"This is the best salt!"

Wang Ying twisted his fingernails, looked carefully under the fire, tasted them in person, and said in surprise: "Brother, this quality looks much better than official salt."

“That’s natural.”

Yang Mo looked relieved and smiled happily.

This is the most enjoyable thing I have ever traveled through time.

After getting out the salt, the first step of what I want to do is to take it completely.

"Brother, how can this produce salt?"

Wang Ying saw the whole process with his own eyes, but he couldn't understand it.

Why can it become this salt by mashing it and cooking it in a pot and then cooking it again?

He has seen the cooking of salt.

No one has ever thought about turning poisonous salt into refined salt, but none of them succeeded.

Why did Yang Mo succeed?

"Salt is not transformed."

Yang Mo was in a good mood and explained to him natural reasons: "There is a chemical reaction here... it is not right, it is a physical reaction."

He put his waist on his back, and now it looks like he smokes after the incident.

"Chemistry?Physics?What is this?"

Wang Ying became more and more confused as he heard it. Li Bai next to him flashed with inspiration, remembering a noun that Yang Mo mentioned before: "Brother, is this what you said about investigating things?"

Yang Mo thought for a while and nodded, "You can understand this way."

Wang Ying next to him was anxious to find out what the two brothers were talking about, and interrupted, "Second brother, what is the investigation of things?"

"Access to knowledge is to investigate things, and then you can know it after you can understand things. This is the saying in the "Great Learning".

Li Bai was also very happy that he could turn poisonous salt into refined salt. What this means is self-evident.

"It means to explore the laws of all things and then use them."

Wang Ying said half-knowingly, but he still couldn't understand.

"You just don't listen when you ask you to read more on weekdays."

Yang Mo took the opportunity to scold him in anger, "Now I know what it means to use books, I will regret that I have less."

Wang Ying could only scratch his head, not knowing how to refute it, and of course he did not dare to refute it: "I will definitely study hard in the future."

"Let's talk about studying later. With Jingyan, brother, it's not difficult for us to build the road to Chang'an."

Li Bai excitedly shoveled out the refined salt and put it in a glass cup that had been prepared long ago.

The transparent glass cup was filled with white and crystal salt, which made Li Bai feel indescribable joy under the light of the fire.

It was like an old farmer looking at the granary full of granaries after a bumper harvest.

Yang Mo shook his head slightly: "This method is still very costly and cannot be popularized. We still need to find a way to create an assembly line to minimize the cost."

Li Bai nodded, but he didn't understand what Yang Mo said about the assembly line.

But since my elder brother said that, there must be a solution, just follow the instructions.

Wang Ying next to him frowned: "Brother, I'm afraid it won't work."

"What's wrong?"

Li Bai is very sensitive.

"It's just that we want to make a fortune by relying on salt, and this will not happen."

Wang Ying found out why the two brothers were happy and showed sorrow on his face.

"What's wrong?"

Yang Mo was also stunned. Seeing that Wang Ying didn't seem to be talking nonsense, the smile on his face also disappeared.

Wang Ying scratched his head and told the reasons and consequences of the Northern Sui Dynasty about the salt tax.

The tax on salt and iron has been under key supervision by the imperial court since ancient times.

The relevant laws are also the most complete and strictly enforced, after all, this is directly related to taxation.

But in the same way, some people do the beheading business, and no one does the loss-making business.

Because salt is profitable, private salt dealers from the public have been repeatedly banned.

Throughout the dynasties, the crackdown on private salt dealers has been severely attacked, and each has its own methods of cracking down on it.

What was interesting about the Northern Sui court was that there were quotas for salt tax, which were distributed to the noble families of various places.

Official salt is sold in government offices in various places, and wealthy families from all over the country are also qualified to sell salt. Of course, each county also has a special salt department.

Among the three forces, the quotas of the noble families are fixed, which means that the salt tax paid every year is also fixed.

The reason for doing this is very simple. Since private salt dealers cannot be eliminated, they should cultivate the largest one under their control.

And the aristocratic family is the largest private salt dealer.

Although the family has a quota for salt tax, it is not fixed.

There is an opportunity for an increase or decrease once a year.

It is very simple to increase, that is, to exchange the heads of private salt dealers.

The more private salt dealers are wiped out, the more quotas are added.

If a single salt dealer in the aristocratic family has not been wiped out this year, I'm sorry, it will be reduced.

Moreover, this reduction is still very high, which is directly reduced by one-third of the year.

Therefore, this forces the aristocratic families to regard the private salt dealers in their territory as enemies and pursue them vigorously.

These are the rules set by the emperor who was a ranger when the Northern Sui Dynasty was founded.

Call it the ancestral teaching.

Logically speaking, the ancestral teachings cannot be changed at will, but the subsequent emperors all thought that this was a loss-making business.

They all wanted to take all this back into their hands or hand it over to the Salt Service Department.

Many policies have been introduced both openly and secretly.

But there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. Many families with salt tax quotas have been dealing with the imperial court for so many years and understand what the imperial court is thinking.

So in the following decades, private salt dealers still had to suppress them, but the intensity was no longer as strong as before.

Some private salt dealers are even secretly raised by aristocratic families.

The court had a greater determination to collect the salt tax back, and their efforts to suppress salt dealers were smaller.

If there are more salt dealers, it will lead to a reduction in the salt tax of the court.

However, the salt tax paid by the aristocratic families has not changed, so naturally some people will suggest that the aristocratic families cannot be cut.

If it is cut, wouldn’t it be impossible to even say the money?

So it was so sticky that the salt tax in the Northern Sui Dynasty was complicated and had already formed a big trouble that no one dared to deal with.

After Wang Ying finished speaking, Li Bai's face also sank.

Looking at Yang Mo, seeing that he seemed to be thinking about digesting the third brother's words, he paused slightly and looked at Wang Ying: "Can't we sell salt by relying on the Wang family?"

"This is not something that cannot be sold. Five years ago, my family's salt tax quota was handed over to the Li family. Now all the salt taxes in Taiyuan are handed over to the Duke's Mansion."

Wang Ying smiled bitterly: "The salt in Taiyuan is enough. Even if we can make salt better than official salt, we can't sell it."

Li Bai was stunned and suddenly remembered something: salt has never been short of, it has always been a controlled item.

There will be salt deficiency in some places, but the imperial court controls the sales of salt.

The price and quality of salt, due to control and the confrontation of interests of all parties, lead to great uncertainty.

Once the confrontation breaks the balance, there will be a lack of salt in places where there is no shortage of salt.

"Can't sell it? Our salt is so good, can't we sell it?"

Li Bai still asked unwillingly.

Wang Ying said: "Salt taxes in various places are monopolized and controlled, so it is difficult to enter foreign salt, unless it is a private salt dealer..."

"but..."

He didn't say the following words, and Li Bai also understood that the largest private salt dealer in the local area was the local aristocratic family.

"Is there no way?"

This time Li Bai scratched his head, and Wang Ying shook his head, just as he was about to say no.

Yang Mo raised his head, his eyes shining: "Yes!"

"What's the solution?"

The second and third brother looked at the eldest brother.
Chapter completed!