清末徽州茶商与征收皖赣铁路茶股的抗争

The Resistance of Huizhou Tea Merchants and Collection of Anhui and Jiangxi Railway Stock in the Late Qing Dynasty

长期以来,人们对徽州茶业的研究,往往注重对徽州茶叶栽培、茶叶生产工艺、茶叶销售贸易以及徽州民间茶俗的探讨。实际上,徽州茶业经济一直与当时官府管理政策有着千丝万缕的关系,它涉及到政治、经济、文化的方方面面。这次新发现的宣统初期徽州茶商与征收皖赣铁路茶股的文书,从一个方面给我们提供了新的研究课题,茶叶作为徽州大宗商品,成为当时官方筹集社会资金的主要渠道。

People have always been focusing on tea cultivation and process, sales of tea and Huizhou tea custom in terms of tea industry research in Huizhou prefectures. In fact, the economy of tea in Huizhou prefecture had long been linked with the government policy in many aspects, and related to economy, culture, and politics. This new discovery of document of the resistance of Huizhou merchants and collection of Anhui and Jiangxi railway stock presents us a new research topic： tea as the main industry in Huizhou economy had become a major channel of the official collection of social capital. The new finding of this paper provides precious material evidence for the study of tea as the main driver of social economy and the research of the construction of railway in Anhui province.