Li Shimin comforted himself in his heart, and then quibbled: "I am not a businessman in the first place, only a businessman would raise the price so much, speculation!" ”

"Speculation?"

Qin Jue smiled, and then said to Li Shimin: "You know a hammer, the country is not rich without business, you don't understand anything, you know that you are here, forget it, I can't talk to you anymore, do you buy it or not?" ”

"I want to buy a salt refining method, you can make an offer."

Li Shimin opened his mouth to buy the refining method.

"The refining method is not for sale."

Qin Jue directly refused, what are you kidding, how can I have any refining methods, I am just a porter of the system, I am just a middleman, making a little difference.

It would be nice if there was a refining method, and the refined salt produced by these systems can be achieved by the current technology.

Pull a few calves.

"You!"

Li Shimin was almost angry, and then threatened: "I came today, if someone else comes in the future, it won't be so easy to speak, maybe when you will be kidnapped and tortured and questioned."

You must know that what you are doing now involves a lot of nobles and the interests of the family, so you have to think clearly. ”

"Yo?"

Qin Jue looked at Li Shimin in surprise, and said with some surprise: "I originally thought that your level was about the same as Cheng Chumo, but I didn't expect that your level was a little higher than him, it was really good, I appreciate you, so let's do it, I can give you the price of nineteen wen a catty, how about it?" ”

"The price you gave Cheng Chumo is also twenty wen a catty? Then he doesn't need to make money, there is labor, and taxes, don't you count these into it? ”

Li Shimin asked rhetorically, and then said: "Don't think I don't understand anything, I actually know a lot, let's say, how much do you cost Cheng Chumo?" ”

"You're different from him, his father is at least a prince, and you're just a salt and iron envoy."

Qin Jue said to Li Shimin with disdain.

The meaning couldn't be more obvious, you can't compare to someone's father.

Li Shimin is angry, Lao Tzu is not as good as Cheng Lao Pifu?

It's unbearable!

"I'm here by order, but I'm behind me!"

Li Shimin replied directly.

After hearing this, Qin Jue nodded immediately, and then said: "In this case, I will give you fifteen wen a catty, if you buy one million jin at a time, I will give you fourteen wen a catty, if it is two million catties, then thirteen wen, if you buy more than five million catties, then ten wen a catty, how about it?" If you buy millions of catties of salt every month, then the people of the world can eat 20 catties of salt. This is a great merit, for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

After hearing Qin Jue's words, Li Shimin began to calculate silently in his heart.

Ten yuan a catty, five million catties, that is 50 million yuan, it takes 50,000 yuan!

If you sell it at a price of 20 yuan per catty, you will get 50,000 yuan!

He doesn't need to pay taxes, he only needs to pay labor fees.

This Datang can be worth anything, only labor is not valuable, so calculated, even if he needs 10,000 yuan in labor costs, then the amount he gets is 40,000 yuan!

You can get 40,000 pieces every month!

That's 480,000 a year!

Now his annual salt tax income is only 10,000 yuan, which is still the whole country combined.

This is only five million catties of salt, and Datang now has a total population of about 20 million.

If these people eat a pound of salt a month, wouldn't it be a month's income of 160,000 guan, maybe more than, if they buy more, the labor cost will be at most 20,000 guan, and the income is about 180,000 guan a month, and it is more than 2 million guan a year!

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's breathing began to shorten, this is a huge income.

The income is large, and it is also beneficial to the country and the people, you know, there are many people who can't afford to eat salt, so they can only use vinegar cloth!

The reason is that the price of salt is too high, and now the worst salt is 200 wen a catty.

If it is the best refined salt, it costs 300 wen a catty, how can these poor people afford to eat it?

Now twenty wen a pound of high-grade refined salt, the people are still competing to buy it?

With salt, if the wind and rain are good in the future, the country and the people are safe, the people have more children, and they will buy more salt, and at that time, the income of the treasury will be too much.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's heart became excited, but on the surface, he was still unfazed: "I need to go back and ask Your Majesty, can you keep counting this price?" ”

"Naturally, as long as Your Majesty comes to buy it, my price will always be counted, by the way, I still have high-grade polished rice, which is equivalent to salt, you can also ask Your Majesty, do you want it."

"Huh?"

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment: "High-grade polished rice? This thing is too expensive, isn't it? Datang's grain is enough to eat, and there is no need to buy it. ”

"Alright then, you should hurry up and go back and ask Your Majesty."

Qin Yu didn't say anything, but returned to the manor.

He can't tell the other party that the heavy rain in the year after next will reduce the grain production, and the big drought in the year after next will be accompanied by the locust plague, and there will be no harvest.

When that time comes, he will inevitably come to him to buy food, so there is no need to be in a hurry.

At that time, he will not be disgusted with the high price of his food.

At this time, Li Shimin quickly returned to the East Palace, and decisively summoned Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and the eldest grandson Wuji to the imperial study to discuss matters.

Soon the three of them came to the imperial study.

After being polite to each other, Li Shimin opened his mouth to tell the three of them about it.

Among these three people, only the eldest grandson Wuji's family is involved in the sale of salt, and the other two are not involved, but the eldest grandson Wuji controls the iron industry of the Tang Dynasty, and salt can only be regarded as the icing on the cake for him.

After listening to Li Shimin's words, the eldest grandson Wuji spoke first: "Your Majesty, I am afraid that this matter is difficult to implement, the current salt price is 200 wen a catty, and it has been reduced to 20 wen by the Cheng family, and the family is a little unable to sit still, if Your Majesty does it, it is tantamount to giving the family gate valve a head drink, how many family gate valves live on the salt industry, you want them to die, Emperor Yang of Sui only touched their interests, have you ever thought about the fate of Emperor Yang of Sui?" Now you're going to let them die! ”

“……”

The eldest grandson Wuji's words made Li Shimin speechless.

That's right, the Cheng family can be said to be a petty fight in this matter.

But if you do it yourself, it won't be a trivial matter.

That's the lifeblood of those family gate valves.

In this way, they are afraid that they will rebel.

"The eldest grandson Shangshu, this statement is biased, the minister believes that this law is feasible, salt is a major matter of the country, has been in the hands of the family gate, these people sell illegal salt, they are robbing the treasury of money, enrich the money of their family, in the long run, the country will not be a country, Your Majesty will be subject to others!"

Fang Xuanling began to express his opinion: "As we all know, salt and iron are the foundation of the country, if you don't make a decision at this time, where will the salt class of the imperial court come from?" They don't dare to make trouble, this matter is disgraceful to them, because the Tang Dynasty has just established the country, so they don't care about what they do, but this doesn't mean that they will never care, they have now begun to be blatant, if they don't kill their arrogance, it will only make them more arrogant, so the minister thinks this matter is feasible! ”