His Majesty sighed and said: "Now there are four salt mines in Nanming, if they are all above the ground, three of them are hidden underground, and it is extremely difficult to mine, and there are countless deaths and injuries every year...... Hey, don't mention it. ”

Heavenly Sin's eyes lit up, and he said: "The misfortune of the day before yesterday, the great fortune of today." ”

His Majesty was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Heavenly Sin smiled: "This method of salt mining for the minister is only applicable to underground mines. Determine the location of the salt mine first, then dig a straight well, go straight to the highest level, and then inject a large amount of clean water, and over time, the water will be taken out, with the method of three distillation and three boiling, through filtration and crystallization several means, you can get the purest refined salt, only two people can manage a salt well, from mining to refining one day is enough! ”

Majesty exclaimed: "Is that really the case?!" ”

Tiansin nodded and said: "Please rest assured that this method is simple and easy to do, but the one who knows the world is only one minister, as long as it is ...... Hehe, His Majesty can keep the secret, and in the future, refined salt can be used as the main export item, and then the money and grain will be naturally abundant. ”

"Export? What is the meaning? ”

"It's just selling to other countries."

"Humph! Isn't that to sell important supplies to other countries? Isn't it a tiger for trouble? ”

His Majesty's face sank, thinking that Heavenly Sin was still thinking about the West Country, so he said this.

Tiansin shook his head and smiled bitterly, it seemed that the so-called 'economic trade' things in his mind were rarely understood in this world, so he kept his mouth shut and sat there as a statue.

After a long time, His Majesty felt embarrassed, so he patted his son's head and said to Heavenly Sin: "I am a cowardly prince by nature, if I have one-tenth of the courage of a marquis, I will be at ease." ”

Heavenly Sin said bluntly: "Where is the courage to be a minister? The minister just feels that he is promoted too quickly, and it is inevitable that he will be jealous, if he doesn't make an appearance, he may have to wear many small shoes in the future...... But speaking of which, Your Majesty, is that the reward you give to your ministers is just a little bit? I want to be a minister in the country of the West to own a city, tens of thousands of households, for the minister......"

His Majesty said coldly: "Hmph, at least I didn't chase you everywhere in the Southern Ming Kingdom!" ”

"Uh...... That's right," Tiansin scratched his head, he glanced at the cowardly prince, recalled the scene when he bumped into him at the door of the bathhouse that day, and suddenly wanted to test it, so he said: "Your Majesty, can you tell your Majesty a story?" ”

His Majesty was stunned for a moment and asked, "What about this refined salt refining?" ”

Tiansin said: "Hehe, this matter is simple, but if you want to really master it, you still need professional people to study for a long time, so let's wait for your majesty to select some people after today and go to the minister's mansion to study." ”

His Majesty nodded and said, "That's right...... Tell me, what kind of story is it? ”

Tiansin smiled: "It's a mainland anecdote, it is rumored that there is a strange country in the corner of the continent, which believes in a certain religion and is extremely centralized, of course, the power of their people is far less than that of the four major powers in the middle of the road. It can't be said to be a story, it should be a kind of 'novelty'. ”

"Well, let's hear it, I don't know much about those small and remote countries."

Heavenly Sin nodded and said: "It is rumored that the country is often plagued by certain diseases, often a plague comes, the whole village or city is empty, and countless tragic deaths, and the ruler of this country is also wonderful, blaming the root of the epidemic on some beautiful women, nailing their innocent hands to the cross, burning them alive, and calling these innocent women witches. When the fire burns, the people are often filled with righteous indignation, spitting and throwing stones, torturing the poor women as much as possible...... This is the anecdote of that country, and the minister wants to hear whether His Majesty thinks this is right or wrong? ”

His majesty was stunned for a moment, his brows were furrowed deeply, his fist slammed on the side of the bed, and he said angrily: "Naturally, it's wrong!" Miss by a mile! Ignorance, damn good! ”

Tiansin nodded and said, "Your Majesty is benevolent, then the minister also wants to ask His Royal Highness the Prince, do you think this matter is right or wrong?" ”

The crown prince was also stunned, raised his head, first glanced at Heavenly Sin, then looked at his father, opened his mouth twice, and then whispered: "It's wrong to think about it." ”

Tiansin laughed loudly and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't need to follow His Majesty's thoughts, just follow your own thoughts, if you think it's right, then say it's right, if you think it's wrong, just say it's wrong, it's just simple talk, don't have a psychological burden." ”

His Majesty also said coldly: "If you want to speak up, you will speak up, hum!" ”

Tears rolled in the prince's eyes, and his face was full of grievances, but he still whispered: "Erchen...... Erchen thinks that's right......"

