Since he came to this world and was unwilling to wait for death, Li Tong has been thinking about how to survive.

Politically speaking, his statement of catering to his grandmother Wu Zetian can only meet his most basic survival needs. Although he is now a popular and full of guests, this is actually an illusion that it is not very reliable.

His life, death, honor and disgrace are still in his grandmother's thoughts. If you want to truly have dignity and live independently, only the power you can truly master is the foundation.

He is a first-class prince, and may be able to borrow some of the power of the imperial court's official instruments. But in fact, these forces are still not very reliable. I only see the rebellion of the Li clan king who was very joking last year and was beaten to pieces.

The power structure of the early Tang Dynasty focused on the inside and ignored the outside, which was also a necessary condition for Wu Zetian to successfully usurp the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong, the Guanlong Xungui Group headed by Changsun Wuji was dismantled. Since then, in the central structure, no political force could compete with the imperial power.

If Wu Zetian had dared to do this in the era after the Anshi Rebellion, no matter how skilled the power, there would be no possibility of success. The governor who was respectful in various places was not a vegetarian. Instead of watching an old wife of the Li family to mess around, how could the emperor consider himself?

Li Tong dared not steal too much about the imperial court's official weapon. He made these small moves under his grandmother's nose, which was purely a matter of longevity. But in addition to the power controlled by the court, the extra-legal power between Guanlong and Heluo was also very powerful.

For example, during the Yifeng period of Emperor Gaozong, there was a great famine in Guanzhong and bandits were rampant, so that the emperor only ate Heluo, and Yijia did not dare to go out easily.

During this period, the government army collapsed and a new order had not been established. The chaos in this place was Li Tong's opportunity. As for how to use the opportunity, the effect was very different.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, household registration and civilianization have been the only way for the central government to centralize power. It is a direct hidden population and hide refugees in the fields and other industries. Although this is also a means, the hidden dangers are also great.

One reason is that the efficiency is not high. Li Tong is just a sect king who has been in the car for more than half a year. If he really starts from this aspect, he can't even compete with an ordinary rural tycoon.

Second, he also placed himself directly on the opposite side of the imperial court's constitution. Even if he could recruit thousands of people in Heluo, would he think his grandmother was blind?

Since you cannot directly control the population, you still have to influence the daily lives of the people. In the world, people are just about food, clothing, housing and transportation. Starting from these things, they can directly affect people's lives.

Food is the most important thing for people, and food is naturally the most important place to make a living, and it has a great impact and interference on people. But even the court cannot do this well. The people fled because of hunger. If Li Tong is replaced, they will be helpless. It is difficult for a good cook to cook without rice. Not to mention that he dared not provide large-scale relief in private. Even if he had such an idea, how many people could he save?

It is also difficult to operate. How can I get millions of Guangsha to shelter all the poor people in the world? Not to mention whether Guangsha is or not, even if it is used to build a few places of residence for migrant people, once the court searches and expands its households, can it still be packaged and taken away and hidden?

As for what he can do, he has to squat in the capital of Shendu.

Therefore, starting with clothing materials is a practical and feasible entry point that Li Tong thinks is concise and concise, "Old Clothing Society" takes into account both relief and profit. He does not always make a profit, and any behavior without profit-driven behavior does not have the extension of time and space.

If there is no way to make profits and recover from long-term profits, it is impossible to make it bigger and stronger with Li Tong alone.

So the threshold he set for the old clothes club was that the soldiers in the palace were destroyed, and the other was that they donated marijuana to join the club.

The reason for choosing a house with a deceased mansion is very simple. In addition to Li Tong's not simple intention, the organization and obedience of the house soldiers are on the one hand. On the other hand, the social relationship between the house soldiers and the dead mansion is more simple than that of ordinary people.

The palace soldiers began in the Western Wei Dynasty, Northern Zhou Dynasty, and were greatly promoted in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Although they have a history of more than 200 years, the palace soldiers themselves are highly consumed. Among them, the government soldiers have undergone major changes in dynasties over the past two hundred years, so they have not formed a mixed and deeply rooted clan human relations.

The social relationship of clan human relations is stubborn and powerful, and can compete with the court's rules and regulations. To put it in a big way, the Guanlong Xungui Group, the Shandong aristocratic families, and to put it in a small way, the local tyrants and relatives in the village, and even the court's laws and regulations are difficult to penetrate, let alone Li Tong's tricks of beating the side drums.

As a medium of association, Li Tong also made a choice after thinking about it for a long time.

