Since coming to this world and not willing to be restrained, Li Tong has been thinking about how to live.

Politically, the pandering to his grandmother Wu Zetian can only meet his most basic survival needs. Don't look at his current appearance of popular fried chicken and full of guests, but this is actually an unreliable illusion.

His life and death, honor and disgrace, are still in the mind of his grandmother. If you want to live with dignity and independence, only the power that you can actually control is fundamental.

He is the king of the county, and he may be able to borrow some of the power of the imperial court. But in fact, these forces are still not very reliable. Just look at the Li clan king who was quite jubilant last year, and he was directly beaten to the ground.

The power structure of the early Tang Dynasty was to emphasize the inside and ignore the outside, which was also a necessary condition for Wu Zetian to succeed in usurping the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Gaozong, the Guanlong Xungui group headed by the eldest grandson Wuji was dismantled, and since then, there has been no political force in the central structure that can compete with the imperial power.

If it were changed to the era after the Anshi Rebellion, if Wu Zetian dared to toss like this, no matter how clever his power skills were, he would definitely not have the possibility of success. The self-respecting festival envoys who support the army in various places are not vegetarians, instead of watching an old daughter-in-law of the Li family toss blindly, how can the Son of Heaven call himself like me?

The official weapons of the imperial court, Li Tong didn't dare to steal too much, and to engage in these small actions under his grandmother's nose was purely disgusting. But in addition to the power controlled by the imperial court, the extrajudicial power between Guanlong and Heluo is also very strong.

For example, during the reign of Gaozong Yifeng, there was a great hunger in Guanzhong, and bandits were rampant, so that the Son of Heaven ate Heluo, and the Yijia did not dare to go out easily.

This period coincided with the collapse of the military system and the establishment of a new order. The chaos in this is where Li Tong's opportunity lies. As for how to use the opportunity, the effect is very different.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the organization of households and the people has been the only way for the central government to centralize power. Although the direct concealment of the population and the hiding of the displaced people in the grange and other industries are also a means, the hidden dangers are also great.

One is not efficient, Li Tong is just a sect king who has been out of the cabinet for more than half a year, if you really want to start from this aspect, he can't even compete with an ordinary rural tyrant.

The second is also to put himself directly on the opposite side of the imperial court's rules, even if he can recruit and hide thousands of people between Heluo and Luo, when his grandmother is blind?

Since it is not possible to directly control the population, it is still necessary to exert influence from the daily life of the people. The living are alive, and there are only a few things such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. Starting from these few things, we can directly affect people's lives.

Food is naturally the most important livelihood, and it has a great impact and interference on people. But even the imperial court couldn't do well in this matter, the people fled because of hunger, and Li Tong was replaced, and there was also nothing to be done, and it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Not to mention that he didn't dare to give large-scale relief in private, even if he had such an idea, how many people would be saved by spending his family?

It is also difficult to operate, there are tens of millions of mansions, and the poor people in the world are happy? Not to mention whether it is a large building or not, even if it costs financial resources to build a few outcast settlements, once it encounters the imperial court to retrieve and expand the households, can it still be packed and taken away and hidden?

As for the line, needless to say, he himself has to honestly squat in the Shendu City to lie down.

Therefore, starting with the clothing is a practical entry point for Li Tong. The concise and concise "Old Clothes Society" takes into account both relief and profit. He is not necessarily profitable, and any way of acting that is not driven by interests does not have the extensibility of time and space.

If there is no means to make profits for a long time, it is impossible for Li Tong to become bigger and stronger with the financial resources alone.

Therefore, the threshold he set for this old clothing society is first, first, the death of the government soldiers, and the second is to donate hemp to the society.

The reason for choosing the government soldiers to die is also very simple, in addition to Li Tong's not pure intentions, the organization and obedience of the government soldiers are one thing. On the other hand, compared with ordinary people, the social relations of government soldiers and households are more simple.

The government soldiers began in the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and became a great success in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. However, the government soldiers themselves are a high-loss group, and in the past two hundred years, they have undergone several major changes of dynasty and blood, so they have not formed an intertwined and deep-rooted clan relationship.

The stubbornness and strength of the social relationship between the clan and the people can compete with the rules and regulations of the imperial court. To talk about the Guan Longxungui group and the wealthy families of the Shandong family, to the small ones to talk about the local tyrants in the township, it is difficult for even the laws and regulations of the imperial court to penetrate into them, not to mention Li Tong's little tricks of beating the side drum.

Using hemp as a medium for association, Li Tong also made a choice after thinking about it for a long time.

