It is not a bad thing for businessmen to be in power, many poets and scholars in Jiangnan are 'businessmen and excellent scholars', when the Sui and Tang dynasties opened the imperial examination, so that the poor family has a channel to promote the official eunuch, and now there is an additional official examination, and it is not difficult for businessmen with shallow roots to become civil servants. Moreover, because the largest merchant was the imperial court industry, he not only controlled the profits and losses of the treasury internally, revised the code to protect the people and merchants, but also controlled the subject countries and competed for the international market in the form of state monopoly externally, which was almost invincible.

Judging from the current population of Dayu, although there has been a breakthrough growth, it is far from the point where it is necessary to colonize overseas to relieve the pressure of survival, so it will certainly not have the strong desire for expansion that Western countries have. Therefore, from the very beginning, Gu Ci purposefully used his position of power to be an official businessman, and tied the royal family, important ministers and the imperial court to this carriage as much as possible. What's more, the imperial elites around her are not only happy to see this, but also a group of think tanks that spare no effort to support her in striding forward. This can only show that many high-level people in Dayu have seen the trend of business development, and this land is also enough to produce sufficient manpower, material resources and knowledge reserves for new business models.

The commercial system gradually improved, and the status of merchants improved, which was also a matter of course. People who have capital must change their status, otherwise why would the nouveau riche buy oil painting decorations, or spend money to be an official. The reason why the imperial examination appeared is naturally because the imperial power needs other forces to fight against the clans that control most of the resources, and the phrase 'princes and princes will have a kind of Xiangning' is familiar to everyone, and those who dare to practice it have it from generation to generation.

However, for a continental agricultural country founded on land, the situation will be even more complicated by the emergence of commercial interest groups that control a large amount of capital, in addition to the original interest groups formed by relying on land resources. All the enclaves controlled by the navy will definitely become the subject states of Dayu in the future, like the Sriwijaya, with the mode of economic control greater than military control, even in areas such as Annam and Piguo, which have been incorporated into the national territory and adopted the city and county system, if it were not for the status of the foreign relatives of the political envoys, I am afraid that the imperial court would still treat these new people with the attitude of 'the king does not rule Yidi, those who come do not refuse, and those who go do not pursue'.

The Chinese tradition is that the gentry control the land, because of the hidden land, tax exemption and other measures, a large amount of land is more and more concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, the output of land requires stability and closure, and the flow of people or commodities can easily affect the quantity and value of grain production. Although Dayu has begun to take measures to curb the pace and trend of land annexation, with the further development of commerce, the various primitive accumulations required will destroy this simple relationship established on land, and even make the land itself a link that can be bought and sold and circulated, just like the people on the land. Different principles will lead to a direct conflict between the two interest groups, and if the capital group's external expansion stalls or fails, it will in turn exacerbate domestic land annexation, because the Chinese nation has a strong demand for land for thousands of years, and the sense of security formed by the Chinese nation is like the stock market crash, capital flooding into the property market, or 'if you have money to deposit in the bank, it is better to buy a house'. At that time, more potential problems and contradictions will be exposed, which will inevitably cause many conservatives to exclaim that 'shaking the country's foundation' and reiterating the argument of 'valuing business and destroying etiquette'.

When endorsing, she knows that 'productivity changes the relations of production', but as a party, she doesn't know what is the point of 'change', what conflicts will occur, and whether the result will be forward or backward, even if she doesn't meet it at the moment, her son or grandson will also encounter it. Therefore, she thought that through the feudal system of the Warring States Period, the land was limited, and she could only work technology and commerce to increase production and capital, and she could not have the stupid idea of banning commerce and locking the country.

Social change has always been a pyramid for a spire, and the people at the bottom can only take advantage of this spire change process to achieve a class leap, except that education will not change this, nor will the rule of law, let alone technology. As a person in the spire, Gu Ci didn't want to be the one to be replaced, but fortunately, her husband was a person who was enterprising and brave enough to accept new things, and the timing, measures and executors he chose were very powerful. Newspapers have become the most basic level of ideological and political education, to popularize to the self-sufficient officials and gentry what is 'country', what is 'people', what is 'business', when the small peasant economy encounters the impact of Western civilization, there is a unified understanding, and then to choose, judge, digest, absorb, far safer and more secure than to be broken and reconstructed. Of course, for Chinese people who love the land, it would be better to tell them directly that there are many borderless lands overseas, and there is no need to fight to the death for the current point.

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Looking at the Toei on the other hand, why they were keen on the lower Katsugami was because the shogunate's division was to block the classes and determine the division of 'emperor-shogun-daimyo-samurai-peasant-craftsman-merchant', supplemented by the constraints of Shinto and Buddhism, one believed that the emperor was a descendant of the gods, and determined the distinction between man and god, and the other used the 'reincarnation theory' to persuade each class to follow its own way. But the Heike broke this tradition, a merchant could become a retainer, a peasant could pick up a sword and become a samurai, a samurai could raise his arms and shout to overthrow the daimyo to the throne, so why was it difficult to become a shogun?

