Originally, Li Shimin had some other strategies to stimulate the price of war horses, but he was persuaded by Li Xiang, let's just announce this article, if it is announced frequently, it is very likely that these people will see it, don't think they are fools, on the planning of the strategy, people can be in front of us.

However, Li Xiang is now also facing a serious problem, that is, there is no money in his hands, he has bought too much land during this period of time, and the number of slaves is also soaring, Li Xiang must have a new point of making money, although the previous projects are making money, but they are far from catching up with the expenditure.

One item is table salt and the other is a newspaper.

Li Xiang wanted to do the project of selling salt for a long time, you must know that in this era, many people in the Tang Dynasty can't afford to eat salt at all, because the price of salt is very expensive, everyone can only use vinegar cloth to season, not to mention how disgusting it is to eat.

In today's era, most of the salt is dug out of the salt well, but because a lot of salt is bitter, there are all kinds of impurities in it, so people can't use it at all.

However, this is not a difficult task for Li Xiang, because he has extremely high technology, which can separate all these impurities from salt, and can extract all harmful substances, and finally produce salt as white as snow.

The price of salt in this era can be said to be high, ordinary people eat impurities of salt, and the color is not very good, even if this is the case, it also costs ten pennies a catty.

The slightly better salt is eaten by a well-off family, and the taste is slightly better, and the price is 20 wen a catty.

The third class is used by ordinary bureaucrats, except for a few black spots, the others can also be shoddy, but compared with the best table salt, there is still a gap, so that it can reach 35 to 40 wen a catty.

The highest level is used by the top door valve and the royal family, which basically costs a hundred wen a catty, but there is still a gap with what Li Xiang made.

"It's just a pile of table salt, can you stop that saliva from coming out?"

Looking at Zhou Huairen and Qian Ping's appearance, Li Xiang really didn't know what to say.

"Your Highness has seen the world, naturally there is nothing surprising, even the salt used in the palace is not comparable to this, it has already gone through hundreds of processes."

Qian Ping tasted a little bit just now, there is nothing but saltiness, you must know that the salt sold outside, sweet and sour, can let you taste it, just because there are too many magazines inside, no matter what kind of process you use, there is no way to get those things out, Li Xiang's does not contain a little impurity, even if we sell it for three hundred wen a catty, it is absolutely no problem.

In terms of cost, it can almost be said that there is none, when Li Xiang bought the two salt mines, he only spent 500 yuan, because the salt produced by the two salt mines is useless, all of them are black, if this salt is disposed of, the money spent will be old.

As long as the production process is established, it is a one-time investment, and most of what Li Xiang uses are slaves, so in addition to giving a bowl of rice, there is no labor cost.

"What Father-in-law Qian said is not bad at all, if our salt is on the market, it will definitely be able to kill them, but His Royal Highness should think about it carefully, the more expensive the salt, the greater the profit, if we really sell it, the people who will offend the top magnates."

In these years, the salt and iron monopoly, except for the imperial court, only some of the top officials have such ability, even if they get the right to sell salt, they have to find a way to keep it, purely because the profit of this thing is too great, and people are staring at it everywhere.

"At the beginning, we were still aiming at the high-end market, and the price per catty was set at 500 yuan, but we want to spread it across the country, as long as there is a treasure to the place, you can buy it."

Hearing what Li Xiang said, Zhou Huairen was a little incomprehensible, when Li Xiang took out some new products before, all of them were to be auctioned, or hunger marketing, but why buy unlimited quantities this time? If that's the case, wouldn't our products be mysterious? There's no way to make a huge profit.

"You all feel strange, in fact, I do this for a reason, I do this because salt is a mass-sold item, and it is not the same as some other things, let's set the price at five hundred Wen, then some people's goods will definitely not be sold, and each grade will reduce the price downward, and in the end it is the ordinary people who benefit."

Li Xiang also thought that he could give the people a certain amount of welfare, but the salt produced by Li Xiang could not be eaten by all the people, if Li Xiang set the price too low, then the other salt merchants would be stared to death, and then these people would bring huge trouble to Li Xiang when they united.

However, within the scope of operation, to give the people a certain benefit, Li Xiang will never refuse, we only occupy a part of the top of the pyramid of high-end salt, then the following salt merchants will slowly reduce the price, and eventually affect the bottom part, and some of the people will be able to benefit.

"Your Highness really cares about the people, in addition to the salt mines around Chang'an City, we have also selected six places in the country."

Zhou Huairen took out a simple map, fortunately Li Xiang is not the first time to see this map, if it is the first time to see it, it is estimated that he can't even see the places marked on it clearly, just a general direction, according to Li Xiang's memory in his head, 60% are wrong.

To spread out sales throughout the country, it is impossible to have only a salt mine in Chang'an City, after buying salt mines in various places, you have to open salt workshops in various places, of course, the most important thing is security, once this thing is sold, it will have a huge impact on salt merchants around the country, if they want to take risks, we have to give them a chance to meet.

Li Xiang took out 12,000 soldiers from the system world and dressed them in the clothes of ordinary people, and then went to six salt workshops across the country, their task was to ensure the safety of the salt workshops......