I really don't want to lose the country

Chapter 141 Li Ru's Guess

"This is……"

Ye Zhen looked suspicious!

Ye Qing said: "Salt!"

Salt!
Silk!
so white!

Ye Zhen tolerated it.

Stand up involuntarily.

His eyes fixed on the salt in the lacquer box.

Then walk down step by step.

Until next to the lacquer box, I still don't believe it.

How can salt be so white and delicate.

Even the refined salt from the Liu family can't do this.

Because the salt in the palace is actually the refined salt produced by the Liu family. It's not that he, the emperor, doesn't support the official salt, but the official salt has too many impurities.

As an emperor, at least it should be better in terms of food expenses.

A bit of luxury is also deserved.

Ye Zhen stretched out his hand to grab it, rubbed it, and rubbed it between his fingers.

It was found that this particle was not known how many times finer than coarse salt.

After putting it between his lips to repay, a salty and bitter expression appeared on his face.

Salty to a certain extent is bitter.

After rubbing it a little, it was so salty that he regretted it a little.

In the past, such a large coarse salt had no salty taste at all.

The result is that the snowflake salt is not only beautiful and beautiful, but also very salty, full of salty taste.

"Good! Good! Good! Good salt!" After saying three words in succession, Ye Zhen threw his arms behind his back and laughed.

Salt!

In his hand, he saw salt as white as snow and as fine as silk.

After returning to his dragon chair, Ye Zhen asked excitedly, "You refined this with official salt."

"It's not the minister, it's someone else. The minister is just using it to make a fool of himself!" Ye Qing would not admit it even if he was killed.

Whether facing Dong Huanghuang or Ye Zhen, Ye Qing would not admit this.

As long as the interest is big enough, capitalists will do anything crazy.

Emperors such as Ye Zhen and Dong Huang are the most unreasonable capitalists.

If you admit it generously, maybe you will really steal it.

What is most reliable, of course, is to snatch the technology into your own hands.

So Ye Qing only wanted to play the role of a second-hand dealer.

I just want to tell the two that cooperation is okay, but there is no way to think about other things.

"Ah... it's really like this!" Ye Zhen didn't believe it, but Ye Qing didn't admit it. After staring at him for a few times, he had no choice but to say:

"Okay! Since you are like this, from now on, I will take back the official salt and bring it into the Shaofu. I will buy it at the highest price as you said three days ago, and I must buy as much as I have!"

"It's Your Majesty! I'll ask the firm under my name to buy official salt from the Shaofu, but..." Ye Qing hesitated and said:

"I just hope that in the future, the salt used in the palace will be able to buy snowflake salt from the minister's business, and at the same time allow the Xiaoyaofu business to sell this salt to areas outside the Great Zhou, such as Qiang, Turkic, and Beishi!"

Ye Zhen was taken aback, Ye Qing wanted to sell the salt to these three places.

Not to mention the North Stone Kingdom, the Qiang land and the Turks are real enemies, and they plague Zhou every year.

Da Zhou banned the flow of salt, iron and grain to these two places.

It's the death order, who dares to risk the disgrace of the world, that will punish the nine clans.
The big aristocratic families are very crazy, they are very arrogant in the local area, and they dare not do such a thing.

Ye Qing actually wanted to sell salt to them.

What's on your mind?
Ye Qing knew what Ye Zhen was thinking, and explained: "Think about it, Your Majesty, who can afford this salt?"

Buy and sell snowflake salt.

Of course rich!

Of course, this fine snowflake salt cannot be sold cheaply.

It can only be enjoyed by the rich and wealthy in the upper class.

Suddenly Ye Zhen responded.

What is the purpose of banning salt? To prevent the army and civilians of the enemy country from replenishing their strength with salt.

If you can't eat salt for a long time, eating too little salt will cause the body's sodium content to be too low, and you will experience loss of appetite, weakness of limbs, dizziness and other phenomena; in severe cases, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, accelerated heart rate, weak pulse, Symptoms include muscle cramps, blurred vision, and decreased reflexes.

This is refined salt, expensive salt, which can only be eaten by Qiang people or Turkic nobles.

They are not short of salt to eat, what they lack is good salt.

Therefore, snowflake salt does not affect the ban on salt for alien races.

On the contrary, it can absorb the wealth of these nobles.

