Mid-qing Huai River Salt Smuggling And Local Society

As a salt area which Produces the salt richly, sales volume biggestand assessment heaviest of the Qing Dynasty, salt area of Lianghuai plays the pivotalrole in the entire 11 salt areas. However, is precisely such has the important statusthe salty area, the illegal salt actually exceptionally active. Especially in themiddle Qing dynasty, namely the historical transition time of Qing Dynasty bypowerfully moves towards the deterioration-during Qianglong, Jiaqing, Daoguang,the illegal salt is more rampant. Lianghuai illegal salt question therefore moreand more serious, the reason is various, but in the final analysis, Which isconnected closely with specialize in selling the system and the marketing system.The corruption of administrative style and achievements of local officials and thebenefit enticement further accelerated illegal salt being in flood. In brief, inunder each kind of factor together function, regardless of the Producer of salt andthe poor who compels for the survival, or the salt smuggler who greedy seeks forprofit, or the salt traders and the salty official who has the primary interest tothe government salt production and marketing, In order to seeks the bigger benefitspace, all joined the ranks which the illegal salt traded, in the gambling game whichapprehends smugglers, between the central committee and the place, the governmentand the populace, Salt merchant and salty official not harmoniously relate revealswith nothing left. The influence of illegal salt is both sides: Says regarding thegovernment authorities, it not only the influence government salt sale, thedestruction table salt specializes in selling the system, more importantly it alsois getting up the corrosion feudal bureaucrat, disintegrates the feudal politicalpower, the harassment entire feudalism economic order noramally work negative effect;Regarding take trades the illegal salt to say as the fresh general populace, theillegal salt actually solves the people to eat, offers employment, alleviates theofficials and people contradictory positive role. Facing the rampant of illegal saltquestion day by day, the Qing government adopts many means to guard againstand attack,however actually has little effect because of the corrupt bureaucrat system. Thefact indicated that, must fundamentally solve the illegal salt problem, the systemis the key. Regardless of the tradition does specialize in selling the system tobe how formidable to the circulation of commodities control strength, butfundamentally says, along with the social economy unceasing development, itgradually by the commercialization, the marketability and even operates privatelythe tendency which substitutes, then is the no need to doubts.The middle Qing dynasty Lianghuai illegal salt question, on the surface lookedas if only is the assorted race under the livelihood, or purely is one kind of riskwhich takes risks for the high quota salt advantage. In fact the matter far continuesso simply, the penetration phenomenon looks at the essence, we can discover itsbehind is hiding the profound social politics and economic problem. Table saltsmuggling may say not only was the inevitable result of the politics corrupt dayby day in middle Qing dynasty, in turn it also was the centralism manifests and thereflection of the politics corrupt day by day at that time.