Notable people
10 peopleFigures with the most linked events, works and records.
Ministers
Finance Ministers
Ministers who managed revenue, salt and iron, grain transport and tax reform
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Mural guide
In a riverside storehouse, sacks of grain and white salt blocks are stacked high; workers weigh grain in a basket hung from a large steelyard, others carry sacks along a plank onto a barge at the right, and a clerk sits at an abacus beside bundled tally sticks.
Finance ministers are officials who managed the state's revenue, including taxation, the salt and iron monopolies, grain transport and coinage, and some also pushed fiscal and institutional reform. Their proposals often drew debate and are recorded in memorials and the treatises on food and money in the standard histories. They differ from chief ministers and general officials in that finance is their main achievement.
People in this role
- Guan Zhongc. 719 BCE–645 BCE
- Zi ChanBirth unknown–522 BCE
- Ran Youc. 522 BCE–death unknown
- Li KuiDates unknown; served Marquis Wen of Wei
- Wu Qic. 440 BCE–381 BCE
- Shang Yangc. 390 BCE–338 BCE
- Zhao SheDates unknown; defeated Qin at Yuyu in 270 BCE
- Chao Cuoc. 200 BCE–154 BCE
- Zhang CangBirth unknown–152 BCE
- Sang Hongyangc. 152 BCE–80 BCE
- Wang Mang45 BCE–23 CE
- Su Chuo498 CE–546 CE
- Gao Jiong541 CE–607 CE
- Su Wei542 CE–623 CE
- Han Huang723 CE–787 CE
- Yang Yanc. 727 CE–781 CE
- Yang GuozhongBirth unknown–756 CE
- Wang ShuwenBirth year unknown; died 806; led the Yongzhen Reform in 805
- Wang PiDates unknown; active in the Yongzhen Reform of 805; died in exile soon after (c. 806)
- Han TaiDates unknown; active c. 805
- Zhao YanBirth year unknown; died 923
- Kou Jian966 CE–1031 CE
- Xue Tian970 CE–1034 CE
- Fan Zhongyan989 CE–1052 CE
- Ye Qingchen1000 CE–1049 CE
No people in this role for that dynasty.