As soon as I heard the voice, it was Li Zhi's little ghost.

Wang Xiang turned a corner, and saw Li Zhi standing in the middle of a pile of green vegetables, pointing to this, dotting that, and a few guards carrying baskets followed him, picking whatever he pointed to.

"Childish!"

Before Wang Xiang could speak, Little Lori couldn't help but scream.

When Li Zhi heard the voice, he turned around and saw Xiao Lori staring at him with Xiao Man's waist, and hurriedly put on a smile and said, "Sister Xiao Wu, why are you here?" ”

Little Lori became even more angry when she heard this: "Why am I here?" This is our vegetable garden, I should ask you why you are here, and what are you doing? ”

Seeing that a guard was about to pick a big green cucumber, Xiao Lori hurriedly shouted, "Stop!" ”

The guard grabbed the cucumber and didn't know whether to pick it or not, so he had to look at Li Zhi with a blank look.

"Sister Xiao Wu won't let you pick it, then you won't pick it."

In the past, Li Chengqian and Li Zhi would often come to the vegetable garden to pick some melons, fruits and vegetables, but there had never been such a big battle as today, and the big bamboo baskets in the hands of several guards were full, obviously freshly picked vegetables.

"Slave, what are you picking so many vegetables for?" Wang Xiang was not reluctant to give up this little vegetable, but he was curious.

Li Zhi fiddled with the bamboo basket in the guard's hand and seemed quite satisfied, smiled and said: "My father is going to hold a banquet in the palace, so let me pick some vegetables, and the vegetable garden in the palace has not survived." ”

"Banquet? Why did Your Majesty hold a banquet? ”

"Of course, it is to celebrate the recovery of the prince's brother and me from smallpox, and my father has sent someone to spread the news of cowpox throughout the Tang Dynasty, and the people of Datang will not have to be afraid of smallpox in the future, so such a happy event will naturally be celebrated with a banquet."

Li Zhi said with a smile: "My father said that he would also invite the prince and eunuch to the palace for a banquet when the time comes." ”

Li Er had to pick some vegetables for a banquet, and Li Zhi said that he had invited himself.

"Then let's see what vegetables you still need, just pick them, and go back and ask Daochang Li to build a glass greenhouse in the palace. When the time comes, Your Majesty will eat whatever vegetables you want, and it will be more troublesome to send someone over every time. ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "The glass shed in the palace has already started, but it will take some days to complete." ”

Wang Xiang said that Li Zhi had to pout and not speak, even though he picked the little Lori.

After Li Zhi finished picking vegetables, Wu Shun took everyone back to the house, and Wang Xiang entered the palace with Li Zhi, after coming out of Xishui Village, he hadn't seen Li Er, and Li Chengqian's leg injury didn't know what was going on.

Li Er was not in the Taiji Hall at this time, but in the Lizheng Hall of Empress Changsun. Sun Simiao is also there. Although there were Wang Xiang's pills to suppress qi disease, Empress Changsun's health was still deteriorating, and the accident between Li Chengqian and Li Zhi had too much impact on her condition.

When they arrived at the Lizheng Palace, Empress Changsun had just finished taking the medicine and fell asleep, Li Er and Sun Simiao were sitting in the outer hall talking, and the little son was obediently practicing calligraphy in the inner hall, and that serious appearance made Wang Xiang ashamed, and the gap between his brush and the little son was getting bigger and bigger.

When there were no outsiders, Li Er was still quite easy-going, beckoning Wang Xiang and Li Zhi to sit down. opened his mouth and asked, "Zixin, the queen's condition is serious again, what good prescription do you have?" ”

Wang Xiang looked at Sun Simiao on the side and shook his head with a wry smile: "I just got the pill that can restrain qi disease by chance, how can I know any medical skills, if the queen mother's pill runs out, I still have some at home." ”

"The pills are still there, it's just ...... Ay. Li Er sighed, he knew Wang Xiang very well now, although he often had some unusual whimsy and could get something auspicious like a potato. But some of the most basic things are not as much as Li Zhi's understanding.