First of all, hemp is a financial crop with wide application and is not limited to textiles. It is not limited to weaving mesh, papermaking, seed edible, oil pressing, and oil residue can also be used to raise livestock. The range it affects can be described as all aspects and has high ductility.

Secondly, hemp is cheap and widely distributed, with simple access and large output. Even if it is stockpiled in large quantities, it will not increase the level that will make the government and the public afraid of banning. Ordinary hemp skins cannot eat, thirst cannot drink, and cold cannot wear clothes. Even poor and hungry refugees will not regard it as a precious item.

Third, the processing technology of hemp can produce different commodities from simple to traditional, from coarse to exquisite, and therefore can also fit the development trajectory of the old clothes club from creation to prosperity.

This third point is very important. Generally speaking, people often dream of opening up a technology tree, but for now, they need to face a realistic dilemma, that is, the lack of craftsmen.

Nowadays, craftsmen are different from ordinary household registration. They are directly managed and controlled by the government. They are like bricklayers and exquisite as gold and silver smiths. This type of talent is scarce among the people, and there is almost no possibility of large-scale raising by wealthy families.

It is not impossible to cultivate yourself from scratch, but the premise is to be prepared for long-term investment.

This situation was not until the Anshi Rebellion, when the two capitals were successively captured by the riot troops, causing a large number of craftsmen controlled by the court to be scattered in the market. After that, the central authority continued to decline and no longer had the ability to concentrate these manpower. The handicraft industry among the people began to develop gradually.

For example, Li Tong was still feeling that in this era, even if he did not have any contact with ordinary people, he could live a carefree life without any shortcomings.

However, this situation no longer existed after the Middle Tang Dynasty. The craftsmen directly controlled by the court were seriously insufficient, so that daily life consumption had to be purchased on a large scale. It was precisely because of this that the right to ban financial certificates gradually fell into the hands of eunuchs, giving them the basis for gaining power.

Bai Juyi wrote a poem "The Charcoal Selling Man", which tells the story of the eunuchs bullied the weak and robbed them after the middle Tang Dynasty.

This phenomenon is rare at present because the imperial court itself controls many charcoal sites around the capital. Sometimes it is rainy and rainy, and there is not enough firewood and charcoal in Luoyang City, and even a shortage of food and gas.

Those refugees who fled to famine, there would definitely not be too many craftsmen with exquisite craftsmanship.

Cultivating from scratch requires a process of gradually improving the process. Li Tong cannot predict whether this process is long or short, and cannot be sure whether his own financial resources can support visible returns. It is necessary to start from low and gradually develop.

After all, the initial processing of hemp does not require many exquisite skills. Hemp rope, twine and even linen are all basic skills that ordinary home-based women can master.

With these products produced and sold, we can first revitalize the situation so that we can further develop into higher-level papermaking, oil pressing and feeding industries to obtain more profits.

With greater profits and a large number of mature craftsmen, they can even try to get rid of the single limitations of thread products and get involved in other industries, thereby gaining greater room for development.

Li Tong first explained this model to Tian Dasheng, and then talked about the specific operation steps: "After raising enough spirit, I will first ask the mansion to raise a batch of goods to Tian Weng. Tian Weng held this to buy two villages in the east of the city from the county hall. This is the foundation of the development of the Old Classic Society."

There is a basic book for where the wealth and goods of the royal family are to be searched and reviewed by the court, so Li Tong could only call on the batch of private property given to him by his aunt Princess Taiping. First, embezzle a batch of wealth and goods converted into the West Garden, and transfer the two farms in the east of the city from the book to Tian Dasheng and others, so that they can operate more flexibly.

The three farms that Princess Taiping gave were too conspicuous in the Longmen area, and there was also a mortar that ordinary small households could not own. Li Tong planned to keep his mansion and use it as a private small treasury.

In the area of ​​Gande Township, there are many Hu people gathering, and the legal management is more relaxed than elsewhere, which is suitable for being a headquarters of the Old Clothing Club.

After Li Tong planned to take back the place, he would no longer cultivate crops and directly transform them into a storage base. He could rent them to Hu merchants to store goods when he was free. When the old clothes club developed, it would serve as a center for collecting and storing goods.

The manor in Sanchuan Township has the largest area and can be used as a base for product processing to cultivate a group of core craftsmen.

Moreover, in Sanchuan Township, there were originally a number of workshops under the jurisdiction of Shangfangjian, the Shaofu of the imperial court, such as leather processing, bricks and tiles, and the Sancai used by the powerful and wealthy people in the capital to bury the underworld, which were mainly produced there. It is convenient to set up the workshop of the Old Clothing Club where it is located, so it is convenient to steal the teacher nearby.

