Zhuo's brought a lot of gifts, and the total amount was almost seven or eight hundred thousand yuan.

Yang Chuan accepted all the orders, and even the twenty little women who were very young and spirited accepted them, and gave them to Cao Xiang: "Cao Xiang, these twenty little women will be raised in your house first, and then sent back when they are eighteen years old."

By the way, this is what I sold to you, just send me twenty catties of gold back. ”

Cao Xiang was furious, his eyes widened and he scolded: "Who do you think of me Cao Xiang?" Lecher? Wolves? Ben Hou, is Ben Hou the kind of man who can withstand the temptation of beauty? ”

Yang Chuan asked, "So what?" ”

Cao Xiang opened his mouth for a while, laughed, and patted Yang Chuan's shoulder: "Okay, righteous enough, go back and send you a hundred carts of green salt." ”

Yang Chuan counted with his fingers, and said expressionlessly: "Two hundred cars." ”

Cao Xiang smiled and said: "Okay, good, two hundred cars are two hundred cars, anyway, that thing is not worth much......

Sending Zhuo away, standing at the gate of the village courtyard and laughing for a while, the faces of the two people gradually became gloomy, and for a while, no one spoke.

"This Zhuo clan has too much appetite, and he is not afraid of being choked?"

After being silent for a long time, Cao Xiang suddenly spoke, pointed in the direction of Chang'an City and scolded: "You said that she is a woman, what do you want to do with so much money?" Speaking of which, that Sima Xiangru is really not a thing, it's just damned! ”

Yang Chuan also looked in the direction of Chang'an City, and said indifferently: "It's not that the Zhuo family is greedy for money, it's that her brain is in water." ”

Cao Xiang didn't react for a while, and asked in amazement, "What do you mean?" ”

"I mean, this Zhuo Wenjun has already fallen into the trap of old thieves such as Gongsun Hong, Zheng Shishi, and Sang Hongyang, but she herself doesn't know it," Yang Chuan smiled bitterly a few times and continued: "What kind of goods are those people, don't you Pingyang Hou know yet?" ”

"The monopoly of salt and iron will soon become the national policy of the Han Dynasty, and the first to bear the brunt is nothing more than your Pingyang Marquis Cao's family, the grandson of Zhuo Wangsun in the land of Sichuan and Shu, and the princes and kings surnamed Liu in various places."

"With your uncle's thoughts and means, once the salt and iron decree is promulgated in the world, what will be the result if anyone dares to disobey?"

Cao Xiang couldn't help but shudder: "Yang Chuan, give my brother an idea......

Yang Chuan glared at the goods and scolded: "The idea is all for you, but you don't act, what do you want me to say?" As the top prince, your Cao clan owns thousands of acres of fertile land, countless mountains and swamps, 100,000 servants, and monopolizes more than ninety percent of the green salt sales of the Han Dynasty;

You say, if you were the emperor, what would you think? ”

Cao Xiang shrunk his neck, subconsciously looked left and right, and then lowered his voice and said: "I understand what you mean, in fact, as early as three years ago, I wanted to hand over the green salt trade to the imperial court......

Yang Chuan corrected: "It was handed over to your uncle, not to the imperial court." ”

Cao Xiang thought for a while and grinned: "Yang Chuan, I understand. ”

Yang Chuan: "No, you don't understand. ”

Looking at Cao Xiang's puzzled appearance, Yang Chuan didn't say anything, this kind of salt and iron monopoly, if it was left in any other dynasty, Yang Chuan might not hesitate to hand it over to the 'imperial court', not the 'emperor'.

The difference between the two is actually very big, almost the difference between 'the country and the world' and the 'family world', right?

If several major events such as salt and iron, mines, and coinage are controlled in the hands of the so-called 'imperial court', in many cases, they will effectively restrict the imperial power and make the emperor restrained;

But that's sometimes.

It's a thing in the world, but it's not like that.

For example, the current emperor of the Han Empire, Liu Che, the famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in later generations, if the so-called imperial court, wealthy families, clans and merchants were restricted, would they still launch wars against the Xiongnu again and again?

In addition, Yang Chuan can't say that Yang Chuan likes such a Han Empire controlled by wealthy families and princes surnamed Liu, and naturally he can't say that he doesn't like it, but a Han Empire that may fall apart at any time still makes him a little uncomfortable after all.

Yang Chuan always believed that the war against the Huns had reached the predicament of having to show his sword to fight for the Han Empire, and it was imperative.

Moreover, it is necessary to be able to meet the head-on attack and cut the grass and eradicate the roots!

Then, a powerful and centralized Han Empire naturally came into being......

……

The ice storage area of Yang Chuan's house is very large, and more than a dozen corridors crisscross the underground, like an underground labyrinth, even if more than 2,000 acres of vegetables and vegetables on the fiefdom are stored in it, but more than half of them are empty.

However, he felt that it was far from enough, so he simply borrowed hundreds of servants from Cao Xiang and dug day and night.

At first, Cao Xiang was a little unimpressed with this matter, and always felt that it was not interesting; Gradually, when he found that the corridors designed by Yang Chuan were like a labyrinth, he understood it.

It turns out that Yang Chuan, like himself, is also quietly digging a mouse hole for himself?

This discovery made Cao Xiang very happy, and he couldn't help but bring in some iron, wood, masonry, etc., so that Yang Chuan could build this huge 'underground labyrinth' more solidly.

As a result, Yang Chuan scolded after knowing about it: "I also said that Huo Qu was reckless, you guy is really dizzy." ”

"You don't want to think about it, I, a thirteenth-level lord with a rank of three hundred stones, secretly built underground fortifications for myself, which is obviously handing over the knife handle to some people with a heart."

