Compared with Wang Shichong's sorrow and helplessness, Li Yuan can now be described as both happy and sad.

The sad thing is: his old buddy Pei Lin is really not the material for war! Defeat after defeat, defeat after defeat! So far, he has not gained an inch in Jinyang, so he can only keep sticking to it, and the original plan to subdue Jinyang does not know what year and month it will be able to fulfill his expectations.

And what made him happy was that since the second son took Xiao Han to Xiazhou, that small border town turned out to be a lonely checkpoint, transformed into a baby!

He looked at the small bag of salt brought by the Red Feather Messenger, and looked at it extremely carefully! The salt is as white as snow and has no impurities, this is definitely the best refined salt! It's nothing more than the salt in the palace! This alone is enough to make Li Yuan extremely happy!

As an emperor, a country works hard in everything big and small! Just talking about this little salt, it seems simple, but in fact it is extremely important! Since the Han Dynasty, salt and iron have been under the control of the state. Because of the tight control, the world is in chaos, and the land of salt production is a place where all heroes compete for hegemony.

At this point, Datang's luck is not too good!

The land in Guanzhong is fertile, and there is no shortage of grain and grass. There is only a lack of salt wells, and Li Daozong and Li Jing are now fighting in the south, not only because of the vast territory there, but also because of the Zigong salt wells there!

There is no well salt to eat, and all that is left is sea salt!

Unfortunately, the road to the east has been cut off for several years. Wang Shichong, Du Fuwei and these people will never let a grain of salt pass through their territory!

Just a few days ago, there was also a report from Yushi: the price of salt on the market has tripled, and ordinary people have begun to complain.

Yushi only asks questions, and it is always himself who solves the problems. Li Yuan himself also knows that if he can't find the salt road again, it is possible to triple it or triple it!

Now in Chang'an City, the salt eaten is all the salt saved from the past. Even if Chang'an City, as the capital of a country, has a huge stock, but now this one can't get in and out, even if there is a salt mountain, sooner or later it will be eaten up!

So, when he learned that the amazing boy had actually extracted refined salt from mineral salt, he was so ecstatic in his heart!

Can mineral salt also produce salt? What does this kid think? If it weren't for the people in Xiazhou City, Li Yuan would have wanted to arrest him and ask him in detail!

You need to know that in the past, it was not that no one had the idea of mining salt! This thing is on the bank of the river, and no one cares about it!

However, this thing can be eaten by beasts and animals, but not by man!

When people eat mineral salt, they will vomit and have diarrhea, and they will turn purple all over their bodies, and they will die with a whimper! The last person who dared to eat mineral salt now estimates that the bones are rotten...

"Haha...... This son is really my lucky star! "This is what Li Yuan said in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs! At that time, everyone stroked their palms to cater to them, and none of them refuted it, and even the most smelly Yushi couldn't find anything wrong with this statement.

A strange disease that no one else can cure, Xiao Han found a way on the first day he went, and he was successfully cured!

The army has no salt to eat, and its combat strength cannot be raised. When he went out, he could find salt, and it was said that he could produce a thousand catties in a day! And that's just the initial production!

These salts are not only more than enough to supply Xiazhou City, but also feed Chang'an in the future! It's so magical, it's never an exaggeration to say it's a lucky star! Even some superstitious people have begun to think about whether they should get closer to him and borrow a little blessing for themselves!

The credit of Fuxing is obvious to all, compared to it, the credit that the eldest Sun Shunde asked him in the letter is really not mentionable!

It's just a mountain, although there are some crops, it's not worth mentioning! Li Yuan waved his pen happily on the spot, and the three mountains on the map, including Sheephorn Mountain, were all surnamed Xiao! As for the other merits, they will be rewarded together when they return to Chang'an!

A few fast horses galloped on the post road leading to Xiazhou City with letters inscribed by the imperial pen.

By the time the messenger returned to Xiazhou City, he would almost not recognize this small border city! As far as the Messenger could see, there were busy people!

The large-scale production of the whole people proposed by Xiao Han is terrifying! Especially when these people are still forbidden soldiers!

Every morning, half of the people in the city practice martial arts with the head of the sect, and the other half go to the logistics office to help make salt. In the afternoon, on the other hand, everyone's skills and strength are always being exercised throughout the day!

Other than that, those outcasts, oh no... Now it should be called Xiazhou City people!

Their daily task is to rely on their incomparable understanding of the mountains and forests, and lead a group of auxiliaries and elite soldiers to the mountains to move salt mines!

There is no time to rest now, so the trail is still rugged and difficult to walk. And where the salt mine leads, there are many places where only one person is allowed to pass through!

In addition, Xiazhou City also has a strong enemy ring side. The eldest grandson, Shunde, did not dare to let too many people move the salt mine, and in the end only made up this team of only more than 200 people.

The team of 200 people, except for the people responsible for guarding the security, the others could only transport back more than 5,000 catties of salt mines a day, and just like that, they still used the whole city's mules, horses and donkeys, almost without a day!

In the newly carved salt field in Xiazhou City, Xiao Han was sitting on a big stone looking at the smoke of the boiling pot with a melancholy expression......

"5,000 catties of salt mines, more than 1,000 catties of salt. 1,000 catties of salt is only enough for 70,000 or 80,000 people to eat for a day. In this way, the amount of production in one day is only enough for the people of Xiazhou City to eat for five days! No wonder they are all jealous, and the number of people is increasing. Just eating salt can make people poor alive! ”

Xiao Han, who had been calculating for a long time, never thought that in a tiny unit, multiplied by the number of 10,000, the result would become so terrifying!

No wonder the ancestors said that fighting a war is logistics, not to mention anything else, a simplest salt can discourage Xiao Han! I don't know how the people who supply grain and grass in the logistics battalion survived, tens of thousands of catties of grain a day, it makes people desperate to think about it!

Unlike the infinitely melancholy Xiao Han, the general Sun Shunde hasn't closed his mouth in the past few days! The laughter like a night owl shrouded the sky above Xiazhou City, making people who didn't know the inside story think that there was a goblin here!

More than 1,000 catties of salt a day, good! That's great!!

Finally, I don't have to gnaw on that smelly and astringent vinegar cloth! Hurry up and throw that thing away, it's disgusting to look at! From now on, salt will be eaten! Whoever called this is our own thing!

As a result, with the infinite connivance of the general, the people of Xiazhou City now have to put a few salt beans in drinking water, and they are not afraid of tuberculosis......

For this reason, Xiao Han has said several times in the past two days that it is not good for people to eat too much salt, but it is useless at all!

All of them nodded in agreement, and when they turned their heads, they were soaked in salty beans again! I haven't tasted salt for months, so when will I have to wait until I don't eat a little more......

The salt that had been lost for many days was finally replenished, and people had strength!

After an hour of training, the soldiers in the city complained bitterly. Now I train for half a day, and I still have to work hard for the rest of the day! For the general, this is already a good result!

Raise your head and look at the eastern sky. For the first time, the eldest grandson Shunde had the confidence to fight with Wang Shichong!

Come on, Wang Shichong!