Traveling through time and inspecting a border town in Grade 8, he just wanted to be an official in peace, until he discovered that he had the entire modern industrial civilization in his mind.
During the Jinghe period of the Great Song Dynasty, the border towns were poor, Beidi was a tiger, and the court was dim. While others were reciting poems and writing poems, Lu Yuan was burning lime, building forts, lighting furnaces, and forging fire guns. He defended the border with a great victory and became famous instantly - but he didn't want military glory, only industry: "Give it to the border army, give it to the court, we only want industry."
Starting from a hydraulic workshop, the Far East business grew like a snowball: the glass was as translucent as water, the market was filled with the aroma of pancreatic sweets, the sugar was sweeter than candied fruits, and tens of thousands of books were printed with movable type... The "merchants' lane" that everyone looked down upon in the past was turned into the foundation of the country by Lu Yuan.
But the more popular he is, the more people he blocks. In the south of the Yangtze River, the Shen family of Qiantang presided over three networks (aristocratic families/guilds/government) to jointly block you - cutting off your raw materials, blocking your sales, and blocking your docks; Cao Gongchen, the transshipment envoy between Zhejiang and Zhejiang, was behind the right minister of the DPRK; and He Jiuling of Huitong Bank could drain the money of the Far East with just one word. Raw materials, markets, banks, courts... Every obstacle is a dimensionality reduction attack and defense.
Business war is just the outside, rich countries are the inside. When the Beidi cavalry went south, the treasury was empty, and the government was in conflict, what Lu Yuan wanted to do was to use the first hydraulic workshop, the first futures contract, and the first bank to drag the entire Song Dynasty into a new era.
The world is prosperous, and everyone is here for profit. Science and technology promote business, and business makes the country rich. Let's take a look at how the Far East's No. 1 Science and Technology Chamber of Commerce used abacus and fire to stir up changes in a dynasty for a century.
