A Study On Local Salt In Henan Province In 1920-30s

The local salt was an abnormal economical product in partial countryside of Henan province in 1920-30s, which belonged to the unlicensed salt from the strict significance, but it had played a very important role in the partial countryside social life. It did not only make the farmers in the salty area be able to maintain the normal life when they had to pay heavy taxes in their barren land, but also had satisfied the demands to the salt from the poor farmers in other parts .But the local salt seriously affected the sale of the official salt and harmed government's tax revenue. Therefore, the local salt and the official salt became a pair of contradictory commodity, which became an acute and irreconcilable class contradictory between the farmer and the government because of the basic interest. With this contradiction, the two class had carried on relax and intense contest. And because of irreconcilable contradictory, the contest finally became the class struggle which led by the Communist Party of China, namely the local salt question. This article has discussed the questions of local salt in Henan in 1920-30s from the three aspects.I. the surveys about local salt in Henan in 1920-30s. which included the distributed areas and the reasons that created this kind of distributed areas; The local salt production , the sale, manufacture method, the output, the selling region, the sales numbers, as well as the reasons why the local salt sold best in countryside ; the function and the influence on salt production areasII. Government's policies and measures about the local salt. Because the local salt seriously influenced the country financial revenue, the government held the manner which severely forbid, and made severe measures to forbid. But because it related the lives of the farmers, the government had taken some improved measures to the local salt, but the results were not certainly big because of its mistakes. III. the struggles from the farmers who producted the local salt. The government's coercive policy on the local salt had aroused the farmers'revolt. But at the beginning, the farmers struggled the government spontaneously, and the scope is not broad, the goal is unitary, the relation between them was not widespread. Afterwards, the Communist Party of China used the turning point and led the farmers to overthrew the government.