Li Zhan shook the salt bag in his hand with a smile, then opened the salt bag, twisted out some fine salt from the salt bag and sprinkled it carefully on the roasted wild game.

"Haha! Nephew Zhan heard us wrongly and thought we said there was no salt now!" Looking at Li Zhan's actions, Cheng Yaojin smiled.

Following the others, they also showed a faint smile.

But just after everyone finished laughing, Qin Qiong on the side suddenly said in surprise: "No, the salt in Nephew Zhan's hand feels different from the salt we eat now?"

Indeed, the fine salt in Li Zhan's hand is better than the best salt in Chang'an City now. It is snow-white and delicate, and only the fine salt that brushes teeth can be compared. However, the fine salt that can brush teeth is not only expensive, but also rare. It is generally only available to the royal family and those aristocratic families.

Even the Dukes of his own were very difficult to get a little. Where did Li Zhan get this? There were a lot of them, so he just sprinkled them on the food.

"Battle nephew!" Qin Qiong stood up and shouted.

Li Zhan turned around and smiled and said, "Uncle Qin, wait a moment, this hare meat will be ready soon."

"No, no!" Qin Qiong shook his head repeatedly and said, "I'm not going to eat some hare meat, I want to ask you, where did the salt in your hand come from?"

"Salt?" Li Zhan was delighted. He finally talked about salt. However, Li Zhan pretended to be ignorant and shook the salt bag in his hand and replied: "You said I did this right, Uncle Qin. Look at the white stones in front of me. Those are actually salt mines. Although salt mines are poisonous, as long as I have a series of operations, the toxins can be discarded.

In this way, it became the fine salt in my hands."

"What?" Li Zhan's words surprised Qin Qiong, Niu Jinda, Yuchi Gong, and Cheng Yaojin Qiqi, and then shouted in unison: "You can make salt, what's the yield?"

"Uh?" Looking at the four generals who were so consistent, Li Zhan was stunned for a moment and smiled: "There are enough personnel, how much do you want, and how much I will give you."

"Go! Go home!"

Without hesitation, Qin Qiong threw a sentence and immediately pinched Li Zhan to his waist, then threw Li Zhan on his horse, and returned to Li Zhan's courtyard in a flash.

It was probably in the evening, under the surveillance of the four adults Qin Qiong, Niu Jinda, Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin, Li Zhan watched the entire salt-making process.

When Li Zhan was fully burned, white crystals appeared on the bottom of the iron pot, that is, salt.

The four old generals laughed loudly.

Then Qin Qiong patted Li Zhan hard and said, "Nephew Zhan, you have really given us too many surprises. You can even make salt. Do you know that the imperial court is now lacking the technique of making salt.

If you are willing to offer it, I promise you can be awarded the title of Uncle Qin.”

"Yes, you have to know that now is the best moment. Zhan Niu, you are really a lucky kid." Niu Jinda said hehe.

"By the way, let's take Nephew Zhan back to Chang'an quickly." Yuchi Gong said quickly.

"That's right, Your Majesty is still having a headache now, but as long as we bring Nephew Zhan here, everything will be solved. I see how those aristocratic families threaten His Majesty this time." Cheng Yaojin laughed.

But at this time, Li Zhan bowed to Qin Qiong, Niu Jinda, Yuchi Gong, and Cheng Yaojin and said, "Four uncles, my nephew can write down the method of salt making in detail, and the four uncles can present it to Your Majesty on behalf of him. However, my nephew doesn't want to have a title or go to see Your Majesty. My nephew just wants to stay in Zhuqiao Village forever.

To put it bluntly, my nephew doesn’t want to get involved in the court. It’s too tired and dangerous. If the four uncles really feel sorry for my nephew, please give your nephew a chance to open a salt farm from His Majesty.

Please come together, uncles, each of our five families is 20% of them. Uncles, this is not because I want to give you money, but I need to use your name to suppress the coveted people."

Li Zhan said everything he wanted very frankly.

Li Zhan did not hide the names of the four people and said it openly. Such frankness also gained the favor of Qin Qiong, Niu Jinda, Yuchi Gong and Cheng Yaojin.

"Zhan Nephew, it's actually right." After hearing Li Zhan's words, Niu Jinda nodded first and said, "The officialdom is the darkest. If the credit for the salt-making method is paid to Zhan Nephew, although Your Majesty will give you a great reward, Zhan Nephew's good deeds that ruined the seven families will inevitably be remembered."

"Yes." Cheng Yaojin also nodded slightly: "Those seven families, but even His Majesty doesn't take them seriously. If you know that Nephew Zhan ruined their good things, then Nephew Zhan will have to face endless trouble."

"But you have to reward me if you have merits!" Qin Qiong looked at Li Zhan with some struggle.

"If you can't help but have high pressure, it will only harm him." Yuchi Gong said: "I think Nephew Zhan is the most open-minded of us. He just said that he can offer the method of salt making, but if you don't go to Chang'an, just a salt field, I think it's OK!

The salt field also has the names of the four of us, but we don’t want 20%, each of us 10% and 60% return to the nephew. Now the nephew has to raise more than 100 people, so we uncles and uncles cannot take advantage of this.

In fact, after all, doing this is not to seize the credit of the nephew, but to protect him. What do you think?"

"Yeah, I agree!" Niu Jinda was the first to express his opinion.

Following Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin nodded, Li Zhan reached an agreement, and he thought it was exactly the same as he thought. Li Zhan smiled and said, "Good uncles, wait a moment, I'll write the method of salt."

Chang'an Imperial Palace Lizheng Hall

Li Shimin sat on a stool, and behind him was Empress Changsun gently helping Li Shimin press her head. At this time, she heard Li Shimin say: "Longxi Li family, Zhaojun Li family, Boling Cui family, Qinghe Cui family, Fanyang Lu family, Xingyang Zheng family, and Taiyuan Wang family.

I really have the same spirit. I didn't expect that they would deal with me together without hesitation."

After Li Shimin finished speaking, Empress Changsun on the side said softly: "Your Majesty has no way out since he started suppressing them. This time I think it should be a test of these seven families. This is a prelude to their dissatisfaction with His Majesty.

If they succeed, they will continue to deal with the royal family together in the future.

So this time we must break this situation, otherwise there will be endless troubles.”

"I also know that it's just me, but I don't have any idea. This method of making salt is dead. I can't do anything about the seven families suddenly stopping salt."

Li Shimin sighed slightly when he said this.

However, at this moment, Li Junxian walked in from outside the hall and said, "Your Majesty Qin Qiong, Niu Jinda, Yuchi Gong, and Cheng Yaojin met with him, saying that there is something important, and you must see Your Majesty immediately."

"Shubao and the others want to see me?" Li Shimin showed a puzzled expression.
Chapter completed!