Yan Anlan

Yan Anlan

Yan Anlan (1851-1919) is a native of yuexigou Yueai village, tongtongtongguan Town, Zhen'an County, Shaanxi Province. When he was ten years old, he studied from Cheng Xiyuan, a famous school teacher, and then from Pan Jiating, a famous Xiaolian. He was among the best in the county and state examinations. Guangxu three years (1877) palace examination Jinshi. He was a famous expert of salt administration in modern times, a Beijing official in the late Qing Dynasty, and a salt envoy of the Republic of China.

brief introduction

Yan Anlan (1851-1919) is a native of yuexigou Yueai village, tongtongtongguan Town, Zhen'an County, Shaanxi Province. Guangxu three years (1877) palace examination Jinshi. He was a famous expert of salt administration in modern times, a Beijing official in the late Qing Dynasty, and a salt envoy of the Republic of China.

Life of the characters

In 1875, he went to Sanyuan Hongdao academy to study

In 1877, he was a Jinshi, but he was not in charge of salt administration. In the early years of the Republic of China, he served as the salt transportation envoy of Sichuan.

Yan presided over the salt administration and paid attention to the actual investigation. In the first year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty (1909), he ignored the scorching heat and the rise of autumn rain

Salt farms in Henan and other seven provinces have been investigated for six months to understand the drawbacks of salt administration and the sufferings of the people

Sand, high market prices, so that many people have no salt to eat. On the basis of practical investigation, he drafted the rectification plan in 1910

Twenty four measures for salt administration were approved by the Qing government. Since then, the salt donation and miscellaneous courses have been coordinated, and the salt price has been reduced by half, which has made the huaishui River Basin more prosperous

The people of 14 prefectures and counties such as Runan and Guangzhou (now Huangchuan) benefited from it. Yan Zhen, a poet in Zhengyang, Henan Province

The poem praises: "a new government and a happy life for all the people can be called a good law. You people, you country, you good deeds, you dance in the streets. "

In the early years of the Republic of China, Yan was over 60 years old. Because of his great achievements in salt administration, the Beijing government appointed him as the salt transport envoy of Sichuan. He went to Sichuan,

In view of the situation of local salt merchants' bullying the market and the outflow of salt profits, we still started to conduct field investigation, and formulated a series of measures, such as centralized scattered salt, preparation of monopoly agencies, and establishment of a comprehensive management system

By changing the official transportation to private transportation, the purpose of "returning the production, receiving the sales, no salt accumulation near, no light food far" was achieved. The production, transportation and marketing of this product are three

The measures of paying equal attention to both of them are of positive significance to the reform of salt administration in modern China. When Yan was stationed in Luzhou in 1916, Cai E led the national defense army northward

After discussing yuan, Luzhou officials fled, and only Yan Zhao often dealt with official affairs. Cai E has heard of his integrity for a long time, and he has great admiration for it

Yan said: "today's Shu is not a public administration, and today's Sichuan salt is not a public administration."

All his life, Yan was honest and diligent, promoted advantages and eliminated disadvantages, and lived a simple life. After his death, Sichuan people built ancestral halls for him in Zhonghua stream, Leshan County, to protect him

As a permanent memorial. In front of the ancestral hall is a river, and behind it is a castle peak. A statue of Yan is worshipped in the ancestral hall, and a plaque is hung on it, which reads, "if you have made contributions to the people, you should sacrifice them.",

It can be seen that Sichuan people respect and love him.

Yan's works are very abundant, mainly including "Lianghuai salt law records", "salt government official system", "coastal salt producing state geography records" and so on. February 26, 1919

Death.

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