In a large area of the south of the Yangtze River, even if Li Ze is greedy now, he can only watch and can't start. Thinking about Hu Guangshu, the world is full of words, which has been widely circulated in later generations, my heart is really itchy. However, the hand is not long enough, and the strength cannot reach this step. Right now, it's better to deal with Zhu Wen first.

"Jin Gong, the territory of Jiangnan is vast, less affected by the war, and the people are relatively wealthy, which is really a great river and mountain." Li Zedao: "For our future cause, the importance is self-evident, at the moment, I have no time to take care of it, and many things will have to be labored." ”

"I wonder what Taifu needs me to do?" Jin Mantang asked.

"Jin Gong is already doing it now." Li Ze said with a smile: "Constantly expand our influence in Jiangnan. Strive to cultivate our spokesperson in Gangnam. ”

"Spokesperson?" Jin Mantang didn't quite understand.

"That's right, spokesperson." Li Ze nodded heavily: "According to what Jin Gong said, in a large area of Jiangnan, in fact, the social contradictions are quite prominent now, whether it is the people or the officialdom, there are always many people who are dissatisfied with reality, and Jin Gong may wish to choose some people who can be used for us to support them." In the officialdom, try your best to let him go up, in the people, you can cultivate their prestige, let them expand their influence in the people, even if some people who occupy the mountains as kings and robbers according to the river, they might as well use them. ”

"I see." Jin Mantang suddenly realized.

"I don't expect them to do anything now, but they can really make a huge difference when we need it later." Li Ze said with a smile: "You have to take precautions and hold Buddha's feet temporarily, it won't work." ”

"It takes a lot of professionals to do something like this!" Jin Mantang said.

"What manpower is needed, Jin Gong can go and find Tu Hu." Li Zedao.

"Well, with General Tu's help, many things will be easy to do." Jin Mantang said.

"Jin Gong, in Jiangnan, the copper coins minted by our Wuwei are still popular?"

Speaking of this matter, Jin Mantang was excited: "Taifu, the copper coins minted by Wuwei are in good condition, and the most amazing thing is that this kind of copper coins that look excellent makes those who collect money to cast bronze for profit, and they lose all their money. ”

Li Ze smiled proudly: "This is the secret of our Wuwei coins, Jin Gong, use Changlong Money Village to promote a large number of coins minted by our Wuwei, this kind of profitable business, if we do it well, it will be great." ”

"Now the copper coins minted by Wuwei have gradually replaced the original coins. Even if it is an official, it is willing to collect Wuwei copper coins. When collecting taxes, the color of Wuwei's copper coins and silver was much lower than the previous copper coins. Jin Mantang said.

"Very good, I'm still afraid that some of those people will understand and refuse to use our copper coins, in this case, we will mint a large number of them, hehe, a boatload of Wuwei copper coins will be exchanged for a boatload of silk and grain, which makes people very happy." Li Ze smiled from ear to ear.

As a veteran money bank operator, Jin Mantang naturally knows how powerful it is. In fact, in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not that there are no people who understand, but the original copper coins, can not compete with the coins minted by Wuwei at all, and now the common people over there, the merchants, prefer to use this kind of coins, and Changlong Money Village is to provide the business of exchanging old money for new money, and it is a one-to-one exchange, in the eyes of merchants and ordinary people, just exchanging coins, making them profitable, naturally flocking to it. According to this momentum, it will not take a few years for Wuwei coins to dominate the world in one step.

"After the emperor settles down in Zhenzhou, re-establishes the imperial court, and establishes the rules, I will start to open the Silk Road." Li Zedao: "Jin Gong might as well release this news in Jiangnan, I believe that many businessmen will be very interested." This is a road paved with gold and silver treasures, and once you go out, it will be ten times or even dozens of times the profit. Jin Gong can set up such an organization in Nalian, Jiangnan, first by sea, to transport things to Haixing, and then take Haixing as a starting point to embark on a journey on the Silk Road. ”

"Taifu, if you don't mention the Anxi Duhu on this road, it doesn't exist for a long time, it is in the territory of Datang, and it is also a division of Jiezhen, is it possible?" Jin Mantang was a little worried.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of the festival town in Datang." Li Ze said with a smile: "As for the outside world, there will be an army to escort the caravan at that time, and either they will get rich together, or they will change the dynasty." If you want to come to those small countries along the way, you will have a trade-off. ”

"All the way?" Jin Mantang's mouth suddenly opened wide.

