3/5 This Salt... Is So White! (, tickets)
As the old saying goes, loyalty is just a lack of bargaining chips for betrayal.
Li Ke's offer was too tempting, but at the same time, his requirements were not high.
In the future, if Li Ke really ascended the throne, it was only natural for them to support him. There was nothing to say.
This was equivalent to giving away a free benefit. It would be a waste not to take it.
"Within three days, send over your ten thousand strings of money, and we will officially begin our preparations.”
Li Ke said with a smile.
"Duke Wei, you make salt."
"British Duke, you make the iron."
"Duke of E, you make the tea."
"It's settled then."
Li Jing, Li Ji, and Yuchi Gong naturally did not have any complaints.
No matter which one of these three was a profitable industry, it didn't matter.
After returning home, the three of them immediately transferred the family's money.
Although they could afford to fork out ten thousand strings of money, it was not that easy.
After all, no one was like those vampires from the aristocratic families who ate so much.
That was why Li Ke gave them three days to gather the money.
Finally, they managed to scrape together enough money. The three of them came to the King Shu Residence to look for Li Ke again.
However, Li Ke did not appear this time. Instead, he handed the task to the three people of the King of Shu to receive him.
After the money was paid, they began to build the workshop. However, the people of the Shu Royal Guards did not call it a workshop, but a factory.
During this process, Li Jing, Li Ji, and Yuchi Gong finally understood why the King of Shu was so awesome. The guards of the King of Shu that he had trained were much more efficient than the officials of the Ministry of Works.
From the confirmation of the location to the start of construction, the purchase of wood and stone materials was done in an orderly manner without any delay.
The most important thing was that the Shu Royal Guards had something called cement, which greatly sped up the construction of the factory. In seven days, the exquisite factory was built, which made the three of them gasp in amazement.
At this time, Li Ke finally appeared again.
"Duke Wei, let's get the salt first. After the tea leaves from the south come down, I'll help Duke E get the stir-fried tea.”
Li Ke looked at Li Ji and said with a smile.
"British Duke, you'll have to wait for a while.”
"Smelting iron requires a large furnace. Building a furnace requires a lot of time, at least a month.”
Li Jing and the other two quickly agreed.
Li Ke's arrangement was indeed the most reasonable. They did not have anything to fuss about. In fact, this was already very fast and greatly exceeded their expectations.
After sending off Li Ji and Yuchi Gong, only Li Jing remained.
The two of them entered the factory. All kinds of salt production equipment and machines had been installed.
Bright machines filled the entire factory, making Li Jing feel as if he had entered a brand new world. It was very novel.
"This is a salt making machine that I developed. It systematically melts the salt, then it's filtered, dried, and refined to obtain refined salt.”
"I call it salt."
Li Ke introduced with a smile.
"The salt mine we chose is also a high-quality salt mine. However, those idiots from the aristocratic families don't understand how precious it is. They even said that it's poisonous salt and that it's a waste of natural resources.”
"I specially brought along a professional salt maker that I trained in Yizhou to make salt.”
"I'll provide these specialized technicians. The rest will be some porters.”
"I'll also send someone to take care of the sales in the later stages. You can just wait for the money to be collected.”
Li Jing nodded stiffly, feeling excited.
Everything was too dreamy.
He would never believe that he had actually started a salt business, and supplied it to the Imperial Court.
This was a profitable transaction!
"Don't worry, King of Shu. I will do my best and not disappoint you.”
Li Jing promised.
"If anyone dares to touch the sale of this salt, this old man will make them regret being born in this world!”
Li Jing wasn't a silly girl. He just had a higher goal and didn't care about money.
However, the profits from the salt were too impressive. It was enough to change the status and structure of the Duke of Wei's Public House. How could Li Jing not see it clearly? Of course, he had to defend it with his life.
Li Ke smiled in satisfaction and didn't say anything.
This was the effect he wanted.
……
Fanyang Lu, Lu family.
"Haha, the Imperial Court actually robbed us of our supplies.”
Lu Shan Xin, the head of the Lu family, sneered.
"Hmph, he has placed all his hopes on the King of Shu.”
Cui Jue, the head of the Qinghe Cui Family, also sneered.
"Among the Five Families and Seven Wangs, you and I are the ones who make salt. Seventy percent of the Great Tang's salt supply depends on us.”
"Although Li Ke is amazing, he developed the smallflower potion and even came up with a way to use chickens and ducks to fight the locust plague, but salt..."
"That's not something anyone can do."
Lu Shan Xin also laughed out loud. Their eyes were filled with arrogance.
Although Li Shiming had already issued an edict to take away their supplies from the imperial court and not even give them the salt introduction document, they were not worried at all.
Putting aside the fact that they had originally relied on illegal salt to make greater profits, just the salt that the Imperial Court currently stored and the common people of the Great Tang needed to eat would soon have to beg him to sell it.
"Let's see how long Li Shi Min can last this time.”
Lu Shan Xin said.
"I don't believe that he'll make the entire Great Tang go bankrupt for Li Ke. That'll cost lives!”
Cui Jue said with a smile.
"Don't worry, Li Shi Min is a spineless coward. He has lowered his head in front of us more than once.”
"Have you forgotten that last autumn, in order to retreat Jie Li Khan's 200,000 strong army, he asked us to lend him food.”
"Emperor! Bah! Bullshit!"
"Haha…"
The two of them laughed out loud, very happy.
At this moment, the butler of the Lu family ran in in a panic.
"Not good, Patriarch. The imperial court has accepted the supply from the King of Shu and Duke of Wei, Li Jing, and purchased five million catties of salt.“
Lu Shan Xin and Cui Jue were shocked.
"What?“
"How did they get salt? There is no sea salt or well salt in Guanzhong. How did they get so much salt?？”
Lu Shan Xin roared.
"This lowly one doesn't know either."
The butler said aggrievedly.
"What about the quality?"
Cui Jue hurriedly asked.
The quality of the salt was probably not good enough to produce so much salt in such a short period of time. He could use this to attack the other party and make them unable to sell it.
"Family Head, Family Head Cui, take a look for yourselves.”
The butler smiled bitterly and took out a packet of iodinated salt. He opened it and placed it in front of Cui Jue and Lu Shan Xin.
Lu Shan Xin and Cui Jue were dumbfounded.
"This, this salt…is so white!"
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