Chapter 322: Selling Salt to Tubo, You're Crazy!
At that time, the temple of manna.
His Majesty Li Er, who had already heard about the recent movements in Chang'an City, was very angry, and his whole body was so angry that he was about to become a fire-breathing dragon.
He pointed at Lu Heng in front of him and said angrily:
"What do you think? Don't think I can't see that what Lao Cheng did before was instructed by you behind your back! ”
"Instigating the families to sell salt and tea to Tibet, this is something that the Han people can do?!"
"What the hell are you going to do, it's crazy to !!"
Li Shimin was furious.
But in front of him, Lu Heng plucked his ears indifferently, as if he felt that his father-in-law was a little too noisy.
"Father, why are you in such a hurry?"
"Even if you think it's unreliable, don't you also let the Wang family and them out with salt."
"Doesn't that mean you believe me?"
His Majesty Li Er was speechless for a while.
He's really angry......
This guy is purely relying on himself to indulge him, and he has no respect for the emperor at all!
As Lu Heng said, the reason why he acquiesced to the people under him to release official salt and sell it to the Wang family was precisely because he believed in Lu Heng's ability and believed that there must be some plan here.
But this Lu Hanzi can't use it as Hu Lai's capital!
"Don't talk to me, what is the plan, hurry up and explain it to me."
After a pause, Li Shimin slowed down his voice a little:
"If it's really beneficial to Datang, what else do you have to do next, and I will cooperate with you one by one."
"But you have to make things clear so I can decide how to arrange it, don't you?"
He knew that to deal with Lu Heng, a tenacious guy, he had to use soft words.
It's useless to force it, but it will make this kid's backbones heavier.
Really.
Hearing this, Lu Heng scratched his head.
I didn't expect His Majesty Li Er to speak so well today...... It made him a little embarrassed.
He thought for a moment and asked, "Gao Ming should tell you all the traps that his sons have set for the family." ”
Li Shimin nodded with a deep groan.
"That's right, I know roughly about the family's plans, Gao Ming didn't listen to you, but I forced him to speak, don't blame him."
"Sunrise, don't think I'm the kind of person who is eager for quick success."
"I know the truth of casting a long line to catch big fish, and I have the patience to wait until then."
"It's just that I don't understand, what does this have to do with you selling salt to the Tibetans?"
Lu Heng complained in his heart-
Li Chengqian, this guy, swore an oath when he asked himself at the time, and he almost swore to the sky that he would not tell His Majesty Li Er, but he turned around and was forced to confess. Soft bones!
But he didn't think about blaming, after all, when his eldest brother saw Li Shimin, it was like a mouse seeing a cat, he was so scared that he was going to die, and his natural blood was suppressed.
Sell it, sell it.
"Father, salt and tea are far more tempting to the Tubo people than a sudden wine. You know that well, right? ”
Lu Heng slowly opened his mouth and said:
"It's the same temptation of money for the family."
"As long as they and the family believe that this wine is a hard currency in Datang that only rises and does not fall, not only can it be drunk, but it also retains its value, and can be used in exchange for the salt and tea they need most, then what will the Tubo people do?"
"They're going to do the same thing as the Sayaks—"
"Hoard!"
"Whatever it takes, hoard to death!"
"And to make them believe, then you have to give up the child to trap the wolf."
"The salt and tea that you need to use in the early stage are essential."
"You can't think that in other countries thousands of miles away, you can easily believe in the value of this wine like the families in Chang'an."
"What's more, the family will believe it, and it is also because of the fact that Zhenguan has made a lot of money in the spring of ten years, so he is willing to put his worth into it."
can become the emperor, and he is also the emperor who successfully usurped the throne by flipping the table, Li Shimin, who was called one of the ancestors of the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Sect and Song Dynasty by later generations, is certainly not a fool.
Although Lu Heng didn't say the strategy directly, His Majesty Li Er understood his intentions after thinking for a while.
It's a simple solution.
But it's tempting, it's deadly!
Nowadays, for the Tang Dynasty, tea is not to be mentioned, but salt is no longer a rare thing.
With Lu Heng's improved salt production method, private salt has long been unprofitable, official salt is of high quality and low price, and the output is still high, and those poisonous salts in the past can be made into refined salt casually.
The family wanted to take salt out to exchange wine with the Tibetans, and the salt was also bought from the imperial court.
Li Shimin already knew about Cheng Yanjin and Lu Dongzan's deal, which was of course agreed and strongly supported by him, after all, Tubo's horses are good, and what Datang lacks most is a large number of good horses.
The cost of wine is not high, and now that the imperial court has a steady stream of grain from the family, plus high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes that are being bred, there is no shortage of food at all.
It only needs to contribute manpower to leverage the lucrative wine industry at a low cost, and His Majesty Li Er has already changed his concept now, and no longer thinks that wine is a waste of food.
The grain is from the family.
The land was mortgaged by the family itself.
The price of the drink is fried by the family.
Salt and tea were also bought by the family themselves.
The imperial court didn't have to do anything, only needed to spend some manpower and material resources, not only to sell a large amount of salt tea, but also to obtain a large amount of land that originally belonged to the family after the collapse of the wine, and to exchange it for many good horses from Tibet.
For the Tang Dynasty, this matter is beneficial and harmless!
Let's go back to the matter of selling salt and tea to Tibet just now.
If according to Lu Heng's expectations, the Tubo people would hoard a large number of Zhenguan ten springs like the family, and would not use all of them in exchange for salt tea.
So, when the wine market finally crashes......
The Tibetan people will also cry and die with the family holding the wine that cannot be sold.
There was silence for a long time.
Li Shimin suddenly sighed with emotion:
"Fortunately, your kid is a Han man."
"If you are from another country, and use these crooked ways to harm the Tang Dynasty, I will definitely crush your bones and ashes!"
"I'm really worried that someone will use the same method to trick us in the future!"
Lu Hengman dug his ears again absentmindedly.
He waved his hand and said:
"Father, this method is only applicable to the Tang Dynasty."
"Today, Datang is the most developed country, and there is no one."
"Except for us, it is impossible to use this method to trick people anywhere else, so you just put your heart in your stomach, don't worry about these things that are gone!"
"Except for me, only those families can do this kind of thing."
"However, after this battle, do you think the Datang family will still have the strength to make trouble?"
"I'm afraid they're just going to be anxious and thinking about how to keep their family business!"