Abstract: “Storing wealth among the people” was an important component of Confucian economic thought. The Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Emperors all absorbed this thought and further developed it in the course of their administration. The idea of “storing wealth among the people” may be summarized as follows: 1)peasants, workers, businessmen, and soldiers should get rich, but opposed attaching great importance to agriculture and despising business; 2)the rich and poor should get rich, but opposed relieving the poor thorough depriving the rich of the wealth;3)they maintained that the officials and the people get rich abiding by the law, and opposed corruption.