Wo-T'o Commerce And The Society Of The Yuan Dynasty

Meng—Yuan Dynasty was a special dynasty in Chinese history, it was the first unified feudal dynasty established by the minority. As the conqueror,in addition to strengthening the rule of force, they also adopted the policy of national division, to won over Semu as their help to gover the country. Semu were used by the Mongolian,because they especially the Hui people are good at business, financial and know things about of city. As the support of the Mongolian nobles, they grew on the roots and developed quickly in the land of China, played an important role in the Yuan Dynasty's political and economic arena.Wo-T'o commerce was closely with Mongol nobles and Wo-T'o merchants.Due to the close relationship with Mongolian nobles, Wo-T'o merchants often had a special status that officials and businessmen, they have great influence during the business practices of the Yuan Dynasty. Because of the society was unstable when the Mongolia and the early Yuan Dynasty, Wo-T'o merchants took advantage of this opportunity in engageing money leaders and exploiting people's money, making the unstable social even more confusion. The activity that Wo-T'o merchants were engageing were also good for the economy of the Yuan Dynasty. The commerce trade that Wo-To merchants were engaged promotioned of the development of the handicraft and commodity economy of Yuan Dynasty, Wo-T'o merchants affected and disrupted the normal society relying on privilege, but they also did a lot of positive and useful things in the course of its existence on the Yuan Dynasty.