Qin's Economic System

As the first dynasty which dominated the ancient Chinese 4.6 million square kilometers’ land in the history, Qin empire has so many pioneering policies and systems that greatly affect the later generation. The research about the policy, economic, and social background of Qin contributes to the understanding of the ancient Chinese history. To recognize and study the Qin’s civilization, this article chooses its economic system as the topic and intends to explore three main aspects of it based on history books and online academic journey database. The first thins is introducing the economic background when Qin became a giant kingdom after decades’ wars against six other kingdoms. At that time, the social was in totally mass and economic policies …show more content…
They also implemented businessman merchandise which is similar to today’s industrial and commercial registration. If the merchant suffered bankruptcy, they will be incorporated in the the labor slaves to build heavy construction works. After the implementation of these measures, the merchant’s expected profit became far lower than the farmers so that the free businessmen were gradually disappeared. Compared to the rise of ancient Athens and Roma where trade was much more booming, the ancient Chinese ruler concentrate more on agriculture and used to ignore the value of commerce. Moreover, Qin dynasty civil business were not allowed to engage in some industries such as salt, iron mining, and trafficking, which were unified by the national administrative bureaucracy. And the Qin government was the only authorizing group fully controls the production and sell in related industrial fields. In short, the Qin Dynasty’s economy system is to take sophisticated and rigorous militarization management, which is characterized by extreme and urgent policy …show more content…
The expand of the number of people directly increase the social productivity so that the government were capable to build lots of enormous constructions such as the Great Wall and multiple artificial canals. Meanwhile, the unification of currency, measurement provide a solid basement for both the development of the economy and the promotion of the development of a unified country. The trade and business activities became very convenient and frequent under the same monetary standard. However, the militarization economic system showed outstanding outcomes in short time, they also brought lots of negative effect at the same time. For example, the heavy tax policy accumulated national wealth quickly, it also made citizens suffer a lot and live in poor condition, which accelerated the breakdown of the dynasty. Moreover, the awareness of restrict business and promote agriculture has a profound influence on ancient China lasting for more than one thousand years. It is a good ideology when the country need to recover from the great loss, however, as the social wealth continue to increase, this thought prevent Chinese people and society from moving upward. The ignorance and criticize on commerce lead Chinese people become more conservation compared to other ancient