The Study Of Hedong Salt Merchants In Salt Business Of QianLong Domination

The Salt tax is an important public finance income in China in ancient times. The salt policy is an important economic policy as a result the salt industry history research is an important aspect of the research in Chinese economic history .The function of the salt merchants is magnitude for ancient feudalistic society economy of china. Located the Shanxi province, Hedong salt lake is an important area for the salt production in ancient times of China. Hedong salt merchants play count for much role in the Hedong salt market. In Ming and Qing dynasty, because of the increment of the sea salt yield, the position of Hedong salt lake has to descend in the whole country, but the salt tax in Hedong area is still one of the important sources of the public finance income for Qing dynasty. At the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the salt farmland of Hedong returns the merchants to produce. Manufacture merchants and transport merchants separated management. Manufacture merchant hired the worker to production and transport merchants take charge of carried salt. During the reign of Qianlong, Hedong salt yin leads to amount to 600 000 match more than 140,000,000 jin, sell toward three provinces of Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan to be close to 120 state Counties. The thesis mainly analyzed Hedong salt merchants' management condition during the reign of Qianlong. Firstly it is the production circumstance discussed the variety of production method in the salt and the variety circumstance of the occupancy salt...