Then they transported their respective belongings to various cities in the north.
Soon after, everyone panicked when they heard that there was another problem with the official salt shipped to the northern city, and that Donghai City had no salt supply for the time being.
Salt is the main component that maintains the normal metabolism of the human body. If you cannot eat salt for a long time, people will develop edema and fatigue.
The man was swollen and weak, and had no energy to work in the fields and support his family, and the family could no longer live on.
The people who first heard the bad news began to rush to buy private salt, fearing that if they were late, the price of private salt would soar to sky-high prices.
However, salt merchants are not vegetarians. After hearing that official salt was swallowed up by the canal again, the price of salt skyrocketed again.
In order to make huge profits, unscrupulous salt merchants would rather stockpile the goods than sell them. This caused panic among the people and raised the price of salt to a higher level.
And the one counting the money with a smile was Ling Zhongqing.
This time he made more money than before. In less than half a month, he made 100 million taels of silver.
Because Ling Qingyue lost 30 million taels before, he didn't have much left, so this time, he took out 10 million taels from the 100 million taels, and the remaining 90 million taels must belong to the prince.
As soon as she entered the capital, Yunyue saw a large number of palace-style buildings standing proudly on the top of Yunling Mountain in the distance.
The capital was called Yunling City. She had visited it when she was a child, when she went home with her mother to visit relatives, but her memory was not deep. Now that she came back again, she marveled at the majesty of the palace.
In modern times, she would go to the capital every now and then to do business. The palace in Beijing was relatively well-preserved, but compared with the northern palace in this huge phantom continent, it still gave people a feeling that it was insignificant.
Although no special report was made about King Xuan and his entourage's return to Beijing, many of the accompanying officials would write letters home. Therefore, the news of King Xuan's return to Beijing spread like wildfire, and everyone who paid attention to the matter knew about it.
After returning to the capital, Chi Yan and the officials were happy to cooperate with each other and then let them go home.
After the officials left, Chi Yan prepared to accompany Yun Yue back to Zuo Xiang's house.
They had written a letter home to the Prime Minister three days ago, and they believed that the Prime Minister was already ready to welcome their two grandsons home.
However, as soon as the officials left, Prince Bei Mingqi came riding a horse, escorted by his personal guards. He said with a smile on his face: "Third brother, I haven't seen you for a long time!"
Just as Chi Yan was about to speak, he was snatched away by the prince.
"Hey! Third child, I seem to have gained a lot from my trip to Jizhou. Even my face looks much rosier than before. What's the good thing? Can you tell me about it?"
"I haven't seen you for a long time, and my eldest brother has become a lot more interesting!" Chi Yan smiled, neither humble nor overbearing.
"Where is it!" After saying that, he saw the carriage behind him and asked, "Who is sitting in this carriage?"
"They are the two grandsons of the left prime minister." After that, Chi Yan said to the carriage: "Brother Ye, Yue'er, come out quickly and see His Highness the Crown Prince."
After finishing speaking, Yunyue stepped out of the carriage with the support of Ling Xiye, and together with Ling Xiye, they saluted towards Beiming Qi and said: "See His Highness the Crown Prince."
Seeing this, Bei Mingqi immediately dismounted his horse and helped Yun Yue up, who was half-crouched.
"Mr. Ling, Miss Ling doesn't need to be polite. Although we have never met before, we have often heard the left prime minister mention you two. So we are old acquaintances."