Chapter 1262 New Book Uploaded, Please Collect and Recommend

The new book "The World's Rich Merchants" has been uploaded. This is Luo Luo's transformation work. I beg everyone 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.

Unlike Luo Luo's previous five novels that were more about big patterns and hegemony, "The World's Rich Merchants" will be a small-scale novel that focuses on life. It is also Luo Luo's transformation work. Of course, Luo Luo's book will not be about life to the end, otherwise it would not start in the first year of Yuanfu of Zhezong. Emperor Zhezong died in the third year of Yuanfu, and then our great artist Emperor Zhao Ji ascended the throne...

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

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 person as Wu Dalang who sells pancakes. Wu Haogu is the great-grandson of Wu Zongyuan, a great painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is from a family of painters and calligraphers. In his previous life, he was also a painter who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Therefore, he would not cook pancakes or anything like that. He would definitely start out as a painter and art dealer.

Luo Luo has read a lot of novels about the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty. They are either promoted through the imperial examination or military merit. After the imperial examination, there must be a new political reform to lead the people of the Song Dynasty from top to bottom onto the road of capitalism. And if the military merit path rises, it is natural to seek to usurp the country.

However, Luo Luo wants to write a somewhat alternative path of wealthy merchants this time. Because in Luo Luo's view, it is very difficult for the literati to promote the development of capitalism. Even if one or two literati bureaucrats have such awareness and cognition, facing the obstruction of the huge literati group, it is actually very small.

After all, for the literati, it is the right way to gain political power through the imperial examination and then use political power to exchange for economic benefits. This is what is called "there are thousands of bushels of grain in books, and there is a golden house in books" (this is what Zhao Heng, the Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty said).

In order to protect this right of "there is a golden house in books", the literati who controlled 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 the bourgeoisie that could threaten the literati regime? The emphasis on commerce in the Song Dynasty was just that the literati needed merchants to provide them with wealth to support their soldiers and various toys for enjoyment.

So this time, Luo Luo did not intend to write about a literati who could shake the entire imperial examination literati group by himself, and of course he did not want to write about the iron-blooded strong Song Dynasty... The wealthy merchants with a huge fortune in the Song Dynasty might have some collusion with the literati in the Song Dynasty, and the warriors who were good at fighting were simply suspects of usurping the throne in the Song Dynasty. It was too difficult to want to be iron-blooded and strong Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Wu Haogu, the protagonist of "The Rich Merchants of the World", is a businessman, a calligraphy and painting merchant who was reborn in the prosperous and dreamy Tokyo Kaifeng at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Fortunately, in the era of Wu Haogu's rebirth, there was also an artist emperor who was the first in history, and Wu Haogu also had superb painting skills for later generations. With such a golden finger, Wu Haogu was able to gradually step onto the East Asian stage where Song, Liao, Jin, Xia, Goryeo, Japan, and Vietnam coexisted, and became a great merchant who traveled between all parties, and finally created a new era for merchants, using the methods of merchants to save our Chinese world.

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

Another reason is that the Northern Song Dynasty was not a unified empire. The Liao in the north, the Xia in the northwest, Dali and Vietnam in the southwest, the later Jin, and Goryeo 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 an era of coexistence of nations. Compared with the unified empire, the era of nations was undoubtedly conducive to the growth and development of merchants. The prosperity of commerce in the Song Dynasty was also related to this.

If the coexistence of nations could continue for another two or three hundred years, it could even go a step further to produce several merchant free states like Venice and Taipei, and the flower of capitalism might not be able to bloom in the countries of East Asia.

Only then would the Song Dynasty truly rise up with iron and blood!

Well, let's stop here for the new book. Luo Luo now assures everyone that he will try his best to write the book "The World's Heroes" to satisfy everyone.