Hearing the King's series of ideas, Tian Dasheng looked puzzled and hesitated: "I'm not afraid of hard work, but I'm just involved in many things, but my talent is really meager. I have no good plan for the livelihood of the cold household. I suddenly have this plan, I'm afraid it's..."

After hearing this, Li Tong smiled: "No one is born to know it. Talents and skills are all about experience. When you are in the business world, everything is still small. Just work hard and after deep experience, you will naturally understand."

Tian Dasheng's worries were not considered. But as he said, it was not that he would start a large scale, complex industry, and human talents and talents at the beginning were gradually explored.

Although Tian Dasheng is not young and may have limited potential, he is loyal and trustworthy. As long as he can lay a foundation and lay a framework, even if he is really unable to achieve talent, Li Tong will be able to choose talents at that time and then, he will be more calm.

"A few days later, Weng Tian first visited the neighborhood and bribed old clothes. When the farm is transferred, he would buy a batch of hemp seeds. When the group returned to Luo, he could visit the villages in the vicinity and meet with the soldiers who were killed in the palace. Donate hemp and join the club and give him winter clothes. If there is no hemp to donate, he would send a name to teach him the seeds and cultivate hemp in the farmland, and he would also get winter clothes."

Given his own financial resources, Li Tong did not dare to take care of all the food and clothing. At the beginning, he had to use limited financial resources to cover more people to let people know that there was such a business community.

The towering building is rising from the ground, and he is now in vain. Although he is determined by a grand goal, he still has to start to make a small move. Although this will have limited influence on the people, it can also be gradually deepened.

Winter and summer clothes are long-lasting, and it is very attractive to those who are already struggling with life.

At the beginning, he must have been unable to make ends meet, but Li Tong was also prepared for relatively long-term investment.

When the Qiu Gong entered the capital this year, he would have added a total of 800 households to seal the real seal, and his income would definitely be quite high. No matter how much money he spent, it would be useless to keep it. Then he would make some fake accounts and smooth the books on it, he would draw a batch of wealth to continue investing.

Li Tong is still optimistic about the business model and development prospects of the Aunt Yi Society, because the current situation is not the small peasant economy during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Tang Dynasty tax collection was based on renting and mediocre tax collection, and the types of tax collection were stipulated. This caused ordinary people to only focus on basic crops and mulberry weaving in daily production. The productivity was limited, and there was very few economic crops that could be planted, so there was no room for profit in economic activities.

To give a simple example, the price of vegetables in Shendu City is high. On the one hand, it is because Shendu has a large population and a large market, and on the other hand, it is because the people are not productive. Often, only the powerful and rich people can import vegetables into the market in large quantities are the only families like the powerful and rich who own a large amount of land.

Therefore, although the small villagers around Kinki work hard, they cannot achieve their own output. Even if they plant some seasonal fruits and vegetables on a small scale, they are reluctant to consume them themselves. They sell them for money and then buy some necessities that they cannot produce.

Ma is originally a cheap and low-profit commodity. Large households have higher profit-making methods and look down on such small transactions. Small households and poor households have limited output, which cannot form a scale effect of small profits but quick turnover.

If the old elf club's model of donating marijuana to join the club can develop, even if long investment is required in the early stage, if there is a higher technical product output, it will not be difficult to directly form a regional monopoly effect between the two capitals.

If any commodity can form a relative regional monopoly, then profits cannot be judged by ordinary value. With higher profit margins, the continued development from the two capitals to other states will naturally have more motivation.

Of course, profit is just a medium for gathering people. If you want to gain higher cohesion, you must also use other means.

The old clothes are the old meaning. The government is a group that is easily inspired by loyalty. The kindness of a gift of clothes can make people feel much more grateful. How can they say that there is no clothes? It is a basic purpose of Li Tong's creation of the old clothes club as a business club.

In addition, there are other methods of mutual assistance. Li Tong is thinking about the only two standards that "grow cowpox and drink cooked water" that are unified by the members of the business. In the future, if you think of other things, you will gradually add them.

He did not consider the theory of destiny such as prophecy and mystery. It might be more effective, but there are great hidden dangers. Not to mention the initiator, he has no background. His grandmother himself is a master of playing prophecy and divination, so he is naturally particularly vigilant about this aspect and it is difficult to achieve great development.

As for the higher-level elite organization and mobilization methods, it is useless to think too much at the moment. As long as this organization can thrive and grow stronger, people and things are in hand, are you still afraid that you can’t play with it?
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