"This kind of dish made of fish and shrimp in the sea is indeed extremely delicious!"

After taking a bite, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others nodded repeatedly.

Although they had eaten these foods made by Haizhen in the sea before, and even the recipes might be exactly the same.

But, somehow, these meals are even more comfortable and delicious when eaten in the seafood house!

"Your Majesty, all the masters, there are endless treasures of this sea. Even if you eat a batch this year, you can still produce another batch next year. If this thing can be eaten in large quantities, the people of our Tang Dynasty can add millions of stones of food!"

On the side, Li Xuan, Cheng Chusi and others sat on the sofa, drinking tea and watching the scene outside.

Sitting on the fourth floor, through the large floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see several of Pingkangfang, Xuanyangfang and Chongyifang, which have a unique atmosphere.

Especially in broad daylight, the Sanqu Lane in Pingkangfang is still wandering around outside.

"Xuanba said very much, but these seafood are extremely difficult to preserve, let alone transport them for two thousand miles! Unless the ice making technique is announced, it will be difficult to transport all the fish and shrimps from the sea back to Guanzhong, the place within Guanzhong!"

What Li Xuan said, Li Shimin and others also understood.

However, in this era without the technology of freezing transportation, it is simply a fantasy to transport fish and shrimps from the sea to Guanzhong.

The ice-making technique was invented by Li Xuan. They all knew that Li Xuan had a great grudge with those aristocratic families, so how could he teach the ice-making technique?

"My Majesty, are there many veterans who have retreated from the Twelve Guards and various Zhechong Mansions?"

Li Xuan asked.

"Um?"

Li Shimin was stunned, glanced at Li Xuan, and said, "Fortunately, Xuanba offered steelmaking and ironmaking techniques. The court had sufficient steel and a number of wool clothes and gloves. There were not many disabled veterans, and there should be more than a thousand people at present!"

"so much?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan was shocked.

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were also stunned.

Afterwards, after thinking about it, Li Shimin explained softly.

"Xuanba, in the past, the 100,000 troops went to war, and all disabled veterans had to be tens of thousands. Now, there are only more than one thousand veterans, which is a blessing in the world!"

"It's still too high!"

Li Xuan sighed lightly, "My Tang Dynasty's steel skills are far superior to those of the Turkic barbarians. All soldiers are covered with iron armor, with steel swords, horses and spears in their hands, strong bows and sharp arrows, and equipment crushing the Turkic barbarians with such equipment, so many veterans can be injured by those Turkic barbarians. It shouldn't be!"

"Xuanba, the Turkic barbarians are good at shooting, and are not afraid of death. When the army fights, there will inevitably be casualties, and this matter is inevitable!"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were puzzled by Li Xuan's sudden sentimentality and compassion.

"I know this!"

Li Xuan breathed a long sigh, "That's the meaning of Xuanba, Your Majesty can use veterans to form a transportation team, and these veterans drive four-wheeled carriages, specifically for the wealthy businessmen from Qingzhou families to transport sea fish and other treasures from Qingzhou waters to Chang'an City.

In addition, you can also transport some merchants' goods, a carriage from Chang'an City to Qingzhou, which takes one month to go back and forth.

If you don’t ask for much money, the carriage only needs five stakes for the goods, the veterans earn two stakes, the loss of horse food and carriage is always the same, and everyone can share the remaining two stakes!"

"Five silos?"

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were all shocked again.

"I can't buy so much money by pulling a truck full of goods from Qingzhou. How could those wealthy businessmen from aristocratic families take out five strings to the transportation team?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but chuckled.

"Your Majesty, the Prince of Hejian used a four-wheeled carriage to transport dried sea fish, and he took thirty stones in one carriage! I wonder if your Majesty, how much food can you exchange for a stone of dried sea fish from those aristocratic families?"

"One stone of dried sea fish was exchanged for thirty stones of food!"

Li Shimin said directly.

"Your Majesty, a stone of grain is calculated based on 500 quintals, which is fifteen stakes. How much money can Your Majesty make in this car of dried sea fish?" Li Xuan asked again.

Li Shimin couldn't help but be stunned. He had never thought about such a thing.

He is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Everything in the Tang Dynasty belongs to him, so why do you need to make money?

Seeing this, Li Xuan chuckled and analyzed himself: "Your Majesty, drying dried fish in the sea is the one that the Prince of Hejian and his soldiers dry. In this matter, Your Majesty did not spend money, at most it was the loss of the carriage and the food and grass of the horses.

Also, it is tolls. For simplicity, a carriage is calculated according to the usual calculations.

The rest is the coarse salt consumed. A truck of dried sea fish requires 150 stones of coarse salt, but these coarse salts are all the coarse salt accumulated by Your Majesty. His Majesty consumes only the wages of the salt workers who are drying the salt. With so much salt, I am afraid that even five jin of money will not be needed.

In addition, if you go to sea to fish in Shanghai, Your Majesty didn’t spend any money. At most, it would be more expensive. The ships were depleted by 300 stones of dried sea fish. The ships were calculated according to their usual calculations.

In this way, His Majesty's carriage costs up to seven cents of money to dry sea fish!"

"And Your Majesty can exchange 4,500 stag of grain for those aristocratic families. A truckload of dried sea fish is simply profitable!"

After analyzing, Li Xuan couldn't help but subconsciously look at Li Shimin, with a shocked face.

What a huge profit!

Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were also stunned.

After a while, Li Shimin still asked in disbelief: "Xuanba, is it really so profitable?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan turned his head and looked at Li Baoding beside him.

At this moment, Li Baoding and others have already listed them on a piece of paper as Li Xuan said.

"Hand this paper to Your Majesty and let Your Majesty calculate it yourself!"

Li Xuan said.

“Yes, Master!”

Li Baoding did not dare to neglect, so he quickly picked up the paper with both hands and handed it to Li Shimin.

After taking the paper, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others didn't bother to eat. They put down their chopsticks, walked to the desk, and lowered their heads to calculate carefully.

It took another long time before the crowd looked up.

There was still a look of surprise on his face.

According to their own calculations, they earned much more than Li Xuan calculated!

It's simply a huge profit!

Um?

Suddenly, looking at the expressions of Li Shimin and others, Li Xuan's face changed slightly, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

"Your Majesty, I think the price of a carriage in the transport team must be at least ten cents, otherwise it would be a loss. Those veterans are running around the road all day and earning less than four cents a month, which is really not worth it!"

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were stunned.

"A veteran earns four stalemates a month?"

"Your Majesty, they are running around the road all day long. It's so hard that every veteran will not be able to bear it for at most two years. Moreover, they are all men who have shed blood for the Tang Dynasty. If they weren't allowed to increase the price, they could make ten jin a month!"

Li Xuandao.

"So, then four stakes!"

Li Shimin nodded.

Then, he remembered something and asked hurriedly: "Xuanba, dried sea fish is our unique industry. Those aristocratic families cannot make money. How should they transport things in the sea to them?"

Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but chuckled.

"Your Majesty, it's very easy to dry dried sea fish. Those aristocratic families will learn it soon!"

"But they have lost the salt field!"

Li Shimin said.

"Your Majesty, how much is the price of a pound of coarse salt now?" Li Xuan asked.

"A pound of coarse salt gives the salt merchants three cents. When it comes to Qingzhou, those aristocratic merchants will sell for about five cents!" Li Shimin said.

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Chapter completed!