For Chinese scholars or intellectuals, "helping the people through the world" is their most lofty political ideal, and the so-called "Jingshi" is to move the "Datong" world described by the sage to the world; The so-called "helping the people" is to help the people and promote the people's livelihood.

Therefore, in the history of China for thousands of years, all those engaged in the economy were intellectuals and government officials.

But what exactly should the economy do? No one can tell.

Zhu Yunwen remembered the documentary "The Rise of Great Powers" he watched in his previous life, which told the rise of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Russia, the United States, and Germany. The Netherlands relied on commerce and ran the whole country as a company; Britain relied on piracy and the Industrial Revolution; The United States relies on free development and a certain degree of government regulation; Japan, Russia, and Germany relied on strong monarchy, top-down reforms.

However, in Zhu Yunwen's view, or in the eyes of most Chinese people, Japan, Russia, and Germany are the best approach, because the citizens and monarchs of these three countries did not wait for God's gift, but used their own hands, wisdom and efforts to create a better world.

Zhu Yunwen doesn't understand economics either, but he knows an old saying: "If you want to get rich, build roads first!" ”

So even though the current train speed is only about 20 miles per hour, far less than a galloping horse, not much faster than a horse-drawn carriage, but Zhu Yunwen still insists on building a railway, the reason is very simple, the railway relies on steam power, and it has unlimited room for development.

However, the imperial court did not have enough money to build the railway, so Zhu Yunwen urgently needed a large amount of gold and silver.

For Zhu Yunwen's desire, many courtiers disagreed, they felt that the urgent task of the imperial court should be to persuade the people to be fed and clothed; They were very unimpressed with the emperor sending a large army to attack the Wa State, but the emperor was quite cautious, and the grain and grass spent, the requisition and the loss of soldiers were all within the acceptable range, and the emperor's reasons were also very good - the Wa State assassinated but had no repentance, so everyone could only hold their temperament, conceive a draft in their spare time, and wait for the opportunity to become popular and become a famous minister who asked for the people's life.

For this reason, Zhu Yunwen was busy with the compilation of a book entitled "New Theory of Economy", in which he extracted the Marxist view of money, plus some books such as "The Wealth of Nations" and "Theory of Money" that he had read in later generations, compiled them into a book and published them all over the world.

This hasty and flawed book caused a strong response in the government and the opposition, and students from Taixue and Jingshi University often had polemics about it, and later generations jokingly called it "the polemic between the emperor and the sage".

But in the end, it was Zhu Yunwen's doctrine that prevailed, for the simple reason that Zhu Yunwen's doctrine was simple and easy to understand, and it was in line with the actual situation; The words of the saints are different, they are extremely operational, and most of them belong to the category of what can be understood and cannot be spoken, and many arguments are unfounded if they really want to be true.

Another result of this controversy is that Beijing Normal University and Taixue respectively founded their own magazines "Journal of Beijing Normal University" and "Journal of Taixue" to encourage students to submit articles and express their own views; In addition, some businessmen banded together to form a newspaper, the Economic Journal, which specialized in developing information on the economy and people's livelihood, which, according to well-informed sources, had the shadow of the royal family behind it.

However, this is not the case, and the Economic Journal is just a magazine established by a group of businessmen who voted for the emperor's favor.

In this era, even if Zhu Yunwen vigorously fought corruption and vigorously improved the status of merchants, businessmen were still looked down upon, so they were very careful, because they lacked a sufficient sense of security, so they worked hard to please the emperor, as long as the emperor wanted to do it, it was a good thing, it was worth doing and talking, not to mention that these things were beneficial to them.

Decades later, the Economic Journal became the top and most authoritative economics journal in the Ming Dynasty, but of course this is a story for later.

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Ezo Island, Sai Po Bay.

There was a tragic battle taking place on the shore, the weapons of both sides were Japanese knives, the language of the shouts was Japanese language, and there were similarities in posture between jumping and moving, but they were not merciless when they started to fight, and the knives were bloody, and the screams continued to sound.

Seeing that the warriors wearing the armor of the Ming army gradually gained the upper hand, Zhu Yunxi, the king of Taijun with the highest status on the scene, said with some doubts: "Mr. Spo, are you Japanese usually so ruthless in fighting?" ”

Si Bo Yizhong's face was a little stiff, and he forced a smile: "Lord Wang, the warriors on both sides are elites, that's why they fight like this!" ”

"Oh, it seems a pity that such a loyal and brave samurai died!"

