The same means, Xu Xiang has been used perfectly in Zhejiang.

Zhejiang was originally divided into Western Zhejiang and Eastern Zhejiang, and Western Zhejiang was defeated by the Tang Dynasty, but Eastern Zhejiang surrendered directly due to poor knowledge. Now that you have surrendered, you can't threaten with a bright knife. However, the established strategy of suppressing the wealthy nobles and removing the clan power will not change.

Therefore, a series of conspiracies and tricks were introduced one after another under the auspices of Xu Xiang.

Xu Xiang first hit the silk spinning industry in eastern Zhejiang.

The silk spinning industry in eastern Zhejiang exists in the form of guilds, with unified purchase of silkworm cocoons, unified silk reeling prices, and unified outbound shipments, and the prices are basically up to them. Downward, squeeze the silkworm farmers at the bottom, and use a large amount of raw silk and finished silk in their hands to negotiate with buyers and make money at both ends.

After Xu Xiang integrated the silk weaving industry in eastern Zhejiang, he established a huge silk spinning factory, and then sent people to eastern Zhejiang to raise the price to buy silkworm cocoons and compete with these silk spinning giants in eastern Zhejiang.

Zhedong Silk Spinning Guild is naturally unwilling to be bound, in the case of unwillingness to increase the purchase price, began to use some insidious means to block the acquisition of Zhejiang and Western people, but this, but in the heart of Xu Xiang, he is trying to grasp the opponent's handle, this time the opponent sent to the door, overjoyed him, immediately used the power of the government, the black hand behind the scenes carried out a thunderous blow, arrested, closed, killed a number of people.

After experiencing this incident, the people of the Zhedong Guild realized that the other party had the support of the government, and the small means could not be used, so there was only one last way, and the price war with Zhexi was launched, and the price of these raw materials was also increased.

The two sides compared the price of the competition, and finally pushed the price of silkworm cocoons and raw silk to an unprecedented level.

And then when it was time for the finished products to be sold, Zhexi blatantly lowered the price by a large margin, which made a large number of upstream businessmen flock to Zhexi and snatch the goods from Zhexi.

Compared with the silk merchants in western Zhejiang, who have government policy subsidies and tax incentives, the merchants in eastern Zhejiang can only grit their teeth and stiffen their teeth, and in the case of losing money, they just don't ship.

Originally, at the price of eastern Zhejiang, those upstream merchants could make money even if they took it overseas at a high price, but everyone with a discerning eye knew what Xu Xiang was doing, and which businessman dared to take the risk of offending Xu Xiang to get goods in eastern Zhejiang?

As a result, the goods in eastern Zhejiang have been backlogged.

Zhedong stubbornly survived for a year.

The following year, the same drama played out again.

And this time, because of last year's price war, not only did not have income but a large amount of expenditure in eastern Zhejiang, they had to rush to buy with western Zhejiang again, knowing that it was a pit, but they still had to respond to the battle. took out their own family funds and fought hard again in western Zhejiang, and they gambled that the businessmen in western Zhejiang would do this kind of thing for a long time when they were obviously losing money.

As it turned out, they were wrong.

Because of standing behind the government, the businessmen of western Zhejiang obviously lost money and made a fortune, but they are still actively doing this, and they have lost money outside the wall, and they have been favored by the government's policies in other places.

Taxes, for example, are exempted again and again.

But for these people in eastern Zhejiang, it is not enough to lose a penny.

This time, the businessmen in eastern Zhejiang finally couldn't hold on to some of the lack of background, and raised their hands to surrender to Xu Xiang. The remaining few big dogs jumped over the wall in a hurry, colluding with the Fujian side, intending to rebel, but the result was naturally not unexpected, and Xu Xiang, who had been prepared for a long time, uprooted it without much effort.

In two years, Xu Xiang swept away the clan forces in Zhejiang.

In Zhejiang, the silk spinning industry has entered the era of large-scale workshops, and the small family-style workshops that used to operate as one family have been completely destroyed.

After coming to this point, the output of Zhejiang's silk weaving industry began to show rapid growth, concentrating manpower and material resources, improving tools, and improving the management level of large workshop-style operations, showing its huge power, raw silk, silk output, compared with last year, the cultivation has doubled.

Xu Xiang made a reasonable plan in Zhejiang, where to plant mulberry forests, where to return forests to reclamation, and made hard regulations, one is to ensure Zhejiang's grain production, and on the other hand, to ensure that the price of silk will not fall due to the sharp increase in output.

At this time, the Yixing Society began to be deeply involved. A new type of guild was established, but at this time, it was the Yixing Society that led the game between ordinary workers and bosses, but Xu Xiang was too lazy to pay attention to it.

Anyway, the workers want to raise their wages, and the bosses want to make more profits. In Xu Xiang's opinion, this is an internal contradiction, and it is a big deal, and the government has come forward to adjust it.

