Chapter 257 Is this king just taking advantage of it?
"I know about this, please prepare the medicine as soon as possible!"
Hearing this, Li Shimin sighed helplessly, waved his hand and said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Wang Qing and Mou Huangtou breathed a sigh of relief, bowed their hands to Li Shimin and Empress Changsun again, and hurriedly left.
"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry. I have had this qi disease since I was a child. Over the years, I have become accustomed to it."
Queen Changsun comforted Li Shimin.
"It's a shame that there are so many good doctors in the world, but no one can cure Guanyin's qi disease!"
Li Shimin said bitterly: "However, Guanyin Maid suffers from this serious disease and needs to move around more."
"I was in Xuanba Manor today and found that the paddy field was crystal clear, with many small fish and strong seedlings. It was a blessed land, more pleasant than the back garden of the palace. Guanyin, maid, can go there when she has nothing to do.
Have some fun.”
"Thank you, Your Majesty..."
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The weather is getting warmer, and people's clothes are getting thinner day by day throughout Chang'an City.
With the expansion of Xueliyan Shop, the people in Chang'an City are becoming more and more happy.
After so many days, no matter how people buy coarse salt and refined salt, the coarse salt and refined salt in Xueli Salt Shop have not increased by a penny. In fact, the refined salt and coarse salt in the shop have never been less.
Now, the common people are completely relieved.
But the stewards of the aristocratic families are getting more and more irritable.
"A few days ago, another fleet of salt was pulled into the Snow Salt Warehouse. Where did the salt come from? You haven't found out yet?"
"Hmph, my Liu family sent hundreds of people, plus people were secretly watching on all state highways, and no suspicious convoy was found at all!"
"Is that what we're going to do, let Li Er sell coarse salt and refined salt?"
"Is it possible that Brother Wang has other good methods?"
"Aren't you afraid that in a few days, Li Er will start selling refined salt and coarse salt across the country?"
"How is this possible? In this case, Li Er is not afraid that his Li family will be unstable?"
"Hmph, now that the Tang Dynasty has strong soldiers and horses, and the man from Lijiazhuang exists, who dares to rebel? Also, who can beat him?"
"You are all very anxious about this matter, but the head of the family is not anxious. What is the use of us being so anxious?"
"Have you ever thought about it, that Li Er summoned all the aristocratic families to build cement roads and asked us and other aristocratic families to jointly contribute the money? In fact, it was a conspiracy to drag us and other aristocratic families into the water and make us and other aristocratic families act as a trap?"
"hiss……"
"This matter, now it seems, is really possible!"
"No wonder the family master and I are still holding back!"
"But what to do with those salt merchants and shopkeepers in Wuhou Prison? I heard that Li Er ignored those salt merchants and shopkeepers after they were imprisoned in Wuhou Prison!"
"Go find someone to find out what Li Er means?"
"That makes sense!"
"Exactly!"
"Huh? Why are you looking at me like this?"
"Brother Cui and Brother Zheng have a close relationship with the King of Jin. Only two wise brothers can take on this important responsibility!"
"That's not quite true!"
Cui Hongmo chuckled, "The Wang family is the first Conglong family of the Li family. The Yongning County Duke is highly respected in the court and deeply trusted by His Majesty. The Wei family has the concubine Wei in the palace, and the Pei family has Pei Guogong.
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"Brother Cui, please don't do this. We, the children of aristocratic families, are most afraid of getting involved in family matters when we join the court as officials. Among us, there are only two wise brothers who are not officials, but with His Highness the King of Jin and His Highness the Crown Prince
Wait until the relationship with the young man is good."
A steward from an aristocratic family said with a smile on his face: "I heard that these two wise brothers are purchasing a large amount of tea and tea land in the past few months. This matter is 10%. Our family also has some tea land in the south, which can be sold to two
Dear brother, please give me some tea!"
