學界對民國初年商人與政治的研究存在時間和空間上的缺陷，並可能影響到觀點的完整性，尤其對1919年後商人行為的描述過於政治化。筆者認為五四運動前後商人的基本關懷是一致的，秩序始終是他們的根本訴求。商人的一些與政治有關的行為是時勢推動的結果，而非商人政治意識的普遍提升所致。此點可從戰亂發生時商人的表現清楚地看出。 接著，作者以1924年「齊盧之戰」為例，來觀察江浙商人如何追求社會秩序的穩定。戰前為保持地方和平，商人與士紳在兩省盡力斡旋，反對一切可能危及秩序的政治行動，並獲得一些成果，但最終戰事還是爆發，給商民造成了慘重的損失。此時商人做了很多挽救秩序的努力，承擔起保衛地方、援救難民的責任。作為不同軍事勢力間的調停人，他們亦促成了戰事的有序結束，對政治形勢的轉化產生一定影響。 藉本文所述史實，作者認為既有社會秩序之維護是理解江浙商人群體行為的關鍵，其某些政

　　　　　Past researches into the relation between merchants and politics in early Republic on China, suffered from prejudices as a result a failure to take into consideration the factors of time and space. This is eapecially so with respect to the description of the collective activity of merchants after 1919, as it has been too much politicized. In author's opinion, the primary concerns of merchants before-and-after the May fourth Movement are consistent. To maintain order of a sort is always their fundamental purpose. The merchant's collective activity relating to politics was basically pushed by the current situations of the time, and not by the improvement of their political consciousness at large. And this can be seen clearly from their behaviors in war time. The author will take The War between Luyongxiang and Qixiyuan in 1924 as a example, and probe that how did the merchants purse the stability of the order. Before the war, the merchants and gentry took their best to mediate between the governor of two provinces for preserving the peace. And they opposed any political act which probably harm the order. The war broke out lastly, even they got some fruits in the peace movement. It brought tremendous damage. In the war time, the merchants made great efforts to retrieval order, undertook the obligation to build the local armed forces and save the refugees. They continue worked as a mediator different military groups, accelerated the end of the war in sequence and affected the transition of the situation. According to the facts in the article, the author suggest that preserving the stability of social order is a key to understand the collective behaviors of Jiangzhe merchants. Their political participation were only some urgent responses when the peace face crisis, and also temporal cost expenditures in exchange with steady social order, but to some extends they made some important influences to the politic shift.