Jin Shang can be traced back to the Sui and Tang dynasties between the Wu Shi Yan, the father of Wu Zetian. When Li Yuan's father and son raised an army from Taiyuan, the timber merchant Wu Shi vigorously funded it financially, and Li Yuan's father and son began to seize national power by virtue of the most elite Taiyuan army and wu's financial resources at that time. Jin merchants developed into the Qing Dynasty and became the most powerful merchant gang in China. The world economic historians have compared them to Italian businessmen and have given them high praise. During this period, Jinshang dominated China, gained a reputation in Europe and Asia, and attracted great attention at home and abroad.
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, in order to resist the invasion of Mongol cavalry in the north, the Ming government set up a military nine-sided town along the Great Wall. However, the government did not hoard grain, in order to solve the problem of military salaries, the Ming Dynasty began to implement the "Kaizhong system", that is, merchants transported grain and other materials to border towns in exchange for salt, and then took salt to the salt field to mix salt, and then sold it in the prescribed places. Shanxi people seized this opportunity, fearless of hardships, relying on salt to sell grain, and gradually rose in the business world, so that Jin merchants began to rise!
With the increasingly fierce commercial competition, in order to strengthen their own strength and safeguard their own interests, commercial organizations began to appear. At first, local local merchants were hired at the expense of merchants with strong capital, and joint operations and joint profits became a relatively loose group of merchants, and later developed into the Eastern Partnership system, that is, the joint-stock system, which laid a good foundation for the enduring prosperity of jin merchants for five hundred years.
In the Qing Dynasty, the camel gang, boat gang and ticket number represented by Shanxi, the cause became more and more prosperous, and the Jin merchants became the male merchants of the rich side. The Camel Gang mainly engaged in tea, creating the Sino-Russian Wanli Tea Road, which began in the 17th century, starting from WuyiShan in Fujian Province, passing through Fujian, Gan, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Jin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, through the three countries of China, Mongolia and Russia, with a total length of more than 13,000 kilometers, so that China's export tea is famous in Eurasia.
At the same time, the ticket number pioneered by Shanxi merchants, also known as the exchange house or ticket house, is a kind of financial credit institution. At the beginning, it mainly contracted foreign exchange business, and later also carried out deposits and other businesses, and gradually held the bull's ear of China's financial circles. Due to the combination of commercial capital and financial capital, Shanxi merchants became a pivotal force in the domestic commercial and financial circles at that time.
Jinshang declined in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period for various reasons, and Shanxi also began to become relatively flat on the Chinese economic stage, leaving the Jinshang compound for future generations to become a topic that countless Chinese and foreign tourists traveled to Shanxi.
Pingyao Ancient City: Feel the rich humanistic atmosphere here, walk into the rishengchang of the whole country three thousand years ago, understand the origin of Jinshang, ticket number management system and splendid Jinshang culture; watch a "See Pingyao Again", will let you be in it, as if through a hundred years, personally experience the story that happened in Pingyao, to experience a promise of thousands of gold, life and death parting, righteous crown cloud sky, with the spirit of Business to save the people!
Qiao Family Compound: Known as "the royal palace has the Forbidden City, the people's house to see the Qiao family" said. The film and television dramas "Qiao Family Compound" and "Big Red Lantern Hanging High" have all been filmed here. Qiao Zhiyong, the head of the Qiao family, this Jin merchant who is full of enthusiasm and embraces the salvation of the people with business and the rich country with business, what kind of legendary life has it? If you are a good businessman and keep your promises, come here to listen to his business precepts and the family rules and disciplines for his children and grandchildren at that time, and you may be able to find the answer you want.
Qujia Compound: Let's go and have a conversation with a diplomat in the history of Qi County. Born in a wealthy merchant family, he was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and was an aspiring, responsible, and accomplished magi; while becoming an official, he went to the sea to do business, set up an industry, opened a precedent for Shanxi's national industry, and became the first national industrial capitalist in Shanxi; he was also enthusiastic about education, benefiting society, and was respected and respected by people from all walks of life. He is the drain.
Wang Family Compound: Starting from farming and concurrently engaging in tofu industry, from farmers and merchants, from merchants to officials, the family business is getting bigger and bigger, and the family assets are getting thicker. The Wang family has been adhering to the concept of "loyalty and honesty" from the elders of the elderly generation, and the four brothers, Wang Zhong, Wang Xin, Wang Cheng, and Wang Shi, truly reflect the Wang family's concept of being a person. A "faithful and honest" allowed this outsider to quickly take root in Jingsheng. In the hundreds of years since, "faithfulness and honesty" has been the "morality" upheld by the Wang family.
Changjia Manor: The birthplace of a generation of Confucian merchants. Different from other Jinshang families, the reason why the Chang family has been able to last for 200 years and flourish for many years, and the talents have always been held: the idea of Confucian transmission, after the family is well-off, it pays attention to education, rejuvenation and education, and a strategy of "learning and excellence is Jia", creating a batch of family talents who know poetry and books and know etiquette and righteousness.
Li Family Compound: Famous as a "philanthropic family". His business history is still a model for new businessmen, and stepping into the Li family compound is like walking into the time tunnel of the integration of Jinshang culture, philanthropic culture and Cultural exchanges between China and the West, and you can touch the character and hidden cultural heritage of Zhong Lingyuxiu in the courtyard.
Jin Shang dominated the business community for five hundred years, "business flourished all over the world, and the source of wealth was lush and prosperous up to Sanjiang." "While creating great material wealth, it also condenses into the spiritual way of honesty and trustworthiness, pioneering and enterprising, mutual assistance, pragmatic management, and economic relief for the people, which is the secret book and magic weapon for Jinshang to win with business, and it is the soul of Jinshang."
Shanxi's long history has left a strong mark in China's five-thousand-year cultural inheritance, as a regional culture, Shanxi culture has its own distinctive characteristics. Please pay attention to me, I will share the unique cultural heritage of Shanxi for you in the later video.
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