"Brother Wang, you are too worried. We have purchased nearly 20,000 stones of tea leaves and we don't need the tea leaves for the time being!"
Zheng Mingde waved his hand and declined, and when he had no use, he despised the two of them in every possible way. Unexpectedly, now that it was useful, he wanted to kill them with some tea leaves!
snort!
"Ten acres of tea land!"
Wang Fei said again.
"Brother Wang, please don't misunderstand me. How can we be that kind of people..."
"Twenty acres!"
"My Lu family also has ten acres of land! There can't be more than two virtuous brothers. Moreover, there are also salt merchants and shopkeepers in the two families!"
"In this case, the two of us are more respectful than obeying orders!"
Cui Hongmo held up his hands with a smile on his face.
On the side, Zheng Mingde was also full of joy.
Immediately, the two of them stood up and said goodbye, heading to Lijiazhuang.
The two of them were full of joy along the way.
When Li Xuan heard the purpose of their visit, he was also confused.
There is no way that the tea land of a big family is of inferior quality. And twenty acres of tea land costs two hundred thousand guan!
"So, this king is reaping the benefits?"
"Your Majesty, what you say makes sense!"
Cui Hongmo said quickly.
"That's not right. Your Majesty and Duke Qi are also involved. His Majesty can only help him!"
Li Xuan shook his head again.
These tea businesses actually developed from the cotton clothing workshops of Cui Hongmo and others. Therefore, Li Xuan and Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie, Changsun Wuji and others, as well as Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde, each owned 10%.
Hearing this, Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde were also slightly stunned.
Those stewards of the aristocratic families always thought that their two families only did business with the King of Jin, but they did not know that they were actually doing business with the King of Jin, as well as His Majesty, the current Duke of Qi, Duke Su, and other princes.
"Old man, why do you think His Majesty put those salt merchants in Wuhou Prison and then ignored them?"
Li Xuan turned around and asked Li Yuan standing aside.
"The aristocratic family is powerful and is also part of the Tang Dynasty. No matter how fierce the imperial court fights with the aristocratic families, even if all the aristocratic families are wiped out, they can only kill a thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred losses!"
Li Yuan stroked his beard slightly and said slowly: "So, Erlang is waiting for the aristocratic family to come to the door!"
"The heads of the aristocratic families can also imagine this matter. However, the salt cooking method controlled by Erlang is too advanced, which is far behind those aristocratic families. Those aristocratic families are reluctant to make a living in salt, and they cannot fall out with the court. In addition, they have to spend all their money
Tens of thousands of dollars have been invested in cement roads, but they are still reluctant to part with the cement roads in the future.
So, they were caught in a dilemma..."
"Tsk!"
Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but sneered and looked at Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde.
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde also looked embarrassed.
The Supreme Emperor directly lifted off the entire fig leaf covering the family's head.
"For this matter, Gao Ming will go back tonight and ask His Majesty again. You two can come again tomorrow!"
Li Xuan said.
"Yes, Master!"
Li Chengqian nodded in response.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde also saluted with joyful faces.
Li Xuan nodded slightly, and then continued to ask: "How is the tea now?"
"Back to your Majesty, through our family and relationships with the princes, we have purchased more than ten acres of tea land and thirty thousand stones of tea leaves!"
Cui Hongmo and Zheng Mingde quickly reported the incident.
"It's just that it's very difficult to transport freshly picked tea leaves. We have built some tea frying workshops in Fuzhou and other tea places. After the tea leaves are fried, they will be transported to Chang'an or other places in Datang for sale!"
"More than ten acres of tea land?"
Li Xuan was slightly stunned. As for the 30,000 kilograms of tea leaves, he was very satisfied. With this quantity of tea leaves, he might not have bought all the tea leaves in the country.
"Your Majesty, I have more than ten acres of tea land, and it cost me 150,000 guan!"
Cui Hongmo said quickly: "Now, the fried tea workshops don't have much money!"