In addition, the social economic condition of late Qing Dynasty
was also an important impact factor. After the Opium War (AD
1840e1842, AD 1856), huge reparations of war, especially the Boxer
Indemnity, worsens the Qing government finances. The increasing
financial difficulties of the central government forced them to
strengthen the control of Jiangsu coastal salt industry. Even, the salt
tax income of Jiangsu coastal saltworks was guaranteed for war
reparations, the extortion of Jiangsu coastal salt tax was the main
remediation method of weak fiscal condition (Chen, 1988). Thus,
the financial difficulties forced the central government increased
control and exploiting instead, rather than providing support to the
difficulty of coastal salt industry, which exacerbated the
humaneland relationship and accelerated the collapse of the
traditional management system itself.