At the same time as they looked at Li Huai, Li Huai was also looking at them, looking at these men facing the yellow sand and turning their backs to the sky.

As one of the same kind, I can't help but feel pity.

"Are all men doing the work?" Li Huai asked.

"Most of them, men are indeed more powerful than us women, but not as dexterous as us women, most of this kind of hard work is done by men, and we women also have our own jobs."

The beautiful Minister of the Interior next to him answered him.

This kind of stereotypical thinking has long become a habit, and all people in Xuanguo, whether they are men or women, think so.

Actually, it's pretty much the same everywhere.

Men plough and women weave.

This is the inevitable course of human history.

Why is it passed? And not the result.

That's because of what the future development of humanities and history will become, Li Huai doesn't dare to make a judgment.

Xuanguo respects women.

This kind of old-fashioned concept is not much different from the Central Plains' respect for the scholars, and it is a level of resource allocation.

Li Huai did not comment on their way of rule, and he first inspected their salt pans.

Many people think that all salt comes from the ocean, but this is not the case.

Most of the salt that people eat daily is actually 'stone salt', also known as 'mineral salt'.

The salt in the desert is a type of 'rock salt', which is also called 'rock salt'.

Stone salt is not necessarily refined salt, but refined salt must come from stone salt, and the salt eaten by the nobles every day is stone salt.

This means that the salt is more expensive.

Ordinary people generally eat coarse sea salt, and there are even many people who still use 'vinegar cloth'.

In this era, the supply of high-quality salt is probably less than 1 in 10,000 people, which means that there is still a huge market for salt.

No matter what kind of stone salt or sea salt it is, as long as it can be purified a little more, you can easily make a lot of money.

Of course, because salt has a huge profit value, the government controls it very strictly, and private individuals are not allowed to sell it privately.

This also leads to the fact that those salt merchants who can sell salt are all rich and flowing, and their private lives are unimaginable to ordinary people.

The salt pan in front of Li Huai is the official salt field belonging to Xuanguo, and Xuanguo has made a lot of money in the Western Regions by relying on it.

Their method of salt mining is very simple, that is, the 'rock salt' is dissolved in water to form a 'brine'.

Then someone beats out the brine and sprinkles it in the salt pan, and after natural volatilization, the water vapor dries.

A layer of white crystals on the surface is edible salt.

That's right!

Such crystals, they just take them and eat them!

It's a good thing that the human body in this world is good, otherwise I don't know how many people have been poisoned!

And the so-called refined salt.

就是把这种晶体再煮一次，过滤一回，晒干之后，研磨成细盐，挑出肉眼可见的杂质。

It's done...... What the hell is refined salt!

The refined salt sold in Liangzhou today is the real refined salt!

Li Huai suddenly thought of a question, if the technology of refined salt was given to Xuanguo, wouldn't it be the refined salt of Liangzhou, and there would be no way to sell it to the Western Regions.

How much money do you have to lose?

Never mind.

Think of it as a gift to Aisha.

Li Huai took out the design drawings and asked the Minister of the Interior to rearrange the site and prepare relevant appliances according to his requirements.

If you want to mass production.

This is no easy task.

What is needed is time.

Alas!

Time!

A few days later.

Yuguo, Luoyang.

After dispersing the early dynasty, Li Gan met with the envoys of Xuanguo in the imperial garden and read the letter written to him by the empress of Xuanguo.

After reading the letter, Li Gan's expression did not change, and he said with a smile: "I will always firmly believe that the friendship between Yu and your country is eternal. ”

Such a lie, which no one believed and had no meaning, came out of Li Gan's mouth.

It seems to be given a solemn mission.

Even if the envoys of the Xuanguo Kingdom do not believe it in their hearts, they must pretend to be very pious, "The Xuanguo has always respected Your Majesty, and in this time of crisis, we are the first to ask our friends for help. ”

Li Qian nodded slightly, "I have also seen my friend's 'sincerity', and I will definitely help my friend." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The envoy of the Xuanguo smirked.

"Come on, take the envoys of Xuanguo down to rest, and entertain my friends!" Li Gan commanded, biting the last four words extremely hard.

The envoy of the Xuan Kingdom had just left.

Bang!

Li Gan angrily kicked over a stone on the rockery and scolded: "What kind of thing is she Yaoxi, the king of the soil who slaps a large place, dare to threaten me!" ”

"She thinks that if she captures Hansun, she can act recklessly against me and command me to do what she wants me to do?"

"Hansun!"

"Sure enough, it's a piece of rotten wood, mud, mud!"

"Just die outside!"

Li Qian would never do what Yaoxi asked, and compared to Li Huai, he cared more about the majesty of Yu Guo.