His Majesty was furious and shouted coldly: "Rotten wood cannot be carved!" ”

The prince was shocked, and tears rolled down directly. Tiansin laughed again, shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, let's listen to what the prince said, since he thinks it is right, what is the reason?" ”

His Majesty said coldly: "Well, the emperor will tell me the reason why you think it is right, and let me have a long insight!" ”

The prince flattened his mouth and sobbed, "Erchen...... Erchen said that it was not good, but Erchen thought that was the right approach. ”

"Right?!" His Majesty was furious and shouted directly: "You mean that it is right to kill innocents? You're right to say ignorance?! Hum! I thought you were just weak and ignorant, but I didn't expect to find out today that you're a fool! Forget it, you go down, I don't want to see you for a while. ”

The crown prince stood up aggrievedly, bowed respectfully and wanted to leave, but Tiansin stretched out his hand and said: "Your Highness, please wait, Your Majesty, what does the minister think of His Highness...... Is that correct? ”

His Majesty was stunned again, and wondered: "What kind of fallacies do you want to say this stinky boy?" ”

Tiansin smiled: "Hehe, Your Majesty don't be impatient, I always heard people say that heaven and earth are orderly, and people are divided into nine ranks, in fact, it is not just a status, the same thing also has different results in the eyes of different people." People have birth, old age, sickness and death, life is great joy, death is great sorrow, but this great joy and great sorrow is nothing more than ordinary in the eyes of heaven and earth, and it is normal. As the lord of the country, His Majesty naturally has to be different from the people, especially when it comes to looking at one thing, such as ...... This 'rare thing' that the minister said before. ”

His Majesty frowned and said, "Go on." ”

Heavenly Sin said: "Burning the witch and harming innocent people is foolish and wrong in the eyes of ordinary people. And as long as people are in a normal mind, they think that this is an act of no way, but ...... Is the lord of that country really so stupid that he is not even as good as a three-year-old doll on the street? How can a person who can get the world and maintain a country be more mentally retarded than ordinary people? Don't you think it's a little strange? ”

His brows furrowed even deeper, and he nodded, "It's really a little weird...... So what is wrong with what you say? ”

Heavenly Sin said: "In the eyes of the minister, this matter is wrong, and the wrong thing makes the minister want to scold his mother, but in the eyes of His Majesty and His Royal Highness, this matter is right." ”

"Why is that?"

If a country is founded by religion and governed by religion, religious belief is more powerful than the army, and it is the most important means of ruling the country, and all the people believe in it. But suddenly one day, all the people's prayers did not come to fruition, and the gods seemed to have never appeared, allowing a catastrophe-like disease to take away countless living beings, relatives and friends around them, and even the first to bear the brunt of the old people and the most cherished children, if Your Majesty was one of them, would you still believe in that religion? If you have doubts about that religion, will you still be loyal to that country? If all the people of the country are caught in such a crisis of faith, if you ask Your Majesty to come up with a solution, what do you want to do? ”

His Majesty lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and then said: "It is mainly funded by money and food, supplemented by city defense and law and order, and it can be effective. ”

Heavenly Sin nodded, the method proposed by His Majesty is really a very wise method, and it is very benevolent. But then he shook his head and said: "Money and food are limited, and disasters are ruthless, and there is a degree of security, but there is no source of chaos. No amount of money can soothe the sorrow and anger of the whole country, and no amount of guards can keep an eye on all the people...... Hehe, at most, it can only delay the outbreak of the people. ”

His Majesty was not happy all of a sudden, although he also knew that the method he came up with in a hurry was definitely not perfect, but it would not be as miserable as Heavenly Sin said, right?

"Humph! Then come and tell me what you can do! ”

Tiansin shook his head and said: "No, no, no, Your Majesty, I can't think of a way for the minister, and this solution is ...... Didn't the minister say it a long time ago? ”

His Majesty was stunned for a moment, and suddenly exclaimed: "Is that the anecdote from before?" Burning witches? That's the way? ”

Heavenly Sin nodded and said: "If we want to solve the problem of the calamity caused by this epidemic, the first thing is to re-establish the people's belief in religion, but the disease is real, but the true God really does not exist, what should I do?" Only by blaming the plague on the evil beings, and on the antithetical beings of the gods, let the dead be the martyrs of evil, and let the living be the merits of the gods! Therefore, there is a saying that the plague was brought by the witch and witch. The second thing to solve is the anger in the hearts of the people, human beings, some anger can disappear with the passage of time, and some will not, such as the death of Kaoyan, the tragic death of his wife and children! How do you get people to vent their accumulated anger? What kind of breakthrough is you looking for? Beauty is the only choice, the so-called red face is thin, men yearn for it but can't get it, women are jealous but can't compare, so they ...... Seeing the beautiful woman with the name of the shrine witch wailing to death in the flames, they ...... On the contrary, you will be able to forget the pain and suffering you have suffered before. The rule of the emperor is nothing more than weighing the pros and cons, good or evil? It's never a place to be focused! ”