Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, And The Destruction Of The Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074 1224 by Paul Jakov Smith

Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, And The Destruction Of The Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074 1224

Paul Jakov Smith

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Tea-growing was a prosperous industry in Sichuan when Wang Anshi's New Policies created a Tea and Horse Agency to buy up Sichuanese tea and trade it to Tibetan tribesmen for cavalry horses. At first the highly autonomous Agency not only acquired t...

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