Since Li Er and his father Li Yuan had a deep conversation about the Turkic invasion, Li Yuan announced that he was going to abdicate early, and after Yuan Tiangang's calculation, Li Er's enthronement ceremony was held on the sixth day of the seventh month.

Because of Bai Fan's arrival, Li Er became the emperor in less than a month after being promoted from the king of Qin to the crown prince, and then canonized the abolished prince Li Jiancheng as the king of Jin, and the palace of the king of Qin was changed to the palace of the king of Jin and given to Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji is still the king of Qi, but the two were placed under house arrest for being convicted, deprived of all rights and freedoms, and no one was allowed to see each other!

Since Bai Fan took out the cavalry equipment, Li Er has been in a good mood, and with the help of stirrups and saddles, the soldiers of Datang have galloped on horses and fought immediately, no less than a native of the Northland barbarian warriors, and with such a big killer as a horseshoe, there is no need to worry about the war horse being eliminated because of the wear and tear of the horse's hooves!

With so much equipment, this time Datang summoned craftsmen to work day and night, and was determined to create 40,000 sets of cavalry equipment before the war, Li Shimin couldn't help but have a confidence in victory in the future Turkic war!

On this day, Li Shimin found Bai Fan, "Bai Fan, now that the problem of cavalry has been solved, as you said, all the armies of my Datang Dynasty have prepared pikemen formations to deal with cavalry, and the armament is no longer a problem, but there is still a gap of more than 100,000 yuan in military salaries, I don't know if you have any good ideas?" ”

This kind of thing, often many important ministers and strategists are thinking and meditating, but Li Shimin knows that this kid in front of him can always have some whimsical ideas, so he summoned him to ask!

Bai Fan thought about it, hundreds of thousands of yuan, all of them were military salaries, which were issued one after another in three months, since they were not taken out all at once, there was a way to solve it.

"Your Majesty, if we don't have money, we need to find a way to make money, the grass people have a secret recipe for making salt jointly developed with Senior Brother Yuan, which can be used to make edible salt with bitter salt, poisonous salt, and even seawater, and the quality is far superior to all the salt in the current world! Its shape is like snow, and the grass people call it snow salt!

Considering the current situation, I was afraid that if this technique leaked to a foreign country, it would be extremely harmful, so I didn't dare to take it out so far! If it is established today, the grass people are willing to offer this secret recipe, please Your Majesty choose a faithful and reliable person, protect this recipe at the same time, and then pay close attention to the production of salt, with such good salt, we can first sell it to foreign countries in limited quantities, such as Goguryeo, Gaochang, etc., even if we sell a pound of snow salt to those foreign nobles, there must be people rushing to ask for it. We're sure we'll make a lot of money! ”

Is this true? Li Er couldn't seem to believe it, salt like snow?

It wasn't until Li Er saw the finished product brought by Yuan Tiangang that he really believed that there was such a good thing! This kid can not only solve his urgent needs, but also make such a great contribution to the benefit of the country and the people, which is very good, it is simply his own lucky star!

"Boy, such a great achievement, it stands to reason that I can give you a marquis, but you also know that you are too young, at most it is the limit to upgrade your title to a viscount, so you can only be rewarded from elsewhere, what official position do you want, I can call the shots, so that you have a certain choice!" Li Er said.

Bai Fan was speechless, he was really a miser, this obviously didn't want to give a reward, if you want a title, you only give a viscount, and you want an official position? I don't know how to be an official and ask for money? Datang is poor and dead!

After pondering for a moment, Bai Fan said, "Your Majesty, the grass people don't want official positions, nor titles, the grass people like to be carefree, this secret art of salt making is dedicated to the people of the Tang Dynasty, not for the reward of official positions, and it has the credit of my senior brother!"

It's better to give all the official titles to the senior brother!

Knowing that Datang is in financial difficulties now, you can reward the boy with the watchtower that was confiscated a few days ago! The lookout tower is also of extraordinary value, the kid has a craft to open a restaurant, with here, it can be regarded as a living livelihood! ”

Li Erqi is angry! What is wrong with your kid, but you want to do that businessman's business?

"What's wrong with a businessman, it's the same to support himself by labor! Besides, I don't do it myself, I find someone to run it, and then pull a few companies to develop together, and then the proceeds will be divided into two percent of the pure profits of the imperial court for taxation, which can be regarded as contributing to the country! ”

Li Er said in a deep voice, "Since ancient times, the country has not competed with the people for profit, do you know? ”

Bai Fan retorted, "We are not competing with the people, we can afford to eat and drink in the watchtower, which one is not a high-ranking official and powerful, they are all rich people, when the country is in crisis, you let them take the money, they don't take it for the rich and unkind, so we can only take the curve strategy, use food to earn enough money for them, and then share more profits with the country, so that the country can become richer and richer!"

At most, I am killing the rich and helping the poor, not to compete with the people! ”

When Li Shimin heard it, it really made sense!

nodded, "This matter can be up to you, but you must remember not to run it yourself, so as not to ruin your reputation, I am waiting for the day when you can serve the court, but the court will not hire a businessman, you have to have a priority!" ”

In the end, the matter of snow salt was kept secret, Bai Fan got the Wangjing Tower, Yuan Tiangang was sealed with 300 households, Li Er sent his henchman Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, to preside over the matter, everything was carried out in such an orderly manner, just waiting for the army to arrive, and then set off to the north on a certain day!

Bai Fan is not idle, he doesn't have to worry about major affairs in the court, he just needs to make money, he brought in Li Jing's family, Cheng Biting Jin's family, the eldest grandson Wuji's family, plus his own Bai family, a total of four families joined Wangjinglou, and promised to give the court two percent, and the rest was just divided into two percent of a family, although others were a little embarrassed and felt that Bai Fan contributed the most, but Bai Fan knew the profits, he was alone, it was not good to take too much, insisted that everyone share it equally, and the last few families accepted his favor!

As for presiding over the operation of the restaurant, there is no need for Bai Fan to worry about it, the wives of several families discussed, and the operation was all handed over to the ladies.

As soon as the stir-fried vegetables came out, it instantly attracted the attention of the whole Chang'an people, in this era of only steaming, it is really hard to imagine how much temptation a plate of fried meat can bring to these ancients, but one thing is enough to prove that when he saw the daily income of Wangjinglou a thousand yuan, Li Shimin's eyes were red!

It's a money grab! Although I didn't expect that there were so many rich people in Chang'an City, it was obvious that the two percent profit given by Bai Fan was not good at this time!

In the end, after some bargaining, the two sides agreed that forty percent of the net profit of Wangjinglou would be given to the imperial court to fill the treasury, and at the same time, the imperial court would not interfere in the operation, and also gave various policy conveniences, because Bai Fan said that Wangjinglou would open all over the country in the future, what is it called a chain hotel!

The remaining sixty percent of the profits, the four are still equally divided, and now each can be said to be making money every day!

Just when Bai Fan was busy with his money-making business, the Turkic war was getting closer and closer!