Xie Chengjie is arrogant but does not lose his ambitions. Even if he is a playboy, he is rarely useless.

At least, there are still necessary visions.

His Majesty Li Er is involved in Jiangnan. Xie Chengjie has already deeply felt the crisis that the Jiangnan gentry is about to face, and is even more aware of the future of the Xie family.

Everyone can see that the emperors today have no fondness for those aristocratic families that are ringing and eating, and they always forget to attack and weaken these mixed family forces, and even refrain from reforming the imperial examination system left over from the Sui Dynasty to support poor families to fight against aristocratic families.

It can be imagined that in the upcoming imperial examination, a large number of poor scholars will pass, and then be assigned to various departments of the court and quickly promoted.

Aristocratic families will suffer an unprecedented blow, and their danger will be no less than the "Yongjia disaster"

Now, Fang Jun pointed out a golden road to heaven. As long as he cooperated with Fang Jun's actions in Jiangnan, even if he was caught in the emperor's eyes, even if the Jiangnan gentry suffered in the future, the Xie family would still be safely landed.

As for the upcoming allies' rejection and hostility, Xie Chengjie didn't care about it at all.

The interests of the family are above everything else.

If the Xie family needs to be eradicated to protect themselves, will Xiao have hesitation at all? Absolutely not!

Therefore, Xie Chengjie has no moral guilt at all for secretly tying Fang Jun's thread.

Since he made up his mind to stand on Fang Jun's line and actually be loyal to the emperor, Xie Chengjie believes that he should do it thoroughly.

Two-faced and three-faced sword, swaying is the most taboo when standing in a team. Maybe not only can’t please both sides, but it’s very likely that there is no one inside or outside.

So Xie Chengjie decided to betray Xiao.

Fang Jun raised his eyebrows, looked at Xie Chengjie with a little surprise, and asked, "I wonder what Uncle Xie Shi had to tell me?"

Xie Chengjie leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice: "As far as Xie knows, in the last incident of impeachment of Erlang, Duke Song received support from Duke Zhao. In exchange, Duke Song had informed us, the Jiangnan gentry, and would open the Jiangnan iron smelting industry and allow the Changsun family's iron plant to enter Jiangnan to start mining, smelting, and sales."

Fang Jun was slightly stunned.

No wonder the last time in Tai Chi Hall, officials who were not from Jiangnan gentry also jumped out to impeach him, and they were even more fierce. I guess the old fox Changsun Wuji was using a bad idea, that is, to take revenge on his previous suppression of Changsun Chong, and took the opportunity to open up the trade routes in Jiangnan.

It's such a good chess that kills two birds with one stone!

But it is obvious that the Duke of Song is not a vegetarian.

As soon as the situation was not good, Xiao Yu immediately decided to terminate the impeachment of Fang Jun. Therefore, only Changsun Wuji's faction was left in the court to condemn the impeachment. The Qingliu faction, which originally initiated the impeachment, stopped the battle.

The final result showed that Xiao Yu's decision was correct, and the Qingliu faction was unscathed, but Changsun Wuji's men suffered heavy losses.

But Fang Jun didn't think Changsun Wuji was a mistake. He should have used the fall of those civil officials to achieve the established facts, so that Xiao Yu could not repay his own preface and tore up the agreement between the two.

Fang Jun knew that Jiangnan had always been equivalent to the "private land" of Jiangnan gentry. These Jiangnan gentry have been deeply rooted in Jiangnan for thousands of years. They have long regarded Jiangnan's interests as banned and extremely xenophobic.

It was Changsun Wuji who seized the opportunity of the Jiangnan gentry's successive mistakes that led His Majesty Li Er to suppress it, and took advantage of the opportunity to enter and get Xiao Yu's promise. Once the Changsun family's iron factory entered Jiangnan, they could quickly occupy the market with the help of the emperor's opportunity to suppress the Jiangnan gentry's.

In this way, it should have been the emperor's interests but was lost to the Changsun family.

Compared with the massive amount of wealth that the iron plant is about to obtain, it is completely acceptable to lose one or two civil servants who are not as good as the court.

All old foxes

Fang Jun couldn't help but sigh, once again realizing the cunning of the ancients, without any slight contempt in his heart.

Although these ancients were limited to their knowledge and would be taken advantage of by Fang Jun for a while, they were all elites who had been tempered and had enough IQ. Even if they were in a situation of being behind and beaten, once they grasped their weaknesses and loopholes, they would immediately take advantage of the situation and do everything possible to maximize their interests.

