前言 在中国的经济史中,作为商品来说,盐和铁比其它东西更引起人们的注目。地灵人杰的盐都自贡,在其盐业发展的兴盛时期,展示了在中国近代史上光辉的一页,足以说明中华民族有自立于世界民族之林的巨大活力。将商品经济逐渐纳入近代资本主义轨道这种主导作用,难道是鸦片战争以后外国资本主义侵入才开始发生的吗?难道中国人不能创立自己的大工业,建立新的生产方式吗?从自贡地区王、李、胡、颜四大盐业集团的兴亡史中,已得出了明确的答案。 颜氏盐业集团是从颜佳馨堂开始兴起的。她靠 Preface In China’s economic history, salt and iron have drawn more attention than anything else as a commodity. In the prosperous period of the development of salt industry, Zigong, the most famous man of earth and spirit, demonstrated a glorious page in the modern history of China, which shows the great vitality of the Chinese nation in its independence from the forest of nations in the world. Is it because the invasion of foreign capitalism started after the Opium War that the commodity economy was gradually incorporated into the modern capitalist track? Can the Chinese not create their own large-scale industry and establish new modes of production? Li, Hu, Yan, the rise and fall of the four major salt groups, has come to a clear answer. Yan Salt Yan Group is the rise from Yan Jia Tong. She leans