Qing Dynasty Guang Xi Illegal Salt And The Local Society

In Qing dynasty, with the development of commodity economy,illegal salt in Guangxi is very active, especially in the middle Qingdynasty, namely the historical transition time of Qing dynasty bypowerfully moves towards the deterioration—during Qianglong﹑Jiaqing﹑Daoguang, the i1legal salt is more rampant. The reason is various, inthe final analysis is closely related to production Que salt system,corruption of bureaucracy﹑the market demand and the temptation of saltis further accelerated the proliferation of illegal salt. In under each kind offactor together function, regardless of the Poor who compels for thesurvival, or the salt smuggler who greedy seeks for profit, or the salttraders and the salty official who has the primary interest to thegovernment salt production and marketing, In order to get more benefit,all joined the ranks which the illegal salt traded. between the centralcommittee and the local, the government and the common people, saltmerchant and salty official not harmoniously relate reveals with nothingleft. The influence of illegal salt is both sides: Says regarding thegovernment authorities, it not only the influence government salt sale,damage the selling system, more importantly it also disintegrates thefeudal political power, the harassment entire feudalism economic ordernormally work negative effete; Regarding general populace, the illegalsalt actually convenient for the people, alleviates the officials and peoplecontradictory positive role. Facing the rampant of illegal salt activity, theQing government adopts many means to guard against and attack, butactually has no effect. Guangxi illegal salt question in Qing dynasty, onthe surface looked as if only is the assorted race under the livelihood, orpurely is one kind of risk which takes risks for the high benefit. In fact,the penetration phenomenon looks at the essence, we can discover itsbehind is hiding the profound social politics and economic problem.Table salt smuggling may say not only was the inevitable result of the politics corrupt, in turn it also was the centralism manifests and thereflection of the politics corrupt day by day at that time.