Xu Xiang has used the same method to perfection in Zhejiang.

Zhejiang was originally divided into Xizhe and Dongzhe. Xizhe was defeated by the Tang Dynasty, but Dongzhe surrendered directly. Since he surrendered, he could not use a bright knife to threaten it. However, the established strategy of suppressing wealthy and nobles and removing clan forces will not change.

Therefore, a series of conspiracies and tricks were introduced in succession under the leadership of Xu Xiang.

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

The silk spinning industry in eastern Zhejiang exists in the form of a guild, and they have the final say in the price of silk cocoons, unified silk reel prices, and unified shipments from abroad. For the lower part, they squeeze the bottom-level silk farmers, and for the upstream, they use a large amount of raw silk and finished silk in their hands to negotiate with buyers to 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 prices to acquire silk cocoons, and compete with these silk spinning giants in eastern Zhejiang.

The East Zhejiang Silk Spinning Guild was naturally unwilling to let go. Without being willing to raise the acquisition price, it began to use some sinister and deceitful means to stop the acquisition of the people in Zhejiang. However, this was exactly what Xu Xiang wanted. He was trying to catch the opponent's handle. Then the opponent came to the door. He was overjoyed and immediately used the power of the government to strike the mastermind behind the scenes, arresting, and killing some people.

After experiencing this, the people from the Zhejiang East Guild realized that the other party had the support of the government and could not use small means, so there was only one last way left, and a price war with western Zhejiang was launched and the price of charging these raw materials was also increased.

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

Then when the finished product was launched, Zhejiang West suddenly significantly reduced the price, which caused a large number of upstream merchants to rush to Zhejiang West and snatched all the goods from Zhejiang West.

Compared with silk merchants in western Zhejiang who have government policy subsidies and tax incentives, merchants in eastern Zhejiang can only grit their teeth and stand firm. In the event of losses, they just don’t ship.

Originally, at the price of Zhejiang East, those upstream merchants could make money even if they were taken away at high prices and transported overseas. However, anyone with a discerning eye knew what Xu Xiang was doing. Which merchant would dare to risk offending Xu Xiang to Zhejiang East to pick up goods?

So, goods from eastern Zhejiang were piled up.

Zhejiang has been working hard for a year.

The next year, the same drama was staged again.

This time, the merchants from eastern Zhejiang, who had not only had no income but also had large expenditures in the price war last year, had to start a rush to buy with western Zhejiang again. Even though they knew it was a pit, they still had to face the battle. They took out their own assets and fought hard with western Zhejiang again. They bet that merchants in western Zhejiang would do such things for a long time even though they were clearly losing money.

It turns out that they bet wrong.

Because the government is standing behind the scenes, the merchants in western Zhejiang are clearly losing money, but they are still actively doing this. They are making up for the losses in the wall and they are being given policy preferences from the government in other places.

For example, taxes are exempted again and again.

But for these people in eastern Zhejiang, it doesn’t work out if they don’t have a penny.

This time, the merchants in eastern Zhejiang finally had some lack of foundation and could not hold on. They raised their hands to surrender to Xu Xiang. The remaining few big-name households were eager to jump over the wall and colluded with Fujian to rebel. The result was naturally not unexpected. Xu Xiang, who had been prepared for a long time, uprooted him without any effort.

In two years, Xu Xiang wiped out all the clan forces in Zhejiang.

The silk spinning industry has entered the era of large workshops in Zhejiang, and in the past, small family-style workshops were completely destroyed.

After this, the output of Zhejiang's silk industry began to show rapid growth, concentrating manpower and material resources, improving tools and improving management levels, showing its huge power, and the output of raw silk and silk has grown twice as much as last year.

Xu Xiang made a reasonable plan in Zhejiang, where to plant mulberry forests and where to return to the forest to reclamation, and made rigid regulations. On the one hand, it was to ensure that the price of silk would not decline due to the sharp increase in output.

At this time, Yixing Society began to intervene deeply. The new guild was established, but at this time, Yixing Society 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 conflict and it is so irrelevant that the government just comes forward to adjust it.

In this process, Yixing Society silently wiped out the remaining clan forces. Because the common people suddenly discovered that the old clans who had said nothing in the past were now unable to bear the money. It would be better to rely on the government and the guilds to rely on them.

