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There are ten snow salt shops in Chang'an City.
In each of Chang'an's 108 city squares, there is a Wuhou, holding a loudspeaker and shouting loudly along the street.
After hearing this clearly, all the people ran to the nearest Xueli Salt Shop with happy faces.
Even the housekeepers and servants of some wealthy families, like ordinary people, scrambled to buy salt.
Those with low status need to eat these bitter salts.
When they arrived at Xueli Salt Shop, all the people were overjoyed.
As expected, Marquis Wu was not lying. Every snow salt shop was filled with table salt, and judging from its quality, it was much better than the bitter salt they had eaten before.
A big man who bought table salt carefully tasted a grain and shouted loudly with surprise on his face.
This coarse salt actually has less bitter taste than the bitter salt I had before.
At this time, the people lined up outside were all in tears and extremely excited.
Later, what made all the people even more reassured was that as soon as the coarse salt in the salt shop was halfway down, a waiter would run out immediately.
Soon, in less than a quarter of an hour, two carts full of coarse salt were delivered to the shop. The coarse salt in the Xueli Salt Shop seemed to be endless.
“God’s eyes are open, we can finally have delicious and cheap salt to eat!”
All the common people could not help but look up to the sky and weep with joy.
"Your Majesty is wise!"
"Those black-hearted salt merchants should all be put in jail!"
"Evil will be rewarded with evil, and those descendants of black-hearted salt merchants must have no buttocks..."
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"Did you see clearly? The coarse salt sold in the Xueli Salt Shop is lighter in color and much less bitter than the bitter salt we sell?"
In a room, a young man from an aristocratic family stared in disbelief at the servant who rushed back to report the news.
"Hui Langjun, I am absolutely right."
The young slave quickly took out a bag of salt from his arms and placed it on the coffee table in front of him.
"Gentlemen, please take a look. This is the bitter salt sold in the Xueli Salt Shop. It only sells for three cents per pound!"
Immediately, all the disciples from the surrounding aristocratic families quickly stared at the salt in front of them.
At the same time, everyone stretched out their hands, pinched a small amount of salt, put it in their mouths, and tasted it gently.
Immediately, his eyes widened and his face was full of surprise.
"How can this be?"
"Then where did Li Er get the method of cooking salt? How could he produce such coarse salt?"
As he said this, a steward from a noble family thought of something and turned to look at the servant.
"Wang Gui, as you just said, Wuhou is shouting on the street, that there are already 10,000 shi of coarse salt in the Xueli Salt Shop in Chang'an City?"
"Back to Cui Langjun, that's exactly what happened!"
Wang Gui said hurriedly: "Moreover, the villain has also seen that as soon as half of the coarse salt in the Xueli Salt Shop is sold, the waiters in the shop will run out. In less than a quarter of an hour,
Someone will send two truckloads of coarse salt!"
"boom!"
After hearing this, a steward from an aristocratic family slapped his hand hard on the coffee table.
On the side, all the stewards of the aristocratic families had angry faces.
"Li Er is bullying others too much!"
"Do you know how much salt Li Er cooked in the Hedong Salt Pond?"
"What I'm curious about now is how Li Er transported the salt from Hedong to Chang'an City without anyone noticing? You know, we have spies on all the roads between Hedong and Chang'an City!
"
"This is quite strange!"
"So, what should we do?"
"Humph, this matter is no longer something we can make a decision about! Selling salt to make a living accounts for at least 20% of your family's income. This matter is of great importance. We need to send a message to your family quickly and let the head of the family make a decision!"
"Yes, yes. It just so happens that during this period of time, we can also test how much coarse salt Li Er has stored? What if the more than 10,000 stones of coarse salt in the city was deceived by Li Er?
?”
"No matter what, our family will never give up on the business of salt!"
"Everyone, I'll take my leave first!"
With that said, all the stewards of the aristocratic families hurriedly said goodbye and left.
After returning to various villas, he quickly wrote letters and sent his confidants to travel day and night to deliver them to his ancestral home.
All the stewards of aristocratic families have faces full of sorrow.
They discovered that their family seemed to have completely lost control of this matter.
Although Zheng Mingde and Cui Hongmo were also very worried about this matter.
However, most of my thoughts were placed on tea.
On the contrary, I'm not that anxious.
Moreover, they also vaguely guessed that His Majesty's new method of boiling salt should have been given by the King of Jin in Lijiazhuang.
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Lijiazhuang.
Such a big thing happened in Chang'an. As the steward of the Jin Palace, Li Chang naturally wanted to report it to Li Xuan.
"Hey, I didn't expect that His Majesty would be so ruthless and put all those salt merchants in jail!"
After hearing this, Li Xuan chuckled lightly, not surprised at all.
Letting those aristocratic families control the sale of salt was a bomb that could explode at any time for Datang.
He originally thought that Li Shimin would confront the family early.
Unexpectedly, after receiving the salt method from him, His Majesty could endure it for four months before he started to show his fangs. Sure enough, he was just a bunch of old men!
After sighing with emotion, Li Xuan ignored the salt matter, looked up at Li Chang who was standing aside, and continued to give instructions.
"Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, buy more refined salt every day and put some refined salt in the water when delivering water to those craftsmen and laborers!"
"Sir, is refined salt a bit of a luxury?"
Hearing this, Li Chang's eyes flashed with heartache.
"It doesn't matter. With so many people, they can't even drink a pound of refined salt in a day! They work for me, and I will naturally give them the best treatment. Otherwise, they sweat so much every day and don't add more salt water.
In a few days, these craftsmen and laborers will fall ill!"
Li Xuan explained.
Li Chang looked surprised, "The reason for this is, let me just say it. In the past, when the craftsmen and laborers worked on hot days, even though there were enough cold water pipes, some people often couldn't survive it and worked for several days.
You’ll get sick!”
"Remember, although the weather is getting hotter and hotter now, everyone in Zhuangzi must drink boiled water and are not allowed to drink raw water directly!" Li Xuan was stunned and quickly warned.
"May I ask your Majesty, why is this?" Li Chang looked surprised.
"There are some small bugs in the raw water. If the small bugs are drunk into the stomach, they will easily make people sick. But in the water boiled by fire, the small bugs in the water will be burned to death. If people drink it, they will be fine!"
Li Xuan explained.
"Thank you for teaching me, Your Majesty!" Li Chang quickly saluted with his hands in hand.
At the same time, Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and others on the side also subconsciously picked up the cups in their hands, widened their eyes, and looked at it.
"Master, why are there no insects in here?"
"What bug?"
Li Xuan was confused.
"Master, even if the bugs in the raw water you just mentioned were burned to death, there should still be corpses in the water."
Cheng Chusi said seriously: "Let me just say, after drinking unboiled water, I often feel bugs crawling in my stomach. And after I poop, I can still see the little bugs coming out. It turns out they are all
I drank it with water!"
"Bah, vulgar!"
On the side, Li Chengqian and Li Chongyi looked at Cheng Chusi's words with contempt on their faces.