Datang: Showdown, your father and I are Li Shimin

Chapter 33 Salt Trafficking War
After saying a few more comforting words, Li Ze completely calmed down the victims, extinguished the torches, and turned around to greet several villagers to carry food and grass.

Wei Zheng, Li Ze and the queen walked towards a place outside the village.

Smallpox is everywhere now, and the more ventilated the place, the safer it is.

After saying hello to the queen every day, and talking to Wei Zheng about Li Er's recent affairs, the queen left.

Immediately, only Wei Zheng and Li Ze were left.

"Could it be that the food and herbs in Chang'an City have been sold out?" Li Ze looked at Wei Zheng solemnly.

"Back to Li Yicheng, the entire city of Chang'an, including the national treasury, has allocated a lot of food, and there are still needs in various places. His Majesty has donated and borrowed, and he has collected about one million taels, which is obviously not enough." Wei Zheng frowned, and borrowed money from the court again. Donate one by one said out.

"After the imperial list was released, the common people were very dissatisfied with Pei Ji and his gang. Some even threatened to hack that dog official to death. Isn't it a bit too much this time?"

Wei Zheng also has his own worries. After all, although the power of these wealthy families has been emptied, their status and family are all on display.

No matter what, it won't just fall down so easily.

Instead, it angered them, and Li Er would also suffer from it.

Li Ze stroked his chin and paced in front of Wei Zheng.

At first, I just wanted to accept the moral kidnapping of future generations so that these aristocratic families would pay.

But I didn't expect these aristocratic families to value money so much.

Actually bite the bullet and have to turn the donation into a loan.

This will definitely completely anger Pei Ji and the family behind him, and they will definitely quickly realize that this method is from themselves.

"It seems that we should be more cautious during this time." Li Ze secretly said.

After all, in later generations, when it comes to donations, rich people will be sprayed to death if they donate less, let alone borrowing.

This will simply be condemned by the whole country until it disappears from this world completely!
He had undoubtedly put Pei Ji in a bad position, and he would definitely be targeted everywhere in the future.

After pondering for a long time, Li Ze suddenly raised his head: "It's okay, if it's too much, it's too much. Anyway, it's been done now, and the people's ideas won't change for a while."

Immediately, Li Ze continued: "The fever will not stop for a while, and ordinary people can't get alcohol or a lot of wine to get rid of the fever. I would like to trouble Duke Zheng of Wei to spread the word that using strong salt water can relieve abscesses on the body. Also, The supplies in Du Village are completely insufficient, and there are more and more victims. The news that I can cure diseases here has been released, and the court may need to pay more attention to it."

Wei Zheng looked at Li Ze with suspicion.

"Although salt water is not as effective as alcohol, it's better than nothing. As long as this news spreads, the price of salt will only skyrocket. Especially this time, I've set up the Pei family. I will definitely try my best to earn back what I lost."

"So I guess, this guy will definitely buy coarse salt after the news of salt water disinfection spreads, monopolize the market, and when the price of salt in the market skyrockets, he will sell it at a low price or give it away. If he doesn’t want the reputation, he will keep raising the price of salt. When the price rises, he secretly sells these at a lower price than the world’s. Just the difference in price can make him a lot of money. Bowl full."

After the words fell, Wei Zheng approached Li Ze excitedly: "Then, isn't this what made Pei Ji?"

Li Ze turned his head and gave Wei Zheng a blank look, then started pacing in front of Wei Zheng with his hands behind his back.

According to Wei Zheng, a bucket of salt costs more than 500 Wen, and a catty of salt costs about [-] Wen.

However, if the sun-dried salt method is used to dissolve rock salt to make refined salt, there is almost no cost other than mining.

Since Datang is short of money, let's slaughter these rich people hard!
Li Ze thought about it, and suddenly a fierce light appeared in his eyes.

When he turned his head to look at Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng was taken aback: "Wei Xiang, I still need to trouble you to give this to Your Majesty. This is the method of refining rock salt into refined salt. Don't let anyone know it. A great way for Datang to get rich!"

Wei Zheng took the scroll, glanced at it briefly, and put it in his arms.

"However, remember, after this thing is prepared, don't take it out immediately! First, give the illusion to those wealthy families that the price of salt will keep skyrocketing. The more coarse salt they hoard, the less The more money you have! You have to wait until the price of salt reaches its peak, then mix the refined salt with coarse salt, pretend that this batch is something that was pulled out bit by bit from the palace's inventory, and sell it at a high price to those wealthy clan."

"At that time, the price of salt might have risen to thousands of dollars a bucket. It is impossible for ordinary people to afford it. The only people who can sell it are those greedy wealthy people. When the price of salt has risen to this stage, they can sell it The fine salt produced is not sold, but distributed every day.”

"Ah?" Wei Zheng was startled, his mouth grew wide open: "Fat? What if they buy it from the common people again?"

"What I want is for them to buy it! Give them the illusion that this salt is very scarce, very rare, and very precious. Distribute it every day. Distribute it every day until they realize the problem and are not ready to accept it. Stop distributing it." Make salt in bulk and price it at half of what they charge.”

"At this time, it is the beginning of their total collapse!"

Wei Zheng shuddered all over, feeling a chill rise from the soles of his feet and go straight to Tianling Gai.

Hearing this, Wei Zheng probably also thought of Li Ze's method.

Let these guys collect salt a lot, until they hold a lot of coarse salt in their hands and wait for the price to rise, and suddenly throw a large amount of refined salt at a low price, which completely collapses their plan.

The coarse salt in hand cannot be sold, and the price will only be reduced drastically.

Wei Zheng paused for a moment, then suddenly asked again: "Master Li, how much does it cost to prepare refined salt?"

"The cost is not much. Rock salt is basically worthless in mines. I wish you could buy it. The price is as low as you want. If you mine it yourself, there will be a lot of soldiers in the Imperial City. If you dispatch it casually, the cost is almost negligible. As long as the price remains Within five cents a liter, the profits are terrifying!"

"Five cents per liter?" Wei Zheng's jaw almost fell to the ground, and he looked at Li Ze in shock. Five cents per liter, isn't that too low?

Li Ze nodded solemnly: "Listen clearly! Five cents a liter, the profit is very considerable! As long as the project is large enough, even if the refined salt is sold for two cents a liter, it will be profitable, because it is the property of the imperial court. Labor costs can be completely ignored, and when the court has enough money, they can buy the entire mine, and there may be other mines in the salt mine, and the money will only flow to the treasury continuously."

"It's a pity... those who stockpile coarse salt will be miserable. At that time, they can take back their coarse salt at a very low price and refine it into fine salt for sale. Of course, they will not easily sell it to the court. , but the people in other regions will be blessed, think about the price of coarse salt dropped from [-] Wen a bucket to [-] Wen a bucket, how can the people thank the current emperor?"

(End of this chapter)