Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

Wang Gui gasped.

The salt quality of the Salt Supervisor is also very good!

It was the first time Wang Gui saw this white as snow and fine as sand salt.

The Wang family also has its own salt field, and more than half of the tribute salt in the palace is now in charge of the Wang family.

On weekdays, Wang Gui pays for himself to eat much better salt than the palace.

But compared to the salt in front of him now, he feels that what he eats on weekdays is rubbish.

Wang Gui picked up a handful and carefully put it in his mouth, savoring it carefully.

The pure salty taste made Wang Gui tremble all over.

"Here, how much is this salt a tael!"

Wang Gui knew the price of tribute salt. This kind of high-quality salt was expensive and the output was low, so it was always sold by taels.

Wang Steward said the number carefully, and then Wang Gui was so shocked that even the salt in his hand almost slipped.

"How could it be so low! You can't even buy coarse salt at this price!"

"Hurry up, let people buy it, buy as many as you have!"

Wang Gui quickly realized that the Salt Supervisor was trying to make money by making money, just to disgust the big families.

"Hmph, if a little doll still wants to add trouble to our family, then it will be cheaper for the old man."

Wang Gui was still secretly proud of his decisiveness, and felt that he had taken advantage of this time.

However, after hearing this, the housekeeper said bitterly, "Master, I'm afraid we won't be able to buy much this time!"

"why!"

Hearing that there was such cheap and good salt but he couldn't buy it himself, Wang Gui couldn't help feeling a little impatient.

Steward Wang quickly explained the rules of the purchase restriction, and then said: "We have already dispatched all the people who can be dispatched from the government, but there are also many people who have already joined the queue."

"According to the current situation, more than [-]% of the salt will fall into the hands of those common people!"

Hearing this, Wang Gui was not angry but happy, and suddenly laughed.

Wang Gui's smile made the butler very puzzled.

"Master, what are you laughing at?"

Wang Gui stroked his beard and said, "This purchase restriction method seems to be subtle, but it is not the case from another perspective."

Then, under the doubtful eyes of the housekeeper, Wang Gui continued to explain: "The amount of salt in that kid's hands is limited, so he made such a bad plan."

"Just wait and see, that kid won't last long!"

"Send some more people to buy refined salt from those common people. We will charge double the price of our refined salt."

"I think those people know how to choose!"

"It's such a good salt, it's a waste for those Qianshou to eat it!"

After saying this, Wang Gui pretended that he had no plans left, so he went to work on his own.

This scene was staged simultaneously in the mansions of the major families, and the result was roughly the same.

While sending people to buy salt, they imagined how to monopolize the salt of the Salt Supervisor in the future.

However, they don't know that Li You's salt revolution has just begun.

On the first day, the Food and Salt Administration only opened five sales outlets. In their view, even with limited purchases, it is not too difficult to monopolize these stores.

Isn't it just queuing up? It's just that the family didn't realize it on the first day. As long as the family gives an order, at least two-thirds of the salt will enter the family.

Moreover, the aristocratic family also set up roadblocks near the salt point, making it impossible for ordinary people to pass through.

However, on the second day, the number of salt outlets suddenly doubled, which made the family's obstructive action a complete failure.

But those Chang'an people who got the news late on the first day and didn't buy salt were all overjoyed.

However, the aristocratic family was not alarmed by this. After an urgent investigation, they found no source of salt from the Salt Supervisor at all, and no caravans from other places entered.

Therefore, they were convinced that the salt in the Salt Supervisor was all hoarded by them before, and it was very likely that there was only this batch.

In the absence of supplies, they believed that the salt prison would not last long.

And they have hoarded a lot of high-quality table salt in the past two days.

In addition to queuing up to buy it themselves, they also bought a lot at a high price.

According to a rough estimate, half of the salt sold by the Salt Supervisor ended up in the hands of the family, and the price was almost three times the original selling price.

But even so, these aristocratic families feel that they have made a lot of money.

Three times the price is only the price of their ordinary fine salt, but the quality of salt from the Salt Supervisor is really different from their own fine salt.

Now these aristocratic families are buying more salt from the common people, and the purchase price is still rising.

There was even a situation where aristocratic families competed with each other to raise prices.

In order to get more salt in the competition with other aristocratic families, several big aristocratic families are about to grab attention.

So much so that when some people protested in the court against the Salt Supervisor's behavior of disrupting prices, the ministers of these aristocratic families all opened their mouths to defend the Shence Mansion.

He believes that the establishment of the salt prison is the most correct decision, bringing high-quality and cheap salt to the people of Tang Dynasty.

The minister wanted to say that most of the salt fell into the pockets of the aristocratic family at a low price, but in the end he dared not speak out.

Li Shimin was naturally happy to see such a scene. Knowing the details, he was not in a hurry, and his thoughts were already waiting for the next step of the family to fail.

And the salt price in Chang'an was completely reduced as Li You thought.

After all, there are high-quality and cheap refined salt for sale, and the others are simply priceless, and no one cares about them at all.

The aristocratic family's salt grabbing operation went on for more than half a month, and gradually they also felt that something was wrong.

More than half a month has passed, and there is no sign of insufficient supply at the Salt Supervisor. On the contrary, the Salt Supervisor has expanded sales.

At the beginning, they only accepted personal purchase restrictions from Chang'an residents, but after half a month, they began to accept orders from restaurants.

All open restaurants and restaurants in Chang'an City can buy ten catties of salt every day.

However, the price of restaurant purchases will be a little more expensive than individual purchases. According to the Salt Supervisor, this is also to prevent restaurants from reselling them.

Even if the price is slightly more expensive, the price is still not as good as the family's fine salt.

Moreover, after these restaurants used the salt from the Salt Supervisor, the taste of the dishes has been improved to a whole level, and the business has improved a lot.

Even if they were given the same money now, and they were asked to use the old salt, they would not choose the aristocratic family anymore.

Finally, when the business firms that cooperated with the major families came to return the goods, the family finally couldn't sit still.

At this time, when they wanted to make some small moves, they realized that it was already too late.

Originally, when the aristocratic family faced threats to their business, there were nothing more than three actions they could take.

First, start with the court, deprive the other party of their legal status, and force the other party to shut down for rectification.

Second, start from the upstream of the other party's business, cut off the other party's supply of goods, and make the other party unsustainable.

The third is to publish some false statements, which make the people doubt or even resist.

The Salt Supervision was established by Li Shimin, so the first item is naturally useless.

And after they investigated, they didn't find the source of the salt in the Salt Supervision, and the second item didn't work either.

But when they started spreading gossip, they discovered that they were already too late.

The Salt Prison has already won the hearts of the people during this time, and as soon as they make comments that are unfavorable to the Salt Prison, they will immediately be surrounded by fanatical people around them.

Suddenly, the aristocratic family discovered that their bloodless methods were useless against the Salt Supervisor.

But the aristocratic family is not so easy to succumb, it is not enough to be soft, they can still come to be tough.