collusion are important reasons fueling illegal hoarding for businessman.Disaster is a serious disruption of agricultural production, reducing productivity resulted in market supplies scarce, prices rising.The impact of war on prices in two ways:First of all, the war against the consumption of materials, resulting in a shortage of supplies, the worth of a thing is best known by the want of it, resulting in prices rising inevitably; The second, during the war and postwar, the Yuan government in order to solve a lot of dollars in military spending, choose issue currency without limiting, resulting in inflation, prices rising. The third, By comparing the income and expenditure of the ordinary people in the period of price fluctuations, to explore the relationship between prices and ordinary people’s lives, analyzing the Influence of price fluctuations on life Quality. This paper will select different crowd who living in urban and rural, to explore the impact of price on their quality of life,respectively. In fourth, investigate the Yuan government the ability of controlling the price, in the interest of ruling class,the Yuan government has also carried out the regulation to the increasingly slugging prices containing currency reform and establish other relevant agencies.Currency reform focused on controlling the amount of currency in circulation,the establishment of the stabilization, use paper to pay taxes and replace paper types frequently.The Yuan government also set up relevant institutions to affect price,including set up the ever normal granary, Chang -Ping Salt Bureau, wine vinegar thing Fang,Hui-min pharmacy and so on.Summarize the effect of yuan government to the price control.The Yuan government’s regulation to the prices had a successful sides, of course, exist failures sides. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the government’s regulation had failed, the high price lead to people’s life were difficult to continue,causing widespread social unrest, resulting in the fall of the regime.The last is the summary of the full text, rising prices, inflation is becoming increasingly serious,disrupted the normal social and economic order, resulting in economy on the brink of collapse at the end of the Yuan Dynasty,Accelerating the Yuan Dynasty’s destruction.