A strong country, a monarch of a strong country, never at the mercy of others!

This thing...... Treat it as if it never existed!

Li Gan immediately put the envoys of Xuanguo under house arrest and did not allow him to see anyone or visit him.

He didn't go to discuss it with Sun Mingshan.

Wrote a reply directly.

The letter was stuffed in the arms of the Xuanguo envoys, and then pulled out of Luoyang in a carriage, and the Praetorian Guards escorted all the way to the border.

Kick it out!

A few more days passed.

The envoy of Xuanguo returned to Xuanguo and handed the letter to Yaoxi.

The words of this letter were very plain, there was almost no emotion, just one thing, if she dared to do something to damage the reputation of Yu Guo, then Xuan Guo would be the enemy of Yu Guo second only to the Northern Wilderness.

The word does not mention Li Huai!

Although Yaoxi had been mentally prepared, she still didn't expect that Li Gan would refuse so decisively and resolutely.

Is it true that there is no family affection in the royal family?

She sighed.

The road of seeking help from the court of Yu Guo was completely impassable, and she did not dare to provoke Li Gan rashly.

Then only Aunt Li Huai is left.

Yaoxi hesitated.

Just now, the Minister of the Interior came and said a lot of good things about Li Huai, almost praising him to the sky.

In fact, during this time, Li Huai was also tirelessly working for Xuanguo, and he was more motivated than anyone else.

As soon as the refined salt production site was established, he devoted himself to iron smelting non-stop.

No requests were made.

Right now.

The first batch of refined salt was placed in front of her.

Yaoxi dipped a little with her finger and put it in her mouth to taste, but there was nothing but saltiness.

The best salt is only salty.

Any hint of something else is not the best salt!

This made her unable to even find an excuse to deliberately embarrass him.

"Let him go."

A voice suddenly sounded in Yaoxi's head, and she immediately shook her head and shook the voice away, but it did waver.

She summoned the Imperial Minister.

"Send the refined salt and this letter to the Holy Court of Light."

"Yes."

"Wait...... Tell Li Huai. Yaoxi said a little unnaturally, inexplicably remembering the humiliation of pouring him wine last time.

His face was slightly crimson.

“…… Be! ”

Although the former minister was puzzled by the empress's operation, he didn't ask too much, turned around and went out to do things.

Li Huai is now a celebrity in the royal court.

Although the Imperial Minister saw him several times, he did not talk to him because he was a man.

However, these days, I keep hearing the same man mentioned by the sisters around me.

She began to wonder in her heart.

Therefore, she did not find anyone to pass the word, and she went to the swordsmithing workshop herself, which was a place dedicated to casting scimitars.

As soon as she entered.

His eyes were drawn to the back of a naked upper body, sweat running down his neck, flowing down his back, walking through the rugged muscle ravine, and slowly descending......

Bang!

A knock woke her up.

The imperial minister hurriedly withdrew his gaze and looked around, wondering if anyone had noticed his actions just now.

It turned out that almost everyone was like her.

She couldn't help but mutter.

"Haven't you ever seen a man, your eyes are about to fall out!"

Ahem!

The former minister straightened his mind, and walked to Li Huai's side with his chest and abdomen closed, "Mr. Li, Your Majesty asked me to bring you a word." ”

"What did she say?" Li Huai asked, his hand movements did not stop at all, and he was pounding a scimitar.

"Let's go out and talk, it's too noisy here." The imperial minister subconsciously raised her voice, otherwise she thought that Li Huai would not be able to hear her voice.

"No, you can't stop now, if it doesn't matter, you wait for me for a while, and it will be fine soon." After Li Huai finished speaking, he continued to strike iron.

With every hammer blow, sparks will pop up, which makes people very worried that sparks will jump on him and burn him.

However, he himself is like a piece of fine iron, as if he has been forged again and again, and all of them have this powerful and smooth figure.

He didn't seem to know what tiredness was, and sweat was still pouring down like raindrops.

He also has a lot of strength.

Compared with the men around him, his hammer is worth ten hammers of others!

The Imperial Minister felt that he was like a snow wolf in the Western Regions, elegant and good-looking, and extremely explosive and lethal!

Laugh at!

Li Huai quenched the forged knife, and there was a burst of flames and white smoke coming out of the oil pool, and when the knife was taken out, the shape had already been set.

It's just that because it has not been polished and the handle has not been installed, the surface of this knife is still very rough.

But the blade of the crescent moon makes people feel that it seems to be enough.

"Let's go." Li Huai turned his head and said.

"Huh? Oh! ”

Only then did the Imperial Minister take his eyes off the 'two knives'.

Li Huai picked up the knife and took the imperial minister outside, and spoke in a quiet place at the door.