Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Zhang Jiu and the others have already transported the supplies. The first thing is to set up tents and arrange them in different categories in the open space. Then Zhang Jiu sent people to dig two large pits on both sides of the official road, and then erected two large pits. Put up a wooden post, fix a wooden board on it, and write in big characters: Datang Royal Xiaohe Service Area.There are small words next to it: Meals, drinking water, horse feed, and parking spaces are provided.

As for Wang Tie and the others, they set up a few camps with the family as a unit, and then built their own stoves.

After spending a whole day doing all these tasks temporarily, Zhang Jiu and the others are about to leave.

"Wang Tie." Zhang Jiu greeted again when he left.

"Sir, please speak."

"You used to have the highest military position in this Xiaohe service area, and you were a chief, so according to His Highness's order, this place will be managed by you for the time being. In fact, what you do every day is what I told you before. In addition, if you When you are free, you can take some small saplings to enclose the entire service area, just do it slowly."

"We will gradually send some bricks and stones, building materials, etc., and then you will build your own houses. The money will be deducted from the profits you earn. After the deduction is completed, these buildings will be your own. , do you think it is feasible?" Zhang Jiu said.

"This...Of course, it's just...that His Highness is too kind to us." Wang Tie was a little embarrassed, he really felt that he had taken too much.

"It's okay, Your Highness said, you have shed blood and sweat for the country, and the country will ensure that you will not have any problems for the rest of your life." Zhang Jiu said with a smile.

"Well, I have remembered, please rest assured, Your Highness, I will definitely let this place run smoothly." Wang Tie said seriously.

"Then I'll leave first, and I'll bring the things to build the house tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Zhang Jiu said with a smile.

Things like this happened in different places of the official road of Datang. In fact, it seems that the service area was established by Li Ke, but in fact, Li Ke really didn't plan to use the service area to make much money. To put it bluntly, what Li Ke wanted What they do is to artificially build settlements one by one.

The post stations of the Tang Dynasty, or to be precise, ordinary people are absolutely not allowed to use the post stations of all dynasties. Only officials can use the post stations, but the service area is built on the post stations. No one said anything about this, and I didn’t see the service Is that the sign in front of the district?Datang Royal, who has an opinion?

After these government soldiers can be responsible for their own profits and losses, Li Ke will not care about buying food supplies by themselves, and they must all be able to make some money.Moreover, there is another advantage of using old government soldiers to station in these service areas, that is, they can be equipped with weapons in the later stage. The combat effectiveness of these government soldiers is really not weak.

Because in the later period, Li Ke will continue to add new veterans to come in, so that a good cycle will be formed here. Each service area is like a blood transfusion artery, activating the commercial operation of the giant Datang. Business activity is actually very sluggish.

The old mansion soldiers are the white blood cells in these arteries, ensuring the safety along the official road, and some bandits dare not loot along the way.

If the commercial activities of the Tang Dynasty can reach the level of the Song Dynasty, and maintain the strength of the Tang Dynasty in terms of military strength, it is really uncertain whether they will be called Tang people or Han people after more than 1000 years.

The construction of the entire Xizhou is in full swing. With the continuous implementation of Li Ke's decrees, the order of the entire Xizhou has become more and more smooth, and the alfalfa has been successfully sown. According to the relevant sowing instructions obtained by Li Ke, the big Tang Each mu of alfalfa needs 5 catties of seeds, and Li Ke has grown a total of 15 tons of alfalfa seeds from the seed warehouse, which is 3 catties, and sowed a total of 6000 mu.

According to the official information, one acre of alfalfa can raise about 15 sheep, and Datang’s mu is smaller. Li Ke’s calculation is based on 10 sheep, and 6000 mu can also support 6 sheep.

This is not a small number. It seems like a drop in the bucket compared to the huge number of sheep in Xizhou, but the original grassland of Xizhou, one mu of grassland is absolutely impossible to support 15 sheep.

And these alfalfas will explode next year. After large-scale seeding is reserved next year, the entire alfalfa planting area may be expanded by dozens of times. Anyway, there is no harm in planting this thing, so let's plant it on a large scale.

Any place close to the water source can be planted, and it can also be fertilized. Even if some land is poorer, it may not grow very well, but it is always much more than the original pasture.

While Xizhou continued to prosper, in the words of later generations, the gross national product increased wildly, and various places such as Longyou Road in Datang finally ushered in the first wave of baptism of Chihai salt.

Chang'an, Li Shimin was naturally the first to receive the gift.

Li Shimin, who received Chang Lin's report, was a little excited, because he knew what it meant when the salt started to be sold, so Li Shimin immediately asked Chang Lin to fetch a jar of salt from Li Ke.

When Li Shimin saw the delicate and fine salt in the glass jar, Li Shimin almost widened his eyes. Is this the finished product?Li Shimin is actually not the kind of emperor who doesn't know the five grains. When he was young, he led soldiers to fight, and even made meals by himself.

So he naturally knew something about salt.

"How much does this salt sell for?" Li Shimin suddenly asked a key question.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the prices vary. The statement given by the mall is that His Highness King Qin has specially developed a new technology for filtering impurities for the health of His Majesty. The total filtering process of this refined salt is 500 filtering processes. It’s just a single-finger filter that removes almost all impurities that are harmful to the human body. The cost price is 550 yuan per catty, the selling price is 40 yuan, the profit is 10 yuan, and the shipping fee is [-] yuan per catty. It is clear, and if it is sold to members, it can be free shipping."

"And His Royal Highness King Qin stipulated that because this salt is difficult to make, you can only buy 2 catties at a time."

Chang Lin said quickly.

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment. Li Shimin scoffed when he first heard that the cost was 500 yuan a catty. What this bastard told himself at the beginning was that these salts can be directly regarded as profits, which means that the cost is equivalent to nothing, and the labor is all. used captives.

At this time, after hearing Chang Lin's [-]-step filtration process and the purchase restriction, Li Shimin couldn't guarantee it anymore.

Did this bastard really develop fifteen filtration processes for himself?

"Let me taste it." Li Shimin wanted to come over, pinched a little bit with his fingers and sprinkled it into his mouth, a salty taste spread into his mouth, other than that there was no bitter taste, and there seemed to be some faint fragrance, although It's very light, but it's definitely different from ordinary salt.

"What else?" Li Shimin asked again.

"There are also 300 wen in porcelain bottles with 200 filtration procedures, 50 wen in pottery bottles with 5 filtration procedures, 1.5 wen in wooden boxes with 1.5 filtration procedures, and [-] wen per catty of unfiltered table salt, but His Royal Highness said Yes, even [-] pennies per catty of table salt that has not been specially filtered has adopted a brand-new process in its production to remove most of the most harmful impurities that cannot be removed by other table salts on the market, and it is sold at cost price .”

"Your Highness said that it is for the health of the common people in the Tang Dynasty. In the future, after the cost of filtration drops, Your Highness will gradually reduce the price of salt with higher filtration procedures." Chang Lin introduced to Li Shimin.