On the second day when all the scholars gathered in Jiaxing, Wang Xianling, as the landlord, personally led everyone to visit the salt field, and emphasized that the new salt-making method was invented by Li Chengqian, the son of the king of Qin.

After everyone visited the salt factory and personally checked the quality of the sea salt, they all showed greedy eyes, staring at the "enemies" around them vigilantly with red eyes, well, there are no allies now, they are all enemies! Whoever bids higher than himself is the enemy! Defeat them all! After everyone returned to the inn, they immediately wrote a letter to the family to explain the situation, and asked the patriarch to preside over it in person.

After receiving the letter from Wenyi, Li Shimin immediately wrote a letter and sent it to Li Yuan in person. Li Yuan was discussing state affairs with several officials in Shangshu Province, and when he saw Li Shimin's happy look, he couldn't help asking, "Why is Wu'er so happy?" ”

Li Shimin saluted and said: "Father, I have recently explored a new set of salt-making methods. He wrote a letter to his son, asking him to ask his father what to do, and his son was also happy because of this. ”

Li Yuan also smiled and said: "Tiger father has no dog, you are proficient in Wen Taowu and are proficient in everything, and the son you gave birth to is also so good!" Attaboy! What are the benefits of his new salt production method? ”

Li Shimin said: "According to Chengqian, the output mainly depends on the weather, so the output should not be high, and it requires a lot of labor, and the only advantage is that the quality of the salt produced is very good." This is a sample he sent for his father to see. With that, he took out a small bag and handed it to the chamberlain.

Li Yuan took the sample and looked at it carefully and said, "Well, the quality is really good, comparable to tribute salt." What do you think about this? ”

Li Shimin said: "Father, in the letter of Cheng Qian, it was mentioned that Xiao Jing, the patriarch of the Xiao family, was very fond of this salt, and wanted to buy this salt-making method at a price of five million taels and promote it in Jiangnan. This can not only increase the output of our Datang salt, but also find a partner for many people. Erchen thinks it is feasible. ”

While Li Yuan was still thinking about it, the court secretary ordered Pei Lin to say: "Has the King of Qin ever thought that salt has always been a controlled item of the imperial court, what if the Xiao family uses this method to make salt on a large scale and then sell it to foreign races?" ”

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Pei Shangshu is reasonable, it seems that a salt merchant who sold salt to the Turks just last year was discovered, and it seems that he is a member of the Zhao family." I don't know what Pei Shangshu thinks should be done? The Zhao family that Li Shimin said is a small family attached to the Pei family, and the family is mainly engaged in the salt industry. But he was blinded by lard and bought salt to the Turks. During that time, Pei Lin was also tossed enough.

Pei Lian's face was flushed, and he couldn't say a word. Li Shimin continued: "Salt production and salt sales are two different things, so we can take advantage of this to separate salt production and salt sales, and the imperial court will agree to purchase all the salt produced in the salt factory. Then the imperial court will carry out unified allocation and sales, so as to more effectively control the problem of illegal salt trafficking. ”

Ally Xiao Mo immediately supported it: "Weichen thinks that this method is feasible, salt producers can only sell to the government, and traders can only buy salt from the government, although there will be more affairs in the government, but it can be found out where every grain of salt went." ”

Several people argued for a long time, and Li Yuan finally made a decision: "Immediately set up a salt bureau under the direct jurisdiction of Shangshu Province, and you will be responsible for this matter first." How to form a charter will be discussed at the court meeting tomorrow. It's not a big deal, so let him go. ”

Li Shimin bowed down to receive the order, Pei Lin and the others were just opposed because they were opposed, and they didn't know how terrifying this little thing would be! The scholars of their faction who are mainly engaged in the salt industry will be directly thrown into the abyss!

The next day, a well-behaved plan for the Salt Bureau was presented by Li Shimin. Everyone was busy dividing up the newly created positions and omitting Li Shimin's sentence "The output is determined by the weather, and it should not be high." In addition to the boss is Li Shimin, the second-in-command and third-in-command are Li Shimin's people, which is a common practice, and everyone is understandable, and the rest of the positions Li Shimin also handed over very happily, of course, he also kept an eye on it, reduced the proportion of his camp, and quietly gave up a lot of places to those neutrals who were about to become allies. After the prince's family got enough places, they stopped talking nonsense, but they didn't know that they had been cheated by Li Shimin.

Li Shimin handed over the holy decree written by Li Yuan to commend Li Chengqian and his own letter to the special combat team member who rushed to report the news, and asked him to return to Jiaxing as soon as possible. After everything was over, Li Shimin happily returned to the back house to share the joy with his eldest grandson....

When Wenyi received the holy decree, it was the third day when the major families had just arrived in Jiaxing. Wenyi and Xiao Jing couldn't help laughing after reading the letter, and let Wang Xianling spread the news, "Three days later, the auction of the salt field quota will be officially held, with a starting price of 1 million taels." Expire without waiting! ”

Those scholars suddenly panicked, hurriedly sent someone back to invite the head of the family, and began to look for a relationship to see Li Chengqian, hoping to get the method of salt making from the source, but as a result, they all ate the closed door. turned to threaten Wang Xianling, and Wang Xianling immediately moved literature and art out. Literature and art were so annoyed that they couldn't do it, so they had to take out the holy decree and pull up the tiger skin of the government. After everyone was quiet for a while, they heard that all the sea salt produced by the government would be purchased by the government after the auction was successful, and they started to go crazy again. So the third servant of the clan rode on a fast horse and galloped into the tribe... Xiao Jian took the opportunity to carry out various small actions such as pulling relationships and sowing discord...

Three days later, the old men of all ethnic groups finally arrived on time. After a half-day break, the auction will be held on time.

Dressed in a straight black suit and wearing a bow, Wen Yi calmly walked to the auction table, knocked on the table with a mallet, and said after everyone calmed down: "Originally, we wanted to conduct the auction in a fair bidding manner, but we just received an order from King Qin yesterday asking us to strictly review your qualifications, and absolutely put an end to the occurrence of private sales to foreign races." Therefore, we have decided to make this auction a secret auction, that is, you will write the price in your heart in an envelope, and we will choose someone with sufficient qualifications and the right price to cooperate. ”

There was a sudden commotion below, and a sharp voice suddenly appeared: "How do you determine your qualifications?" ”

After the voice was quieter, Wen Yi replied: "First of all, everyone here must be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, but you are all from a big family, and there will be some unscrupulous children, and we determine our qualifications based on the behavior of various families in the past." Of course, the determination shown by you can also improve your qualifications. For example, the Xiao family donated 5 million for the construction of the Salt Bureau, and their qualifications are very high. ”

Everyone suddenly asked for money for co-authoring! It's still blatant blackmail, and if you give it, things may not be done! I can't help but scold literature and art for being shameless!