strictlysupreme Chapter 123 Li Shimin cheats people
Chapter 123 Li Shimin cheats people
Chapter 123 Li Shimin cheats people
Duan Lun unfolded it to look at it, and said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, this minister has never heard of it. Is it really necessary to try it?"
Just kidding, the salt produced by poisonous salt mines is known to be poisonous. After so many years, no one has been able to do anything about it. He doesn't believe that Lin Xuan, a child with a yellow mouth, can solve it.
Duan Lun is Li Yuan's son-in-law and Li Shimin's brother-in-law.
Lin Xuan had just been given a marriage, and he was still his niece and son-in-law according to seniority.So he has been sympathetic in what he said.
"Try it first, according to the method, it's not troublesome!" Li Shimin said firmly.
He also didn't believe it, but at this time he had no choice but to believe in Lin Xuan.
"Yes!" Duan Lun saluted and left with the method of making salt.
Others were a little curious, they didn't know what Lin Xuan dedicated to Li Shimin.
And Li Shimin didn't mean to explain, and said lightly: "Leave aside the matter of money, the thoughts I just said are just a blunt statement. Tell me, is there anything I haven't thought of."
When everyone heard that they could also participate in the reform of the imperial examination, they were very excited and expressed their thoughts and opinions one after another.
What Lin Xuan put forward was just a general framework, and these people have perfected it with each other.
……
"Your Majesty, rejoice!"
After more than an hour, Duan Lun came back with a surprised smile.
Li Shimin stood up abruptly and asked, "Successful?"
"Successful, please take a look, Your Majesty!" Duan Lun specially packed some in a bag.
Li Shimin didn't wait for Li Mu to pick it up, and ran over to take the bag directly.
"Is this salt?" Li Shimin looked at the snow-white thing in his hand and asked with some uncertainty!
"What! Is this salt?"
"How is it possible, how can there be white salt!"
Changsun Wuji and the others, hearing Li Shimin's words and looking at the snow-white salt in his hand, were a little unbelievable.
Datang's salt is all granular and divided into three colors, yellowish brown, light yellow, and cyan.
This is the first time Li Shimin has seen this kind of salt that is as white as snow and as fine as dust.
Duan Lun said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I follow the method of Jingyang County Bo, and finally I get this kind of salt. I couldn't believe it at first, but after I tasted it, I was sure that this is salt, and it is better than green salt." salt!"
After Li Shimin heard this, he immediately dipped his hands in a little salt and was about to put it in his mouth.
Salty, very salty!
But Li Shimin laughed loudly: "Okay, very good! Lin Xuan, you have done a great job!"
Lin Xuan originally thought that Li Shimin was going to give him some kind of reward, but who knew there would be no more.
Although a little upset, Lin Xuan still smiled and said: "This is what I should do."
Changsun Wuji said: "Your Majesty, can I let my minister have a taste?"
"Haha, try it all!" Li Shimin laughed, and handed the salt bag to Changsun Wuji.
"It's really salt."
"The most rare thing is that there is no peculiar smell, even the green salt has a somewhat peculiar smell."
After everyone tasted it, they all exclaimed!
Cheng Yaojin rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, can you give me some carts of such good salt?"
Li Shimin said angrily: "How many cars? What do you want so much salt for? Do you eat it?"
"Haha..." Everyone burst out laughing upon hearing this.
Cheng Yaojin didn't care about the people's ridicule at all, he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I can buy it with money!"
He thinks that this salt is so good, and the output must be small. If you don't get more now, it may not be easy to buy in the future.Anyway, his family is rich now.
Yu Chigong also reacted, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I also want to buy some cars."
"Oh? Are you sure you want to buy it?" Li Shimin looked at Cheng Yaojin and Yu Chigong with a half-smile.
How could he not know what Cheng Yaojin and the two were planning.
But he remembered that Lin Xuan said that the output of salt could meet the needs of the entire Tang Dynasty.
