After staying in the club for nearly an hour, Li Yuanjia finally got tired of it.
"Your Majesty, this is a letter from His Majesty."
"Oh? Give it to me quickly!"
As soon as he returned to the mansion, he saw the young eunuch running from Jiucheng Palace. Li Yuanjia's heart moved and he quickly took the second letter from him.
After receiving the letter, he was about to open it, but after taking a look at the little eunuch, Li Yuanjia turned to look at Han Lucheng: "Take him down and have a good rest. I will prepare the reply tomorrow morning."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After the two of them saluted each other, they retreated one after another.
Li Yuanjia, on the other hand, couldn't wait to open the emperor's "family letter", and it was exactly the same as the last time. After reading it, he was stunned: "Damn! What does this dick mean? This... This is to encourage me to go to the beach to dry salt.
And then you can sell salt at will? This..."
After reading the letter several times, Li Yuanjia was sure that he was not dazzled and had not read it wrongly.
How else could it be like this?!
This time Li Yuanjia did not rack his brains for memories, but took out a "copy" of the letter he wrote to his second son that day, a version he copied himself, and then read it carefully several times.
.
In the end, Li Yuanjia was sure that he must have made it clear.
The low cost and high yield of seawater sun salt were clearly stated in the letter to the emperor, and Li Yuanjia also clearly told Li Shimin that as long as he sent people to mine the required minerals on a large scale in Tongbai County
, it will become much easier to purify sea salt in the future, and it will also bring down the price of refined salt...
Isn’t this statement attractive enough?
Anyway, after comparing the two letters for a long time, Li Yuanjia opened his mouth and stared, his face full of confusion: "I'm sorry, is this still ancient times? Doesn't it mean that ancient salt is extremely valuable and involves huge interests?
No one is willing to let go... huh? No!"
As he was thinking about it, he was suddenly startled, and Li Yuanjia frowned.
There is definitely something wrong with this!
not……
After reading his latest letter, the second child still doesn't believe in the efficiency of seawater sun salt, nor does he believe that he can purify rough sea salt into refined salt at a very low price, right?
After walking around the study room with a frown, the more Li Yuanjia thought about it, the more he thought it was possible!
After all, what he wrote in the letter was a fact that could not be simpler more than a thousand years later, but in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, it did sound like he was telling a fairy tale-it only took four
Five salt drying craftsmen can dry out the sea salt boiled by hundreds of salt craftsmen in a year, or even more? It only takes some time to turn coarse salt into refined salt?
"No, I must write another letter!"
After biting his lower lip, Li Yuanjia sat down directly at the desk, wanting to write a letter to Li Shimin and explain the matter in detail.
However, when he had just spread out a piece of paper and was about to ask Chun Yan to come in and sharpen his ink, Li Yuanjia suddenly paused again and slowly put down the pen he had just picked up.
"Writing another letter seems to be of no use!"
Rubbing his nose subconsciously, Li Yuanjia leaned back in his chair with a headache: "After all, my side has just started. They only exposed more than a hundred kilograms of coarse salt, and then Ma Liang and the others refined a few kilograms of refined salt.
The cost is quite high... The emperor doesn’t take seriously what I said in my letter. I’m afraid he just thinks that the output is not high and the cost of purification is too high, so he’s not interested, right?”
Tilting his head, Li Yuanjia felt that this was very likely.
Even Li Shimin would find it difficult to believe some things that subvert his common sense, right? So it seems reasonable to directly reply that Li Yuanjia should do it by himself first and give it a try?
"Well……"
Opening the emperor's reply to him again, Li Yuanjia glanced at it for a few times, then began to tap the table in front of him with his fingers, and began to think carefully.
If this is the case, it is also an opportunity.
Anyway, those few people have mastered the steps of drying salt. Even if the efficiency is lower now, it doesn't matter. It will improve little by little as you slowly think about it. As for the purification of coarse salt, the same seems to be true. Small-scale fine processing is no problem.
But if it really needs to be purified on a large scale and connected with seawater sun salt...
"It seems good if you take your time?"
In the blink of an eye, Li Yuanjia made up his mind: "In that case, let them do it first... Haha, we, Prince Han's Mansion, can also benefit from the salt first!"
Before doing it, Li Yuanjia thought that drying seawater salt must be very simple, but after actually doing it, he discovered that in fact these things are not that easy. For example, how to make seawater evaporate faster and make the salt
Faster crystallization speed, etc., all require accumulation of experience. As for coarse salt purification, if the scale is to be increased, the time required will definitely not be short.
However, Prince Han’s Mansion should not be able to lose money in this process.
After all, the price of salt is there, and the quality of purified sea salt is also there. Li Yuanjia is not afraid that he will not be able to sell it, let alone the money he sells, and he will not be able to recover the cost.
"Haha, let's do it like this!"
After carefully putting away the emperor's letters, Li Yuanjia finally made up his mind.
Under normal circumstances, of course he would not go back and touch things like salt. After all, the benefits were too great and involved too much. More importantly, it would easily arouse the emperor's suspicion and suspicion. But now that he has this letter, what does Li Yuanjia have to worry about?
?
Just do it!
After making up his mind, Li Yuanjia shouted: "Chun Yan, Chun Yan? Let Han Lucheng come over quickly... By the way, the craftsman who came back from the East China Sea, let him come over too..."
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In his study, while waiting for Han Lucheng, Li Yuanjia was thinking about a plan to add manpower to Donghai and increase the scale of salt drying. At the same time, he was also considering a plan to quickly send people to Tongbai County to open mines to ensure the minerals used to purify sea salt in the future.
For a while, I lost all other thoughts.
In another room in the mansion, Fang Fengzhu was not idle either.
"In other words, that Chen Lian has become honest?"
After hearing the butler's reply, Fang Fengzhu raised his eyebrows and asked calmly: "There was no more nonsense in the workshop? What happened after we left?"
"No, none."
Taking a deep breath, Han Lucheng whispered: "We have people watching over at the workshop all day long. Chen Lian has become very honest and never dares to say anything about the palace again. And now he is almost there from morning to night.
Staying in the workshop... By the way, he seemed to have received a letter from Jiucheng Palace the morning before yesterday."
"oh?"
When he heard the words Jiucheng Palace, Fang Fengzhu's eyes suddenly moved.
The emperor spent the summer in Jiucheng Palace for several months, and most of the important ministers in the court would naturally have to go there, otherwise the central operation would be a problem. So it is really difficult to judge a letter from Jiucheng Palace
Who actually wrote it.
However, after pondering for a moment, Fang Fengzhu still waved his hand and said: "You continue to keep an eye on this matter. If I can find out the person behind Chen Lian, that would be great..."