Qin and Han · Merchant

Wuyan 毋鹽氏

Attested BC 154

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wuyan was a Merchant.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 154 吳、楚兵之起…唯毋鹽氏出捐千金貸
Directly stated · Book of Han 103, passages 116-117

Events and relationships

Loaned at tenfold interest
BC 154 吳、楚兵之起 · Commercial · Moneylender
Directly stated · Book of Han 103, passages 117-119

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 103Volume 91: Usurers · 2 passages

唯毋鹽氏出捐千金貸，其息十之。 Only the Wuyan house floated a thousand gold at ruinous interest—ten parts on the principal.

一歲之中，則毋鹽氏息十倍，用此富關中。 Inside a single year the Wuyans collected tenfold on the loan and bought their way into the first rank of Guanzhong magnates.