The role of the Jin merchants in which dynasty was important

Since the unification of the Six Kingdoms, Shanxi's merchants have been playing an important role until now.

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".

The representative figure of Jin Shang is Qiao Zhiyong.

Qiao Zhiyong (1818-1907), known as Zhongdeng, Xiaochi, was born in Qi County, Shanxi (now Qi County, Shanxi), the fourth head of the Qiao family, a famous Jin merchant in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, known as the "Liang Rich Man". Born in a family of merchants, his parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his brother. I wanted to enter the official career, but I just got a talent in the exam, but my brother died, so I had to give up literature and engage in business.

In the hands of Qiao Zhiyong, the business of the Qiao family has been greatly expanded compared with the time of his grandfather, first derived from the "Fusheng Gong", Fusheng West, Fusheng Oil Mill, Fusheng Vegetable Garden, Fusheng West Store, Fusheng West Shop and other business names, "Fu" brand commercial financial group has become the most powerful, the most serial, the largest business organization.

Many subordinate stores are located all over the country, forming a huge network, penetrating into all walks of life, and the business scope is very wide.

He was the longest-lived person in Qiao's family, living to be 89 years old. When the country reached the state of the country, a large amount of silver flowed overseas, he changed the habit of not governing the family house in the past, spent a lot of money to expand the ancestral house in the early years of Tongzhi, and built the famous Qiao family compound, which was praised by experts and scholars as "a pearl of the northern residential architecture of the Qing Dynasty".

Qiao Zhiyong married 6 wives in his life, because there is a family rule in Qiaomen that no concubines are allowed, and they are all continuations. They are Ma's, Gao's, Yang's, Zhou's, Yang's, and Yang's. He has six sons and eleven grandchildren, of which the third son, Qiao Jingyan, was in charge of Qiao Zhiyong in his later years.

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.