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In less than half a year, Jinju Fortress has gained the reputation of "Salt City", which shows how much repercussions the salt from Jinju has received.

However, in order to prevent people from making profits, Tian Yi also took corresponding measures.

For example, purchase restrictions.

Ordinary families in Datang buy one pound of salt, and it takes about two months to eat, so Tian Yi restricts one person to only five pounds of salt.

Salt buyers need to take their family's household registration, which is called "shi", and go to the salt sales yamen in Jinju to pay for it and stamp it, and then they can buy this low-priced salt, which is only 10% of the market price.

If a merchant wants to buy more for sale, he needs to report to Chang'an or Jinzhou's Tang Royal Alliance a week in advance.

The reason why he did this was mainly because Tian Yi was afraid that they would make huge profits with this salt, so he set a series of rules for them.

These merchants must be vetted and pay a deposit before they can be qualified to buy salt in large quantities.

For example, according to the selling price of Jinju, the price of a load of salt is a consistent price, but if a merchant wants to buy a load of salt, he must pay a deposit of ten yen.

However, the price that Tian Yi gave to the merchants was cheaper than buying it to the people, only eight yuan for a catty of salt, but this was not conditional, and these salt merchants could not sell more than 121 catties.

That is, they have four dollars to earn.

However, if they violate this condition and sell more than this price, once discovered, then not only will they no longer be able to buy salt from Jinju in the future, but even their escort to the Jinju Business Alliance will be detained.

For the merchants, this punishment is not insignificant.

However, Rao is like this, there are still many merchants who take risks, and then the hundred cavalry guards who are watching them catch a straight shape.

After the initial chaos, the merchants began to slowly settle down, and the profits of Siqian were already very large, they only needed to transport the salt from Jinju, and then they could easily get rid of this money, which can be said to be basically risk-free.

Some discerning businessmen also began to realize that this was the price of salt that the Tang Dynasty was preparing to suppress.

To be precise, it is the prince of the Tang Dynasty who is ready to suppress the price of salt in various places.

The merchants of Jinju are very united, they know who gave them their status today, and many of their children are still studying in the Tang Imperial Academy, for themselves and their children, these merchants are very responsible in selling salt.

Moreover, most of them took salt from Jinzhou for eight dollars and transported it to Luoyang and Chang'an, and sold it for only ten yuan, only from two yuan, and only sold it for twelve when it was transported to a slightly remote place like Bazhou.

Under such circumstances, the merchants of Jinju became famous, and officials and people from other places called them "Jin merchants", because they were labeled as Jinju and the crown prince, and very few people dared to embarrass them.

The success of Jin merchants made many businessmen in other places very envious, and they also wanted to join the circle of Jinju.

However, if you want to join this circle, you must first have a house in Jinju, and under such circumstances, Jinju's housing prices have once again skyrocketed.

As the saying goes, it depends on whether the economic environment of a place is good or not, just look at the housing prices of this place.

Nowadays, the housing prices in Jinzhou can be said to be the highest in the Tang Dynasty, and even some bigwigs in the court will joke that when they return to their hometowns, they hope that Li Shimin can give them a house in Jinzhou, and they don't require entry and exit, just a small courtyard.

It can be seen how high the room in Jinju is.

Li Goudan is also prosperous now, and the Taiyuan Wang family also attaches great importance to him, and even sent a daughter of the Wang family to Li Goudan as a concubine.

It can be seen that they plan to tie Li Goudan firmly to the big ship of the Wang family.

However, although Li Goudan was very proud, he was not dizzy.

He knows very well that he is very ordinary in terms of ability, and the reason why he can have today's scenery is all because of his clever trust.

In order to live up to Gao Ming's trust, Li Goudan has always been conscientious in his work and does not dare to relax at all.

Once he had free time, he would go to the Tang Imperial Academy to pay attention to Li Xiang's current situation, and then carefully write a letter and send it to Chang'an, so that he could hand it over to Gao Ming's mansion.

As the saying goes, the upward and downward effects, as the top spot of Jinju, Li Goudan's serious style has set a good example for many people, so even if Gao Ming rarely comes to Jinju, everything in Jinju is still in order.

It can even be said that Jinju City can have today, the clever idea accounts for half, and the hard work of Li Goudan accounts for half.

Gao Ming also knew this very well, so after arriving at the Assassin's Mansion, Gao Ming called Li Goudan in front of him, and then patted him on the shoulder with a smile.

"Dog, you did a good job, I'm very satisfied, I'll go back to Beijing in two days, and I'll get you a knighthood when the time comes, I don't dare to say it, it's okay for a county man!"

As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, Li Goudan suddenly knelt down with a "poof".

"Thank you, Your Highness the Prince!"

Now Li Goudan is not a newcomer to officialdom, so he also understands how rare the title of Datang is, don't look at him as a fourth-grade official now, but when he encounters those nobles with titles, even if the other party is just a nine-rank sesame official, he still won't give him face.

And now Gao Ming promised to give him at least the title of Founding County Baron, how could he not be happy? How can you not be excited?

Seeing that Li Goudan's face turned red with excitement, Gao Ming immediately smiled and waved at him.

"Okay, you go and find Tian Yi, I have something to tell him."

"Yes!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Goudan quickly stood up, and then ran to find Tian Yi in person.

When Tian Yi saw Gao Ming, he was also quite excited, and he knelt down towards Gao Ming from a long distance.

"Xiaguan Tian Yi, meet His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.

"What's wrong with you guys? Okay, hurry up, Tian Yi, you get closer, I'm not used to being so far away. ”

"Yes!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Tian Yi hurriedly stood up, and then cautiously came to Gao Ming's side.

Looking at him, he was still a little restrained, but Gao Ming didn't dwell on this issue, but nodded directly at him with a smile.

"Tian Yi, I really didn't misread you, I heard that Jinju is now called Yancheng, I'm very happy, you are very wrong!"

For Tian Yi, Gao Ming's words were simply what he wanted to hear in his dreams, so as soon as Gao Ming's words fell, he was so excited that he burst into tears.

"Wechen...... Thank you, Your Highness the Prince! ”

Seeing that he was about to kneel down again, Gao Ming hurriedly grabbed him and dragged him up.

"Okay, I said no need to be polite, I came to you today to tell you something."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately stared at Tian Yi's eyes.

"I want you to give full profits to the merchants, and you can sell their salt to them for money when they are transported to the vicinity of Chang'an, so in the future, according to this distance, those transported to Shannan East Road and Shannan West Road will be given to them at five dollars a catty."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately smiled at Tian Yi.

"If they can transport salt to Jiannan Province and Qiandao, it is okay to give them two dollars, I have only one purpose, that is, to make everyone in the whole Tang Dynasty can afford to eat salt, and they can all eat low-cost salt, understand?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Tian Yi suddenly showed a serious face.

"Yes, Weichen understands!"