First of all, hemp is a kind of cash crop, its application is wide, not limited to the use of textiles, weaving nets, papermaking, seed edible, oil extraction, oil residue can be used to raise livestock and the like, the scope of influence can be described as all aspects, with high ductility.

Secondly, hemp is cheap and widely distributed, the way to obtain it is simple, and the output is large, even if it is hoarded in large quantities, it will not rise to the level that will make the government and the opposition afraid and forbidden. Ordinary hemp skins cannot be eaten, thirsty, or clothed by cold, and even the poor, hungry and cold homeless people will not regard them as precious items.

Third, the processing technology of hemp can produce different commodities from simple to complex, from poor to exquisite, so it can also fit the development trajectory of the old clothing society from grass to prosperity.

This third point is very important, everyone who crosses the crowd often has the dream of opening a large technology tree, but for now, there is a real dilemma that needs to be faced, that is, the lack of craftsmen.

Nowadays, artisan households are different from ordinary household registration, which is directly managed and controlled by the government, such as masons, delicate as gold and silversmiths, this kind of talent is extremely scarce in the people, and there is almost no possibility of large families raising a large number of people.

If you want to start from scratch, it's not impossible, but only if you're prepared for long-term commitment.

This situation was not until the Anshi Rebellion, when the two capitals were broken by the rebel army one after another, causing a large number of artisans under the control of the imperial court to be scattered in the market, and then the central authority continued to weaken, and there was no longer the ability to concentrate these manpower, and the folk handicraft industry began to develop gradually.

For example, Li Tong was still sighing before that he was born in the context of this era, even if he did not have any contact with ordinary people, he could still live a carefree and flawless life in this life.

However, this situation ceased to exist after the Tang Dynasty, and the artisans under the direct control of the imperial court were seriously insufficient, so that daily consumption had to be purchased on a large scale. It is precisely because of this that the power of financial evidence in the forbidden area gradually fell into the hands of the eunuchs, and they had a basis for gaining power.

Bai Juyi has a poem "Selling Charcoal", which is about the fact that after the Tang Dynasty, in the palace trade, the eunuchs bullied the weak and took advantage of the weak.

This phenomenon is rare at the moment, because the imperial court itself has many charcoal farms around Gyeonggi, and sometimes it is rainy and rainy, and there is not enough charcoal in Luoyang City, and even has to enter the market to help the shortage.

Those refugees who fled the famine, without even thinking about it, will definitely not have too many craftsmen with exquisite craftsmanship.

Cultivating from scratch requires a process of gradual refinement, and Li Tong can't predict whether this process is long or short, and can't be sure whether his financial resources can support the visible returns.

After all, the initial processing of hemp does not require much elaborate skills, and the production of hemp rope, hemp thread and even linen cloth are the basic skills that ordinary family women can master.

With the output and sales of these commodities, we can first revitalize the situation, so as to develop to a higher level of papermaking, oil extraction and breeding industries in the future, and obtain more profits.

With greater profits and a large number of mature craftsmen, they can even try to get rid of the single restriction of hemp products and get involved in other industries, so as to gain more room for development.

Li Tong first explained this model to Tian Dasheng, and then talked about the specific operation steps: "After cultivating the spirit, I first asked the Fuzhong to raise a batch of goods and goods to deliver to Tian Weng, and Tian Weng used this to buy two Zhuangzi in the east of the city from the county party, which is the foundation of the development of the Ancient Clothing Society." ”

There is a base book for the whereabouts of the palace's goods and so on, so that the imperial court has a department to retrieve and check it, so Li Tong can only hit the idea of this batch of private property given to him by his aunt Princess Taiping. First of all, a batch of goods from the reconstruction of the West Garden were embezzled, and the two granges in the east of the city were transferred from the books to the names of Tian Dasheng and others, so that they could operate more flexibly.

The three granges given by Princess Taiping, the one in Longmen is too conspicuous, and there is also a small family that ordinary households can't have at all, Li Tong plans to keep his mansion to operate, and also use it as a private small treasury.

The place in Gande Township, where many Hu people gather, is more relaxed than other places, and it is suitable as a headquarters of the Old Clothes Society.

Li Tong plans to take back this place, no longer cultivate crops, and directly transform it into a storage base, which can be leased to Hu merchants to store goods in his spare time, and when the old clothing society develops, it will be used as a center for collecting and storing commodities and goods.

The manor in Sanchuan Township is the largest, and it can be used as a base for product processing to train a group of core craftsmen.