Li Zeha laughed: "Jin Gong, although the Anxi Protectorate is no longer there, but on which side, there are still a lot of people in the Tang Dynasty, this is a point that can be used, and that area is now chaotic, according to the land of a city, the radius is not more than a hundred miles, and he dares to call himself the king, it really makes people laugh off the big teeth, I will not only reopen this road of wealth, but also re-establish the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate." ”

Li Ze said categorically, Jin Mantang listened to it is also enthusiastic, when the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, the Tang Dynasty Anxi was the protectorate, but it controlled tens of millions of square kilometers of territory in the Western Regions, and there were no less than hundreds of small countries under his rule, and the Tang people were mighty and famous in that land, and it was simply a paradise for merchants to grab wealth.

"I will definitely spread this news in the south as soon as possible, and I believe that many people will be extremely interested." Jin Mantang said with a smile: "In this way, I am afraid that the price of silk, porcelain and other things in the south of the Yangtze River will rise immediately!" ”

Li Zedao: "Jin Gong, in this world, the most stable alliance is to tie each other's interests tightly together, think about it, if I can create more wealth for them, more opportunities to make a fortune, why don't they support me?" Let them raise more silkworms, build more spinning machines, and weave more cloth, no matter how many there are, I Li Ze want it. ”

"This is natural." Jin Mantang said, as soon as this news came out, there was no need for Jin Mantang to agitate at all, and those businessmen would naturally do so.

He naturally didn't know that Li Ze was also harboring evil intentions in this. Li Ze is now promoting such things in two places, one in Jiangnan and one outside the mouth. Jiangnan silk, wool outside the mouth.

Through the Sivandan Ministry, Li Ze had already established a good reputation among the Hu people of all colors outside the mouth, and under the campaign of Tiele, the caravans of the supply and marketing cooperatives had penetrated into the settlements of the Khitans, Uighurs and all kinds of miscellaneous Hus, buying a large number of wool and all kinds of furs, and vigorously encouraging these Hu people to raise sheep. In many Hu settlements, the supply cooperatives have even established fixed strongholds. And these strongholds have not only become a distribution center for goods, but also a trading point for all kinds of Hu people to trade here, and on the fifteenth day of every month, around these strongholds, there will be countless Hu people from all over the place to trade. Small market towns are taking shape in what was once uninhabited.

Those Hu people probably would never have thought that the merchants at these trading points, after taking off their robes and changing into armor, would turn into elite warriors.

During the day, they are smiling merchants, and at night, they occasionally become killing gods, but they completely eradicate the tribes that disobey discipline and have different aspirations.

Li Ze is a two-pronged approach with a stick and sweet dates, closely gluing the outside of the mouth and the mainland, so that those miscellaneous beards are more and more inseparable from the mainland above the economy.

In the past, Zhang Zhongwu dealt with these Hu people by directly threatening them with knives, and if you don't obey me, I will kill you. At the same time, they are tightly controlled on top of the economy, and in Zhang Zhongwu's view, the poorer these people are, the more dependent they will be on him.

Li Ze's methods are much gentler, and armed demonstrations are naturally indispensable, but unlike Zhang Zhongwu, Li Ze is trying his best to make these people rich, of course, this kind of prosperity must be built on the basis of relying on martial arts. If you obey Wuwei, you will be rich, and if you deviate from Wuwei, you will immediately be poor, this policy has been implemented for more than half a year, and the positive effect has begun to appear. And Wang Mingyi, who is in charge of this line, has long become the god of wealth in the hearts of these Hu people. Wang Mingyi, who left the political arena and devoted himself to the business world, is now handy and self-confident, and even directly boasted in front of Li Ze that his supply and marketing cooperative could be used as an army of 100,000 in the future.

Li Ze did this, of course, not only to stabilize these areas that he had taken over from Zhang Zhongwu. You must know that this influence has a radiating effect, and it will slowly spread to a large area in the northeast outside Pingzhou, which Zhang Zhongwu still controls. In that area, Zhang Zhongwu still relied on the knife to brutally subdue those miscellaneous beards and savages, and the situation fed back from Wuwei's intelligence system, a large number of miscellaneous beards and wild men were even directly turned into slaves by Zhang Zhongwu, locked in the land to cultivate the land and graze livestock for those Tang people who migrated over.

Li Ze is convinced that where there is oppression, there will be resistance. Zhang Zhongwu's policies may make great progress in his economic strength in a short period of time, but as long as there is a defeat in the military and one or two defeats, the avalanche effect will appear.

Who wants to be a slave?

Whether it is the Tang people, or those uncivilized savages, or the miscellaneous beards, they are all individuals, and they all yearn for freedom.