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The new book "The World's Rich Businessmen" has been uploaded. This is Luo Luo's transformation work. I beg you all to support Luo Luo.

"The World's Rich Merchants" tells the story of the Zhezong and Huizong dynasties in the late Northern Song Dynasty. It tells the story of a modern painter who traveled to the first year of Yuanfu in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Different from Luo Luo's previous five novels which focus on the big picture and the struggle for hegemony, "The World's Rich Merchants" will be a small-scale novel focusing on the flow of life. It is also Luo Luo's transformation work. Of course, Luo Luo's book will not live to the end, otherwise it will not start in the first year of Zhe Zong Yuan Fu. Emperor Zhe Zong Yuan Fu died three years ago, and then our great artist emperor Zhao Ji came to the throne...

Before the new book officially begins, Luo Luo wants to make some explanations.

The protagonist of the new book is surnamed Wu and named Haogu. He is the eldest son in the family, so he can also be called Wu Dalang, but he is not the same person as the Wu Dalang who sells cooking cakes. Wu Haogu is the great-grandson of Wu Zongyuan, the great painter of the Northern Song Dynasty. He comes from a well-established family of calligraphers and painters. In his previous life, he was also a painter who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Therefore, he will not make cakes or anything else. He will definitely follow the development path of a painter and an art dealer at the beginning.

Luo Luo also read a lot of novels about the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty. He was either promoted in the imperial examination or achieved military success. After promotion in the imperial examination, there must be reforms under the new political system, leading the people of the Song Dynasty from top to bottom to embark on the broad road of capitalism. As military success increases, one must naturally seek to usurp the country.

But this time Luo Luo wants to write about a somewhat alternative way of a wealthy businessman. Because in Luo Luo's view, it is very difficult for scholar-officials to promote the development of capitalism. Even if one or two scholar-officials have such awareness and understanding, they are actually very small in the face of the obstruction of the huge scholar-officials group.

After all, for scholar-bureaucrats, it was the right way to gain political power through the imperial examination and then use political power in exchange for economic benefits. This is the so-called book that contains thousands of bells of millet, and the book that contains its own golden house (this is what Zhao Heng, Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, said).

In order to protect this right of "owning the golden house in the book", the scholar-officials who controlled the power of the Song Dynasty spared no effort to suppress the warriors who defended the country. How could they vigorously support the rise of the merchant class and tolerate their transformation into assets that could threaten the scholar-officials' regime? class? The Song Dynasty's mercantile business was just that the scholar-bureaucrats needed merchants to provide them with the wealth to raise soldiers and various pleasures.

Therefore, this time Luo Luo did not intend to write about a scholar-bureaucrat who could single-handedly shake up the entire imperial examination scholar-bureaucrat group. Of course, he did not want to write about an iron-blooded and powerful Song Dynasty... Rich businessmen with thousands of fortunes in the Song Dynasty might have some official business with the scholar-bureaucrats. Collusion, and warriors who were good at fighting were simply suspects of plotting to usurp the throne in the Song Dynasty. It was too difficult to conquer the Song Dynasty with iron blood.

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

However, fortunately, in the era of Wu Haogu's rebirth, there was still an artist emperor who was the best in history, and Wu Haogu brought with him superb painting skills for later generations. With such a golden finger, Wu Haogu could gradually step onto the stage of East Asia where countries such as Song, Liao, Jin, Xia, Goryeo, Japan, and Vietnam coexisted, and became a wealthy businessman traveling among all parties, and finally created a A new era belongs to businessmen, using the methods of wealthy businessmen to restore China's destiny.

Although the Song Dynasty had some setbacks, it was a peak in the history of Chinese civilization. It was not very good at military affairs, 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 moderate in the history of Chinese feudal dynasties. The most enlightened. If there was any dynasty that allowed China's merchant class to develop and grow, it was probably the Song Dynasty.

To give you another reason, the Northern Song Dynasty was not a unified empire. There were Liao in the north, Xia in the northwest, Dali and Vietnam in the southwest, the Jin Dynasty, the rising Jin, and Korea across the sea from the Song Dynasty, and even Japan, which admired Chinese culture. , are all members of the Chinese economic and cultural circle.

The Song Dynasty was in an era where various countries coexisted. Compared with a unified empire, the era of various countries was undoubtedly conducive to the growth and development of merchants. The prosperity of commerce in the Song Dynasty also had a certain relationship with this.

If this kind of coexistence of countries can continue for another two to three hundred years, it can even go further to create merchant free states like several Venices and ***, and the flowers of capitalism may not be able to bloom in the countries of East Asia.

Only then will the Song Dynasty truly rise to prominence!

Okay, that’s it for the new book. Luo Luo now assures everyone that he will try his best to write the book "The World's Rich Businessmen" to everyone's satisfaction.