After Da Zhou's generals were suppressed by the civilian clique many times, they always gave people a feeling of eating and waiting for death, not learning and not knowing, and flying eagles. A general who has no prestige, no real power, and cannot make contributions is a good general, and the civil official group will rest assured.

Jiangmen has lost his military power, so he naturally has to pursue compensation in other aspects, otherwise he will really be a mess and wait for death, and of course there are Jiangmen who are completely mixed and waiting for death, but now Da Zhou has forgotten the names of those families. Zhang, Li, Wang, Fan, and Ma were able to survive, and they all have their own uniqueness in terms of management and survival wisdom.

Taking the Ma family as an example, the vision of the ancestor of the vest was very vicious, and as soon as Taizu collected the military power, he knew who would have the final say in the future of the Great Zhou, and wisely chose not to go against the civilian officials. Later, the Ma family was still affected to a certain extent, the ancestor of the vest wore tattered clothes, entered the palace on crutches, and asked the emperor at that time to let him go to the Ma family once, and the civil official group had to pinch his nose and admit that he was at a loss. But there is one thing that the brilliant scholars and doctors can't think of, through the Ma family incident, the Great Zhou royal family began to be wary of the civil official group, after all, the interests of the imperial family and the gentry are not completely identical.

In order to let his children and grandchildren enjoy wealth for a long time, the ancestor of the vest left a few warnings on his deathbed, mainly to let the heads of the Ma family remember three things in the past. The first point is that no matter how much you suffer, you must always be consistent with the emperor, and everything else can be discarded; The second point is that the position of the head of the family cannot be passed on to the juniors who have high-level civil or military positions, and it is best to choose a child who is successful in running the family industry and is well-versed in civil and military affairs as the head of the family; The third point is to support the separation of children and grandchildren who are interested in self-reliance, and the eggs cannot be put in one basket.

The heads of the Ma family in the past generations basically adhered to the ancestral teachings, so the Ma family survived in the big waves and sands for more than 100 years, and became one of the only five remaining nobles. The other four self-insurance methods are similar and have their own characteristics. Finally, a few decades ago, the officials and scholars of the Great Zhou Dynasty did not deal with each other, and in the face of the pressure of the civil bureaucracy, His Majesty the Emperor who was full of ambition remembered the founding nobles.

The founding nobles could no longer keep a low profile, so some of the nobles, especially the Ma family, stood firmly on the side of His Majesty the Emperor, and the rest ...... His Majesty the Emperor could not break free from the control of the Confucian net, and ended his life in the resentment of the unrewarded ambition, and the nobles also faced a large-scale purge.

However, the newly enthroned Emperor of the Great Zhou understood his father's depression, and was more protective of the civil official group, and used his superb skills to protect most of the generals to check and balance the civil officials, and also acquiesced in the honorable generals to maintain a certain sense of existence in the forbidden army and the guards and pro-army. The civilian-bureaucratic group was collectively messy, but there was nothing to be done, so the imperial power, the generals, and the civilians in Bianjing have maintained a general balance to this day.

The forbidden army and the soldiers of the Xiang Army, who could not survive, kept fleeing, even including some middle and low-level military attachés, and the rulers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were embarrassed and had no choice but to agree to the Xiang Army to do business. Therefore, in the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was completely legal for the army to do business, and those who had a way would run ships to open mines and do business, and those who had no way had to smuggle and set up cards to bully the good people, which was really a mess.

Since about eighty or ninety years ago, almost none of the new soldiers who joined the army were from good families, most of them were organized into the box army due to the disaster in their hometowns, and some of them were ruffians and hooligans, scum of the Daomen and members of the green forest in the army who were assassinated, and Liu Chengdong had a large tattoo on his face. After the saying "good iron does not shoot nails, good men should not be soldiers" circulated in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the contempt for soldiers and the army as a whole appeared for the first time in China.

After the army went into business, most of the low-level soldiers still lived miserably, and they couldn't share any oil and water, but Jiangmen saw an opportunity and began to expand his power in the industrial and commercial circles.

Originally, Jiangmen could only make a fortune in Bianjing and Gyeonggi Province, but his income was less, and he could not compete with the big families and gentry. After the army did business, they finally found an opportunity, united with high-ranking generals from all over the country, and soon spread the business name throughout the Great Zhou. Relying on his influence in the army and his special status with the country, Jiangmen smuggled war horses from Western Xia to sell them in the Great Zhou, smuggled furs from the Liao State to make a fortune in Bianjing, bought spices from Guangzhou and resold them in the south of the Yangtze River, and imported sulfur from Fusang to make a profit back to the Great Zhou.

