Yipin Tang

Chapter 390
Although he intends to help Tiedan improve his strength, the Jiayuan Base is still cash-strapped. These days when Wang Xiang is in a coma, he only relies on Lei Fu and others to hunt the crystals of the base to get more and less, and what Wang Xiang absorbs is all advanced. Amethyst So there are not many spars left in the base.

Knowing the situation, the first thing Wang Xiang has to do is to earn crystals. Now that even Datang has people with abilities, crystals have really become the most important thing in the two worlds.

After the carnival at the base, the previous order was restored, and the production and construction also returned to normal. Wang Xiang asked Zhao Jun to expand the scale of the canning factory. As the scale of the canning factory expanded, naturally more raw materials were needed, and more money was needed to purchase raw materials.

The war between Turkic and Datang had the greatest impact on Wang Xiang, which was the destruction of the trade market and the Chamber of Commerce of the Tang Dynasty that he had worked so hard to build, and blocked the normal trade between the Western Regions and Datang, causing the Hou Mansion's income to shrink greatly. During the war, the business of Dengxian Tower and Heyipin Theater also declined a lot. There were Turkic invasions outside, and the Jiancheng Party and Qiwang Party took advantage of the situation to make trouble. People were panicked, so who would want to go to the theater for dinner.

The price of glass products in Gewuyuan fell, but the price of food rose all the way. Wang Xiang, who was originally rich and powerful, also felt a little tight.

Li Shimin tried his best to appease and adjust prices in the hope of stabilizing prices, but relying on the power of the court alone was far from enough. The aristocratic family who had been severely suppressed by Li Shimin earlier violated Li Shimin's demand for stable prices, and secretly hoarded supplies to make a fortune in war.

The price of food has more than tripled, and the prices of other daily necessities have also increased significantly. The price of salt, which used to be as high as two hundred yuan a bucket, can now be bought for a bucket of thousands of yuan, and the price is still soaring. It is completely a family and profiteers Buying a large amount of salt sold by the imperial court, no matter how much salt the imperial court releases, the aristocratic families and profiteers will use various means to snatch it up. The people who really need it will not be able to buy the salt from the imperial court. They can only buy it from the aristocratic families and profiteers through other channels Expensive private salt.

Soldiers on the front line had to consume a lot of salt, otherwise they would not have the strength to fight, so it was impossible for the court to continue to release salt. Nowadays, the people of Tang Dynasty are struggling to find salt.

Sitting in the Taiji Hall, Li Shimin's face was extremely gloomy. Now there are rumors that the imperial court did not release salt because the emperor had resorted to militarism and left the salt for the soldiers who fought in the war, regardless of the lives of the people. Li Shimin's lungs would explode. The words "military militarism" can still be used to make a little sense when starting a war. How can it be said that he is militaristic now that Fan Bang took the initiative to provoke the war!

What's more, it's not that the imperial court doesn't release salt, but that some people are against the imperial court. The low-priced salt that the imperial court releases to the people will always be snatched up by aristocratic families and people with ulterior motives.

However, the common people don't understand these things. They only know that the imperial court wants to fight a war, so they don't release salt.

"How is the situation now?"

Li Shimin rubbed his temples and asked His Highness's grandson Wuji.

Aiming at such a situation, Changsun Wuji put forward a proposal to limit purchases, that is to say, each person can only buy one bucket of salt per day, which is good to put away. What's more, in the Tang Dynasty, it was just simple household registration, and the actual effect was very limited.

Changsun Wuji shook his head and sighed: "The [-] dou of salt we just put in was sold out in just one day, but there are still not many people who bought salt."

"Why is this so? Isn't the purchase already restricted?" Li Shimin frowned even tighter.

Changsun Wuji smiled wryly and said, "Many so-called common people are actually sent by aristocratic families and some profiteers. As soon as the imperial court's salt was opened for sale, everyone rushed to it. The purchase restriction is very difficult to operate."

"Snapped!"

Li Shimin slapped the back of the chair fiercely, and said coldly: "The family who disrupts the world is also!" He wished he could send someone to copy the family immediately. He knew that the family must have hoarded a lot of salt, but now he can't do this, the court's reputation has been severely damaged. If you attack a family with a huge foundation at this time, it will definitely be used by people with ulterior motives, and it will be troublesome when the public anger becomes more intense.

"Unless a large amount of salt is poured into the people, the anger of the people may accumulate more and more." Changsun Wuji looked worried, and the current situation is not optimistic.

"What countermeasures do you have?"

After hearing Li Shimin's question, all the ministers of His Royal Highness looked at each other and shook their heads and sighed. The best way is to invest a lot of salt, but they have no way to conjure salt out of thin air.

Li Shimin's complexion became more and more ugly, every one of them was full of authority on weekdays, but when something really happened, he couldn't even come up with a countermeasure!

Just when Li Shimin's anger was about to erupt, Chen Gui rushed in from the outside suddenly, Li Shimin frowned, he knew that Chen Gui would not rush in at this time if it wasn't for something very important.

Before Li Shimin could ask a question, Chen Gui said loudly: "There is news from Lingnan that the Marquis of Jiayuan has returned safely!"

"Prince Xinping is back?" Li Shimin was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "Where is he?"

Chen Gui said: "It's in Xunzhou, this is a letter from General Cheng who sent someone to send it quickly."

"Speed ​​up!"

Li Shimin beckoned to Chen Gui, and Chen Gui quickly trotted forward to present the letter in his hand respectfully. Seeing Li Shimin's joyful face, all the ministers in the Highness felt emotionally: When Wang Zixin first went to the palace, he was still a little boy. The seventh-rank supervisor of the Sinong Temple is now the Marquis of the Tang Dynasty who owns the fief, and the holy family he received is unmatched by anyone in civil and military affairs in the whole dynasty. If he survives this catastrophe, he is afraid that the holy family will be thicker in the future.

Li Shimin couldn't wait to open the letter, and saw that Wang Zixin had returned to Xunzhou safely. Wisdom may be able to figure out a way to deal with it.

Just as he was about to have someone call Wang Xiang back to Chang'an, Li Shimin's eyes suddenly lit up.

Wait, Wang Zixin... He remembered that some time ago, Lingnan sent a letter saying that the method of drying salt had been successful, but at that time, the Turkic army was rising and there was no salt crisis, so he didn't take it to heart. move.

"Retreat!"

After throwing down two words, Li Shimin got up and left the Taiji Hall quickly, leaving all the officials in the hall looking at each other in dismay. Changsun Wuji also squinted his eyes and looked puzzled. He could see that Li Shimin had suddenly thought of something urgent, but what else is there now? Is it more important to discuss countermeasures against salt?If the salt problem of the common people is not solved as soon as possible, I am afraid that the Tang Dynasty will be in chaos before the war ahead.

After returning to Ganlu Hall, Li Shimin wrote a long letter with his own hand, and asked someone to send it to Lingnan and hand it over to Wang Zixin. He believed that Wang Xiang knew what to do after reading the letter.

(End of this chapter)