试析晚明政治家叶向高与商人的关系

The Relation between Ye Xiang-gao And the Merchants in The Late Ming Dynasty

叶向高生活的时代,正是明代中国东南沿海地区社会经济发生重大变革的时期,“嘉靖倭乱”之后,东南沿海地区经过多年的休养生息,社会经济得到了恢复并逐渐走向繁荣,海洋社会经济也被整合到以东南亚为中心的环中国海贸易圈中去。叶向高作为一名政治家,一方面与陆地商人保持着密切的关系,另一方面,又坚决支持明朝廷的海禁政策,主张严禁通倭走私贸易,打击走私海商。叶向高对商人认识的两重性,是由当时的社会政治经济发展状况所决定的,也是当时社会政治经济发展的必然。

Great changes of the social economy in the costal area of the Southeast China took placed during Ye＇s lifetime. The social economy in the costal area of the Southeast China renewed and began to flourish after the Japanese had disturbed in the Jia-jing Dynasty. The marine social economy was brought into the trade circle of the surrounding China Sea as the center of the Southeast Asia. Ye Xiang-gao, as a famous statesman, not only kept a close ties with the continental merchants but also was against the smuggling trade with the Japanese. Ye＇s double-faced tactics towards the merchants was decided by the social politics and economy of the time and was inevitable outcome of that time too.