Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

After Cao Huachun and Xu Xianchun, who felt that they had almost become scapegoats, went to the palace to meet Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen asked straight to the point: "How about the salt?"

Both Cao Huachun and Xu Xianchun had bewildered expressions.

The question that Emperor Chongzhen asked was too broad.Especially Cao Huachun has a group of people who specialize in doing some wicked and smoky things, which makes Cao Huachun not sure what the Emperor Chongzhen is asking.

Emperor Chongzhen secretly scolded himself for being an idiot, asking such a nonsense, anyone would be confused, right?

After coughing, Emperor Chongzhen asked Cao Huachun, "Where are you selling the added salt now?"

Cao Huachun thought for a while, then bowed and said, "Returning to the emperor, about half of the salt was sold to Lin Danhan, and the rest was sold to Jiannu."

Emperor Chongzhen hummed and asked, "Is there any movement on the two sides?"

Cao Huachun bowed and said: "Going back to the emperor, there is no movement yet, the main reason is that the amount of mixing is small, and there will be no problems for a while."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "That's good. Safety comes first. After all, it's something to eat. You must be careful. Also, don't sell it to the people of Ming Dynasty, remember?"

Cao Huachun bowed his body and replied: "Yes, servant girl, remember, not a single grain of salt will be sold to the people of Ming Dynasty."

After deliberating for a while, Cao Huachun continued: "My lord, Lin Danhan asked for more quantity of wine and salt, what do you think?"

Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said: "Salt is free, but there is no wine! Rare things are more expensive, that's all. There is too much wine, and those barbarians can't ask for a price cut? Just sell it to expensive ones. After a while, tell them that the grain is not harvested, and put it away." Increase the price by ten percent."

Cao Huachun secretly sighed that he was too young, or that he was too skinny.

The wine that Emperor Chongzhen asked himself to smuggle into the grassland, even though it was called Royal Wine, actually had some Royal Wine in it, but most of it was brewed from sweet potatoes!

How high is the yield of sweet potatoes?

Ever since Emperor Chongzhen found out about such a thing by accident, the Huangzhuang near the capital has long been planted overwhelmingly.

Even if it is because of "ineffective supervision", I don't know how many of them were secretly poached by the people, but there are still a lot of them that can be used to make wine.

Even let the savages on the grassland form a group to drink it openly, and they can drink it for several months.

And how much royal wine is in it?

If it wasn't for the sake of making the taste better, ten catties of sweet potato wine wouldn't be mixed with half a catty of royal wine because of the unpalatable taste of sweet potato wine.

Just like this, Emperor Chongzhen also asked to increase the price after reducing the quantity?

But Cao Huachun, who knew some secrets, also knew that the output was indeed less.

It's not that there are really few, but that a lot of wine has been used for some messy experiments.

For example, at the Royal Academy, there is a great demand for this kind of sweet potato wine, especially the sweet potato wine after repeated distillation.

Part of the use was on surrendered Jian slaves.

Many Jiannu who surrendered were sent to the Royal Academy to become experimental subjects, mainly to verify Emperor Chongzhen's statement that wine can disinfect.

Apart from Emperor Chongzhen himself and the participants in the experiment, the rest of the usefulness of this part was vaguely known to himself and the eunuchs Wei Zhongxian.

And the other part is that Xu Guangqi and the others are burning this thing to see which is better to use this thing as fuel or coal.

Therefore, the consumption of this thing has been on the rise recently, so it is no wonder that Emperor Chongzhen would ask for a reduction in the price.

Chapter 326 Fifty texts per catty?

But what can Cao Huachun do?Cao Huachun was also very desperate.

Now the yield of sweet potatoes is only so, and the places where they are planted are only so many.

The most important thing is that although there are a lot of sweet potatoes grown in Emperor Chongzhen's Huangzhuang, the common people are allowed to steal the seeds. The question is how many dare to go to Huangzhuang to steal sweet potatoes?

To be honest, this matter is a head-scratcher.

Although Emperor Chongzhen ordered that no one should be controlled at all, and the people were allowed to steal sweet potatoes, as long as they did not steal other things in the village.

But after all, not many people dare to steal this kind of thing.

We can only wait until this year's sweet potatoes come down to see if the nobles can keep up. If the nobles start to plant this stuff in their own villages, then the common people are likely to have a large area due to the mentality of following suit or other reasons. spread out.

But before that, it is more reliable to count on the sweet potatoes near the capital than to count on Shaanxi.

Cao Huachun knew about this, and so did Emperor Chongzhen.

But there is no good way.

In "Tang Zhuan", Yun Ye, the Duke of Chu who is extremely resourceful, has no good solution, and Emperor Chongzhen feels that he is a programmer, and even has no good solution.

Let him go, take one step at a time.

Emperor Chongzhen turned his attention to Xu Xianchun again, and asked, "The biggest salt owl in Yangzhou is called Lin Weifeng?"

Xu Xianchun bowed and said: "Your Majesty is wise, it is Huizhou businessman Lin Weifeng."

Emperor Chongzhen hummed, and ordered: "He ordered Jin Yiwei from Yangzhou to come secretly to contact this person. If he is willing to do things for the royal family, he will be allowed to be rich. If he is unwilling, forget it, and don't worry about him."

Xu Xianchun was very surprised.

Originally thought that according to Emperor Chongzhen's temperament, even if Lin Weifeng survived by luck, he would have to shed a layer of skin.

But Emperor Chongzhen said to leave him alone?

After thinking about it carefully, Xu Xianchun realized that the root cause might still lie in his own memorial.

It was mentioned above that although Lin Weifeng was the biggest salt lord, this guy who controlled sixty-seven out of ten of the private salt in Yangzhou gave sixty-seven out of ten of the private salt in his hands to those poor people for sale—although these poor people Most of them are from his hometown.

Why does His Majesty the Emperor care where those poor people are from?Even if those poor people are from Lin Weifeng's hometown, they are still the people of Ming Dynasty after all, aren't they?

It is very likely that His Majesty the Emperor decided to let Lin Weifeng go for a reason.

But Xu Xianchun still thought of Emperor Chongzhen too simply.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, it was true that they were the people of Ming Dynasty, but just because of this, they should not ignore their sale of private salt.

Salt, apart from the salt he ate, should be a worthless thing in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen.

How much is a pack of salt for future generations?One yuan, more expensive one yuan and fifty cents.

If there is anyone in later generations who can't afford salt, it was still possible in the early years, but I never heard of anyone who couldn't afford salt. up.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen himself had done a lot of scolding the cook after dinner—did this idiot cook rob the salt seller?Does it bother you to add salt?

But in practice?

In Daming, salt is really a rare thing, and the people who can't afford it are definitely many times more than those who dare to put salt at will.