"You say it again? Salt mining is nationalized? ”

In the Li Mansion, after hearing the butler's report, Li Lishan directly overturned the table in front of him and looked at the butler in disbelief.

"That's right, patriarch, the holy decree just issued, no one is allowed to mine salt privately in the future, otherwise, it will be regarded as a protest against the decree!"

The housekeeper said with a bitter face, when he received the news just now, he was just like the head of the house, he was shocked.

"Does that mean that the million taels I just took out have been lost?"

Li Lishan gasped heavily, he never imagined that Li Er would give him such a hand.

He finally came up with a way to buy the salt mine back, and before he started mining, he had to send it back?

"Patriarch, there's no way! The decree has been issued, can we still resist it? ”

The housekeeper who has always been loyal to the Li family has no solution.

"Zhao Yin, you bastard, rabbit cub, turtle son, you dare to harm Lao Tzu ......! No, we have to quickly call the other six patriarchs over and discuss a countermeasure together! ”

After thinking about it for a while, Li Lishan immediately figured out what was wrong with this.

No wonder there are hundreds of salt mines, this kid only needs a million taels, it turns out that the real purpose is here!

"Yes!"

The butler arched his hand, did not dare to delay, turned and ran out.

This matter is not trivial, after calling a few subordinates, they acted separately, and in less than an hour, the patriarchs of the seven major families gathered in the Li family.

"Don't hide a few, the winery that my Li family has always been proud of has not had business for a long time, which is almost equivalent to closing, and now this grain and salt business has been taken away by the imperial court one after another, we must think of a countermeasure!"

Li Lishan sat on the main seat and said bitterly.

The one million taels to buy the salt mine was jointly contributed by the seven of them, and the other six were not much better than him after learning the news, and they were all in a hurry.

In the past few months, they have been very miserable by Zhao Yin's kid, if it weren't for their deep foundation, they would have been begging along the street by now.

"Why not my Lu family? The paper shop and the bookstore are all closed, and now they are waiting to sit and eat! ”

The patriarch of the Lu clan spread his hands and made a bitter face.

"In this situation, we don't have anything to do, salt, grain, books, wine and other businesses have all been lost, and now if Li Er forcibly wants to go back to the salt mine, we won't do anything with him!"

"Yes, if we had raised prices casually before, we would have been able to make the people resentful and make Li Er compromise, but now that the chips in our hands are gone, we really can't do anything!"

"According to this situation, we can only expect the Three Kingdoms to make a move against Datang!"

After the patriarch of the Lu clan, three more patriarchs spoke one after another.

"Alas......! Now it's all about this, it seems that our million taels are in vain! ”

Li Lishan saw that everyone looked helpless, so he could only admit it, "Although Goguryeo and Tubo are preparing to go to war, but last time they used whistleblowing as a threat to ask us for weapons, what about this matter?" ”

"The bows and crossbows and armor they want are only allowed to be made by the weapons superintendent, and if we are found to have made weapons privately, it will be punished by the Nine Clans! I can't agree to this! ”

"They have decided to go to war now, and in my opinion, even if we take this matter to death, they will fight this battle!"

"Yes, they lost to the fifteen counties of Datang, if they go back to tell the truth, they will definitely not be able to explain, so they will definitely find all kinds of excuses to shirk the blame, put all the blame on Li Er, and instigate their king to send troops to attack Datang together!"

"That's true, but what should we do if the Tibetan envoy really exposes our collusion with him? Now that the chips in our hands have been lost, I'm afraid Li Er will kill us all without hesitation! ”

"Yes, I promised them at the beginning, but if I regret it now, I'm afraid they won't give up, then Lu Dongzan is not a master to mess with!"

"Well, this matter still needs to be considered in the long run, and the envoys of the Three Kingdoms cannot be easily offended!"

"At the last wedding banquet, I heard that during the last round of the competition, that kid proposed to let the envoys of the three kingdoms stay for another month, you say, will there be any problems?"

"When you say that, I also think there is something strange and decent, why should I keep them? Isn't this asking for trouble? ”

"Could it be a delaying tactic?"

"Could it be that they have already seen that these three countries are going to join forces to attack Tang? So, deliberately withhold it? ”

"If that's the case, then they should have already started to take precautions, and in this case, things will not be easy!"

"Even if this is the case, don't worry, this is the Three Kingdoms Alliance, even if Datang has known in advance, there may not be a countermeasure, after all, good tigers are afraid of wolves!"

"Also, this belly and back are affected by the enemy, I'm afraid Li Er will be difficult to deal with, why don't we reveal this news to those messengers and give them a wake-up call, as for how to deploy, it's their business!"

"Good! As long as a few countries can go to war, we can fish in troubled waters, anyway, the Tang Dynasty is strong, and it may not really fall, at most, it will lose a few counties! ”

"This doesn't matter, the top priority now is how to fool the matter of the bow and crossbow, I think among those envoys, the most difficult to deal with is Nalu Dongzan, he is the prime minister of Tibet, and his mind is extremely meticulous, I'm afraid it will not be easy to do!"

"Why don't we just give them some raw materials and drawings on the grounds of the laws of the Tang Dynasty as discussed before, and let them make them themselves, how about it?"

"It's not impossible, but it should be considered a crime of collaborating with the enemy, right? If someone leaks this news, we will still die! ”

"Otherwise, just say this first, drag it out for a while, and when they return home, it's useless to threaten us again!"

"Okay, let's do it this way!"

The seven patriarchs sat together and discussed for a long time, and the tea was changed several times, and finally they came up with a solution that was not a solution.

But the initial salt problem has not been solved, and thinking of this, Li Lishan has a sad face.

"Recently, the money bank opened by the colt seems to be doing very good business!"

The patriarch of the Wang clan, who had not spoken much, said suddenly.

"Alas, don't mention it, didn't I use my credit line last time in order to allow the envoys of the Three Kingdoms to enter the Horse Mansion? But when I went to pay it back yesterday, the interest was as high as thousands of yuan! ”

As soon as he mentioned Qianzhuang, Li Lishan couldn't help but feel pain, although this money was nothing to him, he always felt that the money was spent unjustly.

Fortunately, he was still fast, otherwise in a few days, the interest alone would be enough for him.

"I've also observed, I've been going to the bank to deposit more and more money recently, I really don't understand, this kid is so shrewd, why would he do this business of reversing money?"

The patriarch of the Zheng clan shook his head with a wry smile, looking puzzled.