Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

After Li Shimin came here, he couldn't close his mouth with a smile: "It turns out that the master has already made up his mind, Wang Gui will do this, and then counterattack skillfully, forcing him to offend other people in order to save himself."

"This time, there was a crack in the seven of them, and it will be easy to deal with in the future."

He was really shocked, so simple, the five surnames and seven wang who were united became less united.

"I'm just making a small plan. Who told the Wang family to really pay the salt and iron tax? If they don't make it up, I can't do it yet."

Li Yi'an has been planning this matter since seeing Wang Rujing come to the Yantie Division, but thinking that it really succeeded, he continued: "Next, they can counterattack us, and the only thing left is to raise the price of salt. .”

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Yuchi Jingde walked in shouting.

"Sir, first...Your Majesty, you are here!"

Yuchi Jingde was originally running in, but stopped abruptly, and immediately stopped to salute.

"Jingde, what happened to make you so excited." Li Shimin asked.

"I'm looking for Mr. Wang. I just got the news that except for the Wang family, the other six families have started to increase the price of salt by more than ten times. Now only Chang'an is raising the price, but the salt is almost controlled by them, and it will soon spread to the entire Tang Dynasty. Here's our chance."

Yuchi Jingde said excitedly.

"Increase the price of salt by ten times!"

Li Shimin snorted coldly: "They are so courageous!"

Li Yi'an nodded and said: "People are forced to get anxious, they can do anything, General Yuchi, we can sell salt tomorrow."

What Yuchi Jingde was waiting for was this sentence: "As soon as our salt comes out tomorrow, they will still be in despair."

Li Shimin reassured: "Jingde, after tomorrow, I will work hard for you."

"Your servant is not working hard!"

Yuchi Jingde quickly shook his head and said: "Mr. is the one who works hard. Mr. Serves the country and the people. I will never be able to compare with you."

"Worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joys later."

Li Shimin read this sentence again, and felt his eyes heat up: "Even if it is me, my care for my country and people is not as good as my husband!"

"Be low-key and low-key, in fact, that's what I'm doing!"

Li Yi'an waved his hand: "Your Majesty is a wise king through the ages, but after Yao and Shun, how can you compare with me, an ordinary person?"

Li Shimin liked this sentence very much, and laughed happily.

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Chapter 123 New Salt

Early the next morning, the news that the family raised the price of salt swept across Chang'an and all nearby counties with the force of a prairie fire.

After hearing this news, many people were immediately stunned. The price of salt was ridiculously expensive. The people at the bottom can only use vinegar cloth at ordinary times, and occasionally they can buy a small amount of salt to go back to season their lives.

Now that the price has been increased by ten times, even many wealthy businessmen in the city, including court officials, cannot afford salt. Even the Tang army will have no salt to supply, which immediately caused panic and public resentment.

"The price of salt is already very expensive, and now the price has to be raised. How can we live?"

"I heard that the imperial court has been rectifying salt and iron, and has arrested many members of the aristocratic family. Now the aristocratic family wants to retaliate against the imperial court and deliberately raise prices. It is the imperial court that has harmed us."

In various places in Chang'an, many people gathered to discuss this matter, some were cursing the court, some scolding the aristocratic family, and a very special atmosphere suddenly enveloped the city.

"Chang'an Daily is here!"

At this time, someone shouted in the street.

If the usual newspapers came, many people would go to pick up the last one to read. Today was uncharacteristically, they were all entangled in the salt price. Except for the servants arranged by the wife, no one had the intention to take the newspaper.

Finally, someone was willing to take a newspaper, but he was not in the mood to read it. He flipped through it casually, and a word "salt" appeared in front of his eyes. It's unbelievable.

"New salt! The imperial court is going to issue new salt!"

After reading it, the man jumped up excitedly.

"All the salt is in the hands of the aristocratic family, no matter how fresh the imperial court's salt is, we still can't afford it."

Someone immediately refuted his words,

"That's not the case! The imperial court's new salt only costs sixty cents a catty, sixty cents!"

The man threw away the newspaper as he spoke, and went straight to Dongshi, for fear that he might not be able to buy salt if he went late.

Others were puzzled when they heard such a low salt price.

Salt at [-] renminbi a catty, how could it be so cheap? The cheapest coarse salt currently costs [-] renminbi a catty, which is very unpalatable.

Even the imperial court can't do this, can it?

"No, it seems to be true!"

Someone picked up the newspaper and looked at it for a while, clenched his hands suddenly, and said excitedly: "It's really sixty yuan a catty. The imperial court has set up a total of fifty salt points in the East and West Market. The imperial court is really selling cheap salt. New salt!"

The imperial court was selling cheap new salt, and the news spread through Chang'an Daily as quickly as possible, as well as various word of mouth, together with the aristocratic family raising the price of salt, spread throughout Chang'an.

A lot of people ran to the East and West Market, and they saw those selling salt. Some people squeezed in and saw the white and fine salt, their eyes widened.

"Is this salt? It's such a beautiful salt!"

The salt they used to eat was all in pieces, yellow and rough, with a bitter taste, ugly and unpalatable, but they had to be used for seasoning.

The salt in front of them was as fine as sand, white as snow, and very clean. It was hard for them to imagine that this high-quality salt only sold for [-] yuan a catty.

If it is sold to those aristocratic families, even six hundred yuan a catty or even higher is possible.

"I got it, sixty yuan a catty, I really got it!"

A commoner came out of the shop excitedly, holding a heavy bag.

"The court's rectification of salt and iron is not to drive us to a dead end, but to let us all eat good salt!"

"The imperial court's move is for the people's livelihood, and suppressing the price of salt will benefit the people!"

At the same time, remarks praising the imperial court seemed to spring up one by one.

The aristocratic family's resistance to raising the price of salt was hit to pieces as soon as it was put forward, and it suffered a complete defeat.

"Sir, I have to admire your means!"

Yuchi Jingde stood next to a shop, watched the people coming and going before him, and said with a sigh: "From now on, the operation of Yantie must be in our hands."