Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Coming out of Concubine Yang's palace, Li Chengqian walked out of the palace silently. He didn't seem to have done anything, but in the process, he discovered that Li Ke had a very good relationship with his concubine mother, and even with his own queen mother. .

Li Chengqian couldn't help but think, as a prince, maybe he should consider for the country, but in the process, did he ignore too many things?For example, filial piety?It wasn't that Li Chengqian was unfilial, but that he suddenly felt that what he had done was not in place.

Maybe Li Ke doesn't think as much as he does, and doesn't have as many things to do as him, but isn't there any problem of his own?

In fact, thinking about it carefully, Li Chengqian knew that he still had a lot of time to come to the palace.

Not only did he ignore filial piety, he even ignored a lot of people around him.

While Li Chengqian was thinking, Li Ke also held another meeting. This meeting was not considered a plenary meeting, but Li Daozong, Su Dingfang, and Pei Xingjian were all there. Besides, Lu Hai, Li Yan and others were also here.

"Today's meeting is related to the main financial pillar of my West Island in the future, so I called everyone to come to the meeting." Li Ke said.

"Your Highness, you can directly decide on this business matter, right?" Li Daozong was a little confused.

"No, General Li, you have to get used to this kind of thing. There is nothing shameful in doing business. The simplest thing is that the bigger our business is, the more people we can feed here, and let these governments The better the soldier's life, the better, shame? No shame!" Li Ke said, "And the whole country's finances are actually business."

"Your Highness, it's not because I think business is embarrassing, it's because I'm not good at it." Li Daozong said helplessly.

"So I want you to come and listen. The first batch of our table salt has already started to be shipped to various places. Everyone should know the quality of our table salt. However, as a commodity, its sales should have its price. For example, the current market Salt is about 1.5 yuan a catty, and at this price, many people cannot afford it, or at least one-fifth of the people in the Tang Dynasty can only use vinegar cloth." Li Ke looked calm.

When Li Ke talked about table salt with Li Shiji in Chang'an, he once said that the coarse salt of the lowest quality is 1.5 Wen a catty, which is eaten by ordinary people.But the ordinary people are the people around Chang'an City.

But in fact, in many poor places in Datang, there are many people who can't even afford salt.

"So, as the prince, I am obliged to let the people of Tang Dynasty eat enough salt, so we have to classify the salt in our hands, but this work cannot be done now, we have to force other people to do it." Li Ke opened the mouth.

"How do you force this? We can't let them lower the price." Li Daozong was a little puzzled.

"Use the market to attack them." Li Ke said, "It's very simple. Our salt sells for 1.5 cents a catty. Can other salt be sold? If they can't sell it, like the coarse salt now, It can only be sold at a price of 1 penny or even lower. In fact, even so, they are still profitable."

"In that case, wouldn't we not be able to make too much profit?" Li Daozong hesitated.

"No, you are all wrong. In fact, you can't rely on the common people to make money. How much money do the common people have? The real rich are the powerful families and big merchants. These are the rich people, so we have to make money from them. How to make this money? Grade our salt, and Lu Hai will bring it up." Li Ke said.

Soon, Lu Hai asked someone to bring up a few things, including a wooden box, a relatively rough pottery bottle, a delicate porcelain bottle, and a glass bottle in the shape of transparent glass.

"Come on, everyone, take a look at these things. This is the grading I will prepare for our salt. Currently, the refined salt on the market is 15 Wen a catty. Most rich people eat this, but it is still a bit bitter. taste, and our salt doesn’t, so let’s talk about that first.”

Li Ke took out the glass bottle on the far left. From the perspective of future generations, this thing is much lower than porcelain, but in this era!This is the most expensive!

"This is the finest table salt in Xizhou. It has been filtered through 15 filtration processes in total to remove all impurities harmful to the human body. It is the most exquisite table salt, and it is also the most finely ground table salt! The price is 500 renminbi a catty!" Li Ke said.

"Ah? Fifteen filtration processes? Is there?" Li Daozong was dumbfounded, and he subconsciously looked at Jiang Feng.

"Why not? First of all, we need to introduce the water from the Chihai Sea into the evaporation pool. This is one, and then there is the crystallization pool..." Li Ke counted with his fingers. After hearing that Li Ke counted the bottling, everyone Already speechless, can this count as filtering?

"When it is on sale, the quantity of this kind of table salt is limited, and each purchase cannot exceed 2 catties, because it will also become a royal tribute." Li Ke said.

"This... If the purchase is restricted, does it mean that we sell less?" Li Daozong hesitated.

"We just said that the quantity is limited, and you can buy 2 catties at a time, but we have the final say on how much?" Li Ke was a little speechless. Is Li Daozong a little too stupid?I didn't see that Lu Hai had already started to record with a pen, and obviously understood what Li Ke meant.

"Can it still be like this?" Li Daozong asked in a daze, isn't this a bit too much?

"Of course, we can talk about the second type." Li Ke picked up the porcelain bottle and said, "This kind of porcelain bottle has gone through twelve filtration procedures. Although the three most expensive filtration procedures are missing, but It still removes most of the impurities that are harmful to the human body, so the price is 300 cash!"

"As for the pottery vase here, there are only ten filtering procedures in total, and the price is 200 yuan a catty! The wooden box only has five shallowest filtering procedures, which filter the most harmful things to the human body, and the price is 50 yuan a catty. Our most common salt is not packaged and weighed, while other salts on the market do not have a filtering process!"

Li Ke set a price for all these different packages.

Li Daozong: "..." Your Highness, the most expensive filtration process you mentioned is the price of burning glass bottles?

"So, our table salt is actually the same?" Su Dingfang didn't hold back and asked.

"That's right, our table salt is the same. We can't mix impurities into it just to distinguish it, right? That would increase the cost." Li Ke said as a matter of course.

everyone; "..."

"Okay, that's basically it. You don't want this expression. In fact, my main purpose is not to make money at all! It's to provide employment opportunities!"

"Think about it carefully, if we do this, do we need to make a lot of wooden boxes, pottery bottles, porcelain bottles, and glass bottles? These all require labor, which means we can hire more workers to make these things! "

"This also means that there will be more herdsmen working for us in Xizhou. Before, you also understood that some funds will make Xizhou more prosperous! This is to increase job opportunities! Through this whole process, think about it , is it true that all the money of aristocratic families has flowed into the hands of ordinary people?" Li Ke asked.

"It seems that more of it has flowed into your hands, third brother." Li Xin replied subconsciously.

"Cough! Li Xin, speak well!" Li Daozong coughed dryly.