浅析乾隆时期长芦盐商走向衰落的原因

Salt Traders of Changlu in the Period of Qianlong

长芦盐商的财势，在清代廉、雍年间最为显赫。进入乾隆朝．便向下滑落。乾隆接位六年后，就对长芦盐商进行巧取豪夺．诸如捐输报效，迎幸驻跸．加征盐课，无本取息．转嫁参课等等．都是宰割长芦盐商的刀把子。至乾隆末，原有的长芦盐商纷纷破产，没有破产的也都负债累累。清王朝到了乾隆时期，已经由盛转衰，作为封建经济重要支柱的盐商．也难逃破败的厄运，

Abstract The financial force of Changlu's salt traders was the most illustrious in the period of Kang and Yong of the Qing Dynasty. With an entrance of Qianlong. it declined. After six years of his throne, Qianlong began to secure salt traders' belongs and right in changlu by force and trickery. To the end of Qianlong times, most rich salt trades of Changlu wentbankrupt one after another. Although some of them escaped to become insolvent, they all were heavily in debt. The Qing dynasty, to the period of Qianlong, had changed from prosperity to decline. Salt traders as an important pilar of feudal economy were also hard to escape the ruined misforturne.