浅谈晋商与粮食贸易

在农业占统治地位的传统社会,粮食生产和粮食贸易与国计民生密切相关。在明清时 期,粮食贸易是晋商进行资本原始积累的基本途径。当时的粮食贸易有地方贸易、官商贸易、军 需贸易、贩运贸易、加工贸易等多种形式,不同形式的粮食贸易对晋商的崛起有着不可忽视的历 史作用。备荒、牟利是当时推动晋商从事粮食贸易的基本动因,粮食贸易在晋商资本积累过程中 起着基础性作用。

A Primary Discussion on the Grain Trade Form of Shanxi Businessmen

In a traditional agriculture-dominated society, grain production and trade related closely to the national economy and business, and played important roles in social and economic activities. In Ming and Qing dynasty grain trade was the basic source of capital accumulation, and had an essential contribution to the success of Shanxi businessmen. And at that time the grain trade took different forms such as local trade, governmental trade, army trade, long distance trade etc, and each form contributed a lot to the growth of Shanxi business. The basic motivation of grain trade was to get enough grain storage and earn rich profit. Grain trade played a foundational role in the process of accumulation of capital in Shanxi businessmen's career.