Zhu Yunwen looked at it for a while, and suddenly said such a sentence, and then looked at Chu Zheng: "What does General Chu think?" ”

"Well, the last general understands! The prince can rest assured, the last general will order people to disperse them! ”

"Okay!"

With Chu Zheng's order, the marines surrounded the fighting people, and under the threat of crossbow arrows and muskets, the Japanese warriors abandoned their swords and surrendered.

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"Lord, general, I have figured it out, these Japanese have been here for more than 20 days, and they have been ordered to kill all the Ainu people in Ezo Road."

"Oh?" Chu Zheng was a little surprised: "How did they know that we were coming?" ”

"This, it's not clear at the moment!"

Chu Zheng paused, glanced back at Si Bo Yizhong, and Si Bo Yizhong stood up knowingly: "General, let me go and have a look!" ”

"Okay, go ahead and figure it out as much as you can!"

"Yes!"

After Si Boyi went out, there were five people left in the house, Zhu Yunxi, Tong Hailong, Chu Zheng, Xie Yuanzhen and Oshima Shoji.

"Lord Wang, what do you think is better?"

"This king doesn't know about military affairs, so it's good for you to discuss, but it seems that the Ainu still need to save it!"

"Okay!"

Chu Zheng and Tong Hailong discussed for a while, and quickly made a division of labor, Tong Hailong was responsible for cutting off the Tsugaru Strait to prevent reinforcements and retreat of the Japanese people, and Chu Zheng sent people to rescue the Ainu, and of course it was Oshima Shoji and his Japanese soldiers who took the lead.

Shoji Oshima took the order and left.

"Where's the prince?"

After Chu Zheng finished dealing with the matter, he found that Zhu Yunxi was missing.

"The prince went to Sibo Yizhong."

"Oh," Chu Zheng thought for a while and advised, "Be sure to protect the safety of the prince!" ”

"Yes!"

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After confiscating the Spo family's domain, Yoshishige Shima immediately became an enemy of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and he had to be wary of retaliation. And the most likely way for Spo Yoshishige to retaliate is to surrender to the Ming army and take revenge by the hands of the Ming army, so it is likely that Mutsu and Dewa will become the targets of the Ming army, and by extension, Ezo Island is likely to become the base of the Ming army.

However, it was impossible to defend Ezo Island, so Ashikaga Yoshimitsu could only take measures to increase the difficulty of the other party, and he sent the samurai Koji Miyamoto of the former Spo family to land on Ezo Island with 3,000 men, intending to exterminate the Ainu people, and at the same time destroy Ezo Island as much as possible, so that the Ming army would have difficulty in supplying and would not be able to attack.

Koji Miyamoto went very well, he used food, wine, clothing, and cloth as bait to lure the Ainu to the sea, and then suddenly started to slaughter, the Ainu who were caught off guard were powerless to resist at all, so they could only flee in the wilderness, some of the surviving Ainu fled to the north, Miyamoto Koji sent some people to chase, and the rest followed him to burn villages, fill wells, and even set fire to mountains on the southern coast of Ezo Island.

After the ravages of Koji Miyamoto, thick smoke billowed from Ezo Island, and it was a scene of apocalypse.

At this time, the Ming army appeared, led by Chu Zheng, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Marine Corps, and Tong Hailong, the commander of the Second Fleet of the Royal Navy.

Of course, Zhu Yunwen also wanted to use Ezo Island and Sibo Yoshizhong to attack and harass the northeastern part of the Japanese country.

On July 3 of the ninth year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunxi, the king of Taijun, arrived at the fiefdom Ezo Island, landed smoothly, just in time for the Miyamoto Koji sent by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to slaughter the Ainu, after the Ming army defeated it, sent people to search the whole island, until July 6, most of the 3,000 Japanese people of Miyamoto Koji were wiped out, but the Ezo people on the island did not survive, and a few survivors fled into the northern wasteland, and only a few hundred people were rescued by the Ming army and returned to their homeland.

Unlike Chu Zheng and Tong Hailong's sighs, Zhu Yunxi didn't say anything, he didn't care at all, the people here respected him on the surface, but in fact he couldn't command him alone, he wanted to see what his brother wanted to do to him? Do you really want to be the king on this uninhabited desert island?