With sufficient financial resources, Jiangmen can finally put his own big quantum brother and a large number of adopted teenagers into the army for training, and finally has the spare strength to deal with the gentry and the big family, maintaining a comical state of "I am frustrated, but I want to fight you to the end". In order to protect themselves and be promoted in front of civilian officials, most of the new generals in the army took refuge in the name of a certain general and regarded themselves as protégés; Some down-and-out clans saw that Jiangmen had actually improved, and they also began to marry with the Ma family and other families; In order to promote or protect themselves, high-ranking generals in various places often cooperate with these generals, even if they do not directly defect to them......

Jiangmen's influence spread out through the army, and he attracted collaborators and refuge in various places, coupled with Jiangmen's mutual marriages and Jiangmen's marriages with large households in various places, finally had a certain amount of self-preservation power in front of civilian officials. When these martial artists went to court, they gradually began to gag, and from time to time they sneered at several civil officials, and the civil officials dared to gloat over what stinky basket they poked, and even "spoke up". It's not like a long time ago, he was beaten on the board with incomprehensible charges such as "loss of honor in front of the palace", but today's Jiangmen is just self-preservation, and he is still in absolute weakness overall, and he can't be too greedy in the big week of "sharing the world with scholars".

The more money you make, the more places you want to spend your money. It takes money to promote new generals, it takes money to train family children, and it takes money to train the younger generations of the clan, and it takes a lot of money to invest a lot of money in the palace. Their own shops need liquidity, and the high-ranking generals, collaborators, and wealthy families from all over the country have to take a large piece, plus the ability to do business is really inferior, and the generals are embarrassed to find that the road to wealth is over, although they have worked hard......

Jiangmen has channels and collaborators from all over the country, and it is enough to protect itself in front of the gentry and wealthy businessmen, and it is also a commercial force that cannot be underestimated, and it has a lot of willingness to expand financial resources, so Li Xiang finally used Jiangmen as a dam.

Wang Xiaojiu and the commander waited for Li Xiang's final plan, and the remaining few warriors were eager to go back and gather people to participate in Li Xiang's plan to make a fortune. The forbidden army may have a terrible combat strength, but there are many people, and the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops around Bianjing have not been afraid of anyone!

Li Xiang cleaned up the blackboard with a brush in the magical eyes of everyone, and then began to write the main points of the plan, "First of all, the preliminary preparation, the detailed production method of the charcoal stove has been handed over to you half a month ago, and I don't know how many charcoal stoves you have prepared." The charcoal ball will not be introduced to the market for the time being, but the core in the middle of the charcoal stove is indispensable, and if someone robs our business, hehe......"

Li Xiang was worried that smashing the signboard would affect the rapid promotion of the charcoal stove, so he decided not to sell the charcoal ball for the time being, but to retain the heat-resistant furnace core to ensure that the charcoal ball can be used in the future. Although everyone present didn't know what means Li Xiang had to trap those imitators, Li Xiang's lewd smile did reassure them a lot.

"Then there is the winter solstice day of the 10,000 surnames trading conference, the place where the Daxiangguo Temple holds the 10,000 surnames trading conference, there are our charcoal stoves inside and outside the house, just waiting to give the dignitaries and the people of Bianjing a surprise when the time comes! In return, Daxiangguo Temple will order some charcoal stoves from us every month, and then the monks of Daxiangguo Temple will open the light, and they will sell it at ten times the price. ”

Li Xiang smacked his lips when he said this, admiring the means of the abbot of Yuanguang, and even thought of this trick. Several battalion commanders who participated in Li Xiangmi's meeting were originally very resentful of the greed of the Great Xiangguo Temple, but they thought that people were taking the risk of cooperating at the Wan Surname Trading Conference, and the customized charcoal stove was not cheap, so they acquiesced to the practice of "OEM production" in the Great Xiangguo Temple.

Wang Xiaojiu and the commander did not have any objections, compared to the huge benefits after the success of the plan, the little money obtained by the Great Xiangguo Temple was a small amount of money, and the market of the Great Xiangguo Temple was a specific number of nobles, which was not hindered in the overall situation. But in their hearts, the two of them admired the vision and courage of the abbot of Yuanguang, and they deserved to be the man who single-handedly stopped the decline of the Great Xiangguo Temple for many years! No, it's a monk!

