The prince asked in person, but Niu Youdan didn't dare to eat in a hurry, and said with a smile: "Hehe, His Royal Highness the Prince, what's bad about this food, noodles and steamed buns are infinite, until you are full." Occasionally, you can still eat a meal of meat, even if there are not many pickles, but you can still eat it, we all think it is beautiful! ”

After Niu Youdan finished speaking, he couldn't help but roll his throat when he looked at King Lintian, who was constantly pouting.

"Oh? There is no limit to rice and noodles, why is this pickle still in short supply? King's Landing Heaven motioned to Niu Youdan, and then turned his gaze to the Tobe Shangshu who was holding the bowl, as if it was difficult to swallow.

Although Zhu Guangqi is said to be a clean and good official, after all, he is also a member of the second grade of the imperial court, and he is also a secretary of the household department, so the food will naturally not be bad, unlike Hao Youcai, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, who can also eat with relish at this time.

Zhu Guangqi, who felt the gaze of the king's landing, put down his face as if relieved, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, it's actually because of the problem of salt!" ”

As soon as these words came out, King's Landing instantly understood.

Salt is a government-run and official monopoly, so the price is very expensive. In King's Landing's memory, when this salt was cheapest, it cost 50 wen for a catty, and the most expensive time it reached more than 200 wen.

Salt itself, as a scarce material, was relatively cheap, and later because of Emperor Gaozu's repeated wars, the treasury was empty. It is forbidden to use salt as a method of mobilization to collect grain, horses, and many other materials with large cadres and private merchants.

However, as a result, the power to buy and sell salt was placed in the hands of the big cadres and merchants, resulting in different prices of salt in various places, ranging from high to low. It really has the meaning of rising and falling, and the people are suffering.

Thinking of this, Jun Lintian shook his head slightly, then looked at Zhu Guangqi, who didn't want to eat, dropped the sentence "Eat cleanly", and continued to eat noodles.

Feel the dull noodle soup, take a bite of pickles and put it in your mouth!

"Phew!"

As soon as this happened, King's Landing couldn't help but spit out the pickle directly.

Is this a fucking pickle?

Salty is really salty, it can kill people!

In addition, there is a strong fishy smell and miscellaneous smell!

Drain a whole bowl of noodle soup to relieve the strange taste in your mouth.

Chen Keren couldn't help but snicker when she looked at Jun Lintian, when she was in the army at the time, she also suffered a lot at the beginning.

"Oh, Your Highness, what are you doing here? This pickle is available in limited quantities, so you can't spoil it if you don't eat it! ”

Niu Youdan looked at the pickles that were spit on the ground by King's Landing with a distressed face, and there was a faint sense of blame in his words.

However, he also understands that the prince is already expensive, and it is normal that he can't eat this pickle. And how can you put the pickles in your mouth, they naturally know the salty taste of the pickles, and they should soak them in the noodle soup before eating!

"How do you make this pickle? Isn't it a question of the price of salt? It shouldn't smell like such a heavy salt, why is it still smelling weird? ”

When Niu Youdan heard this, he replied suspiciously: "Your Highness, there is no problem with this pickle!" The reason for the heavy taste of salt is really the problem of salt prices. The production of high-grade refined salt is very small, so you can only make pickles with coarse salt, so the taste is heavier. ”

Hearing this, King's Landing came to his senses.

yes, refined salt!

The East Palace, Qianqing Palace, Kunning Palace, etc. all use refined salt, so the food tasted like it did not have such a heavy salty taste. In this way, you can figure out why it is this clear water noodle soup, because you don't dare to put any salt at all.

The price of refined salt is so high, and only the palace and dignitaries use it a lot, and ordinary people can only use coarse salt as daily food.

Thinking of this, King's Landing felt that he couldn't sit still.

The obvious strange taste of this coarse salt was obviously caused by the lack of refining purity, and he could just improve it. Don't say anything for the benefit of the world, at least you can eat a normal taste when you walk outside.

Thinking of this, Jun Lintian really couldn't sit still, and after three or two bites of food, he immediately set his eyes on Zhu Guangqi.

"Zhu Shangshu, how do I make salt now?"

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Guangqi looked slightly stunned, and then hurriedly replied: "Back to Your Highness, the most direct salt making method for my Daqian now is the boiling salt method, which is collected by the stove household to make salt, and further has official camps. ”

As soon as these words came out, King's Landing instantly understood.

Boiled salt, according to different regional characteristics, each has a decoction into salt. Among them, sea salt, pond salt, and well salt are mainly used as the main means of salt production.

However, these methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and nine out of ten are only coarse salt.

The taste of coarse salt is as bitter as it was just now.

It is precisely because of the efficiency of production that even coarse salt is expensive. That is, because the palace uses high-grade refined salt, which is extremely expensive, the genius of King's Landing did not realize that the people of the world actually use coarse salt for it.

With King's Landing Heaven's question, everyone present was shocked, what is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince planning to do?

Don't you have any ideas about the salt law?

Jun Lintian didn't know the doubts in everyone's hearts, and asked again: "This palace also asks you, there are many salt mountains in my Daqian, why don't you use this to make salt?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes flashed, and then they were a little funny.

Especially the craftsmen present, one by one, they were quite disappointed.

"Your Highness, you may not know that the salt of this salt mountain is poisonous! Naturally, I wouldn't let go of the use of such resources at first, but I found that eating this salt would turn purple all over my body, and I would die of poisoning! ”

Zhu Guangqi was a little helpless, this is something that the whole cadre knows, but you, the prince, don't know, and even propose to make salt from Yanshan, isn't it ridiculous!

It's really a full man, I don't know how hungry a man is!

How can you know these things when you enjoy the finest salt!

Even Chen Keren's eyes flickered at this time, thinking that his prince brother suddenly became stupid today and asked such a question.

King Lintian saw everyone's expressions in his eyes and said with a smile: "This palace naturally knows that the salt of the salt mountain is poisonous!" ”

He doesn't know, everything has to be purified, and the coarse salt he eats now is not poisonous, but the toxicity is weaker.

As a salt mine, the salt of the salt mountain is also full of a lot of phosphorus, nitrate and other toxic substances, and it is strange that the immortal people will not die if they are not removed!

However, the words of the king of heaven were like the words of the stupid son of the landlord's family, which did not change the eyes of everyone looking at the fool, but had a kind of intensifying the meaning!

If you really know, why ask!

What a pretend!

In this regard, King's Landing was helpless for a while!

"Have you forgotten that coal was also poisonous!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned, not knowing what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to say.

But Chen Keren, who had studied a lot of the deeds of King's Landing, suddenly brightened his beautiful eyes at this time, and said crisply: "Could it be that the prince's brother can remove the toxicity of the salt of the salt mountain?" ”