The atmosphere in the Taiji Hall today is a little weird.

In the name of the Marquis of Jiayuan, Laifu openly opened a salt shop in Chang'an, and the matter of opening a salt shop in Chang'an was spreading, and the ministers in the palace naturally knew about it.

It is a big crime to open a salt shop privately, and it is even more contemptuous of the emperor to openly open a salt shop privately at the feet of the Son of Heaven in Chang'an, but at this time, everyone pretended not to know, no one mentioned this matter, and even Old Man Wei did not say a word.

"Duke Wei, it is a big crime to open a salt shop privately, why didn't Duke Wei say a word."

Hearing someone next to him whispering to himself, Wei Zheng said calmly: "Shouldn't this matter be handled by your Dali Temple, how can the old man be in power?" ”

Sun Fujia was stunned when he heard this, not long after he was promoted to Zhengqing of Dali Temple, he also knew the status of Jiayuan Hou in Li Shimin's heart, and it was likely that Jiayuan Hou would be thankless and offend people when he said it. He thought that with Old Man Wei's temperament, he would definitely jump out and admonish him when he knew about it, so that he wouldn't have to offend people, but he didn't expect Old Man Wei to be very calm today, which made Sun Fujia very depressed.

However, Wei Zheng is right, the matter of Hou Ye's private salt shop should indeed be handled by Dali Temple, as soon as he looked at the performance of other officials, Sun Fujia knew that it was impossible for them to take the initiative to mention this matter, but he was the Zhengqing of Dali Temple who couldn't hide, and said that he didn't know if he was a corpse or a bully in Chang'an.

There was no way, Sun Fujia was about to report the matter to Li Er, when suddenly the eldest grandson Wuji came out and said, "Your Majesty, a new salt shop has opened in Chang'an today." ”

Seeing that the eldest grandson Wuji was the first to speak, Sun Fujia secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh? Recently, there are many people who buy salt, and the imperial court should open more salt shops. Li Er said lightly.

The eldest grandson Wuji squinted his eyes and was expressionless, but said in his heart: Keep pretending. You wouldn't know?

"This salt shop was not opened by the imperial court."

"Didn't it open it by the imperial court? Who drove that? Li Shimin is still very calm. The eldest grandson Wuji was even more sure that the mastermind behind this time was Li Er.

"Prince Jiayuan is new."

As soon as this statement came out. Everyone in the Taiji Hall looked at Li Shimin, Li Shimin felt everyone's gaze, and asked, "You mean that the Marquis of Jiayuan opened a salt shop privately?" ”

The eldest grandson Wuji said: "The minister said that Chang'an opened a new salt shop today, which was newly opened by Prince Jiayuan. ”

All the ministers were speechless for a while, and the eldest grandson Wuji really didn't say the words "privately open the salt shop".

Li Er nodded and said lightly: "Well, I know at this time." ”

That's it?

Looking at Li Er's attitude, you can know that this matter is greasy, and those who can get involved in the deliberations of the Taiji Hall are not fools, and naturally no one stands up to say stupid things like selling illicit salt is a felony.

Li Er was very satisfied with everyone's performance, and asked the eldest grandson Wuji, "How is the evidence of the family's hoarding of salt that you have collected?" ”

Taking people to pit people is what Changsun Wuji is best at. Hearing this, he narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Several great families seem to have something to rely on, and they act very arrogantly, and the evidence is easy to collect." ”

Li Er chuckled, how could he not know the reliance behind the family, which was also the reason why he was determined to completely eliminate several great families. Originally, I just wanted to weaken the influence of several major families on the court and the people, so that they could honestly be a rich and idle family, but I didn't expect them to be so mad for their own interests that they disregarded the safety of the Tang Dynasty and the people, hoarded food and salt in an attempt to arouse public resentment, and also colluded with the founding party, the Qi Wang party, and even colluded with the Turks. It is impossible to atone for his sins!

That day will not be far away......

The salt shop opened by Laifu is near Dengxian Tower, which is the same as Wang Xiang guessed. Because there is no purchase limit, most of the 20,000 buckets of refined salt on the first day have been bought by several major families, and there are not many people who buy salt, but the salt shop promises that there will be at least 20,000 buckets of salt every day to supply, and everyone has a hope, and the money is not enough to exchange for food, which is the best news for the people, after the potatoes are promoted, the people have enough surplus grain at home, and the potatoes are very easy to grow, as long as some potatoes are left for seeding, there is no need to worry about famine.

The price of salt is high, and the people's savings can't afford to buy much salt, so a steady stream of potatoes was collected and secretly sent to the palace, and then Li Er distributed these potatoes to the people.

Only the family, the amount of salt they buy is huge, so it is naturally impossible to exchange potatoes, and the salt purchased by the family is all real money.

The price of salt continues to rise, and the salt shop really provides at least 20,000 buckets of salt every day as promised, and the salt shop provides salt every day and can be exchanged for grain, so the people naturally don't have to buy high-priced private salt.

Wang Tong finally realized the crisis, and he couldn't figure out where the newly opened salt shop got so much fine salt.

"Father, the Fan family sent over and said that the silver in their hands can't last long."

Listening to Wang Yuan's words, Wang Tong suddenly felt irritable, not only the Fan family, but other families are also facing the same problem, the salt that has always been recovered in the past is naturally not tight, and now the purchase of salt will cost eight times, and the people who buy private salt with them are almost non-existent, and the family's deposit is almost all set on the salt.

"Father, why don't we stop buying salt, not to mention the price of eight guan and one bucket, even the rich and noble can't afford it."

The speaker had no intention and the listener was intentional, and after listening to Wang Yuan's words, Wang Tongxin was cold.

He suddenly realized that the matter of Jiayuan Hou privately opening a salt shop was not Li Shimin's plan, but a trap set against the family from the beginning! This is to invite you into the urn!

How can the people afford to buy salt? Even if you exchange grain for the food in the people's homes, it should be exhausted, and the prices of grain and salt cannot be compared at all, but the people can still exchange grain for salt!

Because of the promotion of potatoes in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court has always distributed potatoes to the people, although Wang Tong also felt that the imperial court has recently distributed more potatoes to the people than before, but because ******** are put on the salt, so he did not take this little thing to heart, now that he thinks about it, he suddenly understands that Li Shimin is using this method to send salt to the people, and the so-called grain for salt is just to hide people's eyes and ears to confuse the family. It's to let the family spend real money stupidly to buy table salt, which has skyrocketing prices! However, it was all discovered too late......

Seeing Wang Tong's face like a dead ash king, Yuan was shocked, and hurriedly asked, "Father, what's wrong with you?" ”

Wang Tong weakly waved his hand to let Wang Yuan go down, Wang Yuan glanced at Wang Tong worriedly, and asked, "Do we still have to accept the salt from the salt shop?" ”

"Receive."

One word, containing all kinds of complex emotions, determination, helplessness, bitterness......

At this point, there is no way out for the family, the salt they hoard cannot be sold openly like Wang Xiang, and even if they sell it publicly, who will buy the salt they have recovered for eight yuan and a bucket? Now we can only gamble that the salt of the imperial court will be exhausted before the end of the Turkic war!

But Wang Tong knew that the family's hope of winning was very small, because he still didn't know where the endless supply of fine refined salt came from.

(To be continued.) )