An Analysis of Tianjin Customs Taotai in Late Qing Dynasty
In the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), the Tianjin Teaching Case broke out, and the central government decided to abolish the three ministers of trade and commerce, and added the Tianjin Customs Road to manage the two customs of Chinese diplomacy and new and banknote taxes. The establishment of the Tianjin Customs Road broke through the conventional practice of Tianjin Province to manage both negotiation and customs affairs, and became a special case. Since its establishment, Tianjin Customs Province has gradually become the right-hand man of the Governor and Minister of Beiyang with its important position, and has increasingly expanded its functions in the process of handling diplomatic affairs, managing customs, and devoting itself to the new foreign affairs undertaking, becoming a new modern bureaucrat that tries its best to bridge the gap between China and the outside world and shorten the gap between China and foreign countries. After the Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang resigned, and the system of functions and powers and salary bodies of the Tianjin Customs Road gradually lost the support and protection of the directly subordinate governor, and the image of the long-sleeved dancer of the Tianjin Customs Road quietly changed, and finally contracted in the wave of reform that lacked careful arrangements between the central and local governments in the late Qing Dynasty, ending in the era of great change in the fall of the Qing Dynasty, which was caused by the inherent multiple contradictions of the Tianjin Customs Road system and the inevitable development of the times.
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