Yipin Tang

Chapter 391
Eight hundred li urgent report exhausted six fast horses sent Li Shimin's autographed letter from Chang'an to Lingnan in one day. When Wang Xiang got Li Shimin's autographed letter, the sender had already fainted from exhaustion.

Wang Xiang quickly asked someone to help him down to rest, and then opened the letter immediately. He knew that there must be something very urgent, so Li Shimin sent someone to send the letter from eight hundred li urgently.

After opening the letter and reading it, Wang Xiang's complexion suddenly turned ugly, and his hatred for the family became more and more intense. The family completely disregarded the safety of the country and the lives of the people for their own benefit. In his opinion, these families are even more hateful than Turks and Tubo!

Frowning and silent for a moment, Wang Xiang put down the letter and told Butler Wang, "Butler Wang, please go and invite Master Zhang and Uncle Cheng to come over."

Steward Wang guessed that there must be something important, so he didn't dare to delay and immediately went to the Lingnan border city to invite Zhang Cheng. As for Lao Cheng, he had been living in Wang Xiang's mansion to enjoy the modern life for the past few days, so he sent someone to tell him Coming soon.

Old Cheng was wearing sunglasses and a loose blue beach suit, and walked in with a pair of large slippers dangling on his feet. When he saw Wang Xiang, he laughed and said, "The old man is going to the beach for a barbecue. What's the rush?" Are you looking for me?"

Are you here to defend Lingnan or to enjoy life...

Wang Xiang glanced at the "fashionable" Lao Cheng speechlessly. After Wang Xiang returned safely, Lao Cheng handed over the [-] reinforcements he brought to Zhang Cheng and followed Wang Xiang back to Xunzhou. He usually didn't play electronic games in the mansion. The game is to go to the seaside to have a barbecue dinner, or let Wang Xiang drive a yacht to take him out to sea for fishing. The life is very happy, and I am afraid that Li Er will not let him go back to Chang'an at this moment.

"Your Majesty has written."

Lao Cheng opened his mouth wide: "Didn't you call me back to Chang'an? You wrote a letter to His Majesty saying that Lao Cheng is not acclimatized and I feel unwell, so I can't leave now."

Wang Xiang glanced contemptuously at the sunny and strong old man Cheng, and said to himself: Do you seem to be unwell?Besides, if you are not acclimatized, you should go back as soon as possible, right?

"I didn't call you back to Chang'an." Wang Xiang said angrily.

Old Cheng immediately felt relieved when he heard the words, sat down on the soft sofa, raised his newly learned Erlang legs and asked lazily, "What's the matter?"

Wang Xiang knew from his appearance that he didn't want to read that long letter.

Forget it, if you don't have the same knowledge as uneducated people, Wang Xiang silently comforted himself and said Li Erxin's important content again, and Lao Cheng's face finally became serious.

"You mean the family took the opportunity to cause chaos?"

Wang Xiang explained: "It's not that the aristocratic family took the opportunity to cause chaos. It was the Jiancheng Party and the Qiwang Party that took the opportunity to cause chaos. The aristocratic family took the opportunity to hoard food and salt and cause the people to suffer."

The evil spirit of the old Cheng Hunshi Demon King was released, and he said coldly: "That's not the same as making trouble! Everyone should be killed!"

Wang Xiang was sweating in his heart, and quickly said: "You say the same, but the most important thing now is to quell public grievances."

"Yeah." Old Cheng nodded in agreement: "You're good at conspiracies and tricks, otherwise His Majesty wouldn't have sent someone to deliver a letter to you. What's your idea?"

I'm good at conspiracies and tricks... Wang Xiang has black lines all over his head.

Hearing from Butler Wang that His Majesty had sent a letter to Marquis Jiayuan to invite him to go there, Zhang Cheng immediately rushed to Xunzhou. When he arrived at the Hou's mansion, he saw Lao Cheng's "fashionable" appearance and almost didn't recognize him.

"Master Zhang is here, let's read this letter first."

It was obvious from a glance that Zhang Cheng had rushed all the way here. Wang Xiang pushed Li Er's letter in front of him and asked someone to pour him a glass of iced juice.

Zhang Cheng knew that it was Li Shimin's handwritten letter, so he didn't bother to drink the juice, so he looked at it respectfully. After reading it, he looked up at Wang Xiang and asked, "What does your Majesty mean?"

Wang Xiang said lightly: "Your Majesty asked us to find a way."

Zhang Cheng said, "During this time, the saltworks produced a lot of salt. I'll have someone transport it back to Chang'an, and then let people expand the saltworks. It's impossible for the family to eat so much salt."

Wang Xiang nodded, Zhang Cheng was right, now it is summer, the weather is fine, and the speed of drying salt is much faster. With the method of drying salt, it is impossible for the aristocratic family to eat all the salt. The salt support here can completely let go of the supply of salt, but Wang Xiang has other plans. After he deeply realized the nature of the family, he no longer has a good impression of the family.

"How much table salt is there in existence?"

During this period of time, because of the affairs of Tubo, Zhang Cheng seldom intervened in the affairs of the Yanchang, and all of them were handled by Chang Kui. Hearing this, he immediately sent people to the Yanchang to call Chang Kui.

According to Chang Kui, the salt field has now expanded to [-] evaporation ponds and [-] analytic ponds, and the salt production at one time is nearly [-] shi, which is [-] buckets. This speed is several times that of the salt lake. ten times!
But now there are [-] shi of table salt in the Xunzhou Salt Field, all of which are pure white and fine salt.

"The [-] stones of table salt will be transported back to Chang'an first, and then [-] evaporation ponds and [-] analysis ponds will be expanded."

Li Er's letter made it very clear that the court's salt storage was running out. After hearing Wang Xiang's words, Zhang Cheng immediately arranged for manpower to escort the salt to Chang'an, and Chang Kui went to recruit people to expand the scale of the salt farm.

In addition, a letter from Wang Xiang was sent to Chang'an first. In the letter, he described the situation of the saltworks and his thoughts very clearly.

It will take some time for the [-] shi of salt to be transported back to Chang'an, and Wang Xiang's letter reached Li's second hand first.

Li Er breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that [-] shi of table salt was being transported to Chang'an, and ordered the court's salt to be released slowly to the people, and raised the price of salt as Wang Xiang said, but it was still much cheaper than private salt.

The court salt was robbed as soon as it was put in. Li Er didn't seem to care. He would release some salt every day. Although aristocratic families and profiteers bought most of the court salt, there would always be people who could buy some, so Public grievances were finally eased a little.

"Your Majesty, if the war with Turkic stalemate persists, our salt reserves may not be enough."

Changsun Wuji knew that Li Shimin wanted to alleviate public grievances, but if the army did not supply enough salt, the consequences would be disastrous.

Other ministers also had the same worries, and they all spoke out to dissuade them. In their view, the fierce Turkic army is far more terrifying than the unarmed people.

Li Er knew what they were thinking, and said lightly: "It's okay, I have my own way about the salt."

Seeing Li Shimin's indifferent face, Changsun Wuji's heart moved: Could it be Wang Zixin?

"Auxiliary machine." Li Shimin's eyes turned cold suddenly, and he said solemnly: "You lead people to collect evidence of the family's hoarding of salt and food."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the palace was shocked: Your Majesty is really planning to attack the family?
(End of this chapter)