Yipin Tang

Chapter 393 Break the boat or invite you into the urn?

The atmosphere in the Tai Chi Hall today is a bit weird.

The news that Laifu openly opened a salt shop in Chang'an in the name of Marquis Jiayuan was widely circulated, and naturally no one in the palace knew about it.

Opening a salt shop privately is a serious crime, and openly opening a salt shop at the foot of the Emperor Chang'an is even more contemptuous of the emperor, but at this time everyone pretended not to know, no one mentioned this matter, not even old man Wei said a word.

"Wei Gong, it is a serious crime to open a salt shop privately, why doesn't Wei Gong say a word?"

Hearing someone next to him whispering to himself, Wei Zheng said calmly, "Shouldn't this matter be handled by your Dali Temple? How can this old man exercise authority?"

Sun Fujia was stunned when he heard the words. Not long after he was promoted to Zhengqing of Dali Temple, he also knew the status of Jiayuanhou in Li Shimin's heart. It is likely that Jiayuanhou opened the salt shop privately and it was thankless and offended. people.He originally thought that with old man Wei's temperament, he would jump out to speak out when he knew about this matter, so that he wouldn't have to offend others, but he didn't expect old man Wei to be very calm today, which made Sun Fujia very depressed.

But what Wei Zheng said is correct. The matter of Lord Hou’s private opening of the salt shop should indeed be handled by Dali Temple. Looking at the performance of other officials, Sun Fujia knew that they would not be able to take the initiative to mention this matter. Zhengqing can't escape, if he doesn't know about such a big event as openly opening a salt shop in Chang'an, then he, Zhengqing of Dali Temple, is either a dead vegetarian or a bully.

There is no way, Sun Fujia was about to bite the bullet and report the matter to Li Er, when suddenly the elder Sun Wuji came out and said, "Your Majesty, a new salt shop opened in Chang'an today."

Seeing that the elder Sun Wuji was the first to speak out, Sun Fujia secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh? There are a lot of people buying salt these days, so the court should open more salt shops." Li Er said lightly.

Changsun Wuji squinted his eyes expressionlessly, but said in his heart: "Keep pretending, don't you know?"
"This salt shop was not opened by the imperial court."

"Didn't the imperial court open it? Who opened it?" Li Shimin was still very calm, and Changsun Wuji was even more sure that the mastermind at this time was Li Er.

"Prince Xin, Marquis of Jiayuan."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the Tai Chi Hall looked at Li Shimin. Li Shimin felt everyone's gazes and asked, "You mean that Marquis Jiayuan opened a salt shop privately?"

Changsun Wuji's bachelor said: "The minister said that Chang'an opened a new salt shop today, and it was newly opened by Prince Jiayuanhou."

All the ministers were speechless for a while, Changsun Wuji did not say the words "privately open a salt shop".

Li Er nodded and said lightly: "Well, I know about this matter."

Is this over?

Judging by Li Er's attitude, everyone knew that this matter was tricky, and those who could get into the Tai Chi Hall to discuss matters were not fools, so naturally no one came forward and said that selling private salt is a felony.

Li Er was very satisfied with everyone's performance, and asked Changsun Wuji: "How is the evidence you collected for the aristocratic family's hoarding of salt?"

Changsun Wuji is best at taking advantage of people to deceive others. He squinted his eyes and smiled when he heard this: "Several big families seem to have something to rely on, and they act very arrogantly. The evidence is easy to collect."

Li Er chuckled, how could he not know the support behind the aristocratic family, this is also the reason why he was determined to completely wipe out several aristocratic families.Originally, they just wanted to weaken the influence of several great families on the imperial court and the common people, so that they could be honest and wealthy idle families, but they did not expect that they would go so mad for their own interests that they would hoard food and salt to try to stimulate the people. Aroused public grievances, and also colluded with the establishment of the party, the Qi royal party, and even colluded with the Turks, a hundred deaths cannot atone for their crimes!
This day is not far away...

The salt shop opened by Laifu is near Dengxian Tower. As Wang Xiang guessed, because there is no purchase limit, most of the [-] buckets of refined salt on the first day were bought by several big families. Not many people bought table salt. However, the salt shop promises to supply at least [-] buckets of salt every day, and everyone has something to look forward to, and if the money is not enough, you can exchange it for grain. This is the best news for the common people. Potatoes are very easy to grow, as long as some potatoes are left for seeding, there is no need to worry about famine.

The price of salt soared, and the common people’s savings could not afford much salt at all, so a steady stream of potatoes were confiscated and secretly sent to the palace, and then Li Er distributed these potatoes to the common people. It was given to the people for free, but Li Er gained the hearts of the people.

Only the aristocratic family bought a huge amount of salt, and naturally it was impossible to exchange them for potatoes. The salt purchased by the aristocratic family was spent in real money.

The price of salt continues to rise, and the salt shop really provides at least [-] buckets of salt every day as promised. The salt shop provides salt every day and can be exchanged for grain. Naturally, there is no need to buy high-priced private salt. The salt hoarded by the aristocratic family More in and less out, and the price of salt in the salt shop has risen to an astonishing [-]-[-]-dou family. The Zheng family first stopped buying salt in the salt shop. They have nothing but hoards of salt. How much money has been deposited.

Wang Tong finally realized the crisis. He couldn't figure out where the newly opened salt shop got so much fine salt.

"Father, the Fan family sent here to say that the savings in their hands won't last long."

Hearing Wang Yuan's words, Wang Tong suddenly felt irritable. Not only the Fan family, but other aristocratic families are also facing the same problem. Naturally, the money from selling the salt that has been recovered three times before is not nervous. However, there are almost no common people who buy private salt from them, and almost all the family's silver deposits are covered in salt.

"Father, why don't we stop buying table salt, the price of eight times a bucket, not to mention ordinary people, even rich people can't afford it."

The speaker had no intention, but the listener had intention. Hearing Wang Yuan's words, Wang Tong felt a chill in his heart.

He suddenly realized that the private opening of the salt shop by the Marquis of Jiayuan was not Li Shimin's plan to break the boat, but a trap set for the aristocratic family from the beginning!This is to invite you into the urn!
How can the common people afford the eight-pound table salt?Even if the food is exchanged for the food in the people's homes, the food in the people's homes should be exhausted. The price of food and salt is simply incomparable, but the people can still exchange food for salt!

Because of the promotion of potatoes in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court has always distributed potatoes to the people. Although Wang Tong also felt that the imperial court distributed more and more potatoes to the common people recently than before, but because **** Put it on the salt, so he didn't take this trivial matter to heart. Now that he thinks about it, he suddenly understands that Li Shimin used this method to send salt to the people. In order to make the aristocratic family foolishly spend real money to buy the soaring price of salt!However, all this was discovered too late...

Seeing Wang Tong's ashen face, Wang Yuan was shocked, and quickly asked, "Father, what's wrong with you?"

Wang Tong waved his hand weakly to let Wang Yuan go down. Wang Yuan looked at Wang Tong worriedly, and asked, "Do we still have to collect the salt from the salt shop?"

"receive."

One word contains all kinds of complex emotions, resolute, helpless, bitter...

At this point, the aristocratic family had no way out, the salt they hoarded could not be sold openly like Wang Xiang did, and even if they sold it publicly, who would buy the salt they got back for eight pennies a bucket?Now I can only bet that the court's salt reserves will be exhausted before the Turkic war ends!

But Wang Tong knew that the aristocratic family had little hope of winning, because he still didn't know where the salt shop's steady stream of fine salt came from.

(End of this chapter)