Tea and Horse Agency
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The Tea and Horse Agency was an agency within the Song Dynasty Court bureaucracy, established by Wang Anshi. The Agency oversaw the exchange of Chinese tea for Tibetan horses; its officials consisted chiefly of merchants recruited directly into the agency, who were made eligible for promotion based on the extent of their revenues.
References
- Valerie Hansen, The Open Empire, New York: W.W. Norton & Co (2000), 271.