"Your Majesty, besides, has the ban on salt that I have been implementing since Dazhou really succeeded?" Ye Qing asked again.

Throughout the ages, the more prohibited something is, the more profitable it is, and the higher the profit.

There will always be people who are going to take risks, like moths to a flame, and there is still a steady stream.

Not to mention the current closed-door card lock policy, even if there are a lot of high-tech in later generations, smuggling and bringing goods will still be prohibited.

It hurts to talk about this.

Ye Zhen thought for a while and said: "Okay, but you have to understand that there is nothing wrong with it. Da Zhou and I need money, but more importantly, we need stability!"

"It's Your Majesty, I'm the people of the Great Zhou, and I always look forward to the stability of the Great Zhou!" As long as the big boss endorsed it, with Ye Zhen and Dong Huang standing in front, the salt business was basically settled.

After returning from the palace, the chaser and Tie Shou who were sent out to investigate returned.

"My lord, just as you and Mr. Wen You guessed, Empress Xiongyue and King Chu moved the army from the Qinling stronghold."

Ye Qing asked: "Can you find out where it went?"

It is absolutely difficult to hide such a large number of troops.

Zhui Ming and Tie Shou glanced at each other, both said: "My lord, we are incompetent, we didn't find out!"

At this time Li Ru also came over.

Ye Qing asked Tieshou and Zhuiming to go over the process again.

Li Ru pondered for a moment and said: "Could it be that they were split up according to the scriptures, and then returned to Chu State and Yue State one by one."

Tie Shuodao: "Mr. Wenyou's guess does have some grounds. We found that there were traces of a large number of people moving eastward, but after arriving in Shangluo City, there were no traces."

Zhui Ming said: "If so many people leave the country through Wuguan for a short time, they will definitely be found. Let's go and check again."

Li Ru looked at Ye Qing, and Ye Qing said: "One of you will check Wuguan to see if there are any records of large-scale exits, and the other will check the villages near Chang'an to see if there are a large number of strangers who have settled in."

Tieshou and Zhuiming led the way.

Then Li Ru said again: "My lord, I still have a suspicion, but there is no basis for it, and this suspicion will be a little scary, making people's scalp go numb!"

"Oh, what kind of suspicion?" Ye Qing asked.

To make Li Ru say the word "terrible" and make his scalp tingle with suspicion, this suspicion may be subversive.

Li Ru took a deep breath and said: "My lord, Lantian Valley is located between Lantian County and Shanglue City. Under the name of Lantian Valley, there is an extremely long deep valley with a radius of [-] miles. All the valleys and mountains are privately owned by him. Lantian Valley has been in business for so many years. , What is it like in the mountain, how many pavilions and dojos there are, and how many caves and paradises there are, outsiders don't know."

Lantian Valley, one of the six sects.

How rich the mountain gate is, whether it is territory, food or concealment.

They all meet all the necessary conditions for acceptance.

"Wenyou's words are not unreasonable, it's just that... Lan Tiangu, as my big Saturday martial arts school, needs to bear a great stigma if he wants to do this." Ye Qing didn't dare to think that Lan Tiangu would dare to do such a thing. thing.

What good does it do them.

You must know that Lantian Valley is the closest to Chang'an among the six major factions, and the most deeply influenced by Chang'an, and has never overstepped.

In addition to its special location, it has become a barrier to the southeast of the Great Zhou.

Before there was no Wuguan, the Chuyue Kingdom attacked the Great Zhou, and the Lantian Valley was the front line of the Great Zhou's defense.

Whenever there is a war in the southeast, people from Lantian Valley will also help the battle. Their status is the same as that of Qishan Pavilion. They are the most staunch supporters of the Great Zhou and the most powerful sect in the Great Zhou.

In fact, Lantian Valley and the Chuyue Kingdom Clan also have enmity.

And not just between generations.

How could Lan Tiangu collude with people from Chuyue Kingdom to receive the troops under Queen Xiongyue and King Chu.

Don't say that Ye Qing doesn't believe it, even if you say it, no one in Chang'an City will believe it.

But then again, if true.

That is the word horror that Li Ru said.

Can make the scalp tingle.

If Lantian Valley had betrayed the Great Zhou, then the troops of the Chu Yue Faction would have directly arrived at the capital Chang'an.

(End of this chapter)