Lou Zheng picked a little bit with a small silver spoon and handed it to the medicine slave, "Medicine slave, taste it." ”

The medicine slave stretched out his pink tongue and licked it, and a pair of round eyes lit up, "Salty, and there is no peculiar smell, little lady, this is the best refined salt!" No, this is better than the refined salt specially shipped by Shengjing! ”

Lou Zheng smiled and asked the medicine slave to make all the salt water like she had just done.

The medicine slave is very interested, and she is very interested in all things that make and eat.

Leaving the medicine slave in the kitchen to work, he came out alone, and just on the way to the study, a family came to report that General Lou had returned home.

Lou Zheng frowned, it was only afternoon, and the sun was still hanging high, why did my father come back.

Thinking of the two crossbows that the family general had transported to the barracks today, Lou Zheng knew that his father's hurried return must have something to do with it.

When they arrived at the study, General Lou and Zhou were already waiting.

Zhou Shenjun looked at the little girl wearing a plain dress, shook his head helplessly with a smile, and looked at General Lou with envy.

"Jiaojiao, come quickly, I have something to say to you for my father."

Lou Zheng stood behind his father and took the initiative to hand the improved bow and crossbow blueprints to the two elders, "Daddy, Uncle Zhou, I know what you are here for, look, they are all here, but there is one point, if you want to manufacture these weapons in large quantities, whether it is manpower, money or raw materials, we are not enough now." ”

Hearing Lou Zheng say this, the two veterans who were rushed to the head by blood calmed down at this time.

General Lou took the drawings given to him by Lou Zheng and opened them to look at them carefully. In the end, he could only fold the drawings and return them to Lou Zheng, he thought for a while and said: "When your senior brother comes back, if it goes well, it will be in these two days, I hope your grandfather can help us in the face of your mother." ”

Zhou Bi obviously didn't have a better way.

"Daddy, I thought of a good way to make a deal with the barbarians today." Lou Zheng saw that the two elders were silent, so he had to change the topic.

"Oh? What good way did Jiaojiao think of? General Lou's depressed mood was instantly dispelled by Lou Zheng's question.

Zhou Bi also pricked up his ears to listen to the father and daughter.

"Daddy, what do you say barbarians lack the most?"

Food? No.

The barbarians kept large herds of cattle, sheep and horses, and they had always lived by eating beef and mutton. I don't eat much rice at all.

Clothing? No.

They live in the steppe. The population is sparse, and there are no more than 100 people in a medium-sized tribe, and the beautiful Shu brocade and silk in the Dawu Dynasty are not their necessities at all.

Housing? That's even less so.

The barbarians are a people on horseback, and they live by herding. Often a place to live for less than a month. They will pull out their tents and move away.

……

General Lou thought for a moment. I didn't figure out what the barbarians really lacked. On the contrary, Zhou Bi next to him suddenly brightened his eyes and said, "I heard that barbarians often eat a kind of soil, and I used to ask the guards to find this kind of soil to investigate. I found that although the dirt smelled bad and smelled strange, it had a faint salty taste. ”

After Zhou Bi's reminder, General Lou slapped his thigh with a smile, "Yes, why didn't I expect that the barbarians are short of salt!" ”

Salt is a very important kind of condiment, although the current level of science and technology in the Dawu Dynasty is not enough for them to have a clear and correct understanding of salt, but there is a common sense that almost every common person is ingrained, that is, salt is very important, and it is completely impossible to live without salt.

The so-called do what they like! Whatever the barbarians lack, they will give them in exchange! That's the right way to do business.

Lou Zheng's eyes were also bright, and five thousand catties of coarse salt were enough to do the first business with the barbarians.

I didn't expect the problem that had been bothering me for nearly half a month to be solved so suddenly.

But before Lou Zheng could smile on his face, General Lou's face suddenly felt lost.

"Nope."

Lou Zheng asked strangely, "Daddy, what's not going to work?" ”

Zhou Bi also sighed, "Niece Xian, you don't know, our Dawu Dynasty has a rule that salt is not allowed to leave the country." ”

That is, the people of the Dawu Dynasty cannot sell salt to the Gentiles, the barbarians are not the people of the Dawu Dynasty, if some hawkers and merchants sell a small part of the salt out of Dawu privately without being discovered, it will be forgotten, but they are the border army of the Dawu Dynasty, and the highest general is the general of Zhenbei, if they sell salt to the Gentiles and are discovered by those who have a heart, they know the law and break the law, and the crime is increased by one degree!

Lou Zheng really didn't know that the Dawu Dynasty actually had such a law.

I opened my mouth, but I could only swallow the thought.

This time she really shot herself in the foot, she had just instructed Steward Wu to buy coarse salt from most of the remaining silver money in the Shuai Mansion.

To whom is so much coarse salt sold now?

Do you want to sell it to the common people?

When will this be sold for 5,000 catties?

Making coarse salt into fine salt is even more unreliable in Liangzhou, because in the Dawu Dynasty, the price of fine salt was even higher and more frightening, and people who did not have status were not qualified to buy it......

General Lou noticed that his daughter's face was strange, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with Jiaojiao?" ”

Lou Zheng smiled bitterly, "Daddy, Uncle Zhou, I just bought five thousand catties of coarse salt, no, Steward Wu is back with someone quickly." ”

Zhou Bi's tense face heard Lou Zheng's words, and he couldn't hold back his laughter in an instant, "I thought that my niece had always been a delicate heart, but now she finally looks like a normal little girl, hahaha!" ”

General Lou also smiled and comforted his daughter, "Just buy it, buy it, anyway, a large amount of salt is needed in the barracks every day, and it will be transported to the barracks when the time comes, Jiaojiao should not blame herself." ”

It can only be done for the time being, but the plan to do business with the barbarians has once again failed.

"Since Uncle Zhou is here, let's finish dinner at the house and leave!"

Zhou Bile smiled, "That's what I planned, I heard your father say a few days ago that the braised pig's trotters you made are very exciting, and I will stay and eat that tonight." ”

So, at dinnertime, there was only a large pot of stewed pig's trotters on the table in the flower hall, and the pig's trotters cut into pieces were stewed with full heat, and a few handfuls of soybeans were added, such a pot of pig's trotters was the most suitable for making snacks.

General Lou and Zhou Senjun drank Liangzhou's unique rice wine with a pot of pig's trotters, and the last pot of pig's trotters was wiped out, and Zhou Senjun was satisfied and returned to the barracks with his personal guards.

Steward Wu bought 5,000 catties of coarse salt and came back and knew about Lou Zheng's oolong today, so he blamed himself, and babbled that he should persuade Lou Zheng to buy salt more.

Now that the money has been spent, there is no way to return it.

Lou Zheng shook his hand at Steward Wu, "Uncle Wu, it's not your fault, don't blame yourself." Rest assured, there will always be somewhere for this salt. ”

(To be continued.) )