辛亥革命后山西票号的维系与收撤——以蔚长厚上海分号为中心

Maintenance and Withdrawing of Shanxi Piaohao After the Revolution of 1911——Centered on the Shanghai Branch of Yuchanghou

辛亥革命后,受战事劫掠及存放款信用危机影响,蔚长厚票号上海分号面临整体收交不平衡导致的业务总量下降、利润锐减等经营困境。为了支持整体收交大局,上海分号经理利用信汇、电汇等经营手段,积极承揽业务并在总号指示下逐步归并债务,使其在亏损状态下仍勉力维系,最终实现平稳收撤。这一过程反映了民初新旧鼎革之际山西票号等传统金融机构的经营制度仍具备一定的韧性,亦揭示了近代金融格局变迁中传统文化因应机制的生命力和局限性。

After the Revolution of 1911,affected by war looting and deposit credit crisis,the Shanghai Branch of Yuchanghou Piaohao faced with business difficulties such as the decline in total business volume and sharp decline in profits caused by the overall imbalance in receipts and delivery.In order to support the overall revenue and trade situation,the Shanghai Branch manager actively contracted the business and gradually merged the debt under the general number instructions by means of letters,telegrams and other business means,so that it was still struggling to maintain in the lost state,and finally realized the smooth withdrawal.This process reflected that the management system of traditional financial institutions such as Shanxi Piaohao Numbers still had a certain tough situation during the new and old revolutions in the early Republic of China,and also revealed the vitality and limitations of the traditional cultural response mechanism in the change of modern financial pattern.