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Merchants were in middle class.
The Confucian philosophy discouraged trade as it saw it as an evil. Merchants were discouraged from trading as this was not considered to be an act of righteousness.
Merchants had lower social status than peasants.
Leisler's Rebellion
The British attachment to free trade and progress vs the traditional Confucian bias against merchants and commerce. http://www.historytoday.com/julia-lovell/opium-wars-both-sides-now
Merchants were in middle class.
Members of the gentry included Confucian scholars, government officials, landlords, and rich merchants.
Aristocracy Gentry.
Aristocracy Gentry.
The Confucian philosophy discouraged trade as it saw it as an evil. Merchants were discouraged from trading as this was not considered to be an act of righteousness.
They were business partners running a merchants, building landlords and money lending concern.
A firm social order took hold during Han rule. In the Confucian view, peasants made up the second-highest class. Merchants occupied the lowest class because they merely bought and sold what others had made. However, this social division did not indicate wealth or power. Peasants were still poor and merchants were still rich.
Merchants sell their products in stores and online.The government often controls what products that merchants can sell.When merchants cannot sell an item, they put it on sale.
Merchants had lower social status than peasants.
Wealthy merchants form power as a republic. This is part of the government.
Leisler's Rebellion
There used to be four different status in Chinese feudal society, which are classified by occupations. From the highest to the lowest, the 1st rank are soldiers and intellectuals, the 2nd are farmers, the 3rd are craftsmen and general laborers, the last are merchants and peddlers.Merchants are believed without moral restraint and regarded as inferior jobs by the mainstream ideology. Hence, they are certainly not allowed to work for the government. In addition, only people of the 1st social status have direct access to government jobs at that time.In feudal China,land was the most valuable thing to a regime.All the power came from land. China emperor was the final power owner,he owned all the land of his empire.and what he needed ,was to rule all the people including farmers,merchants,feudal landlords in an arbitrary way ,governors were the good enough tools to meet this aim.If merchants have government jobs,that was no better use to help the emperor to keep his land.in a word,merchants mean nothing to the emperor,their social status were too low to have the gov jobs.