冲突与制衡:清代盐枭与封建政权之间对盐业利益的争夺

Conflicts and Balance:The Contend for Salt Interest between Qing Dynasty Salt Smugglers and Feudal Regime

盐税为清代国家财政收入的大宗,对封建政治、经济、军事、社会具有重要的意义,所以一直为最高统治者所掌控。但随着国家对基层社会控制力的减弱,盐枭作为一股特殊的群体,正逐渐由隐蔽、散乱、自发走向了公开化、规模化、武装化,成为了与清政府争夺盐业利益的重要力量。

Salt tax was a major part of Qing government＇s revenue and is of political, economic, military and social importance. So the government had control over it. But with the weakening of the governmen- tal control over grass-roots society, gangs of salt smugglers,as a special group,was gradually made pub- lic,large-scaled and armed from the previous secrecy, scatterance and spontaneity and became an impor- tant force to rival with Qing government for salt interests.