Datang: Showdown, your father and I are Li Shimin

Chapter 40

Mining area, salt pond.

Li Er, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Tang Jian and others walked towards the mining area under the escort of a group of imperial guards.

From a distance, they saw large chunks of poisonous salt ore around them.

"I didn't expect that the worthless poisonous salt mine could be turned into fine salt like Baixue under Ze'er's magical skills." Li Er stretched out his hand to grab the refined salt as fine as Baixue in a large vat.

Let the refined salt slip from the fingertips rustlingly.

The cool and delicate touch made Li Er feel comfortable for a while.

At this time, from the corner of his eye, Li Er suddenly noticed the grains of salt randomly piled up on the side, and asked, "What's going on over there? Why are they piled up alone?"

The rest of the people also turned their eyes aside one after another.

Sure enough, I saw the pile of yellowish salt grains.

"Return to Your Majesty, this is a layer of coarse salt at the bottom of the salt drying pond, mixed with a little sand, so it was put aside and will be re-melted next time." A chief in charge of drying the smoke turned towards Li Ergong hand over.

Li Er led Wei Zheng and others towards the pile of salt mixed with sand.

"This salt is actually somewhat similar to coarse salt." Li Er carefully twisted a few grains of salt, his eyes were very similar to ordinary coarse salt, only slightly finer.

Tang Jian and Du Ruhui suddenly squatted on the ground and carefully observed the pile of salt that looked like coarse salt.

Wei Zheng frowned suddenly, and asked thoughtfully, "Is this defective refined salt poisonous?"

The chief responsible for drying the salt suddenly looked at the salt pile with a blank look on his face.

After a while, a soldier in charge of melting salt was called and asked a few questions.

Then he replied: "Back to Mr. Wei, it should be non-toxic."

Wei Zheng was still a little worried. Although the defective product and the refined salt came from the same pool, the poison might also be deposited at the bottom.

So he sent someone to find a living creature that could test poison.

"Wei Xiang, what are you doing here? If you don't have any salt at home, you can take some refined salt home to eat." Li Er looked at Wei Zheng with some puzzlement.

Tang Jian and others also turned their attention to Wei Zheng.

And Wei Zheng already had a rough plan in his mind at this time.

The price of salt on the market has basically stabilized, and basically there will be no further increase.

At this time, by producing a batch of salt, the price can be completely controlled. Since a batch of defective products will be produced every time, why not use these defective products to make him a fortune?
"Back to Your Majesty!" Wei Zheng bowed his hands towards Li Er: "Wei Chen does not want to eat salt. Although this batch of salt contains sediment, the quality is the same as coarse salt. If it is non-toxic, it can still flow into the market. Since every pond of fine salt will produce a batch of defective products like this, it seems a bit wasteful to re-melt and refine them directly, why not resell these to Pei Ji?"

As soon as the words were finished, Li Er, Du Ruhui and the others looked at each other.

"Well, Wei Zheng, why have you suddenly become so smart now?" Li Er clapped his hands happily: "Okay! Okay! Sell this batch of defective products to Pei Ji at a high price, and wait until the price of salt collapses completely. After buying it back at an extremely low price, Pei Ji will lose a lot of money now!"

After hearing this, the rest of the ministers held back their laughter.

Your Majesty, aren't you bullying honest people?

Selling at a high price and getting it back at a low price, this kind of business is simply too profitable, it can be called a white wolf with empty hands!

At this time, an armored guard ran over with a puppy in his arms: "Wei Xiang, this is the puppy from last time."

Seeing this familiar puppy, Wei Xiang couldn't help frowning.

This time it is testing poison again, isn't it a bit too much?
However, as soon as the puppy was put on the ground, he licked a few mouthfuls on the salt pile.

Seeing the puppy's movements, Li Er couldn't help admiring: "This puppy is really skilled."

After a long time, there was still no reaction from the puppy.

"It seems that it is not poisonous, so follow Wei Xiang's method to flow these coarse salt into the market, stabilize the salt price, so that they can always have salt to collect!" Li Er waved his big hand and walked towards the outside of the mine.

"Come here!" Wei Zheng shouted to several soldiers around him: "From now on, all the defective products in the salt drying pond will be collected, and I will send someone to collect them every three days, so don't return them to the furnace."

"Obey!" Shi Chang bowed his hands towards Wei Zheng, and hurriedly greeted several nearby soldiers who were shoveling salt, and sent this batch of bags into the black market.

The price of salt in the black market has basically stabilized at [-] coins a bucket.

And this batch of defective products was basically accepted by Pei Ji and the wealthy gentry.

But they always believe that as long as they hold it in their hands for a long time, the price of this batch of salt will only be higher.

As the saying goes, the lack of people's hearts is enough to swallow the elephant, Pei Ji and those gentry are already red-eyed.

Almost every effort is made to keep the price of salt rising.

In order to survive, the common people had to go to them to buy extremely expensive salt.

A dou of six thousand coins would cost sixty coins if combined.

Such a terrifying salt price almost made the common people feel a little desperate.

Pei House.

Pei Ji stood in a warehouse.

Looking up, there are densely packed bags of coarse salt.

Naturally, he didn't dare to keep these things at home with great fanfare.

"Yes, it seems that the coarse salt in the entire Chang'an City is better than this." Pei Ji stroked his beard and looked up at the coarse salt with joy on his face.

This is not salt, this is clearly gold!

In just a few days, it went from dozens of texts to thousands of texts.

Only those with a flexible mind will seize this opportunity to make a fortune.

And he caught it!

And he was convinced that he had caught it!

"Master Pei, here is the account, please look over it." A servant-like man presented him with a piece of cloth in his hand.

Pei Ji watched, and the servant said: "At this time, a total of more than 130 shi of coarse salt was collected, 230 shi for a dou of 420 Wen, [-] shi for a dou of [-] Wen, and [-] shi for [-] Wen. ..."

Pei Ji basically didn't pay attention to what the servant said, but looked excitedly at the cloth in his hand.

The hands holding the cloth were trembling crazily.

Just because of excitement, because in his opinion, it didn't cost much to collect this batch of coarse salt, but once the value of coarse salt rises, every ten cents raised will be a thousand times the profit.

Even if the price is only stabilized at 600 Wen, this batch of salt can be sold for 6000 million Wen, or [-] taels.

Every extra thousand is a profit of 6000 taels.

Who doesn't love such huge profits?

Pei Ji threw the account away casually: "Continue to collect it for me! If you have no money, sell the valuables at home."

After that, he turned around and left the warehouse.

At the same time, Liu Xiuping was outside Chang'an City and found dozens of smallpox patients.

On a stone in one place, several bags of money and several gold discs were placed.

"I will give this money to your family members. As long as you give me smallpox and continue to spread it to the state capitals near Chang'an City, I have more rewards here. Since you have been infected with smallpox, those who survived The possibility is very slim, why not make a sum of money for your family when you are alive, so that your family can live a good life?"

Liu Xiuping looked at the few civilians who kept swallowing saliva and had acne on their faces with amusement on their face.

(End of this chapter)