秦时商人的社会地位很低,商人被打入另册,必须编入市籍,当时的法律规定,有市籍的商人及其子孙,与犯罪的官吏和倒插门的女婿一样,都在谪戍之列,即随时都可以被披枷戴锁征发到边疆服役。秦朝被推翻后,汉朝对商人的迫害非但一如既往,还有过之而无不及。汉高祖规定商人不得穿丝绸衣服,不得乘坚车肥马,不得购买土地,还必须与奴婢一样,加倍缴税。到汉武帝时更是变本加厉,一度恢复了秦朝的谪戍制度, When Qin was a businessman, his social status was very low. His merchants were forced into another book and had to be incorporated into the city books. At that time, the law stipulated that merchants and their descendants with municipalities, like criminals and son-in-law, Columns, that is, can be worn at any time by wearing locks to the frontier service. After the overthrow of the Qin Dynasty, the persecution of businessmen in the Han Dynasty was not only as usual but also worse than ever. Emperor Hanzong stipulated that merchants should not wear silk clothes, no hardwood horses, no land, no less than slaves, and a double taxation. When the Han Dynasty was even more intensified, once the restoration of the Qin Dynasty garrison system,