Although he has the intention to help Tie Dan improve his strength, but the Jiayuan base is also shy now, Wang Xiang has been in a coma these days, and he only relies on the spars in the hunting base of Lei Fu and others to produce more and less, and Wang Xiang absorbs high-grade amethyst, so there are not many spars left in the base now.

The first thing Wang Xiang had to do was to earn the spars, and now that even the Tang Dynasty has the ability, the spars have really become the most important thing in the two worlds.

After the carnival of the base, the previous order was restored, and the production and construction also returned to normal, Wang Xiang asked Zhao Jun to expand the scale of the cannery, and the scale of the canning factory expanded, and the raw materials needed naturally increased, and the money needed to purchase raw materials was more.

The war between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty had the greatest impact on Wang Xiang was the destruction of the trade market and the Tang Chamber of Commerce that he had worked so hard to establish, blocking the normal trade between the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty, resulting in a great reduction in the income of the Hou Mansion.

The price of glass products in Gewuyuan has fallen, but the price of food has risen all the way, and Wang Xiang, who was originally wealthy, also felt a little tight.

Li Shimin tried his best to appease and adjust in the hope of stabilizing prices, but relying on the power of the imperial court alone was far from enough, and the family that had been severely suppressed by Li Shimin before violated Li Shimin's demand for stable prices, and secretly hoarded materials to make a fortune from the war.

The price of grain has more than tripled, and the price of other daily necessities has also increased significantly, and the salt that was originally as high as 200 wen and a bucket has now been increased to more than 1,000 wen to buy a bucket, and the price is still soaring, which is entirely due to the large purchase of salt sold by the imperial court by the family and profiteers. No matter how much salt families and profiteers released by the imperial court, they will use all kinds of means to grab it. The people who really needed it couldn't buy the salt of the imperial court. High-priced illicit salt can only be purchased from the Maisons and profiteers through other channels.

As soon as the soldiers on the front line of the war have to consume a large amount of salt, otherwise they will not have the strength to fight, so it is impossible for the imperial court to continue to release salt.

Li Shimin sat on the Taiji Hall with a gloomy face, and now there are rumors outside that the imperial court does not release salt because the emperor is desperate to leave the salt for the soldiers who are fighting to eat, regardless of the life and death of the people, Li Shimin's lungs are about to explode, if he takes the initiative to provoke the war, then the words "poor soldiers" can still be said a little more, and now it is Fanbang who takes the initiative to provoke the war, how can it be said that he is reckless!

Besides, it's not that the imperial court doesn't release salt. Instead, there are people who oppose the imperial court, and the low-priced salt released by the imperial court to the people will always be snatched up by the family and people with ulterior motives.

However, the people don't understand this, they only know that the court wants to fight, so they don't release salt, and after the instigation of people with intentions, the people's anger gradually rises.

"What's going on now?"

Li Shimin rubbed his temples and asked His Highness's eldest grandson, Wuji.

In response to such a situation, the eldest grandson Wuji put forward a proposal to limit the purchase, that is to say, each person is limited to one bucket of salt per day, and it is good to put it away, but the way of restricting the purchase has a lot of loopholes to exploit in the case of ID cards in later generations, not to mention that the Tang Dynasty was just a simple household registration, and the actual effect was very limited.

Eldest Sun Wuji shook his head and sighed: "The 50,000 buckets of salt that I just invested were looted and sold out in just one day, but there are still not many people who can buy salt. ”

"Why is this so? Isn't it already restricted? Li Shimin's brows furrowed even tighter.

The eldest grandson Wuji smiled bitterly: "Many of the so-called people are actually people sent by the family and some profiteers. As soon as the salt of the imperial court was opened for sale, everyone rushed to the market, and it was very difficult to operate the purchase restriction. ”

"Smack!"

Li Shimin slapped the back of the chair. He said coldly: "The family of those who mess with the world is also!" He couldn't wait to send someone to copy the family immediately, he knew that the family must have hoarded a large amount of salt, but now he can't do this, the prestige of the court has been greatly affected, if he does something against the family with a huge foundation at this time, it will definitely be used by people with ulterior motives, and then the people's anger will be more troublesome.

"Unless a large amount of salt is poured into the people, I am afraid that the people's anger will grow deeper." The eldest grandson Wuji looked worried, and the current situation was not optimistic.

"What do you do?"

After listening to Li Shimin's question, His Royal Highness's ministers looked at each other and shook their heads and sighed, the best way is to put in a lot of salt, but they have no way to conjure salt out of thin air.

Li Shimin's face became more and more ugly, he was full of authority on weekdays, but he couldn't even come up with a countermeasure when something happened!

Just when Li Shimin's anger was about to explode, Chen Gui suddenly ran in from outside in a hurry, Li Shimin frowned, he knew that if it wasn't for something very important, Chen Gui would not rush in at this time.

Without waiting for Li Shimin to ask, Chen Gui said loudly: "There is news from Lingnan that the Marquis of Jiayuan has returned safely!" ”

"The prince is back safely?" Li Shimin was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Where are the people?" ”

Chen Gui opened his mouth and said: "I am in Xunzhou, this is a letter sent by General Cheng Lao to send a fast horse." ”

"Speed up!"

Li Shimin beckoned to Chen Gui, Chen Gui hurriedly trotted forward and presented the letter in his hand respectfully, seeing Li Shimin's face full of joy, His Royal Highness and all the ministers sighed in their hearts: When the prince first went to the palace, he was still the seven-product supervisor of the small Sinong Temple, and now he is already the marquis of the Tang Dynasty who has a fief.

Li Shimin couldn't wait to open the letter, and when he saw that the letter said that the prince had returned to Xunzhou safely, Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at His Royal Highness's ministers who lowered his head, and Li Shimin couldn't help but think: If the prince is new, with his extraordinary wisdom, he may be able to come up with a way to deal with it.

Just as he was about to summon Wang Xiang back to Chang'an, Li Shimin's eyes suddenly lit up.

Wait, Prince New ...... He remembered that some time ago, Lingnan sent a letter saying that the method of drying salt had been successful, but at that time, it was just when the Turks raised troops and there was no salt crisis, so he didn't take it to heart.

"Retreat!"

Dropping two words, Li Shimin got up and left the Taiji Hall quickly, leaving the ministers in the hall looking at each other, and the eldest grandson Wuji also squinted his eyes and looked puzzled, he could see that Li Shimin suddenly thought of something urgent, but now what is more important than discussing salt countermeasures? If the people's salt problem is not solved as soon as possible, I am afraid that the war ahead will not be settled, and the Tang Dynasty will be in chaos first.

Back in the Ganlu Palace, Li Shimin personally wrote a long letter, which was immediately sent to Lingnan and handed over to Wang Zixin, who believed that Wang Xiang knew what to do after reading the letter.

(To be continued.) )