After the Tang Dynasty, with the shift of the national economic center of gravity to the south, Jiangxi became an important region of the national economy. Especially during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Wei Quanfeng entered Fuzhou for several decades, and adopted the policies of protecting the environment, encouraging farming and mulberry, and attracting tourists, which made agriculture and handicrafts develop to a certain extent, showing a prosperous scene of "being complete and rich". In the Song Dynasty, after further development, Jiangxi has become an advanced area of national economic and cultural development, with a large population and rich products. Jiangnan West Road ranked first in the national economy in Song Dynasty, and its solid material foundation laid a solid foundation for the rise of Jiangyou commercial gangs. In the first year of Chongning in Song Huizong (A.D. 1 102), the registered population in China was 20.26 million and 45.32 million respectively, of which Jiangxi was 20/kloc-0 and 4.46 million respectively, accounting for110, among which the population was the first of all roads. From the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, this economic advantage of Jiangxi continued to be maintained. From the early Yuan Dynasty to the twenty-seventh year of Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1290), the population of Jiangxi reached140,000, and the registered population and population of Jiangxi accounted for 20.2% and 23.3% of the whole country respectively. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangxi merchants were called Jiangyou merchants. Jiangxi businessmen have a wide range of activities, covering all parts of the country. Merchants in Jiangxi appeared very early, and they were already in various materials in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Bai Juyi's Pipa Trip says Jiangzhou: "Whoever stole money first accidentally lost her. A month ago, he went to Fuliang to buy tea." Gu Jieyuan's Hakka dialect records that in the Tang Dynasty, a Nanchang native Xie Mou and his daughter Xiao E traveled to Jialiyang (now Hexian County, Anhui Province) with huge sums of money, and married Xiao E to the local Duan Juzhen to help each other in the same boat. Zhou Di, a fellow countryman, also took his wife to Jia, "to and from Guangling". In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wang Jianwu's Notes on the Customs of the Yangtze River said: People on the pontoon, "If you are rich, you will do business, and if you are clever, you will work. …

... taxis and industry and commerce all benefit in four directions. ..... its products, tea leaves, cut into paper, adobe for the device, between Jinghu and wuyue, for the benefit of the country. The rest of the textiles are trafficked, covering their ears. "Ceng Gong's uncle Zeng Shuqing, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, was from Nanfeng. He also trafficked ceramics to Jingdezhen many times and sold them to Huaibei.

The Rise of Jiangyou Commercial Gangs

(1) Jiangxi, the Jiangnan West Road in the Tang and Song Dynasties, ranked first in the national economy in the Song Dynasty, and its solid material foundation laid a solid foundation for the rise of Jiangyou merchants.

(2) The famous Red Scarf Uprising broke out in Yuan Shundi, and the Central Plains fell into a protracted war. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang made Nanjing its capital, and Jiangxi was the first province. The Ming Dynasty unified the whole country, and the Ming army continued to invade Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan, all based in Jiangxi. The Ming army went north to the central plains and marched southwest, and the war continued. Relatively speaking, the war in the southeast has eased and life is relatively calm. Although the Ming Dynasty unified China's military power from Nanking, its military supplies mostly depended on Jiangxi. With the advance of the army, Jiangxi people sold local industrial products, agricultural products and daily necessities to the war-torn Central Plains, South China and Southwest provinces. At the same time, Jiangxi also began the first large-scale immigration in history. During this period, the mighty Jiangyou merchants gradually formed and rapidly expanded to all parts of the country, occupying a vast market, and the ranks and business scope of Jiangyou merchants continued to expand, dominating China. (3) After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the invasion of the Japanese, a long-term policy of sea ban was implemented. Domestic trade, even foreign trade, depends on water. Canal-Yangtze River-Ganjiang River-Beijiang River has become a golden waterway for national trade. This passage is more than 3000 kilometers long, with 1000 kilometers in Jiangxi. Merchants from Jiangxi and Jiangyou are in an extremely favorable position in domestic and foreign trade. Jiangyou merchants are all over the country. There is also "there is no city without the river (west)", and Jiangxi businessmen "carry an umbrella with one burden and run to the world as bosses"

(4) Jiangxi people only moved to Huguang in the early and late Ming Dynasty. Jiangxi fills Huguang, Huguang fills Sichuan, moves eastward to Fujian, northward to southern Anhui, and southward to Guangdong.