Today's maritime merchants, especially Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, and Qiongzhou, which mainly travel to the Nanyang region, are different from ten years ago.●⌒, they are used to doing business in accordance with the business order. Faced with the court's decisive disruption of the market, they no longer take the attitude of bullying, but they actively make their own voices and spread their voices to the court through various channels. The core content is: they can do business, but they have to abide by the rules. No matter who they are, they have to abide by the rules!

This change is a big pit that Hong Tao worked hard for more than ten years and was carefully dug for the Southern Song Dynasty court! Generally speaking, the slower the digging speed, the bigger and deeper the pit, the more deadly it is. He only dug the Mongol Empire for more than three years, but the result made the Mongol Empire unable to recover and could not recover in two or three years. The depth of this big pit that had been dug for more than ten years can be imagined.

However, pits and pits are different. Some pits have sharp thorns under them. No matter how big or small it falls, they will hurt their muscles and bones. This is the pit that Hong Tao dug for the Mongols. Some pits are full of feces, which will not hurt their lives if they fall, but they are extremely disgusting. After climbing up, they will be laughed at by others. This is the pit that Hong Tao dug for Europeans. Some pits have nothing under them, but they are slippery and they will not be hurt or disgusting when they fall down. However, if you can't climb out, or if you don't make some compromise with the person who dug the pit, you will never be able to climb out. This is the pit that Hong Tao dug for the Southern Song Dynasty court.

On how to influence the Southern Song society to complete the transformation as soon as possible and make up for its own shortcomings, Hong Tao thought for a long time before he came to a conclusion that he could only adopt a bottom-to-top approach, imitating the European bourgeois revolution, and let the Southern Song bourgeoisie stand up and ask for their own rights with the feudal aristocracy and imperial power.

The advantage of doing this is that it can avoid large-scale civil wars as much as possible, and you don’t have to fight against the Southern Song Dynasty. No matter how Zhao Fan and Zheng Qing and others play power tricks to make profits for their own families, they are all Song people, but their vision and realm are not at a higher level, and they are not a group of people who must be completely eliminated.

If you force yourself to intervene in the internal affairs of the Southern Song Dynasty, then there is only one result, war! As long as the war begins, no matter what the reason is, the ordinary people will suffer in the end. This answer has been proven countless times in history, without exception. The people of the Southern Song Dynasty did not understand who to fight for, so they could only passively rush up and die in front of their cannons and muskets, even if they finally win. What can they bring to them?

Advanced and wealthy? Such a big country is still a country that has been destroyed. Even if there is no external threat, how many years will it take to recover? How many people will die of illness, starve to death, and freeze to death in this process? I am almost fifty years old, how many years can I work for this country? Can I lead it on a seemingly correct development path before I close my eyes? These are all unknowns. Is it necessary to prove that such a large number of unknowns, and there will be corpses everywhere and thousands of miles of wasteland?

Hong Tao will never choose this choice. He would rather do nothing than do something like dyeing his merit book with other people's blood. That would be the same as Wen Hao and others. Hong Tao never thinks he is an ambitious man, politician, or military strategist. He has nothing to do with these families, nor does he want to be involved. If he insists on being a family, he would rather be Hong Taostein than be an emperor. This is a matter of personal personality and preferences.

In addition, Hong Tao also tried his best to avoid the occurrence of pure violence overthrowing the current regime. He believed that China had adopted pure violence to change dynasties for thousands of years, and every time the city was changed, the king's flag was killed everywhere. The idea of ​​the king and the loser was not good. This dissonance logic also has more disadvantages than benefits for the nation's development. When this idea develops a habit and is deeply implanted into the thought of a nation, this matter will be troublesome, and the saying that the regime comes from the gun will be over-interpreted.

Hong Tao has always fantasized about putting internal conflicts in a state where a gentleman speaks but does not act like a man, and should not be so cruel to his own people. If he is strong, he should go to foreigners. Don’t bend down when he sees foreigners, and stand up straight when he sees his own people; don’t treat foreigners as friendly countries, and treat his own people as a thief. He believes that all this should start from the root. Set a precedent for peaceful transformation. As for whether he can become a role model and become the basis for imitation and improvement in future generations, it is nothing to do with him. He has always been in charge of killing and burying. As for ideals, you always have to chase them. It is another matter if you can catch up or not.