Any culture and polity is built on an economic basis, and it is a small island nation with many mountains and few lands, with only three large plains -, Kanto, and Noo. Whether it is the emperor who seems to eat the fireworks of the world, the nobles who pay attention to the noble blood, or the grassroots samurai class who cultivate the fields and protect the land in wartime, their only source of income is land. It was difficult for the government in the middle of the long and narrow country to have enough control over the country, and the region could not support an army dedicated to the emperor to crusade against the restless landlords in the east and west, so the only option was to develop Shinto religion to maintain the prestige of the imperial power and use the feudal system to control the fields outside.

The partition brought about a manor economy, and when there was not enough technology to develop copper, silver, gold and other currencies, Mibu was the currency of the island nation. When the coins of the Ding Dynasty flowed into Dongying and became currency, it brought a catastrophe to the royal family who completely depended on the output of the land for their livelihood, and originally ten buckets of grain were enough to exchange for a horse that showed the status of a samurai, but now the copper coins passed through a hand, and the money exchanged for ten buckets of rice could only buy a horse's butt at some point. Coupled with the 'division and succession' of the equal division of the sons, the result is similar to the 'Tui En Order', and everyone can get less and less land. If you don't have land, you have no money, you have no money to borrow, you can't afford to borrow usury, you can only sell land, and when the land is gone, you naturally have no money -- this is a vicious circle that will never change in land annexation.

Those who have a force value do not have enough HP of their own, and of course they have to snatch blood vials and bandages from elsewhere. The Uesugi family was born out of nowhere, not because they had more resources than the Genpei family, but because they adapted to the times and made a small change in the system - the eldest son inherited the family business, and the other sons went out to grab new territory. With the new land distribution method, it meant that the captured land would be re-divided, and the Uesugi family was obviously more popular than the Genpei family, who simply relied on the old forces of the and Kanto Plains to become promoted, so they were able to secretly buy or persuade the various forces of the Taira camp to succeed in killing and replacing them with a single blow when the Taira clan was about to enjoy the fruits of victory and relax their spirits.

Although the primogeniture system made it possible to gather family resources and no longer subdivide them, the economic base formed based on scattered land did not fundamentally change, and the guardian and guardian generations who obtained the shogunate's feudal feuds naturally gathered the strength of their own family and became a daimyo. Each of the daimyo must have supported the other sons and brothers who did not have the right to inherit to expand their territory and start a new round of foreign wars and annexations.

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For Dayu, a small place like Dongying, which has a long distance and a long travel time, is much lower than the shipping route of the Three Buddhas, and is only a little more important than a small string of islands of the size of the Ryukyus, so it is not worth spending too much energy. It was enough to be a commercial vassal to obtain gold and silver, and the envoys could let the merchants concurrently serve as long as they controlled Tsushima, and they did not even need to garrison the island.

The longer and more fierce the civil war fought, the more they had to rely on Dayu's sea trade to import gold and silver to Dayu, so the Privy Council, under the advice of the emperor and the crown prince, quickly formulated a strategy of 'Fusangang, occupy Ochimaki, and control Izumo' - focusing on supporting Nobuta, taking the Kai gold mine as the best, maintaining the status quo of Shimazu Minoru and Nagasumunebu, cracking down on the pirates smuggled by Oki, co-opting them, focusing on protecting Izumo's silver mines, and choosing a daimyo to cooperate with in Izumo. Of course, if Tiger Yoshi's mind is good enough to deal with Kaga Ichijozong, it is also a good partner to cooperate with in Noto Open Port.

As for the presence of monks and soldiers, the monastery became a daimyo in the actual sense, which made the Privy Council hesitate. The more troubled the times, the more 'orthodox' ideas are needed to imprison hierarchical relations, which is a tool for the new superiors to prevent them from being subordinate. However, the Buddhism of Dongying often relied on the output of the fields and the offerings of the believers, and there was no demand for trade, and even opposed the establishment of mutual trade, because once the believers left the local area, they would give money to other monasteries! With such resistance, Dayu has one more condition when choosing a partner - dare to destroy the Buddha and stand again.

Another unexpected gain is the Dongying mercenaries. Many samurai lost their heads of families due to the war, and they did not want to 'surrender to the enemy' and became ronin. Before Dayu arrived, most of them became pirates, roaming and smuggling around Tsushima Island, Iki Island, and Oki Island. After Dayu came, they were very willing to be hired as 'soldiers of the kingdom', good martial arts and obedient, good at water warfare, not afraid of death, just enough to be incorporated into the Anton army, receive systematic training and language learning, and in the future, with the Anton army going abroad to fight, become the main force of the mercenary army, no different from the Han people. When they return to their homeland, they will also become the best candidates to govern Dongying.

The result of such flowering on all sides will not only make it difficult for Dongying to be calm, but also allow Dayu to carefully choose an ally to cooperate, and when this person really becomes a 'man of the world' and produces a stable regime, as long as he tries to stand on his own, or when other countries come to get involved, he will put pressure on him from Goryeo and Ryukyu, which can completely make this wall grass safely guard the first gateway to the sea for Dayu.

Well, this is our first island chain in the East China Sea!