"Bangdang..."
After the morning court on the second day, Xiao Zhengtai ordered someone to bring several large wooden boxes and put them side by side in the imperial study.
There is a room full of them!
"Feiyu, what do you mean?"
Seeing the little guy like this, Ying Zheng was stunned and put down the wolf hair in his hand.
"Father, I'm here to give you money!"
Little Zhengtai bared his teeth and ran to Ying Zheng.
Looking at the entire Great Qin, he is probably the only one who dares to stand side by side with Ying Zheng blatantly!
"Send money?"
Ying Zheng frowned slightly, confused about the situation.
It's not the right time, why is this guy giving money?
Where does this money come from?
"Father, have you forgotten? The first batch of refined salt?"
Xiaoshota reminded with a wicked smile.
"oh……!"
After his reminder, Ying Zheng suddenly realized.
"Open!"
Xiao Zhengtai waved his hand, and Han Xin led the people to open all the big wooden boxes.
"Father, the first batch of salt was sold for a total of 98,700 gold. I have already taken 10% of it. Here is 88,830 gold. You can ask people from the inner palace to come over and order some later. !”
Xiao Zhengtai placed a ledger on the dragon case.
Ying Zheng walked into the palace and shuttled back and forth between the wooden boxes filled with gold cakes.
There was a room full of shining gold, which made him unable to open his eyes.
It's not that he has never seen so much money, but he didn't expect it to be so easy to come by.
No need to exploit the people, I made more than 80,000 gold in just two days.
Will the court still worry about lack of money in the future?
"All this money was made using the same method you used a few days ago to defraud wealthy families?"
Ying Zheng asked doubtfully.
He was also present when this kid came up with his bad idea last time. He thought it might not be implemented smoothly, but he didn't expect to make so much money in just two days!
Don’t those ministers have any brains?
They’ve all seen what refined salt looks like, and yet they were fooled!
"Father, what you said is wrong. My son sells salt, and they buy salt, and the price is clearly marked. How can you say you are cheating them?"
Little Shota was playing with the gold cake in her hand and couldn't help but give him a blank look.
This old guy really can't speak. Even if this is the case, he can't say it openly. How embarrassing would that be?
"Hahaha, yes, the price is clearly marked...!"
Ying Zheng nodded, then waved his hand, "Go! Give it to the inner government and let them take good care of it!"
Without him having to worry about it, he could get nearly 90,000 gold for free, and Ying Zhengle couldn't close his mouth.
"yes!"
Jing Fu bowed his head, responded, and quickly called for people to move the gold.
"You're such a good boy, you can actually come up with this trick!"
Ying Zheng sat back on the throne with a smile.
"Who makes them greedy? If they only buy one tael each and don't compete with others, they won't spend much money in vain!"
"Now it's about seeing who is the greediest. The more greedy you are, the more you will spend!"
The young lady started wandering around the imperial study room again.
"Father, your pen is pretty good!"
"Okay, you kid, put it down for me as soon as possible, don't worry about my things anymore!"
Ying Zheng grabbed it.
Last time, this kid was worried about his dragon and inkstone and almost got tricked. Fortunately, he reacted quickly!
"Father, I just earned you 80,000 gold, why don't you give me something as a reward?"
"Didn't you kid also take a share? When you make money for me, you make money for yourself. Do you still want me to reward you?"
Ying Zheng dipped his pen in hand and continued to review the memorial.
"Oh...! Okay!"
Young Shota, who caught nothing, had no choice but to leave.
In fact, what this old guy said is right. Using the resources of the imperial court to earn nine thousand gold is barely enough. At least the monthly salary of those three thousand people is almost the same!
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Three days later, the second batch of refined salt arrived at the official salt store in Xianyang City and was officially put on sale.
The people in the salt shop were all selected by Mr. Xiao Zhengtai at the paper mill. Needless to say, they are loyal and very reliable in their work!
"The best refined salt will be on sale soon. You can buy the best refined salt at the price of coarse salt before!"
There was a large cart of gray salt piled at the entrance of the salt shop. Han Xin took a loudspeaker and loudly promoted it.
"What? Isn't this salt one gold for one tael? Why has it become the price of coarse salt again?"
"I heard a few days ago that those people were arrested last time. They seemed to be selling illegal salt!"
"What? Private salt? I wonder why so much fine salt suddenly appeared!"
"Aren't these also private salts?"
…
For a time, the people were talking a lot and hiding far away.
The last time those who bought it were from wealthy families, the common people didn't get anything at all, so they could only watch from a distance.
They were very happy when they found out it was private salt. Fortunately, they couldn't afford it, otherwise they would have been in trouble!
I didn’t expect to see this kind of salt again after three days!
This time the price was not expensive, but none of them dared to buy it!
"Please feel free to buy. This is the official salt store, the salt store of the imperial court. I was the officer and soldier who caught the illegal salt dealers that day. How could there be a fake...?"
Han Xin explained patiently, "The reason why these refined salts are sold so cheaply is because the young master has purified the coarse salt. Even inland salt can be purified into the non-toxic refined salt you have in front of you. Therefore, the production of Daqin's salt has increased significantly." !”
After he said this, everyone discovered that there was a child standing behind the tall salt pile.
It was none other than the young master who beat up Yan Le!
"Did Young Master do the purification? We have to thank Young Master!"
"Yes, if it weren't for the young master, how could we have eaten such fine salt?"
"Thank you, young master!"
"Thank you young master...!"
The onlookers bowed their hands and bowed in obeisance!
"There is no need to thank me. The price of salt remains the same as before. Please use all the remaining coarse salt at home to feed livestock. There are too many impurities and it is not good for people to eat it!"
Xiao Zhengtai waved his hand to let everyone stand up and said.
There was actually some sand, mud, etc. in the coarse salt, which was really impossible to eat!
"The young master is devoted to the people and has done a lot of practical things for us people!"
"No, having the young master is a great blessing to my great Qin!"
"From now on, the development of Da Qin cannot be separated from the young master!"
"Give me a pound of salt!"
"I want a pound too!"
"I want half a catty...!"
After believing that this was not illegal salt, people raised their hands to buy it.
Ten cents per tael, one hundred cents can buy a pound, even ordinary people like them can afford it!
They don't have much money left at home, so naturally they won't spend too much money to buy salt. It's enough to eat for the time being!
At the same time, Wang Li put on his casual clothes and started running around Xianyang City with his people, spreading the news that the official salt store was selling refined salt and the ultra-low price of refined salt.
The news spread from one to ten, and soon, all the people in Xianyang City ran home to withdraw money, and rushed to the official salt store crazily.
For them, this is a piece of cake in the sky!
"Come on, hurry up and buy salt. The refined salt that was worth one gold and one tael a few days ago has become ten gold and one tael today!"
"No! We have to hurry. It is estimated that all the people in Xianyang have passed!"
"Well, I have already inquired about it. This time it is not some private salt, but the young master purified the coarse salt for the benefit of our people. From now on, Daqin will no longer need to eat coarse salt!"
"That's great. Do you think those wealthy people who spent a lot of money in the past few days will cry when they hear the news?"
"Hahaha! Who knows!"
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