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As early as the fifteenth year of Yongxing, the book "The Wealth of Nations" by Zhang Jiuzhu, a famous economist in Dahua, was published.

The first printing of the book reached one million copies, and more than 80% of them have been ordered in advance. Only less than 200,000 copies can flow into the market.

There are many reasons for achieving such results.

First of all, Zhang Jiuzhu is famous enough. In the past few years, he has continuously published articles in Dahua Economic Weekly, putting forward a series of exquisite views, which has won the recognition of many people and accumulated many fans.

Secondly, the economy is Dahua’s biggest concern right now, and its attention even exceeded that of foreign wars.

The economy is the most important indicator in the assessment of local officials. In order to improve the local economy, those officials are also racking their brains.

Those who subscribe to Economic Weekly are not just businessmen, but also officials.

War has been around since ancient times. Everyone has been studying it for thousands of years, and it is no longer a rare thing.

Economics, on the other hand, is a concept that has only emerged in the past ten years. It is highly popular but rarely studied.

As soon as any research results come out, they naturally attract much attention.

After extensive research, Zhang Jiuzhu finally organized and unified his views and finally wrote The Wealth of Nations.

The content is to talk about the fundamental reasons why a country becomes rich, or the deep-seated reasons.

According to the original historical development, the first person to conduct this research was Adam Smith in the 18th century.

Now there is nothing wrong with Adam Smith. Dahua's rapid economic development has given rise to a large number of complex economic phenomena, which naturally prompts people to study them.

In this process, some talents will naturally emerge.

The release of Zhang Jiuzhu’s The Wealth of Nations also proves that Chinese people are by no means stupider than people of any other ethnic group.

As long as there is a suitable environment, talents in this area can be nurtured.

After the publication of The Wealth of Nations, it directly became a holy book in the hands of many businessmen and officials, and even became their guiding ideology for governing and doing business.

When they encounter a problem, they turn to The Wealth of Nations to find the answer.

The Wealth of Nations has played a certain positive role in the rapid economic development of Dahua in recent years.

By July of the 18th year of Yongxing, the circulation of The Wealth of Nations had reached five million copies.

However, at this time The Wealth of Nations encountered challenges.

Another economist, Chen He, published the book "Das Kapital".

Compared with The Wealth of Nations, Capital looks at issues more deeply.

The Wealth of Nations only discusses the relationship between things, while Capital discusses the relationship between people through appearances.

The Wealth of Nations preached the benefits of free economy, but Capital profoundly revealed the inevitable crises of capitalism. Moreover, this infers a social form that is more advanced than capitalism.

For some really smart people, it is actually easier to judge that Capital is more correct than The Wealth of Nations.

However, after Capital came out, its sales were far less than The Wealth of Nations.

The first publication of 100,000 copies has not yet been sold out.

On the one hand, this is because Chen He is not as famous as Zhang Jiuzhu, and on the other hand, it is also because Das Kapital is too advanced.

Although the examples used for argumentation in his book exist in society, they are not numerous.

At least, the current Chinese people do not see any signs that the economy of this society will be in crisis.

The economic trends in this society are good. The examples cited by Chen He are just examples and not representative.

In the mainstream view, Chen He's book is a bit too taken for granted. Many of these arguments are based on logical speculation and lack evidence support.

In fact, Chen He is not 100% confident in his work.

Although he logically deduced that an economic crisis would definitely break out in a free economy, such a crisis has yet to appear in Dahua.

Of course, it's not his fault.

Mainly because he met his opponent Wu Changqing. Before the economic crisis broke out in society, Wu Changqing took some measures to avoid such a crisis.

What made Chen He even more depressed was that he was in jail because of this book.

There is no way, after all, Dahua is now an imperial system.

In this book by Chen He, he actually claims that there is a social system that is superior to the imperial system.

What do you want to do? Do you want to call on the broad masses of workers and peasants to overthrow the rule of the God-Emperor?

This kind of speech is also due to the current freedom of speech in Dahua and the extremely open social atmosphere.

If it had been left to the past, a charge of rebellion would have been inevitable.

Now, the court has judged Chen He as "false talk" and punished him for publicly admitting in a newspaper that Capital is not perfect and is just a personal conjecture with many errors.

This kind of punishment can be said to be extremely light.

The reason why the sentence was so light was actually mainly because everyone only regarded Chen He's remarks as a joke.

Just like in the 21st century, if a person wrote that humans and animals should be equal and should not eat dog meat, everyone would at most regard him as a joke instead of thinking that he wanted to lead the dogs on the earth to rebel and create a world where humans and dogs are equal. world.

In the current Dahua, everyone feels that it is natural for Wu Changqing to be emperor and to be superior to others.

Not many people would feel that they and Wu Changqing should be equal.

Just like most people in later generations, people think that humans should be superior to other animals.

Chen He was punished, but he didn't feel much resentment.

He himself also knew that his remarks were a bit excessive. But his research supported his idea, and that was what pained him.

After being released from prison, Chen He continued his research. He wanted to perfect the Theory of Capital and explain all economic phenomena so that others could not refute it.

There are several people like Chen He who have made some "inappropriate" remarks.

For example, the great thinker Yuan Jie wrote a book called "The Origin and Foundation of Human Inequality", which talks about why classes exist in human society.

However, this has been resisted by Dahua's current mainstream thinking.

Moreover, Yuan Jie was also arrested.

The person who tried him was Li Yao, an important minister of Dahua and the Supreme Court.

Li Yao did not say that Yuan Jie's point of view was wrong, but that Yuan Jie's point of view made no sense and had no benefit but only harm to Dahua.

With the development of economy, Dahua's ideological circles are also developing rapidly.

Some of them began to think about the issue of human equality.

Of course, these people cannot make any waves at present, and in the eyes of most people, they are heretics.

Dahua is doing well now, why do we want to change it?

To put it bluntly, most people are unwilling to change the status quo until Dahua is not in economic crisis and begins to decline.

These thinkers are destined to be lonely.