Kuizhou Road Well Salt Industry In The Northern Song Dynasty

Salt is a necessity in our daily lives, not on the 1st or missing, and food that has the same pivotal position. In ancient China, salt is one of the most stable, the most important sales of merchandise, is a commodity related to the people's livelihood in the country the status of financial revenue in no other are a commodity to be placed on a par with, and salt with the National economic, political, military, cultural and so closely linked. Precisely because of this, the Government has always been the production and marketing of salt are very seriously. Lee has also become a salt feudal dynasties National Financial, one of the main source of income. Salt is not only the history of China's economic study of the history of one of the important questions, but also to the whole study of Chinese ancient history, one important question.Well Salt, taken from wells, are the salt of a way to open one of the middle class, well salt is also important crafts of ancient China, one of a long history. Well Salt continuation of production for quite some time, production technology is also unique, in the socio-economic status play a rather important.Salt Wells was first started in the pre-Qin, other generations, the success or failure do not, quite prosperous Tang Dynasty, the development of the salt wells in the Song Dynasty, has reached a peak period, has been able to achieve self-sufficiency. Well Salt Sichuan owners want the distribution of this region. Salt Song wells are a golden period of development, technology also has great progress. Renzong over the years, the people of the former generation of the basis of drilling technology to create a new drilling technology, emerged in Sichuan "Tsutsui Zhuo," which marks the drilling technology from wells deep wells to small transition at dig Well technology has epoch-making significance in the history. Tsutsui zhuo drilling technology than in the West than in the United States as early as 800 years, with gunpowder, paper making, printing, the compass of humanity as made an immeasurable contribution. Therefore, as "the world's father of the modern oil drilling①", "to create the mechanical drilling of the first②", "China's first five major inventions.③" Tsutsui zhuo technology sector has a very vivid metaphor: "There is no zhuo Tsutsui, there is no Gulf War." Zhuo Tsutsui is the world's deep well drilling and the ancestor of living fossil, is the world's only existing historical and cultural heritage, are "living dinosaurs." Tsutsui zhuo both drilling, take cuttings, to learn the process on all brine has a very remarkable achievement. Tsutsui zhuo technology inventions, so Well Salt production is on a ladder, lower the cost of the Well Salt Mining, Well Salt production has increased production.Northern Song period, the wells Kuizhou road salt has been a lot of development, and most of Chongqing region belong to the case of Kuizhou road. Therefore, the study of the Song Dynasty in Kuizhou road salt wells of the development of the Chongqing area of the Song Dynasty to the economic development of a reaction, but also regional economic study of ancient an important element. Kuizhou road through the Northern Song Dynasty Salt Research wells can be more comprehensive understanding of the Chongqing area of economic development at that time.This article has four parts:The first part of the Northern Song Dynasty Kuizhou main road Well Salt distribution. Learned through this part of the main areas of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chongqing Well Salt production has nine major state and county. According to analysis of the origin of the introduction, Kuizhou Well Salt producing region, road characteristics.The second part of the Northern Song Dynasty Kuizhou main road of the Well Salt production. Through this part, mainly that during the Northern Song Dynasty, Sichuan Well Salt ways of quantity production and salt well, and produces various Sichuan Well Salt Well Salt production Salt ways than the number of columns and Sichuan accounts for more than the total amount of salt well out. This section analyzes the table through four of these issues and to explore, and historical records on the road Well Salt Kuizhou production change. This section also examined the road area Well Salt Kuizhou the distribution of production. Kuizhou introduce a number of major road salt well.Third part of the Northern Song Dynasty Kuizhou main road Well Salt prices and sales. Partly through the analysis of comparative law, and road Kuizhou Chengdu Well Salt Rd area of its reasons for the price differential. Private Salt discussed during the Northern Song Dynasty flood situation. This section summarizes the areas of the Northern Song Dynasty road Well Salt Kuizhou diversified sales channels, and its impact on the surrounding road and Kuizhou the impact of the road.The fourth part of research at the Northern Song Dynasty Kuizhou Well Salt road in the development of the status and role. This section discusses the development of Salt Well Rd Kuizhou impact of administrative divisions, the development of salt wells Kuizhou road to the region's economic, political and so on.In this paper, the four parts of the Northern Song Dynasty Kuizhou road with well-depth study of the salt industry can be more comprehensive and better explore the history of Chongqing, the ancient history of the evolution of salt track, add and improve the ancient and the Three Gorges in Chongqing Economic Research, the regional economic study.