Chapter 304

"100000 cattle and horses."

Li Shimin couldn't help breathing. The average horse in the Tang Dynasty is about 20 Guan, the good horse is more expensive, and the price of cattle is slightly lower, but it's not much lower.

There are nearly 200000 cattle and horses, and they are available every year. This is a lot of wealth. Li Shimin can't help but feel excited.

What's more, Datang has its own horse farm. Qinghai horses are good horses. They are tall and surprisingly heavy. They are good at long-distance attacks. They are the best choice for cavalry. Datang officers and soldiers have always been first-class in weapons, equipment and training quality. The most important reason why they are passive in the face of grassland is that Datang's horses are mixed, If we can occupy Qinghai, Datang will make up for the last weakness.

"Yes, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. From then on, the military will have no worries about lacking horses." Cheng Yaojin, a militant, immediately shouted excitedly.

"Qinghai horse is indeed the best choice for cavalry." Li Jing nodded.

For a moment, the generals of the military headquarters nodded one after another. Even if Hou Junji opposed Merton again, he had to admit that occupying the land of Qinghai was very important for the Tang Dynasty. The military headquarters immediately defected.

Li Shimin's eyes at Merton no longer had the impulse to break his legs. Instead, there was an impulse that his mother-in-law liked his son-in-law more and more. Li Shimin quickly resisted this unreasonable impulse and continued to look ferocious.

Merton said, "third, it's because of Qinghai Salt Lake."

"Qinghai Salt Lake?"

The courtiers were puzzled. Of course, they knew Qinghai Salt Lake. Lake salt is also called pool salt, but the salt there can't be eaten, and the lake water can't be drunk and irrigated. It's of no use at all.

Merton said proudly, "ink has a skill that can purify lake salt into table salt. Qinghai Lake is vast and everywhere. Lake salt is as common as sediment. Only one salt of Qinghai Lake is enough for the ten thousand years of Datang. Datang gets Qinghai Lake. From then on, Datang will have no worries about lack of salt."

As soon as Merton's voice fell, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty suddenly burst into an uproar. Linghu De, the Minister of rites, was even more excited and said, "is this serious?"

Other places in Datang don't mention it, but the land in Guanzhong is unusually short of salt, especially the land in Longyou, which is far away from the salt producing land. If salt can be extracted from Qinghai Lake, it will be a great gospel for the land in Longyou.

Merton smiled and said, "do you know that Mohist snow salt is refined successfully with this technology!"

Linghu de Yu frowned and said, "I heard that Mohist snow salt is extracted from coarse salt?"

"That's the initial means of this technology. After the unremitting efforts of Mohists, this technology can now directly refine lake salt into Mohist snow salt." Merton said proudly.

"Snow salt extracted from lake salt?"

Many courtiers couldn't help but grow up.

"Since it's lake salt, it's also salt. The reason why it can't be eaten is that these salts contain other bitter things, and this technique is to extract these bitter things to get edible salt.

Li Shimin couldn't help jumping up. In this way, the salt of the whole Qinghai Lake can be eaten after being refined by ink technology. It seems that the value of a Qinghai lake alone is immeasurable.

The important officials were delighted. The Mohist snow salt has been popular in Chang'an City recently. It is the first-class fine salt in Chang'an city. Everyone knows that Mohist has this ink technology, but they didn't expect that this technology has such great value.

"Salt is the foundation of the country and the daily necessities of the people. However, the price of salt is too high, and the people are miserable." Merton couldn't help looking at the king's censor. Everyone knows that most of the salt in Yuncheng is controlled by the king's family in Taiyuan. The King's family is particularly responsible for the high price of salt.

"If you use this technology to make salt, the salt production will increase sharply, and they are all first-class and good snow salt. The increase in salt production will greatly reduce the salt price, even to a penny and a kilo. At that time, even ordinary people can enjoy it."

