The new book "The World's Great Merchants" has been ed. This is Luo Luo's transformation work. I would like to ask everyone to support Luo Luo.

"The Legend of the World" tells the story of Zhezong and Huizong dynasties in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and tells the story of a modern painter traveling to the first year of the Yuan Fu in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Unlike the five novels that were previously written by Luo Luo, which focused on major and competitive hegemony, "The World Hao Shang" will be a novel with a small pattern and a life-like flow, which is also a transformational work of Luo Luo. Of course, Luo Luo's books will not live to the end, otherwise it would not be chosen to start the first year of the Yuanfu of Zhezong. Emperor Zhezong died in the third year of Yuanfu, and then the one who ascended the throne was our great artist, Emperor Zhao Ji...

And before the new book officially begins, Luo Luo will give some explanation.

The protagonist of the new book is surnamed Wu, named Haogu, and is the eldest son of the family, so he can also be called Wu Dalang, but he is not the same as Wu Dalang, who sells cooked cakes. Wu Haogu is the great-grandson of Wu Zongyuan, a great painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is a family of calligraphy and painting. He was also a professional painter from the Academy of Fine Arts in his previous life, so he would not make cooked cakes and other things. The beginning must be the development route of painters and painters.

Luo Luo has also read a lot of novels about the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, either the imperial examination or the military merits. After the imperial examination, it must be a new coupon reform and reform, leading the people of the Song Dynasty to embark on the broad road of capitalism from top to bottom. If the military merits rise, you will naturally have to usurp the country.

However, Luo Luo wanted to write a somewhat alternative business approach this time. Because in Luo Luo Luo's view, it is very difficult for the scholars to promote the development of capitalism. Even if one or two scholars and bureaucrats have such awareness and cognition, they are actually very small in the face of the large scholar-official group.

After all, for scholars and officials, it is the right way to obtain political power through the imperial examination and then exchange political power for economic benefits. This is the so-called "A thousand bells of grain in the book, and the golden house in the book (this is what Zhao Heng, Zhenzong of the Great Song Dynasty, said).

In order to protect this right of "there is a golden house in the book", the literati who held the Song Dynasty regime spared no effort to suppress the warriors who defended the country. How could they vigorously support the rise of the merchant class and tolerate them to transform into a bourgeoisie that could threaten the literati regime? The literati's emphasis on business was just that the literati needed merchants to provide them with wealth to raise soldiers and various enjoyable things.

So this time Luo Luo did not plan to write a literati who could shake the entire imperial examination literati group by his own strength, and of course he didn't want to write a literati-blooded strong Song... The rich businessman with thousands of family resources might also collude with the literati and businessmen in the Song Dynasty, and the martial man who could compete for war was simply a suspect in the usurpation of the throne in the Song Dynasty. It was too difficult to make the Song Dynasty strong.

Therefore, Wu Haogu, the protagonist of "The World's Great Business", is a businessman, a calligraphy and painting businessman reborn in Kaifeng, Tokyo, who was prosperous and dreamy in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Fortunately, in the era when Wu Haogu was reborn, there was also an artist emperor who was the best in the ages. Wu Haogu also brought his superb painting skills from later generations. With such a golden finger, Wu Haogu could gradually step onto the East Asian stage where all countries coexisted, the Song, Liao, Jin, Xia, Goryeo, Japan, and Vietnam, which became a great merchant who wandered among all parties, and eventually created a new era of merchants, using the methods of merchants to win back the heavens of our China.

Although the Song Dynasty was a bit frustrated, it was a peak in the history of Chinese civilization. The military was not very good, but it was firmly ahead of the world in other aspects. Moreover, the ruling class of the Northern Song Dynasty was the most moderate and enlightened in the history of Chinese feudal dynasties. If there was that dynasty that could make the Chinese merchant class grow and grow, it would probably be the only Song Dynasty.

Let me give you a little more reason. The Northern Song Dynasty was not a unified empire. Liao in the north, Xia in the northwest, Dali and Vietnam in the southwest, Jin in the later years, Goryeo, which was across the sea from the Song Dynasty, and even Japan, which admired Chinese culture, were all members of the Chinese economic and cultural circle.

The Song Dynasty was in an era of coexistence of all countries. Compared with a unified empire, the era of all countries was undoubtedly conducive to the growth and development of merchants. The prosperity of business in the Song Dynasty was also related to this.

If such nations coexist for another two or three hundred years, it can even further produce free states like Venice and Genoa, and the flowers of capitalism may not be able to bloom in the countries of summer in East Asia.

Only then will the Song Dynasty truly rise to a strong iron-blooded power!
Chapter completed!