And in the process, the Yixing Society silently swept away the old remnants of the clan forces. Because the common people suddenly found that the words of the old people of the clan who used to be true to their words are now not worth a penny. It is better to rely on them than to rely on the government and the guilds.

"Xu Xiang, your methods in Zhejiang are too ruthless." Xu Ziyuan drank a glass of wine and accused Xu of killing too many people.

Xu Xiang sneered: "Xu Ziyuan, you seem to be a saint, don't think that you are far away from Lao Tzu in Ningxia, Lao Tzu doesn't know about your troubles, you have killed at least ten times as many people as me." Lao Tzu still has to use some means, you don't even bother to use means, right? ”

Xu Ziyuan coughed dryly: "That's different, the people you killed were all Tang people, and the people I killed were all wilderness people who didn't accept Wang Hua and didn't obey discipline." ”

"If you have a kind, go and talk to the people of Yushitai about this!" Xu Xiang rolled his eyes: "Li Xiang said, but anyone who has a heart for my Tang civilization is a Tang person." ”

"Aren't they not yearning?"

"Have you been indoctrinated?"

"I'm doing it now, where was the time to do this kind of thing before!" Xu Ziyuan spread his hands: "You kid is a full man, I don't know if a hungry man is hungry, what was the situation in Hetao back then?" I still have to support the Western Regions, but now it's good, I have a lot of money and grain in Ningxia, but I have achieved Xue Ping, and now it is self-contained, and Xue Ping is the boss. ”

Xu Xiang stared at Xu Ziyuan faintly, "What if he becomes the boss of the Western Regions?" Maybe that day, the court will have a piece of paper, and you Xu Ziyuan will go to be the governor wherever you go. ”

Xu Ziyuan laughed: "That's right, listening to what you say, it seems that you yearn for this position?" ”

"I really want to." Xu Xiang nodded: "Although it's also very good now, I want to expand the territory even more, Xue Ping is now in direct contact with the big cannibal, but I'm very dissatisfied with his actions." In the battle of Hengros that year, Sizhi is still haunted by his heart, and he is really uneasy not to welcome back the remains of these Tang soldiers. And Xue Ping seems to want to live peacefully with the other party. ”

"Li Xiang said that the Tang Dynasty's territorial expansion, now there is only one Tubo left, the Western Regions, the Northeast, are now under our control, from a geopolitical point of view, as long as the Tang Dynasty takes Tubo again, it will basically be in a safe situation, and then expand outward, there is no need at all." Xu Ziyuan shook his head and said: "Next, Li Xiang will definitely turn his attention to China, and this is the case with the Yixing Society Conference." Li Xiang wants to unify everyone's cognition, lest everyone have their own ideas, and then things will be bad. ”

Xu Xiang snorted: "We think so, will the big cannibal think the same way?" As far as I know, the Western Regions are not peaceful now, right? ”

"It's mostly a matter of religion." Xu Ziyuan sighed: "This is a red thread, and if you are not careful, you will detonate a powder keg." There are always some gods who want to regain their former glory. ”

"Render to God what is God's, and what is man's to man, and if God dares to intrude on man's sphere of influence, he will cut off God's head and show it to the public!" Xu Xiang said coldly: "Your methods are too weak. When it's time to dig a pit, dig a hole. ”

"Xu Xiang, I don't need you to teach me to do things, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, when you stand in my position and can still say this, I really admire you." Xu Ziyuan snorted. "If you really do what you say, the place will be messy. This thing requires water grinding, and it will not be possible to do it without spending decades. Now I am vigorously developing the economy, and at the same time vigorously opening schools and medical centers, one day, I will drive God to where he should go, Xue Ping also thinks so, and in Tibet, the same is true, where are we, and even join hands with the Red Sect. There are some things that can't be done with knives alone, and they will only make things worse. And Xu Xiang, I know that your ambition is to become the prime minister of Datang, but these thoughts of yours remain unchanged, you don't want to stand in this position, at least when voting, I will definitely vote against. ”

"It's really sad for me to have classmates and friends like you!" Xu Xiang sighed.

"Phew, when the two of us were in the academy, we were at odds." Xu Ziyuan laughed.

Xu Xiangyi laughed and raised his wine glass, and said, "Come on, come on, let's have a drink for you." ”

After a glass of wine, Xu Xiang put away his smile and said, "Xu Ziyuan, did you say that Li Xiang's steps were a little too big, this time he went out, he didn't step well, but it was easy to pull the egg." ”

"I don't know!" Xu Ziyuan said: "But I always feel that Li Xiang has a point." This Tang Dynasty world cannot become a world of one family and one surname, only by becoming the world of people in the world can it be eternal. Think about the founding of the Tang Dynasty and the next few emperors, who is not wise and martial, but later, it is not as good as the generation. ”

"Do you really think that if you change to Li Xiang's current method, you can have long-term peace and stability?"

"At least we have the ability to correct errors." Xu Zi walked from afar.