"Your Majesty, I think... there is no need to adjust the salt price, just maintain the status quo." Li Si did not look back. The First Emperor signaled Zhao Si to come in and ignored Zhao Si again.

Several months have passed since the sun-salting method was put into use and the official popularization and reform of the salt field began.

Nowadays, one-third of Daqin's production methods in seaside salt ponds have changed from boiling salt to sun-drying salt.

The remaining salt-drying ponds along the coast, where corvées were initiated to assist Lishan in transferring concubines, are still being constructed and put into production in an orderly manner.

It is expected that in the next year, the coastal areas of Daqin will be able to change from the original backward salt boiling method to the more advanced sun-dried salt method.

You should know that until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the salt-drying method was still the largest salt-producing method in the Xia lands.

Now that the first batch of salt ponds in Daqin have begun production, the intuitive changes brought about are that salt production has increased significantly and costs have dropped significantly.

Compared with the time-consuming and labor-intensive production method that requires firewood to boil salt, today's sun-dried salt method is simply too advanced.

Now that the salt pond construction and production are on track, they have been handed over from Lang Zhongling to the Shaofu. However, as the leader of the initial work, Meng Yi knew that salt production was increasing and salt production costs were decreasing, so he proposed to lower the salt price.

Meng Yi's move aroused the dissatisfaction of the Shaofu Youcheng Chi Gong.

The Shaofu is responsible for production and construction and the taxation of mountains, rivers and rivers.

To put it bluntly, it is an autocratic taxation of salt and gold, which is the pocket of the young government. How could Chi Gong agree to reduce the price?

The output of his cat has just gone up, and the cost has just come down, and he is about to make a big fortune. Can you, Meng Yi, say it will be reduced?

Li Si, the left prime minister, was obviously more inclined to Chi Gong, the right prime minister of the Shaofu.

The so-called Guanshanhai Salt Monopoly is nothing more than cracking down on illegal salt sales while incorporating taxes into the price. To put it bluntly, the salt tax is added to the salt price. It is a complete monopoly business and it is also the bulk of Daqin's current fiscal revenue.

Li Si is a Legalist...
Chapter completed!