元代的“食盐法”

Shiyanfa of the Yuan Dynasty

元代对食盐的运销进行了严格的政府管制。至元年间食盐运销体系建立之时商人运销的行盐法为主。元贞以降,特别是延祐之后,迫于盐课压力,计口摊派的"食盐法"范围日益扩大。在元代后期的盐课办集中,各种形式的食盐法之重要性已经超过了行盐法,并成为明代户口盐米(钞)的源头。

The Yuan government had strictly controlled the salt industry.Since the Yuanzhen reign(1294-1297),espacially after the Yanyou reign(1314-1320),under the financial pressure,Shiyanfa,namely salt apportion in varied forms,gradually expanded and had displaced Xingyanfa as the most important source for government's salt revenue.This is the origin of Hukouyanmi or Hukouyanchao(salt apportion by household)in early Ming.