Did Jin merchants refer to mainly merchants from northern Jin?

It mainly refers to the merchants in the Jinzhong area. Because:

Jin merchants" - a Shanxi businessman this social group, since the ancient Jin period appeared, after a long primitive and semi-primitive business activities of the arduous years, developed to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the germination and rise of domestic capitalist industry, the development of commodity trading, Shanxi merchants to be good at operating commodity trading wisdom and ability, take advantage of the rise, and gradually form a group of merchants and gangs characterized by regional relations and local ties. With Shanxi's rich salt, iron, wheat, cotton, skin, wool, timber, dry tobacco and other special products, long-distance trafficking, set up sales, exchange silk, silk, tea, rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and resell them to the northwest, Mongolia, Russia and other places, its trafficking and sales activities spread throughout the country, becoming the most powerful northern Jin gang group that can compete with the southern Hui Gang. By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi merchants gradually adapted to the needs of the exchange business of the financial industry, and developed from business to the financial industry.

At the same time, due to the imbalance of domestic economic development and the different strengths, business directions and business ideas of commercial banks in various regions of Shanxi, most of the business ticket numbers are Pingyao, Qixian, Taigu, and Jieti merchants, and most of the merchants are Ze, Lu, Jiang, Tai (Ping), Lin, and other places. Therefore, a ticket number financial capital group represented by the families of Jinzhongqu, Qiao, Wang, and Cao has been formed, and a commercial capital group dominated by Jiang, Lin, and Tai in the party and Jinnan. In the strong camp of China's financial capital and commercial capital, each has its own unique tree, and is known as the two major Jin merchant powerhouses in Shanxi.

The Wei, Wang, Liu, and Yang families of Taiping (now Xiangfen) were also powerful families and business giants with great wealth and power in the Jinnan Jiang Tailin Gang, which played a pivotal role in the national business and business competition.

It is mainly in the area of Jinzhong, and the north did not belong to Shanxi before, and it is more barbaric.

Historical reasons, conditions, characteristics, and influences of the Jin merchant ticket number:

The Jin merchants of the Ming and Qing dynasties had three distinct characteristics.

First, the feudalism used them as a tool to implement the fiscal policy and provide military salaries;

second, there is an unusual mutual trust relationship between merchants and feudalists;

The third is the feudalization of profits.

The usual meaning of the Jin merchants refers to the Shanxi merchants in the 500 years of the Qing Dynasty, and the Jin merchants engaged in salt industry, ticket numbers and other businesses, especially the ticket number is the most famous. The Jin merchants also left a rich architectural heritage for China, such as the famous Qiaojia Courtyard, Changjia Manor, Li Family Compound, Wang Family Compound, Qujia Courtyard, Cao Family Sanduotang and so on. The Eight-Nation Coalition demanded reparations from China, and the Empress Dowager Cixi's ruling Qing ** borrowed money from the Qiao family of the Jin merchants to repay the national debt.

The economic strength of the Jin merchants can be reflected from this incident. The Jin merchants can be traced back to the samurai between the Sui and Tang dynasties. When Wu Zetian's father, Li Yuan and his son raised troops from Taiyuan, the timber merchant Wu vigorously funded it from financial resources, and Li Yuan and his son began to seize national power with the most elite Taiyuan army and Wu family's financial resources at that time.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Wu family was crowned as the Duke of the Kingdom, and his status was equal to that of Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin. One can imagine how much property Li Yuan and his son received from the Wu clan at that time, and the Wu clan also received a huge return from his initially clever political investment. Later, it also gave birth to Wu Zetian, an unprecedented empress in Chinese history.

Of course, that's an afterthought. The root of the success of Jinshang lies in the "integrity" and unity of the business policy.

Jin merchants (Shanxi merchants) representatives: Wang Xian, Pingyao Rishengchang ticket number, Caidong Li Zhenshi; Mao Hong, the first manager of Pingyao Weizihao; Dadetong, Dadeheng ticket number Qiao Jingxi, Qiao Jingkan, Qiao Jingxin of Qiao's family in Qi County; Ming Dynasty Puzhou Dashang Zhang Sijiao and so on.

Jin Shang pioneered the ticket number in Chinese history. "Ticket number" was a way for merchants to trade at that time, the trade route was far away, and it was a prominent time in Chinese history. Until now, it is still said that "Shanxi people are good at business and good at financial management".

1. The Jin merchants in the usual sense of the Jin merchants refer to the Shanxi merchants in the 500 years of the Qing Dynasty, and the Jin merchants operated salt industry, ticket numbers and other businesses, especially the ticket number is the most famous.

2. The Jin merchants also left a rich architectural heritage for China, such as the famous Qiaojia Compound, Changjia Manor, Caojia Sanduotang, Wangjia Courtyard and so on. The feudalization of the profits of merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties was mainly manifested in donations, subsidies, land purchases, and usury capital. Chao merchants, Hui merchants and Jin merchants are the "three major merchant gangs" in Chinese history.