Moreover, in Sanchuan Township, there were originally a number of workshops under the jurisdiction of the imperial court Shaofu Shangfangjian, such as leather processing, brick and tile cultivation, etc., and the three-color utensils used by the powerful people in the capital to accompany the burial of the dead were mainly produced there. The workshop of the old clothes society is located there, and it is also convenient to steal teachers nearby.

Hearing the king's series of ideas, Tian Dasheng looked embarrassed, and hesitated in his mouth: "The servant is not cowardly, but there are many things, but his talent is really meager......

Li Tong laughed after hearing this: "How can people be born to know, talents and skills lie in experience, the industry is grass-roots, everything is still small, just be diligent, after reading deeply, it will be natural and accessible." ”

Tian Dasheng's worries, he didn't think about it. But as he said, it is not a large-scale and complex industry that is built at the beginning, and people's endowments and talents are gradually tapped.

Although Tian Dasheng is not young, his potential and future may be limited, but he is loyal and credible, as long as he can lay a foundation and lay a framework, even if he is really not talented, Li Tong will be able to choose talents and appoint them more calmly.

A few days later, Tian Weng first visited Luli and bought old clothes. Wait until the Grange is transferred, and then buy a batch of hemp seeds. When the group returns to Luo, they can visit the countryside of and meet with the soldiers of the prefectures. Donate hemp to the club and give winter clothes. If there is no hemp to donate, they will send their names to teach seeds, and cultivate hemp in the farmland, and they can also get winter clothes. ”

In view of his own financial limitations, Li Tong did not dare to get started with a large package of food and clothing, and at the beginning, he still had to use limited financial resources to cover more people and let people know that such a company existed.

Thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, and he is lacking in people and things at present, although he is determined to be ambitious, but he still has to start in detail. Although the impact on the public is limited, it can be deepened gradually.

Winter and summer clothes are needed for a long time, and being able to exchange them at such a low price is also very attractive to those people who are already living in difficulty.

At first, he must have to make ends meet, but Li Tong is also ready for relatively long-term investment.

When this year's autumn tribute entered the capital, he added a full 800 households before and after, and the income must be very expensive, how to spend the money is also spent, and it is useless for him to keep it.

Li Tong is still very optimistic about the business model and development prospects of the Ancient Clothes Society, because it is not a small-scale peasant economy in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The Tang Dynasty is taxed in kind, and the tax collection is based on rent adjustment, and the types of taxes collected are stipulated. As a result, the average small people can only focus on basic crops and mulberry weaving in their daily production, and their productivity is limited, and there are very few cash crops that can be planted, and there is little room for profit in economic activities.

To give a simple example, the high price of vegetables in Shendu is due to the large population and large market of Shendu on the one hand, and the lack of productivity of small people on the other hand. Those who can import a large amount of vegetables into the market are often only powerful people and local tyrants who own a large amount of land.

Therefore, although the small households around work hard, they are not self-sufficient, and even if they grow some seasonal fruits and vegetables on a small scale, they are reluctant to consume them themselves, and sell them for money to buy some daily necessities that they cannot produce on their own.

Hemp is originally a cheap and low-profit commodity, and large families have higher means of benefiting and looking down on this kind of small business. Small-scale poor households have limited output, and they cannot form a scale effect of small profits and quick turnover.

If the model of donating hemp to the society can be developed, even if it requires a long investment in the early stage, if there is a higher technical content of commodity output, it is not difficult to directly form a regional monopoly effect between the two capitals.

If any commodity can form a relative regional monopoly, then the profit cannot be judged by ordinary value. With higher profit margins, there will naturally be more sufficient motivation to continue to develop from the two capitals to other states.

Of course, profit is just a medium to bring people together, and if you want to achieve higher cohesion, you must also use other means.

Therefore, the clothes, the righteousness, the government soldiers are fighting in the distance, it is a group that is easily inspired by righteousness, and the favor of a comrade who gives clothes can make people feel a lot. How can it be said that there is no clothes and the same robe with the son, which is originally a basic purpose of Li Tong's old clothes society as a company.

In addition, there are other complementary methods, Li Tong only thinks of the two standards uniformly implemented by the staff of the industry now, "planting cowpox and drinking cooked water", and then gradually add them when he thinks of other things.

He didn't consider the Mandate of Heaven such as piercing and chiseling diagrams, which might be more effective, but the hidden dangers were also great. Not to mention the initiator and his aftermath, his grandmother is a master of playing with Wei Wei, and she is naturally especially vigilant in this regard, and it is difficult to make great progress.

As for the organization and mobilization methods of the higher-level elite of the industry, it is useless to think too much at the moment. As long as this organization can thrive, after it grows up, people and things are in hand, are you afraid that you won't be able to play flowers?