Diligent Palace.

Li Shimin looked at his grandson with a somewhat complicated look, he originally wanted this guy to rest at home for a while, but who knew that he would make such a snow-white table salt.

Li Shimin really realized the difficulties of his father Li Yuan back then, it is not a good thing for the child to be too good, and there is a feeling that he can't control it.

"You go back first, this matter is related to the lives of the people, I must think about it, it is not just a matter of money."

Li Shimin alone couldn't figure out what Li Xiang wanted to do, although Li Xiang said very clearly, the money that should be handed over to the imperial court is a lot, and even a part of it can be used as military expenses, but Li Shimin takes into account the salt in the country, which is definitely not a small number.

When selling wine before, it was not related to the lives of the common people, at most it was the lives of some powerful elements, and it had no impact on the entire Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin could let Li Xianghu come, but the salt was different, even if only the top part was sold, the quantity was much more than that of liquor.

"The grandson is leaving."

Li Xiang's face was expressionless, he also felt that the relationship between him and Li Shimin was weak, after experiencing this growth, Li Shimin regarded Li Xiang as an enemy a little, in fact, everyone who can threaten the imperial power, even if it is his own grandson, will be a little guarded against when he is the emperor, this is a normal thing.

However, Li Xiang also believes that Li Shimin is a smart person, and the advisers around Li Shimin are also smart people, and soon they will be able to find some business opportunities here, plus they can hit the Taiyuan Wang family, as long as their heads are fine, they should soon approve Li Xiang's salt for sale.

When Li Xiang withdrew from the main hall, the two people next to him came out, one was the prime minister Fang Xuanling, and the other was Tang Jian, the head of the household.

"You two have heard it, this kid is now selling salt, salt and iron are different from other things, they have always been in the hands of the imperial court, if it is in his hands, will it be more difficult to control?"

These two people are Li Shimin's cronies, and they both follow him to fight the country, so there is no need to be taboo when they speak, these two people were in the side hall just now, and they also heard what Li Xiang said.

Fang Xuanling stood aside slightly, and the sale of salt belonged to the household department, so Lord Tang had more say in this matter.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has been thinking about this matter just now, although His Royal Highness the eldest grandson will have more power because of this, at least he has more money in his hands, but from a national perspective, the operation of salt has always belonged to several major families, especially the Taiyuan royal family, since His Royal Highness the eldest grandson is so ambitious, why not let them ......"

Lord Tang's meaning is very clear, there are only so many salt introductions nowadays, and there is no way to give one side to the other.

According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty, if you want to sell salt, you must have a salt introduction issued by the imperial court, if not, then it is illegal sales, and then the imperial court will not only arrest people, but also confiscate all the salt, and even you will be imprisoned.

There is a fixed amount of salt to be distributed in each area, and unless the local officials report that the local population has increased significantly, then the imperial court will increase the amount of salt in this area.

Originally, several major families ran well, and the imperial court operated a part of it itself, which could be said to be very profitable, if Li Xiang intervened, the imperial court would not be able to hand over his share to him, so he could only let him compete with several major families.

Li Shimin also agreed very much with what Lord Tang said, especially when he heard the words of the Taiyuan Wang family, a fist was clenched, in the war with Tuyuhun, the Taiyuan Wang family betrayed secrets several times, fortunately we won relatively quickly, if we really fight a protracted war, it is difficult to say who will lose and who will win, for this kind of blatant treason, Li Shimin can be said to be patient to the limit.

"Xuan Ling?"

Li Shimin didn't know what he was thinking when he saw Fang Xuanling, could it be that the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister was still distracted?

In fact, Fang Xuanling was not distracted, he had been thinking about the distribution of salt, in the past, this thing was a fixed price, but after the business of Zhizhibao, Fang Xuanling suddenly thought of another thing, can we auction the salt?

"Your Majesty, Weichen has an immature idea, since the Han Dynasty, all salt merchants have bought salt from the imperial court, and then opened their own mines to extract salt, and then sold the salt to the market, this method has continued for hundreds of years, why don't we make a change?"

After Fang Xuanling's words came out, Li Shimin and Tang Jian glanced at each other, they both knew that Fang Xuanling had brains, but how can you change this matter? It has been a matter of hundreds of years, not to mention that the salt tax is the main tax of the imperial court, and it can have nearly three million yuan every year.

"Prime Minister, the salt tax reform has been carried out many times in the past dynasties, but all of them ended in failure, and Weichen also knows that the salt merchants are powerful, but if they are missing, there will be all kinds of corruption in the direct operation of the imperial court, and the dynasties in history have not carried out."

Tang Daren was in charge of the household yamen, naturally very clear about the sale of salt, some dynasties in history saw the huge profits in the hands of salt merchants, and immediately took the sale of salt into their own hands, at the beginning it was indeed to improve the income of a lot of imperial courts, and after a period of time, because of the lack of effective supervision, officials began to reach out, most of the money went into their own hands, but the money into the treasury became less and less.

When the emperor of the dynasty will definitely govern at this time, but it is still the case after a period of governance, so after the Han Dynasty, they stipulated another way of sales, that is, the imperial court issued a part of the salt introduction, and the salt merchants used the money to buy, and the income of the imperial court was guaranteed.

Li Shimin nodded after listening, if you want to return all of them to the imperial court, you can indeed strengthen the imperial court's income for the time being, but after a long time, corruption will inevitably breed, even if there are some powerful departments to supervise, it will be inevitable in the end.

"Lord Tang misunderstood, this is not the case below, but the next is thinking about auctioning salt to lead ......."

Fang Xuanling said a word, and the other two immediately understood the huge changes......