However, if you want to produce table salt, you still face a problem.
It's not a technical problem. Technical problems are not difficult to solve through the mall.
The problem Li Min faced was that salt was a monopoly of the imperial court.
Of course, not only salt, but also iron was the exclusive product of the imperial court.
But what is the actual situation? Datang had to entrust these two industries to aristocratic families.
The Wang family in Taiyuan controlled the salt industry.
The Cui family of Boling and the Li family of Zhaojun controlled the iron industry.
Not even Li Shimin dared to take away these properties from these aristocratic families.
The problem now is that if Li Min vigorously produces salt, he will eventually fall into the hands of the imperial court.
And in the end, it will still fall into the hands of the Taiyuan Wang family.
Then purifying salt yourself will ultimately end up marrying someone, and this person is still an enemy.
Li Min would never do anything like this to seduce the enemy.
But if he wants to break the current situation, he still has to produce salt.
This leads to a contradiction.
After thinking for a long time, Li Min finally came up with a way to break the situation, and this way of breaking the situation would have to fall on Lin Jue, the governor.
The next day, Li Min found Lin Jue and asked for Lin Jue's help.
It turns out, isn’t there a shortage of salt in Yizhou now?
Therefore, Li Min wanted to produce some bitter salt in Yizhou first.
Although these bitter salts are poisonous, eating them occasionally for ten and a half days will not kill anyone.
Li Min decided to produce some bitter salt first to temporarily tide over the current difficulties.
However, Li Min didn't want to pay for it himself and wanted the governor's office to come up with it.
After all, this salt is government-owned, and the governor's office pays for the production of salt, and the profit from selling the salt also belongs to the governor's office.
Li Min's request for help suddenly seemed like there was nothing wrong with him at all.
But Lin Jie is an old fox. After hearing such a shameless request from the Governor, his nose almost became angry!
This great governor is really bullying people too much. Does he really think that the governor is a fool?
As a result, this plan to monopolize salt was originally planned by this governor and Qiwang of the fifth surname, in order to create trouble for His Highness the King of Shu.
Now you turn around and ask for help from this governor?
How naive do you have to be to think that this governor will help you with this?
Secondly, it would be fine if the salt industry could really make money.
But the salt produced here is bitter, which is poisonous and can kill people if eaten for a long time.
You are asking me to spend money to do things for you. If you eat someone dead, it will be the money paid by me, and then you will blame it on me.
Are you asking the governor to pay someone to dig a hole, then jump down, and then find someone to fill it with soil?
How many times does this person have to have his head clamped by the door panel before he can come up with such a weak-minded method?
Therefore, Lin Jie refused the proposal of the Grand Governor without hesitation, resolutely and resolutely.
The governor argued hard, believing that the salt industry was the exclusive domain of the imperial court and the governor's office must do this.
In the end, Lin Jie took the trouble to do it.
I decided to write a letter to the emperor in person, clarifying the serious relationship here, and then stated that the governor's office would never do this.
If you want to do it, let the King of Shu do it in his own name.
Anyway, whatever happened, it has nothing to do with this governor.
But Lin Jie did not hesitate and did what he said. He even wrote a memorial in front of Li Min, and then rushed it over 800 miles to send it directly to Chang'an.
Seeing this scene, Li Min shook his sleeves and left angrily.
And in my heart, I couldn't help but feel happy!
Done!
I believe that after seeing Lin Jue's memorial, my father will definitely understand what happened here.
And relying on his father's understanding of himself, he would definitely hand over Yizhou's salt industry to his hands with confidence and boldness.
And as long as the salt produced by oneself is of better quality than the salt produced by the Wang family in Taiyuan, it can slowly encroach on the Wang family's share of the salt.
When the time is right, the salt industry can even be taken away from the Wang family without bloodshed.
Of course, it is simply unrealistic to supply the entire Tang Dynasty with the amount of salt produced in Yizhou.
But as long as you have your own purification method, I believe it will not take long to achieve this.
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After solving this problem, Li Min began to produce salt confidently.
On the same day, Li Min took Xue Rengui and a thousand escort troops and marched directly to Xiaohe Village.
After arriving at Xiaohe Village, Li Min first purchased the thousand acres of wasteland outside their village from Xiaohe Village for ten cents per acre.
At this price, Xiaohe Village felt like it was taking advantage of the Grand Governor.
Because, for this deserted beach, let alone ten cents per acre, people who don’t have even one penny per acre want it.
After buying the wasteland, Li Min found the villagers of Xiaohe Village and began to hire them to produce salt.
The villager in Xiaohe Village that Li Min is most familiar with is none other than Qiao Qi.
This family was really poor. The whole family didn't even have trousers to wear. Qiao Qi's mother-in-law and his daughter could only wear one pair of trousers.
Although this Qiao Qi looks thin, he still has a lot of strength.
Well, in fact, in the entire Xiaohe Village, I'm afraid you won't be able to find a fat man.
Li Min came to Qiao Qi's house and found that this time, Qiao Qi's mother-in-law and Qiao Qiqi finally had pants. One of them didn't have to wear pants while the other had to sit on the bed.
Presumably, the last time Qiao Qiqi was sued, the Zhao family paid 100 yuan in compensation, which gave them money to buy pants.
After arriving at Qiao's house, Li Min found that the family didn't know what had happened, and the whole family was not in a good mood.
Qiao Qiqi even leaned on the bedside, crying silently.
Li Min couldn't help but frown and asked: "Qiao Qi, what happened? Let me tell you, and I will help you make the decision."
Could it be that the Zhao family was causing trouble for their family after the incident?
If this is the case, you will make them unable to eat and walk around!
Hearing Li Min's words, Qiao Qi sighed and said, "There's nothing wrong with the Governor. It's just that Qiqi's husband's family regretted their marriage, alas!"
By the way, Li Min remembered that Qiao Qi said it when he first came to Qiao's house.
If it weren't for the blockade due to this strange disease, the girl in his family would have already gotten married.
Because of that blockade, her marriage was delayed.
Unexpectedly, after the Qiao family suffered a lawsuit, her husband's family would regret their marriage so shamelessly.
Presumably, a girl comes from a family to appear in public and file a lawsuit.
Although it turned out that she was actually innocent, her reputation would still be damaged.
Secondly, they have offended the Zhao family. Qiao Qiqi's husband's family is probably afraid of the Zhao family, right?
However, this kind of thing is a consensual matter. Even if Li Min is the governor, it is not easy to forcefully marry someone.
