聚民思想对中国古代抑商政策的影响

The Impact of Accumulating-thought on China's Ancient Restraining Commerce Policy

学界在研究中国古代抑商的原因时,往往将抑商和重农对立起来,因而难以揭示其真正原因。聚民是古代早期国家产生的重要条件,而商人经商积累财富亦能聚民,对统治者构成威胁,这是日益走向专制集权的统治者无法容忍的,因此商人受到政府的抑制也就在所难免。

When the history circle researches the reason of China＇s ancient restraining commerce policy, they tend to apposing the restraining commerce policy against agricultural development policy. As a result, they can＇t reveal the real reason of China＇s ancient restraining commerce policy. Accumulating-thought is an important factor that ancient countries established. The merchants could accumulate people through doing business and accumulating treasure, so they became a threat to the ruler. It couldn＇t be tolerated by the rulers who were making state power more and more centralized and autocratic. Thus it is inevitable that the merchants were suppressed by the government.