A series of new crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn have been successfully transplanted in Datang, which has greatly enriched Datang's food and solved the food crisis in Datang.

More importantly, because of the years of war in the north, a large number of young and strong men have been lost, so that the women who originally stayed at home had to go out of the house to earn money and earn a living, and after Li Ze took power, all kinds of new workshops opened, creating a large number of job opportunities for these women. The rapid development of the breeding industry, the wool industry, etc., has made it possible for women to earn more in the workshops than even for the men who farm at home.

Don't underestimate this, an increase in income also represents an increase in family status.

Under Li Ze's rule, it was commonplace for women to be officials and generals. When Li Ze began to open a large number of schools and forced school-age children to enter the school, there was no distinction between men and women. Even later, under pressure, separate classes for men and women were introduced after they were a little older, but the right of women to receive education was also fixed. After obtaining the highest level of education such as Wuwei Academy, both men and women, as long as their grades can meet the requirements, they can enter such the highest institution to study.

For example, Tai Hospital has now set up a special medical and nursing college, and the proportion of women in the medical and nursing college is as high as more than 90%.

For the South, it is a complete apostasy, and in the North, everyone has become accustomed to it.

After many years of peace in the north, the population grew rapidly, and both men and women could come out to work, but the labor force was doubled.

The establishment of a large number of labor-intensive industries and the absorption of a large number of people into the workshops were not only to create more wealth for the imperial court, but also to be a more effective way of management.

Today's desert south and north are many times more peaceful than at the beginning, and the Tang Dynasty court just used one trick to firmly tie up these unruly herdsmen.

The establishment of a large number of wool mills, the need for a large amount of wool, the herdsmen on the prairie, raising more and more sheep, shearing more and more wool, the annual income from selling wool is increasing, but at the same time, their dependence on the mainland is also more and more heavy, the price of wool changes, will have a huge impact on their annual income.

When the wool products were saturated in the north, Li Ze found a new market for them, the Western Regions, Tibet, and even across the ocean, to the South Seas, to Europa, to the United States, but wherever the Tang merchant ships arrived, the goods of the Tang Dynasty began to be dumped at a lower price than the local one.

And with the current productivity, no matter how many goods Datang produces, it can always be sold cleanly.

Therefore, these factories in Datang have always been in a state of expansion, constantly building larger factories, recruiting more workers, and producing more goods.

In this process, the local government also discovered that some of the local forces that still existed in the shadow of the clan had disappeared without a trace, and a large number of industrial workers had become a new class. However, the Yixing Society did not give up this opportunity, and began to work hard to develop its members among the industrial workers, and established one primary organization after another.

And after these grassroots organizations of the Yixing Society tried their skills, they immediately made the government and the Yixing Society happy. Because they have found a new way to counterbalance the big merchants.

After the establishment of these grassroots organizations, they talked with the big businessmen about the welfare of the workers, talked about the wages of the workers, and worked hard to increase the income of the workers, and because of the inseparable relationship between the Yixing Society and the government, they achieved a delicate balance between uniting all the workers around themselves and ensuring the smooth development of commercial activities.

Now, Li Ze wants to gradually implement this kind of factory in the south.

After these large factories are launched in the Jingnan area, there is no doubt that the owners of these factories must be the original big households in Jingnan, and at this time, Yixing Society can play their role. Since the main trunk cannot be cut off in a drastic way, it can only corrode his foundation little by little.

Li Ze believes that in the end, the clan forces in Jingnan and other places will be swept away by the Yixing Society. This matter, when Ding Jian was still the governor of Hubei, would minimize the bad impact. After all this is done, Ding Jian can leave Hubei.

The matter of sweeping the tail will be handed over to the next governor.

Things are simpler in Hunan.

The establishment of these large factories requires more industrial workers. And the rich income and superior treatment of these industrial workers will attract more people under Ding Taiyi's rule to flee here. This is conceivable, now that Ding Taiyi is under the pressure of Shi Zhuang's army, he is already desperately expanding his armaments, desperately building fortresses, strengthening city walls, and increasing taxes again and again, and the people have felt the heavy pressure. After a long time, in order to survive, the people will naturally start to flee.

