明万历年间有书记载:“富室之称雄者,江南则推新安,江北即推山右。新安大贾,鱼盐为业,藏镪有至百万者,其他二三十万则中贾耳。”新安即徽州,山右即山西,意思是说,最富有的当数南方的徽商和北方的晋商。清朝国力最为强盛之时是乾隆时代,当时国库存银高达7000多万两,以国为家的乾隆皇帝却感叹说:“富哉商乎,朕不及也!”他所说的“商”就是徽商。明 Ming Wanli has a book records: “rich room of the said male, Jiangnan pushed Xin'an, Jiangbei that push the right .Dah Sing Sin, fish for the industry, possession of millions of people, the other two hundred and thirty thousand in the Jia'er. ”Xin'an is Huizhou, Shanxi is the right mountain, which means that the richest number of merchants in the south and merchants in the north. The Qing Dynasty was the most powerful when the Qianlong era, when the State Treasury as much as 7,000 ten thousand two hundred silver, Qianlong emperors for the country but lamented that: “Fuzai business not less than nothing!” He said "Is the merchants. Bright