God-level prince of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 230 Here comes the problem (second update)

Li Chengqian took Xue Rengui back to the East Palace quickly. At this time, what he did not expect was that besides Fang Xuanling, Sun Qian was also there.

The two saluted as soon as they came.

"Meet Your Royal Highness!"

He glanced at the two of them, their eyes were full of anxiety at this moment, and said:

"Let's go, talk inside!"

A group of four went to the palace, and it was not time to sit down yet.

However, Fang Xuanling said: "Your Highness, please give me an order to transfer private salt to official salt. The city is full of storms, and salt has become very tight. Although there is still a month to go, people have started to snap up a lot of salt. Now the price of salt is very high." The price has tripled!"

No wonder Li Shimin said that the next step will be the test.

The reactions of these people are quite normal.

But if it's just tight, it's impossible to triple the price, unless they ignore the imperial court's policy and raise the price without permission, they will be punished.

What he didn't expect was that the development trend of this situation was very bad, and it only took so long for it to rise so much!Things are not good!
Sun Qian also said: "The Wang family sells the most salt in the city. At this time, the Wang family has closed all the salt shops privately! This directly exacerbated the increase in the price of the entire salt. If we don't intervene in time, I'm afraid it will fail." People's hearts, I can't even afford salt, people will definitely complain, and it's hard to explain to Your Majesty!"

The Wang family's wishful thinking is not bad. Since you mess with me, I will close the salt shop, and the salt in Chang'an will become scarce, so I have a bargaining chip to negotiate with the court.Then, this matter may have to be put on hold again, which is why the Wang family did this.

It's no wonder that Li Shimin didn't dare to do anything to them, because he had to devote part of his mind to take care of these things. At present, Li Shimin was so tired that something went wrong, so he didn't have the energy to take care of it.

But Li Chengqian didn't believe in this evil, and he wanted to take the Wang family's knife for whatever he said, so as to complete his task by the way.

Since they are lying on the muzzle, then... sorry, you found it yourself!
"They probably think that if they do this, the court will compromise?"

Li Chengqian murmured.

Sun Qian said: "It's probably true. As far as I know, the Wang family has done this kind of thing more than once."

All of this has been experienced, which is very admirable.

Fang Xuanling asked at this time: "His Royal Highness, why don't we ask His Majesty to have a look?"

Fang Xuanling thought that Li Chengqian could not solve the problem, so he proposed this point.Li Shimin has spent more time in power, so he may be able to provide some advice.

But Li Chengqian said: "No, this king can solve it, and His Majesty is resting now, don't bother him. Don't worry, with me here, there is no problem that cannot be solved!"

Li Chengqian said it so firmly that people really thought that he could do it.

"Then what are we going to do?"

Sun Qian asked.

Fang Xuanling first said:
"His Royal Highness, I believe that we must first stabilize the hearts of the people."

It’s right to be stable, how to be stable is a whole.

However, Li Chengqian knew that since ancient times, people chased the high and not the low, and this salt would only get higher and higher.Find a way to let the price drop, and everything will be solved.

Therefore, he said: "Xing Guogong, I want you to punish that opportunistic person to a certain extent! In order to achieve the effect of killing chickens and monkeys!"

"This is possible, but we still have to solve the problem fundamentally, otherwise it will be very difficult for us to advance this issue! Moreover, our official salt cannot be promoted now, because some salt-making methods are in the hands of the Wang family, and some The quality of salt pana made by scattered people is worse than theirs."

Li Chengqian said that in order to ensure the quality, the salt production alone would not be able to pass the test, so what is the official business.

"It seems that they are ready to fight against us, but they need to know that what they are facing is the entire Great Tang, and they think too highly of themselves!"

To fight against the country with the strength of the family is simply courting death.

But you can't grab it clearly, the method of grabbing it, and the quality of the production is not high.

So Li Chengqian had a new idea.

So he first asked: "Where does the salt come from?"

Fang Xuanling said: "The salt in Chang'an is all shipped from Shandong!"

"Is there a salt mine in Guanzhong?"

Li Chengqian immediately set his mind on the salt mine,
It is impossible that there is no salt mine in Guanzhong. There must be a lot of salt mines in Guanzhong. However, the people of Tang Dynasty don’t know how to filter and purify salt mines. These salt mines are regarded as poisonous salt. If they eat them, they will be poisoned, and if they are serious, they will be thrown away. life.

But Sun Qian said: "His Royal Highness, the salt from the salt mine cannot be eaten, it will kill you!"

It seems that Li Chengqian is playing with the idea of ​​mineral salt.

In his opinion, Li Chengqian still took it for granted that having a salt mine does not mean that there is salt, but they still thought too closely.

Li Chengqian felt that it only needed some chemical reactions, but as ancients, they still didn't know anything about it.

Turning salt mines into table salt was nothing more than a small filtration experiment in later generations, but no one knew about it in Datang. Li Chengqian was ready to make a big change.

As for the method of making salt, he has the ability to be a genius, so he is naturally familiar with the secrets. After all, he remembers what is said in the book.And he still has a certain understanding of chemistry knowledge, such a simple thing, he will!
If poisonous salt can be turned into table salt, then the Wang family's right to speak will naturally not be high, and if their career is deprived, then it will be at the moment, and there will be no crisis of salt shortage.

"Okay, then I will turn this poisonous salt into edible salt!"

As soon as these words came out, Sun Qian and Fang Xuanling were a little dumbfounded!
"This……"

This doesn't seem to work.

It's unbelievable in their eyes.

"Sun Qian, I want your household department to pay and gather a team of thousands of people to be on call at any time! Next, I want to teach them how to extract salt! Remember, these people must be trustworthy and keep all methods secret! "

It happens that 1000 people go to purify the salt, which is quite a lot. In fact, the salt method he wants to mention is not difficult.

After saying this, although Sun Qian and the others did not dare to believe it, but now Li Chengqian is in charge of Datang, and he will do whatever he says.Who let him take charge of Datang?Now Li Shimin doesn't care about things, he is the biggest!

"And Xing Guogong, I will leave it to you to do what I just said!"

"As ordered!"

They saw that Li Chengqian was so confident, so they didn't say anything anymore. Everything was as Li Chengqian wanted, and they would definitely be able to surprise them again.

Then the two walked out of the East Palace, and next, Li Chengqian was going to pretend to be coercive again.

(End of this chapter)