Yangzhou (Grand Canal Hub)

Timeline

1. 801–850Tang-era Yangzhou city · Jiangsu ProvinceYangzhou controlled the canal and Yangtze waterways; the salt and iron transfer commissioner and grain transport commissioner yamen managed Jianghuai salt revenues and grain-ship dispatch. Foreign merchants, Hu traders, and scholars gathered in the city, whose bustling markets shipped revenues to the two capitals.
2. 851–900Tang-era Yangzhou city · Jiangsu ProvinceThough Huainan military commissioner separatism and raids by Huang Chao's remnants disrupted local order, the main canal grain-transport route still ran north through Yangzhou, and the city's function as a distribution and transshipment dock for southeastern goods persisted into the late ninth century.