Moreover, Hong Tao did this with theoretical basis. Didn’t the two philosophical masters, Marx and Engels, also said that if you want to achieve the highest social form of communism, you must follow the process step by step. You need to take about five steps. The first step is the primitive communist society, the second step is the slave society, the third step is the feudal society, the fourth step is the capitalist society, and the fifth step is the communist society.

Currently, Hong Tao believes that the Southern Song Dynasty was in the advanced stage of feudal society and had already shown signs of transformation to a capitalist society. That's why he tried his best to push it so that it could complete this stage of transformation in the fastest and most troublesome way and become the world's first capitalist country. The Jinhe Empire is actually a capitalist country, but due to Hong Tao's random patchwork, it is already a bit different. If he insists on specifying a category, it can be considered state capitalism.

As for the socialist model, Hong Tao believes that it is not yet reached, which is the highest social model of mankind. The primary stage of communist society must have sufficient material conditions and spiritual levels to try. For example, some countries in later Nordic countries have reached the highest point of capitalist society. No one needs to revolution, they will gradually become overdoing the primary stage of communism. The reason is very simple. They are too rich and the quality of the people is high enough. The government can no longer fool the people, so they must start to upgrade.

To enter a capitalist society, two basic conditions must be met. The first is that this society already has the foundation of a commodity society, and the second is that this society already has a new class, that is, the bourgeoisie. In fact, the word bourgeoisie is not a derogatory term. It is just because of a certain decade of movement that people frown when they hear this word.

The society of the Southern Song Dynasty already had the foundation of a commodity society and its economic development was very comprehensive. It had everything that should be had, and there were no fewer things that should not be had. However, there were no real bourgeoisie in the Southern Song Dynasty society, and their reserves had, such as handicraft owners, workshop owners, landlords, and big merchants. What Hong Tao had been doing for more than ten years was to train the first batch of bourgeoisie for the Southern Song Dynasty from these reserves.

The reason why he chose maritime merchants instead of other businessmen was also something that Hong Tao did deliberately. Although maritime merchants are also merchants, they are different from other businessmen. They are more aggressive and have a tougher personality. As long as they provide them with the necessary conditions, they dare to resist anyone, including the government and the country. To put it bluntly, this is a group of guys who do not obey discipline. They dare to do anything if they are forced to force them. The so-called barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes. These people have a second home, a third home, land, real estate, and shops overseas. As long as the boat is there, they can survive anywhere.

In fact, Hong Tao didn't pinch his neck and instill anything in them. He just let them feel it on their own in daily life and business interactions, and there is another different way of life to live. By the way, he got used to their blood and gave them the confidence to say no to all injustice. It is not enough to just say it, and he has to dare to take action after he finishes. Even if he sees blood, he will never retreat because they know that they will support them behind them. As long as they do not violate their own regulations, they will not have no place to stand.

This is like being a child who has been obedient to his children since childhood and encourages them to challenge social rules. It is strange that such children can control them when they grow up. Now these Southern Song marches are children spoiled by Hong Tao and raised. They can't stand this unfairness and will no longer endure it silently like their ancestors. They have to resist. Even if they are facing imperial power and the court, they want to give it a try.

"Sell the deck cannons to the sea merchants of the Strait Company, and each ship is limited to purchase five doors!" It is still impossible to see how the Southern Song Dynasty court would handle this matter. The transportation and information transmission in this era were too inconvenient. Guangzhou was nearly two thousand miles away from Lin'an, and it took more than half a month to go back and forth. Hong Tao couldn't wait and didn't want to wait any longer. If the Southern Song Dynasty court easily suppressed this sea merchant strike and wanted these people to stand up and protect their own rights, they would have to wait for the next life.

Wen Nan was originally in Guangzhou, but after hearing the market strike, he rushed back as soon as possible. In his opinion, these maritime merchants were a little overreacting. Now it was when the Jinhe Empire was discussing with the Southern Song Dynasty court to train musketeers. The maritime merchants made such a fuss that would inevitably make the Southern Song Dynasty court suspect the Jinhe Empire. It is true that the Strait Company is a commercial group formed by the maritime merchants themselves, but others are not fools. As long as they are merchants in port cities, how many people don’t know who is standing behind this guild? The court will not be confused to this extent.

"Your Majesty has also been involved in this matter? Could it be that they..." But after hearing Hong Tao's order, Wen Nan immediately figured it out that Hong Tao was really making trouble behind the matter! But he couldn't understand why Hong Tao, who had always adopted a policy of gentleness towards the Southern Song court, suddenly made a 180-degree turn and turned it into a secretly plot against the Southern Song court.
Chapter completed!