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The river is full of such cargo vessels transporting various goods and food items to different locations in the city.In the Northern Song (960-1127), the Bian River has become one of the major water routes that the government uses to transport…

A merchant sitting on the bags, supervising the laborers moving bags of grains from two boats to the shore. Notice, also, the outfit that he has on -- the loose-fitting clothing he has is decidedly not designed for manual labor. The laborers, on the…

Merchants stand with their goods in front of an official writing at a table. They may be paying a value-added tax on the goods they are bringing into the city. (Hansen, 1996b, sec.23)