aCommercial Road (ePub)

Commercial Road as Asian epic works, once being published, quickly broke through 20 thousand copies, singly created the most dazzling miracle in South Korean release history. In South Korea, Japan, Singapore and other Asian countries, it rapidly occupied the top of bestsellers, formed the hot of Commercial Road in Asian culture circle. The author skillfully used the technique of the combination of virtual and actual, explained the profound in simple terms, quotative implied meaning burst out Zen Buddhism's divine light, and incisively and vividly played Buddhist profound essence and connotation by the way for business. The novel described that in the beginning of the nineteenth century Korean giant merchant Lin Shangwo's real but mysterious, legendary life, and his way of making money and spending money. The whole novel's climaxes were constant, just like the lifelikeness and interest in solving connecting riddles, explain the way of doing business and the way of conducting oneself arising out of the way of doing business, and made very unique interpretation to commercial road and business methods, it was praised as remarkable book of "e;the highest state of penetrating commerce"e; by many famous enterprises. Under the strict instruction of his father, Lin Shangwo studied Chinese and wanted to fulfill his father's wish to become "e;the first translating officer"e; of Korea... With the growing of Shangwo, his father began to feel the wish of becoming translating officer could never be reached under the corrupt examination system at the time. So, he put down scholar's high-hearted pride, borrowed money from jiang business merchant Hong Dezhu who had become the richest man of Yizhou, brought Shangwo to go into business... However, when they took with the hope and were planning the future life, a misfortune arrived, Dafang of song business Piao Chouwei sent Shangwo's father to the guillotine in order to protect himself, and his father became a wronged ghost. With a revenge heart, Shangwo was demoted as official slavery, lived a slave life worse than pigs or dogs. He fled again and again, and was catched again and again, and later returned to the very poor home because of the emperor's amnesty. After several twists and turns, Shangwo's life had great change, after struggling consideration, Shangwo determined to join jiang business, which was in an extremely precarious situation, became a menial worker of shop under the subordinate of jiang business. Dufang of jiangwan business Hong Dezhu, originally turned businessman due to unable to pass translating officer examination many times, but he was a businessman taking "e;earning people heart is more important than earning money"e; as purpose, he was Shangwo's first teacher on the way of doing business, laid a good foundation in Shangwo's later way for business. At that time, because of Korean dark officialdom, many far-sighted persons failed to win an official rank. Many scholars studied hard all their lives in order to achieve their dreams but returned without fame, family financial situation gradually got poor, so they abandoned literary and went into business. Because Lin Shangwo was studious and kind, studied assiduously, slowly he became the right-hand man of Hong Dezhu, and later became Dufang of jiang business, with the commercial experience of kindness, morality and credit, he made jiang business break through the intense competition of song business, nei business, jing business and you business, became a model in business circle. When he conducted ginseng trading with Qing's merchants, he penetrated Qing's merchants conspiracy wanting to lower the price of ginseng, he wittily sold ginseng without losing the form of state, which was laying a good foundation for later ginseng trade between Korea and Qing Dynasty. As a businessman, Lin Shangwo was successful. He was except a commercial genius, but a brave righteous man. During the occurrence of "e;the disorder of two wests"e;, he bought disaster relief salt in high price and sold in low price, gave out relief rice, was beloved and supported by the people, finally even influenced bandits and they became common people; when he was persecuted by song business and captured by the official, a large number of victims and bandits knelt at the roadside and pleaded for him... What a surprising and touching scene. When he learned that Dafang of song business Piao Chouwei, who indirectly killed his father, was evicted from song business and in a worried situation, not taking into account, he helped Piao Chouwei take back Dafang of song business with the strength of jiang business. As the saying goes, the person that get common feelings of people gets the world, although Lin Shangwo was not emperor, but in his life, taking the motto of "e;regarding the property as water, being human like scale's justice and honest"e;, he never hesitate to help others, regardless of official servants or enemy, peer or poor, bandits or rebellious rebel party... Because of this, Lin Shangwo is still admired by all the Korean people, his deeds have been recorded in the annals of history, and leave a good name forever.