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

Xu Xiang sneered: "Xu Ziyuan, you are like a saint. Don't think that you are far away from Ningxia. I don't know your embarrassing things. The person you damn killed is at least ten times more than mine. I have to use some means, you don't even bother to use them, right?"

Xu Ziyuan coughed dryly: "That's different. The people you killed are all Tang people, and the people I killed are all Huawai people who are not convinced by Wang Hua or discipline."

"If you have a good intention, let's talk to the people from the Censorate!" Xu Xiang rolled his eyes: "Li Xiang said that anyone who cares about my Tang civilization is the Tang people."

"Don't they yearn for it?"

"Have you educated?"

"I'm doing it now, how could I have time to do this before!" Xu Ziyuan spread his hands: "You kid are a full man and don't know if the hungry man is hungry. What was the situation in Hetao back then? You still have to support the Western Regions. Now, I have sent a large amount of money and food in Ningxia, which has made Xue Ping successful. Now it's one of them, Xue Ping is the boss."

Xu Xiang stared at Xu Ziyuan quietly, "So what if he became the boss of the Western Regions? Maybe that day, with a document from the court, you, Xu Ziyuan, will be the governor."

Xu Ziyuan laughed: "That's right, after hearing what you said, I seem to yearn for this position?"

"I really want to do it." Xu Xiang nodded: "Although it's very good now, I want to expand my territory. Xue Ping has now had direct contact with the Great Cannibal, but I am very dissatisfied with his actions. In the Battle of Hengluo, Sizhi is still worried about it. He is really uneasy if he doesn't welcome the remains of these Tang soldiers back. And Xue Ping seems to want to live in peace with the other party."

"Li Xiang said that the territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded, and now there is only one Tubo left. The Western Regions and the Northeast are now under our control. From a geographical point of view, as long as the Tang Dynasty takes down Tubo again, it will be basically in a safe and unrest. There is no need to expand outward." Xu Ziyuan shook his head and said, "Next, Li Xiang will definitely turn his focus to the domestic. This is the case with the Yixing Society Conference. Li Xiang must unify everyone's cognition so as not to everyone have their own ideas, and then it will be a bad thing."

Xu Xiang snorted: "We think so, will the great cannibals think so? As far as I know, the Western Regions are not peaceful now. Even if you are in Ningxia, there are many bad things, right?"

"It's mainly a religious issue." Xu Ziyuan sighed: "This is a red thread, which will detonate the powder barrel if you accidentally do it. There are always some guys who are holding a god and want to recreate their former glory."

"God's return to God, and man's return to man. If God dares to invade 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 hole, you must dig a hole."

"Xu thought, I don't need you to teach me how to do things. You stand and speak without a pain. When you stand in my position and can still say this, I really admire you." Xu Ziyuan snorted. "If you really do what you said, the place will be messy. This requires water grinding skills. It will not be done well without spending decades. Now, I vigorously develop the economy, and vigorously open schools and set up clinics. One day, I will drive God to where he should go. Xue

Ping also thinks so, and in Tubo, the same is true. Where are we? We even join forces with the Red Cult. Some things, with a knife alone, are simply impossible to accomplish, and will only make things worse. As a result, you have this idea, and you will never think of working in these places in your life. And Xu Xiang, I know that your ambition is to become the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, but your ideas remain unchanged, so you don’t want to stand in this position. At least when voting, I will definitely vote against it."

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

"Bah, when we were in the academy, we were incompatible." Xu Ziyuan laughed.

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

After drinking a glass of wine, Xu Xiang put away his smile and said, "Xu Ziyuan, do you think Li Xiang's steps are too big? He doesn't get along well after going out, but it's easy to get the ball."

"I don't know!" Xu Ziyuan said: "But I always think that Li Xiang said it makes sense. The Tang Dynasty cannot be a world with one family and a family. Only by becoming the world of the world can it last forever. Think about the founding of the Tang Dynasty and the next few emperors, who are not wise and powerful, but later on, each generation is worse than the other."

"Do you really think that if you change to Li Xiang's approach now, you can be in a long-term peace?"
Chapter completed!