Ling County.
In the luxurious mansion of the Cui family.
The heads of the five surnames and seven Wangs of the influential families in Shandong were all gathered here.
Cui Mingan, the head of the Cui family of Boling, spoke first,
"Everyone, have you heard that the imperial court has already purchased a batch of disaster relief grain from Guanzhong and has already urgently transported it to Hedong Road?”
Cui Yanmu, the head of Qinghe Cui Family, sighed slightly,
"Sigh! I heard about it too. It seemed like there was quite a lot of relief grain. It was enough to solve the problem of the drought victims in Hedong Road!”
Wang Cheng of the Wang family in Taiyuan could not help but ask curiously,
"That's strange. Our Shandong aristocratic families didn't sell any food to the imperial court, so where did the imperial court get this batch of relief food from?”
Lu Chu of the Lu family of Fanyang laughed,
"Master Wang, you didn't listen carefully just now, did you? This batch of disaster relief grain was purchased from the Guanzhong region!”
Wang Cheng laughed out loud.
"Guanzhong? What a joke! The food in the Guanzhong region could not even feed the people of Guanzhong! Where would there be food for them to provide disaster relief?”
What Wang Cheng said was the truth.
Lu Chu was speechless.
But Lu Chu still said,
"Sigh, this is going to be troublesome. Originally, we were all prepared to use this opportunity to raise the grain price and earn a good sum from the Imperial Court! Now, it seemed that he wouldn't be able to earn anything!”
Li Wei, the patriarch of the Li Clan in Longxi, waved his hand and smiled.
"I received news from the Imperial Court! Prince Jin had planted hybrid rice in his own estate! The hybrid rice in the hundred mu of fertile land had just been harvested. Therefore, the problem of the drought in the east of the river was solved!”
Hmm?
Lu Chu was even more surprised.
"Li Wei, are you kidding me? Prince Jin, is it just a three-year-old kid?”
A three-year-old kid…
This sentence caused all the family heads present to burst into laughter!
Although they had all heard of the genius youth!
However, they had never heard of this three-year-old genius before!
Wang Cheng also said,
"Li Wei, continue! What was hybrid rice? What was the difference between this thing and millet?”
Sitting next to him, the head of the Zheng family of Xingyang and the head of the Li family of Zhao County also looked at Li Wei!
Li Wei continued,
"My nephew is an official in the Ministry of Revenue, so he knows a little about this!
It was said that this hybrid rice could reach two thousand catties per mu!”
Two thousand catties per mu…
Such a terrifying number immediately stunned the several High Dukes present!
"You must be joking! Two thousand catties per mu?"
"Haha, is this a joke?"
"How can the grain in the world reach two thousand jin per mu?”
"Li Wei, you're not going to tell us that this hybrid rice that can produce two thousand catties per mu was cultivated by the three-year-old Prince Jin, are you?”
"Although the Li Tang royal family has produced many talents in the past few decades! However, to be able to cultivate two thousand catties of rice per mu at the age of three, wasn't that nonsense?”
The family heads waved their hands.
They did not believe it at all.
Cui Mingan from the Cui family of Boling also shook his head lightly and said,"
"Li Wei, I'm afraid your information is wrong!”
Li Wei chuckled.
"Everyone, when I heard it, I was also very shocked! However, after many inquiries, I found that it was indeed the case!
Now, all the nobles in Chang 'an were talking about it!
Everyone was saying that Prince Jin was a genius!
By the way, have you seen the refined salt that has been circulating in Chang 'an recently?”
Cui Mingan and Cui Yanmu nodded lightly.
The other dukes shook their heads.
"Everyone, you are all the masters of the great families. Why don't you care about the important matters of the court and the country?" Cui Min Gan reprimanded. If you don't care now, your aristocratic families will gradually decline!”
Cui Mingan was telling the truth!
Moreover, Cui Mingan was the oldest and most respected among the family heads!
However, as he reprimanded…
The other dukes did not dare to speak nonsense either!
"Men, bring me the refined salt that I bought yesterday.”
Cui Mingan clapped his hands. Soon, a servant of the Cui Residence brought over a small jar. The jar was naturally filled with refined salt!
"Is this refined salt?"
"It does look white and flawless!"
"As expected of this name! It's much finer than the fine salt we produce.”
"By the way, who produced this?”
"Isn't this going to impact our fine salt business?”
Zheng Guan and Lu Chu reached out their fingers and scooped out a piece of refined salt. Then, they put it into their mouths.
"Yes! Delicious! The taste of this refined salt was really amazing!”
"It's much more delicious than our fine salt.”
"And it's very clean inside! There's not a single foreign object!"
"Where did you buy this refined salt? I have to buy some too!”
Cui Mingan was even more unhappy. He directly slammed his hand on the table,
"I asked you to taste the refined salt, not to buy it! Don't you realize the seriousness of the matter?”
"This refined salt was made by the Imperial Court! Now, they had begun to sell them to the nobles of Chang 'an City!”
"I heard the next step! It was sold to the people of Chang 'an Fortress! Then, it was the citizens of the entire country!”
"Everyone, at that time, where will our aristocratic families 'salt industry go?”
Hiss!
Cui Mingan's words directly hit the sore point of the family heads!
Their aristocratic families naturally wanted to earn money!
And the salt industry was their weapon to accumulate wealth!
Relying on the salt industry, they could even lie at home and have a steady stream of money flowing into their houses!
However, the salt production technology of the imperial court had far surpassed theirs.
If the salt production of the imperial court was still highly efficient.
If that happened, the advantage of their aristocratic families would be gone!
Li Wei smiled helplessly and added,"
"Everyone, according to the news from Chang 'an, this salt-making technology was casually mentioned by Prince Jin when he was playing with mud!
After Li Shi Min heard it! That very night, the refined salt in front of us was produced!”
Hiss!
Instantly!
In the hall, the heads of several aristocratic families were shocked and their scalps went numb!
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