郭嵩焘是晚清最早将厘金制度化的人,并亲自主持了湖南等省的厘金征收工作。1864年天京陷落后他坚决反对裁撤厘金。郭嵩焘是一个因时而变的人。1875年他受命出使英法,在任驻外使节期间郭嵩焘对西方经济社会做了深入细致的考察和了解,其经济思想有了剧烈的改变,带有明显的资本主义色彩,从而主张废止厘金,发展资本主义工商业。 Guo Songtao was the earliest person to institutionalize likin in the late Qing Dynasty and personally presided over the likin collection in Hunan and other provinces. After the fall of Tianjing in 1864, he firmly opposed the reduction of likin. Guo Song 焘 is a change from time to time. In 1875 he was appointed to make Anglo-French, during his tenure as envoys abroad, Guo Songtai conducted an in-depth and meticulous examination and understanding of the Western economy and society. His economic thinking has undergone dramatic changes with obvious capitalist overtones, thereby advocating the abolishment of likin and development Capitalist industry and commerce.