The other ministers were also ready to speak, but seeing Li Shimin's expression, they were smart enough not to speak.
Cheng Yaojin suddenly had a bad premonition, but he didn't find any problem, so he nodded and said, "I want to buy it!"
Yu Chigong also nodded, and said, "I want to buy it too!"
Li Shimin smiled and said, "Such good salt is not expensive for three hundred Wen per catty, right?"
Cheng Yaojin and Yu Chigong shook their heads, "It's not expensive."
It is really not expensive. Ordinary salt costs more than 100 renminbi a catty, and the price of green salt is more than 300 renminbi. Such a comparison is really not expensive.
Li Shimin said: "Then how much do you want to buy?"
"I'll buy a thousand catties!" Cheng Yaojin was afraid that Li Shimin would not sell it if he bought too much, so he didn't dare to say more.
As for how long he would have to eat so much salt, he never thought about it.
Just buy it back and eat it slowly, it won't spoil anyway, and it can also be given as a gift.
Yu Chigong also said that he would buy a thousand catties.
"That's all." Li Shimin muttered softly.
He thought Cheng Yaojin and the others were going to buy tens of thousands of catties.
Cheng Yaojin asked suspiciously, "Your Majesty, what did you say?"
Li Shimin said quickly: "I said that's it!"
Cheng Yaojin and Yu Chigong felt that they had taken advantage of it, and laughed triumphantly.
Fang Xuanling saw that the matter was a foregone conclusion, so he asked, "May I ask Your Majesty, what is the cost of this salt? What is the output?"
Li Shimin didn't know this, and said, "Duan Aiqing, tell me how much it costs and how much it can produce."
Duan Lun cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, my lords, the cost of this salt is about the same as that of ordinary salt. As long as there are enough people, the output can fully meet the needs of the entire Tang Dynasty."
The production of salt is to boil salt ore in a pot. After the water evaporates, it becomes salt.
Now it is nothing more than more steps of filtration and purification, and the cost has not increased much.
Gah!
The smiles on Cheng Yaojin and Yu Chigong's faces froze, and they realized that they had been tricked by Li Shimin.
"Haha~" Li Shimin and the other ministers laughed out loud when they saw the faces of the two of them.
"How can such a good salt cost the same as before?" Cheng Yaojin didn't want to believe it.
He didn't care about the money, but mainly because he felt ashamed.
"That's right, it can't be that cheap!" Yu Chigong said hastily.
Duan Lun explained: "The cost of salt is not high in the first place, it's just some labor costs. The reason why it is so expensive is because the output is too small, and it has nothing to do with the cost."
Cheng Yaojin and the others have never paid attention to these things. They always thought that salt is so expensive because of the high cost.
Now that Duan Lun explained it, they realized that the cost of salt was not that high.
Changsun Wuji smiled and said, "Cheng Yaojin, you don't want to renege on your debt, do you?"
Cheng Yaojin said angrily: "This old man has a lot of money, only a few hundred pennies. Will this old man renege on his debt?"
"Ha ha……"
The emperor and his ministers didn't take this matter to heart, it was just a joke between the emperor and his ministers.
Fang Xuanling smiled, and started to talk about business: "I wonder how much your Majesty plans to sell for this salt?"
Li Shimin pondered for a while, and said: "Most people in the world can't afford salt, and I couldn't do anything about it before. Now that I have the conditions, of course, the cheaper the better."
Cheap means less profit, but it doesn't matter if the quantity is large.
Even if you only earn a few pennies per catty, you can easily make millions of dollars in profits a year.
"Your Majesty Shengming!"
Li Shimin was very happy in his heart, but his face remained calm, and he said, "The Ministry of Industry has calculated the cost and mass-produced it, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs is responsible for sales, so that people all over the world can eat salt as soon as possible."
"I take orders!" Duan Lun and Minister of Civil Affairs Dai Zhou responded.
(End of this chapter)