And in this process, Qian Biao will inevitably use some means, and the internal guards will not be idle, and a series of combination punches will be made, making Ding Taiyi poorer and poorer, more and more difficult, and finally this regime, I am afraid that it will collapse from the inside first.

In the same way, this method is applicable to all the separatist forces in the south.

"As a result, I am afraid that a large number of small workshop owners will lose their livelihoods." Ding Jian groaned.

Li Ze shook his head and said: "Ding Jian, you start doing it now, and you can still take the initiative, otherwise, a large number of products from the north will pour into Hubei, you must know that now the imperial court is using administrative power to suppress the merchants of the north to sell a large number of goods to Hubei, but this kind of policy will not last, and now there are already dissatisfied voices." Once the imperial court lifts this restriction and you are not ready, there will be even more people who will lose their livelihoods. ”

Ding Jian sighed.

"Now you do it, take advantage of the buffer period given to you by the imperial court, first build up related industries, occupy the market, be able to solve the employment of a considerable number of people, occupy more market share, and then when the products of the north come in, you can still have the power to resist, otherwise, you will be defeated, and at that time, your losses will be greater." Li Ze said lightly: "But the imperial court can not give you much time, once Hanzhong is taken and Xiangyang is recovered, the commercial protection policy for Hubei will be canceled immediately, that is, within a year or two." ”

Ding Jian was shocked.

"There must be two sides to any major reform, but what we need to see is the positive side, and we should do what benefits most people." Li Ze continued: "For the other part of the affected people, the government can help with the transformation, or they can find a way out on their own, these things have already been experienced in the north. For example, there were many skilled blacksmiths in the Northland, and after we began to build steel workshops on a large scale, some of them became part of the new workshops, while others went off the beaten track and made a career. What is the famous Feng blacksmith shop in the north doing now, specially tailoring Kaijia for the generals of the Tang Dynasty, their carefully crafted Kaijia is many times better than the quality of our mass production, of course, the price is also extremely high, ordinary people can't afford it at all, they now have dozens of craftsmen, and they only make about twenty pairs of armor every year, but it is these twenty pairs of armor that can make their lives extremely nourishing. In addition to this, they also played with all kinds of wrought iron, and made all kinds of exquisite works of art, and in my study, there are products that they have carefully made. Now their products, in the Northland, are synonymous with high-end, and I don't know how many people are waiting in line for their products. ”

"I see." Ding Jian nodded heavily: "After this congress, as soon as I go back, I will immediately vigorously promote these things, and some things cannot be delayed." ”

"What should be speeded up should be speeded up!" Li Zedao: "For example, the problem of women's schooling, the problem of women's employment, we need more labor now, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will transfer a number of experienced female officials from the north to go to your place, change the concept, and start from the government here." What kind of woman is not talented is virtue, in my opinion, it is all fart. ”

"Yes." Ding Jian said with a red face.

"You can also see that in many positions, women actually have a great advantage in gender." Li Zedao: "In addition to this, Tai Hospital is also preparing to open a second medical and nursing college in Ezhou, and when the time comes, you must also give strong support." ”

"Whether it's Hunan or Hubei, in fact, it's on the front line of resisting the enemy now. If you can't be a benchmark here, if you can't let the other side see your goodness and see your advantages, what can we use to attract the people on the other side? No matter how good the Northland is, it is far away from them, and no matter how much they hear, it is better to see it with their own eyes. Ding Jian, Qian Biao, the imperial court's commercial protection policy for your two places will not exceed two years, and I hope you can use these two years to do what you need to do. Otherwise, when the time comes, it will be you who will be the passive. ”

"Li Xiang rest assured, we won't have any problems in Hunan." Qian Biao agreed very quickly, he is now on this little territory, there is no difficulty in doing these things at all, as long as the imperial court gives money to the policy, he can start doing it immediately. Turning his head, he glanced at Ding Jian with some sympathy, after this guy went back, he was afraid that he would have to take his own house and his father-in-law's house again.

Of course, this is a painful process, but Li Xiang is also worthy of them, in order to repay the support that the Ding and Bai clans gave to the imperial court before, they were given such a long buffer time, if they still can't do it, then they can only blame themselves.

To put it bluntly, the imperial court will not tolerate these families having too high prestige above the locality, and the things that can only be done by the government and others can be done, which is a taboo, and of course they will be suppressed.