Fang Jun naturally would not sit idly by and watch Changsun Wuji bring the iron plant into Jiangnan. With Changsun Wuji's treacherousness and the huge figure of the Changsun family, he would inevitably use the iron plant to quickly penetrate all aspects of Jiangnan. By that time, it would inevitably become his biggest constraint.

The interests of the Changsun family are in conflict with Fang Jun.

But how to prevent the Changsun family from entering Jiangnan, but we must make a living

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The weather is getting warmer day by day, and pedestrians on the street have taken off their bloated winter clothes and put on thin spring shirts.

The imperial examinations hosted by the Ministry of Rites are about to be held, and more scholars from all over the streets are increasing. The entire Chang'an City lets Buddhas come alive from hibernation, with noisy voices and pedestrians. Merchants from all over the world bring goods produced from all over the world to gather together, making them bustling and bustling.

Fang Jun has not left the door for several days.

Supervise the construction team of the Ministry of Works in the Mansion, and also receive the managers who have returned from the Western Regions and listen to reports from the Western Regions.

As winter goes and spring comes, Fang's winery in the Western Regions has been built. The "glycerol" refined from lard from Chang'an has been transported to Gaochang one by one, filtering the grapes made last fall, then reinstalling them onto exquisite porcelain jars, and then transporting them to Guanzhong for distribution to the world.

The grapes grown last year have not yet been produced, and the grapes are produced in limited quantities, and by next spring, the yield will double.

A wool spinning workshop will also be built in summer, and a large number of finished products will be shipped to Guanzhong for sale.

Fang Jun did not need to invest too much energy in the "sheep eating people" strategy in the Western Regions. The basic strategy has been laid out. You only need to transport grape wine and cashmere products to the Central Plains for sale, and then give back a large amount of money to the nobles in the Western Regions. This will inevitably inspire them to pursue wealth even more crazily, turn all the land into grape fields and pastures, and there is no more land to plant less and abundant food.

The lifeline of the Western Regions will gradually be in the hands of the Tang Dynasty. Once the food supply is cut off, the entire Western Regions will be in a desperate situation.

The situation in Tubo is extremely similar, but the progress is slightly slower.

After all, Tubo is now a unified regime. If he wants to achieve the same effect as the chaotic Western Regions, he will definitely suffer more and face greater resistance.

Fang Jun is now fully focused on his upcoming trip to Jiangnan.

He also found Li Daozong to discuss some preparations.

Now spring is in full bloom, the ice and snow are melting in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and a large amount of snow water converges into the river channel, causing the river to surge and the river surface to widen, forming a spring flood.

This time of year is a good time to release the drain

The main thing is to transport wood. This kind of business has its own characteristics. Wood rafts are both a means of transportation and a target of transportation. Of course, the production of this kind of wooden raft has a unique process, which is both economical and practical, and transports wood as much as possible, and at the same time it must be solid and solid to ensure safety.

In ancient times, discharge of discharge was the main means of transporting wood.

The "material farm" by the river is full of wood transported and transported from the mountainous areas on both sides of the river after being cut down, and then piled up on the "material farm" by the river.

The process of binding wooden rafts is called "tipping", which is both a laborious and a technical job. When "tipping", the tools that "tipping" must be carried out according to the cross-section method are generally "ropes" twisted by bamboo. This kind of "ropes" is called "fiber ropes" or "cracks". They are bubble-resistant, tough and have no elasticity. Compared with steel wires in later generations, plastic ropes are better.

When placing the straits, they are tied up layer by layer in the water. Sometimes the arranged wood can reach more than ten layers. When placing it to the top layer, a radial rod must be tied, commonly known as "oat", but in fact it is a large piece of wood. The back end is pulsated and the front part is thinner. This becomes the rudder of the wooden strait. When crossing the beach and passing the gorge, the men stood on the strait and picked up the oars as thick as small bowls, cutting the waves like swinging fish tails, and rushing out one dangerous pass after another.

Li Daozong once led the world's naval army, and the best dischargers were often the most powerful naval army. Whether building shipyards or sea ships, they needed a large amount of high-quality wood, and the best wood in the world was mostly produced in Shuzhong. Cut down the mountainous timber and transport it down the river to easily anywhere along the river.

Li Daozong immediately ordered his former subordinates to cut down huge trees and discharge them down the river.
Chapter completed!