An inch of time, an inch of gold!

Li Kuan only had one year, so as soon as Li Shimin's holy decree came, he set off directly.

"Lord Wang, according to your orders, the five hundred guards brought this time are all relatively skilled swimming, but according to the statistics just now, forty percent of them are still seasick."

Xue Li was a little embarrassed to come to Li Kuan.

This time, Li Kuan went to Dengzhou, and he took the waterway directly, which was faster, and it could also allow the guards to adapt to the ship in advance.

After all, Li Kuan was ready to let them go to sea.

"It's okay, seasickness, dizziness is not dizzy, now it's just walking on the river, if you get to the sea, the wind and waves are even more unusual."

"Lord Wang, this time I set off in too much of a hurry, and a lot of things have not been prepared."

Qing'er is quite adaptable, although the boat shakes from time to time, it does not affect her at all to pour Li Kuan a cup of chrysanthemum tea.

"We're not going to Dengzhou to play, why are you bringing so much messy stuff for?"

When she first said that she was going to Dengzhou, Qing'er immediately asked people to pack several large boxes of clothes, all kinds of food and drinks, and even Li Kuan's commonly used recliner had to be carried, which made Li Kuan speechless for a while.

In the end, the ship was filled with the most of the various craftsmen who had been recruited on the spot and their salutes.

Dengzhou is close to the sea, in line with the idea of relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, Li Kuan thought of two ways to lead Dengzhou out of poverty and become rich.

"Lord Wang, this is the distribution of Datang salt and the price changes over the years that the subordinates have sorted out in recent days, as well as the sea salt you specifically mentioned."

Chu Suiliang had a dark circle under his eyes, took out a small notebook from his arms, and reported the situation to Li Kuan.

Since he was going to Dengzhou to do a big job this time, Li Kuan naturally took Chu Suiliang, Wang Xuance, Wang Xuanwu, Xue Li, Xi Junmai, Lin Ran, Wang Fugui, Qing'er, Dai Quan and others with him, and kept Laifu in Chang'an City to lead the affairs of the Chu Palace.

Anyway, all the businesses of Chang'an City are on the right track, and it is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and there will be no major problems in a short time; As for the Liangzhou side, there is Ma Zhou watching, and Li Kuan is also very relieved.

"Hey, there are still a lot of places where salt is produced in Datang."

Li Kuan turned the notebook handed over by Chu Suiliang and quickly browsed it.

In the thousands of years of feudal history in China, salt and iron tea are three particularly important things, and they are also closely related to the main financial revenue of the central government.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, the role of tea had not yet been fully exerted, and salt and iron were not included in the scope of the imperial court monopoly in the early years of Zhenguan, and Dengzhou was close to the sea, so Li Kuan naturally had to use his hands and feet from the salt aspect.

"Yes, Puzhou Anyi and Xie County have Chi Wu; Yanzhou Wuyuan Wu Pond, White Pond, Tile Pond, and Detail Pond; Lingzhou has hot spring pools, two well pools, Changwei pool, Wuquan pool and other salt pools, Qing, Chu, Hai, Cang, Di, Hangzhou, Su and other states also have salt production, so although the salt of Datang is still relatively expensive, the common people can barely afford it, but it is basically coarse salt, and it is more bitter to eat. ”

Chu Suiliang feels that he is now an expert in the salt industry, and he is naturally the head of the road.

"Is sea salt production so low?" Li Kuan found that most of the salt ponds in Datang were mineral salt, and sea salt had almost no influence.

"Lord Wang, the cost of sea salt is too high, except for the people in some states and counties by the sea who are boiling salt for their own use, almost all of them are well salt in Guanzhong."

"The cost of sea salt is high?" Li Kuan was stunned for a moment, shouldn't sea salt be the lowest cost?

"Yes, the most important thing is that the people who cook sea salt are poor people, and there is no organization; And the salt mines everywhere are intertwined with the various forces of the family, even if the salt cooked by those bitter hahas is cheaper, it can't be sold in Guanzhong. ”

Chu Suiliang said a very critical information, and Li Kuan frowned when he heard it, "Didn't the imperial court engage in salt monopoly?" Why can't sea salt be sold in Guanzhong? The cost of boiling salt is certainly higher, but compared with the price of twenty or thirty wen a pound of salt in Chang'an City, it is still profitable, right? ”

"Lord Wang, are you going to boil salt on a large scale in Dengzhou?"

Chu Suiliang suddenly asked cautiously.

"No, this king doesn't plan to boil salt!"

"Whew!" Chu Suiliang let out a sigh, "That's good, lord, this salt is different from honeycomb coal, mirrors or wool, and you can't touch it casually." ”

"Why can't you just touch it?"

Li Kuan looked at Chu Suiliang a little puzzled.

"Lord Wang, salt has been an indispensable thing for the lives of ordinary people for thousands of years, and salt mines all over the country have been mined for many years, and the interests behind it are too complicated.

Let's just say this, if our Chu Wangfu dares to sell salt on a large scale in Chang'an City, then there will be all kinds of impeachments against the prince in the DPRK and China, and all kinds of businesses will inexplicably encounter a lot of obstacles.

Five surnames and seven clans, even if it is the Longyou Li clan that belongs to the royal family, there are people involved, and even His Majesty does not dare to act rashly. ”

Listening to Chu Suiliang's words, Li Kuan fell silent.

As a stable profit and no loss, the profit is still high, the key is still an indispensable thing for the people, the interests behind the salt are complex, Li Kuan is psychologically prepared, but he didn't expect Chu Suiliang to say much more serious than himself.

"Could it be that this is the reason why Your Majesty has not implemented a salt specialty store?"

"This subordinate doesn't dare to speculate!" Chu Suiliang said so, but that expression was obviously saying that it should be like this.

"Humph! Complex interests? In order to let every family in the Tang Dynasty have cheap salt to eat, in order to let the people of Dengzhou get rid of poverty and become rich, no matter how complicated the relationship is, this king is not afraid! ”

"Huh? Lord, didn't you say you wouldn't boil salt? ”

Chu Suiliang was startled when he heard Li Kuan's words.

Fighting against the major families with one's own strength is a matter of hitting a stone with an egg, and there is no chance of winning.

"This king doesn't boil salt, but he can dry salt!" Li Kuan looked at Chu Suiliang with a smile.

Chu Suiliang: ......

"Lord, my subordinates have also heard about the matter of drying salt, but it is said that it takes a long time, and the quality of the salt produced is also very poor, and no one buys this kind of salt except for the poor people."

Wang Xuance said softly on the side, to be honest, he was from a poor family, so he naturally looked at those families who were not pleasing to the eye, but Li Kuan wanted to move the salt cake on the table of the family, and he didn't support it very much.

It's so hard......

"Don't worry, this king has his own opinions!"

"Lord Wang, it's good to boil salt or dry salt. In the past two years, Henan Province and Hebei Province are close to Shandong, and the grain harvest is not ideal, and I heard that many people are hungry and full. ”

Wang Fugui felt that the top priority was to solve the problem of food first, as a businessman who had traveled all over the world, he knew too well the consequences of the common people not having enough to eat.