Study On The Transfer Of Salt And Iron In The Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty able founding three hundred years, inseparable from the financial support, then Officials responsible for national financial functioning is quite important. In the early Tang Dynasty, mainly by Department of households responsible for; in the middle and late, with the change of social situation, prompting a corresponding change in the field of financial Officials to adapt domination needs. This the rulers is set with the matter, so that the functional nature of the set sent to deal with, so that Yantie Transshipment Envoy is one.This paper attempts to study on Yantie Transshipment Envoy to four aspects。The first part is the salt and iron transport to be a simple sort, including the emergence of the historical background of the relationship between water and land transport to make the distinction, transport to and between the salt and iron transport to and thus should determine Liu Yan was the first real sense of Yantie Transshipment Envoy.In the second and third parts, by sorting and comparison of the city transit lines, salt and iron transport to the main functions and activities of the three basic aspects of analysis, salt and iron transport to explore in Lianghe, Jianghuai two regions similarities and differences. With the heavier transport tasks, status transfusion line Yangzhou, Kaifeng and other gun increasingly rise, continue to strengthen the political and military nature, but also to promote the economic development of the city; salt and iron transport to the functions of expanding, not only in the economy in the field of responsible Yantie levy knock the normal taxes transfusion, is also involved in the local administrative supervision; Pei Yaoqing, Liu Yan and other major salt and iron to make, through continuous efforts, the development of salt water transport system to increase the amount of water transport, supporting national financial, but also effectively safeguard the stability of the central government.The fourth part, the impact of transport to be explored. On the one hand, it guarantees the supply of money given country to support military action dynasty, coordination between central and local authorities to maintain national stability and unity, while promoting economic development in some areas; on the other hand, since the transfer of powers to make expanding gradually to stabilize dynasty produced some negative effects.In short, salt and iron transport to the emergence of the Tang Dynasty to become under the influence of Rebellion, continued a hundred years is an important reason.But gradually decline Yantie transport affairs, it is an important factor in the Tang Dynasty to decline.