Zhu Yuanzhang chatted with Zhu Xiongying for a few more words before his attention returned to Xu Da.

"Xu Aiqing is so late, what's the important thing to see me suddenly?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I came here to tell Your Majesty great news!" Xu Da said excitedly, taking out a brocade handkerchief from his sleeve.

"This is?" Zhu Yuanzhang frowned suspiciously.

"Please take a look, Your Majesty." Xu Da opened the brocade handkerchief.

"Isn't this ordinary salt?" Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly.

It's just ordinary salt, why did Xu Da rush into the palace to meet him?
"Your Majesty, this is not the ordinary salt sold in the market!" Xu Da was already getting excited.

Zhu Xiongying said that Mr. Xu was too restless.

Can't you be as calm as yourself?

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "This...is there any difference?"

I have been annoyed enough for a while, if Xu Da came to me in the middle of the night with a pile of ordinary salt as if it was something to talk about, then Zhu Yuanzhang would suspect that Xu Da was deliberately playing with him .

Xu Da couldn't hold back the excitement in his words: "Your Majesty, take a closer look at the salt. The color is clean and the texture is fine, which is not comparable to ordinary salt!"

Zhu Yuanzhang took a closer look: "It is indeed different from ordinary salt."

"That's not the most important thing! The key is that the smoke is refined from salt ore!" Xu Da said again.

Zhu Yuanzhang almost thought he heard it wrong: "Xu Aiqing, are you joking with me? The whole country, from an eighty-year-old woman to a three-year-old child, all know that salt ore is a poison, so why would they take that thing?" What about making salt?"

Xu Da: "How dare a humble minister play tricks on His Majesty? The minister dared to bring it before His Majesty just after verifying it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang put down Zhu Xiongying, took the salt, and looked carefully.

"Is Xu Aiqing telling the truth?"

"If the humble minister changes to deceive His Majesty, His Majesty can immediately cut off the humble minister's head!"

Seeing that Xu Da pledged his life, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer doubted it.

"Go, take this salt to the imperial dining room and cook some dishes." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered solemnly.

"Yes." Zhu Lide hurriedly went to the imperial dining room after hearing the order.

After a while, the imperial dining room cooked a few dishes.

Steamed fish head, goose gizzard in soup, fried quail with three fresh bamboo shoots, Huai white fish cooked with wine, spicy fried rice cakes, double hump horns...

Zhu Xiongying's saliva flowed down three thousand feet when he saw it!

This royal enjoyment, no matter how many times I watch it, I can't control myself not to be envious.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "I just ordered a few side dishes, what are you doing so extravagantly?"

In front of Wei Guogong Xu Da, isn't he trying to offend people by being so extravagant and wasteful?
Zhu Lide didn't panic at all, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, the old slave thinks that the young master of the Duke's Mansion should not have perfected it, so he ordered the imperial dining room to do more, and I hope His Majesty will not blame you."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head: "Hasn't Huaiying eaten too? Why don't you come back after dinner?"

Zhu Xiongying nodded, and cleverly seized the opportunity: "Because Huaiying really missed Grandpa Huang, so she rushed into the palace. Now Huaiying is eating with Grandpa Huang, wouldn't it be good?"

Xu Da was originally worried that he had brought Zhu Xiongying directly to the palace because he was excited just now and didn't let Zhu Xiongying finish his meal. If Zhu Yuanzhang found out, he would definitely say a few words about him and blame him for not taking good care of Zhu Xiongying.

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart warmed up, and he smiled kindly: "Next time, if Huaiying really misses Grandpa Huang, he will send someone to the palace to say something. Grandpa Huang will go to see Huaiying in person, and Huaiying doesn't have to travel so far away. It’s been a few kilometers, how tiring it is!”

"Okay." Zhu Xiongying said, and kissed Zhu Yuanzhang on the face.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed so hard that his face was full of creases, and he couldn't move his eyes when he looked at Zhu Xiongying.

"Okay, now eat obediently." Zhu Yuanzhang put Zhu Xiongying on the stool.

Xu Da looked expectantly at Zhu Yuanzhang picking up a mouthful of food and putting it into his mouth.

"Xu Aiqing! Where... did you get this salt? I've never tasted such fine salt before!"

Zhu Yuanzhang trembled a little.

As the king of a country, I naturally use the best and the best for everything?But Zhu Yuanzhang asked himself, he had never eaten such a good salt.

In order for Zhu Yuanzhang to experience the taste of this face more deeply, Xu Da asked someone to bring a bowl of water, put some salt in it to melt, and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang was even more surprised after drinking.

"Quickly tell me where Xu Aiqing got this salt!"

Xu Da: "Your Majesty, this salt was made by Huaiying herself."

"Huaiying?"

"Exactly!"

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and glanced at Zhu Xiongying who was eating: "Aren't Xu Aiqing joking? I know it's because she was smart since she was a child, but it's a bit of a fantasy to ask a three-year-old child to make salt."

Xu Da waved his hand and smiled: "Weichen thought the same way when he first learned about it. He thought that Huaiying was really incapable of making salt by himself, but now Weichen dares to make sure that this salt is really researched by Huaiying himself."

"Did Huaiying make it himself?" Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth slightly, "Or was it refined from salt ore?"

"He also removed the poison in the salt ore by himself?"

"Is what Weichen said true?"

"Only Huaiying?"

"It's absolutely true, Huaiying said that she figured it out while playing." Xu Da cupped his hands.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked several questions in a row, all of which were answered by Xu Da.

Zhu Yuanzhang forgot to react for a while, looking at Zhu Xiongying who was still eating.

During this period of time, I have been devastated by the shortfall of the Yantie Division, and I couldn't sleep for a long time.

This stone has been hanging in my heart like this, and I can hardly breathe.

There were a lot of temper tantrums, big and small, and all civil and military officials were helpless, but Zhu Xiongying really let this child solve it.

This is more than a genius!
Zhu Yuanzhang shouted in his heart!
"Xu Aiqing, this means that the method of using salt ore to make salt is feasible? Then I don't have to worry about the loss of the salt and iron company anymore? As long as the production of this salt keeps up, it will be able to solve the shortage of supply and make ends meet. The problem!"

"Yes."

"As long as this method is carried out so that the common people can use salt ore to make salt, then these problems can be easily solved!"

Xu Da nodded.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed three times: "It's God helping me Zhu Yuanzhang!"

"Huaiying! I want to reward you well!" Zhu Yuanzhang picked up Zhu Xiongying, "You have made a great contribution!"

Zhu Xiongying: Can you let me have a good meal first?

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