Legal Perspective Of The Huizhou Salt Merchants

Huizhou merchants refers to the clan as the link between the form of the Huizhou merchants group, this group initiation in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, grew up in the Tang and Song dynasties, a period of great prosperity in that the decline in the late Qing Dynasty. Huizhou to help is to help the development of a well-known; Salt Tradesmen's rise is an important foundation for the prosperity of Huizhou to help in the main to the development of Huizhou Salt Tradesmen forces. Huizhou to help Salt Merchants is a major groups, Huizhou is to help develop and flourish with the backbone of this paper is the choice of Huizhou Salt Tradesmen this group as a study.In this paper, the author use the law as the perspective of the evolution of the Huizhou Salt Tradesmen the role and impact of development. This paper includes an objective level that is social status, the Huizhou Salt Tradesmen's career development and the subjective dimension that is the legal awareness of Huizhou Salt Merchants. Huizhou Salt Merchants Group formed, prosperity and decline, with the evolution of the related state law has a direct and close relationship, and even can be said is that the legal and national policy changes led to the various groups that the changes. Based on relevant national laws and economic policy changes for clues on the Huizhou Salt Tradesmen and social advancement of the cause of the rise and fall, and reveals the state laws and policies in the development of Huizhou Salt Merchants in the process of influence and role. Ming and Qing Dynasties businessmen's social status than the previous generation there has been a certain increase, and Huizhou Salt Merchants as a close attachment to help state power, social status, are gaining unprecedented upgrade. Huizhou Salt Merchants donate satisfied through donations, as well as their children pass imperial examination entering political stratum, and so to get some kind of special status and access to lucrative profits. From Emperor Wanli's Reign of the Ming Dynasty to Emperor Daoguang's Reign of the Qing Dynasty, national laws and Salt economic policy in a series of major changes, and the rise and decline Salt Merchants, all with a series of legal changes are closely related. The Kaizhong Law opened the implementation and evolution of the formation of Huizhou Salt Merchants created conditions, Wanli 1956 Telegraph Yun reform for the rise of Huizhou Salt Merchants provided an opportunity, the Huizhou Salt legal policy of Kangxi and Qianlong for the further development of the cause of Salt Merchants played an important role, the reform of the 15th year in Daoguang votes in the salt law reform Huizhou Salt Tradesmen operating loss of salt monopoly, Since then Huizhou merchants to decline.Because salt is a special kind of business, its national production distribution has detailed provisions, So in Salt operating Huizhou Salt Merchants must have a wealth of relevant legal knowledge, This facilitate their operations, improve their social status are quite good. the salt traders from the clans and families of the education and training"law-abiding stepped out to borrow", they have strong awareness of the law, Most of salt traders can do business in accordance with the law. Huizhou merchants there have always been good characteristics of First Instance, and the Huizhou Salt Merchants is no exception. They understand and are good at using the legal instrument, In the time of the contradiction and the conflict with between the government authorities as well as the colleague, they can maintains own rights and interests through the law and the moral rule.