Chapter 185: Insufficient official salt? The price of Xiaogong salt is reduced to replace it!
Chapter 185: Insufficient official salt? Small tribute salt reduces the price and replaces it!
As soon as this statement is spoken, the entire Xuanzheng Hall can be heard.
Many ministers cursed in their hearts.
Isn’t this nonsense?
What does the Wang family mean? Your Majesty, can you not understand?
To put it bluntly, I want to save face. If I deal with Li Changfeng, I don’t let him sell any small tribute salt. I will sit down with the Wang family and talk about the conditions.
Although everyone knew it in their hearts, no one came forward to say it clearly.
No one is a fool, and whoever says he is unlucky can only be understood but not expressed in words.
"Why don't you talk anymore? You can only ask questions and not solve them? If this is the case, what's the use of me raising you?" Emperor Gan Wu said coldly.
Seeing that no one spoke, Emperor Gan Wu looked at other salt merchants outside the Wang family whom he specially summoned: "There is a problem with the production of official salt in the Wang family. What about you? Why are there no production of official salt?"
Emperor Gan Wu's tone was cold, and more than a dozen salt merchants were a little frightened and quickly knelt down.
"Your Majesty, it's not that we don't produce official salt. It's really because there's a problem with the salt well recently, so we can't get the brine out!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the salt field of Caomin has been raining for days and there is no way to dry salt!"
"We also want to make money. Every day we delay is a huge loss, and we don't want to do this either!"
"Your Majesty, don't worry, the official salt will resume production sooner or later, just wait!"
Although these salt merchants were a little frightened, the Wang family was in front of the leader and were not particularly afraid of Emperor Gan Wu.
They expected that even if Emperor Gan Wu was angry, he would not do anything to them. After all, the proportion of official and salt they all accounted for was only 10%, and the Wang family was the big one.
However, Emperor Gan Wu's next words made them fall into the abyss.
"Gao Dali, send people from the East Factory to investigate me. If it is really as they said, it will be fine. If it is not for them to be punished for deceiving the emperor, they will be killed on the spot!"
Gao Dali looked at the salt merchants coldly and said, "Abide by the imperial edict!"
Gao Dali's eyes were filled with murderous intent.
He didn't dare to raise his butcher knives to the eight major families, but what are the mere few ordinary salt merchants?
Our knife hasn't been stained with blood for a long time!
The salt merchants immediately became disgusted. Some people began to hesitate to turn to the royal family. After all, Emperor Gan Wu also had the ability to take their lives at any time.
But Emperor Gan Wu did not give them this opportunity, waved his hand and said with disgust: "Go out for me."
The salt merchants were frightened, but they had no choice but to leave.
The ministers were filled with drums.
What does this mean?
Are you venting your anger with these salt merchants?
Or do you want to plan to fight against the Wang family?
No!
This is something that affects the whole body!
At this time, Emperor Gan Wu looked at Feng Quji, who had never spoken.
Emperor Gan Wu still complains about this scheming guy, the head of all officials, and every time he encounters major events in the court, he either clings to or doesn't talk.
He wanted to take this opportunity to see what Feng Quji's attitude and thoughts were, and then asked: "Feng Aiqing, he is the leader of all officials and the great pillar of the country. What do you think about this?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the ministers looked at Feng Quji.
Even Li Changfeng cast a curious look.
Since he returned to Beijing, so many storms have occurred, Feng Quji always looks like he is not attentive to himself, and no one knows his depth.
But he didn't look down on him at all.
The more such a person is, the more terrifying it is.
If Feng Quji had no ability, how could he take up the position of prime minister?
Hearing Emperor Gan Wu's words, Feng Quji first bowed and made full etiquette, then bowed his hand to look at the ministers and said, "You are the most patriotic and can be seen by heaven and earth. What you said is also for my plan to do a great job in the country, The old minister admires it!”
Speaking of this, Feng Quji bowed and looked sincere. Even the ministers said that they dared not do such humble words, and they felt quite comfortable.
After saying that, Feng Quji changed his tone and said with a serious expression: "There are some problems with all the salt wells of the Wang family, and even the salt wells of other salt merchants have problems. It is obvious that someone secretly made a mistake. According to Wei Chen's speculation, It should be done by Fengtian Club, and it must be taken seriously by everyone!”
Hearing this, the ministers all showed strange expressions on their faces.
Isn’t this lies with your eyes open?
However, everyone had to admire him.
He is truly worthy of being the leader of the prime minister and officials of the dynasty. He resolved the conflict between the royal family and the Wang family in just a few words, giving both sides a step. No matter how they talked in the end, it would not make the royal family too embarrassed.
Li Changfeng was also secretly praising himself, he was such an old fox. He just turned the blame on Fengtianhui. The key is that it would be better if Fengtianhui took the blame. They are thieves, so they can't come out to defend themselves, right?
Even Emperor Gan Wu nodded secretly, and he was worthy of being a great pillar of Gan and his political skills were very clever.
However, this was not the answer he wanted. He nodded and said, "What I said is very true. Fengtian will only send people to investigate. The problem now is how to solve the problem of Guan Yan?"
Feng Quji smiled slightly, and Zhizhu said in his hand: "You must ask the ninth prince about this matter. Your Highness can make fine salt, so you must have a strategy to deal with it."
He had been secretly observing Emperor Gan Wu and Li Changfeng. Through the various performances of the morning court, he was 100% sure in his heart that this was a case against a Wang family.
And the person who breaks the deadlock must be Li Changfeng.
At this time, everyone's eyes were turned to Li Changfeng.
There are doubts, disdain, anger, gloating.
Obviously, no one believes that Li Changfeng can solve this problem.
Small tribute salt is so expensive, how can it replace official salt?
Many powerful people feel distressed when they taste it, let alone ordinary people.
This is simply impossible!
Li Changfeng was somewhat surprised by Feng Quji's words.
However, sooner or later he would stand up and speak, and said, "The quality of the official salt produced by the Wang family is so bad, and even makes people suffer from problems. What should he do? Isn't there something wrong with their salt fields and salt wells? ?It just so happens that you don’t produce official salt in the future, so you can use better quality small tribute salt instead.”
As soon as this statement came out, all the ministers were shocked.
Li Ji couldn't help it and jumped out and said, "It's extremely ridiculous. The little tribute salt is so expensive that even this prince can't afford it. How can ordinary people afford it?"
"It's because you're too poor if you're not capable."
Li Changfeng sneered, then smiled and comforted: "But you can rest assured that you can afford it in the future, because this prince decided to lose money and reduce the price, so that the price of small tribute salt can be reduced to the same price as official salt."
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire Xuanzheng Palace was in an uproar.
"The same price as ordinary official salt? How is this possible!"
"With such a big gap in the country, can small tribute salt be compensated?!"
"Are you worthy? How much does it cost to fill it in!"
"Your Highness the Ninth Prince, you can't talk nonsense about such things!"