Capitalist Tang Dynasty

This doesn't look good. When I subscribed for more than 160 chapters, a woman suddenly appeared. She looks the same as the protagonist's previous girlfriend? Moreover, they were engaged. The protagonist was so stupid that he insisted on destroying other people's marriages, which poisoned me to death.

Not black. Make suggestions. Got this from Daily Recommendations, but didn't read it. The title of this book is attractive to people who have just started to read historical texts, or have just started to see through Tang Dynasty texts, or have just started to see through ancient times and engage in economics.

It's very toxic. Don't be fooled by the "capitalism" in the title. The toxic aspects I've seen so far include: a slave society where there are free laborers, but the protagonist has to pay them; a merchant's daughter who lives off him can talk back to him; and the most ridiculous thing is that the protagonist is a prince—one of the most powerful people in contemporary society—who keeps apologizing, saying "I'm sorry" for being disrespected, and then just smiles.

As a modern person who transmigrates into the body of a prince who has no chance of becoming the crown prince, shouldn't he be more cautious? At the very least, he should at least wait until he's in his own fiefdom before showing off, right? The protagonist of this book is trying to win over the royal family, officials, and all sorts of swaggering around. What's he up to?

Shouldn't the treatment of merchants have been improved in the late Ming Dynasty? That way, merchants wouldn't betray the country. Isn't that what capital is all about? In ancient times, writing about improving the treatment of merchants was basically tantamount to the downfall of the country. So it's all just authors indulging in self-delusion, not understanding the essence of society.

Bicycles are highly technical; the chains alone are difficult to make by hand and extremely expensive. Not to mention the chemical lubricants involved. Steam engines are much easier to manufacture than bicycles.

Colonialism was the only way out for feudal dynasties. Without industrialization, the primitive accumulation of capital plundered through colonization was the best fuel for a feudal dynasty to move towards the Industrial Revolution. If we hadn't had those complicated formalities and the limitations of considering ourselves the Celestial Empire, we could have plundered enough resources in the Tang…

What the hell? An overseas vassal state establishing itself as an empire? During the Zhou Dynasty, there were countless vassal states, none of them dared to call themselves the Son of Heaven? Who would dare call themselves the Son of Heaven if the Zhou Dynasty hadn't collapsed? Shouldn't overseas vassal states normally be called kings? How can they establish themselves as empires? You, an overseas state, dare to call yourself emperor? Do you even know where the word "emperor" comes from?

This was the first time-travel novel I ever read. I was probably in the first year of junior high school when I stumbled upon it and was blown away. It opened the door to my love of reading novels. Back then, the author was still updating the book, and I was using a 9-key mobile phone, flipping through the pages one by one. Each page only had about twenty or thirty words.

History has proven that the path of colonialism is not viable.