Li Shimin

Chapter 196

Immediately, thinking of something, he quickly took out two glass bottles from his pocket.

Each one is loaded with refined salt.

Afterwards, he said to the guards: "You must stay here, without His Majesty's order, no one is allowed to enter this salt field!"

"Yes, Commander!"

All the imperial guards looked solemn and excited at the same time.

If the refined salt was produced at this speed, they would be able to carry the refined salt with them when they went to the battlefield in the future.

As for Li Zhi, he quickly took out a pair of black gloves from his pocket and put them on his hands.

He put a woolen hood on his head, put on his armor, got on his horse, and galloped towards Chang'an City.

……

Hall of Liangyi.

Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, and Cheng Zhijie, who were discussing the newly opened cotton-padded clothes store in Chang'an City, stared fixedly at the coffee table. Can't help taking a sip carefully.

"Not even a hint of bitterness!"

Suddenly, Cheng Zhijie's eyes widened, "Your Majesty, this refined salt seems to be of better quality than the salt used in the palace!"

"I know!"

Li Shimin gave Cheng Zhijie a hard look, and quickly moved the bottle of refined salt to his side.

"Li Zhi, is this refined salt made from the recipe provided by King Jin?"

"Return to Your Majesty, that's right!" Li Zhi hurriedly clapped his hands in response.

"This kind of refined salt, how much of this kind of refined salt can a small salt field produce in a day?"

Li Shimin asked again.

Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help staring at Li Zhi closely.

"Return to Your Majesty, a small salt field can produce twenty catties a day!"

"Twenty pounds?"

Immediately, Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and others couldn't sit still.

"The output of official salt is even higher!"

Cheng Zhijie stood up, staring, and cupped his hands towards Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, my old minister insists on taking the Youwuwei army to the river east in the starry night!"

On the side, although Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji didn't speak, they also had the same meaning in their eyes.

"Your Majesty, with this method of making salt, when we attack the Turks in the future, our soldiers of the Tang Dynasty will no longer need to carry vinegar cloth, and each of us can directly carry a few catties of refined salt!"

After hearing this, the corners of Li Shimin's mouth twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but glared at Cheng Zhijie again.

"You are General Youwuwei. If you take Youwuwei's army to Hedong like this, do you know how much chaos it will cause?"

"Your Majesty, then Old Cheng will go home and pack up, and go secretly!"

Cheng Zhijie's face brightened, and he said hastily.

Li Shimin ignored Cheng Zhijie, but directly shouted: "Li Wei!"

"His Majesty!"

"Hurry up and bring a team of forbidden troops, travel secretly, go to Hedong, and keep a close watch on Yanchi!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Wei responded and hurried out.

"Oh, Your Majesty, this..."

Seeing this, Cheng Zhijie looked anxious.

After talking for a long time, seeing that Li Shimin ignored him, he turned his gaze to the two bottles of refined salt on the table.

"Your Majesty, these two bottles of refined salt, Lao Cheng's family is poor, and it has been a long time since I bought refined salt. Lao Cheng will take one bottle away first, and go back to taste it!"

As he said that, a pair of big furry hands stretched out.

"Old man Cheng, I have never eaten such fine salt!" Li Shimin stared.

"Exactly, old thief Cheng, only these two bottles of refined salt, your Majesty, and the remaining bottle, we should share it equally..."

On the side, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and the others also stared and began to quarrel.

"Your Majesty, when I went to Hedong, the King of Jin had an account. If you want to make refined salt, you must bring him a bottle. These two glass bottles are the bottles that King Jin used to fill the refined salt with you!"

Li Zhi said out loud.

"Ok?"

Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and others were all startled, staring at Li Zhi in a daze.

"What do you mean, there is a bottle of this refined salt, which belongs to King Jin?"

"I only have two glass bottles, so I just brought back these two bottles!"

Li Zhi said in a low voice.

"Ugh!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin quickly took away a bottle of refined salt.

But Cheng Zhijie and Fang Xuanling sighed heavily.

Looking at the bottle of refined salt in front of him, his face was full of heartache.

However, this bottle of refined salt was what King Jin wanted, and they dared not intercept it at all.

I can only let Li Zhi take the bottle of refined salt and send it to Lijiazhuang as soon as possible, out of sight and out of mind.

at the same time.

In Chang'an City, a cotton-padded clothes trend has exploded.

The cotton coat that both the Patriarch of the Cui family and the Patriarch of the Zheng family praised was actually in Chang'an City.

Therefore, all the honorable and wealthy merchants, out of curiosity, ordered their servants to buy one at random.

Then, after putting it on for a try, I was overjoyed.

"It's unbelievable that such a comfortable cotton coat is made of white folds!"

"Housekeeper, what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and buy some more!"

"Wait, it seems that this kind of cotton coat also has cotton pants and cotton gloves? Buy them all for someone!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Hurry up and buy those cotton clothes for someone, such useful clothes, I want to give them to those great scholars!"

"Housekeeper, hurry up..."

In less than a day, the entire city of Chang'an began to be noisy, and hundreds of cotton-padded clothes and trousers in the cotton-coat shop were robbed within half an hour.

"Master, it's too bad, the cotton coat has been sold out!"

"Master, there are only a hundred sets of cotton-padded clothes in the cotton-clothes shop, and they have all been sold out..."

"Who still has a cotton coat?"

"Master, there is only the cotton-padded clothes shop opened by Mr. Cui's and Zheng's family!"

"What about the Wang family? A while ago, the stewards of the Wang family and the Lu family in Chang'an City also bought Baidiezi in the whole city?"

"This? Master, I don't seem to have heard that the stewards of the Wang family and the Lu family sew white folds out of cotton clothes!"

"Prepare the car, I want to visit that Wang Jiajiulang!"

"It's my lord!"

"Housekeeper, prepare a car and go to Wang's other courtyard..."

Soon, before Wang Hui recovered from the news that the cotton-padded clothes store was popular in Chang'an City, the main hall of Wang's other courtyard was once again filled with noble families.

"I don't know what's the purpose of you coming here this time?"

"Mr. Wang, I just want a cotton coat!"

A family member said.

"Cotton coat?"

Wang Hui was taken aback, "I don't know why you want that cotton coat?"

"Wang Jiulang doesn't know, Qinghe Cui Jiawulang and Zheng Jiabalang sent a set of cotton clothes and trousers to the Patriarchs of Qinghe Cui Family and Zheng Family a few days ago. After the two Patriarchs put them on, they all praised the cotton coat. Not only comfortable but also warm. Especially a kind of cotton gloves, which can be worn on the hands and can hold books and read normally, which is extremely important for us.

Many gentlemen and Confucians are very fond of this kind of clothing!

Moreover, I have also worn that kind of cotton clothes, which are more comfortable than satin clothes! "

"Exactly, I also know that Mr. Lang bought a lot of cotton-padded clothes a while ago, so I want to invite Jiulang to sew some cotton-padded clothes and gloves with white folds!"

Hearing this, Wang Hui had a strange expression on his face.

"You may not know that after I bought the white folds, I let the tailors in my house try to sew cotton clothes with white folds. However, the cotton clothes were a little comfortable at first.

After wearing it for two days, the white folds inside the padded jacket were wrinkled together like those wadding, not only not warm, but also very uncomfortable! "

"how can that be?"

All the members of the honorable family were full of surprise.

Wang Hui frowned as he watched.

"If you don't believe me, Wang will ask the tailor to sew one for you, and you will know if you try it!"

"Thank you Wang Langjun!"

Everyone couldn't help but beam with joy.

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(End of this chapter)