Datang: Showdown, your father and I are Li Shimin

Chapter 57 The Birth of Refined Salt
"Aye! Aye!"

Panting, Pei Xiu carried a cloth bag and walked towards Pei Ji's bedroom.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Pei Ji lying on the step with a pale face, Liu Xiuping stood aside respectfully, and beside him was a servant who was carrying soup.

After hearing Pei Xiu's voice, Pei Ji waved weakly at the servant: "Go down."

The servant nodded, and walked backwards away from Pei Ji's bed with the medicine bowl in his hand.

"Tell me, what is the origin of that salt, and how much salt that Li Er guy has stored in the palace." Pei Ji looked solemnly at Pei Xiu who had just stepped into the bedroom.

Seeing his father lying weakly on the bed, Pei Xiu couldn't help being a little surprised.

Immediately, Pei Xiu suddenly turned serious, took out a cloth bag from his waist, put it on the desk, and opened the cloth bag: "Aye, Mr. Liu, look, this is the salt that the old emperor hid."

"I heard from the salt merchant that there should be more than [-] shi. This batch of salt is quite different from the coarse salt we usually eat. Could it be that it is really a special offering from the emperor?"

While talking, Pei Xiu thought, if he bought all the salt, his family would still be able to afford the money.

But if Li Er still has more salt like this, it will inevitably be a huge loss to buy it back.

This is a wave of gambling, if you succeed, you will earn blood, and if you lose, you will lose blood.

Of course, all decisions are still in Pei Ji's hands.

Pei Xiu looked at his father, Pei Ji, and Liu Xiuping with a solemn expression.

I saw Liu Xiuping and Pei Ji unanimously picking up a pinch of salt with two fingers, putting it in front of their eyes.

"This...is it really the emperor's special offering?" Liu Xiuping couldn't help but twitched his eyes slightly. He had never seen salt as white as snow and as fine as sand, and not only had he never seen it, it was even mentioned in ancient books. Not recorded.

Even if it is a special offering from the royal family, it may be that the craftsmanship is different, which leads to the difference in thickness, but even so, the craftsmanship will be more or less recorded in the history books.

Thinking of this, Liu Xiuping rushed over with some doubts, his eyebrows gradually twisted together, and immediately put two fingers in front of his mouth to taste it carefully.

Pei Ji also looked at Liu Xiuping quietly, only to see that Liu Xiuping suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise, and looked at Pei Ji with surprise on his face: "Pei Xiang, this salt has no bitter taste, it is as pure as water Ah! I am afraid that His Majesty really provided the salt!"

Pei Ji also put his finger close to his mouth in doubt, and the moment he tasted the salt, Pei Ji immediately began to recall it in his mind.

It's not that he has never tasted royal salt. He was with Li Er and held many royal banquets with him. Obviously, such exquisite salt has never appeared before.

Although the dishes made in the imperial dining room are indeed different in taste from the dishes of ordinary people, the bitter taste produced by coarse salt is very similar.

And this salt obviously didn't have any bitter taste, if the royal family provided the salt, then he would not be unable to eat it when he participated in Li Er's banquet.

"No... This salt is probably not specially provided by the royal family. Li Er's food is indeed different from our ordinary people, but the bitterness in coarse salt can't be concealed anyway. If the dishes made with this salt are absolutely as good as The taste of the dishes in the royal family is different." Pei Ji's eyes were a little lost, and he kept searching for any detailed memories that might have any clues in his mind.

Salt……

Pei Ji sat on the bed in a daze, staring blankly at the fine white salt in his pocket, suddenly the old man's eyes lit up, and said in his mouth: "Salt...salt mine! Could it be... Could it be Is this what Li Er extracted from rock salt some time ago?"

After hearing this, Liu Xiuping looked at Pei Xiu with a puzzled look, and then both of them focused on Pei Ji.

"Aye, what are the rock salt and salt mines you're talking about?" Pei Xiu frowned, his face full of puzzlement.

After Pei Ji's pupils trembled, he suddenly raised his head and said, "Oh no! We were tricked by that guy Li Er! Or, we were tricked by that kid Li Ze!"

"Not long after smallpox appeared, when the imperial court released the news of salt water disinfection, some of my eyeliners found out that Li Er and Wei Zheng had sealed off a mine, and that mine was completely exploited. In a clean malachite mine, the only thing left inside is the poisonous salt mine, and the old man didn't care about it at the time."

"I thought it was Li Er's helpless move, but I didn't expect... that kid Li Ze can extract such refined salt from the poisonous salt mine! It's broken! It's broken!"

Pei Ji kept repeating the word "broken", trembling slightly all over his body.

"Pei Xiang, it seems that this batch of salt cannot continue to stay in our hands. Since you said that Li Er has already contracted the entire salt mine, there must still be a lot of salt in storage. Salt will only become cheaper and less valuable." Li Xiuping immediately suggested, but he was also very nervous.

This old man is extremely stubborn, but he doesn't know if he will listen to him now.

With trembling hands, Pei Ji picked up the cloth bag in front of him. Looking at the fine salt in the cloth bag, which was as fine as snow and sand, the corners of his eyes twitched: "Li Er, Li Er! Little beast Li Ze! I'm not reconciled! Old man Not reconciled!"

I could only hear Pei Ji hissing and roaring, his teeth clenched and "clucking", staring at the salt bag with tearing eyes, as if staring at Li Ze.

"Liu Xiuping, go and check for the old man, is there any fine salt in circulation outside Chang'an City, if not, then check the price of the local salt by the way, and sell it as soon as possible." Pei Ji looked at Liu Xiuping helplessly, his mouth was weak speaking orders.

After that, he turned to Pei Xiu: "My son Pei Xiu, go to the black market and see what the salt dealers in other places are doing. If anyone is willing to take it, sell the salt as soon as possible. If you can stop the loss in time, stop the loss in time. Keeping the green hills here, we are not afraid of running out of firewood, sooner or later, we will earn back all the things we lost from that little Li Ze!"

"Obey!" Liu Xiuping suddenly felt the seriousness of the matter, and immediately ran out the door quickly.

And Pei Xiu didn't leave immediately, instead he raised his foot and took a few steps towards Pei Ji and asked: "Aye, the price of this batch of refined salt is [-] Wen a bucket, the lowest price you can accept is How many?"

Pei Ji looked up at his son, with a bitter smile on his face: "As long as you can get rid of this batch of salt, it doesn't matter, even five hundred coins a bucket."

After all, Pei Ji waved his hand towards his son: "Go, go, you should learn to make your own decisions. It is impossible for father to follow you all the time to pave the way for you. Father needs to rest."

(End of this chapter)