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Gao Ming's way of diverting the topic is still so blunt, and Li Shimin can only pretend to be diverted.

But when Li Shimin saw the bucket of ice that Meng Xin had brought, his attention was really attracted.

"Ice? No wonder you can keep beef for so long, it turns out that you use ice cubes, but on such a hot day, where did you get the ice cubes? Could it be the cellar of Goguryeo? ”

Looking at Li Shimin's curious appearance, Gao Ming immediately laughed.

"Of course not, I made these ice cubes out of saltpeter, first fill a small basin with water, and then throw a few saltpeter stones into it, and the water will freeze."

"I see!"

Although Li Shimin was surprised, he did not doubt the truth of Gao Ming's words, because his intuition told him that Gao Ming could not deceive himself with something so easy to debunk.

What made Li Shimin even more curious was where Gao Ming learned these strange knowledge.

"Where did you learn this method of making saltpeter ice?"

Gao Ming didn't expect Li Shimin to ask this question, so he was stunned for a moment, and then raised his eyebrows at Li Shimin without smiling.

"Well...... You guess? ”

“……”

Of course, Li Shimin wouldn't guess, so he immediately glared at Gao Ming, and then ignored him.

Gao Ming saw that Li Shimin ignored him, and he was also secretly relieved.

"Whew...... It seems that in the future, he will have to sell this knowledge less in front of the old man, so that it is difficult to ask, and he is so shrewd, it is not easy to prevaricate. ”

After realizing this, Gao Ming restrained a lot in front of Li Shimin, and usually tried not to dangle in front of his eyes.

For Li Jing, after Li Shimin got on the boat, his life was much better.

After getting up in the morning, I played chess with Li Shimin, drank tea in the afternoon, and discussed the situation in Datang by the way, and my life was both full and comfortable.

The speed of the steamship was very fast, and because it was also sailing at night, on the first day, the ship arrived in Luoyang.

After getting off the ship, Gao Ming took Li Shimin to Tiance Mansion, and then pointed out to him the loot brought back from Goguryeo.

"Old man, these are the goods I brought back from Goguryeo and Baekje, including those on the warships, which add up to at least 10 million guan, and now they are handed over to you."

Rao is Li Shimin has deep concentration, but when he heard the number Gao Ming said, he couldn't help but gasp.

"Shhh...... How many of them? ”

Seeing Li Shimin's shocked appearance, Gao Ming immediately smiled and nodded.

"Yes, I also made one at the beginning, but Goguryeo has a national honor for hundreds of years, and there are not many places to use money, so it is normal to save these family funds."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming suddenly arched towards Li Shimin again.

"Okay, anyway, now the money is yours, whether you want to charge it into the treasury or into the inner treasury, it's none of my business, then I'll retire first!"

"Well, go ahead!"

Li Shimin suddenly got such a big windfall, his eyes were shining with gold, and naturally he didn't have the time to be smart, so he immediately waved at him, as if he wished he would leave quickly.

Looking at this scene, Gao Ming suddenly shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and then left with Meng Xin.

After coming out of Tiance Mansion, Gao Ming did not stop in Luoyang, but took Meng Xin to the north to Jinzhou.

Jinju was not far from Luoyang, and Gao Ming and Meng Xin went on horseback, so the two rushed to Jinju before sunset.

When Gao Ming and Meng Xin arrived at Jinzhou City, they were immediately stunned by the scene of people coming and going at the gate of the city and carriages shuttling back and forth.

"The sun is about to set, and this Jinju City is still so lively?"

Meng Xin came to Jinju for the first time, and she originally thought that Jinju was just an inconspicuous small state and county, at most it was more lively than other states.

But the scene in front of her completely subverted her view of Jinju.

Such a lively scene, not to mention Jingzhao and Taiyuan, even Chang'an and Luoyang are not so lively, right?

Thinking of this, she immediately looked at Gao Ming with some admiration.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, it turns out that this is your autonomous prefecture, this is really lively, let's play here for two days, okay?"

Looking at Meng Xin's pleading face, Gao Ming suddenly nodded with a wry smile.

"Yes, of course, because I was going to rest here for two days, but why is it so lively here, in fact, I am also wondering!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Meng Xin immediately grinned.

"Hehe, it turns out that His Highness doesn't know about it, so it's better to let the concubine ask!"

As she spoke, she walked to the gate of the city and asked a pair of young men and women who were hurrying by with donkeys.

"Big brother and sister-in-law, what are you doing out of the city so late? The gates will be closed later! ”

Hearing Meng Xin's words, the young couple immediately laughed, and the man holding the donkey grabbed the donkey, and then smiled at Meng Xin.

"Haha, little girl, you're from out of town, aren't you? Tell you, we are not from Jinju City, the houses in Jinju City are so expensive, we can't afford to live in them, we are from Puzhou City, and we are here to buy salt. ”

"Buy salt?"

Hearing her words, Meng Xin's eyes immediately widened.

"Isn't this salt sold everywhere? Isn't there salt in Puzhou City? ”

As soon as Meng Xin's words fell, the man's wife also laughed.

"Hehe, this salt is indeed available everywhere, Puzhou City naturally has it, but if you want to say that it is cheap, it is only available in Jinzhou City, let me tell you, Puzhou's salt costs more than 100 yuan a catty, but this Jinzhou City's salt is only ten yuan a catty, I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today asked people to sell, to say that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a good person, and ......"

Meng Xin accosted this a typical Guan woman, with a straightforward temperament and some warm-heartedness, the only drawback is that she can't stop as soon as she opens the chatterbox.

She pulled Meng Xin and talked about nearly a stick of incense, from the price of salt to how many eggs her chickens laid, until her man pulled her several times before he pulled her away.

But because of this "chatterbox", Gao Ming finally figured out what happened.

It turned out that at the beginning of the year, Tian Yi, who went to Fanyang to build a salt factory, finally came back, and at the same time, he brought back one million loads of salt.

According to his clever instructions, he prepared to put this batch of salt into the market at a low price, and in order to ensure that everything went smoothly, he chose Jinju City, where tax officials and merchants were most concentrated.

At the beginning, Gao Ming gave Tian Yi the price of two yuan a catty, but in the face of the high price of salt that had reached more than 100 yuan a catty, Tian Yi raised the price of this batch of salt to ten yuan.

However, he still underestimated the impact of low-priced salt on the market, and when this batch of low-priced salt, whose price was only 10% of the market salt, appeared, Jinju City suddenly became a sensation!

Every day, tens of thousands of merchants and civilians poured into Jinju City, crowding the Yamen of Jinju City, which was responsible for selling salt.

Many people even lined up outside with quilts, eating and sleeping at the yamen, just to queue up to buy salt!

And this situation has lasted for four months from the beginning of the year to now, and now many people have given Jinju City another name - Yancheng!