"Whether the signboard of the charcoal stove can be fired at one time, and whether you can harvest the first pot of copper coins at the end of the year, almost depends on our performance at the Wan Surname Trading Conference. Ahem, how are you looking for someone to prepare? Remember not to hurt the people, the fight should be more exciting, let everyone go over to watch, it is best to bring some blood, the people of Bianjing like to stimulate ......"

This kind of "dangtuo" marketing method has been commonplace in Li Xiang's original time and space, but at this time, the Great Zhou is indeed a sword, Wang Xiaojiu and the commander make the staff secretly funny, but I have to admit that this practice is very likely...... It works! The rest of the warriors were not so reserved, and the laughter shook the sky.

The commander of the forbidden army camp with an unsatisfactory face clenched his fists, "Brother Li, please rest assured, it's really not difficult to find such a person in our forbidden army, isn't it just a trick?" I promise to satisfy Brother Li at that time......"

There are a lot of such scoundrels in the forbidden army? Li Xiang secretly slandered, is the forbidden army really such a scumbag? Then there was a burst of consternation, because he didn't see dissent or disdain in the faces of the other people present, is this a situation that everyone has known for a long time, and is it not strange?

After settling down, Li Xiang continued to talk about the plan to make a fortune, "The molten iron needed by the charcoal furnace is best purchased by contacting a good merchant, or it can be purchased directly from the official iron yard, in short, it is necessary to ensure the reliability of the source, so as not to be cut off from the supply of raw materials." ”

"The markets of Biankyung and Gyeonggi Province have always been one, so once the market is opened, you can go all out to produce. At the same time, it is also necessary to get in touch with familiar colleagues and Shangguan, and finally Shangguan will contact Jiangmen, so that everyone will make a fortune together, and the detailed process of charcoal furnace production should also be presented at the same time. The benefits in this are too great, so it's good for everyone to keep their share, don't hold on to it. ”

Although the warriors present were unwilling, they also knew the rules of the Great Zhou, and it was not easy for them to resist the erosion of the gentry under the Jiangmen, so they nodded and admitted. Wang Xiaojiu and the staff know the rules of this world better, and Li Xiang's words can be described as the words of the world.

"Another key question is, what if the gate is insatiable and wants to cross the river and tear down the bridge? What if the door controls the sales channel and changes the collaborator? ”

As soon as Li Xiang finished mentioning the last key question, he saw several martial artists with bright eyes, and the commander and staff also tightened their beards to listen to Li Xiang's plan, and Wang Xiaojiu couldn't sit still. The strength is there, what if people just turn their faces and don't recognize people?

Zi said: Iron must be hard by itself! If we want not to be kicked out, we must first have something that we can handle, that is, our charcoal furnace must ensure the quality of the test. The stove must have its own logo on it, distinguishing it from other people's things. ”

"Then you have to have your own advantageous market. Not to mention how long it will take for Jiangmen to produce charcoal furnaces stably, even if they start to produce, their first goal must be Bianjing, then through their business name to all parts of Dazhou, and finally Gyeonggi Province around Bianjing, and Gyeonggi Province has never been taken seriously by Jiangmen. Therefore, my opinion is to develop in Bianjing City in a low-key manner, and make every effort to develop in various states and counties of Gyeonggi Province, and make full use of the gap in the layout of Jangmen to seize the market. It is also necessary to cooperate with the Caoyun Navy and the canal boat gang to infiltrate Jianghuai, Jiangnan and Jinghu ......"

"Finally, the question of how not to swallow the door completely. First of all, judging from what Jiangmen has done in the past, it is very unlikely that they will eat and wipe clean, after all, they are all from the forbidden army, and there must always be some leeway; Then we have to reflect our own value, provide a full set of technology, and cooperate with Jiangmen to occupy the Bianjing market is a beginning, it is best to pinch the door and the gentry and wealthy businessmen first; In the end, we have to learn to hide, it is best to let Jiangmen feel that he has taken a big advantage, it is they who squeeze us out of Bianjing City step by step, and let us eat leftovers......"

"Hahaha!" In a room on the third floor of the west building of Fan Lou, the hearty laughter of the martial artists penetrated the walls, and the guests in the rooms on both sides complained a lot.