Coming out of Concubine Yang's palace, Li Chengqian walked silently outside the palace, he didn't seem to have done anything, but in the process, he found that Li Ke had a good relationship with his mother and even his own queen mother.

Li Chengqian couldn't help but think, as the crown prince, maybe he should think about the country, but in this process, did he ignore too many things? For example, filial piety? It's not that Li Chengqian is unfilial, but he suddenly feels that what he has done is not in place.

Li Ke may not think about as many things as he usually does, and he doesn't need to do as many things as him, but isn't there a problem of his own?

In fact, if you think about it carefully, Li Chengqian knows that he still has a lot of time to come to the palace.

Not only did he ignore filial piety, but even the people around him ignored a lot.

When Li Chengqian was thinking, Li Ke also held a meeting again, which was not considered a plenary meeting, but Li Daozong, Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian were all there, in addition to Lu Hai, Li Yan and others were also here.

"Today's meeting is related to the main financial pillar of my Xizhou in the future, so I called everyone to come over for a meeting." Li Ke said.

"Isn't it just that Your Highness decided this business matter directly?" Li Daozong was a little confused.

"No, General Li, you have to get used to this kind of thing, doing business, there is no shame in doing business, the simplest thing, only the bigger our business is, the more people we can feed here, so that these soldiers can live better, shame? No shame! Li Ke said, "And the essence of the entire country's finances is business. ”

"Your Highness, it's not that I'm ashamed of business, but I'm not good at this." Li Daozong said helplessly.

"So let you come over to listen, the first batch of our salt has begun to be shipped to various places, the quality of our salt, everyone should know, but as a commodity, its sales should have its price, for example, the salt on the market is about 1.5 Wen a catty, and this price, many people can't afford to eat, or at least one-fifth of the people in Datang can only use vinegar cloth." Li Ke's face was calm.

When Li Ke talked to Li Shiji about salt in Chang'an before, he once said that the coarse salt of the lowest quality is 1.5 wen a catty, which is eaten by ordinary people. But that ordinary person is the people around Chang'an City.

But in fact, in many poor places in Datang, there are many people who can't even afford to eat salt.

"Therefore, as the prince, I have the obligation to let the people of Datang eat salt, so we have to classify the salt in our hands, but this work can't be done at the moment, we have to force others to do it." Li Ke said.

"How do you force this? And we can't get them to lower the price. Li Daozong was a little puzzled.

"Shock them with the market." Li Ke opened his mouth and said, "It's very simple, our salt is sold for 1.5 wen a catty, can other salts still be sold?" If they can't sell it, like the current coarse salt, they can only be sold at a price of 1 penny, or even lower. In fact, even then, they are profitable. ”

"In that case, wouldn't we be able to make too much profit?" Li Daozong hesitated.

"No, you are all wrong, in fact, you can't rely on the people to make money, and the people only have a lot of money? The real rich are the family of gate valves, big businessmen, these people are rich people, so we have to make money from them, how to make this money? Grading our table salt, Lu Hai brought it up. Li Ke said.

Soon, Lu Hai had a few things brought up, namely a wooden box, a rough clay vase, a delicate porcelain vase, and a glass vase in the shape of transparent glass.

"Come, let's take a look at these things, this is the grading I will prepare for our salt next, the refined salt on the market is 15 Wen a catty, most of the rich people eat this, but there is still a little bitter taste, and our salt does not, so let's talk about this first."

Li Ke took out the glass bottle on the far left, from the perspective of later generations, this thing is much more than porcelain, but in this era! That's the most expensive!

"This is the most exquisite salt in our Xizhou, a total of 15 filtration processes are filtered, removing all impurities harmful to the human body, it is the most exquisite salt, and it is also the finest salt for grinding! The price is 500 wen a catty! Li Ke said.

"Huh? Fifteen filtration processes? Have it? Li Daozong was stupid, he subconsciously looked at Jiang Feng.

"Why not, first of all, we need to introduce the water of the Red Sea into the evaporation pool, this is one, and then the crystallization pool......" Li Ke counted his fingers, and after hearing Li Ke count the bottling, everyone was speechless, this can also be regarded as filtration?

"When it is sold, the quantity of this table salt is limited, and each purchase cannot exceed 2 catties, because it will also become a royal tribute." Li Ke said.

"This ...... If the purchase is limited, is it that we sell less? Li Daozong hesitated.

"We just said that the quantity is limited, and we can buy 2 catties at a time, but we still have the final say on how many pounds there are?" Li Ke was a little speechless, is Li Daozong a little too stupid? I didn't see that Lu Hai had already started to record with a pen, and obviously understood what Li Ke meant.

"Can it still be like this?" Li Daozong was stunned and said, is this a bit too much?

"Of course, let's talk about the second option." Li Ke picked up the porcelain bottle and said, "This kind of porcelain bottle has gone through twelve filtration procedures, although there are three of the most cost-consuming filtration procedures, but it still disposes of most of the impurities that are harmful to the human body, so the price is 300 Wen!" ”

"And the pottery bottle here, there are only ten filtration procedures in total, and the price is 200 Wen a catty! The wooden box only has five of the most superficial filtration procedures, filtering the most harmful things to the human body, the price is 50 wen a catty, our most ordinary salt is not packaged, weighing catties, and other salts on the market, there is no filtration program! ”

Li Ke gave a price to all these different packages.

Li Daozong: "Your Highness ......, the most expensive filtration procedure you are talking about, is it the price of firing glass bottles?"

"So, our table salt is actually the same?" Su Dingfang couldn't hold back and asked.

"That's right, our salt is the same, we can't mix impurities in it in order to distinguish it, right? That adds to the cost. Li Ke said as a matter of course.

All of them; “……”

"Okay, that's basically it, you don't want this expression, in fact, my main purpose is not to make money at all! It's about providing employment opportunities! ”

"If you think about it, do we need to make a lot of wooden boxes, pottery bottles, porcelain bottles, glass bottles? It's all manual, which means we can hire more workers to make these things! ”

"This also means that there will be more herdsmen working for us in Xizhou, and you have also learned a little bit about the flow of funds that will make Xizhou more prosperous! That's all about increasing job opportunities! Through this whole process, you think about it, did all the money of the family gate valve flow into the hands of ordinary people? Li Ke asked.

"It seems that more has flowed into your hands, third brother." Li Xin subconsciously replied.

"Ahem! Li Xin, speak well! Li Daozong coughed dryly.