The image is a photograph of a plaque on a wall. The plaque is titled "In the early days of Ming Dynasty, or the 14th century, Shanxi merchants began to trade grain and salt, as a result of taking advantage of enormous military demands of the northern frontier and implementation of the law acting on salt trading regulations. They succeeded in field operations and gradually came to fame. In the following 200 years, they continued to reach out to more than 300 years, and their influence throughout the ancient land. With over-layered fields throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty was the most important merchant groups in the Ming-Qing period. In this 19th century Chinese merchants created a form of currency transferring system called "Qing Dynasty." The plaque also mentions that the Qing Dynasty was a leading financial capital in the early 20th century.