Ming Dynasty Liang-zhe Salt Industry Research And Marketing Management System

As an important source of revenue in ancient Chinese dynasties, salt at different times there are different degrees of monopoly, the Ming Dynasty as well. As the Ming Dynasty second salt producing areas, Liangzhe salt zone area with other salts, like its Salt production and distribution sectors constituted by the Ming government is set up a lot of system to ensure that the government monopoly.In the production chain to Tuan-tsao system as the core. By the Ming Dynasty moved the residents, land division, delineation salt range, and this basic form Tuan-tsao system for the management and production. To ensure accountable and monitored, select wealthy Tsao-hu for lower-level managers, for Tuan-tsao system to operate. In the marketing aspects of the system to check the core. Ming Dynasty to ensure that transport and sale of salt, commission officials inspect merchant shipping, and payment of bills as appropriate based on the marketing aspects of supervision. In the marketing aspects of the system to check the core. Ming Dynasty to ensure that transport and sale of salt, commission officials inspect merchant shipping, and payment of bills as appropriate based on the marketing aspects of supervision. Due to the cumbersome and strict inspection accountable, leading to low normal salt transport efficiency, increase the risk of merchant shipping. As opposed to a salt with hawkers, but without cumbersome inspection, you can sell sell. And in the sales end of the Ming government in accordance with the number of sales around, select the appropriate salt merchants as shop operators, and sold under assessment. Businessmen have benefits or reduce, so in the face of inspection and assessment, more use of loopholes in the system, with fishing interests.In addition, to ensure government control of marketing aspects, but also established a strict anti-smuggling system and private salt sales channels. Mainly for smuggling smuggling System assessment. Ming Dynasty Liang-zhe salt area with salt around the pin number of the division level, and to quantify the number of smuggling. Select the garrison soldiers or porters as customs officials, and to quantify the number of forcibly linked to their wages. Under the strict examination, normal operation failed smuggling System, they undermine anti-smuggling and even hinder the country’s salt production and marketing. Sales Private Salt way, it is private salt obtained by the customs officials smuggling, but also with the names GongJiYan, salt and legitimate selling into the market.Ming Dynasty in the production and marketing aspects of the monopoly system set up in a dramatic change in the actual operation of the process. For example Tuan-tsao system operational by the general reminder, leading Tuan-tsao institutional shortcomings in the operation of the process is difficult to eradicate; smuggling System operation by customs officials, has not only strengthen the anti-smuggling, but in the destruction of smuggling smuggling under the assessment system. Root cause of such problems, the system operation is set upper and lower system has a huge difference. Faced with this difference, the government carried out to adjust the lack of consistency and operability, causing more serious problems.Finally led to the Ming government had to adjust Tuan-tsao system, relax on the tsao-ding control; in the inspection system, the official inspection by the Commission turned businessman self; in anti-smuggling system, greatly reduced the effectiveness of the anti-smuggling, smuggling is rampant.