Qin and Han · Official and Statesman

Sang Hongyang 桑弘羊

First attested BC 110; died BC 80

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Sang Hongyang was an official and Statesman.

IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inBook of Han

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  • Assessment believed he had brought great profit to the state and boasted of his achievements · Mode historian-judgment
    Directly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 273
  • BC 110 元封元年
    Item another two hundred jin of gold 黃金者再百 · Relation Bestowed
    Directly stated · Book of Han 27, passage 264

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Book of Han, Chapter 27Volume 24b: Treatise on Trade 2 · 9 passages
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弘羊以諸官各自市相爭，物以故騰躍，而天下賦輸或不償其僦費，乃請置大農部丞數十人，分部主郡國，各往往置均輸鹽鐵官，令遠方各以其物如異時商賈所轉 Hongyang argued that because offices purchased goods on their own and competed with one another, prices soared, and tax deliveries from the realm sometimes failed even to cover transport costs. He therefore requested dozens of assistant directors under the Grand Minister, divided by region to oversee commanderies and kingdoms, and in many places to establish balanced-transport and salt-and-iron offices, so distant areas could use local products as merchants formerly did when transporting goods