Outside the Chen family in Runan, in a very spacious open space, Liu Xie was seriously rotating the roasted lamb that was already fragrant and fragrant on the rotating barbecue grill designed by him a few years ago. He sprinkled some seasonings from time to time, looking like a very professional young chef.

"I am in a good mood today. I personally cook to try the whole roasted lamb I made. I tell you, don't believe it. I always feel that the things I made myself are better than those made by the kitchen in the palace. But I am a man who is impatient and lazy. I rarely make it myself. You all sit down and wait a while, and then bake it and eat it."

Everyone in the Chen family looked at Chen Dao, who was already sitting upright, but looked tense all over. Everyone who couldn't tell the truth about what was selling in the emperor's gourd did not dare to answer, so they had to kneel down next to Chen Dao carefully.

Just as the emperor used an exquisite porcelain seasoning box to gently twist the sheep, the fine salt inside fell like snowflakes, and gently sprinkled on the whole sheep.

"The key to whether a dish is delicious or not is seasoning. The so-called "all-flavored salt" is the first. As long as a cooked food is just right, it will not be difficult to eat. If a dish lacks salt, even if the chef descends to earth, the things you make are really delicious."

"By the way, do you know that salt is an essential trace element for any creature. The beasts in the forest will lick the stones with their tongues when they are fine, and use this method to obtain salt to maintain survival. If a person does not eat salt, it will cause weakness in the limbs, and may even lead to edema, stomach acid, fever, low immunity, etc. In any case, it will really cause diseases due to the lack of salt in the body."

While talking, they sprinkled salt, and soon the Chen clan members who were concerned about the details discovered that the can of salt slowly in the emperor's hand had been sprinkled all, and then they took out another can and continued to sprinkle it.

"Because of this, everyone in the world needs to eat salt, and everyone cannot do without salt. This salt can easily become a cap tax on the people's heads. Since I and Qingxu together, the main production areas of salt have been controlled by the court. I have collected it as state-owned, and the court has added reasonable profits and then sold it directly to the people. In this way, the court has the cost and the people have less exploitation. Isn't this a good thing?

I have been in Luoyang for more than a month and know that the selling price of salt is mostly floating between two or three times the price of corn. Is the transportation cost of Mi Zhu and Sili generation a big difference? The distance between the two should be not far, right? Why is the price of salt in Runan area almost ten times that of corn on the market?

Mi Zhu didn't know if he was really attacked by the emperor suddenly or was singing a double act with the emperor. Anyway, he was well prepared and stood up and said, "Go back to your Majesty, the salt transported from Qingzhou is actually a little lower in Runan than in Sili area."

"According to your instructions, Qingzhou salt farm, as a state-owned farm, is only responsible for wholesale and not retail. The retail part is handed over to six merchant houses in the Yuzhou area. Through bidding, they obtained the right to sell salt in the Yuzhou area. However, according to the data obtained by the Shangshutai, during the retail process, they did strictly control the sales price below the maximum sales price stipulated by the court, and it was even much lower than the sales price in the Sili area. As for why this situation is caused, I don't know. However, before I came to meet the saint this time, I had ordered the six merchants responsible for the sales of salt in the Yuzhou area to come together. Now these six people are waiting not far away. Do you think you want me to call them in and ask yourself?"

Liu Xie thought about it and said, "It's good."

Then put down the second empty salt shaker in your hand, picked up the third salt tank and continued to sprinkle the whole roasted lamb that had already baked a layer of hard salt cream.

After a while, six merchants brought him, kneeling to the emperor tremble and not to mention it. Liu Xie simply asked, "The records of the Shangshu Desk show that the salt you sold is still below the highest price limited by the court. However, according to the people of Runan, the salt price is much higher than that in the Sili area. What is the reason? Did you fake it when you reported the accounts with the Shangshu Desk?"

"Emperor's clarification is that even if we give us ten courage, we will never dare to deceive Shangshutai. It's really... it's the powerful and powerful people in Runan area that have bought too much. Most of the food we transported from Qingzhou was sold to the powerful and powerful people in the local area. They bought too much, which led to insufficient supply of salt in the market and rising salt prices."

"So that's it. It turns out that the court's own enterprises do not do retail but only wholesale, but you re-will wholesale the wholesale items with additional prices. Gao Ming, Gao Ming, your business methods are really clever. When things are rewritten in your hands, the profit will naturally roll in. It's amazing. How could I not think of such a clever business model?"

The six merchants were naturally shaking like sieve. Although the emperor said it was calm and gentle, this was the decisive and powerful leader of Zhongxing. Who knew if he waved his hand the next moment, dozens of elite martial soldiers suddenly appeared behind them and chopped them into meat paste without saying anything?

If you die, I will not die. At this critical moment, I don’t care about anything else and have to do whatever you want.

"Your Majesty, it's really not that the villain is lazy and unwilling to do things that retail goods benefit the people. It's just... I just open the door to do business and people come to buy it. We can't stop selling it. Even if we don't want to sell it, we dare not stop selling it! Even if we dare not sell it, this fact is difficult for me and others to eliminate it. I am really powerless to do anything about it!"

Liu Xie thought about it, but had to nod.

There are so many people in their family, even if you do limited sales, they can buy enough salt if they change a few more faces.

To put it bluntly, isn’t this a scalper? It’s not too simple for a powerful family to be a scalper.

However, scalpers make money by making money by simply putting it bluntly. After all, it is impossible to make money in batches on a large scale. This thing is not a necessity for normal people except for brainless fans.

However, salt is a must-have for daily necessities, but there must be scalpers. It is too simple to raise the price of this thing. However, when the supply gap appears, the 10% gap can drive the price to rise by 200%, or the price of this thing can only stop if the price rises to 10% of the people in the market.

If you buy enough salt, you will destroy 30% of it and make more than three times the net profit.

Although selling private salt is illegal, the legal system construction in Runan is obviously not done properly, and the transaction is too much profitable, and someone will do it if you are beheaded.

"So that's it, then it doesn't seem to be your fault. But don't tell me about the powerful people. Such a general concept. To be specific, who bought the most? Is there a number?"

The six people looked at me, and I looked at you, and they gritted their teeth and said, "The Xu family in Runan, bought at least 400,000 stones of salt, and the Chen family also had at least 300,000 stones of salt."

"Oh~, so that's it. It turns out that the Chen family is so crowded. It's less than ten thousand families, but they ate 400,000 stones of salt?"
Chapter completed!