Northern Song Dynasty, Commercial Trade With The Northwest Tibetan

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Northwest Tibetan played a special function toward existence and development of regime of the Northern Song Dynasty. So the Northern Song government made rather pay attention to it. Song bears a policy on ethnic affairs of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and had adopted the law of bridle Mi to the Northwest Tibetan regime. It mainly included enveloping officer and awarding the rank of nobility on politic, comforting and uniting them on military affairs, vouchsafing and doing business on economic, various kinds of contacts on culture. Doing business was an important respect among the relation of the Northwest Tibetan regime and Song. Non-governmental trade was not known in detailed without historical data. So the official trade became into the focal point studied. Trade is to the supplement of the bridle Mi's means on politics and military. The whole manuscript consists four parts. Part one: Reasons and backgrounds of the trade between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Northwest Tibetan. The Northern Song Dynasty tied the trade and the war tightly and all the time. So needs of The Northern Song Dynasty comforting and uniting the Northwest Tibetan regime departs without luxuriant, purchasing munitions, making a profit to assist the national defenses made the Northern Song subject improve its economy energetically; Part 2:The modes and traits of the trade: Tribute-obliged Trade is a traditional trade way between The Central Plains' courts and peripheral ethic minority. It was still prevail very much in the Northern Song Dynasty. The tribute-obliged trade between the Pan Luozhi, Gu Siluo and the Northern Song was frequent and the quantity of exchange was multitude. Discuss field trade is another kind of trade way. The discuss field trade relied mainly on officer's camp. The government turned from organization, which guided the trade into an organization that incorporated managing and guiding into an organic whole, buy and sale was monopolized specially. Forbade Non-government trade, but did not cut off the interflow of commodities between the Northwest Tibetan and the Song. It is rampant to smuggle trade among the people. Part 3: The functions and influences of the trade. Trade played the function of Mi luxuriant department of bridle to a certain extent. But because the limitation which officer's camp's trade per se had, the fragility of the national relation that trade established, its bridle of Mi's function is very limited. The Northern Song's needs crisis was appeased because she attained fabulous wealth from the trade. The Tibetan pushed the transshipment trade, which improved its prosperity. The government monopoly the trade, which produced a few of minus factors. But the trade brought a peace and stable social surroundings, which spurred the economic of the Northern Song. The system of the tea-horse trade made in the Northern Song was inherited and developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasty. Part4: Conclusion.