"By the way, I heard Daochang Sun say that you once said that the reason why people are susceptible to disease is because of their weak bodies. Weakness is due to a lack of table salt, but is there such a thing? ”

Hearing Li Er talk about this, Wang Xiang nodded, he did mention this to Sun Simiao when he was in Xishui Village.

Li Er frowned and said, "What does physical weakness and susceptibility have to do with salt?" ”

Wang Xiang Zhengse said: "The human body needs to absorb a lot of different nutrients in order to be strong, strong in the body, strong in resistance, and not easy to get sick." Salt is a very important nutrient for the human body, and His Majesty also knows that people will be weak without salt. In fact, what is more serious is that the body's resistance will decrease, and in severe cases, you will get big neck disease. ”

"Big neck disease? What is Great Neck Disease? ”

"Forehead...... Wang Xiang sweated in his heart, "that is, if the people lack salt for a long time, their necks will be swollen." ”

Li Erchao Sun Simiao asked, "Has Daoist Sun ever heard of this strange disease?" ”

Sun Simiao nodded and said: "Poor Dao has indeed seen some poor people with thicker necks than ordinary people, but I don't know if it is the big neck disease that Marquis Jiayuan said." ”

Wang Xiang still wanted to worship the master of Old Man Sun as a teacher, and when he heard him call himself the Marquis of Jiayuan, he hurriedly said: "Daoist Sun called me Zixin." ”

He said to Li Er again: "What Sun Daochang said is actually a big neck disease. Many poor people can't eat salt several times a month, so their bodies lack salt to suffer from big neck disease, and their body's resistance is worse than that of ordinary people. ”

Li Er frowned and said: "It is not easy to produce salt, and the price of salt has risen due to the hoarding and selling of illicit salt by salt dealers, which makes the people of Datang unable to afford salt, and these people who sell illicit salt really deserve to be killed!" ”

Wang Xiang couldn't help but think of Ma Wenxin who escaped his life when he heard the murderous aura in Li Er's words, and now he is following Zhang Kuishan to develop the Western Regions, which can be regarded as a place for his talents.

Wang Xiang cautiously asked: "Why doesn't Your Majesty lower the price of official salt, so that the people will not be able to eat official salt, and naturally no one will sell private salt." ”

Li Er shook his head: "The salt tax is the weight of the tax, and the salt that can be produced every year is not much, if the salt price is lowered, there are still many people who can't eat salt, but the salt tax will be much less, which is not good for the country." ”

"What if the annual salt production is enough for the people of Datang to eat?"

How can it be so easy to produce salt, Li Er was about to shake his head, suddenly his eyes lit up, stared at Wang Xiang and asked, "Could it be that you have a way to increase salt production?" ”

Wang Xiang smiled and said: "It is enough for the people of the Tang Dynasty to eat all the salt, and there is still a lot left." ”

"Hurry up!" Li Er immediately came to the spirit, salt and iron have always been the important weapons of the country, how could he not be excited after listening to Wang Xiang's words.

Wang Xiang touched his nose and whispered, "This ...... Your Majesty, the price of the glass of the Gewuyuan has fallen sharply recently. ”

Talking about it, why did salt get involved in the glaze business of Gewuyuan again? Li Er was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Wang Xiang's action of touching his nose and immediately reacted, and said with an angry smile: "Okay, you are a new prince, and your greed for money has not changed at all after leaving Chang'an for half a year." ”

Wang Xiang argued: "How can the minister be greedy for money, in order to let the people of the Tang Dynasty eat salt and enhance their physique, he has tried his best to come up with a method of making salt, and he is willing to dedicate this method to His Majesty, and His Majesty will never let the minister ......."

What is it for the sake of the people of the Tang Dynasty, Li Er interrupted angrily: "Say, what do you want?" ”

Wang Xiang smiled and said, "The minister just wants to make a deal with His Majesty." (To be continued.) )