The next day, Liu Fan got up to make porridge. There was basically no meat at home, only some wild vegetables. It was better to have some than nothing. After making the porridge with wild vegetables, Liu An excitedly told Liu Fan that she had finished all 1-10.

Memorized clearly.

Liu Fan smiled and took the test on Liu An, and found that he knew it all. He gave a thumbs up and said, "Very good. I will teach you the multiplication table. You can memorize it after me!"

The formula was very long, and Liu An recited it several times without even finishing it. He looked at Liu Fan distressedly and said, "Brother, why is this so difficult to memorize!"

"In fact, it's not difficult. There are rules. Once you find the rules, it's easy to memorize. Just practice a few times and you'll be fine."

Liu An's face seemed to be wearing a mask of pain. Liu Fan laughed, patted her head and said, "Little girl, keep working hard!"

"come on?"

"Um, it's just...I asked so many questions, just to encourage you to keep working hard!" Liu Fan said with a frown.

Liu An nodded with a smile, and his eyes turned into little moons.

After eating the porridge, Liu An was reciting multiplication tables, and Liu Fan was watching the salt being dried by the sun. After it was dried, Liu Fan found a small wooden stick and beat it hard several times until the salt was broken into particles.

Then it was carefully wrapped with cloth.

"I'm going to the city for a while. You go and see dad at home. I'll be right back!"

Liu An nodded.

Liu Fan smiled and said, "Come back and bring something delicious for you to eat!"

Liu An then said with a smile: "Then, brother, come back soon!"

Liu Fan held the salt in his arms and strode out.

Walking in the village, he happened to meet Lin Hao. At this time, Lin Hao was wearing coarse clothes and leading a cow. When he saw Liu Fan, he smiled and said: "Going out?"

"Well, let's go out and go to the city to see my uncle. Oh, by the way, Brother Lin, are you free tonight, let's talk?" Liu Fan said.

"Huh? Okay, I'll wait for you tonight!" Lin Hao was stunned, but agreed after a moment.

When Liu Fan walked away, Lin Hao frowned and looked at Liu Fan's back and said slowly: "This kid seems a little different. He is mysterious and I don't know what he is doing!"

...

Arriving in the city, Liu Fan found He Luofeng who was cleaning the house easily.

He Luofeng was a little surprised when he saw Liu Fan coming over, but he didn't think much about it. Instead, he smiled and said: "Here we come, come in and sit down. Have you eaten yet? Do you want some cooking cakes?"

"No, uncle, I came here today to discuss something!"

He Luofeng put the broom aside, clapped his hands and sat aside and said, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Liu Fan took out the salt wrapped in cloth from his arms, slowly spread it out in front of He Luofeng and said, "Uncle, how much do you think this is worth?"

He Luofeng opened his eyes and stood up immediately. He stretched out his hand to touch it, but felt it was inappropriate. He wiped his hand vigorously on his clothes, dipped some in his hand and put it in his mouth to taste. He immediately felt salty.

Huh, the voice became a little weird, "Is this salt?"

"Yes, it's exactly salt!" Liu Fan said with a smile.

"Where did you get it from?"

"My uncle gave it to me yesterday!"

"What I gave you is obviously... Oh, by the way, you made it with the salt block I gave you yesterday!" After saying that, he seemed to have thought of something, and immediately wrapped Liu Fan's salt in it again.

He got up and took Liu Fan to the backyard, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"How did you do it?" He Luofeng asked anxiously.

Liu Fan looked at He Luofeng with a smile and did not answer.

He Luofeng waited for a while but didn't see Liu Fan speaking. He suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, uncle is a little impatient! If you don't want to say it, don't say it. This is a good thing!"

"Uncle, do you think it can be sold? If it can be sold, you can have as much as you want!"

He Luofeng stood up, wandered around for a while and said, "Such a good thing can certainly be sold, but my uncle doesn't dare to sell it!"

"Why? The stuff is so good!" He Luofeng said with a wry smile.

"Then why can't it be sold?" Liu Fan asked.

He Luofeng stood up and said with some greed and helplessness: "Salt can be sold, but people can't sell it privately. The court is in charge of it. Now on the market, one stone salt is twenty cents. The price set by the government, if it is sold privately,

If the price goes up, you and I may be killed!"

Liu Fan also frowned. He didn't expect that the control over salt would be so serious now.

In fact, what Liu Fan didn't know was that the control over salt in the early Tang Dynasty was relatively loose. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had the strictest control over salt, and salt was the most profitable at that time.

Most of the rebel armies in the late Tang Dynasty were private salt traders. The famous peasant rebel leaders Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi both accumulated strength by selling private salt. Huang Chao even once led the rebel army to invade Chang'an.

Most of the founders of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms started their business by selling salt, such as Wang Jian, the founding monarch of the former Shu Kingdom, Qian Mu, the king of Wuyue, etc., and the leaders of the peasant uprisings such as Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen who rose up in the late Yuan Dynasty were also from salt lords.

After all, in ancient times, there were basically no substitutes for salt. Whoever mastered salt, in a sense, mastered the lifeblood of the country.

He Luofeng stamped his feet heavily and said, "I'll take the salt. Just wait for my news. I'll come back as soon as I go!"

Liu Fan nodded.

He Luofeng put the salt in his arms and hurried out.

Liu Fan sat in the yard and waited slowly. Things have come to this point. Now he no longer thinks about what will happen. He is already at the bottom of his life. All changes will rebound upward.

Almost an hour later, when Liu Fan was waiting impatiently, a group of officers and soldiers walked in, asked who Liu Fan was, and immediately grabbed him and left.

Liu Fan's heart was filled with 10,000 butterflies. The rebound was too powerful!

Pedestrians on the road pointed and pointed, and not long after walking they came to a quaint house with the name Changsun Mansion written on it.

After entering the house, someone naturally took over, and then a middle-aged man took Liu Fan into the inner house. The inner house was in a good environment. Unlike others who dared not look at it, Liu Fan could clearly see that both the buildings and the landscaping here were beautiful.

It's very nice and there are quite a few servants.

When they came to a door, the middle-aged man said: "Please!"

Liu Fan nodded and walked in.

When he entered the door, he saw He Luofeng kneeling on the ground shivering. There was a middle-aged man above him holding a book in his hand and not looking at Liu Fan. On the table next to that man was the salt refined by Liu Fan.

After waiting for a long time, the middle-aged man sitting at the top put down his book and said slowly: "Liu Fan, ah, he used to be a rebel and followed Luo Yi to rebel. Later, he killed Luo Yi and made a meritorious service. He atones for his sins through his merits."

Then you are free, now you have such things, what do you want?"

Liu Fan looked at his majestic appearance and sat aside like a tiger descending the mountain. Knowing that he was not a mortal, he saluted and said: "I am too poor to make money!"

The middle-aged man laughed loudly, stood up, took the salt and said, "Is this your way to make money?"

“That’s right, I didn’t have any meat to eat at home, so I thought of this method!”

The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Give me the recipe, and I won't take advantage of you!"

I clapped my hands and someone brought me a lot of money and cloth.

"Here are 100 strings, plus four acres of land, and ten bolts of fine cloth. How about it?"

"Okay!" Liu Fan added again, "If you don't know how to go out, you will be slaughtered, and there will be my uncle!"

"Hahahaha!" The middle-aged man didn't answer and walked out with Yan.

Liu Fan stepped forward to help He Luofeng up and found that He Luofeng's legs were a little unsteady.

"Go home!" Liu Fan said calmly.
Chapter completed!