Cao Xiang stiffened his neck and refused to accept it.

Yang Chuan didn't bother to pay attention to this goods, put on a mink robe, hid in a spacious 'cave' and tinkered with his pots and jars, a special 'fireplace', with a large cauldron, steaming, but boiling water.

He asked his cousin to bring a few bags of green salt, poured it into the cauldron one by one, and kept stirring it.

Then, he poured the boiling salt water into a large pot, which dripped from the other end through several crude pipes and into another cauldron......

And so on and so forth.

From time to time, Yang Chuan also stretched out his fingers, dipped a little salt water in his mouth and tasted it carefully, and then added some black ores, medicinal herbs and water to it.

"I said Yang Chuan, what do you want to do?" Seven or eight hours later, Cao Xiang, who was hungry and thirsty, finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked.

"Prepare the fine salt for the pickles." Yang Chuan dealt with it casually, but he continued to be busy meticulously, "There are too many impurities in this green salt, and the pickled vegetables have a bitter taste, and they can't be sold for money." ”

"Refined salt?"

This time, Cao Xiang finally couldn't sit still, and asked with some doubts: "My Cao's green salt is divided into sea salt and well salt, but it has gone through several processes of drying, evaporation and filtration, why do you say that there are too many impurities in it?"

You see, isn't this refined salt? ”

Cao Xiang grabbed a large handful of his own green salt, and said quite proudly: "Our ancestors of the Cao family are private salt dealers, and in terms of salt production, there are a few unique skills.

You call me Brother Cao Xiang, and Ben Hou will tell you the secret method? ”

Yang Chuan glanced at Cao Xiang and said nothing.

Although it is said that this person is too familiar to start, but sometimes, he can't help himself.

Unexpectedly, the 'classic bridge' of pretending to be forced to slap his face would be confirmed on Cao Xiang, which made him feel very comfortable......

……

After more than an hour of tinkering, Yang Chuan's first pot of refined salt was purified, he reached out and grabbed a handful, handed it to the sleepy Cao Xiang, and said with a smile: "Come, taste." ”

Cao Xiang's eyes lit up first.

Immediately, his face was as usual, and he shook the cuffs of his mink robe very coquettishly, and frowned with disgust: "Isn't it just to remove the impurities in the green salt?" This, Ben Hou is the biggest connoisseur in the world, hahaha. ”

Then, the goods stretched out the middle finger of his right hand, dipped it in a little saliva, dipped it in a little snowflake-like delicate salt, and hooked it towards Yang Chuan quite obscenely, grinning: "Ben Hou originally thought it was sweet and delicious, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be salty." ”

Yang Chuan: "......"

Well, he admits that as long as he is a man, he is especially good at telling meat jokes, which is also one of the fine traditions of the Han Empire.

Yang Chuan stretched out his hand, slapped it vigorously on the head of this product, and scolded with a smile: "It's getting more and more out of shape, hurry up and taste it, how does it taste like your Cao's green salt." ”

Cao Xiang put away the bag, put his fingers in his mouth upright, tapped them on the tip of his tongue, the middle of his tongue, the base of his tongue, and both sides of his tongue, and then closed his mouth.

Yang Chuan nodded slightly.

This kid doesn't know how to learn, but in terms of taste, he is indeed a big connoisseur, and this hand alone is better than how many government-run salt industry bosses in later generations......

Hiss!

That's not right...... Hiss, oops, no!

Yang Chuan was not bad, after tasting the real 'purified refined salt', Cao Xiang, the largest salt dealer in the Han Empire, changed his face slightly, and his eyes widened in confusion: "No, Yang Chuan, why does your refined salt still have a trace of sweetness?" ”

Yang Chuan said gently: "It's not with a hint of sweetness, but simply salty, but because after removing most of the impurities, the original bitter taste of green salt is gone, so it gives you the feeling of a slight hint of sweetness." ”

Cao Xiang was not convinced, rinsed his mouth with water, verified it again, and finally changed his face: "That's true, Yang Chuan, this secret method ......"

As soon as Cao Xiang spoke, Yang Chuan waved his hand and stretched out a finger with a smile.

Cao Xiang thought about it and shook his head, but stretched out two fingers: "You only need one percent of the profit, which is too little, Ben Hou will give you two percent, and send someone to send it over every year." ”

Yang Chuan suddenly smiled and said, "This secret method only sells you for one gold." ”

Cao Xiang's eyes widened: "No, you guy is greedy for money...... Well, you guy is only greedy for money and not lustful, how can the secret method of refining salt only sell for one gold? ”

As he spoke, he also reached out and touched Yang Chuan's forehead to see if the 'little money fan' in front of him was dizzy and confused.

Yang Chuan grabbed a large handful of refined salt from white flowers, leaned in front of the mutton fat brazier, and carefully examined it, with a pleased smile on his handsome little face, and said leisurely: "This method only sells you for one gold, and I have conditions." ”

Cao Xiang looked Yang Chuan up and down, and his doubts became more and more intense: "Yang Chuan, don't dig a pit for Benhou!" ”

"You guy is very bad, a broken blueprint thrown out, and it looks like it will bring down a large number of powerful families; Don't get dizzy and calculate on your own brother. ”

Yang Chuan scolded with a smile and said, "Don't worry, your uncle will not take back your Cao's green salt business for the time being, on the contrary, he will give you another business;

You must know that what the emperor needs is not only your attitude, but also your earning more and more money for him......"

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