"A penny and a kilo of salt!" Wang Yushi was suddenly dumbfounded. The biggest source of wealth of the Taiyuan Wang family is selling salt. If the Mohist snow salt can sell a penny and a kilo, I'm afraid the Taiyuan Wang family salt can't even sell, and the whole Taiyuan Wang family will lose its biggest source of wealth.

Everyone could not help frowning. If so, I'm afraid the Mohists with ink skills will control the salt of the Tang Dynasty.

Merton had expected this situation for a long time. He didn't panic and said, "this ink technique is related to the welfare of the people all over the world. The Mohists dare not hide this technique privately. They are willing to give it to the imperial court."

"To the imperial court!" Hou Junji immediately lost his blood in his heart. The Mohist family is really a loser. Don't he know how much profit there is? If he gives it to Hou Junji, he is looking for several aristocratic families to partner and firmly control his interests in his own hands, even the emperor can't rob it.

However, Li Shimin understood the intention of Merton's move and couldn't help but secretly scold Merton for his cunning. The catfish's nature was exposed and extremely slippery. He was full of sharp teeth and bit back, which hurt people's heart. This time, it was the Taiyuan Wang family.

This salt making method is bound to offend the Taiyuan King's family whose lifeblood is salt. Obviously, the Mohist family does not want to carry this behemoth, but also wants to revenge the Taiyuan King's family for repeatedly targeting the Mohist family and simply offering it to the court, so that the court can face the Taiyuan King's family.

"Mo Aiqing is dedicated to his country. I thank you for the people all over the world." Li Shimin said solemnly.

Li Shimin and all officials knew that this was the conspiracy of the Mohist school, but they had to recognize it by pinching their nose. After all, the interests here are too great.

With this ink technique alone, even if Tuyuhun didn't commit the border incident, Li Shimin had the impulse to attack Tuyuhun and take Qinghai Lake.

"Ink technology!"

Many courtiers could not help but sigh that the Mohist ink technology shocked the whole court again. A simple ink technology could solve the salt shortage history of the northwest and even the whole Tang Dynasty.

They just wanted to use Mohist ink technology in exchange for Tubo's support. Now it seems that it is so short-sighted that people can't help but think of what Merton just said. You don't understand how powerful ink technology is. Now Merton shows them the powerful power of ink technology with iron facts.

However, it was not over. Merton then said, "in addition to this time, the Mohists found a fertilizer called chemical fertilizer that can make food high-yield from the extraction of lake salt. If the chemical fertilizer can be extracted, the food output will certainly double to more than eight loads per mu."

"Ba Dan!" Linghu De Fu trembled in his heart and looked at Merton in disbelief.

Linghu family is also one of the Guanlong aristocratic family. It is urgent to control the Yellow River. The whole Guanlong aristocratic family is facing a very embarrassing situation. The reclamation of wasteland is limited. The only hope is to increase the yield per mu. The method of Mohist experimental field can double the grain yield, which has made the Guanlong aristocratic family unable to close its mouth.

No one thought that Mohism would have such ink skills, but the yield per mu was eight Dan, which he never dared to think of..

Merton nodded: "this ink technology has been successfully tested in Mohist school. At present, some have been refined from Yuncheng pool salt. I'm afraid it will have to wait until the autumn harvest next year. Mo is waiting for you in the Mohist experimental field, but the boy can guarantee that the output is only much more."

"Let's go from now on." a group of officials of Guanlong aristocratic family said excitedly.

The Guanlong aristocratic family occupied most of the court hall. With their support, together with the support of the Ministry of the people and the Si Nong temple, they supported the attack on Tuyuhun. The whole court hall, even the three provinces and six ministries, supported the attack on Tuyuhun,,

Originally, Datang just wanted to fight back and teach Tuyuhun a lesson, but it turned into a war to destroy the country. All these changes depend on Merton's own power.

It is reasonable to say that Merton met with the envoy of Tuyuhun for the first time, but Merton killed him. Isn't it really because of Princess Changle? In addition, the important minister can't think of any other reasons.

Then contact Merton's dedication of ink technology, there is really a hint of the meaning of giving betrothal gifts. For a moment, the hearts of the ministers turned sharply.