Yuan Dynasty Haiyan Study

Salt industry was one of the important industries and played an important role in the governmental fiance in the Yuan Dynesty.The system of salt economy followed the one of the Song and jin Dynesty and developed greatly. But as to the difference of the geographical condition and the influence of the political factors, the sea salt industry often showed distinctive regional characteristics in the Yuan Dynesty. The thesis,basis on the previous research, studys the produce, the administrative setup, transportion and sale of the sea salt to completely and turely show the economic model of the sea salt industy in the Yuan Dynesty. It emphesises on the regional traits and then summarizes the basic feature of the sea salt industry. At the same time ,It studys the influence of the sea salt induatry of the Yuan Dynesty to the one of the Ming Dynesty. According to the above, this these consists of two parts.Part one: the study of the sea salt industry along the Bo sea. This part, firstly retrospecting the sea salt industry in the Jin Dynety and Mongol Empire, shows the system of the sea salt industy followed the older system. And then, it resepectively studys the produce technology , the volume of production, administrative setup, transportation and sale of the sea salt. I think the salt produce technology of the Cianglu city recorded by Marco Polo possibly was the one producing the sea salt of Hejian administrative setup.Compared to the volume of sea salt production of the Jin dynasty and Mongol Empire,the one of the Yuan Dynesty increased greatly, and Hejian administrative setup surpassed the one of the Shandong administrative setup. Dadu administrative setup incorporated into the Hejian . The name of the Hejian and Shandong administrative setup changed frequently and did not become specialized. In the sea salt transportion and sale of sea salt of this region , the salt merchants played an important role. Because of the geographical condition in the Shandong region,the sale way of allotting the sea salt to the people is popular.Part two: the study of the sea salt industy of the Sourth-East region. This part studys the produce technology, the volume of production, the administrative setup, the transportion and the sale of the sea salt. It shows the produce technology recorded by Aobotu(熬波图) only showed the one of the two-Zhe salt administrative setup in the Yuan Dynesty. The sea salt production increased greatly than before. The system of the administration of the Zhe salt administrative setup was province, salt administrative setup, the sub-administrative setup, saltern and Tuan (团) .And the setup of the salt warehouse and the Piyansuo (批验所) widely make the saltadministration more close. Like the region along the Bo sea. the transpotion and sale of salt by salt merchant were the main way. but the way allotting the salt to the people often existed in the region along the coast.The conclusion: This part summarizes the system of the sea salt economy and shows the influence of the sea salt industy of the Yuan Dynesty to the one of the Ming Dynesty.